The Showdown

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1868

The 'good stuff' (actually almost all of it IS except Andy Bell) and I have learned two things:

- The Lex and I seem to be in hivemind mode this week (Goat Team aside)

- John Cameron is the least pop man in the Universe.

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh come on though, I mean it's pretty much a carbon copy! Admittedly a carbon copy of GREATNESS and I wub it ect ect but I couldn't have given it a 10 just cos the chorus is so sledgehammeringly similar! 9.5 perhaps haha. Not that I write for these stupid single reviews anyway ARF.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a template, but it's an expansion; attack, not defiance. The Sapphism has become psychological (as I've said over and over, including in my crap unused blurb). And and and, also, the differing intonations on the same line in ATTSS was its secret weapon, and nobody seemed to notice this so I am glad to have this trick back.

There've been a few songs that totally have ripped off TATU, can't bring names to mind, there's a German one from this year, but NONE of them can pull that amazing trick off.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Psychological sapphism I fear may not sell as many records as the physical sort.

Wonder Woman's battle cry in the 60s was "Sufferin' Sappho!" incidentally.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

It's doing OK in the midweeks. Top 10, but not top 5, it would seem.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Really?! Cool, it's getting zero airplay so that's fantastic.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Some of the wheat is doing quite poorly, though. Oh, the German ripoff of Tatu (same dynamics, quite differnet song) I was thinking of is "Ich kann dich heilen" by Aschenputtel.