Pop has been SO BAD recently, that I...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...have been listening to Neil Young.

Does anyone have a more shameful confession?

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[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ha ha proof that N. Young = TOP OF TEH POPS!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the Tori cover was part of her concept covers album :o

She sung it from the perspective of twin businesswomen

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

now THAT is an awful album. i remember getting quite angry when i heard her Bonnie and Clyde eminem cover. stupid tori

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's a very good album! The Eminem cover is incredible. I really like the Lloyd Cole, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits and Slayer covers too.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

it is hard to credit anyone doing it so badly. "hmm, this is a menacing song, i'll do my menacing voice". rubbish.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think it's really clever the way in which she turns the words on the song itself - beyond the slightly camp scared-voice theatricality there's this underlying sarcasm to the way in which Tori intones the words which turns it into even blacker humour than it really was, kind of "this is meant to scare me little boy? try harder because I'm still here" - and when she repeats Eminem's last line "me and my daughter" (him claiming Hailie from Kim) she repeats it, "me and MY daughter", reclaiming her back.

Great horror movie strings as well.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

don't want to go on about this, but that cleverness falls flat when you realise that that was alread in the original. it's like when someone makes a joke, and someone else explains it.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was in the original! At least, not the same sort of humour. There's the feminist agle to Tori's which is hard to ignore.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that if you have to pay that close attention (ie., follow all the lyrics), isn't that by definition working too hard?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

how is "following the lyrics which, given that the piece in question is spoken word, are RIGHT THERE" remotely hard work?!