Interviews (seems to be a new version of the whole TAG situation. what fun which ended so abruptly.)
1. If you want to participate in the fun, too, Leave me a note and I will contact you with the questions.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. An entire journal entry must be devoted to answering the questions I ask you - and you have to answer each and every one of them honestly.
4. In your question answering entry, you have to include an explanation of the rules, much like this, and offer to interview others.
5. When others ask to be interviewed, you need to ask them five original questions.
Interviewer: Yeah, I'm a Dork!
I might be breaking the rules alittle. I think I want to devote an entire entry to answering each question. I believe I'm keeping with the spirit of the game. I believe the point is that the interviewe takes the time to write a really thought out response to each question, as opposed to a one word response. by doing it this way I and can devote the deserved attention to each response. Also, I like to keep my entries from getting too long, this way it is short and to the point.
2. We both love Garbage (because we're cool like that). What is your favorite Garbage song, and why?
Hmm, that's a tough one. Considering they are one of my favorite bands and they've been recording for 10 years and have released 4 albums, all of which I love, ..as in lovelovelovelovelovelovelove...picking one song is impossible, so I'm going to bend the rules again, and pick 3.
Cherry Lips (Go, Baby, Go)
Again, this is a list of my favorites, not of their most brillent moments. ...I Straight-up Fucking-Love this song. Really, this is one of those songs that I mentally catagorize for liking too much. It is that song that reaquanted me with Beautiful Garbage.
back in, what October?, when that album came out I bought it immedately. I was innicilly drawn to Cup of Coffee and Shut Your Mouth. I liked some of the other songs, but really, I was kinda disappointed with the album. ...I listened to it about a month and then it started just taking up case space. Then one hot summer day..(maybe almost a year later) I decided I wanted to hear Cherry Lips. ..I was just in that mood. Hot day, wanted something hot to play with my windows down. was in a good mood and just wanted to drive around and jam. I rocked out to it for while, and then started listening to the rest of the album again, and guess what. I've been hooked ever since. I LOVE that album. ...I dismissed it pretty quickly and now I can't play it enough! ..after that I played it for maybe a year straight. I mean....very high in my cd rotation. And I still play it alot, though with the release of the new one, I've been playing it alot, as well as the prevous albums.
But I really haven't answered the question have I? Why do I love this song? why is it one of my favorites? Well, first off, I'm sure it is readily dismissed as some campy pop song that garbage fans are reluctant to acknowedge. Admittedly for some reason Beauiful G. is the red headed step child of their albums, but I think it's their BEST. This song is way more complex, layered and difficult than it sounds. we all know Shirly has an amazing voice, but what makes her so great is that she makes it sound effortless! ....I'm pretty good and mimicing singers. I can wail over Poe and Nina Gordon, ..sometimes Fiona, ..blending my voice with theirs and dead on. ..I can usually do this pretty quickly and then I grow tired of the melody and start harmonizing with them instead. (Poe really should hire me to sing back up) ...however, what vocalists out there give me difficulty? Christina Aguliera...and Shirly. Those vocal parts are Fuckin' Difficult! I'm Classicly Trained! I know how to use correct vowels and to sing from the diapham....She does things with her voice that I really struggle to try and match, and I LOVE that! Cherry Lips is a perfect example of this. It seems like such a simple pop song but the vocal jumps are extremely difficult and she makes it seem effortless.
Okay, for those of you who don't know, we all have 2 types of voices (unless your Mariah and she has *like 5) A head voice and a chest voice. Chest low, head high. Now. this is kinda hard to explain without vocally demonstrating...but..singing in your chest voice, and singing in your head voice, seperately.....not difficult...combining them...that's the difficult part. ....so we were thinking in do-ri-mi terms...so is head voice ..and up. ....so in Cherry lips...The verses are very fast and there are very dramatic jumps from head to chest and back sung very fast! These are Fucking Hard! ..if I remember my intervals correctly, one of these jumps is Major 7th. (Think* The SIMP--Sons, the and Simp is the interval) and she jumps immedately back down. People!! That's NOT Something easily done! You don't sing 16th notes at a very fast pace with giant interval jumps for FUN. (heh, then again, maybe that is the only reason to sing them. ...it's like doing wind sprints. Difficult as hell, but goddamned impressive when done right. ...~insert your own comment about the boyfriend and weightlifting~) It is, however, very characteristic of traditional Celtic singing. ....she does the jumps from head to chest and to head and back to chest so fast and fluid that she makes it sound easy! And THAT is sooo impressive and it really shows what a great vocalist she is. I really don't think people give her enough vocal credit. Sure, she's hot, sure she kicks ass, takes no shit, and breaks some balls....but at the core of it all, she is a fantastic vocalist.
"With your cherry lips and golden curls you could make grown men gasp when you go walking passed, and it your hot pants and high heels they could not believe that such a Bo*Dy(interval jump)*was for real"
"Hold a can *dle (interval jump)* in your heart (go, baby, go go)...shine the light *interval jump*ON* hidden parts...make the whole *World* wanna dance....bought yourself *a* second chance.."
Hammering in my Head
Again, This song Fuckin' rules! What is notably distinct about this song is it's ability to evolve! it grows and it changes and adds and layers upon itself to an exstent that it is hard to reconize as the same song. I love how wild and out of control it is. I love the lyrical punches Shirly throws. I love the wailing beat.
Sweat it all out! Sweat it all out! with your bed room eyes and your baby pout!..... our electric storms and our shifting sands, candy jars and our Sticky hands
I love how this song with a beat that will throw you to the wolves...can also pull back and be sensetive and tender. They take one lyric and make you think about it 3 different ways. first a low sexy grawl. "You should be sleeping my love, tell me what you're dreaming off". ...Then, and octive higher, sweet, gentle, and tender. ...and then back on the track of the roller coster out of control, "I knew your were mine for the takin! I knew you were mine for the takin! I Knew you were Mine for the takin' when I walked in the room. God, that song makes you want to invade a small country of single men. ......mmm and then the whole thing comes to a hault with with a sexy grawl of a whisper that is absolutely the one you want whispering in your ear during sex.
And Finally......
Drive Me Home
This is another song of Beauiful G. And it think out of all the senstive garbage ballads, this one is the best.
What I love so much about Beautiful G. is how Vulnerable it is! It so introspective. so personal! That album has all the bravado stripped away. "No hype, no glass, no pretense." ...I believe it is the purest of all the albums. ...And this song I believe is the most perfect example of that. .....if I'm correct, most of it is just a simple guitar picking and Shirly singing. ...Yes, there are more layers during the chorus....but it is just such a pure, vulnerable, fragile song. ..You can hear the pain in Shirly's voice. Do you know how many times I've driving around for hours at night listening to nothing but that song? ...I personally have lost count. Sometmes I sing along, sometimes I cry, sometimes I just listen. It is such a beauiful gem. I love Milk...but it seems so polished, able to stand on its own....this song is that shy, broken girl, sitting the the corner, hiding her face, trying to find the will to carry on.
"I got down on myself,
workin' too hard.
Driving to death tryin' to beat out the thoughts in my head.
What a Mess I've made.
Sure, we all make mistakes.
But they see me so large that they think I'm immune to the pain.
I never said I was perfect.
.............but I can drive you home."
2:41 a.m. - June 25, 2005
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