Saturday, 7 July 2007
'Pauline', a name not made for pop
VS Northern Line, 'Love on the Northern Line'
Saturday Review: Ghosts
While everything and more has already been said about this album, I feel like it needs to be reviewed properly before I can stop willing it to succeed chart wise, and can just consider it as one of my albums. So far from being unbiased this review is more of my own discovery of Siobhan's music.
The final track, 'Ghost' is perhaps my favourite song even though it was the first Siobhan track id ever really listened too. I remember seeing the video for 'Overrated' and thought the song was OK, but her second single 'Twist of Fate' I vividly remember panning to my friends, because she had the audacity to rhyme say with itself.
'Don't Give It Up' starts with a mild electronic wailing, it sounds like a poltergeist transmission going from feedback to clarity and out of focus again as the relentless throb of the beat kicks in. Clear vocals tell us that something other this way comes, with a sense of impending terror, and slowly these are replaced almost with a second voice of a protecting angel that softens the warning from the first vocal. The chorus sweeps up and around uniting us all, by reminding us we all have scars in our own way. Ultimately i believe the theme of the entire piece is calling for nothing less than the uniting of all humanity. urging us to not give it up or mess it up, to understand and to empathise that there always lies a bond between us as humans even if their seems to be a hemorrhage between our own heart and mind. At 2.42 we get our first breaking through the clouds moment of the album.
Didn't we make it nearly, for everything that i hold dearly
'Make It Right' brings us back to the main thread of the album its a deliciously self critical song that shows the ego at work. A future self is trying to cast doubt on the stoicism of the past but often ends up criticising out 'Adam' yet again.
why pacify just punish me...don't let me take this liberty
Siobhan's embraces this other persona that's only previously peeked through. colder and bolder, shes closer to the truth, marking this as a truly epiphanic song, a moment of clarity where the veil of propriety has been lifted and although being honest is grueling and selfish its never felt more true and more human. Because...
Friday, 6 July 2007
controversial
Avril Lavigne / The Rubinoos, Girlfriend
I don't really wanna suggest one way or the other if this counts as plagiarism. I'll let someone else decide. Its just such a small and simple piece to copy -maybe thats the crime, cos it borders on genius perhaps- but is it really so unfeasable that two bad pop writers decades apart gave us "hey HEY, you YOU" as an excuse for lyrical content? I think someone needs to think long and hard about that mokey typewriter thing.
I wonder if one day we can just skip plagiarism and sue anyone releasing dodgy lyrics... Speaking of which enjoy Madge at LiveEarth.
Thursday, 5 July 2007
Thursdays boyband nominee...
Its inappropiatly hot Calvin -circa SClub- or hes outta the band... he can choose his own haristyle tho, but it must be a choice of these two...
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
Lost in a Hayes
TokyoPoP
Kylie -steps back in time
In less eagerly awaited news... Catherine Tate is back reprising her role as Donna from last Xmas. I fast-forwarded most of the episode so grr might need to replay it again. Freema / Martha will be absent for the first half of season 4 but will show up for 3 episodes of Torchwood, which i still haven't seen. Its all swings and roundabouts but think this ast season wil be hard to beat.
Im not sold on Tate, ill miss Freema and im not sure Kylie can act, but she did ok on kath and kim.
Baby steps Xtina
Cut and Stick Boyband
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
anther day another soso video
Retro Tuesday: Bertine Zetlitz
Monday, 2 July 2007
Dya Love It?
Duff done good
Mutya goes to the dogs
Groove Armada ft Mutya Buena, 'Song For Mutya (Outta Control), SoundBoy Rock /Real Girl
One of the best songs of the year demands a reshoot with a bigger budget, more of mutya driving passed a big sugababes poster ft Amelle and ripping it up with her teeth, and ideally would be set to a Skins stylee wrecking-ball houseparty at the end.
is this a future pop sensation
Little Red Pepper
Sunday, 1 July 2007
under exposed and not commercialised / handle me with care
I like this track its nice that so little of the album has leaked, makes it all anticipatory. I never got into her last album but this one is rumoured to be looking good, love the video too...
Delayedclimax/dyingfall
Sunday Roundup: Spiced Out
The Spice Girls aren't in it for the money, but they for sure wont be giving away their greatest hits for free. Why? Because any one interested in a greatest hits already has all the tracks on their itunes. However they, like Prince, will continue to reap profits from touring proving that sales are kinda becoming obsolete once you've got your foot on the pop ladder. Having said that I'm sure they'll still sell bucketloads, and hopefully there are a few new tracks that are worthy of their previous pop success.