GOODNESS, WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED TO THE BLOGGER INTERFACE
It's gone CRAZY. Buttons, colours, fonts. How overstimulating!
But let us just pull ourselves together for a moment to exclaim heartily over the new Natasha Bedingfield song "These Words".
We were alerted to Tash's efforts by the lovely Michael Bush-Pavilion. He doesn't usually make mistakes, so we investigated and were pleasantly surprised. It's very good, for something with a Bedingfield connection. Consider all the crap that has that connection for just a moment:
- Daniel Bedingfield's entire output
- Natasha Bedingfield's entire output apart from "These Words"
- Natasha's bloody stupid website
- That dire H&Claire b-side that Daniel has a writing credit on
0.01: interesting turntable noise
0.07: a little disclaimer from Tash: "These words are my own." Jolly good
0.15: chords are named. D, E, F.
0.29: Furtado-esque "wa-oh"s
0.43: first run of the chorus and of course it is a veritable CRACKER.
1.08: something about "Shelley and Keith" perhaps, and about the song having a "hip hop beat". This claim remains unverified.
1.13: pleasing little Casiotone noises are in the background.
2.04: Natasha seems to make the noise that a mobile phone makes when the battery is low.
2.20: the middle eight. The only portion that's a bit crap
2.38: But don't despair because the lovely chorus is getting another run! With some added shouty bits
3.23: "Yeah, uh." Whatever HAPPENED to grunting at the start of every song? It was all the go in pop in about 1999-2000. You simply couldn't MAKE a pop song in those days that didn't have a bit of "uh, uh" in it. Possibly courtesy of Darkchild. So this is a bit of a throwback in that respect
3.36: It just stops, rather than fading out, as dictates "the style of the times".
This song is officially Fop's very own "Some Girls" for 2004. (Subject, you understand, to change.)
2 Comments:
The lyrics are "Read some Byron, Shelley and Keats, recited it over a hip-hop beat", but Shelley and Keith sound just as good to me!
Oh, of course!
That makes sense. It's a bit more pretentious than "Shelley and Keith" but I'm still pleased by it.
Thank you!
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