Every once and a while I hear a song and am certain that it will be a favorite of someone I know - even though they haven't heard it yet. John had this experience with 'Hey Ya!' and our friend Luke - it just seemed a natural fit and sure enough, it was. In that spirit, I submit to you songs/artists and people who I think would like them:
Artist: Plan B
Person I know Who Will Like Him But Doesn't Know It Yet: my younger brother
Reason: This review pretty well sums it up: "Much of the CD is pretty unpleasant, with bleak music that sounds less than innovative and a load of self-important shock rhymes that try too damn hard, as on the murder ballad "Sick 2 Def," which rhymes "cum in a biscuit" with "sadistic". Bear in mind, this kid was also a huge Limp Bizkit fan.
Artist: Amy Winhouse
Person I know Who Will Like Her But Doesn't Know It Yet*: high school friend Stacy
Reason: The drunken, trainwreck persona, the song about the glories of refusing rehab etc. This one just fits - while Stacy doesn't, to my knowledge, hang out with Amy Winehouse, she's made a life-long habit of hanging out with people who aspire to be like her. (*In fairness, it's likely Stacy has already heard of, and fallen in love with Amy Winehouse)
Artist: KT Tunstall
Person I know (of) Who Will Like Her But Doesn't Know It Yet: Hillary Clinton
Reason: Her song 'Suddenly I See' is already making a play at becoming her campaign's theme song via an online 'you pick it' contest at Clinton's website. While I'm sure Clinton has yet to fully familiarize herself with it, this ode to chick-power is sufficiently not-related-enough to the point at hand to become a stone-cold campaign trail classic ('Beautiful Day' anyone?)
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I when I heard the A.C. Newman's record that you were going to take to it. And sure enough you did. I think I pretty much have my finger on the pulse of your pop music tastes.
Yeah - thanks for that one. Same goes for 'Another John' and the Shins
'Kinda like how I knew that Josh had "ill-intentions" to the beats of Natasha Beddingfield's "These Words"...
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