call her maybe!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'm really feeling this album. Reminds me of marit larsen.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
*ejects*
― barthes simpson, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
big time 80s vibe here, cars reference upthread otm, also men at work
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
whoa, you guys are making me actually want to go buy this.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm liking some of the tracks a lot, and I hear some of Kylie in this, especially her sweeter, older stuff. Very no-fuss pop. Sequencing is a little funky to me - I think the first 7 or 8 tracks all have similar beats and structures and the album could use one or two more songs that deviate from that (though Guitar String/Wedding Ring is pretty bad).
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
If. You. Cut. A Piece. Of. Guitar. String.I. Will. Wear. It. Like. It's. My. Wedding. Ring.
^^^ I've heard this shitty laboured chorus like twice and I already feel I've heard it thousands of times. That one's the real clunker here.
yeah, there are other missteps (owl city), but i like GSWR less each time through
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
the first two songs basically sound like aural saccharin to me right now
can't say you're wrong, but the bright, sugary effervescence of the sound is what i like about kiss. "tiny little bows" makes me instantly, giddily happy every time i hear it. it's like the aural equivalent of the wachowski's speed racer movie, an insubstantial cloud of neon hearts and rainbows. my favorite parts of the album are those that seem the least substantial.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
it just made me yearn to hear the Presets album
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
i like this and the new presets about the same. actually that's unfair, I need to give the presets a few more listens.
FML, i like the owl city one :-( , but a lot of this is better than ok, with some great highlights
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
man y'all "guitar string/wedding ring" only gets better for me
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol either I am in a much poppier mood than I was this morning or the first two songs on this are really, really terrible; I started listening at "Call Me Maybe" this time and am enjoying this immensely (currently up to "More Than A Memory")
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
haven't really read the thread yet, have we already had the "'Turn Me Up' is a lost Kylie song" conversation
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
i love the run from "this kiss" to "hurt so good" ("good time" excepted, i've given it a chance but now i just skip it)
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah see, i love "tiny little bows" but am starting to skip "this kiss". don't care for the steamwhistle synths, reminds me too much of "teenage dream".
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
That one w bieber sounds like a Colbie cheese Callait / Hey There Delilah mashup.
― Nickelback of folk (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 20 September 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
i would love to participate in this conversation but i can't actually make myself listen to anything besides "i know you have a girlfriend" AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 September 2012 10:29 (eleven years ago) link
it's hitting every rick springfield button i have, and a handful that i don't
"and i think she's kinda nice" - the coldest dagger
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 September 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
Haha the reason you like 'I Know You Have A Girlfriend' is because it sounds like boshed-up ROBYN.
(I really like that one as well)
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 September 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
isn't it "and i hear she's kinda nice"?
― human centipede hz (thomp), Thursday, 20 September 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
oh maybe so!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 September 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
good point about robyn.
the way she slides up into "wiiiife" etc reminds me of someone, i can't think who. i want to say the pistol annies or something.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 September 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
hmmm, I'm not into this. I'm sure I'll end up enjoying whatever non-Owl City songs from this end up on the radio tho.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 September 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
It's all pretty competent and whatever, obvious exceptions aside, it's just a lot more of this style of music than I want to hear at one time. Too much Natasha Beddingfield realness.
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 September 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
lmbo @ "Natasha Beddingfield realness"
agree with rev, this album is a lil bit too shrill
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 20 September 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
From Katharine St. Asaph: How the Internet Killed Carly Rae Jepsen.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
the stretch of good time > more than a memory > turn me up is p stellar
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Great article. Thanks for pointing it out Ned.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
ya, v good
even still though, meme-mummify-maim is not binding, it's still an opportunity however complicated; crj has a lot going for her, more than most, and it has to go down as a bigtime industry fumble if they can't keep her ball rolling for at very least a few singles more
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
so this is good huh?
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
i want her to do a video for "i know you have a girlfriend" where she's in a harsh white spotlight, a trio behind her, small drumkit, her backup band looking like young joe jackson session guys, all of them with microphones for bg vocals which they perform early and often, and carly with her own strat that she jerks smartly around for the chorus, everything FIXED UP and lookin SHARP
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
^ fantastic idea!
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
gbx, this is really really good.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
and tracer, that sounds AMAZING
Katherine otm. "Your Heart is a Muscle" and "This Kiss" are at least as good as "Call Me Maybe." The album overall is stronger and tougher than Red, actually.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
ehh the album is pretty lame and there were one hit wonders before the youtube era
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's not your father's one-hit wonder though
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
my three year old is cuckoo for "good time" -- gotta mean something, right?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ToCNE.jpg
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
is that the owl city guy? he is the voice of my daughter's generation.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think there's any way in hell i'd listen to this album all the way through, yet i love or like every song on it apart from the duets.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf78alvpxRM
I like the color palettes in this video, though I feel like the song is now about 5 years old. Why'd they take so long to make a video?
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
truly chilling words.
― crüt, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
the song it's following up only fell out of the top 10 last week, they're just staggering the singles in the usual way (xpost)
― Victory Goon (some dude), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
this song would have been a great summer jam had "call me maybe" not snatched that title away from every other song in existence
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Katherine otm. "Your Heart is a Muscle" and "This Kiss" are at least as good as "Call Me Maybe
I can see it with 'This Kiss' but 'You Heart Is A Muscle' is awful, largely because it's a clunky title and a very clunky lyric to use in a chorus.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
Local radio finally playing "This Kiss."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 November 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
did we cover this somewhere?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJyTL1LYjls
i don't care about dan deacon otherwise but this is like bespoke catnip for me
― ogmor, Sunday, 13 January 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Started making an acid/Hague remix of this the other day after that tipped me off there was an acapella around.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 13 January 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link