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- Hate her?? What has Linda Perry ever done to you?
- Love her?? What the fuck's wrong with you?

C/D, S/D and all of that.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

She created one irritating song that, during the early nineties, got stuck in my head like no song had ever done, or probably ever will. I went to sleep with that song in my head and woke up still inadvertly humming to it. Admittedly, it takes some sort of genius to do that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

i hate her cos she's such a SELL-OUT

hahahahaha

― N_RQ, Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

she's hot!

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas is right all the way long. Tuomas Owns This Thread.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

She just signed to Kill Rock Stars.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

The ironing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Hate her?? What has Linda Perry ever done to you?

Fuckin' "What's Up", a crime she should be behind electrified bars for.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Also, THOSE FUCKING GOGGLES & DR. SEUSS HAT!

http://old.roxybar.it/immagini/4nb.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Some of her production work is okay, but she created the most singularly painful and excruciating single ever to be inflicted on the masses and for that she must suffer.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I had a huge crush on her as a teenager! I don't dislike the hey hey what's goin' on! Although the better song on that album was by FAR "Morphine and Chocolate"!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

YOU HEARD THE ALBUM?????????????

― The Ghost of UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Her voice is just the most horrible thing in the world. It's just this painful pms bellowing that makes me hate mankind.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Didn't the album stay at number one for months at a time or something? Good god, what a tragedy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I HATED that single, more than any other 90s single probably. I still hate it. For the longest time I thought it was some long lost 60s thing; if only no-one had told me!

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

"OH MY GOD, DO I TRY!?!"

That single utterance (augmented by a bug-eyed expression in the video) alone ought to earn her a bleak and unliveable future of suffering the eternal torments of the helplessly damned.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Thankfully, I didn't have MTV at the time, so I never saw the video. I can only imagine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I actually saw them open for Teenage Fanclub, James, Pearl Jam and Neil Young at a festival at Finsbury Park in London in `93. As I remember, they were not well received, but I spent most of their set in the beer tent.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

That truly is a lineup only 1993 could provide.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

OMG NICKALICIOUS HAD A CRUSH ON HER

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

The one positive I will say about "What's Up?" is that even thinking about that "OH MY GOD" bit leaves me helpless with laughter.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure the following statement will earn the ennui / ire of the throng milling around this thread, but: after her work on Stripped and some of those Pink singles, I'm willing to let "What's Going On (Hey Hey Hey Hey) (K-Tel Ahoyhoy)" slide. I won't LISTEN to the goddamn thing (sweet crap the vocals), but, hell, whatever. If I published a book of poems, and I was being pooped on for the rephrensible high-school shit I wrote 10 years prior (or, um, last week), I'd be pretty bummed.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

As I remember, they were not well received, but I spent most of their set in the beer tent.

Someone should have thrown bloody tampons at them!

That single still makes me feel so annoyed, it's just this atrocity.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Daver, your analogy collapses when you realize that the reprehensible high school shit wasn't confined to a sodden notebook with daydreamy doodles on it that was then shit upon and burned.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Ned, clearly you missed my appearances on the Maggie Estep IN YOUR FACE tour. "My Heart Is a Fucking Flower" KILLED, I tell ya. PURE GOLD!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

She's evidently Hagar to Corin Tucker's Roth for Kill Rock Stars.

I hope against hope for Sleeping In The Nothing but I think her production gifts are getting a bit overrated.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

i idolize her a bit

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

She's evidently Hagar to Corin Tucker's Roth for Kill Rock Stars.

You genius man.

Maggie Estep had the one single.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Her hits for Pink and Aguilera are pretty damn corny (Dallas Austin did "Don't Let Me Get Me" if I'm not mistaken). And while I want to revisit America's Sweetheart I didn't really dig the gloss part much.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

more like Gary Cherone

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Hagar was making music before Roth.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

She reminded me why I was only in the Scouts for one day. It was one day too much. One of those songs that indeed is stuck in your head but it's necessary to play at campfires. *barf*

I like her (look) much better now, as opposed to back then.

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

more like Gary Cherone

Now imagine Linda singing this:

In a word to the wisdom tooth
To tell, or not the truth (yeah)
So open up and say ahh-men
Rinse cup, and spit again
Forked tongue in double speak
Pretty soon you just might
Spring a leak
Inhale before you begin
Your iron lung's a bag of wind

There's a fire in the hole
Fire in the hole
There's a fire in the hole (hey hey hey hey hey)
Fire

Sweet 'n' sour, filiblister
Faucet pouring, fresh 'n' bitter
Come on smile and say cheese
On a count of three
Ya got a mindful of decavities
Hey!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Corin Tucker's Roth for Kill Rock Stars

OK, this just ROFFLED me 10x more than "OH MY GOD! do i try"...

