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2011.10.05, 01:33 PM
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I just find it so odd, how, like Japan, the UK still has several girl groups and boy bands that are actually popular / taken seriously (to a certain degree). I mean, in the US, the era of the boy band is long past. Every so often you see one pop up and try to make it, but they fail. And then you get the really old boy bands getting back together, but they fail to. But in the UK, the same thing happens (with Take That), and they are somehow hugely successful. To my American mind, I want to turn to one of the UK fans and "Don't you realize that they are a boy band made up of 40 year olds!??!" It's the same thing for Japan and SMAP and all the Johnny's boy bands. And AKB48, which even my girl-group loving self HATES. |
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2011.10.05, 02:40 PM
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I can't say I'm an expert on the Take That revival, but I'd guess much of their success is due to their original fanbase pushing 40 themselves and wanting a bit of nostalgia.
Girl bands always had a greater chance of credibility than boy bands. They plugged into whatever trends were going on at the time (like mashups, I still rather like Sugarbabes - Freak Like Me) whereas the boys had to sit on stools and croon along to some monumentally dull dirge. I can remember the relief at the time when the Spice Girls replaced boybands as the ubiquitous thing on the radio. Finally, something with a bit of life... CLT a 90s indie band. This is them being uncharacteristically nice to each other, happy and accessible. They had album titles called things like "Pointless Walks to Dismal Places"
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2011.10.06, 10:35 AM
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Why wouldn't people just stay quiet and in silence even while they are attending the best performance of this song ever done? |
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2011.10.09, 01:37 AM
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someone asked me about this song
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2011.10.09, 02:02 PM
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EDIT:Terrible double post. Can you delete posts?
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2011.10.09, 02:02 PM
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Wow, you guys. Just wow. For all you Aussies and Kiwis out there, you are super lucky.
Kimbra. She's like St. Vincent meets Amanda Palmer meets Shiina Ringo meets Robyn. Her debut album is currently only available Down Under, which makes my North American self sad  Last edited by TurtleFu : 2011.10.09 at 03:36 PM. |
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2011.10.09, 03:50 PM
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Eww, Kimbra. I hear this shit all the time on the radio. :-p
Nah I guess she's not thaaaaaat bad, but it's still scarfcore. @EmilScherbe: that song is really nice, Jun Togawa did a good job with it I think :-)
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2011.10.09, 05:30 PM
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...what is scarfcore?
I wish I could hear that on the radio. Is she well known over there deadgrandma? I literally know nothing about her other than her wikipedia page. |
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2011.10.09, 05:39 PM
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Scarfcore is my trolling word for university orientated indie pop (the scarf comes from the clothes they wear) :-p
As far as I know, she's got a fair bit of a following... she's not as big as say, The Grates (who you MUST check out too) but she's definitely making her way up. But goddamn I'm tired of hearing Settle Down (I still think it's a cheap version of Roisin Murphy's first solo album's sound) every time I get in the car :-p I will not deny that she just drips with sex, as can be seen in the PV for Cameo Lover (which I like more than Settle Down by far- perhaps cause it's only played every second time I get in the car :-p)
However, the song she appears in here (Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know) is a smash hit, also super over-played. But Aussies love that asshole here for some reason.
His (Gotye) song "Hearts A Mess" was another major smash- it's undeniably amazing though. It's also a great so to fuck to.
So yeah, that's kind of a look at what's popular in young sexed up Australian university students atm. Well, apart from Lady Gaga and the usual. If you want, I can probably hunt down the Kimbra CD for you. Damn, now that I've been searching through the vids for you, I'm starting to enjoy her :-( CLT: Hole Binge. I like when covers are as good as this:
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