One tries one's best, but sometime a song or three sneaks itself into one's brain, and takes some shaking out again. Such as...
...this one. I really ought to loathe it - a) because it features the tasteless trash that is Miley Cyrus; and b) because it's Country'n'Western - but actually, this "Dolly-lite" number is inescapably catchy:
Then there's this, which, if you disregard the chuntering rap in the middle that unnecessarily disturbs the flow, is obviously a tribute to Carlos Jobim...
This one was everywhere in the late summer and autumn last year, and has yet to go away from either the Radio 2 playlist or my head. [But is he really singing "I can't do golden rain"?]:
And, of course, the Take That boys have an unerring ability to keep one humming their songs for days after one first hears them - it's their - ahem - everlasting appeal, I suppose:
Enjoy!
But... Music doesn't work based on " this is the sort of thing I should like, so I will." I heard that Spanish Justin Bieber song early, didn't think I should like it but did. (I was at a childrens birthday party, which is probably the place where music like that makes sense.)
ReplyDeleteAnd someone like Miley Cyrus is a real, complicated human being. I think she was brought up in Hollywood and didn't have a lot control over her early career. And I hated all the nudity and twerking and wrecking ball stuff she did as a young woman, but unfortunately that's how ex child stars signal they're adults now. Can't imagine Judy Garland doing it but there you go.
Plus a lot of singers you've praised on here got dismissed as tasteless trash early on. We'd all miss tasteless trash if there wasn't any.
It's my party. Loving and loathing are my choices. Miss Cyrus/Mrs Hemsworth may be a "complicated human being", as we all are. From an entirely cynical point of view, her deliberately provocative antics certainly gained her the fame she desperately craved, much as behaving like utter skanks worked for the Kardashians. Doesn't mean to say they are talented. Which is rather the point.
DeleteI will continue to praise and call out as I see fit. Jx
Oh yeah, I appreciate that. I just.... If you find yourself thinking you shouldn't like a song, why? It's just a combination of rhythm and melody, why feel bad about it?
ReplyDeleteI ' subscribe to the idea of "skanks" either. That's not a concept worth bothering with.
And she was already famous!
That Miley Cyrus track drives me nuts. A few bars of the intro sound like a Madonna track...and I'm expecting Madonna...and then I'm very disappointed! Surely someone should be sued?!
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When it comes down to wholesale theft of Madonna's work to make others famous, GaGa should be the first into the dock... Jx
DeleteWell, I hadn't heard any of these (which is what comes of living in a hole), and they are indeed very catchy, so thank you, Jon!
ReplyDeleteThe Miley Cyrus one just makes me want to listen to "Jolene", and I'm glad that Mark's "distinctive" vocals didn't overpower Take That's effort.
He may be a bit of a scruff-bag nowadays, but I could think of a way to keep Mr Owen quiet... Jx
DeleteThe first one made me think of Dolly and Jolene too
ReplyDelete2nd would be better as an instrumental, His voice and the lyrics added nothing. Not for me I think
Loved the third one
and take that is take that swoon swoon
Thanks for keeping me up to dates with the kids.
In the words of Miss Blossom Dearie:
Delete"I dig, I'm in step
When it was hip to be hep, I was hep
I don't blow but I'm a fan
Look at me swing, ring a ding ding
I even call my girlfriend 'Man', I'm so hip
Jx