"Love Lockdown" is Kanye's "Billie Jean." Little girls are going to be singing it, at the top of their lungs, on the way home from school.
So that's that. And those weirdo autotuned vocals? The breakdown: nonsinger-as-singer + technology as failed band-aid = commentary on what it means to be a "singer.
is that what it feels like to be old and jaded?
Posted by: djeurok | September 11, 2008 at 18:12
You're reading me with the wrong set of expectations. (Perhaps it's my fault.)
"Billie Jean" was a moody single that absolutely changed the game.
That's where I'm coming from.
Posted by: Pop Cesspool | September 11, 2008 at 19:50
I meant I felt old and jaded. Takes one to know one lol
Posted by: djeurok | September 11, 2008 at 20:17
OLD FARTZ UNITE. Seriously, though, "Billie Jean" wasn't deliberately intellectual, but I think "Love Lockdown" is. So maybe I'm getting a little carried away. Or maybe it's the intellectual component -- as jumbled as it might be -- that has me jazzed about the song.
Posted by: Pop Cesspool | September 11, 2008 at 20:23
I meant I felt old and jaded. Takes one to know one lol
Posted by: djeurok | September 11, 2008 at 21:03
23 listens later, i love it. i want to slow dance at a prom to it.
Posted by: djeurok | September 12, 2008 at 14:31