A Year In Pop: 45

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A somewhat bijou poll this - and maybe should be even more so if "Valerie" is the same "Valerie" that's at #4 in the charts, just on a different record so credited different - can anyone enlighten?

[Poll #1087141]

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sundar and i

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

talked about this, and i think one of the great things abuot the nickelback single (aside from it piles evidence onto my rawk=nucuntry thesis) is that it is sort of post irony. you have to take it as a joke, and seriously, simultaneously.

so, yeah it is making fun of those "playboy bunny with the bleach blonde hair " but they are in on the joke, everyone is one the joke, and a whole class of people is making their living on being in on the joke, with doing nothing but being in on the joke.

and i think that nickelback is also in on the joke as well, letting the zz top dude do the excelent comedy reading of the quesadilla line, while still maintaining that they are being ultra serious, so they can appear to not sell out, to a crowd that still is worried about what hollywood means, while preaching to the audience that selling out is the greatest thing on earth...

this is more in the video then it is in the song--but even the song, with that glorius hook, the spitsung agression of the lyrics, and the pleasure baiting, is fantastic.