*insert image of Corin during a Sleater Kinney show in pleaded spandex pants doing a tarzan across a screaming arena audience "Panama" style*

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

She's partially responsible for three of my favorite albums of the last couple of years so I love her despite that 4 non blondes thing. anyway, she had the smarts to can that and write for other people.

― dan. (dan.), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Man looking at the songwriting credits for the Pink and Aguilera albums I didn't realize how few of the singles actually featured her credits. If allmusic.com is to be believed she has sole writing credit for "Beautiful" and "Get This Party Started." I personally wouldn't want to be responsible for either (License plate says 'No. 1 Superstar'!!!) though I know a lot of people swear by the former. The rest of the singles were written by others, though she co-write "My Vietnam." No wonder Pink was pissed about how much credit Perry got.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Her voice sounds like Johnette Napolitano's voice (concrete blonde, has sung on late model Mats and Dinosaur records), so in that way I've got a positive association. Otherwise, she doesn't really exist to me, and therefore doesn't bother me.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Her voice sounds like Johnette Napolitano's voice

...if Johnette decided caterwauling instead of singing was a good idea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

oh I think on occasion it could be argued she did.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

(This is where not having all her albums helps.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

If only both Napolitano and Perry sounded more like the *band* Caterwaul, however...

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I remember making the Concrete Blonde connection back when "What's Up" came out. I dug the CB that I'd heard and was trying to figure out why that didn't bother me and "What's Up" so very much did.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

She isn't fit to stand in Diane Warren's shadow, heh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

napolitano, perry & difranco

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

(all purveyors of the stupid hat)

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

in that case...

napolitano, perry, difranco, and jamiroquai

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

4 Non Haberdashers

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

i'm still obsessed with seeing that gina gershon rock movie she has a tune in, despite the awfulness of the tune and the fact that it's a gina gershon rock movie

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I'd totally see a Gina Gershon rock movie! She was great in that Lenny Kravitz video. I'm sure she learned from the master.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

She looks sorta like Johnny Depp playing Steven Tyler.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I like her lots. (JBR is right on teh hotness, too.)

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

YOU HEARD THE ALBUM?????????????

-- The Ghost of UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! (djperr...), June 2nd, 2005.

I've heard it, too! I thankfully don't remember it though and I don't understand why my parents owned it.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's because they liked Concrete Blonde.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

The Gina Gershon rock movie ("Prey for Rock n Roll") is so perfectly, painfully awful - bad acting, bad writing, bad music, pedestrian TV-movie-of-the-week direction. Chock full of cliches, predictable plot-twists, and Gina's patented lipstick lesbian trout pout. I kinda wish it was actually WORSE, so that it would have more camp value. In reality it's pretty boring (it takes little to no effort to properly "guess" which character is gonna die the tragic rock star death, which one is gonna have a drug problem, the love "triangle", etc.)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

reasons why this thread is wrong

78) now I want to hear Corin sing "What's Up?"
79) now you will imagine this

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Every post to this thread makes me feel more and more like a LAMP BREAKING REBEL.

I TRY ALL THE TIME...IN THIS INSTITUTION.

― nickalicious can't be the only one who doesn't hate this song (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

damnit shakey you got me so excited at the beginning of your paragraph and then totally bummed me out at the end. Why make a bad movie if you're not gonna have some FUN with it?

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm just sayin... it has its virtues (Gershon's usually a pretty reliable "bad" actress), just don't spend more than $1 on it.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

i really like gina gershon but whenever someone asks me why, my mind goes totally blank

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Jagger lips + boobs + inoffensive lesbianism

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

man that photo is the like "THE FOLLIES OF WHITE PEOPLE: the early 90's years" in a nutshell.

still the worst song of the decade. and i fully believe her uh "gifts" are now rated as highly as they are because no one can believe anyone who made "what's up?" could produce even a decent pop single.

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

though keidis and his quivering slo-mo man titties are coming up from behind

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

i fully believe her uh "gifts" are now rated as highly as they are because no one can believe anyone who made "what's up?" could produce even a decent pop single.

Repeated because IT IS SO TRUE.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

though keidis and his quivering slo-mo man titties are coming up from behind

"herrrroiinnn...it's the shits, and here's my tits..."

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

i believe her success also has something to do with the fact that she scares the living shit out of most of the people in the music business

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Er, on what grounds?

"Hey, Linda Perry's coming into the building."

"OMG I'M SCARED, HER DREADS WILL KILL ME! GIVE HER A CONTRACT AND TELL HER TO LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!"

"I think she just wanted some coffee."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

SHE WANTED A TEAPOT

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

i loved gina gershon in that episode of curb your enthusiasm where she played the israeli dry cleaner!

