Re: Kate is God

[as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tree of Schnopia)]

In <9309141702.AA03546@dlsun87.us.oracle.com> jdrukman%dlsun87@us.oracle.com (Jon Drukman) writes:

>>Get ready for a surprise:  Kate isn't known for doing the expected.

>absolutely.  so why the hell do these records sound like cookie-cutter
>pop that anybody with a few hours to kill could've churned out?  (BSL
>excepted, of course)

Well, not just *anybody*.  Can you see Mariah Carey producing these singles? 
Whitney Houston?  Even Natalie Merchant?

No.  Poppy they may be, but run-of-the-mill they are not.  It takes a
certain kind of artist to write this music...a certain shape of
cookie-cutter, if you like.  It's like Neil Gaiman writing a Batman comic;
it's not the literary style we know and love as Sandman, but that's the
best bloody Batman comic you'll ever read.  Pop *is* a genre, *not* a level
of quality.

>I wish those were the reactions to these new songs.  Unfortunately,
>it's more like "god, this sounds like normal pop music!  whatever
>happened to the weird freaky chick who sang Wuthering Heights?
>where's the innovation?  the invention?  the INTELLIGENCE?"

It's being poured into dabbling, not groundbreaking.  So what?  Enjoy it;
you can't change it.

>>I love Rubberband Girl, Eat the Music, and Big Stripey Lie.  There is
>>a lot more to each of these songs than people are letting themselves
>>see.

>wishful thinking.

Thoughtful thinking, if I may be redundant.  Positive thinking.  Sure, it's
not The Dreaming.  Wipe your eyes and get over it.

>>And I still believe, as I did when it was originally released,
>>that Candle in the Wind is a beautiful, moving piece.

>moves me right over the toilet, it does.

Sigh...agreed, unfortunately.

>>If you don't like Her music, don't listen to it.  I can but only be
>>sorry for you.

>save your pity for happy rhodes fans.

Now this was quite uncalled for.  This may be an act of masochism, but, so
that we don't waste bandwidth on gaffa, could you e-mail me a reiteration of
your beef with Happy?  On why, for example, you consider Bjork (whose album,
I will admit, is wonderful, but Ecto still beats it hands down) superior to
her?

Because my pity goes out to Happy Rhodes detractors.

Drewcifer
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