I mean, beyond the fact that I shotgunned a ButtWider a few days ago. It was the only alcohol available and I was severely lacking in alcohol at the moment. Unlike Paula Abdul.
So it's American Idol night. And it's disco night, which means that I am desperately trying to avoid it at all costs. Can't completely, the room with the computer is not sufficiently sound-insulated from the room with the TV. Which means I can't completely escape. And so I have a few observations, and one shameful disclosure.
Observation #1: Paula is taking either way too much or way too little crack. Putting "Chaka Khan" and "Goddess" in the same sentence is unconcionable. Hon, cold turkey or OD: pick one.
Observation #2: ibid. Paula, that rambling insanity about "guy shopping in the women's department" or whatever it was, please see last comment. Soon.
Observation #3: I really hate disco, but I am gratified at the number of people who seem to have taken the forced-on-them disco songs and made them their own (R'n'R style or whatever). The funny looking 16-year-old chick with the magenta hair, f'rinstance. Even the Elvis1956-haired guy who turned "If I Can't Have You" into a dirge.
Observation #4: Despite how s/he and Rufus make my stomach turn in the way disco does, Chaka Khan is not disco. Nor are Earth, Wind, and Fire (I'm not a fan, but they are NOT disco).
Observation #5: I actually liked the Bee Gees before disco. Not once it came on the scene. Sorry guys, but "Ah-ah-ah-ah-stayin'-alive" makes me think of some guy surviving a life-threatening bout with constipation. Go back to starting jokes, please.
All that said, I do have a shameful disclosure: There are a couple of disco songs I actually like.
I like this one, not sure why but it's just kind of fun. I have no idea if this is the gal who did the original version:
And then there's this one. Again, it's not a musical style I should like, but I do love the strident, "you can't break me", survivor attitude:
Observation #6: I actually had one but I forget what it was. Oh well...
UPDATE: Observation #7: But not about "American Idol". About "I Will Survive": I don't know who wrote the lyrics (I assume it was one of these guys listed on a lyrics website: Fekaris, Dino; Perren, Frederick J) but man, I just listened again to the whole thing. That lyricist is excellent.
Iz out!
2 months ago
9 comments:
I mean, beyond the fact that I shotgunned a ButtWider a few days ago.That sentence, my friend, should be on your tombstone.
"I Will Survive" is one of the best pop songs of the last 40 years. And this is coming from someone who hates disco.
I have a dark secret too. I love Abba. SO yeah, you're not going to get any teasing from me on this one. And Ricki's right about "I Will Survive".
Truly. On all three counts, including the tombstone.
WV: imbledry - The excuse I used to justify drinking a Bud...
Oh, and Brian, I can't say I love Abba, but I do like a fair number of their songs. And I will NOT apolgize for liking the Carpenters.
Okay, minor correction My Darling Ricki, which I will forgive because you are so young.
"I Will Survive" is one of the best pop songs of the last 40 years.That's fine, but had you said "THE best" I would had had to correct you because research suggests that this song came out a mere 37 years ago. I understand that that is still before you and all my other readers were born, but please accept reality ;)
I love ABBA.
And maybe this makes me a bad person, but when ever I hear a Carpenters' song I get an undeniable urge to eat a bacon cheeseburger.
"If Cass Elliot and Karen Carpenter had just shared that ham sandwich, they'd both be alive today" - Terry Kiser (in character)
Finding that line funny definitely makes me a bad person.
Then I'm bad too.
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