liz phair song is remarkably bad (just listened to the whole thing after bailing on the comedy voices a couple days ago). i get that it's supposed to be silly & self-mocking, but it's awful however you take it. like laurie anderson with all the wit removed, and so completely lost in time. seems to come from some bad, alternate 1990, like it's supposed to slot in next to soho or something. updated with c2K missy beats? can't make sense of it & can't believe it's an actual album track.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
people
stop comparing this to laurie anderson
wtf
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, my 2NU comparison upthread is way more on the money.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
well, i was just picking up on what was said before... but it's hard to hear this particular voice pitch shifted in this particular way without immediately snapping to "sharkey's night". and bringing up LA is an attempt to construct a conceptual frame in which the song might make sense - even though it still doesn't. but yeah, it's a tenuous comparison at best.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
also, liz's attempt to comment on herself as an object presented for consumption smacks of conceptual art, or of certain ideas about such art, which (along with the sonic palette) links easily/lazily back to LA
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it sounds more to me like she's fucking around. which i don't object to in principle, tho obv there are plenty more inspired examples. anyway i'm about to pay 6 bucks for the album out of mere curiosity, and that's more money than i've spent on a liz phair album in a long time.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
It certainly won't be the worst album to released on-line this year.
My hate isn't growing.
― Blue Sky Whine (SeekAltRoute), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
omg i would not pay for an album with that song on it if my life depended on it
― janice (surm), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
like obviously she is v confused, and some kind of drug, or something, or coming off a year or 2 on drugs during which she did nothing but fry her brain
am about to watch this celine tho
― janice (surm), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 u ramz
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha I am never listening to this
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
just the way she says "portfolio" is grounds for dismissalit's hard to recover from that when it's the first line of the song
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I am sitting here laughing/crying over the Celine video.
I wish she had covered Skee-Lo.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
My peen-ius got limp.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
dude, i would kill to go to celine's vegas show!
― janice (surm), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
So would I!
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i would only kill to go to celine's vegas show if it was with ramzi
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
So would I!!!!
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSTXn4H5jY (Stevie D), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm afraid we'd be the only men present.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
oh no you wouldn't, my wife went to one and you would have company aplenty
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
You didn't go with her? You bastard!
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 8, 2010 3:38 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSTXn4H5jY (Stevie D), Thursday, July 8, 2010 3:42 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
we would have such a time!! :D
― janice (surm), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
lol stevie that's what you get when you italicize your sn
― janice (surm), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
There should seriously be a Celine/Vegas ilx meet up.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
As soon as the concert's over we should go here.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Have to wait until March but...
http://www.celinedion.com/celinedion/english/whatsgoinon_vegas.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
You sick bastard, Alfred. You mean here.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll only go if Dan sings "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" in the atrium.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Near, far, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Victor Davis Hanson would start crying when "My Heart Will Go On" starts up.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Near, far, etc
http://www.sfu.ca/classics/history/VDH.jpg
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
...see, I can hear him sing that. Sadly.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Celine is actually covering Skee-Lo.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, July 7, 2010 3:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
I believed you & was really stoked for it
― les yeux sans aerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
It was a last-minute ticket given to her by a friend
tbh I respect Celine but I don't know if I could make it through one of her shows (although I've already been told that we will be going to Vegas to see her show)
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I would go if I was promised 600 gin and tonics in the lobby.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I am sorry to have misled. (I want it to be real, so bad.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Who are you, me?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20133eea9fa40970b-800wi
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
do u guys think that liz phair saw this thread and decided to answer the question?
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck and run.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHkj804LCl0
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
This is too good to be on the same thread as Bollywood.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I like to think of it as counteracting that nonsense.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20133eea9fa40970b-800wihttp://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20133eea9fa40970b-800wihttp://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20133eea9fa40970b-800wi
L-RSurm, me, J0rdan
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSTXn4H5jY (Stevie D), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm the dude right in front of him
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
― janice (surm), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
michael stipe is hypnotic
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 8 July 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
plus, any other strong candidates for worst song of 2010? cuz that crabcore just ain't doing it for me no more.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 8 July 2010 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus, Bollywood is repulsively bad. it's like she heard this cool new thing that's popular nowadays called Hippity Hoppity and thought, "hey, i could totally do that." it's like a pathetic imitation of MIA. as soon as i started listening to it i just wanted it to get away from my ears.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link