let me give you everything you need. please.
I guess it’s a sign of growing up that all the love songs I listened through my late adolescence are starting to make sense.
This week : “Cold Cold Water” by Mirah.
There’s a bright one that caught your fancy eye, but it’s okay so long as you stay mine. I’m so number one that it’s a shame, a shame, that you let other numbers in the game.
Why I Love Her
Although the theme of crazy bitches has been close to my heart recently, I do love Lily Allen’s new video for “Who’d Have Known” more than I can really say.
Little known fact – my dad looks like Elton John. Although this is an obvious reference to their public spats, this video makes me giddy inside.
Reason #7,355,423,244 to Hate Law School
Ryan Gosling is in DC tonight on tour with his band Dead Man’s Bones. Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage and one of my all-time faves, wrote a blog post earlier this week on how awesome their song “Pa Pa Power” is, and I have to say, I do agree with her. Although Federal Courts take home midterm takes priority over eye candy, I am enjoying listening to them from my little work station in my little studio apartment.
it’s not fair, and i think you’re really mean.
Lily Allen, one of my dear favorites, has made it clear, much to my displeasure, that she has no contract for a new album and would like to retire asap to make babies. My heart is broken as one of my favorite singers would rather be a breeder. Although I can put my own selfish demands aside, I think there is something interesting in one of her quotes on the subject.
“People think I’m this super-confident person who’s all for female empowerment but it’s not true. I have every intention of becoming a suburban mum. I want to get married and have children. Being followed by the paparazzi is not a life I want.”
If one has listened to a single song of Allen’s it’s plainly obvious that she is definitely not super-confident (check out “Cheryl Tweedy” about one of my faves in Girls Aloud), but female empowerment? Perhaps I missed the boat and need to read Jezebel more, but isn’t the entire point of feminism is the ability to choose? I’ve always been under the impression that a woman can be a stay-at-home mom and wear pearls and makeup and still be a feminist, so long as they do it out of their own volition. Perhaps I’m jaded from my own childhood (although mom did not wear pearls or makeup), but I don’t think a desire to care for your offspring fulltime is against feminist ideals.
I also have to wonder why more female celebs don’t take this route. Most of us have those baby-making hormones kicking in, and the natural urge to protect offspring (from the dangers of paparazzi, drugs, etc) and since these women make enough money to live comfortably for the rest of their lives, I have to wonder why more of them don’t retire and find a mountain resort. Maybe women do have the career drive more than simple anthropology would suggest. Or perhaps it’s just that the women who succeed in entertainment industries require such a drive to reach that success so they would not normally cease to have that drive after a fetus slides out of the womb.
I just hope Miss Lily puts a studio in her home and keeps me supplied with her witty songs for a long time.
