Thanks to our pal Sung Kim for sending me this link–Vampire Weekend covering Rancid’s “Ruby Soho” and turning it into cutesy indie pop drivel. Barf. 13 year old me is totally offended. Oh, and they recorded it at that Rilo Kiley broad’s house? Double barf.
Here’s the original:
Ellie Goulding. One of the most hotly tipped names going into 2010. I pretty much ignored her until today when I was forced to see one of her videos. It failed my person 30 second rule. It failed my full listen. It failed in every respect, EVER. Here’s what this bitch was thinking…. well, I have no talent whatsoever, but I’m marginally good looking. Here’s what I’ll do… I’m gonna “write” some really shitty songs and put fucking braincrushingly bad indie/electro/shite beats behind me and then make videos where I prance around and it’s all going to be so goddamned inconsequential. PERFECT. I cannot get my head around why this girl is tipped so hotly for this year. Her songs are barely songs. Her voice is NOT REAL, I mean it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever heard but it has no personality whatsoever. It’s perfect for Radio 1 or whatever the mainstream people over here listen to – I only have to be inconvenienced and listen to the radio in cabs, THANK GOD. But I’m pretty sure that its not only her voice that has no personality whatsoever, it seems to extend to everything else about her, but that only means one thing: this bitch is surely destined for british “stardom”. Fair warning, you’re going to lose brain cells by listening to this music and will probably hate the music video – but at least her face is not as offensive as her music, it’s really not – it would just be hard to pick it out of a line up of one. Next, please.
I Blame Coco feat. Robyn – Caesar
I BLÅME COCO | MySpace Music Videos
So I Blame Coco, the moniker of musician, sometime-model, and all-around spoiled daughter of Sting, Coco Sumner. Last year she came on my radar doing some playing with Pete Doherty and Carl Barat (seperately) and I downloaded a set that she did at the Torriano and I was really blown away by her! She had something to say and her voice was really interesting and so was the guitar-playing, even if it was just a short acoustic set! I Blame Coco is a fantastic song, so is Humner Humner and Bohemian Love, even the track I downloaded off some Islands Record 2009 compilation was okay. So I see that she’s releasing a video and I get all stoked on it and then I watch it and, WHAT THE FUQ is that? Cheesy electro beat? Check. Guest vocals by someone who also needs publicity? Check. Video that costs $$$ and sucks anyway? Check. Any semblance of what made her first songs so great? Nope, nowhere to be found. This to me just screams exploitation of what the market is going crazy for at the moment. Because we need another Bat for Lashes. Another Florence. Another Little Boots. Another Lily Allen. Another Gaga. ETC. God damn, but what can you do when Island Records owns your soul?
By the way, does this take hipstering to a whole new demo? Saying that one live recording is better than any of her currently released material? Elitism, ftw.
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