A Year In Pop: 40

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A more manageable eight new entries this week, including Aly and AJ's UK chart debut and the seventieth single off the Mika record.

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Comments

Re: Mouthwash

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The message in Nash seems to be something like, you can't get to me cos I am me (even if me is banal) - banality of the everyday protecting against the seismic of the un-everyday. This is the message of "The Day Before You Came" too in a way so maybe I should like it, but you sir are no day before etc etc.

I have been trying to think of an American equivalent of how KN sings and I really can't. The closest I could get to is if Tallulah, from the last series of Dr Who, made a record about brushing her teeth in her terrible fourth-hand Noo Yoik accent, but that was a Brit pretending to be an American.

Re: Mouthwash

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

Assuming Fran Drescher never made a record...

Re: Mouthwash

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Might it be a bit like K-Fed rapping? Anyway, I think I understand the extra visceral kick Gnash has for Brits. And re: Lex's comment, I wouldn't say that Kate is doing the random everyday thing very *well*, I just mean that without noticing the accent much, the words strike me as much fluffier and insignificant (and just kind of weird) than any great agitation over them might suggest.