Christina Perri
January 24, 2011 7:44 PM Subscribe
On YouTube & MySpace beginning two years ago, singer/songwriter Christina Perri rocketed from relative unknown to digital star when her song, "Jar of Hearts," was featured on the June 30 episode of Fox TV's "So You Think You Can Dance". (source).
The ballad was rushed to iTunes where it sold 100,000 copies in two weeks interview. The YouTube channel also features some nicely done covers.
The ballad was rushed to iTunes where it sold 100,000 copies in two weeks interview. The YouTube channel also features some nicely done covers.
Well, yeah, I've played the bitter female ruing the day I ever met the asshole who said he loved me while treating me like another notch on the bedpost, but I didn't write the worst song in the history of pop music about it.
The lyrics are like angry nails on a chalkboard of stupidity.
posted by TheGoldenOne at 8:51 PM on January 24, 2011 [4 favorites]
The lyrics are like angry nails on a chalkboard of stupidity.
posted by TheGoldenOne at 8:51 PM on January 24, 2011 [4 favorites]
Oh shush. It's an emotional well performed song, and I like the beginning. It's a little heavy on the Cat Power. But I'll take any of that over Pink. The singer I mean.
posted by CNNInternational at 9:01 PM on January 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by CNNInternational at 9:01 PM on January 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Yeah, I'm a hater. I'm just past the prime age for appreciating teen girl melodrama. I also especially dislike the direction they took with the music video. Running with a literal interpretation of the heart jar? Ham-fisted much?
On another note, should we be amazed by the occasional internet music sensation? Don't 95% of all music stars come from relative obscurity? Is the internet speeding up the process somehow?
posted by TheGoldenOne at 9:53 PM on January 24, 2011
On another note, should we be amazed by the occasional internet music sensation? Don't 95% of all music stars come from relative obscurity? Is the internet speeding up the process somehow?
posted by TheGoldenOne at 9:53 PM on January 24, 2011
Ha I'm argumentative, but I'd only just clicked the one link, the "her song" link in the top link, and I liked it, and I do like it. Now with more assessment, prompted by "where's the heart jar?" I agree with you. Hadn't watched the official video. That Heart Jar is very tacky. Grouped with the Lexus ad on the second link I wonder when the Yankee Candle endorsement happens.
But really, emotional reactions are a scale of one to a hundred. And you pushed an easy "95, worstss!!" on what should have just been a "meh, 54." I hold my 95-scale fuck offs for Fergie. But being young and being able to sing decently, even if that means getting gulped up by marketing, it's okay. We should just offer these people shelter.
posted by CNNInternational at 10:12 PM on January 24, 2011
But really, emotional reactions are a scale of one to a hundred. And you pushed an easy "95, worstss!!" on what should have just been a "meh, 54." I hold my 95-scale fuck offs for Fergie. But being young and being able to sing decently, even if that means getting gulped up by marketing, it's okay. We should just offer these people shelter.
posted by CNNInternational at 10:12 PM on January 24, 2011
I stand corrected. My Humps is the worst song in the history of pop music.
posted by TheGoldenOne at 10:17 PM on January 24, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by TheGoldenOne at 10:17 PM on January 24, 2011 [4 favorites]
She's got a good voice and is a so-so pop lyricist but goddamn if she's not a museum of bad tattoos. The "Oh. My. God." passing through my head every time a new one was revealed by the camera made it really hard to concentrate on the songs.
posted by dobbs at 10:31 PM on January 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by dobbs at 10:31 PM on January 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
My throat hurts. Almost as if I'd swallowed some sort of pill. Some sort of jagged... little... pill.
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:42 PM on January 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:42 PM on January 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
Needs more autotune. All the kids are doing it these days.
posted by delmoi at 10:45 PM on January 24, 2011
posted by delmoi at 10:45 PM on January 24, 2011
The real Spock would not have liked this song. He would have found it highly illogical, trite, melodramatic piffle. Performed by a woman with a teaspoonful of talent.
posted by puny human at 10:47 PM on January 24, 2011
posted by puny human at 10:47 PM on January 24, 2011
Could we all enter the dance video contest? Visually, the literal interpretations might work best.
