Fun with iTunes-- 2 Saucy Ladies and 4 Wussy Men
September 21, 2007

Very much digging these two singers lately:
Feist, and Kate Nash. One's Canadian and the other's English, respectively. Both write songs that are kind of nostaligc and familiar on one hand, but original and interesting on the other. More importantly, they both have voices that make my knees wobble. The kind of voices that make me hope I never, ever, ever, ever see pictures of them, because I don't want  to run the risk that reality will mess up the image of  slinky, demure, ruthlessly foxy indie-rock-chick hotness that I have in my head. I downloaded some songs from both of them today, and held my hand over the bottom of the iTunes screen, so as not to accidentally see their photographs.


Embarrassingly, I learned of Feist via some furious Googling after seeing an iPod Nano commercial featuring one of her songs. I am TeeVee Advertising's spendthrift rube. "Madison Avenue, meet Chump. Chump, meet Madison Avenue".


Also picked up a song by Vega4-- some nice, safe, poppy, but earnest Coldplay/Travis/Snow Patrol kinda stuff. Running through their playlist, I recognized the song I wanted as being played in a Jeep commercial. Damn-- that's two songs from commercials in one day.  "Hello, Madison Avenue? Yeah, it's Chump again. Here's some money." "Why thank you, Chump Enjoy your pop songs, brainless consumer guy. Now go buy a Cherokee".  Ugh...


Not totally sold on them as a band, but the singer reminds me a bit of Keith Ferguson from World Leader Pretend, who in turn reminds me a bit of Richard Ashcroft from The Verve, and as far as I'm concerned you can't go wrong with that. The album's a little too warm-and-fuzzy for my taste, but I really like the song I bought.


There are 2 Comments for Fun with iTunes-- 2 Saucy Ladies and 4 Wussy Men

For the last couple of months nothing makes me happier than doing old school vaudeville-ish kicks around my house to the Feist song that ended up being in the nano commercial. It makes me so very smiley! Then when I saw the video 2 weeks ago I immidiately wanted to be her friend because I think that video is top notch fun as well! I think Feist and I would get along famously. Due to job issues I've been having to put on that video and song a lot lately in order to talk myself out of figuring out a way to get stuck in the elevator the next morning. For the whole day. I would secrectly call the fire department and tell them not to come get me out until 4:30. I'd rather spend the day in the elevator by myself than deal with some of the people here. Change needs to happen here. I'm a sally and don't have any good halloween stories. But I would like to have lunch with you next week. Does that work for you?
from Tanya about 1 year ago
Awwwww... Tanya! Okay, first of all, the thought of you dancing around your house like Ginger Rogers is the best.. but you're killin' me with the sad talk about work! No, no, no, no, no! Tanya is not supposed to want to hide in elevators! Tanya is not supposed to be unhappy in the workplace! UNACCEPTABLE. Just let me know who's giving you a hard time, and I'll come over there and straighten things out. Also, I totally think Feist would want to be your friend. If not, I'd straighten her out too. :)
from doug about 1 year ago

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