westwood's new show
as part of the in new music we trust strand. kinda weird but aight! news about the jay-z album, played out bangaz chart, reggae chart with goldfinger (er what the chart is based on is unclear but at least goldfinger admits "ghetto story" is new to precisely nobody), old badboy freestyle session, and... a rundmc primer.
ok so that last part seemed like satire, and i thought, didnt r1 spend the last ten years grimly eradicating the need to introduce entire genres over and over again to the hairy cornflake audience. but er it is freshaz week, and it gives westwood a chance to mine the archives for interview gems (here's rundmc defending the "its like that" j nevins rmx, its cute), so maybe next week he'll do a krs one primer and we can hear that show when he called westwood a div and they had a massive row!
overall it seems that r1 weeknights are turning very 6music, a throwback to when new music was gently cushioned between familiar songs we can all agree on, with precisely that obnoxious attitude informing everything - colin murray's show is spectacularly corny cosiness with jokes and promises never to play "hey ya" immediately followed by playing that killers 'i got soul but i'm not a soldier' song as if that was somehow less exposed?! doesn't seem like they trust new music that much.
27.9.06
25.9.06
ciara - promise
ciara's janet tribute is still better than janet's janet tribute!
anyway. wow this is aces. ciara builds up two years worth of spazzy electro rnb and bloody bubblecrunk notoriety, then sort of flicks at it like it's a load of well organized dominoes. any expectations you may have about a new ciara single work in favour of swaying-on-the-spot, bjork-drummed devotional ballad "promise" cos a) you will be totally confounded which is usually quite nice, and b) ciara's voice will make everything seem 10x more pop than it really ought to be anyway.
and if you dont give a toss about ciara's career arc, all i can say is this is a very real and very beautiful song. and i love that guitar-synth sound in the chorus. and i love her spoken word declaration to 'never... never EVER hurt you.' quite scary!
(i feel bad for paul poli cos now when someone like mariah picks up the phone and says 'get me that polly pauly polow guy' she's probably gonna get polow da don)
(but polow da don is very good)
ciara's janet tribute is still better than janet's janet tribute!
anyway. wow this is aces. ciara builds up two years worth of spazzy electro rnb and bloody bubblecrunk notoriety, then sort of flicks at it like it's a load of well organized dominoes. any expectations you may have about a new ciara single work in favour of swaying-on-the-spot, bjork-drummed devotional ballad "promise" cos a) you will be totally confounded which is usually quite nice, and b) ciara's voice will make everything seem 10x more pop than it really ought to be anyway.
and if you dont give a toss about ciara's career arc, all i can say is this is a very real and very beautiful song. and i love that guitar-synth sound in the chorus. and i love her spoken word declaration to 'never... never EVER hurt you.' quite scary!
(i feel bad for paul poli cos now when someone like mariah picks up the phone and says 'get me that polly pauly polow guy' she's probably gonna get polow da don)
(but polow da don is very good)
22.9.06
'honesty is the most important thing to me'
i hate yooooooo. expect lots of coverage of the new r1 shows next week on spizzazzz EVEN THO NO ONE GIVES A FUCK.
(my fav colin/edith moment was a few months ago when colin was on holiday and edith was doing that 5 decades of r1 thing where listeners choose a record which has been played on the same day in the past, and she just could not comprehend her audience picking alice deejay's "better off alone" over fucking shitass "blue monday" by new order. what a laugh!)
(ahhhh remember this??)
(months and months after that post we saw a CERTAIN BLOGOSPHERE SPANNER on some msg board going, 'hey guys have you heard this song that goes 'you can do it get ur ass in it'? tune of the year!' and erm well it was funny)
i hate yooooooo. expect lots of coverage of the new r1 shows next week on spizzazzz EVEN THO NO ONE GIVES A FUCK.
(my fav colin/edith moment was a few months ago when colin was on holiday and edith was doing that 5 decades of r1 thing where listeners choose a record which has been played on the same day in the past, and she just could not comprehend her audience picking alice deejay's "better off alone" over fucking shitass "blue monday" by new order. what a laugh!)
(ahhhh remember this??)
