Katie Melua: Classic or Dud?

Would smash.

Dom, you are like one of the supporting characters in Billy Liar.

We've been here. She's no Newton Faulkner.

whoever writes her lyrics has a great sense of humour

WTF moments here:

If you were a cowboy i would trail you,
If you were a piece of wood id nail you to the floor,
If you were a sailboat i would sail you to the shore

and

Douglas Fairbanks, he was so handsome
He wore a moustache
Must-a had much cash, too
Worth a king's ransom

"If you were a tennis racket I would smash you.."

This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen

Words can't begin to describe what's wrong here.

Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen

Just makes me think of the drunken striptease/blow job scene from Superbad.

I heard Mark Radcliffe taking the mick out of the lyrics to If You Were a Sailboat, specifically the bit where she sings "if you were a piece of wood I'd nail you to the floor", arguing it was a failed image. I personally quite like that lyric because it's funny and its awkwardness adds to the obsessional tone.

It's OCD, innit?

Go round her house, her carpet's covered in bits of loose wood nailed down!

You're all a bunch of followers, waiting for Richard Ashcroft to cite her as an influence.

Is it too much to ask for some gritty verité from today's sock-puppets?

Ban Rib Dinner.

Man, I could go for some ribs about now. With mini corn on the cobs as sides. And some slaw.

it's a failed image if it's intended romantically. as a violent, inappropriate, possibly sexual, and uncomplimentary (who wants to be likened to a bit of wood??!) image it's a winner!

It's oblique and bathetic (in a good way), her laughing at her own possessiveness, and I don't think there a "possibly" about it.

Melua's music is very patchy, but all I'm saying is a "best of" maybe worth getting, if you're open enough to these things. Her best songs are more visceral than Field Mice fair, so possibly not for many ilxors.

"more visceral than Field Mice"

i can't see anyone listening to FM for the visceral thrills. (ditto melua)

"He wore a moustache
Must-a had much cash, too"

If you don't get that this couplet is *meant* to sound forced, then there's clearly quite a lot going over your head.

Two songs: Scritti Politti's "Road to no Regret" and Katie Melua's "Nine Million Bicycles". Both as good as each other to my ears, but the consensii on on ilx dismiss the latter because.. they are a bunch of followers.

if you didn't get that i was quietly enjoying that line, then... that's my fault.

Marcello why don't you just drop the ghost costume and come back properly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4-9yKTv_I

Marcello why don't you just drop the ghost costume and come back properly?

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 19 October 2007 11:38 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Me OTM

Umm that video is kinda homoerotic.

Hmmm... So this is her new "different" style after swapping Mike Batt with William Orbit? Here I was hoping for something like "Ray Or Light" or "Pure Shores", but apparently not, then....

And, actually, I kinda like her songs, but find the arrangements boring. I was hoping Orbit would be able to fix that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NbwTQu6P78

Has anyone heard her new album? I like The Flood and was really hoping this would be amazing, but all the reviews I've seen have only been giving it 3/5.