As revelations go, the above is about as surprising as waking up in the morning. But Karin Dreijer deserves credit for not giving up on that whole “I’m going to spook the bollocks out of you” vibe she’s been mining for a while, even if she is tipping over into self-parody.
Not that you’ll be thinking in such an analytical fashion when you see her with a big “V” on her face for no particular reason in the vid for “Stranger Than Kindness”. Nay, you’ll be doing your darndest not to shityapants.
Merry Halloween, everyone!*
*I know it’s not Halloween for a couple of days yet, but the chances of me getting time to post again before Saturday are, how you say, “slim to fuck-all”.
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Stuart Waterman on
Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at
11:54 pm
Hey, how weird do you think it would be to see a person with all the members of Kiss painted onto his face? Do you think it would be as weird as this?
Chances are some of you found that slightly disturbing. In which case I would like to assure you that you ain’t even sniffed disturbing until you’ve seen him doing Dolly Parton.
If there’s one thing I know about the current poplear music landscape, it’s that there aren’t quite enough unhinged lunatics out there. I don’t mean the kind of pop star who goes out of an evening, gets off their face on naughtyvits and punches a photographer. I mean genuinely eccentric, endlessly creative, risk-taking mavericks.
I think that Sia is up there with the best of them in the modern age. She writes very good songs, she has a very good voice and she doesn’t mind looking like a proper headcase.
Did you see her on Later With Jools Holland last week? She was the one who, with her band, looked like Papa Lazarou as drawn by a child with fluorescent crayons.
I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve written about Sia, I’m an IDIOT.
I know nothing about Aquasky. I haven’t listened to their music, I haven’t read anything about them and indeed I only learned their name about a minute ago.
However, when an email drops into your mailbox featuring a photo of three men in sleeping bags jammed into public toilet cubicles, I think you’ll agree that it needs to be shared. All of the chaps involved look various shades of rapey, but I think that lends the portrait a certain piquancy.
If you’d like to listen to Aquasky’s music while you admire this image, meanwhile, you can do so here.
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Stuart Waterman on
Friday October 3rd, 2008 at
9:00 am
Following last week’s peek at the SEO rapper comes another geek rapper extraordinaire. This kid - or “kiddynerdzoid”, as Tech Digest put it - is a 14 year-old Maths student who has decided to recreate Fergie’s “Fergalicious” with a mathematical theme. The result is “Mathmaticious”, and is a further example of what can happen if you don’t force your child to get a Saturday job.
Check it out over the page - lyrical bombs include:
I’m Mathmaticious (Mathmaticious)
It makes me so ambitious
My answers are judicious
Calculator never glitches
There he is, look. Pete. Forgot about him, hadn’t you? Well, him and his friend The Lovedogs have a new song out. Like most things that go into your ears these days, it’s about drugs. In fact, at one point, Pete decides to share with us that he is “off (his) f*cking face”. That’s nice for him, isn’t it? The song is an appropriately frenetic piece of poppy dance stuff, with plenty of that gurning we all love / loathe / forgot existed.
On a side note, don’t you think Pete looks rather a lot like Crazy Frog? Dressed as Luke Skywalker in his X-Wing outfit? Someone, somewhere, will be getting sexually excitable at that fantasy, I guarantee it. For that reason I will not post the video here.
You can, however, watch the whole high-spirited romp over at our Reality TV cousins, Available for Panto. And if you’re the frog-fancying perv, tell them about it. I don’t want to know.
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Stuart Waterman on
Wednesday February 20th, 2008 at
12:36 pm
Here is what I know about Anouk before looking on Wikipedia:
1. She is Dutch.
2. Her “look” seems to be a cross between Bonnie Tyler, early 80s gender-bender Marilyn and Minnie Mouse. I know it doesn’t look like it in this rather pretty photo, but trust me. Watch the video for…
3. …her song “Good God”, which is very, very good and sounds like The New Pornogrpahers covering a Motown song, produced by Linda Perry. You can see it over the page.
And after looking on Wikipedia:
1. She’s been around a while and is even older than me. Hurrah!
2. She’s won loads of awards over there in Europeland.
3. Various other things.
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There he is, look. Pete. Forgot about him, hadn’t you? Well, him and his friend The Lovedogs have a new song out. Like most things that go into your ears these days, it’s about drugs. In fact, at one point, Pete decides to share with us that he is “off (his) f*cking face”. That’s nice for him, isn’t it? The song is an appropriately frenetic piece of poppy dance stuff, with plenty of that gurning we all love / loathe / forgot existed.
Here is what I know about Anouk before looking on Wikipedia:
