What is a "Hollaback Girl"? - Page 2

GateandGarden · #16 05-29-2005, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by bushesandbriars

I'll try to come up with something more original next time, since it seems to be important.

Like her perpetual entrapment in the Eighties.

I hope you know I wasn't criticizing you! For a minute you had lost me with the second sentence and then "It's My Life" dawned on me. Is that what you were referring to? Oh wait, and the video for "Hollaback Girl" does kind of say "Oh Mickey you're so fine." Damn, I'm slow.

ontheEdgeof17 · #17 05-29-2005, 12:35 PM

I used to like this song and album. It has kinda ran it's course for me. I shelved it about a month ago. The songs just don't stand the test of time. The video doesn't help with that much.

dissention · #18 05-29-2005, 12:37 PM

A ****ty song is what it is.

ontheEdgeof17 · #19 05-29-2005, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

A ****ty song is what it is.

That reaches #1 on the charts.

dissention · #20 05-29-2005, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by bushesandbriars

I'll try to come up with something more original next time, since it seems to be important.

Like her perpetual entrapment in the Eighties.

There's good retro and there's bad retro. Her solo album falls into the "bad" category. I like Gwen, but that album is stupefyingly awful. Though I do like Whatcha Waiting For, even if it has some of the worst lyrics ever penned and ranks right up there with Stevie's swill Ghosts.

dissention · #21 05-29-2005, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

That reaches #1 on the charts.

Yeah, the American public has been proven to have impeccable taste. They certainly proved it in November.

bushesandbriars · #22 05-29-2005, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I hope you know I wasn't criticizing you!

Oh, for Heaven's sake, I know that!

I meant it's important on this board to have something original to say, to not recycle stuff, because everyone has their own humor and wit; I should have made that clearer in my post. I hope you didn't think I was getting all rawr!! on you in my post.

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

For a minute you had lost me with the second sentence and then "It's My Life" dawned on me. Is that what you were referring to? Oh wait, and the video for "Hollaback Girl" does kind of say "Oh Mickey you're so fine." Damn, I'm slow.

That, and the sort of high-school-girl song lyrics, and the nails and lips and all that--very retro. Some of it's kinda cool, some of it's a little farfetched.

Anyway, I hope we're cool now.

bushesandbriars · #23 05-29-2005, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

There's good retro and there's bad retro. Her solo album falls into the "bad" category.

Yeah, and she pushes the line. Some of it works; a lot of it doesn't. I liked "It's My Life" a lot, though.

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Originally Posted by dissention

I like Gwen, but that album is stupefyingly awful. Though I do like Whatcha Waiting For, even if it has some of the worst lyrics ever penned and ranks right up there with Stevie's swill Ghosts.

She's okay; I have Return of Saturn and um, whatever the hell the last one No Doubt did was called. I liked RoS pretty well, never listen to what's-it-called anymore. Haven't heard the her solo album. I kinda think of her/them as a club band, so I don't really care what their lyrics--if I want killer lyrics I listen to--well, someone else.

And I like "Ghosts." I like the whole Dickens metaphor. OSOTM doesn't move me much, but I do like that and a small handful of others.

all the same · #24 05-29-2005, 01:14 PM

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I've been wondering so I thought I'd ask.

I have no idea what it is but it sounds like the most absurd thing I've ever heard. What a **** song! Those lyrical geniuses that fill top 40 radio, eh?

GateandGarden · #25 05-29-2005, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by bushesandbriars

Oh, for Heaven's sake, I know that!

I meant it's important on this board to have something original to say, to not recycle stuff, because everyone has their own humor and wit; I should have made that clearer in my post. I hope you didn't think I was getting all rawr!! on you in my post.

That, and the sort of high-school-girl song lyrics, and the nails and lips and all that--very retro. Some of it's kinda cool, some of it's a little farfetched.

Anyway, I hope we're cool now.

It's cool.

xdreamsunwindx · #26 05-29-2005, 03:15 PM

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Right. I must've gotten confused for a second.

Also, that's not Moe Tucker and John Cale in your avatar, is it?

As for your sig quote:

A: Go to a lake of fire and fry.

Haha. I'm... not sure. I cropped the cover for Sonic Youth's Goo for my avatar. I'm not sure if it's based off of Moe & John or not. That'd be awesome, because I love them both. I'm a big Velvets fan.

And yay, someone gets my Meat Puppets reference. ^_^

amber · #27 05-29-2005, 03:27 PM

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I have no idea what it is but it sounds like the most absurd thing I've ever heard. What a **** song! Those lyrical geniuses that fill top 40 radio, eh?

The song is irresistible. Stop the Gwen hate! Or I'm gonna sic meg ryan's lips on your ass!!

CreepingDeath · #28 05-29-2005, 04:03 PM

I like that damn song.

amber · #29 05-29-2005, 04:11 PM

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I like that damn song.

Don't apologize! No shame in that game!

all the same · #30 05-29-2005, 05:04 PM

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The song is irresistible. Stop the Gwen hate! Or I'm gonna sic meg ryan's lips on your ass!!

I don't hate Gwen. I think she's done some interesting stuff. I just don't think a song that contains the word bananas makes for a good song. It's kinda like Stevie integrating the word chimpanzee into a song. Another all around bad idea!

And bring Meg Ryan on! I'll poke her lips with a pin, they'll deflate and her life will be forevah ruined!