Hard News: Game Lorde
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Russell Brown, in reply to
But performing in your first few big gigs is going to be emotionally exhausting in a way that doesn’t reflect what it will be like when she becomes accustomed.
True. And that's how it looked.
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Also: having watched the new Miley Cyrus video, I am even more strongly of the view that if Lorde can rescue pop music from that kind of hideous formulaic bombast, humanity wins.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
if Lorde can rescue pop music
Is Lorde our saviour? :)
Kind of big ask, but music is interesting in that there can be huge swings in style from relatively small triggers. We can but hope.
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
Also: having watched the new Miley Cyrus video...
Oh, I don't know. She has a sledgehammer and wears Doc Martens. How can anyone compete with that?
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I’m not certain what kind of band you could assemble to carry it off
Symphony orchestra. Just listening to the EP now you could easily make that work, and the sound would be intense, and it would cross over age and style like a monster.
Royals doesn't have much of a melody, but you could add it, and those backing vocals at the beginning of love club could be transferred to a violin.
I'm picking it on tour in three years.
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Robyn Gallagher, in reply to
Also: having watched the new Miley Cyrus video, I am even more strongly of the view that if Lorde can rescue pop music from that kind of hideous formulaic bombast, humanity wins.
The song is dull, but the new Miley music video is better than either of Lorde's videos.
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My 12 yr old daughter picked Lorde back in May and she ended up buying a copy of the Ep soon after that. That was driven by mostly by video as the youtube generation talk about that more than actual TV now.
I listened to an interview a few weeks back from last years Jim Mora afternoon radio show and was impressed with what I heard.
It seems like we have a very savvy songwriter / performer on the rise. She appears to have great people in her team and compared to most of the new music out there more than a spark of originality - so all good.
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SteveH, in reply to
Also: having watched the new Miley Cyrus video
Three and half minutes of my life I'm never getting back. God it's dire.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
without having watched the video, can I assume it's some kind of Wendy O'Williams tribute?
if so, nice. if not, for shame Miley.
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
without having watched the video
here you go...
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
cheers Martin, but my lapse was by choice.
there are many things I don't need to know, see, or fret about and Miley's state of mind and career are two of them.
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Danielle, in reply to
rescue pop music
Call me contrarian, but I am always rather suspicious of these sorts of statements. You know how for ages the accepted narrative was "pop music in the early 60s was bland and naff and then the Beatles came!", completely ignoring how great the girl groups were? Yeah.
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"chris", in reply to
I thought Aled Jones rescued pop music back in ’85, in the same key as Royals for anyone who enjoys listening to 2 songs at once.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
ignoring how great the girl groups were
I've played this about a million times since I bought it a few months back.
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Danielle, in reply to
Oh gosh. A must-own!
Do you have this? I am a little bit obsessed with it.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
ooo, are we allowed to derail this thread with some mind clearing girl groups to wash away all thenasty Cyrusness?
found these 7s at lunchtime:
The Bermudas
and The Rag Dolls
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Call me contrarian, but I am always rather suspicious of these sorts of statements. You know how for ages the accepted narrative was “pop music in the early 60s was bland and naff and then the Beatles came!”, completely ignoring how great the girl groups were? Yeah.
And they were totally awesome! No argument from me at all there.
But have you heard the Miley song? It sounds like someone taking a shit.
I honestly have trouble conceiving of it as pop music.
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Danielle, in reply to
Yeah, it's not a great song by any means, but I'm not quite sure why we're picking on this track in particular. Pop music has always had its fair share of bombastic dross, surely? (Also, she WANTS us to laugh out loud at all the phallic stuff in the video, right? Because that's what I did.)
Here is my favourite version of "You're No Good". Palate cleanser.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
oo, that goes straight to my wants list. cheers.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
found these 7s at lunchtime
the 7 inch 45s or the vids? If the former, where do you shop at lunchtime as I want to get there by 11.30.
Do you have this? I am a little bit obsessed with it.
Don't do this to me Danielle.
I had a few weeks of Saturday morning shows on bFM recently and really wanted to play a bit of girl-group floss but was nervous. I asked Manu (Station Manager) how far I could go. His answer: You need to have a reason to play something on B. However that reason can be "I like it".
So I played:
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
hey Simon, Real Groovy. I'm still digging thru the shedload of 7s they dropped last month. only a shiny dollar each now so I'm dashing up during my lunchbreaks for a looksee.
you wanna see what else I've found there over the past week...sheesh. even got a slightly beaten up James Brown Night Train (King) today - worth a punt on cleaning it up.and apologies to Russell for the further derail, but also got these today -
Shock, Electrophonic Phunk
and a long time oddball want, CW "Convoy" McCall's Night Rider
and if you're in town with squat to do, I'm playing records at Golden Dawn tonight - I hear it might get a breezy.
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Also, she WANTS us to laugh out loud at all the phallic stuff in the video, right? Because that’s what I did.
I hope so, because otherwise I'm unclear why she's demolishing walls in her knickers... and sometimes without. Can't she make overalls look sexy?
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
I’m playing records at Golden Dawn tonight – I hear it might get a breezy.
Bit of a flight for me, I'm back in the Royal Swamp at the moment, but I've just discovered that my favourite local has just opened a second hand vinyl store on the top floor so I'm a happy chap.
I wish I had the time to RG at the moment, everyone is finding gold there.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
sweet, and I’d love to hear what sort of stuff shows up over there.
oh, and how about that Miley eh?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Yeah, it’s not a great song by any means, but I’m not quite sure why we’re picking on this track in particular. Pop music has always had its fair share of bombastic dross, surely?
I only bothered because everyone was talking about it on Twitter, so I had to have a reckon. I dunno, it just seems to be an example of a particularly ugly and elephantine strand of popular music.
(Also, she WANTS us to laugh out loud at all the phallic stuff in the video, right? Because that’s what I did.)
Yeah, sorta, when she licked the sledgehammer all those times. But I don't really have a view on the video itself.
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