The song. I'm not sure what it would mean for a post to be twee.
I'm also not entirely sure that I'm using "twee" in its conventional sense, but then I'm not really the person to talk to about music.
5: I spent entirely too much time today researching good synth-pop songs to cover for a forthcoming music project. I didn't even think of Erasure.
Since this is a music thread, I have some observations borne of listening to the radio rather frequently over the past few days:
1. "Gen-X Radio" is apparently a thing now, at least in Columbus and St. Louis. I presume that the same company owns both stations, and others in other cities.
2. Katy Perry's label must be very good at payola, since her stuff is all over the Top-40 stations (or whatever they're called now).
3. Speaking of Katy Perry, "Friday Night" has been in heavy rotation throughout my trip, but it wasn't until I got to northwest Arkansas (where I am now) that a station bleeped out the phrase "menage a trois."
I like that song, too. His mouth is awfully red, though.
I like Vladimir Horowitz playing Scarlatti and whaling on the bass such as would break strings on a harpsichord.
I'm really late to the party on realizing she used to do Christian rock. Wait, did I just learn this on an Unfogged thread?
Top comment on the video for the OP's song: "I can't wait till my girlfriend gives me the boot, so I can lock myself into my house and drown in self pity with this song on repeat." Heh. Interesting background on the artist--born in Belgium, raised in Austalia. The video gets more interesting around 2:30, when the women starts calling him on his bullshit.
it wasn't until I got to northwest Arkansas (where I am now) that a station bleeped out the phrase "menage a trois."
Probably on the grounds that it was suspiciously French-sounding.
The song in the OP grew on me. I like Josh's Ben Folds... Ben Folds has a sweet voice when it is not angry!
Funny because last night I had half a mind to post "everything is terrible" myself (maybe the soundtrack is this). There were these incredible clouds last night all lit up dark orange and slatey blue and on my way back from the grocery they had shifted to open a window around the almost full moon, and I thought, ah fuck you.
But I guess it was nothing going immediately to bed couldn't fix!
Also I'm really glad I have my dog.
That guy is totally channeling Peter Cetera.
I'm totally jealous of Katy Perry, because she's kissed a girl.
Mom says I give the best kisses! Well, after apo and nosflow anyhow, but those guys are pros!
The song definitely got more interesting when the woman came in. It made me think that he-said she-said songs are are actually a good thing, when usually my only association with them is the Human League "Don't you want me."
Molly and I got caught up on top 40 radio on our last car trip and were surprised to find that Katy Perry and all these other people everyone talks about were completely...innocuous.
Ha. I'd forgotten that I still have the Firefox old cached video issue on my work machine so I thought I was caught in a timewarp with Wynton Marsalis. And then no one pointed it out in the comments and the comments made no sense and then I found the Ctrl-F5 dollars key (thanks to teo).
"Twee" is derived from baby talk for "sweet." Things that are twee are supposed to be sugary and sentimental, like a basket full of kittens.
The song in the video is emo, but not twee.
Mom just took me back to school shopping and she says maybe I can ride the bus this year! Sweeeeeeet. I'm gonna look AWESOME.
22 is correct, and I like things both emo and twee, when done well. Including the Gotye song.
I've been digging on Wye Oak and Tuneyards (I refuse to do the stupid every other letter capitalization thing, though) lately. I predict you will either find this video/song insufferable or awesome.
Everything is terrible, but at least this guy got what looks like a life sentence.
I remember that case. It's one where, in the immortal words of Christopher Brookmyre, they ought to be given a life sentence and then, when they die, be cryogenically preserved until the technology is developed to resuscitate them so they can serve another one.
Moby, thanks for linking that. Seeing him go to jail is fantastic.
It made me think that he-said she-said songs are are actually a good thing, when usually my only association with them is the Human League "Don't you want me."
I guess "I got a man" doesn't quite count as he-said-she-said.
It made me think that he-said she-said songs are are actually a good thing, when usually my only association with them is the Human League "Don't you want me."
"Don't you want me" is a great pop song.
Does "Need You Now" qualify as a he-said she-said song? Is there a rule against songs in which what he said and what she said are suspiciously too much alike?
what he said and what she said are suspiciously too much alike
Sometimes two people really do both secretly like piña coladas.
28: That was huge on Samoan radio the years I was there. There's a lot of perfectly neutral top 40 from '93 and '94 that sounds Samoan to me just because everyone had the radio on all the time: "I got a man" was big, as was Ace of Bass "I saw the sign". I hear either of them, I smell fragiapane.
Now I have "I am sixteen going on seventeen" stuck in my head.
Hah! Now you do, too.
According to wiki, the guy who did "I got a man" sang the woman's part as well. I did not know that.
Jackson.
Hit the Road Jack.
Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
When it was a hit, I had a female housemate shoo could sing Stop right there! exactly perfectly.
Get the earworm. You'll glow like the metal on the edge of a knife.
