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

[johnnyctunes.livejournal.com]

I find TATU to be formulaic and obnoxious. Plus the lesbian "you are me and I am you and we are one person so let's sloppily make out" gets tiring after a while for me.

Oh, and the music is sledgehammer-blunt altmetal, to my ears at least.

But whatever! If pseudo-lesbian altmetalpop is your bag, then GO FOR IT!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I'm noting that it's OK for straight actors to act gay for a movie, but it's not OK for tATu to pretend for the purposes of what is in effect a three-minute piece of musical drama.

But then again, I'm love pop-metal and boys, so I'm biased. Obnoxious, you're right about that, but specifically, what precisely is formulaic about tATu?

What I do like about the UK jukebox is that we're not afraid to just say "I abhor this on every level, it makes me want to kill everything" and give something zero. I basically gave half the songs this week zero and the other half ten.

[johnnyctunes.livejournal.com]

From "Not Gonna Get Us":

Not gonna get us
They're not gonna get us
Not gonna get us
Not gonna get us

Starting from here, let's make a promise
You and me, let's just be honest
We're gonna run, nothing can stop us
Even the night that falls all around us


From "All About Us":

They say
They don't trust
You, me, we, us
So we'll fall
If we must
Cause it's you, me
And it's all about
It's all about


Just two examples; it's kind of flimsy. But I only know the band from their singles, which happens to be what we're reviewing, and which happen to not only lack lyrical subtelty and finesse, but also lack the ability to creatively tackle subject matter. We get it. You're lesbians. The world hates you. Do you have anything different to say about it?

On the other hand,

a) I liked "All The Things She Said."

b) I have to give them credit that they were creative enough to tack on the "lesbians" bit. Linkin Park are all the directionless rage and angst, none of the titillating soap-operatics.


P.S. Sometimes giving a song I loathe a zero makes my week just that much better. *cough*SEANPAUL*cough*

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I've just been reminded that even though I was sure I hated them, I am totally buying the Linkin Park greatest hits album. "Crawling" = CHOON! and totally the proto-Tatu, except LP nowhere near as telegenic.

If you hate the us-against-them mentality of "All About Us", you're going to be giving minus scores to the next single, "Dangerous and Moving" even though it's even better, because it's bleaker, and is basically them being caught by those chasing them.

[johnnyctunes.livejournal.com]

My score will be directly proportionate to how badly it'll all end for them.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Sean Paul hate hurts me in my heart :(