Only sick music makes money today. - F. Nietzsche
Someday I may properly update, but today I'm just posting some random thoughts about music.
Literally moments ago, I realized that the second line of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" is not, as I had believed for years, "Do the bump and grind in your prime". Although I guess if R. Kelly ever covered it, he could sing it that way.
Speaking of Bob Dylan and my mistaken beliefs, until I was about fifteen I thought Bob Dylan had been dead for years like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. A year or so ago I mentioned this on another Internet forum. A man in his mid-twenties responded and thanked me for bringing the subject up, because until he saw my post he'd thought Bob Dylan was dead too.
A lot could be (and has been) said in criticism of Madonna. But to her credit, in all the personas and styles she's gone through over the years, I don't think she ever played dumb. Madonna's appeal never rested upon her being perceived as stupid, naive, or vulnerable. She always came across like a grown woman who knew what she was doing. She may have sang about being like a virgin, but she never claimed to actually be a virgin or attempted to appeal to anyone's Lolita complex. Contrast this with Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson, etc., et al., ad nauseum. We were better off with Madonna.
Speaking of Hilary Duff, I have harbored a deep, personal hatred of her ever since I got stuck with The Lizzie McGuire Movie as my inflight movie en route from Munich to Atlanta. I hate her even more now that the raccoon-faced little mutant is in that commercial for whatever it is she's in a commercial for. I'm not sure what the product is, because I'm always too distracted by my horror over these lyrics:
Wake up, wake up,
On a Saturday night.
Could be New York,
Maybe Hollywood and Vine.
London, Paris, maybe Tokyo,
There's something going on anywhere I go.
So not only is young Miss Duff apparently incapable of getting up in the morning or telling which continent she's on, she is under the impression that "Hollywood and Vine" is a city rather than a streetcorner. She also seems to think that "Vine" rhymes with "night". (She pronounced "Tokyo" wrong too, but I guess I can't fault her for saying it the Americanized way.) Although as delusions go, these pale in comparison to her groundless belief that she is qualified to sing professionally. It's rare indeed that I have the opportunity to say "I can sing better than her!"
In fact, I shall now sing a song for you. Most of you have heard me sing, so you should be able to envision (enaudio?) my performance:
Like a rolling stone,
Touched for the very first time.
Do the bump and grind,
On a Saturday night.
London, Munich,
Maybe TO-KYO,
I'm postin' in my LJ
Everywhere I go.
Like a
VIR-IR-IR-GIN!
Thank you, goodnight!
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September 29 2005, 04:54:33 UTC 6 years ago
September 29 2005, 20:01:25 UTC 6 years ago
September 29 2005, 20:52:34 UTC 6 years ago
Singing, dancing, acting...truly, there is no start to Britney's talents. She's got to be the worst of the bunch.
Jessica Simpson may actually be the best of a sorry selection. Judging from when I've seen her on Letterman, she can really sing. And she didn't seem as dumb as people make her out to be, faint praise though that may be.
Still, she doesn't come across as an adult woman who knows what she's doing and is in charge of her own career, whereas I think Madonna has always projected that image. Heck, people have even found her intimidating. I can't imagine anyone being intimidated by any of the contemporary cavalcade of blonde pop singers.
October 1 2005, 02:18:23 UTC 6 years ago
As for Jessica Simpson... I don't know. I don't really think much about her one way or another, although I don't thik she's as stupid as she appears. And I guess she can sing too.
And being intimidated, well I con only speak for myself, but Jessica, Hilary, Birtney, and whoever else certainly don't intimidate me! They make me want to point and laugh sometimes, but no intimidation.