This is fun too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On-BYUAuZWU&feature=related I don’t think it matters if you speak french or not it’s so expressive and funny. Unless you plan to see L’Arnacoeur in which case see that first this clip is praps funnier than the film.
Ha! Gotta love some of the reactions this one brought up.
It’s called rock and roll, folks–raw, loud, dissonant, in-your-face passion, by a hot chick in a teeshirt! Granted, it might not match the lyrical brilliance and visceral, stripped-down spontaneity of yer REO Speedwagons–cough–but it works for me. And a few million other fans. Oh, and do ya think maybe Kid Cudi was making an ironic commentary on gangsta worldview by speaking through a persona living that lifestyle? Could be…
i’d say what she has going for her is fire. i’ve never listened to her other songs, so i’m not going to judge her writing ability (musical or lyrical) on a cover song.
actually, i think watching the official video for the original version by kid cudi (hip hop, for lack of a netter descriptor — not my genre) makes for some interesting context. it won’t change personal taste when it comes to the song, but i think to see how he (and/or his producers) highlight one sense that it carries — a drive to live in the moment leading to reckless overindulgence and a moment of remorse — makes it a little more interesting that lissie chose to take her arrangement & performance of the song into (to my mind) to a place of much greater passion.
maybe it’s just my frame of mind, but i think she sings it with a real sense of drive to live life fully — she’s not phoning in the emotion here.
that said… i think her guitar tone is awful — it clashes with the lead. but that still hasn’t stopped me from listening to the thing a dozen times. we connect to what we connect to; and today i needed to connect with “raw” and not “composerly”, i guess.
Carrie – my bad – full statements help: of course you can use my long little phrase! Thanks for the compliment!
Carrie,
Of course.
and haha!
but then, of course it’s a genuine question – I think there’s always some thought behind a post at PW besides a bottle of tequila and some hottie – i mean, hot air! 🙂
ick, how depressing…
John Mellencamp did Midwest much more profoundly … and he’s cuter too….
i say bring back old school funk — now that is happinesss
“um..why are we listening to Lissie?”
Uh….maybe Eric liked the lyrics? :::wink:::
aword,
(…..she is the “Im over twenty-one now but still filled with teenage-angst with nothing much to say and not a ton of natural or trained talent but hey I have a band.”)
May I use this when trying to describe that type of music? It is perfect.
um..why are we listening to Lissie? She’s got a hundred and one sound-alikes playing clubs in LA every weekend. Maybe that’s why she’s in Ojai?
I glad for people’s art/self-expression always – so from that angle, I say “go girl”.
But I agree with Carrie, she is the “Im over twenty-one now but still filled with teenage-angst with nothing much to say and not a ton of natural or trained talent but hey I have a band.”
:::sigh::: maybe I am old. Or maybe I just was raised on really good music that had really good dynamics, musicality but often not so good lyrics. Maybe it is because the two decades of music I remember best, the 70’s and 80’s had really amazing musicians and composers. Or maybe it is because I spent time in Europe and heard so many different types of music. Whatever the reasin, in my head I label this type of song (in the above video) “angsty music” because they have simple sounds, lyrics that sound a bit angsty, and the musicality lacks so much.
Ah well, call me a critic because I am more a music person as opposed to a lyrics person; I never liked Janis Joplin (another angsty musician) but preferred instead Boston or Modern Talking, or REO Speedwagon, or 80’s YES, or Al Stewart, or the Mamas and the Papas or the Motown sound. Did I miss something here?
Nice breast shots, though. Don’t you just LOVE a sweaty woman in an athletic shirt, moving and bouncing around braless? You could almost reach out and touch them…er her. :::laughing:::
::::going back to my rather boring college classwork now::::
This is fun too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On-BYUAuZWU&feature=related I don’t think it matters if you speak french or not it’s so expressive and funny. Unless you plan to see L’Arnacoeur in which case see that first this clip is praps funnier than the film.
Or Asterix and Obelix Mission Cleopatra. Hugely funny film with great comedians – but watch it with subtitles, the english version isn’t half as good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kfkBaMg4h8&feature=related
Ha! Gotta love some of the reactions this one brought up.
It’s called rock and roll, folks–raw, loud, dissonant, in-your-face passion, by a hot chick in a teeshirt! Granted, it might not match the lyrical brilliance and visceral, stripped-down spontaneity of yer REO Speedwagons–cough–but it works for me. And a few million other fans. Oh, and do ya think maybe Kid Cudi was making an ironic commentary on gangsta worldview by speaking through a persona living that lifestyle? Could be…
i’d say what she has going for her is fire. i’ve never listened to her other songs, so i’m not going to judge her writing ability (musical or lyrical) on a cover song.
actually, i think watching the official video for the original version by kid cudi (hip hop, for lack of a netter descriptor — not my genre) makes for some interesting context. it won’t change personal taste when it comes to the song, but i think to see how he (and/or his producers) highlight one sense that it carries — a drive to live in the moment leading to reckless overindulgence and a moment of remorse — makes it a little more interesting that lissie chose to take her arrangement & performance of the song into (to my mind) to a place of much greater passion.
maybe it’s just my frame of mind, but i think she sings it with a real sense of drive to live life fully — she’s not phoning in the emotion here.
that said… i think her guitar tone is awful — it clashes with the lead. but that still hasn’t stopped me from listening to the thing a dozen times. we connect to what we connect to; and today i needed to connect with “raw” and not “composerly”, i guess.
Carrie – my bad – full statements help: of course you can use my long little phrase! Thanks for the compliment!
Carrie,
Of course.
and haha!
but then, of course it’s a genuine question – I think there’s always some thought behind a post at PW besides a bottle of tequila and some hottie – i mean, hot air! 🙂
ick, how depressing…
John Mellencamp did Midwest much more profoundly … and he’s cuter too….
i say bring back old school funk — now that is happinesss
“um..why are we listening to Lissie?”
Uh….maybe Eric liked the lyrics? :::wink:::
aword,
(…..she is the “Im over twenty-one now but still filled with teenage-angst with nothing much to say and not a ton of natural or trained talent but hey I have a band.”)
May I use this when trying to describe that type of music? It is perfect.
um..why are we listening to Lissie? She’s got a hundred and one sound-alikes playing clubs in LA every weekend. Maybe that’s why she’s in Ojai?
I glad for people’s art/self-expression always – so from that angle, I say “go girl”.
But I agree with Carrie, she is the “Im over twenty-one now but still filled with teenage-angst with nothing much to say and not a ton of natural or trained talent but hey I have a band.”
:::sigh::: maybe I am old. Or maybe I just was raised on really good music that had really good dynamics, musicality but often not so good lyrics. Maybe it is because the two decades of music I remember best, the 70’s and 80’s had really amazing musicians and composers. Or maybe it is because I spent time in Europe and heard so many different types of music. Whatever the reasin, in my head I label this type of song (in the above video) “angsty music” because they have simple sounds, lyrics that sound a bit angsty, and the musicality lacks so much.
Ah well, call me a critic because I am more a music person as opposed to a lyrics person; I never liked Janis Joplin (another angsty musician) but preferred instead Boston or Modern Talking, or REO Speedwagon, or 80’s YES, or Al Stewart, or the Mamas and the Papas or the Motown sound. Did I miss something here?
Nice breast shots, though. Don’t you just LOVE a sweaty woman in an athletic shirt, moving and bouncing around braless? You could almost reach out and touch them…er her. :::laughing:::
::::going back to my rather boring college classwork now::::
oh.