i know i'm late to this party, but i can't get that kelly clarkson song out of my head. you know what i'm talking about. i don't have to say it. somebody did their job and then some on that little slice of sweet pop perfection. i don't think i've been this enraptured by a creation of this sort since beyonce's 'crazy in love' held me hostage for the entire summer of 2003. that song sent me into a clinical bliss for three minutes every single fucking time i heard it, and when the jay-z part came around, i damn near had an aneurism.
to this day, my booty starts involuntarily shaking when i hear that amped up riff and the jingly-jangly percussive thing happening behind the verse. i was just sitting here trying to figure out what is even making those sounds...is it a guitar? a synth? a sample? some crazy space instrument that her producers brought back from the omega quadrant? i have no idea. it just make my booty wanna shake. MORE COWBELL.
there's this other song on the hip-hop radio these days that has been having a similar effect on me, but i don't know the name of it or who does it. i just hear it in the shower sometimes. i'll have to find out, so that i can become properly immersed in its aurally addictive wonder.
**update...the song is called '1 thing' and it is by amerie. maddeningly enough, it is also off the soundtrack to that atrocious will smith vehicle hitch(i happened to be at more than one movie where they ran the trailer for it, and it made me squirm in my seat each and every time). but good lord, '1 thing' is catchy as all hell; i think there actually is cowbell in it, for christsake. see involuntary booty shaking description above**
ted leo covers the kelly clarkson number...his is pretty great itself; ted's got one of the best falsettos this side of bronski beat. yeah, that's right. i said it.
in related 80's pop band news, this morning i read on yahoo! that psychologists are studying 'the look of love'. i'm wondering if they are planning to focus on what ABC were thinking when they wrote that song, or perhaps they've seen that vh-1 band reunion show and realized that the ABC guys are chock full of psychological issues to mine for ridiculous studies using superfluous grant money. either way, i'm sure i speak for everyone when i say that we anxiously await the results.
in unrelated to anything in this post news, aol sent me yet another cd with 1175 hours of their "blackvoices" edition...i am getting closer and closer to achieving my goal of creating an aol fish for my living room wall. i am so close, in fact, that i think i have the body covered, i just need enough for the fins and tail and stuff. feel free to donate to the cause. i know everyone has access to these; they come in the mail just about every other day. live the dream with me, people. you have the power.
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