(months and months after that post we saw a CERTAIN BLOGOSPHERE SPANNER on some msg board going, 'hey guys have you heard this song that goes 'you can do it get ur ass in it'? tune of the year!' and erm well it was funny)
bob sinclar / cutee b / dollarman / ali b - rock this party
wot? oh right it is a danceploitational composite of
- c&c music factory's "gonna make you sweat"
- fatman scoop
- (vague approximation of) the coolie dance
and your eyes and ears can bug out in wtf fashion but after 30-odd listens i am really starting to feel the almost-whispered delivery in the verses. for spitting the boringest lyrics ever written they are strangely effective!
not feeling the cry of 'wipe me off!' tho. not in this lifetime bob.
wot? oh right it is a danceploitational composite of
- c&c music factory's "gonna make you sweat"
- fatman scoop
- (vague approximation of) the coolie dance
and your eyes and ears can bug out in wtf fashion but after 30-odd listens i am really starting to feel the almost-whispered delivery in the verses. for spitting the boringest lyrics ever written they are strangely effective!
not feeling the cry of 'wipe me off!' tho. not in this lifetime bob.
21.9.06
all saints - rocksteady
a bit 138 trek. or you know, even more like artful dodge's "ruffneck sound" but with all saints over the top singing a propellerheads james bond theme thing. it sounds desperately afraid of being ignored by the fickle public. not a good look.
there's this thing at the moment where first single off album has to have a big sign which says YOU COULDNT POSSIBLY MISTAKE THIS FOR A BALLAD COULD YOU, cutting out an enormous swathe of options for modern pop ppl. i mean look at janet and "call on me" which a) isnt even that ballady, b) has a 'tune' (cf every twatty paper and internet rvw ive read) and c) is perfectly aight, but it seemed like non-rnb people* just could not pick it up on their hearing radars** at all, so expectant are they that every comeback single or new album campaign will try to outdo the last one for fantastic pop wackiness. and desperate, uncomfortable all saints is what you get!
* not that rnb people didnt hate on it as well but they had different reasons
** yes these are sometimes called ears but i mean we are all selectively listening and no record has been lashed out at more erm offensedly this year than "call on me", which i must assume is to do with 06 values and expectations rendering the song literally inaudible! it is certainly a failure on the terms it has been judged but i think any other year would have been a lot kinder to it, just as 1997 would have been a lot kinder to "rocksteady".
a bit 138 trek. or you know, even more like artful dodge's "ruffneck sound" but with all saints over the top singing a propellerheads james bond theme thing. it sounds desperately afraid of being ignored by the fickle public. not a good look.
there's this thing at the moment where first single off album has to have a big sign which says YOU COULDNT POSSIBLY MISTAKE THIS FOR A BALLAD COULD YOU, cutting out an enormous swathe of options for modern pop ppl. i mean look at janet and "call on me" which a) isnt even that ballady, b) has a 'tune' (cf every twatty paper and internet rvw ive read) and c) is perfectly aight, but it seemed like non-rnb people* just could not pick it up on their hearing radars** at all, so expectant are they that every comeback single or new album campaign will try to outdo the last one for fantastic pop wackiness. and desperate, uncomfortable all saints is what you get!
* not that rnb people didnt hate on it as well but they had different reasons
** yes these are sometimes called ears but i mean we are all selectively listening and no record has been lashed out at more erm offensedly this year than "call on me", which i must assume is to do with 06 values and expectations rendering the song literally inaudible! it is certainly a failure on the terms it has been judged but i think any other year would have been a lot kinder to it, just as 1997 would have been a lot kinder to "rocksteady".
20.9.06
r.i.p. rnb
...in dedicated show form on radio 1. it's the last ever soul nation tonight. it wasn't really that good for the last year or so cos he had this stupid arbitrary 'chart' that meant precisely nothing and ruined the flow, but me and trev have had so many good times and sometimes he could really deathlessly support a good record. summer 1997 was swv "can we" summer cos of him!
(and spoony's last show was on sunday! he may have stopped repping garage or indeed any music five years ago but i was sad anyway. and to rub salt into my wounds his last weekend anthem was that fucking "push" by pharoah fucking monch, what a spectacularly poor song!)