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

she reminded me of a young sophia loren... sigh.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Similar ex-stars writing for others:

http://www.inspiracy.com/alisha/latest/karen.html

and the artist formerly known as Betty Boo as well, I seem to recall.

― StanM, Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Canadian Snore-Core Chanteuse Chantal Kreviazuk has turned to this, writing for Future Canadian Snore-Core Queen Avril.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

cathy dennis!
http://www.irresistiblecathy.com/songwriting.html

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

though keidis and his quivering slo-mo man titties are coming up from behind

I was very confused at first because I misread that as Kelis.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

"sometimes i feel like i don't have a milkshake"

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

betty boo!! this is quickly devolving into the crush of shame thread

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

(ew ok the keidis milkshake just took care of that)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I almost snarfed my beverage when I read "4 Non Haberdashers." Good one.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Madre Dios, such an outpouring of hatred for the superfine (that's a GOOD thing!) "What's Up?" - it's like the grand tradition of "What I Am" and "You Outta Know" and "All I Wanna Do" all over again! Some people just don't appreciate chutzpah. Well, Haw haw haw, your hatred only strengthens my resolve! Any song that could ignite such near-universal, foaming-at-the-mouth incoherent (or not, depending) hysterical loathing, not to mention the standard evil-eyes and death threats, automatically BECOMES a masterpiece of sorts simply by existing. And if creating a record that horrible is an amazing achievement, liking it is nearly as impressive.

So, go on hating it, because a little hate is healthy for everybody! (What the hippies didn't realize.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

See, y'all were on the counterfeit money before. Myonga is OT(real)M.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I like "All I Wanna Do"!

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

sometimes I like "You Oughta Know," but the fact that she's milked this theme almost pathologically since has made me less than enthusiastic about hearing it again. "What I Am" is just awful.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I like "All I Wanna Do"!

Why am I not surprised?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Why doesn't anyone else realize that "What's up" is melodically a total ripoff of Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy"???

Where is the justice?!?

― Charming Tedious, Friday, 3 June 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

I never said I didn't like "What's Up", I just thought it was irritating in the way how you couldn't get it out of your head. As a pop single it was rather good, and I think here voice was nice too. Also, there was an Europop disco version of "What's Up" by an artist whose name escapes me right now. You should check that out if you don't like Linda Perry's voice.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 3 June 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

Ah yes, the Europop cover was by someone called "Minnesota". I think I still have it on cassette somewhere... I always thought "What's Up" worked better as a dance tune.

There was also a great Europop cover version of Laura Branigan's "Power of Love" which speeded up the original slow jam into a disco track. It as certainly a lot better than Celine Dion's awful take on the subject.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 3 June 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

In response to Anthony's query upthread, Sleeping in the Nothing is actually quite terrific, and Perry apparently wrote or co-wrote every song on the album I think (Kelly only shares co-credit on three or four). And maybe I'm alone here, but I thought America's Sweetheart was fantastic, and Perry gets at least partial credit for almost every song there as well.

All I'm saying is maybe her Svengali powers are a little more formidable than you guys make 'em out to be.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 3 June 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

i think sleeping in the nothing could be a lot better. i know it's trying to be all "cold" and euro, but parts of it really are a little too lifeless.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 June 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

i'm in love with the hook on every song except #6, i forget the title

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Linda Perry is a genius. Her work borders on abusurdness (What's UP),but for the most part is utterly brilliant (Beautiful), which coincidentally was written back in 1992 as a gritty ballad that she would pull out every now and then at her 4 non blondes shows in SF. For all the nay-sayers out there, if you only heard some of the incredible songs she has, which she unfortunately refuses to share with the public, you'd maybe singing a different tune.

― Mersault, Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

How nice to know you are not the public.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

if you only heard some of the incredible songs she has,which she unfortunately refuses to share with the public

Must Linda tease radio programmers the way Lee Mavers does Britpop-loving indie kids?!

She shouldn't be hated as she has her hand in some of the nicer radio singles from this decade but Beautiful is populist nonsense that doesn't even make any sense logically. It's populist on the level of Bill O'Reilly teaming up with Bruce Springsteen for a charity event to LookOut For America Against Special-Interest or something.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 6 November 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

http://i.dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wenn20978263.jpg

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 January 2014 19:15 (eleven years ago)

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn61KwOpty4

― how's life, Monday, 14 July 2014 15:40 (eleven years ago)

I feel like Linda Perry and Sara Gilbert are slowly morphing into the same person

― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:43 (eleven years ago)

Or Baron Samedi. Either one.

― Queef Latina (Phil D.), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:44 (eleven years ago)

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