It's another anthem for the disappointed in love who enjoy a measure of catharsis when they sing and cry along to someone else staking out the new boundaries of her life and declaring that she is stronger now that he's gone. There must be thousands and thousands of these songs written every second. There's a secret subterranean river of them running under our feet. Gloria Gaynor runs a ferry service across it.
posted by pracowity at 11:53 PM on January 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
It's another anthem for the disappointed in love who enjoy a measure of catharsis when they sing and cry along to someone else staking out the new boundaries of her life and declaring that she is stronger now that he's gone. There must be thousands and thousands of these songs written every second. There's a secret subterranean river of them running under our feet. Gloria Gaynor runs a ferry service across it.
posted by pracowity at 11:53 PM on January 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
That tears it. I am adding "write a song that is merely OK but somehow still becomes popular" to my supervillan to-do list of things to increase the world's rage.
posted by kyrademon at 4:08 AM on January 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by kyrademon at 4:08 AM on January 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
Seriously, are we, like, even talking about this? This kind of mad Internet scientist tampering is how mediocre housecats like Lady Gaga become twelve-headed monsters. Let's just ignore it and maybe it will go away, like HPV.
posted by Mooseli at 6:03 AM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Mooseli at 6:03 AM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
I stand corrected. My Humps is the worst song in the history of pop music.
Perhaps, but it spawned Alanis's version of it, which i still enjoy immensely, much to my surprise. Not totally sure what point i'm trying to make, though...
posted by palbo at 7:26 AM on January 25, 2011
Perhaps, but it spawned Alanis's version of it, which i still enjoy immensely, much to my surprise. Not totally sure what point i'm trying to make, though...
posted by palbo at 7:26 AM on January 25, 2011
Thanks a lot. My ears just ran away from my head and are totally pissed at me. Now I've gotta go find them somewhere in 6,000 sq ft of office!
posted by white_devil at 9:32 AM on January 25, 2011
posted by white_devil at 9:32 AM on January 25, 2011
Now, now, geeks, you wanted a future where anybody could grow up to be Madonna. You said so. Well, you got it. Why the long face?
posted by tspae at 10:33 AM on January 25, 2011
posted by tspae at 10:33 AM on January 25, 2011
I can't stop watching this. It achieves new, subterranean levels of awfulness with each viewing.
- The way she rhymes ARE with SCAR and JAR. Let's write some alternative lyrics for her shall we? "Who do you think you ARE, driving your CAR on MARS, looking up at the STARS"
- Not everything scribbled in a twelve year old girl's journal needs to be set to music.
- I wonder what her tramp stamp looks like? Angel wings? Two roses entwined? Daddy's girl?
- The you tube comments are priceless.
"The first time i saw the video in early December I was memorized. It only took one listen to become hooked."
"Actually, I think her tattoos add how REAL she is."
"epic."
"she more talented than about 99.999999999999999999999% of today artists...
Just sayin..."
"i hope i get a girlfriend with the talent and looks that she does"
"I don't know what makes me shiver more--the song itself or her visible and audible intensity. Bravo!"
"la on her left shoulder a tatoo from the famous Kat von d? she did an La ink 500 free tatoos or something in 6 hrs curious if that was from her"
posted by puny human at 11:49 AM on January 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
- The way she rhymes ARE with SCAR and JAR. Let's write some alternative lyrics for her shall we? "Who do you think you ARE, driving your CAR on MARS, looking up at the STARS"
- Not everything scribbled in a twelve year old girl's journal needs to be set to music.
- I wonder what her tramp stamp looks like? Angel wings? Two roses entwined? Daddy's girl?
- The you tube comments are priceless.
"The first time i saw the video in early December I was memorized. It only took one listen to become hooked."
"Actually, I think her tattoos add how REAL she is."
"epic."
"she more talented than about 99.999999999999999999999% of today artists...
Just sayin..."
"i hope i get a girlfriend with the talent and looks that she does"
"I don't know what makes me shiver more--the song itself or her visible and audible intensity. Bravo!"
"la on her left shoulder a tatoo from the famous Kat von d? she did an La ink 500 free tatoos or something in 6 hrs curious if that was from her"
posted by puny human at 11:49 AM on January 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
"in a world full of Brittany spears, justin beibers and keshas, Christina Perri is so refreshing!"
posted by mrgrimm at 12:29 PM on January 25, 2011
posted by mrgrimm at 12:29 PM on January 25, 2011
also, sounds a lot like Umbrella to me. but not as good.
posted by mrgrimm at 12:31 PM on January 25, 2011
posted by mrgrimm at 12:31 PM on January 25, 2011
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