Finally Someone Deserves Me

The Ruby Suns “There Are Birds” –
MCP: this is the other one I think I’m doing for tomorrow
RZLY: listening
RZLY: i dig
MCP: what is your impression?
RZLY: airy and drony are words that come to mind
RZLY: but that’s ’cause all words i think of to describe music end in “y”
RZLY: reminds me of broadcast
MCP: if this song is a person, how would you describe that person?
RZLY: a little depressed, but honest and earnest
MCP: who would this person date, what is her love life like?
RZLY: probably a lot of different people, each for a very short period of time. wants commitment but can’t quite get it. too complicated
MCP: (I ask cos I kinda have an idea)
MCP: see, I had the other idea
MCP: to me, this song is like a person who has been in a relationship with one person for a really long time and just wants a bit of space, some privacy, some tiny bit of time when she’s herself, and not part of a unit
MCP: (did you just describe yrself btw?)
RZLY: haha. umm… maybe.
RZLY: god i project a fucking lot
RZLY: but the person i pictured was a lot prettier and sadder than me
MCP: okay, so…RZLY = not as hot, but more chipper than the girl in the song
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Avenue D & Phiiliip “Totally In Love” – Avenue D spent the better part of this decade trading in raunch, but here they are, sounding more like smitten schoolgirls than over-the-top porn starlets. Nevertheless, even when they were playing faux-naïf, they couldn’t help but to push things to the extreme: This is so incredibly cutesy and twee that it borders on the ridiculous. That said, the girls convey a very genuine crushed-out affection in the song that cuts through the song’s thick, syrupy irony. (Click here to buy it from Avenue D.)