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.)

Comments

Re: "The Math"!

[koganbot]

Well, actually you've given a good explanation as to why Hilary and Paris don't bowl you ever: they're not bowl-you-over singers.

Re: "The Math"!

[koganbot]

Er, bowl you over.

Also "The Math," unlike "Come Clean" and "Fly" isn't exquisitely absolutely gorgeous, though the chorus is catchy. I do wonder what a bowl-you-over singer like Kara DioGuardi, for instance (who co-wrote "Come Clean" and "Fly") would do with those two songs. Kara's got a rain-come-tumblin-down song on the Platinum Weird album which she delivers with a tough Sheryl-Stevie vocals, and I can imagine her blasting her voice into "Come Clean" for a whole nother effect that would be a viable performance but would end up as who-cares competence. (Or maybe it'd be great.)

Re: "The Math"!

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not the strength of Hilary's or Paris' voice that bothers me. It's normal for pop stars not to be great singers, and it doesn't really affect whether I like them or not. It's the combination of the songs and the way they sing them which aren't appealing to me. Also, I think I have different criteria for a disposable pop song than I have for something with a bit more depth. I tend to go for the pop acts who really grab your attention, whereas with less mainstream pop type acts I have different criteria, some of which Hilary or Paris might fit, but I don't find any very convincing signs of depth or meaning in their music.

Re: "The Math"!

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

By "less mainstream pop type acts", I mean acts who don't go for a commercial pop sound, whether or not their music could actually be classified as pop.

Re: "The Math"!

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

And I want bowl-you-over pop stars, proving the point that we are looking for different things!