January 2011
3 posts
BBC - Sound of 2011 - Jessie J →
i don’t get this, quite. i’ve listened to it a couple of times over, and i can’t work out if it’s just part of that subgenre of songs by female popstars about how they’re as strong as a man or whatever. i have so little time for that shit – don’t play that game, don’t make out like men are one thing and women are another. because it’s not true, and...
THE FIGHT FOR HISTORY
First of all, it’s not a song about the death of Margaret Thatcher. No, really, it’s not. I know one of those when I hear it. It’s about the way that modern political history gets rewritten – the way that politicians who did horrible things while in office start rehabilitating themselves by turning up on the telly whenever it’ll have them. He...