A Song for Moopy: Undercover - Viewing Gala 2 TONIGHT @ 7PM

[COB]

Remember when Brian Molko was seen as the height of sexual transgressiveness for sometimes popping on a bit of eyeliner and maybe sort of singing about bumming?

 

[Suomi]

omg can we be friends.

and on this day, the Shola Ama Society was founded

 

[RS]

Actually it’s a rather awful remix

 

[ButterTart]

5. JAPAN
Hitomi Shimatani - Papillon

(Cover of Janft Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter)​

 

[Tisch]

Like a bit of Placebo but never heard* their covers album. Might PARTAKE

* Or have I??????

 

[COB]

Janft!

 

[RS]

Oh God

 

[Raining on Me]

Bravo to whoever sent Placebo for not picking their quite frankly overrated cover of Running Up That Hill.

Yes, but it's better than this surely

I think I came across this on the search for my opus and swiped past after 15 seconds

 

[ButterTart]

Diddy's third song of this competition so far... but are any of them winners?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I think I'm feeling this.

 

[RS]

Almost easier to understand than Janet’s mumbling.

 

[dmlaw]

I very briefly thought that Diddy might have sent a J-Pop cover of Editors. It would surely have been dreadful, so I'm not sure if I'm disappointed.

 

[RS]

Janet’s high tech video was however more Japanese than this

 

[Iguana]

What colour palette is she going for here?

 

[Lucille]

I’m alive but making dinner. I liked Shola.

 

[Tisch]

I mean it's good... But it's literally JANFT's backing track isn't it?

 

[COB]

I wonder if there was a rush of Japanese songs inspired by Diddy's Asian Persuasion

 

[ButterTart]

She's quite a nice looking lass, but I say that with the customary awareness that, being a Japanese popstar, she could still be in year 7.

 

[Tisch]

I’m alive .

Thanks for confirming. Was worried your bus had crashed

 

[COB]

I mean it's good... But it's literally JANFT's backing track isn't it?

It does sound identical to me!

 

[dmlaw]

What colour palette is she going for here?

It's modelled on what a colourblind person sees when they rub their eyes too hard.

 

[Raining on Me]

I very briefly thought that Diddy might have sent a J-Pop cover of Editors. It would surely have been dreadful, so I'm not sure if I'm disappointed.

Same, only I'm disappointed now

This Janice cover is oddly compelling mind

 

[ButterTart]

I very briefly thought that Diddy might have sent a J-Pop cover of Editors. It would surely have been dreadful, so I'm not sure if I'm disappointed.

I had that exact thought when I saw the name.

I now want that more than anything else in the world.

 

[ButterTart]

6. LAPLAND
September - Kärlekens Tunga

(Cover of Eldkvarn)​

 

[COB]

Ooh September

 

[COB]

You'll never see me (in the charts) again, etc

 

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

The fact that she is able to team the use of actual diction with a lovely jacket makes this a real triumph for me. Quite the superior little number.

 

[ButterTart]

I know I've asked this before but could a Swede please explain on behalf of their countrymen why Kärleken is pronounced Shelly Can?

 

[Suomi]

I know I've asked this before but could a Swede please explain on behalf of their countrymen why Kärleken is pronounced Shelly Can?

Same reason we have soft c (cheese) and hard c (c*nt)

 

[ButterTart]

Same reason we have soft c (cheese) and hard c (c*nt)

So is k the equivalent of a 'ch' sound, then?

 

[RS]

I know I've asked this before but could a Swede please explain on behalf of their countrymen why Kärleken is pronounced Shelly Can?

K followed by a soft vocal (e, i, y, ä, ö) is sometimes pronounced as sh.

 

[COB]

Horrid wet mouth on this lad.

 

[ButterTart]

7. OUTER MONGOLIA
Newton - Sometimes When We Touch

(Cover of Dan Hill)​

 

[dmlaw]

Oh dear. This isn't very imaginative either. Obviously, it remains a work of genius.

 

[ButterTart]

I used to have this on a compilation album in the 90s and forgot it existed. I can't tell you how happy I was when it was posted through my letterbox a couple of weeks back.

 

[RS]

This is clearly the better semi, mostly because the songs are all known hits (not necessarily better covers)

 

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

Well I don’t understand this September song at all but I absolutely have a lot of positive feelings about autumn and being dumped.

 

[COB]

Showbiz Video

 

[ButterTart]

K followed by a soft vocal (e, i, y, ä, ö) is sometimes pronounced as sh.

Ta. You've answered this exact question for me before and I WILL forget and ask again one day.

 

[win_the_game]