...in dedicated show form on radio 1. it's the last ever soul nation tonight. it wasn't really that good for the last year or so cos he had this stupid arbitrary 'chart' that meant precisely nothing and ruined the flow, but me and trev have had so many good times and sometimes he could really deathlessly support a good record. summer 1997 was swv "can we" summer cos of him!
(and spoony's last show was on sunday! he may have stopped repping garage or indeed any music five years ago but i was sad anyway. and to rub salt into my wounds his last weekend anthem was that fucking "push" by pharoah fucking monch, what a spectacularly poor song!)
15.9.06
paula deanda / lil wayne - easy
intro: 'danja!', cries danja just before the verse. he is some kind of timbaland protege. i am gonna stick my neck out and say he is a classically trained muso cos there's one hundred different keyb and guitar things threatening to go on throughout. i like the general vibe cos it can be described as UPBEAT. it's a bit like ciara's "hotline"
verse: when i'm out shopping its like having a gun, says paula. i dont get it
chorus: something strangely unsatisfying about the chorus but to be fair it sounds better every time i play it. danja orchestrates five more queasily sinister synth sounds which arent really sinister at all, they're just great
post chorus: this is my favourite part when she goes 'cos you so - damn easy' and sounds sneeringly dismissive of not just the undignified spods throwing themselves at her every day, but also of every other man, woman, child and pet she's probably ever set eyes on
guest verse: lol rappers
coda: danja pulls out an almost-guitar solo from his box of showy tricks. paula changes her sneering to 'dont be so - daaaamn easy' down a time-stretched phone-line, awesome! this song is from here btw
intro: 'danja!', cries danja just before the verse. he is some kind of timbaland protege. i am gonna stick my neck out and say he is a classically trained muso cos there's one hundred different keyb and guitar things threatening to go on throughout. i like the general vibe cos it can be described as UPBEAT. it's a bit like ciara's "hotline"
verse: when i'm out shopping its like having a gun, says paula. i dont get it
chorus: something strangely unsatisfying about the chorus but to be fair it sounds better every time i play it. danja orchestrates five more queasily sinister synth sounds which arent really sinister at all, they're just great
post chorus: this is my favourite part when she goes 'cos you so - damn easy' and sounds sneeringly dismissive of not just the undignified spods throwing themselves at her every day, but also of every other man, woman, child and pet she's probably ever set eyes on
guest verse: lol rappers
coda: danja pulls out an almost-guitar solo from his box of showy tricks. paula changes her sneering to 'dont be so - daaaamn easy' down a time-stretched phone-line, awesome! this song is from here btw
13.9.06
fergie & her THE DUTCHESS album, spoilered
- two wicked, breezily unconcerned electro jams which end in 'ous'
- two trademark IMPRESSIVELY BAD IDEA black eyed pea songs (temptations' "get ready" earnestly updated as my humps pt2, bored one at the end for festival goers who enjoyed "lets get retarded")
- one reggae ballad with rita marley sung in suspiciously ska punk manner before the twist two and a half minutes in: it was gonna be the mighty mighty fergtones all along!
- at least two other songs that will strike you as a bit ska wars by the end of the album when ferg has revealed her agenda
- one awesome welding together of sassy electro ferg and ska ferg called "voodoo doll"!
- one unashamedly trip hop song called "velvet"! (i feel perhaps groundlessly that ska and trip hop were 90s sides of the same coin so this makes perfect thematic sense when it comes on)
- one midtempo thing (which is breezy too, it is a breezy ska album!) where she sounds like blu cantrell
- one big attempt at second single glorious whitneyballad which i hope does well
- one acousticy big chorused sad song called "big girls dont cry" :-( probably co written by fefe dobson, the veronicas and sky mangel
- two wicked, breezily unconcerned electro jams which end in 'ous'
- two trademark IMPRESSIVELY BAD IDEA black eyed pea songs (temptations' "get ready" earnestly updated as my humps pt2, bored one at the end for festival goers who enjoyed "lets get retarded")
- one reggae ballad with rita marley sung in suspiciously ska punk manner before the twist two and a half minutes in: it was gonna be the mighty mighty fergtones all along!
