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xhuxk, singles are "Outside Looking In" and "Jump to the Rhythm" and wikipedia is listing "Teenager" or "Miss Popularity" but who knows on that.

Eloquent case for "Outside Looking In" (this is xposted from my blog, about 7 months ago, which means it's long):

Some discussion of Jordan Pruitt on the teenpop thread, and I'll repeat here what I wrote there: I am really loving her song "Outside Looking In". In addition to a really nice vocal performance by Jordan Pruitt, and a nice laid-back melody, I really love the lyrics. It deals with the issue of teen rejection/loneliness (which isn't all that different from adult rejection/loneliness) in a way that totally works, and I don't think I've quite seen used in another song. Rather than attempting to paraphrase, let me quote directly from what I said on the teenpop thread:

"...one thing I really love is the "You don't know how it feels..." aspect to it. Of course, the reason the song works is that EVERYBODY knows how it feels to be on the outside looking in. But that feeling of loneliness can, in my experience, create a kind of self-pity, "Nobody has ever had to face this before me, I'm all alone" feeling. So not saying you don't know how it feels in an accusatory way (a la Tom Petty's "You Don't Know How It Feels to Be Me") but in a self-pitying way. I would guess this feeling is especially prevalent in the more self-centered teen world, which is why I think it works better as a teen pop song than it would in other genres."

Even though the verses have a really accusatory feel to them, like I said that's not how I interpret the chorus. I interpret speaking directly to her tormenters, the ones who are rejecting her, "YOU don't know how it feels..." in a way that feels just so real and raw. Not in a way of trying to blame them or make them feel bad, just trying to show them how much they've hurt her, and self-pitying as I say in the quoted passage above. I think this song is so great because virtually anybody can probably relate to the song, not just as the speaker, but also as the accused. Who here has not felt rejected/alone or made other people to feel rejected/alone? Not only that, but Jordan totally sells the vocals. Jordan's only 15, and her album comes out in early 2007, written entirely by her and her two co-writers on "Outside Looking In". I'm looking forward to it.

― Greg Fanoe, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of "Outside Looking In", here is the "Outside Looking In" contest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibL_lWgNRM

Whoever had the best story on what the song means to them and how they've felt on the outside looking in. "Don't be afraid to tell us your thoughts and feelings". Hah, the best videos uploaded to Youtube will be personally interviewed by Jordan Pruitt for a 30 minute documentary on the making of the song. Should be interesting.

― Greg Fanoe, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Are the Fratellis still teens? They are close, I think. They are also apparently the "best new band in Britain," according to the NME. And they have a song called "Flathead" in both an ipod commercial apparently (not that I've seen it, seeing how I don't watch TV) and in the U.S. Hot 100 (or at least it was there last week.) Also they apparently start rows in the loo, or something. Not that you can actually hear any row-starting in their music (just like the Libertines before them and Oasis before that.) Album, which I lasted through a few songs of, shambles in a politely energetic way at times. It's better when they try to music-hall than when they try to rock, though not much better. Best thing I can say about it is that I didn't hate it as much as I expected to.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 10 March 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Fratellis have a couple of tracks entering, leaving, and reentering the British charts; I listened to "Whistle For The Choir" a couple of weeks ago and then forgot what it sounded like, but fortunately I took notes: "This isn't terrible. Lennonesque melody, acoustic." (What's a Lennonesque melody? I probably meant the late '60s, slightly aggressive slightly pained tunes like "Instant Karma" rather than the early '60s exuberantly pained tunes like "Not A Second Time." Assuredly I did not think "Whistle For The Choir" was as good as either of those two.) "I feel that I am recognizing this song's merit rather than liking it. The way the singing Fratelli goes 'A boy like me is irresistible' has a nice 1920s feel, but it would be better with a 1920s arrangement and a 1920s (or 1890s) singer, someone capable of a singer totally at ease with offhand show tunes like 'Yessir, that's my baby.'" (So a think that's my thumb sitting on its thumbs rather than it being a thumbs up. Of course, I'd go listen again if I were more conscientious.)

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

"someone capable of a singer totally at ease" - to make sense of this, delete the phrase "capable of a singer."

