Rolling Teenpop 2007 Thread

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GENIUS. I might be seeing J0rdin Sparks at the American Idol show this week...I was planning on giving her a CD with Robyn/Annie/The Knife/Jacques Lu Cont tracks on it (in hopes that she'd recruit one of them for her record).

Please do it!!!

daavid, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link

American Idol Season Six winner Jordin Sparks, the show's youngest winner ever, has signed to 19 Recordings/Jive Records, becoming the first "Idol" winner to join the label group.

Her first single, "Tattoo," will be released to U.S. radio on Aug. 27. Her debut album is due out in November. "Tattoo" was produced by the hit-making duo Stargate (Beyoncé, Ne-Yo) and co-written with Amanda Ghost, whose impressive credits include James Blunt's "Beautiful" and "Beautiful Liar" with Beyoncé and Shakira.

Frank Kogan, Friday, 17 August 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Have you guys spoken about this yet?:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PxOaZiHw0Xo

The Brainwasher, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link

I've never heard of half of these people. You can stream the rest of the soundtrack here -- nothing new that's better than that Prima J track that I can hear, but I can say (1) nice to hear so much teenpop throwback stuff in one place, even if most of it's pretty forgettable (dopey boyband NLT "oh baby she's heartburn!," dopey pop-punk with Sean Stewart, slight shades of Hoku in Chelsea Staub) and (2) do NOT say anything bad about Clique Girlz (formerly Clique, mentioned way above somewhere). They sound better than they used to after signing to Interscope, but their fans (and possibly family members) rigorously google them.

dabug, Saturday, 18 August 2007 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link

(That's the Bratz movie soundtrack, btw.)

dabug, Saturday, 18 August 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link

YEAAHHHHHHH. The American Ido1 PR people are freaking me out...But yeah, it looks like I'll get to talk to her for a second time...Bad news is I have terrible selection for said CD...

If anyone can help me out with "Chewing Gum," you'd be a major pop hero (I have "Heartbeat"). Also, I can't find ANY of my favorite Jacques Lu Cont remixes (I like "What Else Is There," but it's definitely not my favorite). Here's what else I have (suggestions? I have lots of stuff on CD...this is just from my tiny mp3 collection):

Robyn - "Be Mine!"
Kleerup feat. Robyn - "With Every Heartbeat"
Annie - Heartbeat
The Knife - Heartbeat
The Knife - Silent Shout
The Knife - You Make Me Like Charity
Royksopp - What Else Is There (both Trentemoller/Thin White Duke remixes)
M.I.A. - Jimmy
M.I.A. - $20
M.I.A. - Boyz
The Field - Everyday
The Work - Givin' It Up
The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Edit)
Mahjongg - The Rrabbitt

Tape Store, Saturday, 18 August 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link

ooooh. I should put some DFA stuff on here, amirite?

Tape Store, Saturday, 18 August 2007 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link

ANONYMOUS AWESOME ILXOR HELPED OUT/SAVED THE WORLD. THXX!!! :)

Tape Store, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Does this look OK? It gets especially messy towards the end.

1. "Since I Left You" - The Avalanches
2. "With Every Heartbeat" - Kleerup feat. Robyn
3. "Heartbeat" - Annie
4. "Heartbeats" - The Knife
5. "Be Mine!" - Robyn
6. "Jimmy" - M.I.A.
7. "Boyz" - M.I.A.
8. "Chewing Gum" - Annie
9. "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" - Cansei De Ser Sexy
10. "Fix Up, Look Sharp" - Dizzee Rascal
11. "How Long Do I Have to Wait For You" - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
12. "Pull Shapes" - The Pipettes
13. "Panis Et Circenses" - Os Mutantes
14. "Digital Love" - Daft Punk
15. "Power is On" - The Go! Team
16. "Lazy Line Painter Jane" - Belle & Sebastian
17. "Teardrops on My Guitar" - Taylor Swift
18. "A Toast to the Month of July" - Shirrelle C. Limes
19. "Poor Old Soul Pt. 1" - Orange Juice
20. "The Rrabbitt" - Mahjongg
21. "I'm a Flirt (Remix)" - R. Kelly feat. T.I. and T. Pain
22. "What Else Is There?" (Thin White Duke Remix) - Royksopp
23. "If I Were Your Woman" - Gladys Knight and the Pips
24. "Silent Shout" - The Knife