- at least two other songs that will strike you as a bit ska wars by the end of the album when ferg has revealed her agenda
- one awesome welding together of sassy electro ferg and ska ferg called "voodoo doll"!
- one unashamedly trip hop song called "velvet"! (i feel perhaps groundlessly that ska and trip hop were 90s sides of the same coin so this makes perfect thematic sense when it comes on)
- one midtempo thing (which is breezy too, it is a breezy ska album!) where she sounds like blu cantrell
- one big attempt at second single glorious whitneyballad which i hope does well
- one acousticy big chorused sad song called "big girls dont cry" :-( probably co written by fefe dobson, the veronicas and sky mangel
12.9.06
1xtra f-house watch
erm last time i listened target could barely manage 3 f-house songs before someone txted in demanding some "body groove". looks like the scene's over! but "cure and the cause" is still big on daytime.
(how long have heartless crew been in aiya napa now?? UPDATE: it doesnt look like they are ever coming back now :()
(also big on daytime: lame jamelia rmx of her lame song, corrine jimmy rae, lupe fiasco - DO I SENSE THE INPUT OF DAVID CAMERON/RHYMEFEST COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE)
erm last time i listened target could barely manage 3 f-house songs before someone txted in demanding some "body groove". looks like the scene's over! but "cure and the cause" is still big on daytime.
(how long have heartless crew been in aiya napa now?? UPDATE: it doesnt look like they are ever coming back now :()
(also big on daytime: lame jamelia rmx of her lame song, corrine jimmy rae, lupe fiasco - DO I SENSE THE INPUT OF DAVID CAMERON/RHYMEFEST COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE)
11.9.06
uk top ten with facelift & lil missy
scissor sistaz - i dont feel like dancing
there was a special time last year when me and jack cable realised the guy from scissor sisters looks EXACTLY like this guy who worked in brighton rap store m*c ch*ck (rip), it was one of them staring you in the face moments which makes life worth living. i spose its not very entertaining for anyone else though. fuck you! anyway, "i dont feel like dancing": it's annoying, and unlike old ss singles it doesnt get any less annoying the 4000th time you hear it, well done!
there is a disconnect between the song's obv belief that it is in a joyous disco rock continuum when the actual lumbering effect is more like the automatic or hard fi with some falsetto singing, but lucky for ss the world wants the latter anyway.
lil missy sez: i once had a flatmate who i dubbed 'fuck me baby' because that's all i ever heard her shout all night long, and she LOVED the scissor sisters.
justin - sexyback
ugh the album is such a fucking downer!
lil missy sez: i thought i'd be more excited about jt's comeback single. i did dance to this song last night when i went out dancing. i read a review of justin's new album in the guardian this weekend which mentioned his dodgy lyrics. one of which was 'i'll take you to dubai' and the guardian was like, 'why, so you can hang out with jim davidson?' and that made me lol since my friend bee is in dubai right now with jim davidson and she's playing polo with micheal jackson. so suck on that subsection!
nelly furtado - promiscuous
ugh the album is such a fucking downer!
lil missy sez: the best thing about the vid is timbaland! he has the cutest face, EVER! i know he was really cute in 'cry me a river' but in this one it's just through the roof. i want to talk to him on the phone! i was walking into town with my best friend lucy this week and she started making weird noises and i realised that she was singing this song. and now i think it's kind of good!
robbie williams - rudebox
people, or at least radio one djs, have often acted like this is a unfathomable departure for rw, but HELLO I DONT WANNA ROCK DJ??? i think when rock dj came out it had a really strong chorus and rw was untouchable as #1 pop act so its insaneness was contextualized as to be invisible. now he is an old bastard and even though rudebox is pretty good fun the chorus aint that strong so its like, omg wtf are you doing rob we just wanna feeeeel!?
the vid positions him as elder statesman of pop huffing and puffing at young people's music while lithe 19 year olds frollic around him, not unlike a fat northern madonna. 'ah yes my pretties ive seen it all now, MIGHT AS WELL HAVE A LAUGH'. bit unpleasant but preferable to the my drug hellisms of his previous 92 videos.
