April 7th, 2009 8:12am
I Feel Celestial
Marina & The Diamonds “The Shampain Sleeper”
My first response to seeing that the word “champagne” is intentionally misspelled as “shampain” was to cringe, but now I think that in a silly sort of way, it was absolutely necessary. This is a song that is both knowingly preposterous and dead serious, and the spelling just adds to its brazen, super-glossy campiness. The melody sounds very anxious and the arrangement is almost absurdly taut, but it’s still a rather light song, in part because Marina is willing to go all out for a chorus as gloriously ridiculous as “drinking champagne / made by the angel / who goes by the name / of Glitterin’ Gabriel.” Oh, and that’s not even getting to the tea pun!
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4/7/09 1:01 pm
LOVE LOVE LOVE this song.
4/7/09 3:03 pm
Maybe they’re Tom Waits fans? It’s not *too* preposterous…
4/8/09 9:55 am
Shampain for my real friends…
Real pain for my sham friends!
4/17/09 10:53 am
Hi
If you like Marina & The Diamonds, we posted a Q&A with her on our blog, THE RECOMMENDER.
Find that post here - http://therecommender.net/2009/02/18/q-a-marina-the-diamonds/
Enjoy…
Mike
UK
5/10/09 9:37 am
Thank you so much!, I’ve benn looking for this a long time ago..:D