The Beginning Stages

Supplemental to Deviated Septum’s ongoing ‘Sellout Watch’: This morning I saw a tv ad for HP featuring the instrumental intro to the Polyphonic Spree’s “Section 9 (Reach For The Sun)”.

The Son And The Heir

I *heart* Dan Emerson. Dan wrote this about Tatu on Friday, and I think he’s got them exactly right.

Their cover of “How Soon Is Now”, though, is actually interesting on its own terms. What first catches my attention is when they sing “of a shyness that is criminally vulgar”, possibly the most glaring and incomprehensible incongruity between band and lyric that there has ever been….The point of the song is completely missed; the most notable thing about Tatu’s music is that they don’t seem to have any clue what they’re singing, there’s no connection whatsoever to the lyrics, and this is terrifyingly true here…The problem is this: if the girls themselves have no discernable personality and are basically automatons, if there’s no sense that they’re even pretending to believe or even understand what they’re singing, what’s the point?