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

A teenpop threader creates a Platinum Weird fansite.

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 11 March 2007 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Jordan Pruitt. At least in Outside Looking In, I hear something in her voice I like. There's a tremble, like it could almost break that reminds me of Dashboard Confessional. But my friend said it best: Her voice isn't strong enough to carry on with so little accompaniment. I'd only addendum that slightly: If the lyrics were just a bit better, just a bit more diverse and interesting, she could've pulled it off. As it is now, the only really interesting thing is that quiver in her voice, and the potential that it could turn into something more. I suppose there could be something interesting in terms of the reaction to the song (the way that the people she's referring to in the song hear the song) and that kind of reminds me of Jimmy Eats World's The Middle. (Particularly Greenwald's critique of the music video for The Middle in Nothing Feels Good - he writes that it's about isolation, but it speaks to everyone. It lets everyone feel that isolation, but is still a mainstream, cross-denom phenomenon. At least, that's what I remember him saying.)

― Mordechai Shinefield, Monday, 12 March 2007 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Rolling RD 3-12-07: Year 3K takes the top spot, Hilary stalls around 25-ish (haven't checked against KDIS airplay yet), in the Incubator is an Xtian pop band with some kinda link to Jump 5 (they share a Svengali or something), Pure NRG label MySpace here: http://www.myspace.com/ferventrecords, "Live My Life for You"...elsewhere AnnaSophia Robb has a boring ballad from that movie whose name I don't remember (Narnia-ish) and in the Mailbag is the Truth Squad doing a Peter Pan song. Veronicas get as close as they'll ever get to RD with Everlife's cover of "I Could Get Used to This." Not finding a heckuva lotta reasons to listen very much lately.

― dabug, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Way tardy thoughts on "Chemicals React" (been lost in multi-features-ville.)

The opening Linn drum kick and Roland 120 chorus guitar makes me wonder if those sounds, utterly emblematic of the 80s, are now official pop kitsch quotation tones ala a Shaft wah-wah figure.

The guitar approach: An interesting gambit, making it wall of treble with almost no mid-rage. one assumes the idea was to make room for the snare and the vocals, which it does. And to render what's basically a Ramones sort of guitar attack sound less offputtingly punk. But the buzzzz treatment also robs the chords of some of their piquancy, and these are mighty tasty chords.

Vocals: Brilliant! The harmonies are using the robo-simulacra effect of Paris' vox to super smart effect--their sheer robo-ness is a lovely sonic and conceptual spar with Aly's impassioned, very bio lead vox. I have to wonder if somebody in the control booth is a major Beatles fan--the hold-the-root-note thing with occasional switches to thirds is class Fab Four and delightful; in this unexpected context.

The final fist-pumper vocal vamp is a delight: it's like the arena rock Bic-lighter thing trimmed to 2:46 seconds of pep.

Wondering how the lyrics jibe with the whole Christian thing.

Whatever--a terrific song, rendered in the main terrifically.

― i, grey, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

The thing about the babies song for me is that, while it does sound like "a nice summery hit," there's something lame about the casualness with which she's talking about the subject. I can't help hearing it as being kind of phony.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

RIP Betty Hutton

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/movies/14hutton.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGNm89GZBE

― dabug, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have to wonder if somebody in the control booth is a major Beatles fan

Producers and songwriters (w/ the Michalka girls) are Antonina Armato and Tim James, who also collaborated with Aly & A.J. on "Greatest Time Of Year" and "Not This Year," and did the very different-sounding (to my untrained ears) "Come Back To Me" for Vanessa Hudgens (r&b rather than Beatles-Ramones); and seven years ago did Hoku's great "How Do I Feel (the Burrito Song)" - and all the other Hoku songs, including "Another Dumb Blonde." Ian, if you ever get the chance I'd love it if you could analyze "How Do I Feel" and "Come Back To Me," since neither sounds much like the other, or all that much like Aly & A.J. - but you might be able to draw out some similarities that I wouldn't have the knowledge to hear. (Hoku has a much lighter sound than Aly & A.J., but there are probably melodic and harmonic similarities.)

