Check out his Destiny’s Child review, too
In the course of (quite rightly) praising Ashlee Simpson’s ‘La La’, Sandy makes an interesting point about the revolutionary potential of boredom:
> I also think the lyrics and her superbored but raging delivery really evoke the way, when you’re an
> adolescent, there’s a kind of nonopposition of intensity and blankness of feeling. Or possibly read
> ‘when you’re an adolescent’ as ‘how I retroactively construct the concept of adolescence’.
The same is sort of true (although in a much less authentic sense) with Le Tigre’s cover of ‘I’m So Excited’. A song which, the internet has just revealed to me, has also been covered by Mel C (who, retrospectively, we can see was clearly the best Spice Girl).
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