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In case anyone hasn't heard this, it's roughly Cartman from South Park sings Marvin Gaye, as recorded by Massive Attack, with a similar sentiment to Scott Walker's " No Regrets, " if put a little more bluntly. You can probably imagine. It was Number One in the States for god knows how long, and now it's over here.
This no doubt says something dreadful about my personality, but I think it's great. On the one hand, I have to admit to finding it so amusing that I almost drove into a tree the first time I heard it, but on the other, it's also quite moving. I mean ok, he casts some appalling aspertions on his ex-girlfriend's character - he wrote it when he was sixteen apparently, so whatever else she was, it seems safe to assume she probably wasn't a " ho, " at least not in the accepted dictionary sense - but he does sound genuinely devastated by the whole situation. Y'know, for all in real life he may not be someone you'd want to actually meet, this pumped-up guy in designer sportswear, pimp-rolling into the local McDonalds with his homies and such like, causing a scene, his heart is literally bleeding all over this song. Which, even if he was singing about going to Tescos, would still be excellent.
So while I'm probably not going to rush out and buy the album - the thought of Eamon undepressed, doing a party tune etc, is a little depressing - I still think this is possibly a classic.
But what does anyone else think ? Am I insane ? |
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