From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #48 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, February 28 2007 Volume 13 : Number 048 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Lily Allen [Rodney Somerstein ] Lily Allen [adamk@zoom.co.uk] Re: Lily Allen [Timothy Jones-Yelvington ] Kitty & Penny Flanagan [Sherlyn Koo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:43:38 -0500 From: Rodney Somerstein Subject: Re: Lily Allen Sue Trowbridge writes: >She's the guest DJ on "All Songs Considered" this week: >http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/ >I am not a big music-video fan but hers are entertaining and worth >seeking out on YouTube. Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely make a point of listening to that. I've only seen one of her videos, for Smile. I'll check out the others on YouTube. Kerry White writes: > Hi, I heard her on NPR and she says she doesn't write her lyrics until >she is in the studio writing and recording the music. To those who >haven't heard: the songs are all up and poppy including the one that >says: (not a quote) 'Now that we have broken up I think I will go >through all your friends!' With either specific sexual terms or just >innuendo about 'going through'. bye, me Very interesting about the lyric writing. She really does have some of the best lyrics that I have heard in a long time. For example, in Knock 'Em Out, she sings about how annoying it is to be approached by men in bars and such. She makes up excuse after excuse, such as being pregnant and having a baby in 6 months, needing to leave because her house is on fire, having herpes, no she means syphilis... In thinking about it, it isn't even that the lyrics themselves are so clever. It is more that they are so straight to the point, exactly what she is thinking or seeing. It isn't stream of consciousness because the thoughts aren't drifting. And yes, even when she is being very cutting and sarcastic, the music is really upbeat. I'm sure her brother Alfie was very pleased when she wrote a song about how he sits in his room all day smoking weed and he needs to get out sometimes because there is no way he'll get laid just sitting around playing computer games. ;-) - -Rodney ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:27:42 +0000 From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: Lily Allen As I don't listen to the radio much, I managed to avoid Lily Allen all summer when the waves were, apparently, full of her album, and I went into "music snob" mode whenever I heard her mentioned. Apart from the fact that I can't stand her dad, Keith Allen (an excellent actor but, whenever I see him being himself, an absolute nob), I've never been a ska fan and everything I read about her music told me it...well, it wasn't for me. However, during a particularly dismal Jools Holland New Year's Eve tv show, she was an absolute ray of sunshine and I thoroughly enjoyed her (as opposed to Amy Winehouse, who staggered and growled her way through some ordinairy songs). A couple of days later somebody played me a few songs off of Lily Allen's album, and I really liked it. So, she managed to puncture my snobbery. Good for her, I say. And let that be a lesson to me. Adam K. - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:15:11 -0600 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: Lily Allen I've been having a similar snob-type reaction to everything I've read about Lily Allen, so perhaps I should just give in. If finally gave into KT Tunstall a few weeks ago. I actually like the Amy Winehouse album. On 2/27/07 2:27 AM, "adamk@zoom.co.uk" wrote: > As I don't listen to the radio much, I managed to avoid Lily Allen all summer > when the waves were, apparently, full of her album, and I went into "music > snob" mode whenever I heard her mentioned. Apart from the fact that I can't > stand her dad, Keith Allen (an excellent actor but, whenever I see him being > himself, an absolute nob), I've never been a ska fan and everything I read > about her music told me it...well, it wasn't for me. However, during a > particularly dismal Jools Holland New Year's Eve tv show, she was an absolute > ray of sunshine and I thoroughly enjoyed her (as opposed to Amy Winehouse, who > staggered and growled her way through some ordinairy songs). A couple of days > later somebody played me a few songs off of Lily Allen's album, and I really > liked it. > > So, she managed to puncture my snobbery. Good for her, I say. And let that > be > a lesson to me. > > Adam K. > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:08:22 +1100 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Kitty & Penny Flanagan Hi folks, I don't know if anybody else remembers Penny Flanagan - Australian folk/pop singer extraordinaire, who dropped her musical career a few years back to concentrate on writing books and motherhood instead. Well, she's back. Sort of. Penny's sister is Kitty Flanagan, a comedienne who has been in the UK for the past few years but is now back over here with her one-woman show "A Festival of Me". According to the website (http://www.belvoir.com.au/320_whatson_downstairs.php?production_id=17), Penny will be providing "amusing musical musings throughout the show". Whatever that means. I was half thinking about going to this anyway, so now I have a little more incentive to check it out - if I have any energy left after Mardi Gras, that is... :) sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo | sherlyn@pixelopolis.com | Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #48 **************************