I wouldn't think that Armato and James and the Michalka would be referencing the '80s, even if they're deliberately copying the '80s, since few of the kids in Aly & A.J.'s prime audience would get the reference.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

YouTube will be forced to take down the Betty Hutton video sooner or later (that's what happened last time it was up); I recommend it enthusiastically.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

Re: "Chemicals Ract" 80s sounds/Beatles haromies.

I'm always very interested in production fashion. Like couture, it depicts a conversation with Now and the past and the interstices where Then becomes revitalized in morphed form. (Really, I'm not a theory freak.)

Just noticed that "React" also has pop-and-slap bass in the verse, which is uber-80s. Meanwhile, the Linn kick was absolutely verboten in any sort of pop for the last 15 years.

I don't think the producers are referencing--I think they've just decided the statute of limitations on all of these songs is over. It's part of what makes the song so frackin' exciting--you literally, on some level, have no idea what going to be thrown at you.

― i, grey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

er--"sounds", not "songs"

― i, grey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

The sound fashion thing is one reason I find most indie stuff so stulifying, so deadly dull.

Especially the official Indie Drum Sound/Style, that flat, low ambience, boxy sound and playing style that signifies "I'm too cool to give a crap about how this is played" or something.

twenty years, and it hasn't changed a fuckuva lot.

― i, grey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Word on the street is Skye Sweetnam's getting dropped in the aftermath of the Capitol/Virgin merger. Not confirmed yet though.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/buzzbands/2007/03/like_a_lot_of_f.html

― dabug, Thursday, 15 March 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, that makes me unhappy.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

But this makes me happy. It makes me proud, because my grandmother was born in Odessa.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

it depicts a conversation with Now and the past

When I first read this, I - truly - thought that the "Now" referred to was the album series [Removed Illegal Link].

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, a catastrophic appostrophe: let's try again:

[i]it depicts a conversation with Now and the past

When I first read this, I - truly - thought that the "Now" referred to was the album series Now That s What I Call Music.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

But this makes me happy.

Perhaps one day I will learn to smile again.

― dabug, Friday, 16 March 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

This might help a little.

― dabug, Friday, 16 March 2007 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

No wait, This might help a little

― dabug, Friday, 16 March 2007 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

Joe McCombs says that the chart rebound of Pink's "U + Ur Hand" was due to the song's being belatedly serviced to dance radio in remix form and then taking off from there. As of today it's number 16 on Mediabase's Top 40 airplay list, and is also getting additional action on Hot AC. (Maybe the fact that a couple of Skye's producers are on this late-breaking hit will convince Capitol Records to spare her the guillotine.)

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

Reviewing The Dollyrods album and it *should* be teenpop; it sounds like what every Disney network girl band should sound like, all sugary sweet yet cracklingly poppy (which makes it sound like a breakfast cereal!) with fun infectious choruses that still 'rock out' kinda like '80s poof metal bands did or Joan Jett (it is on her label) playing in Morningwood if they did surf music for the new generation. Loud cover of "Brand New Key" makes me want to go skating. xhuxk would either approve or be disappointed, I never know for sure, but I like it okay.

― NYCNative, Friday, 16 March 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Finally got a copy of the Good Charlotte album. Still working on my review about it, but Teenpop specific observations: lot of songs about being depressed and dark ("All Black") though that song also namedrops Johnny Cash. Also, Frank, I find that "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" single incredibly disturbing. On a couple different levels.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

The only recent thing I heard from the Dollyrots (who counted as teenpop last year) was from their Myspace called "Because I'm Awesome," which reminds me of something that could have been on the Clueless soundtrack.

― dabug, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've mentioned Stephanie McIntosh here, though I've been liking "So Do I Say Sorry First" for a while; it's now getting its push as a single. The opening riff could be Sixties progressive rock, such as Cream's "Tales Of Brave Ulysses," a psychedelic scream from the guitar; but McIntosh sings "dit dit dit" above it, as if the rock were generating pop, and then what follows is totally Eurobosh love-pained poppiness in melody and lyrics - "If I cry would you hold me just like we rehearsed/So do I so do I say sorry first?" smart words, about a couple's love quarrels turning into shtick, into routine - while the guitars go for the same rocking loudness that Luke and Max have been inserting into their pop lately. (I think there is some Martin and Rami input on the album but not this song, which is co-written and most likely produced by Tom Nichols.)

