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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Re: "The Math"!

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I just realised actually I was mistaken, it's not The Math which is a Sahlene cover but in fact The Little Voice. I'll have to give The Math another listen now I realised I've got the 2 songs confused. You can hear Sahlene's Little Voice if you still want to by going to http://www.sahlene.com/ and whizzing through the playlist at the bottom about 10 tracks until you get to it.

The main offenders with US acts taking European songs are people like Play, who are (were?) actually Swedish but marketed to the US and covered loads of British hits. US acts covering European singles is fairly rare, though, cos I guess a lot of songs would be offered to the Americans before the locals as it makes them likely to get more exposure.

Re: "The Math"!

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Hey, turns out I've written about Sahlene before in one of my Myspace posts, she's "friends" with Marie Serneholt. I remember her being good. Just got a Play album in the mail today (meh). Sort of ironic, the Cheetah Girls took one of their songs ("Cinderella") and have done better with it than Play did (ha, the other album I got today, the "Girl Next" comp, has the CG cover on it).

Re: "The Math"!

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I haven't bothered to listen to any Cheetah Girls yet - should I? Their silly name put me off, maybe cos it sounds like the Cheeky Girls, a terrible UK novelty act you may have heard of.

Sahlene's first album was really great, but her new one (released as Anna Sahlene) is just OK. She did have a great Melodifestivalen (Swedish Eurovision) entry this year, though, called This Woman. I'll send you her best 1st album song, a fun pop track called House that I think you will like.

Re: "The Math"!

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Cool! And no, nothing of note by the Cheetah Girls yet. Yeesh, they're everywhere (in Disneyland) because of this TV movie they just did. Raven-Symone's solo stuff can be OK, but pretty mediocre overall.

Re: "The Math"!

[koganbot]

The name "Cheetah Girls" is probably the best thing about them, as it makes me imagine them doing the Tarzan and Jane vine-swinging thing in tropic jungles. Haven't seen the movies, though. Raven Someone is lead singer, right? (Er, Symoné.) The Wikipedia entry is hilarious, as the whole first half of it is devoted to whether Adrienne and Raven really hate each other or are just pretending, like a whole joke on the catfight thing. (You know, cheetah, cat-fight, get it? "The whole 'catfight' thing was just a joke about 'cat' and 'cheetah.'")

Anyway, what I've heard is absolutely ordinary r&bish pop, not despicable but not memorable either. Did a pale version of "Shake Your Tailfeather," have some Latin rhythms in the new movie, which is called The Cheetah Girls Go To Barcelona And Learn Catalon, and it stars Sandra Dee. I am joking, except about Barcelona and the Latin tinge. More people saw it than saw the High School Musical premiere, but I don't think it's having anything like the HSM impact. Album did open at #5 on the Billboard 200, where it's lodged for a second week, fending off Paris's debut but way behind Danity Kane up at number one with a bullet.

Re: "The Math"!

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

It's quite impressive that a properly cheesy pop album can do that well, even if it is giving pure pop music a bad name with its lame imitations of better artists. I'm glad that Danity Kane are doing well, even if they are r'n'b of the non-ace kind. Reality TV still has power.

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