But they react to those stimuli in very different ways. Morrissey is introspective, while Eminem lashes out at others. Suicidal vs. homicidal, if you will.
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Fred Pete - Oct 18, 2004 3:39:22 am PDT #5371 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
tommyrot - Oct 18, 2004 4:06:16 am PDT #5372 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
No confession required - the Cars were an excellent, excellent band. Highly underrated in recent years, mostly because of that damn fly video being so ubiqitous for a couple of years.
Hmmm... I guess I'm just used to all my alternative music-loving friends making fun of my Cars love....
JohnSweden - Oct 18, 2004 4:53:35 am PDT #5373 of 10003
I can't even.
Hmmm... I guess I'm just used to all my alternative music-loving friends making fun of my Cars love....
I think some of that reaction to the Cars comes from them riffing on girls and cars when so much of music around them was political (Clash, Boomtown Rats, Elvis Costello to pick out a few), but they were huge, and I thought they were great.
Lyra Jane - Oct 18, 2004 4:56:33 am PDT #5374 of 10003
Up with the sun
They're both nostalgic for a time and place they hated, locked constantly in emotional adolescence, picking the same old scabs over and over again.
That, and also the way they write about them is similar -- they're both storytellers, lyrically speaking, and both very funny. Eminem's humor is much less subtle and dry; I'm tempted to make that a Brit-vs-American thing, or maybe a generational thing, but I'm not sure if either would be accurate.
DavidS - Oct 18, 2004 7:26:20 am PDT #5375 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But they react to those stimuli in very different ways. Morrissey is introspective, while Eminem lashes out at others. Suicidal vs. homicidal, if you will.
Morrissey's lyrics have more than a few lashings of violence. "Sweetness, I was only joking when I said / that by rights you should be bludgeoned in the head..."
Hell, Eminem practically wrote that song to his wife.
Gandalfe - Oct 18, 2004 8:02:06 am PDT #5376 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Marc Almond was involved in a serious motorcycle accident over the weekend. There are conflicting reports as to his condition: CNN says that he is "fighting for his life," whereas the BBC merely lists him as stable.
Rio - Oct 18, 2004 8:16:56 am PDT #5377 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
They're both nostalgic for a time and place they hated
This is brilliant and I think the thing that makes them get so deeply under the skin. It's a hard feeling to explain, yet there it is, powerful as daylight.
Hell, Eminem practically wrote that song to his wife.
Also this is a great point and I am gonna steal it on the radio HA HA.
I also think they get a lot of their sexiness from their pain and their ambiguity. Also they both like playing with sexual signifiers -- Morrissey from doing that whole asexuality dance with the press, Eminem from joking about being gay even while being horribly homophobic in his lyrics.
Rio - Oct 18, 2004 8:17:22 am PDT #5378 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
sad about Marc Almond
Rio - Oct 18, 2004 8:19:28 am PDT #5379 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
OH ALSO. I think it's really interesting that Latino kids are, apparently, really into Morrissey. It makes sense -- he's so dramatic and romantic and angsty, and he sings clearly enough that you can get the words even if you're just learning English.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 18, 2004 8:22:43 am PDT #5380 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OH ALSO. I think it's really interesting that Latino kids are, apparently, really into Morrissey. It makes sense -- he's so dramatic and romantic and angsty, and he sings clearly enough that you can get the words even if you're just learning English.
Yeah, I read an article about that in Spin - so strange, yet it fits.