Ke$ha Day 2

[koganbot]

I was with friends at Tokyo Joe's this evening, a quasi fast-food Japanese joint, and music was piped-in, adding noise to a place already full of crowd noise. Not sure what the purpose of the music is, since it's not loud enough to help create the ambience. Perhaps by adding more noise to the noise it provides cover for people who don't want the

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[chuckeddy]

Man, still not hearing this -- "Blah Blah Blah," I mean. I like the album fine. But to my ears, "Blah Blah Blah" really goes downhill after its amazingly visceral first 17 or 18 second (which I'd probably give a 10 to), and after that -- when the melody comes in, I guess -- it slips into averageness. Good averageness, but still averageness I'm having trouble caring about. Need to listen to the album more; honestly have yet to pick up on all the audaciously retardo lines everybody keeps raving about either, so obviously they're at least not jumping out of the background at me. Mainly, though, I guess I'm starting to realize that I might have no idea what people mean by "bosh" -- not clear to me, say, how this song is more HI-NRG Europop than, say, "Bad Romance" much less, I don't know, Aqua or Las Ketchup or Jordy or somebody. (Maybe they were too early to be bosh-worthy, or didn't get high enough on the charts? Though it is interesing Gaga and Ke$ha are Americans!) So basically, so far, I wish I was hearing more Scooter (and Dictators

Just another girl alone at the bar

[koganbot]

Welcome Mr/Ms Terrier. I generally find your commentary to be ace, and would hope that you continue to visit us.

30H!3 do address the emptiness, but in a rather empty way. "Don't Trust Me" and "Starstrukk" are no Earrings Of Madame De..., that's for sure. (Earrings is the superb Max Ophuls flick in which Charles Boyer declares to Danielle Darrieux, "Our marriage is only superficially superficial.") I justified my liking for "Don't Trust Me" over on poptimists' Yet Another Year In Pop.

[koganbot]

Rebel Without A Pause is actually Devil Without A Cause. ("Rebel Without A Pause" is a Public Enemy song.)

[chuckeddy]

Didn't some of you decide last year on that ilX GaGa thread that she was old Belgian new beat?

Well, somebody decided that -- wasn't me, or anybody whose name I recogized at the time -- and I liked the idea, but had no idea whether they were right or wrong about the issue. I'd guess, though, that Belgian new beat (inasmuch as I've heard it) and bosh (at least in the Scooter sense) are probably not all that far apart in the first place (though maybe it's mostly just the uber-Aryan Sprocket-rap vocal style those two have in common, I dunno. Which also makes me wonder how much, say, Real McCoy or Rammstein songs that have hit in the States fit into the bosh equation.) (Okay, Real McCoy were early. And I'm joking about Rammstein. I think.)

[chuckeddy]

Also, re Shooter btw: If you haven't already, you should read what's been said on ILM Rolling Country and Rolling Hard Rock about his strange, audacious, and mostly pretty awful new art-grunge-metal tea-party-era police-state conspiracy concept album featuring Stephen King. (George Smith also mentioned that Shooter had been in failed L.A. glam metal bands before his country career, which I somehow wasn't aware of myself.)