I am a victim of Wogan

[caddyman]

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

I fear that the effects of the mass media have finally caught up with me; prolonged exposure has whittled away at my natural defences to the extent that were I a National Trust beach facing erosion from the sea, the trustees would throw up their hands in resignation and say the sea defences have crumbled so extensively that it’s time to let nature take its course and allow the entire village behind to drop into the sea.

I don’t like Lily Allen and I believe I’ve made that clear on this journal before. That said, I find myself humming her latest single, The Fear. This has happened before, where a catch tune gets out and about and sinks its fangs into the old memory, but usually it gets annoying, though after a while it fades and life can resume.

This time it’s different. The rational part of my brain, the bit that looks to see what the pleasure receptors are up to and wags a finger at them, is tapping its foot too. It appears, Lord help me, that I have come to like this song.

I shall now get my iPod out and play something more from the blues/rock end of the musical spectrum in the hope of restoring some kind of equilibrium. Or just give in and keep humming The Fear.

Comments

[thru-her-lens.livejournal.com]

Hehe
So many people seem to dislike her and yet like her new song.
I have to admit I haven't really listened to anything she's done until her new song. But I like it, and what I've heard of the album too.

That said - I am very impressionable to songs that get in my head and just stay there, so you have my sympathies!

[sack-boy.livejournal.com]

It appears that she has two modes of "singing" - her appalling diction with minimal backing music or real singing with a strong musical backing. Most of her stuff to date appears to consist mostly of the first mode - whereas The Fear includes the second mode as the refrain.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I like Lily Allen.

Attractive woman.
Intelligent lyrics.
Bouncy pop tunes hiding an underlying viciousness.

What's not to like? :-)

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of this person until you said how little you like her. Now I am seeing ads, for whatever it is she does, annoyingly pasted across the top of numerous web pages, especially MySpace. Never having heard a note/seen her act/watched her juggle 104 large rats/whatever, the fact that the media tell me I should pay attention to her induces me to completely ignore her. Oh evil moi, etc.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

I am still chuckling about Wogan's story of the two Yorkshiremen who were on holiday in the Wye Valley

Love it, Love it, love it!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I don't recall hearing that this morning. Maybe I was off brushing my gnashers or something.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing it was probably more Geordie-based along the lines of "Wye?" "Aye!"

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

Geordie, Can you walk?

Walk? I canna even waark.

Gan canny!

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

It was last week some time

One said to the other

Tintern Abbey

After a pause the otherone said

Tiiiiis, it's a bloomin' great church!

It keeps dropping unbidden into my mind and making me chuckle, there is nothing so sweet as something that keeps you chuckling for days

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

I've decided that one cannot fight "culture" - good or bad! :-) (Mind you when I learnt that she sang something along the lines of "F*ck you George Bush" and claimed that he was a racist - she did go down a little in my esteem. She's only young - and naiive - I suppose.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

I don't know the song personally but my rule is that it is always perfectly acceptable to like any music whatsoever if you happen to like it. I've been known to listen to such guff as the Sugababes and Girls Aloud but I rationalise it that we're allowed the odd empty calorie snack between meals now and then. Personally I found Allen's first album reasonable despite thinking she is a tosspot as an individual.