Pop-Eye 02/09/01

Always good to see pop-eye threads (P-E will be back as part of the new NYLPM replacement) - but you should give a link to the charts.

Rubbish week, yeah. Pete told me Uncle Kracker was funny but I didn't believe him and I was right.

Blue! Next!

Atomic Kitten = Atomic ARSE. All of the smarmy edges of the Bangles with none of the charisma or heart. They took a perfectly good cheese-ballad and made it UNGODLY AWFUL. I shall never forgive them.

In other news, the guy from Jamiroqui is still a twat. Also, Alcazar should be in your charts, dammit!

There are lots of good records in the charts at the moment but the Top 10 appears to only have one. But it's so fucking good ('Let Me Blow Ya Mind' - duh) it makes up for the rest.

I don't understand what the appeal of that 'Blue' track is. That Louise record is quite possibly the most embarrassing cover versions I have ever heard. Even worse when you see the video.

*Yawn* what a crap week. And, AND my parents have decided that Nelly Furtado is the BEST THING EVER and bought her album. Duh.

I think pop-eye should be on ILE - Pete doesn't read ILM any more and I'm sure I remember him saying, oh that Nelly Furtado single is fantastic. At the time I was too squiffy to protest but now I demand explanation.

Pete and DG's mum are entirely correct.

I agree with Graham. And Pete and DG's mum. My overwhelming hatred for Atomic Kitten (which seems to have blossomed from seeing the piss- poor "Eternal Flame" video while in Europe) caused me to forget to mention how good "Turn Out The Light" is.

Graham, Pete and DG's mum can go hang. Both Furtado's singles are absolutely atrocious high-pitched hippy piffle.

And?

(Dan: Comprehensive defense of AK's Eternal Flame coming up on my website if I ever launch it)

There's a lot of stuff I like that others here would dismiss as irredeemably hippieish, I'll admit, but Furtado is just so ... I dunno ... utterly *dislikeable* to me in much the same way that Alanis Morrisette was. I think that's it.

Robin displays shocking anti-Canadian bias! A nation reels!

On a more serious note, I can't help but grin whenever I hear Nelly's slightly duck-like tones ever since her demented turn on "Get U Freak On". It helps that "Turn On The Light" has some amount of the same type of quack-toasting on it that I find endearing. (I realize that this sounds horribly insulting, but that's kind of what her voice sounds like, and when placed into the proper context, it's the coollest thing ever.)

And Graham, Atomic Kitten's version of "Eternal Flame" is INDEFENSIBLE. A fragile Susanna Hoffs impersonation that ends with a horridly pressed shouty section that would make Whitney "Queen Of Pressing" Houston say, "Girl, stop that!" over the beat of "Whole Again". We are not amused.

And that ruddy dance. GAAH!

I dunno - there's something so damn brave about using the exact same beat as "Whole Again" that I sort of perversely appreciate. On the other hand, it sort of demonstrates how utterly devoid of personality the girls are that it's the beat that's become the Atomic Kitten signature.

Atomic Kitten rock. Except "Eternal Flame" - in the overly histrionic album version and the sad R&B-miming single version, is a travesty and I hope they feel good about inflicting it on the world for they will surely go straight to hell for daring to touch a classic! Silly girls, you should have put out "Cradle" as your single. 11-year old girls would think it was deep.

Would everyone who bought the Unkle Kracker song please reflect on what you've done? You've made a very big mistake.

I mean, lyrics are nothing, I know, but really bad ones deserve mocking. And "If you want to leave, I can guarantee/You won't find nobody else like me" is stupid - if she WANTS to leave then why would she LOOK FOR SOMEONE ELSE LIKE YOU! UGH! And he was in Kid Rock's band. And his teeth are creepy. Someone shoot the tosser!

At least you Brits were smart enough to reject en masse Lifehouse's utterly shitehouse "Hanging By A Moment". Yuck, that's the worst song ever not done by Creed. Or Blue.

Alien Ant Farm at number 74 on import alone. Eek.

No, no, no, it's not just my mum, it's BOTH my parents. Bear in mind that until my dad heard Nelly Furtado on Invicta FM, he only listened to classical music and Radiohead. Now he fancies himself as an ILM style pop pundit. But then, that's NOTHING compared to how he got into classical music in the first place...

HEY HEY HEY,
ATOMIC KITTEN ARE TRYING TO HARD, INFACT THEY SHOULDN'T TRY AT ALL, IN OTHER WORDS THEY ARE A BAG O' SHITE!!!
BANDS LIKE QUEEN, PINK FLOYD, GUNS'N'ROSES, ETC LIVE ON AS LEGENDS COZ THEY WROTE THEIR OWN MUSIC AND PRODUCED THEIR OWN MUSIC, MAYBE WITH THE HELP OF ONE PRODUCER, AND THEY PERFORMED THEIR MUSIC TO VERY HIGH STANDARDS! AK ON THE OTHER HAND, THEIR LYRIC WRITING SKILLS R LIMITED, SO IS THEIR PRODUCING TECHNIQUES. THEY NEED SEVERAL OTHERS TO SPOON FEED THEM IN PRODUCING, PREFOMING AND WRITING WISE.
ATOMIC KITTEN WILL BE FORGOTTEN IN TIMES TO COME, DON'T WORRY, COZ THEY ARE SOOOO FUCKING SHIT! THEIR SCOUSER ACCENTS ARE SHIT ASWELL!
THANX ALL
OH YEAH
JENNY FROST IS A SHEMALE BULL, TASHA IS A GREASY, SMELLY, SHITFACED, MOTHERFUCKING, SAGGY TITTED, SON OF A BITCH GOTH! LMAO
AND LIZ IS E.T.
'LIZZY FONE HOME, LIKE!'

Graham is this one of your flatmates?

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