According to her MySpace page, Joanna is a “soulful Pat Benatar” for the TRL set. She’s on a summer tour of malls and summer camps.
NY Times‘s Kelefa Sanneh gave Jo this shoutout yesterday:
An aspiring pop star, Joanna has the support of MTV and an album (This Crazy Love) scheduled for August release. And her MySpace page contains a pleasant surprise: a straightforward yet complicated cover of “Screaming Infidelities,” the emo classic by Dashboard Confessional. In the original, a boy drowned in self-pity while ranting about a girl: “I’m missing your laugh, how did it break?/And when did your smile begin to look fake?” Joanna doesn?t change the lyrics, but you might find that her voice alters the story line. The original had an undercurrent of meanness; the complaints ? “You?re not alone/And you’re not discreet” ? were also insults. But can a girl insult a boy by accusing him of indiscretion? Do emo breakup songs have to be a little bit mean? And if so, does Joanna’s version qualify?
There are “emo classics” now? It’s weird how I find myself defending Chris Carrabba on Stereogum (I own 0 Dashboard albums), but I understand why you mock him. He’s got his head up Adam Duritz’s ass these days, and no one scores cool points for hanging out with Adam Duritz this century (Except when he’s joined by Chewy.) Is Adam still recording with Mandy Moore and the Olsen Twins?
Anyway, I digress. Joanna’s “Infidelities” is surprisingly likeable. Check it out on MySpace. Or, if you’re gray, leave the babies with mommy and head to Tower 8/15. Norman’s doesn’t carry that shit.
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See, I thought you were going to say Joanna Newsom…
Bastard.
hey! adam is will always be cool if only for August & Everything After (and a Long December)
i’d hang with mandy moore if she wanted to. don’t front
Yes, there are emo classics http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000JNN/qid=1153147381/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-1004909-6314419?s=music&v=glance&n=5174
It’s a shame that people only know the Counting Crows for their unfortunate PR decisions (Shrek sountrack, Vanessa Carlton duets on unnecessary re-makes, Pepsi commercials, etc), because all four of their albums are solid.
Well I was going to say exactly what Wes did.
Don’t knock Duritz too hard. Even if the Crows haven’t put out a decent album, you know, this century, me and them will always have the 90s.
And you’d tap Mandy More too if you had the chance. Especially if you were an odd looking dood with crazy ass dreadlocks.
Wow, you thought you were going to catch flak for defending Chris Carraba, and instead you’ve incurred the wrath of the Adam Duritz apologists.
That’s why I always read the comments.
Yes, there are classic emo albums…they’re all by the Smiths, though.
why why why countn’t the myspace page have been joanna newsom’s?
haha, i totally thought it was about jonna newsom too.
and i’d defend adam duritz over dashboard guy any day of the week.
The blonder Olsen always looks strung out. Were people actually wanting to have sex with them in the past? That’s creepy on a whole differrent level now.
I really don’t like this version. This is awful.
I ALSO thougth you were talking about Joanna Newsom. Drat. btw ~ why so many posts about the disposable pop stars like Avril Lavigne and whoever this Joanna person is? Are you *trying* to become as irrelevant as the subject matter in this post?
a. is myspace the least reliable group of webpages ever or am I crazy?
b. hey, she lists sam cooke as her number 1 influence. since i can’t listen to the song, i don’t know how off that is, but i am willing to bet a lot.
c. i make this assumption because nothing about trl, pat benatar, and dashboard confessional suggests sam cooke to me.
I went to see dashboard confessional the other day (hey, the tickets were free, and I didn’t have anything else to do). I mainly noticed that most of the guys songs are really boring, but there are a few that really aren’t bad. I’ll give the guy props melodically, but the lyrics are pretty bad.
I also noticed that those young folk really go crazy for the music. I’m so used to a crowd of jaded h1psters that it was odd to see the crowd screaming and generally losing their shit.
dont eff with adam
It’s not bad, but it doesn’t have the edge of the original. Then again, Chris Carrabba lost his edge somewhere between Spiderman 2 and the new album. Seriously, “Dusk and Summer” sounds like he’s 70 and still crying about a lost girlfriend.
http://www.musictimes.com.au
I’m not going to lie, I was into Dashboard until a little after “A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar” (dumbest title ever). Now, I couldn’t care less, but this Hillary Duff-ified version upsets me.
This song always bugged me because it should be “screaming infidelities, taking THEIR wear” not “It’s” because infidelities is plural. But I suppose that is a different issue…
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