Róisín Murphy-Overpowered

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She's back! Overpowered is everything I didn't know I wanted more of.
She has managed to keep all the beauty of her lyrics in Ruby Blue and returned with a song that opens with 'You're datin' my daughter' to perfect effect. Her follow-up may be better than expected.

o-ess, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

i thought it was 'your data my data' in a 'let's call the whole thing off' vein

blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

omg is roisin murphy a milf?

strongohulkington, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

i think the video is crap really altho her outfit is superb.

blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

so when is the album out?

strongohulkington, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

What? That video
is not crap by any means;
it is anti-crap

Dimension 5ive, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

i love this song, i also heard "your data, my data"

lex pretend, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

october for the album

lex pretend, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

hooray!

strongohulkington, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

good track.

is she going to be working with Herbert on the new record?

arghkaybee, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I like how the video seems like it's going to be some awful 'I'm just a real girl' statement - but then ends up being the opposite.

Alex xy, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

an 'I'm just a real girl who never takes off this awesome outfit' statement

blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I saw it as a final refusal to give up the image (after flirting with doing that), in the end unsullied by the normal/drab setting.

Alex xy, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but y'know, so what. i'd rather the video just be a more literal interpretation of the song again these days. also the 'music goes quieter when they go into a different room' thing is kinda played out.

blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'm intrigued about the album, it's a nice track and I've always liked her voice.

chap, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

is this one of the Richard X songs?

jamescobo, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

it's produced by one of Bugz in the attic.

jed_, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

obv, it's clearly "your data, my data".

jed_, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

huh?
data

jed_, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

the beats are a bit sluggish, actually, but i do like the acid line.

jed_, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

the beat is weird, you really notice the snare sounding ever so slightly premature every half a bar.

blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

Towering.

"exact doesn't matter - a matter of fact"

Plus she's always been hot...

Iain Macdonald, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

the beat is weird, you really notice the snare sounding ever so slightly premature every half a bar.

i thought it was late but yeah.

jed_, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Plus she's always been hot...

I think so too! Some of my friends tease me for it, though.

chap, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

why? how could someone think she's not attractive?

mitya, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

whilst it is 'your data my data', i guess I was looking for a bit of Wicklow accent in there.
Oh and Groove Armada are responsible for alot of the new work. Something to look forward to...
though October?! Really? That's two months between it and the first single

o-ess, Saturday, 23 June 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Róisín Murphy - Overpowered (Radio Edit)

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 23 June 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

i kind of hate the drums

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 23 June 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

the drums sound weird and crap in that rip though. god i fucking hate low-quality mp3s, why do people do them? still?

i don't think i've actually heard a decent quality version of this song which is REALLY ANNOYING.

lex pretend, Sunday, 24 June 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

touring!

o-ess, Saturday, 21 July 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Apparently it is You dated my daughter. Which I understood as some wacky "Lolita" thing. But it also fits with line "the chromosones match." Still a bit confused as to the actual message of the song, not that it really matters though. Maybe some sort of: "Well, we can use our branes but the chemicals always take over and science will never really be able to catch up." Something like that. I think it's an ace song. The remixes on the ep are bit meh though.

stevienixed, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlFjf1pWk2c

Jordan, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

I quite like the video. Sure, it's not very deep, but I think she's aware of herself/her image and jokes about it all.

stevienixed, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently it is You dated my daughter.

it so is not!

blueski, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

doesn't sound like it.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

i'm sure she'd return to that, in the lyrics, if that's what she meant. it would have some effect on the basic story she's telling(?)

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

"mamaaaa, just kill the haaaaam"

it's on all the lyrics websites as "dating my daughter". is it a snowball effect where one site puts it up first and then all the others just copy that? even if that is the case i'm baffled as to how someone could hear it as that in the first place.

blueski, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

It's fremme neppa my daughter.

Alba, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

is it a snowball effect where one site puts it up first and then all the others just copy that?

yeah v probably -- i've noticed this consistency with other misprints.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

he never her daughter

blueski, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

It really does sound nothing like "your dating my daughter". I suppose if she had suddenly developed a weird American accent just for the word "daughter", and had some weird speech defect that meant she couldn't pronounce the the syllable "ing" it might be possible, but I have looked into it and this is not the case.

Alba, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

you're dating my daughter
my sister
my daughter
my sister

Jordan, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

it's on all the lyrics websites as "dating my daughter". is it a snowball effect where one site puts it up first and then all the others just copy that? even if that is the case i'm baffled as to how someone could hear it as that in the first place.

True. At first I heard the data line too but after googling it, now I can only hear the daughter line. :-(

stevienixed, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

But even if you accepted a bizarre pronunciation of "daughter", it would still only say "your data my daughter". There is no way you can hear it as "dating" even if you try!

Alba, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Well, English is my 5487th language.

nathalie, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

Aaaaaaaaaanyway, after being initially underwhelmed by this, it is slowly growing into one of my singles of the year. Fits well with the dark-italo stuff that's coming out lately. I hope the album is in that vein too.

baaderonixx, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

When is the album coming out anyway? And what dark-italo stuff would you recommend (alongside this ep)?

nathalie, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

The whole 'After Dark' compilation that got featured on Pitchfork a few weeks ago is really really great

baaderonixx, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

great track. love the video too. really psyched for this record.

^@^, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

think this ended up charting at about #132

blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone else excited about this?

http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/02/roisin-murphy-announces-ep-of-italian-songs-mi-senti/

daavid, Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:10 (eleven years ago)

I am now.

robocop ELF (seandalai), Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:47 (eleven years ago)

Me! I am!

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:44 (eleven years ago)

Mmm, mi sento bene!