Over on Poptimists they've been using "bosh" to mean your basic Europop Eurodance and also for Eurodance covers of rock songs, while this I'd call "bosh rock," meaning that it's a pop song with a lot of guitar crunch that is nonetheless totally dancepop.

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Stephanie McIntosh is Aussie soap star Jason Donovan's half-sister, and Stephanie herself is in the cast of Neighbours (which never aired here and which I've never seen, even when Kylie was on it). There was a making-of-the-album reality show, modeled I suppose on Ashlee's, that is possibly going to air on U.S. MTV this year. Her first single, on the heels of the show, did very well in Australia, and the next two did progressively worse, which is too bad, because actually they've been getting better, the "So Do I Say Sorry First?" being the best of the three.

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

(Sasha Frere Jones calls "Because I'm Awesome" the 5th best song of the year so far)

― dabug, Saturday, 17 March 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

they've been using "bosh" to mean your basic Europop Eurodance and also for Eurodance covers of rock songs

In that case I should note here that I have been enjoying the recent bosh compilation Club NRG on Interhit Records. Favorite tracks: Culture Beat's "Take Me Away" (which has the most Snap-worthy rapping), Ondina's "Summer Of Love" (in part for the bubbledancheall toasting), Newton's "Sky High" (which I think I prefer to the original by I think Pilot), Outta Control's "Together (In Electric Dreams)" (which I think I prefer to the original by that Human League guy and Giorgio Morodor or whoever did it.)
Other artists covered include Elton John with Terri Desario (or whatever her name was), Madonna (twice), Bonnie Tyler (covered by Nikki French, who is the most famous artist on the compilation I believe), R. Kelly, Eric Carmen, No Doubt. One of the tracks ("Don't Cry For Me Argentina," I think?) has the exact same melody of some Simon and Garfunkel song.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oops Club NRG Volume 1, to be exact ("over 70 minutes of non-stop dance hits!")

― xhuxk, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

One thing I should say though is that, while the bosh tracks' fairly consistent (and sometimes transcendant) beauty and n-r-g inevitably stands out when the CD is in my changer with four other (country/metal/hip-hop/whatever) discs, if I try to play all 70 minutes at once their saminess gets oppressive.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Finally heard the Cassie CD, and (as I already knew from her Mice Pace) "Long Way 2 Go" and "Just One Nite" do a nice job of somewhat filling out her sound without losing the chill-warmth dialectic of "Me & U." "Just One Nite" also has touches of "Bali Ha'i" South Pacific hauntingness. But a surprise is "What Do U Want," which is what you get when you cross "Me & U" with Avril's "Girlfriend" - has the spareness and the nonchalant hauteur you'd expect but also throws in cute bubblegum cheerleader chants and a left hook that's half Asian (like Cassie). The idea seems to be that she's got a tough crew of cute little cheerleader cupcakes who will help her make the boy cry. "You want my time, my money, and my body too/Give me one good reason I should give it to you/LET'S GO!" When she says "Boy it's your turn to shake shake shake shake shake, yeah yeah yeah yeah-yeah-yeah yeah yeah" she means "shake with fear," while of course the music dances with joy.

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 18 March 2007 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Marv Reynolds, 42, father of 11-year-old Ashley, slipped into his daughter's bedroom for one more look at the liner notes to her Britney Spears album Monday. "Just like to see what my daughter's into these days," said Reynolds, perusing the photo-packed booklet accompanying Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again for the fourth time in as many days. "I bet she'll put this on the moment she gets home from soccer practice in 20 minutes." Upon hearing a car pull into the driveway, Reynolds, who has previously browsed the liner notes to his daughter's Mandy Moore and Christina Aguilera CDs, put the Spears disc back exactly where he found it and left the room

