Another Year In America August 13, 2009
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koganbotBEP hang on to first, Taylor rides her bullet, and Boys Like Girls provoke an attack of aesthetic conscience in me, but I fend it off.
Dorrough "Ice Cream Paint Job": Cheerful handyman paints his car - unless "clean on the outside, cream on the inside" is a metaphor that passes me by. Beats chug along, little space blips add zero menace, this rides pleasantly while going nowhere. BORDERLINE TICK.
Boys Like Girls "Love Drunk": Loud pretty blare in a year where blare is inescapable, and I'm liking the style less and less, and I hate this, and the chorus is hummable, very hummable, and I hate this even if it's good and I can't admit the truth, but hummable choruses are not the truth when we grow weak and weary amid verses of callow blare. I hate this. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Fabolous f. The-Dream "Throw It In The Bag": Fabolous has a blank confidence that puts me off, but it's effective 51% of the time. So maybe next time. NO TICK.
Maxwell "Pretty Wings": What my San Francisco roommate Elizabeth would call The Lie Of Male High-Pitched Caring. It's passé in the land of today's wised-up r&b, but Maxwell brings conviction. Didn't bring a good tune, though. NO TICK.
Dorrough "Ice Cream Paint Job": Cheerful handyman paints his car - unless "clean on the outside, cream on the inside" is a metaphor that passes me by. Beats chug along, little space blips add zero menace, this rides pleasantly while going nowhere. BORDERLINE TICK.
Boys Like Girls "Love Drunk": Loud pretty blare in a year where blare is inescapable, and I'm liking the style less and less, and I hate this, and the chorus is hummable, very hummable, and I hate this even if it's good and I can't admit the truth, but hummable choruses are not the truth when we grow weak and weary amid verses of callow blare. I hate this. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Fabolous f. The-Dream "Throw It In The Bag": Fabolous has a blank confidence that puts me off, but it's effective 51% of the time. So maybe next time. NO TICK.
Maxwell "Pretty Wings": What my San Francisco roommate Elizabeth would call The Lie Of Male High-Pitched Caring. It's passé in the land of today's wised-up r&b, but Maxwell brings conviction. Didn't bring a good tune, though. NO TICK.
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Date: 2009-08-17 07:52 am (UTC)Love 'Ice Cream Paint Job' too. CLEAN ON THE INSIDE CREAM ON THE OUTSIDE. The sexual metaphor was the first thing I thought of!
Hummable choruses never necessarily = worth. Would always opt for a Maxwell album which I have to listen to 10 times to get right inside it over, say, a 3OH3 song which I can remember off half a Youtube clip, but which makes me hate them/the world every time I do remember it.