Tape Store, Saturday, 18 August 2007 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Why are you trying to turn Jordin Sparks into a hipster? lol

The Brainwasher, Saturday, 18 August 2007 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link

To un-hipster it, I now offer the following songs as possible replacements:

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
Justice - DVNO
Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends

Tape Store, Saturday, 18 August 2007 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link

If Jordin covers the hipster favorites, won't she de-hipster them herself?

dabug, Saturday, 18 August 2007 05:22 (sixteen years ago) link

lol wait mahjongg? i'm v. confsued.

also, giver "huddle formation" over "the power is on!"

Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 18 August 2007 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link

OK, so, with some help from another ILXor savior, I added a Dolly Parton track...I changed a few others, too...

1. "Since I Left You" - The Avalanches
2. "With Every Heartbeat" - Kleerup feat. Robyn
3. "Heartbeat" - Annie
4. "Heartbeats" - The Knife
5. "Be Mine!" - Robyn
6. "Jimmy" - M.I.A.
7. "Chewing Gum" - Annie
8. "House of Jealous Lovers" - The Rapture
9. "How Long Do I Have to Wait For You" - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
10. "Pull Shapes" - The Pipettes
11. "Panis Et Circenses" - Os Mutantes
12. "Digital Love" - Daft Punk
13. "Bottle Rocket" - The Go! Team
14. "Lazy Line Painter Jane" - Belle & Sebastian
15. "Chelsea Morning" - Joni Mitchell
16. "Teardrops on My Guitar" - Taylor Swift
17. "Coat of Many Colors" - Dolly Parton
18. "Big City" (Merle Haggard cover) - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
19. "Postcards from Italy" - Beirut
20. "A Toast to the Month of July" - Shirrelle C. Limes
21. "Poor Old Soul Pt. 1" - Orange Juice
22. "What Else Is There?" (Thin White Duke Remix) - Royksopp
23. "If I Were Your Woman" - Gladys Knight and the Pips
24. "All My Friends" - LCD Soundsystem
25. "Silent Shout" - The Knife

Tape Store, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Tape Store, the Taylor Swift I'd choose would be "Should've Said No." If you aspire to less hipness you could try Travis Tritt's "Too Far To Turn Around" and Deana Carter's "The Girl You Left Me For."

Frank Kogan, Sunday, 19 August 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link

tape store, tag the album as yr phone number.

Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 19 August 2007 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link

OK, in regard to the JoJo paragraph: she's being very lovable and very teenage, which is to say that she's questioning the reality of her own experience in comparison to that of someone who's suffering seems unimaginably more intense than her own (and in doing so she's unintentionally exalting the suffering of the black children in Darfur); and she's doing it in a good cause, trying to motivate us to do something about the suffering. Still there's an insidious self-destruction here, her saying that her own fears and our culture doesn't rate in comparison to the suffering in Darfur - and a very interesting irony in her seemingly arbitrary reference to celeb crackup culture. (How is Britney's no-panties thing any more of a distraction than worrying about the price of gas or talking about art and literature or watching a tennis match or discussing your child's grades? How are these things distractions at all?) The irony is that Lindsay Lohan's life expectancy might well be worse than that of a black child in Darfur, and her suffering and fear may be greater. At least, it's a failure of the imagination not to consider this.

Which isn't to say that Lindsay's pain makes her of any more interest than you and I are. But then, you and I are of interest; but then again, without Lindsay's pain she wouldn't be in the tabs.

Frank Kogan, Sunday, 19 August 2007 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link

I gave it to her...had to cut a couple songs...She now has my contact info.

I deserve credit for her forthcoming "House of Jealous Lovers" cover.

Tape Store, Sunday, 19 August 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link

New Veronicas single, "Hook Me Up" -- written by the V's, Shelly Peiken, and Greg Wells -- is really great. Dark electro, kinda "Sweet Dreams"-ish, confessional lyrics (the second dance song this year that's about not really enjoying going out to clubs). Seems like UK/Euro dance stuff might be the path to angst-rock lyrics these days (Hilary, Ashley Tisdale, new V's single).