― bobby bedelia, Sunday, 18 March 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Area pedophile Dwight Sanderson said Monday that his interest in getting to know and eventually meeting MySpace.com member "Courtneee" has significantly declined after a closer read of the "lame" hobbies and "self-involved" blog entries on the 13-year-old's profile.
"At first, she seemed like my type of girl—innocent-looking, single, and, best of all, she lives right nearby," he said.
Sanderson continued: "Her profile seemed very enticing at first. She plays softball in the same park that I always hang around in. But right before I was going to leave her a private message, I decided to check out her latest blog post."
He said the 1,500-word entry "droned on and on" about everything from dealing with her great-grandmother's death last year to hopes for her new job as class treasurer.
"I'm looking for a cell-phone number and a home address, not your life story," he said.
Though admittedly discouraged, Sanderson, who classifies himself as "not very picky," said he still hoped that Courtneee could play a small, fleeting part in his future.
"I'm an optimist, even though I've been burned by girls like Courtneee in the past. You think you know everything about them—their dark secrets, their heroes, their class schedule—but they end up betraying your confidence and talking about your relationship behind your back to any authority figure who'll listen," Sanderson said.
Sanderson pointed out several other "red flags" in Courtneee's profile, including "pathetic, almost obsessive" blog entries about her ex-crush, the fact that her "Interests and Personality" section mentions that she might want to have children someday, and her terrible taste in movies.
"I'm used to getting involved with younger, less mature women, but she's got the sense of humor of an 8-year-old," Sanderson said. "I can't bring myself to pretend to like 50 First Dates, even to establish a base of shared interests, build rapport, and eventually earn her complete trust."
"Also, one of her friends left a recent comment accusing her of being a 'big-mouth who likes to spread rumors,'" Sanderson added. "I can't tell you how big a turnoff that is for me."
According to Sanderson, the most discouraging revelation came when he viewed Courtneee's "More Pics" section, in which she reportedly looks "way older" than she does in her featured front-page photo.
"When I saw the other pictures, I was like, 'How old is this girl, 15?'" Sanderson said. "In these pictures, she had braces, acne, noticeable breasts—nothing like the baby-faced little girl she appeared to be on her main page. She probably hasn't updated that picture in a year and a half."
Though he made a legally binding promise to himself and law-enforcement officials that he would never pursue another relationship like this, Sanderson says he nonetheless plans to "give it a shot."
"Internet dating can be risky," he said, "but at my age, and their age, it's really the only way."

― bobby bedelia, Sunday, 18 March 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Uh... I think I'm missing something, bobby. Like the source, or the context... are these from the Onion?

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 18 March 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

These would be my Pazz & Jop/Jackin' Pop top ten if I were voting today. Won't say that most of them are teenpop (Sadie and Taylor are actual teens, but one's in r&b and the other's in country, though I can imagine each getting teenybopper support), but this thread is as good as any to post this list. I'm deciding that "You" is eligible for 2007 by the "greatest impact this year" rule, and anyway it's the only one here that's likely to be still standing on December 31. I agree with the people who think the Swift song loses its intensity in the chorus, but I feel that the great achy-breaky pang in her throat in the verses more than compensates.

1. Lloyd f. Lil Wayne "You"
2. Taylor Swift "Teardrops On My Guitar"
3. Linda Sundblad "Lose You"
4. Keak Da Sneak "That Go"
5. Sadie Ama "Fallin'"
6. Dragonette "I Get Around"
7. Mia "Zirkus"
8. Drop The Lime "Wake Up Call (Infants Remix)"
9. M.I.A. "Bird Flu"
10. Julieta Venegas "Eres Para Mi"

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Brie Larson:

Things I Like: "A Day in the Life" - almost "A Song for Emily" sweet, but with more rattling, like nails in a box in the background being shaken. And very The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ears to the Groundesque. Which is good. Especially the halted ending, etc.

Things I Don't Like: Her Stevie Knick'esque picture which doesn't do Stevie well and just looks dirty/hippie (not that they always mean the same, but that in this picture they do). Is she doing freak-folk now? I knew Joanna Newsom was big but...

