Music as conversation

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

New Pitchfork column by me on answer records, fan fiction, music as conversation... thanks to piratemoggy for her help putting this one together!

http://pitchfork.com/features/poptimist/7635-poptimist-21/

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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I wrote about how the second half of The-Dream's new album is a complex "answer" of sorts to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" here (http://cureforbedbugs.tumblr.com/post/84889393/whats-the-deal-with-the-3-year-curse). Frank suggested (I think) that it's also an echo/answer to Lou Reed's Berlin which I think I actually own but have not listened to since I bought it. Still need to do my homework :(

Maybe Britney should sing it

[koganbot]

The production/arrangement of Berlin is a botch, which means that I've spent vastly more times singing these songs than listening to Lou sing 'em. I used to sit down strumming and just go straight through "How Do You Think It Feels" ("to always make love by proxy"), "Oh Jim" ("all your two-bit friends they're shooting you up with pills"), "Caroline Says II" ("Caroline says, as she gets up off the floor/you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore"), and "The Kids" ("they're taking her children away/because they said she was not a good mother").

Re: Maybe Britney should sing it

[koganbot]

(I have no idea if The-Dream ever heard Berlin; just that his various confused and wildly ambivalent mixed-up mixed emotions remind me of Berlin.)