Attempt to get Jessica to love what I love

[koganbot]

Hilary is all over the place musically, jumps from style to style, and Hilary the singer is a lot less warm than Hilary as Lizzie McGuire. And I have absolutely no emotional investment in her (this sentence is not necessarily related to the previous sentence). And nonetheless "Fly" and "Come Clean" rank one-two as my favorite teenpop singles* since "...Baby One More Time." For further reading on the subject, search this thread [i.e., this thread] for "haunted, gorgeous" and "tremulous beauty ache" - though "tremulous" was probably the wrong term, since the voice doesn't tremble; it's not even fragile; it's ice-thin except it's not icy; translucently thin? In any event, this translucently thin voice singing, in a clear thin line, "I wanna feel the thunder I wanna scream," seems very right, this achingly, beautifully thin voice calling forth the deluge. (And the melody imprinted itself in me when I heard it, making me feel I'd always heard it. Perhaps that's just me, but doubt it.)

(*M2M's "Our Song" wasn't a single.)

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[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally, I printed off the ILX Rolling Teen Pop thread yesterday (having not looked at at all hitherto). I've read the first 15% of it so far. TBH I wish there was more Hilary, more Li-Lo and more about teens who make pop than rock bands that appeal to teens* (maybe it gets to that later on?**) - I have zero interest in e.g. Morningwood and SOAD.

*or maybe a thread about artists that appeal to pre-teens would have been more like what I was hoping the thread would be like

**I will stick with it for a bit longer

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

OK I read another 10% this morning and the thread's picking up: you and Chuck clomping about in size 14 hobnail boots all over the place. I fear for the flowerbeds ;)