Good Charlotte has never been my favourite band. In fact, they’re pretty high up on my list of bands I actively dislike. Having said that however, I really like their new song "Keep your hands off my girl", no matter how much I wish I didn’t. I fear this is going to end up much like my Blur situation of the late 90s. I hated blur. hated hated hated. with a passion. til they released Tender, and Music is my Radar, two awesome songs. These songs forced me to reconsider my opinions of blur, and admit that Daniel Alban is actually quite talented. I still hate their early stuff, but I do love Tender, being one of my "fav songs eva", and they must be commended on for the direction taken in the music and film clip to Music is my Radar, which has amazing choreography and costuming. In fact, the choreographer for the film clip went on to be kylie’s choreographer for the Fever album and tour, expanding and developing the style and helping make Fever and Kylie so successful, but it started on Music is my Radar. And the stuff Daniel Alban has done with Gorillaz is damn creative too.
So are Good Charlotte my new Blur? Maybe, if they have another good song. Although I hold them responsible for much of emo, so there’s still a lot to forgive.
*On a side note, the band Silverchair holds much the same space in my head as Blur does, and Daniel Johns I find is a similar character to Daniel Alban, especially with the direction he’s gone in with the Dissociatives (excellent excellent music). However, I’ve managed to avoid most of Silverchair’s later work, so I don’t have to like them yet. Unfortunately their new song sounds quite interesting, so I mayn’t be able to hold them in disdain for much longer.
I blame The Smiths, and in Morrissey in particular, for emo. Proto-emo? Neo-emo? Whatever… they were actually quite good. Catchy, almost, in that “oh-I’m-totally-zeitgeist-’cause-I-cut-vertically” kinda way. Everything after that… except perhaps The Bravery and The Killers… was a pisspoor devolution: decompiling the original music into a solitary guitar string.
Blur had ONE halfway decent song which got a fµck of a lot better once Pet Shop Boys had at it (that’s Girls and Boys, by the way). Song 2 shat me no end… it was clearly inspired by the The Simpsons. Woo-hoo indeed.
Curiously, Good Charlotte also has a song named Girls and Boys, though it’s not a cover, thank Christ.
Comment by Send Your Hate To Me — February 14, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
I rather enjoy Silverchair’s new tune. The filmclip is great, filmed down in Olympic Park station with a bunch of flashy light effects to pretend it isn’t boring old Olympic Park station. When it’s on Channel V immediately after that horrific Pussycat Dolls nonsense (not hard, Channel V has a rotation of about 8 songs), also filmed in a boring train station, I like to think that the Channel V music programmer is having a giggle. That or there are only so many ways to arrange their 8 allowable ‘hit’ songs.
Comment by Ali — February 15, 2007 @ 9:44 am