Ever have one of those nights when your body is ready to call it quits twice over but your brain won't let it? Yeah, I'm having my once a year bout of insomnia tonight, it seems.
I like Eminem, even though he's an ass.
By the accounts of everyone who's ever worked with him or knows him at all, he's shy, soft-spoken, and generous. *shrug* He talks about the Slim Shady thing as a persona, and there's a schizophrenic line somewhere in there, but this isn't even remotely related to your point.
I generally DON'T like teen pop stuff
We're not not not getting me into a debate about how my boys wrote more than half of their second and almost all of their third albums by themselves, not to mention that the songs demonstrate production (which was their doing as well) skills and melodic competence, and we're not mentioning their voices during the acapella moments or that they do it all while dancing their assess off, no we are not not not. We're also not mentioning how Aguilera writes her own stuff, too, nor that her latest album is a sincerely honest departure from the marketing they did to her first. We're *not* because I had the conversation the other night and an essay brewing about it now. I can appreciate not liking the music, but I have a real problem with most people who tend to dismiss it outright because it's been pigeonholed into some undeserved genre.
It's catchy, and I dig the lyrics for the most part.
And the luxury of our opinions is what makes this a great country. Personally, I think her lyrics are sophomoric and that detracts from what they could've been at the hands of a good collaborator, much like Justin's are too juvenilely spiteful. *shrug* But like you said, you get what she's singing about, and I can understand that definitely.
She's not a slut (yet),
Definition of a slut, please, and who in the business deserves less credit for their music because of it?
and seems to stay consistent with "who she is".
Aah, the record industry realizing that we're ready for reality, not glossy finishes. I think that that was a fad for my age bracket and they're still trying to cater to us as we make our way in the world on our own, not just our parents' money. That and in Avril, they finally found a polished-enough version of the traditionally stereotyped 'troublemaker' or 'slacker' type to draw a whole new genre into the pop rock scene. *shrug* I hate to be so cynical, but she's serving her purpose in being the vanilla Goth.
I thought the Dateline interview was sincere and upfront (or SO fake that it came across as "real"...).
I'm not saying it was insincere necessarily. It's not the environment to be interviewing her in. But trying to have a meaningful heart-to-heart with a barely sixteen-year-old when you're someone so radically outside her age bracket and sphere of experience, I think she looked uncomfortable and came off as pretentious and bratty because of that.
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Date: January 15th, 2003 02:32 am (UTC)Ever have one of those nights when your body is ready to call it quits twice over but your brain won't let it? Yeah, I'm having my once a year bout of insomnia tonight, it seems.
I like Eminem, even though he's an ass.
By the accounts of everyone who's ever worked with him or knows him at all, he's shy, soft-spoken, and generous. *shrug* He talks about the Slim Shady thing as a persona, and there's a schizophrenic line somewhere in there, but this isn't even remotely related to your point.
I generally DON'T like teen pop stuff
We're not not not getting me into a debate about how my boys wrote more than half of their second and almost all of their third albums by themselves, not to mention that the songs demonstrate production (which was their doing as well) skills and melodic competence, and we're not mentioning their voices during the acapella moments or that they do it all while dancing their assess off, no we are not not not. We're also not mentioning how Aguilera writes her own stuff, too, nor that her latest album is a sincerely honest departure from the marketing they did to her first. We're *not* because I had the conversation the other night and an essay brewing about it now. I can appreciate not liking the music, but I have a real problem with most people who tend to dismiss it outright because it's been pigeonholed into some undeserved genre.
It's catchy, and I dig the lyrics for the most part.
And the luxury of our opinions is what makes this a great country. Personally, I think her lyrics are sophomoric and that detracts from what they could've been at the hands of a good collaborator, much like Justin's are too juvenilely spiteful. *shrug* But like you said, you get what she's singing about, and I can understand that definitely.
She's not a slut (yet),
Definition of a slut, please, and who in the business deserves less credit for their music because of it?
and seems to stay consistent with "who she is".
Aah, the record industry realizing that we're ready for reality, not glossy finishes. I think that that was a fad for my age bracket and they're still trying to cater to us as we make our way in the world on our own, not just our parents' money. That and in Avril, they finally found a polished-enough version of the traditionally stereotyped 'troublemaker' or 'slacker' type to draw a whole new genre into the pop rock scene. *shrug* I hate to be so cynical, but she's serving her purpose in being the vanilla Goth.
I thought the Dateline interview was sincere and upfront (or SO fake that it came across as "real"...).
I'm not saying it was insincere necessarily. It's not the environment to be interviewing her in. But trying to have a meaningful heart-to-heart with a barely sixteen-year-old when you're someone so radically outside her age bracket and sphere of experience, I think she looked uncomfortable and came off as pretentious and bratty because of that.
Done now, which is probably best.