Tonight I'm Ducking You
Feb. 4th, 2011 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotProdded by Maddie's preferring Seungri's "What Can I Do?" to Enrique Iglesias's "Tonight I'm Fuckin' You" (wish I could agree with Maddie, but I think "Tonight" kills "What Can I Do?"), and also recalling that I have not yet gotten close to writing and posting all my year-end lists/appraisals, I want to officially dub 2010 as The Year In Which, Among Other Things, I Had Trouble Coming To A Consistent Opinion Regarding Enrique Iglesias (the "among other things" is there so that I can officially call 2010 the year of a whole lot of other things as well, e.g., I officially dub 2010 as The Year In Which Pitbull Was Massive, Though I'm Not Sure Massively What, But Jonathan Bogart Was The Only Person In My Critical Neighborhood To Write More Than A Sentence Or Two About Him). So anyway, let's recall 2010 (w/ links for anyone who wants to see the full text).
June 21, 2010: "Confused attempt to come to grips with the new dance-pop 2010... Enrique seems oddly disengaged"
June 23, 2010: "Too much catchiness to be denied."
June 24, 2010, The Iglesias-Pitbull Corollary To The Boney Joan Rule: "Any reason I give on a particular day for disliking 'I Like It' will be a reason I give on some other day for liking 'I Like It.'"
July 7, 2010: "...Iglesias sounds half dead on his own track, Pitbull is reliably energetic, and the hooks keep dancing."
December 9, 2010: "Strange that the gleam of Autotune should be what returns this guy to the American charts, given that his voice contained sweet starbursts all along..."
Actually, when confronted with the video above, I realize that one reason I vacillate on the guy is that I actually find it hard to give a shit about him. The hooks hook me but eventually everything fades into the same OK sweetness. Put "Fuckin' You" at 64 on my long list this year, but I'm sure now that that overrates it. Unless I change my mind.
That vid makes me wish I were watching Michelangelo Antonioni's brilliant L'Avventura, instead.
June 21, 2010: "Confused attempt to come to grips with the new dance-pop 2010... Enrique seems oddly disengaged"
June 23, 2010: "Too much catchiness to be denied."
June 24, 2010, The Iglesias-Pitbull Corollary To The Boney Joan Rule: "Any reason I give on a particular day for disliking 'I Like It' will be a reason I give on some other day for liking 'I Like It.'"
July 7, 2010: "...Iglesias sounds half dead on his own track, Pitbull is reliably energetic, and the hooks keep dancing."
December 9, 2010: "Strange that the gleam of Autotune should be what returns this guy to the American charts, given that his voice contained sweet starbursts all along..."
Actually, when confronted with the video above, I realize that one reason I vacillate on the guy is that I actually find it hard to give a shit about him. The hooks hook me but eventually everything fades into the same OK sweetness. Put "Fuckin' You" at 64 on my long list this year, but I'm sure now that that overrates it. Unless I change my mind.
That vid makes me wish I were watching Michelangelo Antonioni's brilliant L'Avventura, instead.
