This week's offering was inspired by the slew of
It was also inspired by a conversation we had in the pub on friday, but let's just pretend it was purposely topical ok?
Both the song and video are great on oh so many levels. Here are a few of those in a list:
1. Produced by (the Godlike) SCOTT WALKER. If only he would put his mind to more like this, as opposed to chuntering away with Bat For Lashes, these days.
2. The video is a 'cover version' of the original song, which is about a 'cover version', featuring look-a-likes doing 'cover versions' of celebrities, which makes it so multi-layered it kind of goes from post modern back to modern back to post modern back to amazing again.
3. Cover version Kylie probably has a better voice than real Kylie.
4. Group chorus sing-a-long.
5. Underneath all the clever self-referentialness the song itself is actually bloody well amazing. In case you missed the metaphor it is about Jarvis thinking his lover's new relationship is like a cover version of their own relationship:
"the original was so good; the one you no longer own. And every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could have been"
How wonderfully bitter and wry and twisted.
We were going to write *goes and digs out Different Class*, but then we had a mental debate about whether 'This Is Hardcore' or 'We Love Life' were actually better, albeit less commercial (definitely not 'His and Hers' though), and couldn't come to a conclusion. *goes and digs out Different Class/This Is Hardcore/We Love Life (delete as appropriate)*
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