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."

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Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

added stab of poignancy for me: knowing that gorgeous forgotten disco starlet evelyn "champagne" king was signed as a songstress in 1976 after an exec heard (aged 16) singing while she worked as a cleaner in the office after-hours

i'm trying to think of another song that has this multi-layered focus: where the self-involvement of the technics of yr escape route becomes a way of distancing yrself from the manipulative affect of saying 'woe is me my grim youth!", which somehow doubles the effectiveness; heartbreaking doubly bcz of her mum somehow NOT able to join in the pleasure and absorption of "getting on" via music...

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

That was one question I had...where is Keke in all this? She presents herself as this omniscient narrator giving us a tour. She's witnessing the woman doing janitor work (not nec. her mom, I think) and chooses to sympathize (by telling her story, albeit in a very strange way) but also drowns her out. And then she's talking about a girl with some kind of eating disorder and sneaking out at night all the time, and Keke wants her to use the music box now. (Also a weird throwback with music box being the wind-up kind and the boombox kind at the same time, neither of which are particularly uh now examples of using music to drown out the stuff in your life. Everyone hears the music, no headphones!)

Keke was 13 when she made this album, I think, which kind of blows me away.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think i took it that she was talking abt herself in the third person, as one of the characters with the the rest of the story as the backdrop to this -- and the foreground is the "being woven into music" as an escape from the backdrop

so i don't think there is an omniscient narrator -- more like a subjective (but distracted) narrator

i will have to relisten to say why i thought this tho

[koganbot]

gorgeous forgotten disco starlet evelyn "champagne" king

Oh, that's a shame.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i found her official website, from 2001 -- it has not been updated since 2002 i don't think

she had an LP out last year tho

along with her mother Johnniea King

[koganbot]

http://www.myspace.com/tibbychampagne

"Recall the discovery of Ms. King yes it's true, I was discovered while cleaning, at 'Sigma Sound Studios' along with her mother Johnniea King, to be exact. All of a sudden I hear a male's voice say one day I'm going to make you a star."