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

[koganbot]

The Roisin Murphy vid is brilliant, warms the whole song up for me, though I'm not sure if I can explain why. Reminds me of that Bob Dylan line: "But these visions of Johanna make it all seem so cruel." Sweets from the shop, drunken lout on the bus home, a mob giving chase to someone (unexplained), all end up refracting into her mood of discontent.