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poptimistsOn the theme of angry women:
Nominations please for the Best Songs About Women Getting Violent And/Or Creative Revenge On Men!
* You're aiming to nominate a song that is A) GOOD b) FITS THE THEME and C) YOU THINK I HAVEN'T HEARD YET
* Please OFFICIALLY NOMINATE one song only.
* Put your official nominations in BOLD, please.
* Please include some kind of a LINK whereby your nominated song can be heard! If it isn't easy for me to listen to your song I won't! Good methods for me are Youtube links and Spotify links, but anything else that works is fine, and I'll let you know if it doesn't!
* The BEST song that (in my judgement) FITS THE THEME WELL that I DON'T REMEMBER HEARING BEFORE will WIN, and the person who NOMINATED IT picks the next THEME.
* You may also mention additional songs - this is a good way to include classic songs which I probably already know. Other people may pick your suggestions as their official nominee, but unless this is done there is no guarantee I will listen to them, so please choose you ONE official nominee carefully! You don't have to provide links to songs you merely mention.
SOME GOOD SONGS I ALREADY KNOW ABOUT IN THIS THEME:
(man when did all youtube videos become unembeddable)
Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats (unembeddably: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxofSejV-7w)
Jazmine Sullivan - Bust Your Windows (unembeddably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgfgkrz_BA)
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (unembeddably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekIuWl-Ffq4)
Obviously I know others but we'll find out together which!
EDIT Oh and I guess I will stop accepting nominations on Friday night (unless it seems to peter out way earlier) and then render my OFFICIAL OPINION over the weekend.
Nominations please for the Best Songs About Women Getting Violent And/Or Creative Revenge On Men!
* You're aiming to nominate a song that is A) GOOD b) FITS THE THEME and C) YOU THINK I HAVEN'T HEARD YET
* Please OFFICIALLY NOMINATE one song only.
* Put your official nominations in BOLD, please.
* Please include some kind of a LINK whereby your nominated song can be heard! If it isn't easy for me to listen to your song I won't! Good methods for me are Youtube links and Spotify links, but anything else that works is fine, and I'll let you know if it doesn't!
* The BEST song that (in my judgement) FITS THE THEME WELL that I DON'T REMEMBER HEARING BEFORE will WIN, and the person who NOMINATED IT picks the next THEME.
* You may also mention additional songs - this is a good way to include classic songs which I probably already know. Other people may pick your suggestions as their official nominee, but unless this is done there is no guarantee I will listen to them, so please choose you ONE official nominee carefully! You don't have to provide links to songs you merely mention.
SOME GOOD SONGS I ALREADY KNOW ABOUT IN THIS THEME:
(man when did all youtube videos become unembeddable)
Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats (unembeddably: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxofSejV-7w)
Jazmine Sullivan - Bust Your Windows (unembeddably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgfgkrz_BA)
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (unembeddably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekIuWl-Ffq4)
Obviously I know others but we'll find out together which!
EDIT Oh and I guess I will stop accepting nominations on Friday night (unless it seems to peter out way earlier) and then render my OFFICIAL OPINION over the weekend.
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Re: hello i am pretending to work, excuse my typos
Date: 2010-04-01 03:31 pm (UTC)My guess* is that "Independence Day" was written by a liberal (Gretchen Peters) and sung by a conservative (Martina McBride) but as far as practical policies go they both would be arm in arm in thinking that battered women and children need the support of the community, and that a man's home is not his castle, etc., despite that song actually saying "Maybe it's the only way," "it" being murder-suicide. (Martina's got a Janey's Got Her Gun–type song on her latest album, so she hasn't given up on the issue.) But the excitement of the apocalyse is another factor that sane, humane social policies don't really embody, and I don't know if any social policies should embody them. And Miranda seems to be in different territory with stuff like "Down," which doesn't seem to imagine a better way, or to finger anything like a "social problem" here. I think that Miranda might "get" the Ramones in a way that Gretchen Peters and Martina McBride wouldn't.
*I put "guess" because I don't really know McBride's politics, whereas Peters made it clear she did not support the Republicans and resented when right-wingers took bits of "Independence Day" out of context and tried to co-opt it.