But I really came here to post 17 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ASHLEE SIMPSON:

1. I'm really grumpy in the morning.
2. I'm a huge fan of female singers like Etta James and Courtney Love.
3. I don't like going to the dentist, so I listen to my iPod while I'm there.
4. My first TV appearance was a Kohl's commercial.
5. I have three closets in my bedroom.
6. My favorite snack is Little Debbie Zebra Cakes, yellow cakes with vanilla and chocolate-striped frosting.
7. I collect handbags (my favorite is Yves St. Laurent) and hats.
8. I dyed my hair orange when I was 11!
9. I'm really good at the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game.
10. I want to design a clothing line one day -- a Marc Jacobs-meets-vintage look.
11. My favorite drink is an ice-blended vanilla coffee.
12. I can do a front handspring.
13. My favorite vacation spot is Hawaii.
14. My first celeb crush: Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
15. I never wear matching socks (except when I'm doing a photo shoot)!
16. My favorite movie is
True Romance.
17. My best guy friend is my guitar player, Ray Brady.

Not a great interview (from Seventeen), but when asked about how she learns from heartbreak, her answer is "For me, I write, but everyone can find little things to do to make them feel better." When asked what she does with her girlfriends, she says, "I have a balcony outside, and everybody sets up her little station and we all paint. It's so funny to see the different styles of your friends' painting. Mine's usually pretty...dark. Abstract stuff, faces, and things like that. I'm not good, but I just do it 'cause it's fun and it's a release."

dabug, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link

New Tommy2.net headline: JONAS BROTHERS OUTSELL KELLY CLARKSON.

dabug, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link

So Tape Store, what's Jordin like?

Frank Kogan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link

A.R.E. Weapons are totally absurd. I mean, they're beatniks. They romanticize teenagers ridiculously (hence their eligibility for this thread). They play this godawful shitty garage rock. And most of the time it's GOOD godawful shitty garage rock, at least on their new one, Modern Mayhem. I'm listening to "Have You Ever?" - these scuzz pulses, while the singer gargles earnestly in front of them. Quite engaging, somehow.

Frank Kogan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link

There's a photo shoot on her reality show in which Ashlee's wearing unmatched shoes.

Frank Kogan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

My HSM2 review is posted. feedback enjoyed, as usual. http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0734,shinefield,77577,22.html

Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link

How did I just realize now that Hannah Montana and Amy Diamond both have songs called "Life's What You Make It"? Weird, I guess that's just one of the Amy songs that never really stuck with me, and somehow I never connected it.

Anyways, I never really liked that Hannah song (prefer "Nobody's Perfect" and way prefer several of her other songs ["See You Again" forever!]), and the Amy Diamond song is on my favorite album of 2006, tho it is one of the less memorable songs on it. I'll give the edge to Amy D.

Greg Fanoe, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link

I really can't tell much of a difference between TV Jordin and real life Jordin. I mean, I guess it's possible that she's fake in both cases, but my friends don't think so (several of them went to camp with her...). She's really charming and cute. I have a bit of a crush on her.

And "Tattoo" rocks! The introduction is a bit of a letdown, (all synths or no synths at all, plz), but the chorus is hella catchy. Temporarily here

Tape Store, Sunday, 26 August 2007 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link

I've listened to this song 15 times in a row! It's grown on me quite a bit in the past eleven minutes...not a big fan of the production (apart from the intro, it's very, very Stargate), but the song itself is great. It needs to be remixed ASAP (if I ever find the acapella, I'll definitely create one).

Tape Store, Sunday, 26 August 2007 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link

BTW, I hope when I wake up tomorrow, there are, like, 30 posts discussing this song (even if they're criticizing my first-15-listens opinion, which might change at 9 a.m.).

Tape Store, Sunday, 26 August 2007 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh, ILM

Tape Store, Sunday, 26 August 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link

What I wrote about teen-romanticizing A.R.E. Weapons and their new album on the metal thread (in three early July posts):

