So explain something to me.
Why is this…
…provoking, complex, and transgressive, while this…
…is just jokey and sophomoric?
Is it the source material? The singers? The performance?
Or am I wrong about one or both?
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December 19, 2010 at 9:57 pm
James Logan
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December 20, 2010 at 12:20 am
chris902
Is the Nina Gordon one supposed to be artsy and transgressive? Is just sounds gimmicky and kind of poorly done.
This shtick was done a lot better by a pop punk band a decade or so ago:
Basically the exact same thing Gordon is doing only before the youtube era of the internet. (Of course the Dynamite Hack song was huge for a month or so if I remember correctly)
Not only is it not deep, it’s also derivative.
December 20, 2010 at 10:18 am
Angus Johnston
Actually, Chris, the Dynamite Hack version is much more similar to the Coulton than the Gordon.
December 20, 2010 at 3:27 pm
chris902
I guess my point was that I don’t actually see any substantive difference between those three songs. I find them all to be gimmicky and not particularly interesting and certainly not transgressive.