After two weeks' protest, I'm ready to admit that "California Gurls" is a good song, the best summ-summer single released thus far (where you at Sean Kingston?!).
The problems I have with that (her) 'one of the emo-punk bois' brand of nasal singing are pointless, or beside the/a/any point; the KIDS can't get enough, so.....
A few of Perry's lines are lazy, not polished (or, alternatively, loose) enough like, "We're undeniable" and "Fine, fresh, fierce/We've got it on lock" just both seem too vague and missing the mark, missing opportunities to actually describe.
But that line, "You can travel the wuh-orld/But nothing comes close to the Golden Coast" is genius and bright and sonically uplifting. The whole is rather uplifting, like literally lifting-of-ones-feet-off-pavement or dancefloor.
---And "California Gurls" (is she talking about Big Star with that spelling?) is fun!
What a bummer that Lady Gaga has decided to not be fun (Weimar--right now, really?!)....and Ke$ha's trying too hard to be hard (or hip in the manner of ten years ago) to be fun, same with Miley.....etc...
Meanwhile, Perry is looking better-than-ever in Spice Girls rubber dresses and likening SoCal to a game of Candyland (a smart way to discuss airy, nuts projections-of-California). I'm finally getting why/how she comes off like a cartoon:
Asia! Virtual Reality! Comics!--$.
Celebrate!
TRUE
I've also been loving (with not a bit of hemming and hawing) T.I. and Keri Hilson's "Got Your Back." For those (us!) who watch BET's brilliant, wholesome and glamorous (wholesome and glamorous!) self-help/lifestyle reality program, Tiny & Toya, this track is a not-at-all veiled serenade to/of/for Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, Tip's real lady love, mother of his children, former member of Xscape.
Though his profile is Mechanicsville (?) Rude Boy, young and scrappy, Tip has made LOVE songs in the past, most notably his rolling-on-a-Gulfstream collaboration with Justin Timberlake, "Let Me Talk To You/My Love," and "Whatever You Like," an I'll-cover-you-in-swag song off, pre-prison Paper Trail. But both tracks happened before I watched Tiny's show, and, in turn, before I knew about what a beautiful family life Tip has, how epic his own, true-life LOVE narrative really is.....like this season on Tiny & Toya we saw Tip spontaneously (from the chokey) have tropical flower arrangements and Gucci bags and shoes delivered to Tiny every thirty minutes for a whole afternoon, each one brought with different hand-written LOVE notes....what a Prince (and she deserves it----is just the calmest, kindest, coolest woman).
So, in Summer 2010, sentence complete, their wedding approaching, with breezy, beautiful paparazzi pictures of them in Paris and Los Angeles, at cafe tables, in convertibles, smiling like teens roaming the halls hand-in-hand circulating, "Got Your Back" reads more real and sweet-hearted, more whole, than any previous effort of its kind.
And Keri Hilson (who is so great) is an appropriate stand-in for Tiny; they are both female singer-songwriters belonging to a groundbreaking generation of self-made, Atlanta creative-millionaires------strong, smart women. This song feels like such the antidote to yr typical cold, careless depictions of women in hip hop. It's a spell of true romance, true love, true, true, true (with bells [swag] on).
Celebrate!
TRUE
I've also been loving (with not a bit of hemming and hawing) T.I. and Keri Hilson's "Got Your Back." For those (us!) who watch BET's brilliant, wholesome and glamorous (wholesome and glamorous!) self-help/lifestyle reality program, Tiny & Toya, this track is a not-at-all veiled serenade to/of/for Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, Tip's real lady love, mother of his children, former member of Xscape.
Though his profile is Mechanicsville (?) Rude Boy, young and scrappy, Tip has made LOVE songs in the past, most notably his rolling-on-a-Gulfstream collaboration with Justin Timberlake, "Let Me Talk To You/My Love," and "Whatever You Like," an I'll-cover-you-in-swag song off, pre-prison Paper Trail. But both tracks happened before I watched Tiny's show, and, in turn, before I knew about what a beautiful family life Tip has, how epic his own, true-life LOVE narrative really is.....like this season on Tiny & Toya we saw Tip spontaneously (from the chokey) have tropical flower arrangements and Gucci bags and shoes delivered to Tiny every thirty minutes for a whole afternoon, each one brought with different hand-written LOVE notes....what a Prince (and she deserves it----is just the calmest, kindest, coolest woman).
So, in Summer 2010, sentence complete, their wedding approaching, with breezy, beautiful paparazzi pictures of them in Paris and Los Angeles, at cafe tables, in convertibles, smiling like teens roaming the halls hand-in-hand circulating, "Got Your Back" reads more real and sweet-hearted, more whole, than any previous effort of its kind.
And Keri Hilson (who is so great) is an appropriate stand-in for Tiny; they are both female singer-songwriters belonging to a groundbreaking generation of self-made, Atlanta creative-millionaires------strong, smart women. This song feels like such the antidote to yr typical cold, careless depictions of women in hip hop. It's a spell of true romance, true love, true, true, true (with bells [swag] on).
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