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| From | Michael Coxe <popville@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Phoenix? ...(& Miss Li) |
| Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:36:32 -0800 |
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On 11/17/2009 12:36 PM, Stewart Mason wrote:
>
> It helps that WAP is their best album so far by some distance, but the
> main difference this time is that they've signed to a new label whose
> owner did a very good job of hyping them outside the traditional music
> press: they got a lot of buzz early this year in the fashion press,
> helped considerably by the fact that the singer is a good looking guy
> who has hipster cred by marriage, being Sofia Copolla's husband. Not
> sure what favors he called in to get them the SNL booking before the
> album even came out, though.
And I bet the constantly running Cadillac commercials with "1901"
backing track doesn't hurt. That's where I first heard them. Nice to see
a band worth the hype reap rewards for a change.
My other TV ad adventure this year - Swedish singer Miss Li (iPod Nano
commercial) - is just ok. Hardly more that a one-hit oh-nee-der, IMO. I
like: "Bourgeois Shangri-La" (ad tune), "Dancing The Whole Way Home"
(2009 album title song), the 60s-girl-group "The Boy In The Fancy Suit",
but most others suffer from nostalgic stylings. She has 3 earlier
records but what I heard on LaLa is even more dated musically (show
tunes, ragtime, sing-song), except for the neat "Ba Ba Ba" which clicks,
not terribly unlike a Lene Lovich song.
Digging the list...
- Michael
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