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stickykeys633

Posting a go-go!

Aug 19, 2007 13:25

I'm trying out posting via Semagic so I can do multiple posts, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to add additional accounts. Anyone know out there? Anyhoo, expect a crapload of updates about the chaotic hecticness of the last couple of weeks in the next few hours. Enjoy ( Read more... )

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Comments 12

thegirliscrazy August 19 2007, 19:23:34 UTC

Is that Mandy's version of Umbrella? I'm on dial-up, I can't play it. I like it, but I'm also fully aware that a) it's a folksy version on an extremely pop song, which makes it AC and dorky by default; b) I'm liking it in contrast to Rihanna, which gives just about anyone doing the song an unfair advantage (it IS Rihanna, after all); and c) I like a lot of random stuff that most other people can't stand. I'm not really a barometer for the cool or avant-garde.

It's not quite Alanis, but Alanis picked the most absurd song possible so she could be morose and "you need to see how stupid pop music these days" with hers. There's a really dry sense of humor about it coming from her. But Mandy is actually singing Umbrella like she means it, which makes her seem like she's either lacking that same sense of humor, or that she's a little dingy and the plot just flew right over her head. Or both. When she does the folk version of her own song (Candy), then it's good and slightly morose and funny, b/c she's poking fun at herself and struggling to ( ... )

stickykeys633 August 19 2007, 20:40:07 UTC

Yeah, I think it's her sincerity through the lack of willful execution that gets me. There are interesting parts, but it's not very good. Even on it's own. I would still lvoe to hear the folk version of candy.

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barkinmad August 19 2007, 23:44:37 UTC

At least Mandy can sing. That makes this version a 100 times better.

stickykeys633 August 19 2007, 23:58:36 UTC

Hee! Tis true, but Rihanna adds a special brand of premade wrongness that just works with this film I think! ;)

twocorpses August 20 2007, 02:05:22 UTC

GO AWAY MANDY MOORE.

I didn't think that song could be any worse than it was but there you go.

stickykeys633 August 20 2007, 02:10:27 UTC

zactly.

leila82 August 21 2007, 01:15:07 UTC

[small voice]i like this version quite a lot. for sure more than the original. with the exception of the “-ella -ella -ella” bit, which just sounds ridiculous.[/small voice]

stickykeys633 August 21 2007, 02:04:21 UTC

Hee! I thought the ridiculous part was when she did the "It's raining!" that's when I was all, "Mandy... no, just no."

ext_43007 August 21 2007, 17:35:56 UTC

It gets better towards the end in that that's when it sounds most like the original. I like Mandy Moore, but Rihanna variant Umbrella knocks this one for six.

stickykeys633 August 21 2007, 17:44:09 UTC

Truly, it does get better near the end until she starts with that "It's Raining" crap. I need her to stop all of that. Short day today, but I'll be on with lots of news tomorrow.