What are you listening to?
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Birmingham's finest (unless you count half of Led Zep)...
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These guys get what was actually good about 80s pop. It’s like Phil Collins before he got obsessed with the Alamo. I don’t think my taste is defensible either.
SIDE NOTE: Nothing impresses me more in music than someone who can play the drums and sing at the same time.
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I typed a reply immediately but either never sent it or the internet gremlins ate it.Madrigal wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:28 amThat is so 90s!
I didn't do the braids but I did the tightly twirled hair like Alanis Morisette. Hey it was a viable aesthetic option for people like me. xD
It's too bad I spent a lot of time not liking Shakira because she dated a neoliberal Argentine politician (whose father, the ex-president, was ousted by a revolt). She also had a video where she trashed a Marx portrait. Poor lady was very confused back then. Anyway, I realize that I liked so many of her songs despite all that. The chorus on this one makes everyone start to wail.
I would have been completely unaware of Argentine politics at the time but managed to write her off for a different questionable reason: Once she completely changed her appearance and personality(?) as part of her play for the American/Anglophone market, I soured on her and avoided her albums for years. I eventually got over it, in theory, but much of her later music is also less interesting to me so the end result was the same. But I will always have Dónde Están los Ladrones? and MTV Unplugged, even if I can't listen to or watch the latter without thinking of Shakira saying she took to raqs sharqi without training because of ancestral memory.
Oh well, it is still a great concert video and for me the definitive version of Shakira and her music.
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That's a great version of the song, I had forgotten about it. Yeah, I noticed she toned down the arab stuff after 9/11, someone must have told her she wasn't going to sell records in the US like that. I remember lots of girls getting into belly-dancing back then, lol.ashi wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:11 amOnce she completely changed her appearance and personality(?) as part of her play for the American/Anglophone market, I soured on her and avoided her albums for years. I eventually got over it, in theory, but much of her later music is also less interesting to me so the end result was the same.
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I met Shakira once, was sat two rows behind her on a flight to Jordan from Heathrow. She was tiny. Was on the way to give a private concert for King Abdullah.Madrigal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:20 amThat's a great version of the song, I had forgotten about it. Yeah, I noticed she toned down the arab stuff after 9/11, someone must have told her she wasn't going to sell records in the US like that. I remember lots of girls getting into belly-dancing back then, lol.ashi wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:11 amOnce she completely changed her appearance and personality(?) as part of her play for the American/Anglophone market, I soured on her and avoided her albums for years. I eventually got over it, in theory, but much of her later music is also less interesting to me so the end result was the same.
Edit for clarification, Shakira was on the way to do a concert. I was on the way to advise on farms in the Jordan Valley. It would be a pretty crappy concert if I was doing it!
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George Harrisons very underappreciated first solo album. Let it down, and What is Life are particularly good.
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Stuck in a bad taste rut until this song starts to sound stupid again
Is that a furry tail buttplug? This song is stupid. PHEW
Orestes Pursued by the Furies references though secretly kind of baller
Is that a furry tail buttplug? This song is stupid. PHEW
Orestes Pursued by the Furies references though secretly kind of baller
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"My favourite song from one of my favourite albums, Nena asking you to please, please let her be your pirate. So smooth and joyful, I have to listen to it three times if I listen once" - ashi