Thursday, January 20, 2011
Pop Muzick
It's confession time.
I'm no stranger to bad pop music- in fact- I briefly dated Bad Pop Music for a while back in the mid-nineties. It was a tumultuous relationship, fraught with petty arguments, back-stabbing, and miscommunication- but oh, man- the make up sex made it all worthwhile. There was this one thing she used to do with her index finger and a dab of Vaseline that really made my...wait a minute, I'm sorry. I'm getting way off topic here.
Anyway, as I was saying, I'm no stranger to bad pop music. And I'm not talking about the truly unlistenable junk, soullessly churned out by the likes of Lady Gaga, and the Katie Perry Bio-Mecha-Unit 3000. I've always favored what I considered to be the "good" bad pop music, if that makes any sense.
So here's how this is going to work. I've got my Creative Zen Mp3 player fired up, and I'm going to attempt to justify some of the more, shall we say, "questionable" tracks in my library.
Backstreet Boys - Shattered: I got nothing. Let's move on to the next one.
Uffie - Pop the Glock: Jesus, this is impossible. I honestly don't even know how to BEGIN defending an auto tune-soaked, faux hip-hop track with lyrics like "Uffie's bangin/ Feadz is bangin'/ time to get low/ do the tootsie roll."
Spice Girls - Wastin' My Time: Pass.
Melanie B - Feels So Good: Umm..it was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis? Shit. This is harder than I thought. Pass.
2NE1- I Don't Care: .........Fuck. I give up.
Well, I hope this helped shed some light on my eclectic (i,e: "shitty") musical tastes. Personally, I thought it was enlightening, thought-provoking, and even a bit, dare I say, cathartic? Keep a look out for my next entry: An in-depth review of Jesse McCartney’s latest pop/soul masterpiece.