lil missy sez: JUSTIN'S SO MUCH BETTER. everyone is still rocking 'angels' on their x factor audition. i am loving this series a lot. i was surprised that eskimo blonde didn't get through though, they made 'viva forever' which was the spice girls lamest single sound really good! sharon always agrees with simon and louis. i think i'm getting a crush on louis which is really weird because i think he's a dick, especially when he said girls aloud were too chubbs when he was also managing westlife at the time who were a load of fat bifters themselves. ugh, i hate westlife. but there's something about louis and his twinkling eyes!!
shakira - hips dont lie
lil missy sez: i danced to this last night even though it's balls! i still don't like this at all. i HATE the way she sings. 'oh baby when you talk like that! it makes me sing like a twat!' okay, maybe it's growing on me a TINY bit. but when that man starts shouting, 'shakira! shakira!' that's well annoying. my boss wants to be known as shakira, for mysterious personal reasons.
snow patrol - chasing cars
i dont quite know
what? what is it you dont know?
how to say
HOW TO SAY WHAT??
how i feel
ohhh, how you FEEL. well come on spit it out you binner
those three words / are said too much / they're not enough
that's one in the eye for conventional romance! ive got three words for you too
forget what we're told / before we get too old / show me a garden that's bursting into life
you're a pervert!
lil missy sez: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzBORINGzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
lemar - its not that easy
number eight eh? maybe it's just from download sales, i dunno. one time i wrote this shitty rvw of lemar's song "50/50" where i suggested jay-z's "can't knock the hustle" was rubbish. i must have been in a weird mood or something cos it's aces! i could bellow the mary j part all day long! i don't think i will ever bellow a lemar song but who can say. he is on the new sony bmg imprint called white rabbit, what's that all about??
lil missy sez: this boy i know who is as straight as you like revealed his huge man crush on lemar over august bank holiday weekend. it was quite a surprise for all of us! when he got pissed he'd shout, OH LEMAR! weird, right? i think i like that song about not having sex with boys too soon, that they always play at my local wetherspoons, better than this one. doesn't lemar have lovely eyes? huge, celery coloured eyes! pretty!!
beyonce - deja vu
lil missy sez: lets face it, most of beyonce's songs are mad boring. this is another boring one, maybe it'll grow on me the way that 'baby boy' with sean paul did, but i don't think so! the best thing about beyonce is her fashion and dancing.
the feeling - never be lonely
b-b-b-baby / i think im going c-c-c-crazy wow this motherfucker must be crazy since he's stuttering and everything. dont mind if i do! (actually i am quietly impressed by this part but the rest is awful)
lil missy sez: this is really DUMB. i hate this. it sounds like old fashioned music that's really bad. UGH.
chamillionaire - ridin
if i can just get boring about it for a sec, one thing i always notice about "ridin" is how it announces the drum track in the intro in order for the drums to become invisible for the rest of the song, cos since you've heard them unadorned there is no curiosity or working out to be done, cham has said THESE ARE MY DRUMS (and they are really good and distinctive drums) so then you can get on with the spitting and the synths and the general drama of the song. i like that! (obv not a new trick in the world of music but this is a strong example.)
lil missy sez: he's just tryin to bone, he ain't tryin to have no babies!! how cute was chamillionaire when he won that award at the vmas? i thought that was so cute! when he was talking about racial profiling and how 50 cent was telling him he was going to win but he didn't think he would. i'm glad he won best video because i think the video is jokes! (even though i don't think it's meant to be). this is the best song in the top ten!
scissor sistaz - i dont feel like dancingthere was a special time last year when me and jack cable realised the guy from scissor sisters looks EXACTLY like this guy who worked in brighton rap store m*c ch*ck (rip), it was one of them staring you in the face moments which makes life worth living. i spose its not very entertaining for anyone else though. fuck you! anyway, "i dont feel like dancing": it's annoying, and unlike old ss singles it doesnt get any less annoying the 4000th time you hear it, well done!
there is a disconnect between the song's obv belief that it is in a joyous disco rock continuum when the actual lumbering effect is more like the automatic or hard fi with some falsetto singing, but lucky for ss the world wants the latter anyway.
