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2008: Year of the Derriere?
Submitted by imaginary liz on January 22, 2008.Is it strange to anyone else that two songs I've been listening to quite a bit in 2008 include the word derriere?
It's surely more eloquent that the words that can be substituted for it. Who knew it rhymed so well, too?
Oh, how beautiful it sounds when Claudia sings it in the Magnetic Fields' song "California Girls:"
They ain't broke, so they put on airs,
the faux folks sans derrieres
There's no video for it yet, but here's the MP3.
(Sidenote: Here's a link to download my FAVORITE song on the new Magnetic Fields' album, "Drive on, Driver" - go to the bottom of this page for the MP3)
Next is the more bootilicious use of the word: Britney Spears in her latest single "Piece of Me:"
There still gon' be pictures of my derrière in the magazine
You want a piece of me?
Now, are there any other songs out there that mention this frenchie word for fanny? Or places it could have been used?
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imaginary liz said on January 22, 2008:
You caught me, I like elitist record store clerk indie rock and I can publicly admit I watch MTV.
If there was a killer Timbaland track with an anonymous vocalist, Erik G would catch it (he specializes in that territory) and post it here -- and also explain where Timbaland found the vocalist.
Is there a particular track you have in mind? If so, please share. Catchy hooks are catchy hooks, I can get giddy about it all... especially if the word "derrière" was used.
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maxxie may said on January 22, 2008:
Wouldn't the most hipster thing to do be to blog about the Timbaland track that no one else knows about? That would be way more hipster than blogging about the Magnetic Fields.
Everyone knows about them and in some areas of Seattle you could be publicly flogged for dissing Mr. Merritt.
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Erik Gonzalez said on January 22, 2008:
Apparently only a hipster would blog about songs that are both (a) unknown to everyone and (b) public laughingstock. Makes perfect sense, I mean, I think really what you want to say is that a hipster is anyone that will blog about music, at least according to your definite. Of course, the difference here is that my clothing fits.
Personally, I think the most hipster thing to do is call out hipsters on a comment to a blog about Britney. Huh.
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imaginary liz said on January 22, 2008:
I can't wait to get my W.W.H.D bracelet in the mail!
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Veronique said on January 22, 2008:
I gotta say I routinely dance around in my underwear to "Toxic" – I guess that makes me a hipster. Britney's an oversexed Femmebot. There should be more derriere songs in this world!
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ChrisB said on January 22, 2008:
"Piece of Me" is the most played song on my iPod. I didn't know that listening to Britney (which I do without irony) made me a hipster. I spent all this time believing the exact opposite when that time could have been better spent drinking at the Linda's.
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elle-too lazy to sign in said on January 25, 2008:
Uh, I don't know who "you all" is that commenter number 1 is referring to, but I write for this here website and I absolutely cannot stand Britney Spears. Over computerized music, no personality, dimwit. In fact, I don't understand why we're still talking about her.
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jcassidy said on January 22, 2008:
The only reason you like Britney Spears is that you're all a bunch of hipsters! Hipsters, hipsters, hipsters, hipsters! It's hip for hipsters to like pop music once it's a public laughingstock. Essentially, once they can say "Hey, it's really not that bad!" but nobody cares. When it's a Wes Anderson movie everyone will complain that it's just some hipster bullshit and everyone who likes it is just some fucking loser who wasn't popular in high school. If this was just a Timbaland track with some anonymous vocalist it wouldn't even get mentioned here.