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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This has massive potential to be the very worst thing ever recorded. SAVE US.

In happier news, the radio did a mindmeld this morning when I was in the optician's: for the past couple of days I've had a craving to hear, of all things, 'Stuck' by Stacie Orrico, and what did I hear while awaiting my contact lenses but JUST THAT! I especially love the counterpoint backing vocals right at the end - "don't! know! what! to! do!" Talk about what you love about it.

And throw in love for Lumidee's 'Never Leave You' while you're at it, that's what the radio played afterwards and I started involuntarily bobbing to the beat and the optician looked at me very oddly.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It is kind of half-hearted Avril guitar pop crossed with half-hearted attempt at generic r&b backing and it works magnificently because it has a monster chorus; it starts off "I can't get out of bed today or get you off my mind"; the video has Stacie going to SCHOOL in a BUS and ignoring a BOY on another bus but also gazing WISTFULLY out of the window. None of her other songs were any good, I have the album :(

Has the Paris album, like, leaked and stuff yet?! I can't wait. It's going to be called Paris Is Burning!

[cis.livejournal.com]

"i could be the one" was also AMAZING, plus totally based on the magnificat. It might not have been on that album though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't remember that one, it may have been on the album - I never actually made it to the end. Stacie was a Xtian and stuff! She was all wholesome and critical of Xtina, but on the album cover she's totally sticking her tits in the camera.

[cis.livejournal.com]

Aha it was released 2004, so must have been another album (i wrote about it here (http://cis.livejournal.com/1712.html)). It didn't do very well, I think: certainly never heard about her again after that. She was kind of tail-end of the michelle branch/vanessa carlton pop-rock thing, wasn't she? Proper actual teen-pop like what ceddy and fkogan go on about.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes, Branch and Carlton are the people my brain was not coming up with earlier, and you can hear she's their tail-end because of the dual tentative reaches towards the r&b beat and the Avril guitars, she is aware she's a tail-end but she's not quite sure what comes next...

[cis.livejournal.com]

i want to hear it again now!

(i have been totally rocking the gwen album these past couple days, btw, I'd forgotten just how much I loved it! although the complete lack of any proper album tracks is kind of wearying.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of duff ones in the middle, it breaks the album up nicely into the five bangers everyone knows, and the five bangers you listen to less but which are even better when you do bother with them.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Guess what I found when I got home on Sunday! Shaznay Lewis promo single CD with Phones Volt remix on it!

[cis.livejournal.com]

OHMYGOD OHMYGOD OHMYGOD lend me lend me! *___________* (so i can rip it at the highest bitrate i know!)

The only two tracks on it that strike me as low-energy if not meh are 'serious' and 'danger zone' (disregarding the two mixes at the end): harajuku girls doesn't have single-type punch but the wtf is so extreme it takes up the same amount of... concentration? And 'long way to go' would occupy album-track mental space were it not for the 'millionaire' precedent. So that means you get a nine-track blast of highly attention-seeking pop before there's any respite: I've been skipping the first four tracks just so my brain doesn't overload.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh I think 'Serious' and 'Danger Zone' definitely have as much high-octaneness as the rest - something to do with the insane treble throughout the production - but 'Luxurious' and 'Harajuku Girls' are just not as good, they're where Gwenny Gwengwen tips into insanely irritating territory, so I skip them. I certainly wouldn't be able to listen to more than five LAMB tracks in a row.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It is on the album! I dug it out and looked! It's near the end so I don't think I ever got that far, but you're right, it is totally ace.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

The video was amazing! I wrote loads about it in a letter to a friend but can remember neither what I wrote nor still the song somehow!

I want the album to be, like, microhouse.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I want the album to be crunk, and for Paris to rap, and swear lots, and have mad things done to her vocals.

Of course you can remember 'Stuck'. Try harder Greg. Google it!

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I am listening to it right now. It is great. I don't remember it at all!

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I want the album to be crunk, and for Paris to rap, and swear lots, and have mad things done to her vocals.

I think this would be okay? It is the best that is likely to happen.

I want, still: loads of minimalist styles, sometimes like Villalobos sometimes just like Justus, Paris whispering and cooing, 35 minutes, mirrors. She'd be so great at it!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That would be great as well, actually. She drawls in a perfect languorous way for microhouse. But I want the full force of her empty plastic personality in her music and I am not sure microhouse would be the best vehicle for that.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

P's plastic personality is anything but empty!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

She's beautifully blank. I think she totally means to do it, though.