lil missy sez: i once had a flatmate who i dubbed 'fuck me baby' because that's all i ever heard her shout all night long, and she LOVED the scissor sisters.
justin - sexybackugh the album is such a fucking downer!
lil missy sez: i thought i'd be more excited about jt's comeback single. i did dance to this song last night when i went out dancing. i read a review of justin's new album in the guardian this weekend which mentioned his dodgy lyrics. one of which was 'i'll take you to dubai' and the guardian was like, 'why, so you can hang out with jim davidson?' and that made me lol since my friend bee is in dubai right now with jim davidson and she's playing polo with micheal jackson. so suck on that subsection!
nelly furtado - promiscuousugh the album is such a fucking downer!
lil missy sez: the best thing about the vid is timbaland! he has the cutest face, EVER! i know he was really cute in 'cry me a river' but in this one it's just through the roof. i want to talk to him on the phone! i was walking into town with my best friend lucy this week and she started making weird noises and i realised that she was singing this song. and now i think it's kind of good!
robbie williams - rudeboxpeople, or at least radio one djs, have often acted like this is a unfathomable departure for rw, but HELLO I DONT WANNA ROCK DJ??? i think when rock dj came out it had a really strong chorus and rw was untouchable as #1 pop act so its insaneness was contextualized as to be invisible. now he is an old bastard and even though rudebox is pretty good fun the chorus aint that strong so its like, omg wtf are you doing rob we just wanna feeeeel!?
the vid positions him as elder statesman of pop huffing and puffing at young people's music while lithe 19 year olds frollic around him, not unlike a fat northern madonna. 'ah yes my pretties ive seen it all now, MIGHT AS WELL HAVE A LAUGH'. bit unpleasant but preferable to the my drug hellisms of his previous 92 videos.
lil missy sez: JUSTIN'S SO MUCH BETTER. everyone is still rocking 'angels' on their x factor audition. i am loving this series a lot. i was surprised that eskimo blonde didn't get through though, they made 'viva forever' which was the spice girls lamest single sound really good! sharon always agrees with simon and louis. i think i'm getting a crush on louis which is really weird because i think he's a dick, especially when he said girls aloud were too chubbs when he was also managing westlife at the time who were a load of fat bifters themselves. ugh, i hate westlife. but there's something about louis and his twinkling eyes!!
shakira - hips dont lielil missy sez: i danced to this last night even though it's balls! i still don't like this at all. i HATE the way she sings. 'oh baby when you talk like that! it makes me sing like a twat!' okay, maybe it's growing on me a TINY bit. but when that man starts shouting, 'shakira! shakira!' that's well annoying. my boss wants to be known as shakira, for mysterious personal reasons.
snow patrol - chasing carsi dont quite know
what? what is it you dont know?
how to say
HOW TO SAY WHAT??
how i feel
ohhh, how you FEEL. well come on spit it out you binner
those three words / are said too much / they're not enough
that's one in the eye for conventional romance! ive got three words for you too
forget what we're told / before we get too old / show me a garden that's bursting into life
you're a pervert!
lil missy sez: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzBORINGzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
lemar - its not that easynumber eight eh? maybe it's just from download sales, i dunno. one time i wrote this shitty rvw of lemar's song "50/50" where i suggested jay-z's "can't knock the hustle" was rubbish. i must have been in a weird mood or something cos it's aces! i could bellow the mary j part all day long! i don't think i will ever bellow a lemar song but who can say. he is on the new sony bmg imprint called white rabbit, what's that all about??
lil missy sez: this boy i know who is as straight as you like revealed his huge man crush on lemar over august bank holiday weekend. it was quite a surprise for all of us! when he got pissed he'd shout, OH LEMAR! weird, right? i think i like that song about not having sex with boys too soon, that they always play at my local wetherspoons, better than this one. doesn't lemar have lovely eyes? huge, celery coloured eyes! pretty!!
beyonce - deja vulil missy sez: lets face it, most of beyonce's songs are mad boring. this is another boring one, maybe it'll grow on me the way that 'baby boy' with sean paul did, but i don't think so! the best thing about beyonce is her fashion and dancing.
