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The Ting Tings are grrrl w/ attit00d popfromarockstance! or rockfromapopstance! They're Republica for the noughties! They’re The Gossip meets The Pipettes! They're excruciatingly vapid, contrived shit! They're daring to be a bit different! It’s just a bit of fun!
Choose what you like from the above jumble, and choose to take it how you like. Feel free to love it. Go on. It's kinda catchy, and the a cappella, dislocated vocal that leads to the chorus is an interesting touch. It’s not pure evil. It’s just that it sounds like a Pete Waterman production trying to rip off The Slits, or someone trying to remake The Flying Lizards' version of ‘Money’ and replacing all the android charm with banal GirlPower.
Thing is, with unashamedly mainstream-orientated manufactured pop groups like Girls Aloud having such audacious productions nowadays, there's really no need for this contrived faux-indie (7" only, kidz), dated, patronising, drivel.
Also: really shit name.
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The Ting Tings
I think
I like them. A little bit.
The last time that song came on the radio
I enjoyed it. I thought it was like the Go! Team only not shit.
VOTE:
who sounds more like a cock: me or "frest2332"
no!
i vote for frest! anyone who jumps to the conclusion that a review is sexist just because its got girls in it and its been slagged off is silly.
this kennington insult thing
is one of the funniest thing's ive ever heard
DIS reviewing continues down the pan
Seems to me like more and more reviews on this once passable site are now more about batting about sub-Blackadder insults and less about actually reviewing/describing the music.
It's like NME for 20-somethings. eek.
I vote reviewer = COCK
i seriously can't understand why this review has provoked these reactions and personal insults
i provide points of reference, i clearly express why people might like it, but say that i don't like it and explain why. i don't see what the big deal is. there's nothing spiteful about it, i just find the song annoying and meaningless.
^ agreed
the review isn't particularly savage and isn't riddled with the sort of hyperbole you'd find in NME - it's an honest review cleverly written I think
He's got a point
You come from Kennington! ROFL! You're a total failure as a human being.
Ha ha
Kennington loser! Ha...wait a minute.
Lets be really honest here
this band are never going to get anywhere are they? Simply for the reason they're shit. They're the band that all the people who were too late/didn't like Karen O, because she said too many dirty words/made too many screaming sounds and so prefer this inoffensive, contrived bollocks. The lead singer is completely anonymous, looks like she's just fallen out of a topshop calender, and the faux electro glitches they stick on to attract the "new rave" crowd add absolutely fuck all to the song. Now that was a tasteless rant...much more so than this review.
Correction
they're the band FOR all the people..
they'd still be shit though
your point?
Never
going to get anywhere... except to number one in the charts.
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