Disclaimer: am ill and trying to write essay therefore nothing sensible is coming out of my head.
Well CSS aren't very good. If they were from Clapham I can't imagine that hardly anyone would give an arse but it seems that since it's Brazil then oooh! etc. They sound like lounge music, to me- actual Death From Above seem far more fun/sexy. (incidentally, the new DFA remix album is brilliant, although everyone else probably knew that already) I dunno, possibly I'd like CSS if I didn't have them stuffed down my throat as the saviours of the known universe every time I open a music publication but particularly blabbing on about them as though they're something philosophically amazing like in that Fluxblog post makes me want to break things. If they're philosophical, they're part of the 'ee, sex is naughty, isn't it?' movement.
I don't think that necessarily means Lovefoxx isn't emoting, although I don't think it's anything exceptionally deep and if the music is what it's touted as then it's fairly straightforward what she's saying in the lyrics, with a bit of self-consciousness. Most of it's just playing, anyway, isn't it? Which isn't to say that's not emoting and there is something conscious about the music, which I find annoyingly knowing a lot of the time.
I don't think that song's even about a long-distance relationship, is it?
Also, Mr Fluxblog probably doesn't sway around nearly blubbing to Jamie T but I didn't go and say that makes him a shallow tart, incapable of understanding music, did I?
Which is not to say I was the anonymous commenter, because I don't read fluxblog. Judging from that it all seems a bit hysterical.
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Date: 2007-03-08 10:24 am (UTC)Well CSS aren't very good. If they were from Clapham I can't imagine that hardly anyone would give an arse but it seems that since it's Brazil then oooh! etc. They sound like lounge music, to me- actual Death From Above seem far more fun/sexy. (incidentally, the new DFA remix album is brilliant, although everyone else probably knew that already) I dunno, possibly I'd like CSS if I didn't have them stuffed down my throat as the saviours of the known universe every time I open a music publication but particularly blabbing on about them as though they're something philosophically amazing like in that Fluxblog post makes me want to break things. If they're philosophical, they're part of the 'ee, sex is naughty, isn't it?' movement.
I don't think that necessarily means Lovefoxx isn't emoting, although I don't think it's anything exceptionally deep and if the music is what it's touted as then it's fairly straightforward what she's saying in the lyrics, with a bit of self-consciousness. Most of it's just playing, anyway, isn't it? Which isn't to say that's not emoting and there is something conscious about the music, which I find annoyingly knowing a lot of the time.
I don't think that song's even about a long-distance relationship, is it?
Also, Mr Fluxblog probably doesn't sway around nearly blubbing to Jamie T but I didn't go and say that makes him a shallow tart, incapable of understanding music, did I?
Which is not to say I was the anonymous commenter, because I don't read fluxblog. Judging from that it all seems a bit hysterical.