Things I Don't Get??: Can someone explain Bunnies and Traps to me? I read the about us on the website, and it made no sense. Which might be the point - but how can you submit if you don't know what you're submitting to. Maybe someone whose already read it? (Speaking of zines, any news on those Music Sucks issues, Frank?)

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Lloyd and Taylor, Frank. I never got MIA - so I'm not going to comment here. Things you're totally missing:

Natasha Bedingfield - Babies (If a song can make me like Bedingfield, it is doing something right.)
R Kelly - Flirt
Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (I've talked about this above, so I won't repeat.)
Fallout Boy - I'm Like a Lawyer (Alt: Good Charlotte's River if you can deal with the asshole-factor. But Fallout Boy could fulfill the dark-emo-teen slot, and nicely too.)
The entire Spring Awakening OST! People need to get on this. It's incredible. Here's a good starting place: "The Guilty Ones." Such a pretty, harsh, wistful song.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

cassie says 'what do u want' is her favourite on the album! i must have forgotten to mention it last year, it's just the sort of thing which fits here.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, was planning on cleaning the apartment today (invited my writer's group over for Wednesday so as to motivate myself to finish unpacking the boxes that have been cluttering up my living room since I moved in July!), so will look when I do to see if I can find which back issues of WMS are still around. Except a good deal of today is over, so I might not get to it.

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, Cassie's wrong. "Me & U" is by far the best (not to say there aren't other great tracks on there). But "What Do U Want" manages to maintain the sexiness of her restraint while not being restrained. (I think I know what I mean by what I just said.)

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Guilty Ones" Lyrics:

WENDLA
Something’s started crazy / Sweet and unknown / Something you keep / In a box on the street / Now it’s longing for a home.

ALL
And who can say what dreams are?

WENDLA
Wake me in time to be lonely and sad

ALL
And who can say what we are?

WENDLA
This is the season for dreaming / And now our bodies are the guilty ones / Who touch / And color the hours / Night won’t breathe / Oh how we / Fall into silence from the sky / And whisper some silver reply.

MELCHIOR
Pulse is gone and racing / All fits and starts / Window by window / You try and look into / This brave new you that you are.

ALL
And who can say what dreams are?

MELCHIOR & WENDLA
Wake me in time to be out in the cold.

ALL
And who can say what we are?

MELCHIOR & WENDLA
This is the reason for dreaming.

ALL
And now our bodies are the guilty ones / Our touch / Will fill every hour / Huge and dark / Oh our hearts / Will murmur the blues from on high / Then whisper some silver reply. / And now our bodies are the guilty ones / Our touch / Will color hours / Night won’t breathe / Oh how we / Fall in silence from the sky. / Then whisper some silver reply

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've never gotten R. Kelly. I've nothing against his singing, but I've nothing for it, either. "Pretty enough" is my most positive response, "pretty boring" my most negative. (He counts as teenpop as a producer, or whatever, right?)

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 18 March 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

I don't care for his ballads, but Ignition and I'm a Flirt are crown jewels of mainstsream R&B.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 19 March 2007 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

New Girl Authority album, four tracks streamed on their MySpace and one other streamed at Amazon. I don't recognize any of the five as covers, but that hardly is definitive. Think I like the one on Amazon most (mentions the name "Girl Authority" and claims "we have the power"), nice mixture of southern soul horns, w/ hints of reggae and country, nice loose drummer. Doesn't have the extra hookiness that'll get it on Radio Disney (like I would know)(like Disney's going to play something on a Rounder subsidiary). The rest aren't bad either, I guess; I like "Rhythm Of The World," which could be one of the Cheetah Girls' better tracks. (You can see me falling all over myself with enthusiasm here.)

― Frank Kogan, Monday, 19 March 2007 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

"U + Ur Hand" still rising on Top 40 airplay; up to number 15, slightly ahead of "This Is Why I'm Hot." (But getting less than half the spins of "It's Not Over," "What Goes Around Comes Around," "Say It Right," or "The Sweet Escape," which have owned Top 40 for a while.) "Girlfriend" starting to rise substantially, though still weak in total plays, possibly owing to "Keep Holding On" holding on above it.

― Frank Kogan, Monday, 19 March 2007 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

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