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 - Survivor
But, I suppose if you must like this kinda thing.... all hail TLC....oh, I mean.... ahhh, forget it
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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!
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shocking - and she has a great voice but by wailing like a strangled cat hardly shows it off
xx
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I agree with Sean and partly Sara...
::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
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.
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 ....
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
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Actually, on the subject of lyrics, can someone clarify to me the general gist of the lyrics to 'Bills, Bills, Bills'?
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Love Dale xXx
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Anyway...
the right to an opinion?
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!
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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.