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I had something devestatingly funny to say, except I realized it just wasn't funny at all. So, pretend I said something hysterical here.

Back to the subject: "Bootylicious" has begun getting play on the airwaves. I love it. How do others feel?

― Dan Perry, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

At least you weren't walking round telling people Aaliyah was your girlfriend or something, Fred.

As for Bootylicious, it's a good song, I like it even if it's got completely naff lyrics and I'd rather listen to Play. It's definitely one of the better tracks off the album, which I find completely unimpressive (on par with their other albums then).

― Ally, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Why the de rigueur "shoulders-pinned-back-by-invisible-man" pose all these girls got (I am referring to the above link to some game show participant)? Have we gone from the "freshly laid" to the "being roughly fucked" look? At this rate the "handjob" look will be all the rage any minute now.

Re: Destiny's Child I was just listening to the "Azza Remix" of Jumpin Jumpin and it's off the hizzy! House tempo, diff. lyrics, Timba-like skitter-drum...

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm clearly more the Vice President type, which would make Ramon head honcho, and then you would all live in a fascist state. But if you think Aaliyah is better looking than Beyonce, maybe you need a dictator to tell you what to think. Aaliyah is good looking for a woman, but she's not a woman, she's a pop star, and the least a pop star can do is be something other than just good looking. Pink is way hotter than Aaliyah.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's exactly what I'm telling people from now on. "What do you call this look you've got on today?" "Well, boss, I call it the handjob look." That's so fantastic.

As for Pink, she is filthy disgusting. She looks like she has gingivitis or something making her mouth curl up perpetually. Aaliyah is smooth and sexy and exotic; Pink is a girl who works at Tower Records.

― Ally, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Holding a snake does not make you exotic. I hate girls with snakes, they claim that the snake won't move from their neck, which it doesn't, until you start making out and it curls around YOUR neck and starts licking you. Fuckers. Gingivitis is totally hot. I love the girls at Tower. At their best, they have Pink's car crash appeal, where you're not sure they're attractive, but you can't take your eyes off them. Whereas, as attractive as Aaliyah is, I have no trouble taking my eyes off her, unless her outfit's really exorbitantly expensive, and then it's still not her I'm looking at.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It is at this point I'd like to point out that you also can't take your eyes off the freaks in the shows at Coney Island, but I fear this is a useless point.

Never mind, as long as people keep saying Pink is hot and Aaliyah is unattractive, I know I have my shot still.

― Ally, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

Hey, the writing's on the wall is crap. Suvivor (their most succesful album) is the best.

― Dec, Monday, 30 September 2002 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

as people, they are offensive. i like their music okay.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 03:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

six years pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8142864.stm

― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Monday, 13 July 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link

But I'm in the freaking West End! I'm the first African-American woman to play his role in the West End!

"Don't Cry For Me Dear Beyonce..."

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

can anybody hit me up w/ a decent mp3 of 2-step?

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link

lol @ me talking about Nicole Scherzinger 9 years ago

― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Monday, 24 May 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link

bump for peak traffic btw

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

why wasn't "So Good" ever a single?

― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Really into "girl" atm

― calstars, Friday, 23 June 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

It's kinda shocking how poorly their hits have aged (to my ears)! I really liked them at the time, compared to other stuff that was on the radio, but now the Timbaland-influenced production that was in style at the time just sounds so tinny and frenetic, like five games of racquetball being played in the same court. It was hearing Jumpin' Jumpin' on the radio recently in particular that made me wrinkle my nose and have whatever the opposite feeling of nostalgia is

― Dan I., Monday, 29 October 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link

I kinda see what you mean but I still find most of Survivor's hits pretty cool and so are "Say My Name", "Bills"...
The difference for me is mostly that in retrospect, I find their early stuff, and many Timbaland and other production of that time, less revolutionary/groundbreaking and more a natural evolution of New Jack and early/mid 90s RnB.

― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 29 October 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link

i still like most of their hits *shrug*

i may like "jumpin' jumpin'" better than i did when it was last on the radio b/c it was so overplayed back then that it had kind of soured on me

― dyl, Monday, 29 October 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link

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