― 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
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― 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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― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
haha otm.
what i find sad is that plan b didn't have to be so indie, and it never set out to be (ffs KELIS was the planned cover star for issue 1, and only got pulled because she doesn't do photoshoots), but bejesus the demographic it appeals to now is beyond words.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
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― bad hair day house (fandango), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this sarcasm? I didn't read a single sensible sentence in that whole article.
― nameom (nameom), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rudy Katoch (rudykatoch), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I can't say that I've a good idea why in some instances I hear a personality to take in my feelings and in others I don't.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
They come up with a sound that's casually modern and retro with enough heft in its rhythms to sound good at clubs, yet it's designed to be heard outdoors on the sunniest day of the summer. This is exceedingly light music, as sweet and bubbly as a wine spritzer, yet it isn't so frothy that it floats away.
Erlewine is a frog on a bump on a log, and I often think he's wrong, but he's a good critic, because he's willing to be surprised by albums and because he tries to be as articulate as possible about why he likes or dislikes something. In any event, I don't hear Paris the way Erlewine does. It's "light" in the sense of being unassuming and not coming across as trying to communicate anything weighty. But the actual sound is rather thick, layers of overdubbed vocals finding their way to choruses that often enough contain guitar chord upon guitar chord, the dense beauty of the vocals buried headfirst in the guitar thicket. The consistency I spoke of isn't just quality but timbre, different producers using the same strategies (maybe following Hilton's instruction). I don't know another album that has quite this sound. Paris's voice is itself unifying, something of a fuzzy uninflected hum from back in the throat. Compare the Gottwald-written "Nothing In This World" to the Veronicas' Gottwald-written "Everything I'm Not." On "Everything" the singers are up there in the bright high pitch, working you over with ingratiating come-hither/fuck-off vocals. Whereas in "Nothing"'s pretty harmony section, Paris stays down in her comfy burr, relaxing. Not as arresting as the Veronicas, but not as irritating, either.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm not surprised, really, since you don't actually say much about the album you simply slag people off for not liking pop then call the readers losers (not just here but in the review itself). the worst thing they do is rise to the bait.
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― FACEBRACE (FACEBRACE), Friday, 25 August 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
http://apawboy.blogspot.com/2006/08/stars-are-blind-i-actually-think-this.html
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 August 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Banarama's "Love In The First Degree" just came on TV and I was inexplicably reminded of "Stars Are Blind".
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link