http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:08:04 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/13/211357.php#comment-36620 Love both Outkasts equally - freakish blends of '70s funk, soul and contemporary hip-hop. Love Coldplay, but somewhat less than their last album. Same with Dido. The rest is of the Great Pool of Blah, nothing I would notice one way or another. I must veer from Phillip's charity toward Xtina, however. I was so scarred by accidentally seeing the video of this song that I still flinch when I enter a room with a TV in it. Surely, she <i>can</i> sing to the extent that she can hit notes and project and whatnot, but her aesthetic choices in <i>what</i> she does with that voice render her a living self-parody. And then there's the skanky ho stuff. 36620@blogcritics.org Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:08:04 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/13/211357.php#comment-36611 I have no idea what the lyrics to Hey Ya! might be. But my ass is moving just thinking about that song. 36611@blogcritics.org Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:51:20 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/13/211357.php#comment-36588 <b>Hey Ya!</b> - love it. I suspect that most people aren't listening to the lyric, btw, but just like the groove. <b>The Scientist</b> - as good as most of Coldplay's stuff. Nice, not groundbreaking. <b>White Flag</b> - I don't know why I like Dido so much, but I like it. <b>Here Without You</b> - I don't think it is their best song, but I note that my wife has bought exactly one song at the iTMS after hearing the band play on Jimmy Kimmel Live - this one. <b>Beautiful</b> - disagree on Xtina. It was this song that I heard without realizing who it was that made me realize that she is a great singer. Good song, great voice. Too bad about the skank ho stuff. I am ashamed to admit that I haven't yet heard the Alicia Keys song, though I liked her first album. And don't worry about the nickelback songs. They're alright, but nothing super-special. 36588@blogcritics.org Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:57:32 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/13/211357.php#comment-36585 i've heard "Hey Ya"...that's it. i listen to almost no radio and just bits & pieces of mtv/vh1...so i hear almost no new music at the pop level. 36585@blogcritics.org Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:34:43 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/13/211357.php#comment-36578 Wow, I guess nobody has heard any of these songs or disagrees that they are 'popular'. Where are all the music critics here? 36578@blogcritics.org Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:04:59 EST