― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abby (abby mcdonald), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Some will say that I'm counterfeitBut I will be who I want toSome will look at me and vomitBut I will do what I want to
Which is extra funny because to make "vomit" fit the meter and rhyme you have to mispronounce it, which she does but without hamming up the mispronunciation. I think she lifted this comic device from that Billy S. guy she likes so much.
Also, in a behind-the-scenes making-of-the-video short for "Tangled Up in Me" she demonstrated to us how they prepared the instruments for the shoot, so she's showing us the muffles they put on the drums; then she turns to the camera and silently mouths "We're not really playing our instruments" to the camera, as if imparting a great but confidential secret.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm listening to clips of some of these on itunes. Sounds like a bigger production and she's got a good singing voice, but is it as ... believable or something? Does it not just kind of sound like some covers band doing a kind of average/blah assortment of songs, but dressed up in the studio?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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― xhuxk, Friday, 6 January 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 January 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
xp - I always thought of Cheap Trick's version as a kind of believable '50s nostalgia. believable because it was about '50s rock and roll as a very rocking music! I think it's quite dynamite.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 January 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Speaking of Cougar rocks - though this is off-topic - last week I listened to Jessica Simpson's "I Think I'm In Love With You" for the first time in four years. It's the one that samples the brief bass-guitar fillip from "Jack and Diane" and otherwise is a basic dance-r&b number where she shows off Mariah melismas. It's likable, since she's willing to make the notes fluffy (which isn't to say that she fluffs any of the notes). But what's amazing is the Peter Rauhofer Club Mix that's included on the single. No Cougar notes, just driving, ominous techno and Jessica's "I think I'm in love"s sounding icy but heartbreaking, darting up and down above the jagged synths. Might as well be a totally different song.
(In general, I'm not one of these guys who says, "No, you gotta hear the remix.")
-- Frank Kogan (edcasua...), December 28th, 2005. (Frank Kogan)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
And yeah, she's 17 (and I think the songwriting is often really good).
Mikael Wood's appraisal of her, Brie Larsen, etc, can be found here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0552,wood,71326,22.html
And the fact that she picked peas on her family farm in Tennesse is pretty country, I guess! Perhaps country fans will eventually agree.
-- xhuxk (xedd...), December 28th, 2005.
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Hope Paltrow is far too pretty to remain in the peapatch, for sure. -- edd s hurt (eddshur...), December 28th, 2005. (ddduncan)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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― xhuxk, Friday, 6 January 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abby (abby mcdonald), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Unfortunately, on first listen, it triggers loads of "naff" detectors in me – I think it's because being from "the rest of Europe" (ie not UK and probably Ireland), I've heard loads of terrible Euro stuff employing that not-actually-proper-reggae device, and associate it with Lame Continental Backwaterism. (Examples that have crossed over into UK/US(?) are "Live Is Life" by Opus and "Susanna" by "The Art Company".)
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link
He more than made up for it on that DVD I reviewed early last year, where he looked like someone's scary old grandmother. It's those sweaters. I never liked "I Want You to Want Me" on "In Color" and even less on the Japanese album. There Zander says this song is called "I --- Want -- You --- To ---- Want ---- Meee" like he's talking to retards and lots of small children. I could never get it out of my head. Irritating.
― George the Animal Steele, Friday, 6 January 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link
So Hillary Duff is better at being Kelly Osbourne than Kelly Osbourne is.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:53 (eighteen years ago) link
i guess you could kelly's album does the new wave thing more sloppily than those new hilary tracks do, but i'm surprised courtney love fans would take offense at that.
― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link
?????????
:-0
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link
only if you can't take the ribbing, ya old fart.
― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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