Oh yeah, I've also been liking the commendably plainspoken but cynical but oddly warmhearted mix of noise and rhythm on A.R.E. Weapons' new Modern Mayhem, espeically when it reminds me more of Suicide doing "96 Tears" (did Suicide ever do "96 Tears"? They should have, and actually I'm pretty sure they did, but I'm too lazy to check) than, say, Cake or Soul Coughing or whoever "I Just Can't Get Started" sounds like. Anyway, they are coke-and-heroin-identified Lower East Side hipster scumbugs with despicable celebrities in their families, let's get that out of the way, and I hated their second album a couple years ago after loving their first one, and they put on the most disappointing excuse for a live show I ever saw in New York, so I'm defintely not predisposed to like the new album (put it on purely out of professional responsibility), but I do, because it rocks. Favorites so far are probably "We Don't Care" and "Weird Wild and Free," which both really convince me in their defiance, but they're only the beginning. "Heartbeat" has real funk to it, "Do You Wanna Hang Around?" is as good a ballad as Alan Vega ever did solo probably, "Keys Money and Cigarettes" is an entertaining Throbbing Gristle facsimile, "Hey Joey" has sax in it, "Sweet Jesus" has blasphemy in it," "Too Low" has handclaps in it, "Dreamers" asks where all the dreamers went and I want to strangle them for asking but it find it kind of moving anyway, and I can't think of many bands this noisy and arty who write songs this good (or write songs at all, really), and in the long run they don't seem that arty after all. Didn't one of their sometime-members overdose a year or two ago? Maybe that brought them back down to earth somehow.

btw, A.R.E. Weapons to my ears sound beefier and less emaciated (= more metal) than Suicide ever did.

A.R.E. WEAPONS -- Maybe a little harder to take than I suggested above if you try to play the album from start to finish, but still a way better third album than I ever would have expected from them. Faves include but may not be limited to "We Don't Care" (...if you like us, basically, and I kinda believe them, and there's a good short reprise of it at the end), "Sweet Jesus" (has he ever been bored? and the guitar sounds almost African), "Heartbeat" (a rap about an acquaintance "lying in bed on a morphine drip" in New York City, where else?) and "Do You Want To Hang Around" (sweetly sung to some girl.)

xhuxk, Sunday, 26 August 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link

I like the background yelping in "Tattoo" (reminds me of "Say It Right")

Tape Store, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link

generic drums...

Tape Store, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link

NO REPLIES

Tape Store, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Wait, why are they rushing her release? Do they really think people will forget her that quickly?

Tape Store, Monday, 27 August 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Why are you talking to yourself?

Tape Store, Monday, 27 August 2007 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Sorry to be late to the "Tattoo" convo, but I still don't know what I think of it!

Came to post a short anecdotal survey of the PRINCESS genre (Avril not included):

The Insider decided to talk to young girls to find out what it is that makes Disney Princesses as appealing in 2007 as they were in 1937. Here's what they had to say.

Ellie, 4, loves Aurora from "Sleeping Beauty" because she likes "her pink sparkly dress." Her sister Hazel chose Mulan as her favorite because "she is sporty and I like her black hair."

Like Ellie, many girls are drawn in by the sparkly dresses and princess couture. Let's face it, these ladies have outfits to envy! Whether it's Ariel with her crimson hair and pearls fresh from the ocean adorning her neck, or Cinderella in her shimmering blue ball gown and glass slippers, there is a look for every aspiring fashionista.

There is more to these princesses though, than stylish wardrobes. They teach kids to be kind to others, to be true to themselves, and to never stop dreaming. They aren't just living the life any little girl would dream of - they're also great role models.

Ruby, 6, said her reason for loving Disney Princesses is that "every princess is very helpful and nice. Sleeping Beauty helped the fairies and the fairies helped her because she was nice to them."

While all Princesses might be nice, they aren't all alike. Mulan, Pocahontas, and Jasmine are all princesses who show little girls that no matter what culture you come from or what you look like, you can embrace what makes you special and still be a princess. They send the message that "It's great to be unique," both in how you look and what you choose to achieve.

According to Cameron, that is exactly why Ariel from "The Little Mermaid," is her favorite. At 9 years old, Cameron identifies with this princess of the sea because "she believes in herself. If she dreams something, she makes it happen." She says that she likes Ariel because "she's sort of different from all the other princesses because she's a mermaid - and she has a great voice."

It's no wonder these princesses have such a following. In the end, the message the girls are getting is that you don't have to dress in a tiara to be a princess. You can be you and be a princess just the way you are.

dabug, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Interesting article from the Boston Phoenix from 2001 about LFO ("Summer Girls") leader Rich Cronin.

