New Music 2012 - Part 12 - "Oh, internet" - A love song

Not much could amuse me more than reposting this without further comment.

Later:  It is a long time since I've added lyrics to a post, so here they are:
  

OOOH INTERNET 
OOOH INTERNET 
  
this constant refresh well they say it's the death of us, baby 
but I like what you do and the way that you change on the daily 
when I walk down the street only strangers I meet 
but I can shake loneliness in just a tweet
  
internet 
i don't want to lose you 
  
oh internet 
if you were a pokémon I'd choose you 
  
oh internet 
keep me on your feed 
I synch to you pretty much constantly 
  
OOOH INTERNET 
OOOH INTERNET 
  
every now and then I go and check on the mail 
cause when there are physical letters consistency fails 
oh these bills everyday, 
lest they be autopay 
are easy to ignore 
....anyway
  
internet 
i don't want to lose you 
  
OOO INTERNET 
    
oh internet 
you're the only love that's true 
    
oh internet 
i'd make out with your face 
later tonight let's meet in cyberspace 
      
oh but I can't get by unless there's wifi 
is this a drug that I need 
there is no other way 
I am at home all day 
so that my torrents can seed 
you just don't get it 
cause you're not on reddit 
and if you want me to go out 
just make sure that there's 
     
internet 
i don't want to lose you 
     
OOH INTERNET 
   
oh internet 
boo boo be boo boo-boop 
   
OOH INTERNET 
   
oh internet 
I wrote you this song 
and if you like it then you all can sing along.
   

Enjoy. Music is easy to take much too seriously and yet the themes it carries often very easy to dismiss. This is presented tongue-in-cheek and that is certainly no bad thing.   The imagined destructive power of new technology has long been over-estimated and its benefits under-sold. Neither is the way in which it starts reactionary.

American pop - music I want in 2009, Part 3

I can be strange this way.
I know that Taylor Swift was one of the US artists of 2008 but made no commercial in-roads in the UK. Her first UK single release, Love Song, is now being played on the radio here quite intensively. I like it and I'm not afraid to admit that; except to rue the fact that the album Fearless is not yet widely available in the UK. I'm usually not one quite so impatient, it is to be released in the UK in a month or so, but for once I'm glad to be so!

Last week temperance wasn't my strong suit so I ordered the US version on a whim. Now I'm very glad that I did - today I heard that the UK album version is going to be "sanitized" by the removal of the banjos and fiddles.
I know I can cope with the original, which some in the UK call the 'country' version. To add to that, unless you have been living under a stone for the last few years, you might have noticed these instruments often in UK and US alt/nu/anti-folk and actually in far more surprising situations.

Love Song has just been confirmed #2 in the UK single chart for the week ending 28 February, beaten only to to the top spot by Kelly Clarkson with the single My Life Would Suck Without You and two American solo artists at the top of the UK charts does much to restore the balance again but don't think the UK is going roll over and lie down. This is just as it should be!

Little Voice - 'Love Song' lyrics

This album has not had a UK release yet, but that is what the internet there for! I expect I could have downloaded it from any number of sites, legally or otherwise. I am however, and rather more pleasingly, listening to the US vinyl 12" as I write about it and furthermore the vinyl version comes with the facility to download the all tracks on mp3 too - legally and totally free! What is more you get the full LP artwork, including an inner sleeve which includes full lyrics to all the songs.

There are plenty of them too; she is a prolific lyricist.

LOVE SONG

Head under water
And they tell me to breath easy for a while.
The breathing gets harder even I know that.
You made room for me but it's too soon to see
If I'm happy in your hands
I'm unusually hard to hold on to.
Blank stares at blank pages
You mean well, but you make this hard on me
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you asked for it
'Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you tell me it's
Make or breaking this
If you're on you way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving I need a better reason to write you a love song today
I learned the hard way
That they all say things you want to hear
And my heavy heart sinks deep down under you
And your twisted words, your help just hurts.
You are not what I thought you were
Hello to high and dry
Convinced me to please you
Made me think that I need this too
I'm trying to let you hear me as I am
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you asked for it
'Cause you need one, you see
'Cause you tell me it's
Make or breaking this
If you're on you way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving I'm gonna need a better reason to write you a love song today
Promise me that you'll leave the light on
To help me see with daylight, my guide, gone
'Cause I believe there's a way you can love me because I say
I won't write you a love song
'Cause you asked for it
'Cause you need one you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
Is that why you wanted a love song?
'Cause you asked for it
'Cause you need one you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you tell me it's make or breaking this.
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If your heart is nowhere in it
I don't want it for a minute
Babe, I'll walk the seven seas when I believe that there's a reason to
Write you a love song.

If you want the lyrics to any of the other songs on the album then please ask and I'll try to add them as soon as I can.

America just won't go away, thank goodness.

I rarely mention singles, unless in the context of albums, but this one - (Not a) Love Song - has caught my attention good and proper. I'm not quite sure why but clearly UK radio feels much the same as it is getting prodigious airplay.
It is taken from the forthcoming album, Little Voice, which is never mentioned on the radio but clearly should be, so here is the track list:

• 1. Love Song
• 2. Vegas
• 3. Bottle It Up
• 4. One Sweet Love
• 5. Come Round Soon
• 6. Morningside
• 7. Between The Lines
• 8. Love On The Rocks
• 9. City
• 10. Many The Miles
• 11. Fairytale
• 12. Gravity

If you don't like Love Song I suspect that, come the end of this summer, you will be mighty sick of this, which is actually her second album...

It is not currently released in the UK so I've ordered it from the US instead. There is nothing unusual in that and, because you probably understand my predilection by now, on 12" vinyl.