the feeling - never be lonelyb-b-b-baby / i think im going c-c-c-crazy wow this motherfucker must be crazy since he's stuttering and everything. dont mind if i do! (actually i am quietly impressed by this part but the rest is awful)
lil missy sez: this is really DUMB. i hate this. it sounds like old fashioned music that's really bad. UGH.
chamillionaire - ridinif i can just get boring about it for a sec, one thing i always notice about "ridin" is how it announces the drum track in the intro in order for the drums to become invisible for the rest of the song, cos since you've heard them unadorned there is no curiosity or working out to be done, cham has said THESE ARE MY DRUMS (and they are really good and distinctive drums) so then you can get on with the spitting and the synths and the general drama of the song. i like that! (obv not a new trick in the world of music but this is a strong example.)
lil missy sez: he's just tryin to bone, he ain't tryin to have no babies!! how cute was chamillionaire when he won that award at the vmas? i thought that was so cute! when he was talking about racial profiling and how 50 cent was telling him he was going to win but he didn't think he would. i'm glad he won best video because i think the video is jokes! (even though i don't think it's meant to be). this is the best song in the top ten!
9.9.06
4.9.06
track 01s PART TWO
miss issa - move with you
the millenium was quite a long time ago now! i know this cos i saw j-lo's "waiting for tonight" video and wondered aloud why they were celebrating 20:00 so enthusiastically. surely the party was just limbering up and j-lo, as vip of all vips, shouldnt have arrived yet? it's just bad form!
so er "move with you" is very charming. it has the bpm to perhaps fit in someone's open-minded f-house set or a soca show or maybe at a push the bjaxx album. but it always makes me think of "waiting for tonight", in its unfashionable feet-blistered latenite beach volleyball way, if wft had nothing in particular to celebrate; j-lo has the millenium and the beginning of her gloriously wonky pop career, while miss issa struggles for the tiniest sliver of positive 06 context before admitting defeat after three minutes - the ever-present acoustic guitar rattle conks out at the end like she pressed stop on a old vestax turntable, threw down her mic and consigned the rest of her album to useless rnb. (which she did, oh well.)
but it is still very charming!
miss issa - move with you
the millenium was quite a long time ago now! i know this cos i saw j-lo's "waiting for tonight" video and wondered aloud why they were celebrating 20:00 so enthusiastically. surely the party was just limbering up and j-lo, as vip of all vips, shouldnt have arrived yet? it's just bad form!
so er "move with you" is very charming. it has the bpm to perhaps fit in someone's open-minded f-house set or a soca show or maybe at a push the bjaxx album. but it always makes me think of "waiting for tonight", in its unfashionable feet-blistered latenite beach volleyball way, if wft had nothing in particular to celebrate; j-lo has the millenium and the beginning of her gloriously wonky pop career, while miss issa struggles for the tiniest sliver of positive 06 context before admitting defeat after three minutes - the ever-present acoustic guitar rattle conks out at the end like she pressed stop on a old vestax turntable, threw down her mic and consigned the rest of her album to useless rnb. (which she did, oh well.)
but it is still very charming!
1.9.06
us5 - maria
i am quite bored today but i just got perked up by this euroton boyband thing on b4. not quite as blissfully incongruous as tevez to west ham but close: spangly pieces, flamenco guitar audacity, cries of MA-RI-A!!!, bad hair, worse hair, and if you ffwd to 2:33, proper spazz dance break of the sort which used to have you rolling around the floor crying with laughter when j-lo did it. the kind that makes me want / to settle down and just get married oh yeah. euros are so real sometimes.
i am quite bored today but i just got perked up by this euroton boyband thing on b4. not quite as blissfully incongruous as tevez to west ham but close: spangly pieces, flamenco guitar audacity, cries of MA-RI-A!!!, bad hair, worse hair, and if you ffwd to 2:33, proper spazz dance break of the sort which used to have you rolling around the floor crying with laughter when j-lo did it. the kind that makes me want / to settle down and just get married oh yeah. euros are so real sometimes.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)