― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Almost certainly!
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link
YA DONT SAY!
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link
why?
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link
lex's rhetoric on this one has just been 'everything you think is bad, is actually good'. but the strongest assertions -- that the songwriting is top-hole, that paris's soul comes through blah-blah-rockist-blah, that she has a great popstar persona -- are just bollocks.
i don't see how the thematic breakdown ('her songs are about the search for Real Love!!' yeah and?) helps matters.
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 07:47 (seventeen years ago) link
being taken up with prom queen/princess cliches deep in your twenties is also not especially endearing.
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― rchinn (rchinn), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
But it's way easier to be cynical and notice that everything about her vocal work is completely undistinguishable. She hired a hitmaker so she sounds like the rest of Storch's resume. B.F.D. I hear crap like this and kneel down at the altar of rockism with complete confidence.
― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link
but the point is that it IS paris hilton. it's a pop song so the person matters as much as the song itself!
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Nathalie (stevi...), August 24th, 2006.
well yes. and it's paris hilton. so the hateful non-singing minor celebrity matters almost as much as the unobjectionable-but-hardly-outstanding lite-reggae track. fan-bloody-tastic.
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
well similar songs got airplay when the name No Doubt was attached to them!
so the hateful non-singing minor celebrity
why is she hateful? i don't understand why paris hilton provokes so much ire compared with, oh, any other given popstar/entertainment sleb who get, if not admired, then not reviled.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
despising poor people - i refer you to paris's own quote upthread re "the real me"
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
There's also a private school/blowjob gag here but I can't be bothered to make it.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1572890,00.html
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
the things she does are no more morally dubious than what, i dunno, jessica simpson or mariah carey or j-lo or britney have been said to have done - so i don't understand why people who aren't repulsed by them are repulsed by paris. it doesn't mean any of them are nice AND I WOULDN'T WANT THEM TO BE
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
"I don't see why people loathe her and they don't loathe (list of pop starlets that people often say they loathe)!"
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I wonder if Lex is pooh-poohing Britney because she has been partially rehabilitated ("you know, "Toxic" is a really great song!).
Dan, Mariah didn't do stairs.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I think this is an important point - when those false-leaks were going around there seemed to be a lot of excitement over that Sweetbox song, "human sacrifice", which is strong/brash/angry (vulgar?), one set of paris-attributes; instead we ended up with this insipid, sweet, languid thing, which also fits the 'paris' image but from a completely different direction.
― stop moving. (cis), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link