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I’d hate to be Christina Aguilera’s mother right now. I mean, domestic abuse isn’t something people want to broadcast at the best of times. Would you want your daughter telling the world about it?
Perhaps it’s a poignant song, since Christina’s on the brink of popping out her own sprog. You know, reflecting on her own childhood and all that.
Lily Allen continues to impress me with her attitude. She’s up the duff by her Chemical boyfriend, but she’s refusing to cash in like lesser celebrities by launching a range of maternity clothes for other pregnant LDN girls.
Her reasoning? Well, she admits that she’s a little young to be having children and recognises that her audience (or ‘demographic’ as she eloquently puts it) are mostly young girls.
I know it’s not new, and it’s certainly not cool, but I have decided to pop up the Band Aid video for ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ just to put you all in the Christmas spirit!
That, and to give everyone a good laugh at the bad hair and 80’s fashion….I mean how could mullets ever have been cool?
December 21st, 2007 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: Linkblogging
I haven’t done one of these since October, so here’s a round up of great music posts I’ve spotted around the web:
The Sneeze gives us the ultimate Christmas song medley with a mashup of 21 artists who’ve performed Winter Wonderland, including Elvis, Clay Aiken, Stryper and…Barney? Be afraid.
Sick of Christmas songs already? Here’s a list of Xmas abominations that will make you thank Jebus for Slade and Wizzard…
Pitchfork Media have released their top 50 albums of the year list. What does it say about me when I don’t recognise the half of the artists on there?
Not to be outdone, the folks at Rolling Stone double Pitchfork’s effort with their massive list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. End of year round-ups rock, don’t they?
I won’t waste time with unnecessary introductions - this is a video of an Australian Beatles cover band doing their version of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven.
They literally pull every Beatles trick from the early days. I especially love the way they handled the “and as we wind on down the road…” section.
Really? Was Kanye West involved in this musical disaster, surely a shoe-in for the worst song of 2007?
Not only was Billie Jean both dated and overplayed already, but some genius decided to slow the whole thing down to the point where it feels like your mental capacity is diminishing at an alarming rate (quick, somebody speak to me at normal speed!).
Have you ever been in that stage of drunkenness where everything sounds slightly muffled and slowed down? That’s how listening to this feels. What comes next when you’re drunk is spewing the contents of your stomach into the nearest toilet bowl.
Shockingly, that’s how I felt by the time this ‘remix’ of Billie Jean had limped to the finish. So desperate for a reality check was I that I searched for the original video to compare.
I know Michael Jackson is in need of a few extra quid at the moment, but shame on Kanye for lending his name to such a dire remix. Just awful.
Getting oodles of radio play this week is Bloc Party’s latest single, Flux. It’s a radical departure for the band, which led to them speaking out to reassure fans that their forthcoming album wouldn’t be an all-disco effort. Phew!
I hesitate to use the word ‘nu-rave’ which has been dropped by other reviewers. But how to describe Flux to you? It’s kind of a crossover of Indie sensibilities and disco.
It’s an inspiring song, reflecting that tradition of uplifting champions songs like That’s My Goal and A Moment Like This. Except that Mr Jackson isn’t remotely believable. I can’t in all good conscience call this a triumph for either Jackson or the British public’s ability to choose a new pop star.
News reaches us that the Smashing Pumpkins plan to release an EP of four acoustic tracks exclusively through Apple’s iTunes store.
The EP will be titled American Gothic and is due to be released on 2 January 2008. Although the release will be iTunes only stateside, the rest of the world will see a physical release also.
December 20th, 2007 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: Mutya Buena
B-Boy Baby is truly a ‘what the hell?’ moment in the solo career of Ms Mutya Buena. As in what the hell were you thinking???
The hook for B-Boy Baby is lifted off the classic Ronettes track, Be My Baby. Unlike Sean Kingston, who managed to rip off Stand By Me to some degree of success, Mutya fouls it up royally by jumping between hip-hop and soul sounds.
