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koganbotWelcome to the special "For No Apparent Reason I Link To Movies That I Haven't Actually Seen" edition of Yet Another Year In America.
Sara Bareilles "King Of Anything": Sara finds herself sitting across from an opinionated loudmouth like me, and spaces out, her mind wandering off into its own under-her-breath venting session - a private rant that's devoid of detail and precision, 'cause she's no better at communicating than he is at listening. The music supplies perky little bubbles to accompany her thoughts and maybe, in the aftersong, to lift her out of her seat and away from this dullness. NO TICK.
Train "If It's Love": Train have been around for a while but I haven't been around them, so I don't know if the speed lyrics and private jokes that brighten the beginning are a new wrinkle or a finely honed quirk, "My feet have been on the floor/Flat like an Idol singer/Remember Winger/I digress," and I'm wondering if they mean Debra Winger, the urban cowgirl, or Winger, the "Headed For A Heartbreak" songbirds. Yes, I remember both of them, and their love striving was more memorable than this, which arrives at a predictable birds-of-a-feather-coo-together denouement; but this song did make me smile more than I expected. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Selena Gomez & The Scene "A Year Without Rain": A passionate dance-floor belter that mini-voiced Selena knows better than to try to belt. So she just glides along, leaving it up to the music to give us wind and storm, which rather astonishingly it manages to do. TICK.
The Band Perry: "If I Die Young": "If you have no kind thoughts for the authoritative absurdities of Dark Passage, The Red House, A Summer Place, Rome Adventure, and Youngblood Hawke, read no further" (Andrew Sarris on Delmer Daves, in The American Cinema, 1968). And if you have no kind ears for the authoritative absurdities of "If I Die Young," current radio must be a dim land for you indeed. Beyond the meaning of life, here we ponder the imagery of death, "There's a boy here in town says he'll love me forever/Who would have thought forever could be severed/By the sharp knife of a short life"; unlike Sara Bareilles, say, the Band Perry search for words and images to deliver a vision, even if the vision doesn't really amount to a thought. TICK.
Sara Bareilles "King Of Anything": Sara finds herself sitting across from an opinionated loudmouth like me, and spaces out, her mind wandering off into its own under-her-breath venting session - a private rant that's devoid of detail and precision, 'cause she's no better at communicating than he is at listening. The music supplies perky little bubbles to accompany her thoughts and maybe, in the aftersong, to lift her out of her seat and away from this dullness. NO TICK.
Train "If It's Love": Train have been around for a while but I haven't been around them, so I don't know if the speed lyrics and private jokes that brighten the beginning are a new wrinkle or a finely honed quirk, "My feet have been on the floor/Flat like an Idol singer/Remember Winger/I digress," and I'm wondering if they mean Debra Winger, the urban cowgirl, or Winger, the "Headed For A Heartbreak" songbirds. Yes, I remember both of them, and their love striving was more memorable than this, which arrives at a predictable birds-of-a-feather-coo-together denouement; but this song did make me smile more than I expected. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Selena Gomez & The Scene "A Year Without Rain": A passionate dance-floor belter that mini-voiced Selena knows better than to try to belt. So she just glides along, leaving it up to the music to give us wind and storm, which rather astonishingly it manages to do. TICK.
The Band Perry: "If I Die Young": "If you have no kind thoughts for the authoritative absurdities of Dark Passage, The Red House, A Summer Place, Rome Adventure, and Youngblood Hawke, read no further" (Andrew Sarris on Delmer Daves, in The American Cinema, 1968). And if you have no kind ears for the authoritative absurdities of "If I Die Young," current radio must be a dim land for you indeed. Beyond the meaning of life, here we ponder the imagery of death, "There's a boy here in town says he'll love me forever/Who would have thought forever could be severed/By the sharp knife of a short life"; unlike Sara Bareilles, say, the Band Perry search for words and images to deliver a vision, even if the vision doesn't really amount to a thought. TICK.
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Date: 2010-09-20 08:09 pm (UTC)