i can breathe for the first time
i have been harboring a dirty secret for some time now. i know i come off as a true indie poseur, spouting my unsolicited opinions on everything and everyone from the wrens to wilco to the arcade fire to the state of indie music coverage in the D.C. area. well, i hate to reveal it, but this is all apparently a weak ass facade. because i am in love with a song - have been in love with it for weeks now, ever since i heard it on z104 - deeply in love with this fantastic, catchy, uplifting, totally rockin' song.
it's a song by kelly clarkson. and to add insult to injury, it's called "Since U Been Gone." god. with the U for the You and everything.
i thought for sure i was on my way to clear channel music hell for feeling this way, but browsing around some other music sites today i see that i am not alone! my hero, ted leo, has come to my rescue:
I just don't know, man. I'm falling apart. The new Kelly Clarkson single, "Since U Been Gone" (which I first thought was going to be a Prince cover, which I then thought would be a smart move on her part, but which thought I was quickly then disabused of, but which disabusing I was not upset by, because I sucked into the damn hook immediately), is unarguably good. No -- stop it -- don't even try! It's unarguable. I see early retirement staring back at me from the reflection in the pickups on my guitar. :(
totally true. it's the best mainstream pop diva song to come along since britney's "toxic" - and that's saying something.
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omigod. my sister, my niece, and I had a weird moment this past weekend. this kelly clarkson song came on the radio and we all exclaim in unison "I like this song". freaky
my friend matt and i both admitted to liking this song during the nba all-star game, and musical tastes don't run more indie than ours.
of course, there's also the like 3-year long struggle to figure out if kelly clarkson is cute or not. i'm still not ready to call that race...
i'm ready to say cute. she seems to have undergone the pop/rockstar makeover more successfully than most (like ashlee simpson) and has lost some weight. though she sometimes seems strangely expressionless...
i'm ready to say cute. she seems to have undergone the pop/rockstar makeover more successfully than most (like ashlee simpson) and has lost some weight. though she sometimes seems strangely expressionless...
Could it be that she's been replaced with a robot?
It's the 21st century, people. We're going to have to get used to this kind of thing.
She's the only real star, I predict, that will survive the American Idol hype. I too confess to liking this song. Damn hook.
Um. I'm ready to say that Kelly Clarkson is cute. The truth is, if I could trade my beloved pillow for anything else in the world to sleep on, I would trade it for Kelly Clarkson's redonkulous ass.
All you ever talk about is indie rock, indie rock, indie rock.
you're right :( shame on me. i should really do more DCist posts on kelly. god knows she could use the buzz.
Hi, random post hoc comment. Please pardon my intrusion on your blog. I'm a circa-thirty punk & indie maven (turned right-wing lawyer) and just wanted to express my strong agreement with this post. I am a total sucker for "Since U Been Gone". Out of nowhere. Lord, I even bought the CD.
Notice how Texas girl Kelly cuts Canuck alterna-poser Avril Lavigne five ways from Friday at her own "p.o.'d middle-class teen female subjectivity" game. It's that "YEAH, yeah" in the chorus that clinches it. Kelly is mad in this song. That exciting, liberating kind of anger that takes you by surprise -- basically what punk rock was supposed to be about.
In contrast, "Breakaway" seems kinda draggy and cheesy. No offense to Kelly. Top 40 radio should dump it and play "Since U" twice as much.
I note that Avril Lavigne helped write "Breakaway."
Oh, and Kelly is cute. She also looks like my younger cousin.
Since U Been Gone is a kick @$$ song. I received her cd as a ggift and HOLY CRA it is probably one of the best Cds i have listened to in YEARS! As for her bootay, lets just say J.Lo aint got nothing on Kelly ;)
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