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koganbotAs we wait for Billboard to post this week's Hot 100, confirming the ascendancy of the loathsome Katy Perry, many of you are probably wondering to yourselves, "What does Frank Kogan think of Metro Station's 'Shake It'?" Many more might now be asking yourselves "What is Metro Station?" No matter. Enquiring minds want to know, and the rest of you will find out anyway, assuming you click on the lj cut.
Metro Station "Shake It" (commentary by Frank Kogan): Well, first off, "Your body's cold but girl we're getting so warm" is appallingly lame as a supposed paradox. There are two singers: the canny logic chopper who emitted the aforementioned pearl; and an emo emoter who adds tune and feeling.
Evaluation: This track would be more appealing to me if sung in Serbian, as that is a language I do not understand. Even in Serbian, the logic chopper's vocals would just kind of sit there without the edgy perspective they're supposed to connote. However, the touch-of-emo tuneful guy is nicely tuneful without his passion sounding as if it were elicited by devils pushing hot pokers at his genitals. So, a pop-rock track that's nice in its slightness, would probably garner a TICK, depending on how much I end up thinking its tuneful OKness overshadows the logic chopping.
I have no idea which of the singers is Miley bro and which is Oliver bro.
(Perhaps a motive for this post is that the comments on my only continually successful google-bait thread - see Bµsted Vs. The J0n4s Brothers - are unrelentingly tiresome, and this post may be an opportunity to find out if Hannah-related web commenters can do better.)
Metro Station "Shake It" (commentary by Frank Kogan): Well, first off, "Your body's cold but girl we're getting so warm" is appallingly lame as a supposed paradox. There are two singers: the canny logic chopper who emitted the aforementioned pearl; and an emo emoter who adds tune and feeling.
Evaluation: This track would be more appealing to me if sung in Serbian, as that is a language I do not understand. Even in Serbian, the logic chopper's vocals would just kind of sit there without the edgy perspective they're supposed to connote. However, the touch-of-emo tuneful guy is nicely tuneful without his passion sounding as if it were elicited by devils pushing hot pokers at his genitals. So, a pop-rock track that's nice in its slightness, would probably garner a TICK, depending on how much I end up thinking its tuneful OKness overshadows the logic chopping.
I have no idea which of the singers is Miley bro and which is Oliver bro.
(Perhaps a motive for this post is that the comments on my only continually successful google-bait thread - see Bµsted Vs. The J0n4s Brothers - are unrelentingly tiresome, and this post may be an opportunity to find out if Hannah-related web commenters can do better.)
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Date: 2008-06-27 05:12 pm (UTC)(But "7 Seconds" would be a better title for a song. We've 7 seconds to save the world.)
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