Video Club: Little Jackie - Black Barbie

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Not sure about this really but it's probably one of the more interesting things around at the mo.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Oof, this and "Guys Like When Girls Kiss" are seriously keeping me from enjoying the summertime vibes on this album. I don't really understand her Amy Winehouse attack, either -- why does she care?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

can't watch yet but is she using Lil' Kim as a jump-off point? I hope she is. BLACK BARBIE DRESSED IN BULGARI, TRYNA LEAVE IN SOMEBODY'S FERRARI

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OK have watched and this is kind of hateful? I wouldn't have expected something as tediously snarky as this from Imani Coppola, v disappointing. I mean this is basically descending to John McCain level.

There is a good argument to be made somewhere about what public reaction would be to a black woman acting like Paris, Britney, Amy et al - which I guess might be what the title alludes to - but this isn't it.

(...was there a Winehouse reference? didn't catch it anywhere)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

(also the song is a snooze)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Winehouse ref is in "Crying for the Queen," and her most awful song by a mile is the Katy Perry-copping (tho they probably wrote 'em around the same time, whatever) "Guys Like When Girls Kiss."

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

That's what I think generally about Imani Coppola's stuff - she doesn't always hit the mark, but everything she does is always interesting and worth a listen regardless.

[koganbot]

This stuff is a blind spot for me, going back to Funkadelic and including Badu as well as Coppola. "Funk-based, broad-palette eccentricity," I might call it, where various styles in the funk and jazz and rock spectrum play off each other. My complaint about Funkadelic was that they were vague and cold in the center, and Little Jackie seems even more so. (But I've only heard about three cuts of theirs so far.) Everything is always putting everything else in perspective.

In contrast, people like Mariah Carey and Teena Marie are every bit as broad and eccentric, but they connect much more directly to the basic sensuousness of music. Or, at any rate, I connect more directly to the basic sensuousness of their music.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

As previously noted, I like their other song (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/599932.html) that's being promoted in the UK right now.

I'm not sure the video does this one any favours. The lyrics seem a lot more subtle than the video interpretation.

But I love the music, once again: a nice contemporary take on the Stax sound is how I'd describe it. There's an album you say, skyecaptain?

(ADMIN note: post needs a 'video club' tag)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Yep, "The Stoop."

I think "World Should Revolve Around Me" is excellent, and there are several sort of placeholder tracks throughout that keep the atmosphere of that one -- and the arrogance, which I like if used well -- without being quite as attention-grabbing (a good thing).

I don't think there's very much subtle about this one, but then lyrical subtlety isn't really her thing. That's one thing I like about it -- the music is summertime sunshine neosoul a la Lily Allen, and the music kind of waters down all of the lyrics (except the Amy Winehouse one, which begs for attention a bit more forcefully); it's just that the lyrics to a couple of the song are SO TERRIBLE that they really ruin the party.