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You Must Listen to Roisin Murphy "Slave To Love" (From New Gucci Commercial)
Watch the official Gucci commercial after the jump.
(Smell like James Franco and try the Gucci fragrance in a Bloomingdales near you. I did this weekend and wasn't too crazy about it. But then again, I'm a Issey Miyake guy.)
August 18, 2008 in Róisín Murphy | Permalink
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SUCH a beautiful song! Cannot wait for Roisin's newest to finally get some potential play in the states!
Posted by: Josh at Aug 19, 2008 2:03:37 AM
Love the song but nothing compares to the number one song this week!
Into The Nightlife- By Cyndi Lauper
WOW- The best Dance song of this summer- What a great comeback!
Posted by: paul at Aug 19, 2008 9:54:44 AM
First, lemme say I have championed Roisin all the way: she is THE pop singer of our future and the THE lyricist who will push the art pop idiom forward. But she can occasionally do wrong and has with this cover version. Seiji's buried fuzz guitar is the only redeemable element and it's trapped in a web of bubblegum electro like a struggling fly breaking off its own wings in an futile attempt to live.
Roisin is keenly aware of her Ouvre and its lineage. Years of lyrical and musical refinement have walked the tightrope of irreverence and devotion to bring us an artist as de rigeur as Roisin. That lineage very much includes a certain Mr. Ferry and if you touch one of his greats you best have something to say with the matter and you best spend some money or at least some insight on the production. Neither is evident here. Roisin is the most promising of the artists to come forth with a balance of original and interpretive approaches in the last decade: she sells her interpretive side far short on this version.
How dare she omit the "Can you help me?" line? What the F*ck does she think this song is about? WAKE UP ROISIN: we are hearing the toll of the cash register for the first time in your splendid career. And unlike the manic cowbell it's not a charming element of the Madonna legacy. Mute that baby and fast!!
And I will always love her regardless...
Can you help me?
;>
Posted by: Ted at Sep 21, 2008 10:50:33 PM
P.s.
I LOVE the way she reads the "sky is burning" but she loses it straight away:
my world is not changing Roisin, it is turning, in a manner as obvious as spoiling cream. YUCK!
and I thought Movie Star was badly done, sigh...
Posted by: Ted at Sep 21, 2008 11:03:50 PM
Okay, I went back for a listen and In all fairness, Ferry read his own line wrong as well: shut my mouth and bitch slap me on that last one, but opinion stands. It sounds so flat and insincere: where is the complexity of Moloko? Where is the jarring dissonance and peek-a-boo sweetness of the Ruby album? Where is the synthesized thrill ride through pop history that Overpowered us all??
Keep your advertizing bucks, I want my Roisin Murphy back damnit!!
Posted by: Ted at Sep 21, 2008 11:49:25 PM
