The Friday Canon: Pink

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

BLIMEY hasn't Pink had a lot of hits! Here's where you pick your favourite five.




[Poll #874449]

Comments

Kandi and She'kspere

[koganbot]

Also, another reason that "There You Go" isn't generic is that it has a strong Kandi-She'kspere personality to it: their long snaking melodies and their delicate ornamental harpsichords on tracks that are nonetheless tough stuff. "Generic" is usually reserved for songs that don't seem distinct from the rest of a genre, not for tracks that have a character that you identify with the people who make them.

Re: Kandi and She'kspere

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ah I loved harpsichord r&b! But that style did seem rather omnipresent back then, from 'Bills Bills Bills' to 'The Real Slim Shady' to 'No Scrubs'. I mean, 'Buttonz' by the Pussycat Dolls has a very strong Scott Storch personality to it, but it's also totally generic.

I loved the way 'Most Girls' functioned as a sequel/flipside to 'No Scrubs' which left men with nowhere to turn: on one side TLC were saying that if you didn't have a job, a car, money, they weren't interested; on the other, Pink was saying that if you did have all of that, she...wasn't interested.