{ music video & multi-frame comic } Imogen Heap: Let's do the white girl twist (like we did last summer)
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What she was there to record: Imogen Heap – Just for now (live at Studio 11 on 103.1 FM [Los Angeles, California], November 3, 2006), online at dailymotion
There's just something disagreeable about her effort.
In trying to figure out what's unattractive about Imogen's performance (over confidence? soul-less execution? meatless squeal? rat's nest hair?), I eventually hit upon M.K. Brown's comic from the 1980s: Let's do the white girl twist (like we did last summer) (reproduced below). I suppose I first saw Brown's comic in the National Lampoon, but it's been published elsewhere. See if you don't agree it captures Imogene's approach to popular music.
Pop music ― Graphic storytelling & visual narrative
Oh, too funny, the White Girl Twist. That is so - right.
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Yeah? I wanted to publish this over at TFTML, but then thought .... maybe not, because I suspect there are legions of Imogen's fans who'd violently disagree .. but they're wrong.
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Well, all of those four gardening folks that read my blog might REBEL - but I'm not sure that will really affect the planet.
(I'm in a music void. Any suggestions?)
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Dancing for you, pal, is not what she was there to record.
As for your fulsome feline hiss ...
Hope someone notifies me, if Heap ever offers an opinion of any Thing you have (ever) mastered, or, in your case, 'the best you could muster'
You will never achieve to a fraction of her talent, and will never re-perform any piece of music as many times as she has re-interpreted this one
I advised female artist M.K.Brown that her work (C)1986 White Girl Twist [hic], is being levered to insult a female musician.
Pick on your own size, bub.
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I'm glad my review of Imogen's video caught your eye. It's what blogs, such as mine, aspire to.
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