Monday 19 August 2019

It's tragic



Oh, hell. Two weeks' worth of unabashed hedonism - basically doing what we please, with a superb weekend in Amsterdam in the middle of it - have come to a crashing end, with the inevitable realisation that our numbers yet again did not come up on the lottery, and that somehow the bills still have to be paid...

...so, to take the bitterness out of the return to work this morning [apart from the promise that the scaffolding that currently surrounds Dolores Delargo Towers will indeed be coming down today], let us return once more to the crazy world of Dutch pop - and, on this Tacky Music Monday, they don't come much tackier than the chesty "singer" and plastic surgery fanatic Cornelia Jacoba (Connie) Witteman, better known in the Netherlands as Vanessa!


Without a discernible shred of emotion, she (with her veiligheid homos) sings:

I look at you and see
A special kind of magic
But you don't know it's me, I'm out here on my own
It's tragic

You see emotion hiding in my face, now you're gone, aha
You disappear without a trace, now you're gone, aha

Ladidi
Ladida
Wanna be
Where you are

Ladida
Ladidi
I want you
Here with me
I do, you know I do

I got a certain kind of feeling
Every time I look at you
If I don't get to you the way you get to me
I don't know what I'm gonna do

I just can't stand to see you walk away, now you're gone, oh no
And when you I don't know what to say, now you're gone, oh no

Ladidi
Ladida
Wanna be
Where you are

Ladida
Ladidi
I want you
Here with me
I do, you know I do


Gawd - how I wish I were back in Amsterdam! Or anywhere.

11 comments:

  1. That all went a bit quick, didn't it? I feel your pain.
    'My first ever MySpace blogs' - Is this a new link? If not, why have I not noticed it before?!!
    Sx

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    1. I'm groaning as we speak.

      I referenced that page way back in 2017 on the tenth birthday of this blog, but only recently made it permanently visible.

      Jx

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    2. Oops - I missed that post :-)
      Sx

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  2. That is one scary looking bitch.

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  3. I don't know how I missed your Gay Pirate post, but I wanted to mention International Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up Sept. 19. Maybe it will be time for another picnic.

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    1. Aaaaaaaaar! Jx

      PS That, I believe, was the reason for the theme; my sister and hubby are away for three weeks next month and wouldn't be around to celebrate it, so we just brought it forward.

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  4. You can achieve the same look by wearing a surgical knee support stretched over your head and under your wig, very uncomfortable to wear but cheaper than botox.

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  5. Work is a four letter word
    and it is my turn to return to grim reality today

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