come on a musical adventure with me...
Feb. 28th, 2004 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elsajeniOkay, so I went through my old CDs today, wondering if I could find the Spice Girls stuff I used to have. I definitely had 2 Spice Girls CDs when I was, I don't know, eleven, and for some reason recently the Spice Girls keep popping up in my life and my conversations, so I thought maybe I should get out the CDs and see what was there -- after all, maybe there's such a thing as a coincidence, and maybe there isn't, and they have been coming up a lot lately. Anyway, I didn't find them. But, in the process of looking through these CDs, I found something else.
Guys, there was a fucking Hanson CD in there. I wish I were kidding.
But, honestly... well, I wondered about it, since I really couldn't remember any of their songs except for that one demon-spawn one that got played on the radio 23158345 times an hour for the entire summer I was eleven and that no one who was listening to the radio that summer will ever forget, ever, no matter how much we want to. (You want proof of this? I was in Germany that summer. The song was not on the radio in Germany. And I still have the fucking thing memorized.) So I went ahead and listened to it. And it's not actually that bad. Yes, mildly annoying and teeny-bopper-ish, pop music for 12-year-old girls, but it's not half as bad as it could have been.
Lyrics, yes. Those are very, very bad. But the music is actually all right. And the songs, for the most part, do a good job of what they're trying to do -- expressing vague feelings of junior-high-level angst -- with one or two that are surprisingly mature.
So, in short, I don't wish I were kidding. I'm kind of glad I found this CD, because it's not as bad as I thought it was.
I am, however, still ashamed enough of it that I'm hiding it under a David Bowie CD and trying to claim that I'm doing so only because the album cover is a really obnoxious shade of orangey-yellow. Which is a very good reason to hide it under a David Bowie CD, yes, but probably not the most accurate claim on my part.
Note: this entry was actually written a few days ago. Since then the Spice Girls have come up at least 3 more times. I am officially freaked out.
Guys, there was a fucking Hanson CD in there. I wish I were kidding.
But, honestly... well, I wondered about it, since I really couldn't remember any of their songs except for that one demon-spawn one that got played on the radio 23158345 times an hour for the entire summer I was eleven and that no one who was listening to the radio that summer will ever forget, ever, no matter how much we want to. (You want proof of this? I was in Germany that summer. The song was not on the radio in Germany. And I still have the fucking thing memorized.) So I went ahead and listened to it. And it's not actually that bad. Yes, mildly annoying and teeny-bopper-ish, pop music for 12-year-old girls, but it's not half as bad as it could have been.
Lyrics, yes. Those are very, very bad. But the music is actually all right. And the songs, for the most part, do a good job of what they're trying to do -- expressing vague feelings of junior-high-level angst -- with one or two that are surprisingly mature.
So, in short, I don't wish I were kidding. I'm kind of glad I found this CD, because it's not as bad as I thought it was.
I am, however, still ashamed enough of it that I'm hiding it under a David Bowie CD and trying to claim that I'm doing so only because the album cover is a really obnoxious shade of orangey-yellow. Which is a very good reason to hide it under a David Bowie CD, yes, but probably not the most accurate claim on my part.
Note: this entry was actually written a few days ago. Since then the Spice Girls have come up at least 3 more times. I am officially freaked out.
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Date: 2004-03-01 07:15 pm (UTC)The Spice Girls were cool, thats why they keep coming up.. they're much better than the crap pop artists we have today. At least they didn't try to fake being deep.