Podcast Panel #10

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Keke Palmer - 'Music Box'

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Its submitter says: "Keke Palmer got semi-shafted last year with a pretty great album. Not sure how many people actually heard her best song, "Game Song," but if it was too many, her second-best (to me anyway) song is a totally sappy but pretty number about growing up in the ghetto called "Music Box." Mom fallen on hard(er) times gets a job as a janitor and proceeds to WIPE UP HER OWN TEARS. I mean that is insane."

[Poll #1140325]

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Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the first 10 so far (unless i'm nuts): i like the interweave of elements (it reminds me of akon's "ghetto" AND pentagle, which is a pretty awesome ask) and the sentimentality in the social-realism is weirdly distorted and palped, which speaks to the topic (music as a means of escape: it doesn't banish the poverty trapping, but it muffles it and gives you something to clanber out with)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

She has another good and more down-to-earth growing up in the ghetto track called "Hood Anthem" which is also pretty good -- but I think you're right in pointing out how there's something kind of captivating in the distortion. She creates these folkloric, almost fairy tale characters and intersperses them with lines like "it affects his teenage daughter." (Imagine someone saying of the Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe that her lack of attention to any one child, paired with the cramped living space, "affected her teenage daughter"!)