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Post by mirages on Mar 16, 2011 10:43:29 GMT -5
Nobody has commented on the Nikka Costa ChingChingChing vid.....so I just want to put this out there.... To me this is a Katy Perry kind of thing...quick buck...anyone can do it kind of thing. I suspect it has its tongue firmly placed in its cheek...given the lyrics. I have to assume they are parody...if not, WTF is that? Am I missing something here? She sings in the bridge which suggests to me she knows exactly what she is doing...but will everyone? Maybe I am just 'off' today....and should just STFU....?? PS...is this really what we want Adam to try?? Mszue, THANK YOU! So it's not just me then? I was trying to figure it out. Blatant attempt to go commercial? But right there in the chorus she says "Revolutionary mediocrity" -- so she knows what she's doing. So an attempt to go commercial while lampooning the genre at the same time? I wish her success because she's talented and deserves it, but kinda hope it's not with THIS soul-less track. And this is the one Adam tweeted about.
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Post by mirages on Mar 14, 2011 22:54:35 GMT -5
Love and light to momtomany, to Penelope, to holst and her students, to Japan and all who are suffering. Fractals are amazing, aren't they? I was reading Walt Whitman today -- in his poem, Miracles, he says, "Why, who makes much of a miracle? / As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles." A community of hearts that flash open and release light at a moment's notice, distance no object, is a miracle, too. ETA: Whoah! Sorry the image is so big. If someone can shirnk it or show me how to, I'd be grateful! thanks susie, fixed, tinafeaETA2 -- thanks to you both -- didn't see it had been fixed till I got in to modify the post myself! Feel like I'm recovering from having a seriously swelled head!
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Post by mirages on Mar 10, 2011 20:17:37 GMT -5
Or, given the circumstances, that other venerable Québecism, "Tabarnak!" (I'm not going to translate that one.) (or spell it right either) Just for future reference, it's "tabernac". ;D I know -- just took a course in modern Québecois cinema and the phonetic spelling was often used -- I kinda like it. And as Eber says, Merde, Adam, merde!
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Post by mirages on Mar 10, 2011 19:41:25 GMT -5
[grins] Slutberries for tinafea, cayman, Catzmadam, and one all the way to exotic Canada for mirages. ;D Anyone else? Thanks, Hoppers -- it did really well through interstellar space. It's glowing a little, but still quite tasty. Kim, hi -- amazing they can even get our signals all the way from exotic Canada, eh? I met another frighteningly fit Calgary Adam fan last night -- she was leading the deep water workout my daughter and I went to. Thought we were all supposed to be sparkle cows! Anyway, she played four tracks from FYE to start the cardio segment and when we talked later she said she wanted more workout-able Adam stuff, so I need to find a way to get her DTRH, Master Plan and #AftermathRemix .... not that I can lay hands or ears on the latter myself.
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Post by mirages on Mar 10, 2011 19:21:47 GMT -5
Hell, Billboard is French Canadian. We should have gotten an advance pre-sale! Pas de farce. (No kidding.) Or, given the circumstances, that other venerable Québecism, "Tabarnak!" (I'm not going to translate that one.) (or spell it right either)
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Post by mirages on Mar 10, 2011 19:13:53 GMT -5
Canada scorned yet again. Yup, you guys are WAY too exotic and far flung. ;D Think you can get a lolly way over here? Slutberry sounds good.
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Post by mirages on Mar 10, 2011 19:10:42 GMT -5
www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/TellDeBatz/~3B7Loterra_zephead The countries that can buy it from AO: Australia Austria France Germany India Indonesia Ireland Italy Netherlands New Zealand Singapore South Korea Spain Sweden United Kingdom United States So I coUld by it if I were in Soth Korea, India or Indonesia -- but NOT far-flung and exotic CANADA????
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Post by mirages on Mar 9, 2011 16:22:51 GMT -5
Yay! Mystery solved! That's been bugging me. I played the song for my partner and asked him if he could work out what it said and he was adamant he had heard it in the lyrics but then we couldn't work out where. What a weird sample. I hear "one step" repeated .
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Post by mirages on Feb 28, 2011 21:48:22 GMT -5
During this lull I went ahead and clicked on the link to make the site ad free. It was easy. A small thing to say THANKS to Q3 for this wonderful home. So, others who wanted to contribute, give it a try. Thanks for the reminder -- I tried to do this but couldn't find a Paypal optoon -- GoogleAccounts or nothing. If there's a way to contribute via PayPal, I'd love to know about it.
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Post by mirages on Feb 26, 2011 15:18:36 GMT -5
The author goes on to make a prediction. “The song might be a metaphor for the future role of the out gay entertainer in American culture. This song and its promise “I’m about to make it rough for you” helps drive a nail in the coffin of the sexless, minstrelized images of 1990s “gay visibility.” The insatiable, omnisexual persona Lambert inhabits onstage — from American Idol to the American Music Awards — is a bitch slap at the era of “limp wrist and a shopping list,…” . DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS POST HERE -- POST IT IN THE SALON THREAD ON THIS TOPIC --
I will copy this over there and leave it here but the next comment on this 11.23.09 review in the news thread will be deleted.
Discussion of FYE Album reviews here: adamtopia.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=inspired&thread=58&page=1
THANKS. Q3Jablea, thanks for bringing back this quote -- it really stood out for me as well, and I'm hoping since it speaks to Adam's ongoing stage persona and not just FYE that this comment belongs in this thread (feel free to move if not). I think he nailed it by saying that persona is "omnisexual" (actually, before I read this again I was remembering the phrase as "sexually omnivorous", which fits, too) and not at all "limp-wristed". Adam the person remains, consistently, a gay man ("unless you have a surprise under that dress, I don't think it's happening" is about as plain as you can make it), but his stage persona is this Dionysian rockstar channelling sexual energy indiscriminately and joyously. (Well, not always -- there's always the sensitive dude on the stool, and there are those wonderful fourth-wall-breaking moments when he breaks out in a "wasn't that ridiculous and FUN?" grin). We haven't seen that before from a gay performer (though there are examples of straight rock stars doing it -- Bowie, Jagger, Lou Reed, etc.), and I think, if I can have an opinion from the sidelines, that it would have created discomfort and controversy in the gay community even if the AMA performance hadn't gone over the edge from sexually omnivorous to downright aggressive. I personally don't think any man, gay or straight, could have gotten away with that performance. We accept it from women because, although there are anomalies, women do not have the real-life history of violence against their sexual partners that men do. Women are not taken seriously as a physical-sexual threat so when they play that role on stage, it's taken as play. And we know that Adam is all about play (one of my favourite quotes from him is from Rock My Town, "Thanks for playhing along!"). Sometimes he's playing with very light-weight stuff (I love his campiness in "Strut ) and sometimes he's playing with much weightier issues in a light-hearted way, like the subversiveness of kissing Tommy onstage in order to desensitize people. We know Adam has a social agenda that far, because he's said so. Does it go farther, consciously, to what this writer implies about his role as someone challenging mainstream society to accept gay men as full and potent people, not as limp-wristed shopping buddies? Possibly.
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