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Whilst I'm rather fond of the* Scissor Sisters *as an entity, it’s actually remarkably difficult to like this single, try as one might.
For a start, writing a single called 'I Don’t Feel Like Dancin'' when you’re generally considered a good-time, party DANCE band is probably not the wisest idea. If the Scissor Sisters don’t feel like dancing, for Chrissake, then why on Earth should we?
Secondly, Jake's vocals never differ from a falsetto so high it sounds like a young Bee Gee in a ball-lock, which would be hard to bear at 40 seconds, never mind four minutes.
And the less said about the lame ray-gun sounds, the better.
In conclusion: they could do better, we deserve better, and frankly, I Don’t Feel Like Listening To This. Ever again.
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I thought these had disappeared along with a million other bad dreams, but obviously not.
Spookily enough this has just been on the radio, and is quite frankly abysmal.
What with this, Orson, The Feeling and Kasabian, there really have been some goddamnawful singles released this year.
Laura
is on the radio right now and it's ACE, which is why this track sucks so much in comparison.
Wrong
This track is good.
Agreed
Obviously it's too commercial to be considered "cool"...
No...
It's just shit.
Oh my days...
this really is a bad song.
And I really have to echo domgourlay's comments (and then some) by saying the radio is clogged with Orson, The Feeling, fucking Razorlight, Keane, Snowpatrol and now that poxy piss awful excuse for a song by the Fratellis. Its not that SS have become too commercial at all !! It really is a shite track !!!
This morning I came across radio 2.
They played Super Furry Animals.
It made my day !
am with george here...
this is terrible.
and i loved the 1st album, so am not arsed whether they're too popular to be cool or not.
I quite like this song
For a band such as Scissor Sisters, it makes all the right moves, and surprisingly, a little more.
Plus it has a double hand clap. Something Clap Your Hands Say Yeah never had.
I agree that 'Laura' is ok...
and even 'Mary', for all it's Elton John piano tinkling, was listenable. But this song is ATROCIOUS, and when I saw them at Benicassim this year, I had to leave halfway through the set cos they were making me feel violent.
...
what does "For a band like Scissor Sisters, it makes all the right moves, and surprisingly, a little more" mean?
a little more what? a little more desperation to break America?
a little more desperation to sound like a 90s remix of a 70s Elton John track...?
The Erol Alkan remix is...
awesome though it holds little similarity to the original.
this track sounds like Leo Sayer
and that ain't no good thing.
this song
is ace. beegees tastic
.
For an overtly 'pop' band, it does the job much better than others and more so, because I quite like it. Therefore it has a little more to it for me.
I'd certainly leave it on if it came on the radio whilst I am washing up, and feel relieved it wasn't the fucking Kooks.
It is distinctly average...
...by scissor sisters standards at least. But lay of Kasabian, their single is awsome.
Wrong
Its not too comemercial to be cool
its just a really really poorly written song....
cool is bollocks anyway...
just good songs is what's needed
less time dressing up and more time writing i say
plus everything they have done sounds like elton john now there going for a leo sayer vibe its just wrong in every way
I love this new single
it's so upbeat and catchy.
But what is wrong with Jake Shear's falsetto voice? If it's his style I don't see what is wrong with it, most other singers out there all have their own individual style, and if they make it work then good for them, Jake Shear's makes it work so I don't see what's wrong with it.
reptition of
"what's wrong with it" I need to learn some better phrases.
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