I had you SUICIDAL! SUICIDAL!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

So if you don't know yet that 'Beautiful Girls' by Sean Kingston is on the cusp of being inescapable, this is where you start to prepare yourself. I love it; totally ridiculous, slightly inappropriate, and massively charming emo-dancehall. How much you like it may depend on whether you find the thought of primary school kids singing "SUICIDAL! SUICIDAL!" cute or wrong.

And JoJo's covered it from the girl's point of view! I love JoJo but I think this is the first time she's shown, you know, humour in her art.

Not suicidal is Róisín Murphy - this is a bit old now (I assume it flopped then, le sigh) but I love the video.

Comments

[cis.livejournal.com]

my problem with the Sean Kingston, which otherwise I love for al its fifties stylings, is when he sings 'it was back in '99, watching movies all the time, when i went away for doing my first crime'. SK looks about sixteen? So he's still bangin' on about some girl who left him when he went into juvie at the age of eight? I love nonsense for the sake of a rhyme as much as the next girl, but there are some things up with which I will not put.

I find the Jojo version really bland? idk. pretty funny when she sings 'when i dutty wine' with such clear enunciation.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I love that bit precisely because it implies either a) astonishing gulliness at the age of 9 (SK was born in 1990) or b) pure nonsense. Would have been better if he'd sung '89 though.

'Stand By Me'? Rings a vague bell, I don't think I've heard it though...

[cis.livejournal.com]

'Stand by me' always seemed to be one of those songs that everyone knew without really having heard the original: we used to sing it in the playground in primary school, that sort of thing.

Sometimes I can't help but think you might be well served by listening to Capital Gold once in a while. ^^

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard of Ben E King either :(

I don't really know how to tune my radio? and can never get internet radio to work. Not that I ever try b/c I can never stand any radio normally - too many presenters' voices, not enough music...

[cis.livejournal.com]

I really don't think knowing who Ben E King is has any importance compared to knowing the song!

I decided to listen to Capital Gold yesterday afternoon and it turned out I couldn't really bear it for more than about half an hour (they played queen or sth and i had to turn it off) so, you know, maybe I can't talk about who should listen to the radio more. But it is definitely lower on presenters-being-unpleasant and higher on presenters-being-affable-nobodies, the lesser of the two available evils.