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How do we all feel about Katy Rose?

Right now, I'm kinda liking her single "Overdrive," though it sounded pretty bad to me at first. She's basically Avril 2.0, with the Mariah factor removed and replaced by a general mid-90s alt-pop vibe in the lyrics, melody, and guitar tones. It reminds me of all of those no-hope corporate alt-rock bands that flooded 120 Minutes around 1995, and also of some indie bands attempts to ride that wave. For example, "Overdrive" vaguely reminds me of Tuscadero's "Paper Doll."

I think the lyrics are trying really hard, but I find the effort to be somewhat endearing.

Thoughts?

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

She was discussed on Howard Stern this morning. Apparently her father played with the Grateful Dead and CSNY in the '60s, and she grew up around all these musicians doing hard drugs and having sex with older men when she was like 11. It was depressing.

But the lyrics to that song were just brutal -- something about "climbing the Bodhi tree" and "I feel like I'm sittin' in Jayne Mansfield's car" or something...

Sounded like they were written by a 50 year old guy. Kind of creepy.
Incidentally, I haven't thought about Tuscadero in a long time. I always liked them. that first album is so much fun.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I remember reading somewhere that she was having sex with guys in their 40s as an extremely young teen, and now is a lesbian at the age of 16. Crazy life.

See, I don't think it sounds a 50 year old wrote the lyrics, but rather a precocious teen trying REALLY HARD to write lyrics like someone twenty years older. It's awkward, but promising. The song reminds me a lot of the film Thirteen.

It is really kinda creepy to hear a 16 year old girl proclaiming that she's borderline in a pop song aimed at teenage girls, though.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 29 January 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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