Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Like any sane man (woman or child), Mark K-Punk likes the Lumidee single. Unfortunately he has to contextualise it in terms of post-punk qualities, ie; the fact that she can't sing. OK, she can't sing, it's true, and her weak vocals add a degree of emotional desperation (near hysteria, but contained massively) to the tune, giving it's slinky, funky, irresistable handclap-percussive hook some empathic clout on top of the masterful fishing lines dropped neatly into your jiggy-centre ("uh-uh-uh-oh" in the remix, which she mimes along with in the video like Buster Keaton falling off a cliff on a burning train - ie; beautiful, fatalist, tragic and brave all at the same time), but the less-than-technically-brilliant vocals are not the only thing that's great about the tune. You might as well say you like it because she's not a skinny lass vacuum-formed from plastic in the anorexia-melisma mould like so many other female singers these days (or airbrushed to look as if they are). Excuses, excuses, excuses. There's nothing post-punk about "Never Leave Me (Uh-Oh)" at all, but there's everything brillaint about it.
9/03/2003 02:11:00 pm
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