News Surprising and Unsurprising

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Unsurprising: I did not bother to write to the Guardian.

Surprising: Popjustice sez, in an aside, that Gasolina is the single of the summer! Have we maligned them??

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

This is a vocabulary question that I've never really got - what does sleek and shiny mean in this context, and how do they not apply to, say, a Killers single (if this is something you're claiming)?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

in the context of fiddy, 'sleek and shiny' means...super-produced, I guess. the beats are sharp, metallic, treated to within an inch of their lives with the deliberate aim of getting rid of any roughness or lumpiness. like...fiddy beats : music :: batman outfit : clothes.

killers may well be super-produced too, I don't listen to them closely enough to be able to tell, but if they are they're doing it in a way which magnifies the roughness because as we all know that's more authentic or whatever.