Tim Heckler (willem), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:17 (eleven years ago)

I am intrigued.

katherine, Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:59 (eleven years ago)

She is in danger of becoming the new Kathy Diamond, ie a talent in her own right who keeps gracing mediocre dance releases, so this better be good.

boxedjoy, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:38 (eleven years ago)

Still annoyed that Lady Gaga has the fame/career, while Murphy is relatively little known/unproductive.

ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:41 (eleven years ago)

Murphy's own fault

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:50 (eleven years ago)

Murphy is self-admittedly a recluse and prone to stage fright.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:51 (eleven years ago)

I'm between intrigued and excited

brimstead, Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:53 (eleven years ago)

even if it turns out to be disappointing, props for the songs she's chosen and for having the balls to sing them in italian.

daavid, Friday, 4 April 2014 00:38 (eleven years ago)

I've now watched this concert in its entirety three times.

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

Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku), Friday, 4 April 2014 00:52 (eleven years ago)

So many hats. Like most of her sets, it would benefit from less jazzy vamping in the middle.

Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku), Friday, 4 April 2014 00:56 (eleven years ago)

First track is out there!

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/track-of-the-day-114-roisin-murphy

daavid, Friday, 11 April 2014 13:29 (eleven years ago)

also, cover

http://www.vfeditions.com/product/view/163

daavid, Friday, 11 April 2014 13:33 (eleven years ago)

The vocals sound a little patchy at points, like they're not mixed property or something… But other than that the track is excellent.

daavid, Friday, 11 April 2014 13:44 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

This is excellent news!

http://www.popjustice.com/thenews/roisin-murphys-written-35-songs-for-her-masterpiece-of-a-new-album/127051/

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:45 (eleven years ago)

WHOA

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:59 (eleven years ago)

Wait, she hopes it will be out by summer but I didn't gather from that (admittedly brief) article that this stuff has even been recorded yet. Marking it on my calendar for 2015 at the earliest.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:01 (eleven years ago)

when I think that I'm over her...

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:02 (eleven years ago)

I assumed she meant by this summer but you're right she only says she's written these songs. Can't believe Overpowered is already seven years old.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:33 (eleven years ago)

Maybe she'll work with Matthew Herbert again!

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:36 (eleven years ago)

I'd be content with more Richard Barrett ("Cry Baby" off Overpowered, reportedly "Simulation"), though Herbert/Murphy was a perfect match.

panic disorder pixie (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:49 (eleven years ago)

she should work with Bashmore

Number None, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:14 (eleven years ago)

Streaming here
http://www.rollingstonemagazine.it/musica/news-musica/roisin-murphy-mi-senti-in-streaming-esclusivo/

popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:30 (eleven years ago)

yes!

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:33 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

I heard 'Ancora Tu' out and my that's a gorgeous song. (I thought it was an odd language-transposed Justine & the Victorian Punks cover, didn't know that version was itself an odd language-transposed cover!)

Merdeyeux, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:19 (eleven years ago)

I love all three versions, J+VP probably my favourite but RM's has its own superchill beauty.

dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:33 (eleven years ago)

I've kind of lost interest in the others songs on the EP though.

dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:33 (eleven years ago)

didn't think 'Still You' could be improved for me but now hearing it not as an original but as something between a cover of 'Ancora Tu' and a song about 'Ancora Tu' and the memories associated with it adds a very sweet something.

Merdeyeux, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:40 (eleven years ago)

OTM. Another thing I love about "Still You": it kind of sounds like they're chatting and jamming totally naturally over a recording of the original that's playing somewhere in the background. Shares a niche in my brain-catalogue with "Into the Groovey".

dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:35 (eleven years ago)

sorry, what is "still you"?

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:02 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pByDTsv2CA

dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:29 (eleven years ago)

oh that's excellent - thanks!

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

i am now officially obsessed with both versions.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:47 (eleven years ago)

Of course there's also the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe2-gdYLjdo

dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:02 (eleven years ago)

brilliant song, of course, but don't feel much of an inclination to go back to that version.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:05 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

new mixes:

http://www.factmag.com/2014/09/09/roisin-murphy-remixed-by-cosmic-disco-pioneer-daniele-baldelli-listen-here/

john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 12:47 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

The "Mi Senti" EP is fantastic. 'Pensiero Stupendo' is just really warm and intimate. Really like the conversational and vampy tone of 'Ancora tu'.

I had no idea this was out there but thanks to random search on Spotify tonight for Roisin Murphy this came up. Really great.

hyggeligt, Sunday, 26 October 2014 23:49 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

New track out and album announced:

http://pitchfork.com/news/58494-roisin-murphy-announces-hairless-toys-lp-shares-gone-fishing/

daavid, Monday, 16 February 2015 21:10 (eleven years ago)

Nice B-side.

Not fond of mom hair.

The inscrutable idiot savantism of (Sanpaku), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:01 (eleven years ago)

So excited for this. Love the new song.

Kitchen Person, Monday, 16 February 2015 22:06 (eleven years ago)

hyped and this song is pretty great and unexpected! is she putting it on itunes or is it going to just be on soundcloud for now...

lex pretend, Monday, 16 February 2015 22:21 (eleven years ago)

Not bad! Reminds me of this lost Tricky-Martine track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl6iCmUEBFA

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:31 (eleven years ago)

this is good, did she produce it too?

lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:35 (eleven years ago)

RÓISÍN MURPHY

Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 February 2015 22:53 (eleven years ago)

Thanks, JF. About time we had a proper thread for updates.

daavid, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 00:37 (eleven years ago)

did she produce it too?

I believe the main producer is Eddie Stevens, who has worked with Murphy since Moloko days.

The inscrutable idiot savantism of (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:03 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

this is pretty massive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr6x5J03Hy0

aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:57 (seven years ago)

i love it a lot. there was some discussion in one of the other róisín threads

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:00 (seven years ago)


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