Unexpected Sunderland accent
Paris Hilton’s genius has always been as an example of bourgeois excess – a kind of perfect pointlessness that isn’t even an aristocratic sovereignty or a Bataillean general economy (Paris Hilton as voyou désÅ“uvré? Sounds like a Thesis You Should Write). So she’s rather ruined things by releasing a fairly good pop reggae record![[MP3]](/res/MP3.png "Download MP3 file")
. What with this and the last Sugababes album, the Ace Of Bass comeback can’t be far away.
Even more unexpected, though, is that she’s also recorded a track that sounds a great deal like Kenickie (well, if there’d always been a disco element to their music, anyway). Admittedly, there’s no actual Sunderland accent, but her vocal stylings are remarkably reminiscent of a young Lauren Laverne.
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nooo! it’s actually really bad! it sounds like kingston town but worse. and her vocals mixed so weirdly (presumably to hide the fact she can’t sing).
Comment by laura wolf @ 6/15/2006 7:01 am
yeah, agree about the badness of the Hilton track - come on, Tim!I know you’re wistfully thinking of Ace of Base here, but it’s not a patch on that. She needs to have badly garbled lyrics, faux-pathos and a kooky Swedish accent for starters. Very good pic tho.
Comment by infinite thought @ 6/18/2006 5:44 am
I’ve been listening to Ace of Bass a fair amount recently, and of course you’re right that Paris Hilton isn’t a patch on them. Indeed, whenever I listen to pop dance music from the mid-90s, I’m bemused by it’s artificiality and (as in the case of “All That She Wants”) it’s otherworldliness.
Paris Hilton also has a highly mediocre hip-hop track; but the aforementioned Kenicke-go-italo-disco track is really fucking good.
More pictures of bourgeois decedance.
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