Best Song of 2005: Heat #4

[katstevens]

Kanye, Gorillaz, Daddy Yankee and the Chemical Brothers qualify for the next round. Kanye also wins the run-off from Heat #2. But guess what? Yes, ANOTHER run-off follows heat #4, which is FULL OF BANGERS.

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I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside

[koganbot]

Lindsay and Ashlee rage back:

Lindsay goes beyond brat to tiger claws. And Ashlee's at her most Courtney. I was playing these five times a day at the end of '06.

Re: I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside

[skyecaptain]

Still wish the line was "that you are desperate and I am in sight." Sigh.

Re: I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside

[skyecaptain]

I tried to do some musical analysis on the Lindsay song a couple years ago:

So one technical feature of a lot of rock confessional is that it's modal music where major/minor is in flux. That means that the use of thirds is crucial. "Rush" (pretending it's in C for now): "Don't let nobody tell you" gravitates around the fifth in the minor scale (in C minor it's G) and the major third in the major scale (in Eb major it's G). But when they come down to what should be the root (essentially V-I, traditional harmonic resolution), that Eb makes the resolution minor (V-i), because they hit the minor third

Re: I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside

[meserach]

Not so into the Ashlee, but the Lindsay's got something. It surprises me that my opinions ends up being this way round!

Is the Lindsay just seeing a desire to see an ex-lover destroyed, or is it seeing an ex-lover destroyed so that they'll finally feel bad enough to love Lindsay again? It seems like the former is the text but I can't help but feel that the latter is a subtext? But I haven't fully attended to the lyrics on one playthrough.

Better than expected, anyway!

Re: I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside

[koganbot]

Yes, in general Ashlee whomps Lindsay, but not this time. This is the best Lindsay track other than "Nobody 'Til You." Also, I go with choice B, "seeing an ex-lover destroyed so that they'll finally feel bad enough to love Lindsay again?"* because everything Lindsay does is ultimately about Lindsay. This is one of the ones she didn't help write, however (it is Desmond Child and Andreas Carlsson and a couple others); but presumably the people writing are writing for her persona.

In other news, Lindsay Lohan reportedly moving to UK (article itself includes refers to her by title as well as name: Troubled Actress Lindsay Lohan).

*Though that doesn't necessarily mean that Lindsay will love him/her back, just that she wants to be wanted.