Meanwhile, Cronin is hoping that as one of the few teen-pop stars who does write his own songs, he'll be able to bring some of his old fans along and find some new ones as his writing begins to reflect his growing maturity. It's not like I'm intentionally trying to be more mature on the new album -- I don't buy into that stuff. But I've been through a lot of things and learned a lot about life and about music in the last couple of years. And if you're not writing about yourself and what you know, then you're not writing about much. So that's what I write about. Sometimes it's just girl problems. Sometimes it's problems in life. In that respect it probably is a little more grown up, because I'm more grown up.

This is right on the cusp of (or maybe at the beginning of) the Michelle Branch craze --> Avril dominance in 2002. Most people think of LFO as total goofballs (which they were), but they <i>don't</i> tend to think of them (as far as I know, anyway) as totally self-aware goofballs. "Summer Girls" was a demo they cut with Danny Wood from the New Kids in his basement, and what's interesting is that it kind of gives some insight into the transitional phase where coauthorship starts becoming a major issue/trend in teenpop music.

dabug, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Woop, article's here

dabug, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link

GAH Rich Cronin...Spent half a year trying to get an interview from him; when it finally happened (in email form), he only answered, like, 6 of 10 questions, and 4 of those answers were made up of ~1-4 short sentences. Needless to say, the Q&A column sucked ass that month.

Tape Store, Thursday, 30 August 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link

There's apparently some new Ashlee here

Nia, Thursday, 30 August 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link

OMG, she might actually get away with this. Can't really tell from the clip. (Still don't recognize her.)

dabug, Thursday, 30 August 2007 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh wait, that wasn't a "clip," it was my computer messing up. Hm. Undecided. Didn't hear the rap verse first time 'round. ("I'm your sunshine concubine"?) Some Gwennish weird for weird's sake, kind of works, but it's pretty much a mess. (I imagine this would tank pretty hard if it's supposed to be a single, but who knows.)

dabug, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link

One single dose of your medicine
You tell me to leave but I come back again
I dont see what all the fuss is about cuz I'm okay
Soon you will see that I got ability to get my ways

So don't keep me in the dark cuz I'll the find the light (find the light)
Don't keep me in the the dark cuz I'll find the light (dont dont dont)
I said don't keep in the dark cuz I'll find the light (find the light)
Don't keep me in the dark , don't keep me in the dark...

I was alone until I found Johnny
He was a good boy until he got behind me
No she didn't, yes she did!

I got a monkey on my back
He helping me get it off, he helping me get it off
I got a monkey on my back
He helping me get it off, he helping me get it off

Seriously, though, WTF is this all about, anyway?? I AM CONFUSED. Is this a good mess or a bad mess? Someone provide an opinion for me.

dabug, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Music good, lyrics an in-between mess, but Ashlee can do far better lyrics than these.

The track is called "Get Away With Murder," was deleted from zshare, but is streamed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LomQFwNJJFc

(recording too soft in relation to the ad voice in front of).

Her singing is authoritative, which doesn't surprise me, fits fine with the Afro-Caribbean rhythms, actually, which does surprise and please me. But the lyrics aren't taking me very far.

"He was a good boy until he got behind me"

Well, that's risque, but so what? And mixing sex talk with implications about "good boys" and "bad boys" is very conventional-minded and doesn't impress me. "I got a monkey on my back, he helped me get it off" is a double-entendre on "get it off," but again, so what?

"My fears go black in the moonlight" is a powerful line, the one here that makes me really feel that I'm hearing an Ashlee Simpson song. Throw in the reference to "monkey on my back" and the good beats and the good minor-key eeriness of the singing, and maybe this is, like, an evocative poke of a stick at love addiction, risky passion, identity-destroying obsession. The lyrics aren't as random as I'd originally thought, nor as negligible. Maybe they matter, even. But it seems to me that I'm having to do all the work to get the mattering out of her opaque references to handcuffs and addiction and anal sex and fears and struggle. I'd rather she be articulate than that she poke sticks, rather she tell a story than toss saucy little hints, rather she be analytic than "shocking."

I suppose, if Gwen or Nicole or Madge did those lyrics I wouldn't complain, they're just words to a song and the music could be great, and maybe this is a work in progress anyway. If Bob Dylan sang them it would be a lunatic change of pace, quite refreshing. But Gwen and Nicole and Madge never wrote any lyrics remotely as great as, for instance, "Love Me For Me," and Dylan's never done a relationship song as good as that one.

