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[koganbot]

These two songs feel similar - Vanessa Hudgens' "Say OK" and Hope Partlow's "Sick Inside" - though "Say OK" has a bit of a freestyle thing going on with it (but not nearly as much as the even better "Don't Talk"), while the arrangement to "Sick Inside" is poised between clave and country. Notice who's in the "Sick Inside" video. ("Say OK" vid probably won't play in Britain, so here's a link to another clip of it.)

"Vanessa Hudgens - Say Ok (Official Music Video)" (Watch on YouTube)

"Hope Partlow - Sick inside (Zac Efron)" (Watch on YouTube)

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[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I downloaded it, despite not liking her previous stuff, just because I rather liked her expression on the cover. I need to listen to it a bit more but I sort of like that she's going a bit dirty. It feels more Cobra Starship than Avril Lavigne, to me, although that's partly because they also have a song called 'Guilty Pleasure;' I sort of like the acting cus its so transparent you can hear her being neurotic about herself behind it.

Partlow is a sort of very tentative tick from me; she sounds quite generic to me but there is something a little special about it, at least. I guess she sounds more like male teenpopper than a female one somehow? Which is interesting. I mean, not in terms of pitch or anything but there's something faintly masculine about the song. Or well, teenpop masculine, whatever the fvck that is.

...Oh actually, I really love the sudden DRAMA in the middle eight, wish there was more of that in the rest of the song.

idk, I have a bit of a problem relating to these blonde teenagers; it's no doubt Teenage Goth Me resurfacing but nevertheless.

Teenpop antiquarian

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

If you're interested, I wrote about about the new Tisdale (which I've only heard twice or so and then deleted, though not intentionally, just a hard drive crash) here. Basically it sounds like a 2004 cash-in on c. 2000 teenpop done in 2009, which makes it weird but also weirdly unpleasant to me; there may be interesting messages in there (I mention "Hair" specifically, which is about as close to real-life-sex-talk as, e.g., the Veronicas get, not that innocent), but I'm a bit put off by all the GOOP.

Re: Teenpop antiquarian

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Well, the picture's actually from c. 2008-9, anyway:



Yeah, I think she's, if not masculine, at least aggressively sexual here, not coy at all, which has more in common with the post-Avrils than the 2000 bubblegum stuff (this is why I place it somewhere sonically in the middle of the decade, with aspirations to have been popular previously, like a career that stalled for three years, so the demos are tucked between the hipper-sounding and newer-sounding stuff). But even Britney was getting a harder sound by c. 2001.

Re: Teenpop antiquarian

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

(something pussycat dollzish about the pic, plus that font, even though it's ripped from "America's Sweethearts," I think, still feels contemporary for Ashley's particular genre, whatever the fuck that is these days. Has anyone even bought this thing?)