Blinging in the New Year
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My life has been pretty hectic lately. Recently I noticed that my taste in music may have suffered a little for all the running around. I joined mog.com partly as an affirmation, to motivate me to think and write about good music...and probably listen to it too. I was hoping that being on mog would inspire me to put down the Justin Timberlake CD long enough to write a blog about "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" or my changing impressions of "Verklarte Nacht." I thought I could use mog as a forum to explore my obsession with Elvis Costello or to discuss why I think Steely Dan is a viable listening option -- even today. And so, it is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I begin by mogging career with a discussion of Beyonce's recent single "Ring the Alarm."The first time I heard this song, I was on tour somewhere watching a video show. The combination of Beyonce's vocal delivery (which I can only describe as ferocious) with the accompanying visual stimuli overloaded my circuitry and I decided to postpone my judgment of the song until I was in a calmer state of mind. Subsequently I went to her myspace page to check out the song again (audio only) and let me tell you: this track rules!The vocal is so emotive that it is almost absurd, but I can't help but go along with it. The subject matter is nothing new. A woman contemplates leaving her lover, who appears to be doing her wrong. But it is her choice of metaphors that I find so intriguing: She gon' be rockin' chinchilla coats if I let you go Get in the house off the coast if I let you go She gon' take everything I own if I let you go Some people decry the lack of substance in bling-oriented music, but it was while I was listening to this song that it dawned on me that material goods and designer clothes are merely the latest in the endless succession of metaphors used by poets and pop singers to express the ineffable...if you will the "moon and stars" of today. Now having said that, let's see if I can listen to another week of crap without quite so much guilt.
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