This week Pack and Play gets in touch with our.. er… well, a feminine side. More precisely, a look to the British isles at a few women making music right now. It turns out there may be more to British women than Bridget Jones and Kate Moss.
The British invasion took the Elvis’s hips and Chuck Berry’s Ding-a-Ling and shook it right back in our face. Jagger portending the shirtless leather pants of Led Zeppelin. Zeppelin brought the hair. Then, while LA hair bands were nailing actresses up and down The Sunset Strip, Britain pulled away from the coke fueled abyss. Well, many of them did. Sorry Ms. Winehouse, you didn’t make this week’s selection.
In the last dozen years or so, that hasn’t stopped a symmetrical rise of girly singers on both sides of the pond. They have The Spice Girls, we get The Backstreet Boys.
While the Union Jack part of the British invasion in the 60’s ricocheted machismo, the mirror of today’s Union Jills have their own flavor.
In the news this week, there has been a lot of talk about the value of a persons point of view. The dialog has questioned if past experiences cloud or clear your judgment.
And what is that experience? I can’t tell exactly what Lily Allen and Adele have in common. I can tell, however, that whatever it is definitely adds clarity, (especially to the smokey mind) and I think, in this case, that’s a good thing.
Track List:
- Great DJ by The Ting Tings from We Started Nothing
- The Fear by Lily Allen from It’s Not Me, It’s You
- Seventeen by Ladytron from Light & Magic
- Hometown Glory by Adele from 19
- Warwick Avenue by Duffy from Rockferry
- Hairy Trees by Goldfrapp from Black Cherry
- Oh My God (feat. Lily Allen) by Mark Ronson from Version
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