(Yeah, and you could say that maybe it wasn't Ashlee who's most responsible for the "Love Me For Me" lyrics, since we don't know, but has Shelly Peiken ever had her writing credits on any other lyrics half as good as those? Well, I don't know, not having heard most Peiken songs, so I ought to be genuinely open-minded, but I'm not betting on it based on what I have heard.)

This couplet from Travis's rap is genuinely funny:

"They told me to get my muthafucken hands up
But I was handcuffed to the bed and couldn't get em up"

So, initial evaluation: music and singing good, maybe very good, much like her "Burnin' Up," which was also funny and sexy though more full-bodied and big-bosomed in its humor. Idiots who think her singing needs more "cred" and who bother to listen will probably grant it to her for this. Shows great versatility, like tracks five through ten on I Am Me. And hearing it loud and for real will no doubt make it powerful. I might give it a 7.5. Maybe more at full volume. Good solid club track. On its own terms, if I forget that it's an Ashlee Simpson song, as a tough-vulnerable-funny-sexy caught-up-in-desire song, it's good. You know, the way that something like Nelly F's "Promiscuous" is good. And it's also somewhat bullshit in the way that "Promiscuous" is somewhat bullshit. And on its own tough-vulnerable-funny-sexy caught-up-in-desire terms it quails in comparison to Corina's searing, flaming, hilarious Temptation, which actually I'd love to hear Ashlee do because she could burn it through the walls.

But as an Ashlee Simpson song, who needs Ashlee Simpson to do high-quality club tracks that don't express her complicated soul, when she's already put more fire and feeling into a single couplet like "I'm the one who's crawling on the ground/When you say love makes the world go 'round"?

(Which isn't to say that she can't do higher-quality club tracks that either do or don't express her soul, and this is good enough to make me think that her going "dance" won't be the total mistake I'd feared.)

Frank Kogan, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Dave, you left out the rap and the bridge:

Rap:
They told me to get my muthafucken hands up
But I was handfuffed to the bed and couldn't get em up

[Then a whole bunch more that you can't make out behind the voiceover]

Bridge:
I'm your sunshine, sunrise.. (you're my sunshine)
you make it sound easily for me to cry (so easily for me to cry)
I'm your sunshine, come get by
My fears go black in the moonlight

Frank Kogan, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link

'Cept I got those from that stupid website, and I'm pretty sure she's singing "sunshine <i>concubine</i>" not "sunshine, come get by</i> (and Hazel R. thinks so too, so this isn't just my mind). And she's definitely singing "easy" not "easily," and it's don't keep <i>me</i> in the dark, and Travis was told to <i>put</i> his mothafucken hands up.

Frank Kogan, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Hope Hazel doesn't mind if I report from our livejournal convo that she originally heard the line in "La La" as "I'll be your fresh meat when it's meat you're looking for."

But anyway, JORDIN SPARKS. Yes, I was rooting for her, to the extent I was rooting for anybody this year. So, "Tattoo," I like the singing quite well, it combines sweetness and heft; song is like Faith Hill pop country but prettier, no big fuss to it, but I wish it had some hook or twist; nothing about it is lodging in my brain after it's gone, at least not yet. And nothing in it approaches the mammoth emotion she got out of "I Who Have Nothing" last March on Idol (though I don't suppose it's trying for that).

The Ashlee song is sticking; fifteen plays on, its gentle tune and island lilt are getting real easy to live in. Good music. And someone online said that someone said that Ashlee says this is a very rough version and she's miffed it leaked and the record company is trying to catch the culprit. So I underrated it, maybe an automatic defensive way of trying to forestall the pain I'll feel when she eventually breaks my heart. The lyrics still seem cut and paste, though there's something pleasingly goofy about all that "behind" and "concubine" stuff, actually.

Frank Kogan, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link

I stopped rooting for Jordin when the stuff came out about her knowing the judges beforehand and her holding certain Evangelical beliefs that I can't personally stomach. I don't know if that's fair... but I switched to rooting for Blake near the end.

Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link

about her knowing the judges beforehand

Huh?

Tape Store, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link

So, how fucking HOT is that new Britney Spears song "Gimmee More"? Danja totally laced her with a great track, I totally didn't see this coming at all.

The Brainwasher, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link


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