'Heart Of Gold'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Mmmm. 120 Minutes. Man, that was awesome.
I know, right? My face wouldn't stop twitching after I watched it, and the first thing I wanted to do was make everyone experience the trauma.
I find it kind of endearing, lyrically, the same way I find the poorly-written Dark Angel fic on the Pit of Voles endearing.
Though, of course, I do tend to email those with headings of Train Rec to people.
Speaking of 120 Minutes, doesn't it seem like there was more space in the culture for strange dangerous women in the 90s? Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Björk & Massive Attack Mashup
Thanks god for Amanda Palmer.
I have that mashup on my iPod. It's pretty great.
doesn't it seem like there was more space in the culture for strange dangerous women in the 90s?
You mean like Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, La Roux, Robyn, Florence and the Machine, Beth Ditto, Janelle Monae...?
Thanks god for Amanda Palmer.
Um.
bon bon, if I could "like" your previous post I totally would. Also, PJ and Tori are not dead and are still making music, AFAIK.
Um.
"Um," what?
You mean like Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, La Roux, Robyn, Florence and the Machine, Beth Ditto, Janelle Monae...?
Fair point, especially Gaga who is dominating the center of the pop world right now.
Also, PJ and Tori are not dead and are still making music, AFAIK.
Bjork, too, but my point wasn't that they were gone. Just that the culture has changed. bon's rebuts my point, though I don't think most of the women she lists have the stature (in the sense of a sustained career of challenging and successful work) that my earlier triad have (and had at that time). Anyway, it's a subjective call and I may simply be nostalgic for the 90s.
It's easy to look at careers of women who were active fifteen years ago and say they're more long-lived than musicians who started recently. But gaga and Minaj especially aren't going anywhere.
Amanda Palmer IMHO engaged in some massive disability fail that put me off her completely. Mostly her refusal to hear people's cogent arguments and recognize her fail.
It's easy to look at careers of women who were active fifteen years ago and say they're more long-lived than musicians who started recently.
I did say they had achieved more at that point in their careers than the women you listed. But I haven't really gotten out my protractor and charted out their hits/best work relative to their age.
But gaga and Minaj especially aren't going anywhere.
Right, and both of them are still fairly young and in their prime. But while Minaj has had a lot of hit singles and been putting out music since about 2007, her debut album just came out last year. So she's still at the beginning of her career.
I don't know - it's hard to say in a musical world that's singles dominated. But hit singles have always been more ephemeral than albums. A lot of different singers have had short periods of chart dominance and then faded.
At one point it would've been smart money to bet on Lauryn Hill and Karen O.
Amanda Palmer IMHO engaged in some massive disability fail that put me off her completely. Mostly her refusal to hear people's cogent arguments and recognize her fail.
I'm sorry to hear that. I've recently become a fan of her music.