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Destiny's Child: Survivor

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by Sean Adams
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 16/04/2001
  • Label: Sony
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…..What? I said mmmmmmmmmmmm…that is the only word which sums this track up. What? Well, urm, I’m 19 years old, same age as Beyoncé and co, and I have a fetish for sexy female vocals. I’ll admit it. What? It’s not a criminal offence y’know! I’m only mmm-ing about this ickle ditty. Cus you know my mummy taught me better than that!

I really thought I’d had enough of strings in pop songs, until this one, ‘Survivor’. The evil lil’ violins perfectly set the background for this choon, fighting against post-drum’n’bass (I’m making up genre’s again, sorry!) machine blippity bloppity tsh tsh plopping. Then there are the vocals…mmmmm! The centre of what everything else spins around. These are harmonies to tell the world about. So I am. Three layers of gospel vocals jump up’n’down and shake themselves all around, just as adoringly sweet as a freshly iced chocolate cake, still warm from the oven. Or the video, if you will...mmmmm...

Hang on! There’s some words amongst this prize winning perfect picture style. Oh baby. Putting themselves into the head of the genderless working man (and I use that term looser than an American pollution manifesto), re-interpreting the feeling of finishing another day, ready to carry on to fight another. However, this song does challenge the notion of the chauvinist values that still remain in the world around us(like many other DC songs). And what better way to get the message to those that are wrong, than through one of the sexiest video’s ever! What? What do I mean “wrong”? Think how equal the world is. How men treat women in comparison to how women treat men. Just think about it. The new women’s liberation movement will be televised. You will be watching and maybe listening too-ooh….mmmmm…I’m a survivor!

  • Destiny's Child 8 / 10

Destiny's Child - Survivor

Unfortunately you forgot to mention how passee a band they are and boring.

But, I suppose if you must like this kinda thing.... all hail TLC....oh, I mean.... ahhh, forget it


Re: Destiny's Child - Survivor

Agreed. OK, so in general I hate Destiny's Child, but forgetting that for a minute, 'Survivor' is an incredibly repetitive, moaning, droning reworking of the previous singles. And as for the backing vocals, you got it just right with "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" Sean, that's all the other two do all the way through the fucking song.

I've never seen the attraction of DC but then there are loads of bands I've never seen the attraction of, so I'll shut up. Which is exactly what I wish these moaning bitches would do.

Shit! I've broken it!

Errr, sorry! Too many 'm's. Should that happen?

Re: Shit! I've broken it!

I really liked destiny's child - 'bills, bills, bills@ fantastic as was bugaboo(sp?) but this is pah as was the bloody charlies angels track

shocking - and she has a great voice but by wailing like a strangled cat hardly shows it off

xx

Re: Shit! I've broken it!

I'd love to agree with you that DC are shite but I just can't. I feel for ya Sean. But ya gotta beat the cravings. Beyonce has got chunky legs anyway. The backing on Survivor is shite but I still find myself jigging. Oh dear. IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN.

I agree with Sean and partly Sara...

I love 'em. Sometimes I don't want to be all angsty at my desk. And sure, they're a bit on the samey side (although check out the production on the last disc, smooth) but then a lot of bands have one or two songs that they rework. So long as the song stands on it's own two feet (which I reckon most of theirs do) it doesn't matter if it's similar to something that went before. :)

::joins Sean in the swoony, daydreamy mmmming:: Beyoncé Knowles, I love you, thunder thighs, strangled cat wail and all. :)

Dale xXx

"chunky legs?" sometimes I dispair

What the fuck? "chunky legs" who the hell cares what size a womens legs are? Or if they have any at all? That is the EXACT comment I'm talking about in the close to that review. Women aren't a set of figures which if they match a certain code makes them more attractive than those that don't match the code. Grrr!

I don't want to go into a rant about how sometimes I dispair about the way men view women, and think they can become critics of beauty, when they spend most of their lifes looking like they've either been a victim of fashion or like they've never seen a mirror. Although I know women are just as guilty of this at times. Does it matter what's inside the mind? I think so. I think I'm being idealistic again too, oh well.

The only reason I may have "cravings" is because *boy* does Beyonce have the moves, the mind, the confidence and the eyes(the window to the mind) to get me ::excited:: about. And Dale too. Obviously!

Sean

Teenage Fanclub.

I'm thinking me and Sean should be put in charge of some Official UK Fanclub. ::nods:: It makes perfect sense.

Still, yeah, although I admittedly find them rather attractive, their lyrics are actually pretty damn empowering.

Mostly they're about taking no shit from men and not being used as prizes, toys or piggy banks. Unlike the Spice Girls (who all laid on their backs as soon as the first footballer / dancer batted his eyes at them), there actually seems to be some sincerity to their pro-woman stance. And Beyoncé writes a lot of her own lyrics, so it's not just something the back room writing team have decided on.

Ladies take note... you respect yourselves and we neanderthals'll respect you more too. :)

Dale xXx

i think this is all a load of bollocks ....

... as far as pro-feminism , DC say really incredibly obvious things: women can have jobs and cars n stuff.

and i tend to find their records little more than tuneless dirges, though i'm yet to hear this one. *sigh*
i just don't get anything

Re: i think this is all a load of bollocks ....

Just listen to Radio 1 for half an hour, you'll hear it...

Actually, on the subject of lyrics, can someone clarify to me the general gist of the lyrics to 'Bills, Bills, Bills'?

Re: i think this is all a load of bollocks ....

I believe Bills, Bills, Bills is all about a dude who starts mooching off his girly, being a general cheapskate. Amen.

Love Dale xXx

Re: "chunky legs?" sometimes I dispair

I'd agree that so many men have a fucked up view of women and we could discuss that all day, BUT, when you're talking about how someone looks, the important thing is... (wait for it...) how they look!! So if someone has chunky legs and someone finds that unattractive that's fine. Doesn't make that chunky legged person better or worse, it's an opinion.

Anyway...

the right to an opinion?

I hear your point. I kinda accept it. But what gives anyone a right to judge someone like that? Fair enough celebrities are supposed to accept that sorta criticism, praise or disgust. It's just wrong tho'. If I find someone repulsive, I ignore it.

It's only fair to make judgements on people immediate to you who you have some affect over. Pop stars are still people, I don't see why the world has such a weird view that all people who are famous are there to be knocked down from their pedestals. It's all jealous bullshit which makes the world a shit place. Tho the same could be argued in some philosophical parody to Anti-capitalism, tho I'm not serious about this point!

bye!

Re: the right to an opinion?

I partly agree with what you've said, but if you're in the public eye you've got to expect and accept praise AND criticism. If you don't like it, ignore it or just stay out of the limelight.

Anyway, I think this has been blown up a bit, as I seem to remember the original comment was saying that whoever it was was nice but had slightly chunky legs. Hardly a full-on scathing attack really.

Martin.