Cheeky Girls: Cheeky Girls (Touch My Bum)Now, I've never been a fan of cheesy pop music but I've gotta say that this is a work of pure genius. I'm not even being ironic. I'd heard people talk about how awful this song is but never heard it till I saw the video the other day. What gets me is the people slagging this record off are the same ones who are dancing about to Britney, Kylie and S Club. I don't get it. Is it because the Cheeky Girls seem like a piss take of all that stuff? Because that's almost what it is - it's so blatantly err... CHEEKY that it stops being camp or ironic or whatever label people give things like Steps et al. It's a hilarious song and the way the girls take themselves so seriously in interviews adds to the fun. I am glad that this record exists, even though I would never buy or even really want to listen to it.
T-A-T-U - (forget the song title)Well if the Cheeky Girls had my jaw dropping in amazement, this had me pinching myself in disbelief. Don't know anything about this act but whoever's idea it was to have two nubile schoolgirls getting off with each other in the rain to an admittedly pedestrian backing track needs a slap on the back. What is the deal with this? How come it gets shown on the Box when they won't even let Eminem say "with a can of gas and a pack of matches" on their channel? Though I reckon there couldn't be anything cooler than this video, has there been any kind of uproar from distressed mothers about this one?
Electric Six: High VoltageExcellent tune which I originally heard on the Soulwax mix CD. I'd assumed that it was an old song that had been bootlegged with something (i don't have a tracklisting for 2many DJs). I really like it and the video seems to compliment it completely. But who are electric six? someone told me they were a collaboration of some famous bands who i forget. The way they sing the words "High Voltage" reminds me of Captain Beefheart for some odd reason.
Audiobullys: We Don't CareThis is ace too. At first I thought it was trying too hard to be like the Streets (which it kindof is, but in a nice way). The video, for those who haven't seen it, is of a small boy with a skinhead strutting about then going into a pub, perving up a middle-aged woman and then starting on someone. Also I like the vocodered bit in the track that samples a tune from the Teen Wolf soundtrack. Can someone tell me what the name of that tune is?
Audioslave: something or otherThis is bullshit. No-one should care about these old tossers anymore. The remainders of RATM sound so weak without Zach De La Rocha and Chris Cornell's voice just makes me want to stick on Black Hole Sun instead of this uninspiring drivel. Nice fireworks though.
Anyway, those were just a few thoughts. If anyone can answer me the questions here it would be appreciated. Comments or whatever. Just trying to fathom this influx of weird stuff.
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)
You can slap a Russian mafia guy on the back if you like, but do it at your own risk.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― zebedee, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)
Because sex is better than violence?
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)
The reasons for an influx of mental stuff are:
i) We're living through the decadent closing phase of a commercial golden age of pop so companies are throwing everything and anything through the door before it closes.ii) It's January so we get all the stuff which wants a high chart placing in the easiest bit of the year.
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)
The majors are losing money hand over fist, all their old artists fail to meet their sales targets, so the rec execs are desparately seeking for new hit products. Lots of new artists are signed and promoted ATM.
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)
doesnt that mean you ARE being ironic? either that or seriously deluded
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)
No, it's just not my type of thing at all. I appreciate it because it's VERY funny and a very good idea but musically it does not appeal to me. I don't think this is being ironic. I don't think it's so bad it's good. Actually I think that it's making light of things that are so bad they're supposed to be good. Is this an irony of an irony of an irony? Or is that one irony too far?
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)
its absolutely equivalent culutrally to 'The Birdie Song' basically - is THAT a work of genius too?
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham (graham), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham (graham), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)