ainda sobre músicas e estrelas...

Estava eu bestando no last fm,vendo nos charts quais artistas mais haviam “crescido” nessa semana (The God, The Bad and The Queen, mais uma superbanda na área) quando me deparei também com a faixa que mais subiu em quantidade de execuções, e era uma chamada Grace Kelly, de um tal de MIKA. As tags eram pop, funny e coisas assim e eu resolvi baixar.

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Me lembrei do meu post sobre músicas que falam de atores, e sei que só arranhei a superfície. Agora, mesmo, já tem essa, uma do Long Blondes e até mesmo Vogue, que por algum motivo esqueci de comentar (ainda que os atores/atrizes só sejam citados no final da música).

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Testei na louca por Grace Kelly no soulseek. Achei a do Eels, achei a própria Grace cantando com Bin Crosby em Alta Sociedade, achei o MIKA e ainda mais duas, uma delas de punk!

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Aparentemente, essa música foi o estouro de MIKA. Achei uma entrevista em que ele fala sobre como se sentia irritado com as pessoas tentando fazer com que ele escrevesse músicas que não eram realmente “ele mesmo”. E aí ele jogou sua raiva nessa canção, mandou pra várias dessas pessoas (do meio musical) e ninguém respondeu. E a canção acabou estourando. Nessa música existem trechos de um filme da atriz, citação a um Freddie (imagino que o Mercury). Vi o Thiago Ney comentando o Mika como próxima sensação:

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Mika. De novo ele. O pianista pop prodígio de 23 anos, nascido no Líbano e radicado em Londres, está sendo levado por caminhos já conhecidos de gente como Strokes, Lily Allen e Arctic Monkeys.
Os jornais britânicos estão loucos com o figura, cuja música (e voz) é uma mistura de Prince, Elton John, Freddie Mercury e disco music. A última veio do ‘Independent’, para quem Mika será a ‘sensação pop do ano que vem’. Esse ‘ano que vem’ é 2007 -a reportagem foi publicada em 31 de dezembro de 2006.
O disco de estréia, ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’, sai em março, inclusive no Brasil. Vá ao www.myspace.com/mikamyspace e ouça as sensacionais ‘Grace Kelly’, ‘Billy Brown’ e ‘Relax, Take it Easy’."

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Fica aí a dica, a música é legal mesmo.

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Eu nunca pensei numa Grace Kelly triste, ainda que em face de como sua vida terminou, não falo nem do acidente, pudesse ser encarada como melancólica.

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Grace Kelly

Do I attract you?

Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?

Am I too dirty?

Am I too flirty?

Do I like what you like?

I could be wholesome

I could be loathsome
I guess I’m a little bit shy

Why don’t you like me?

Why don’t you like me without making me try?

I try to be like Grace Kelly

But all her looks were too sad

So I try a little Freddie

I’ve gone identity mad!

I could be brown

I could be blue

I could be violet sky

I could be hurtful

I could be purple

I could be anything you like

Gotta be green

Gotta be mean

Gotta be everything more

Why don’t you like me?

Why don’t you like me?

Why don’t you walk out the door!

How can I help it

How can I help it

How can I help what you think?

Hello my baby

Hello my baby

Putting my life on the brink

Why don’t you like me

Why don’t you like me

Why don’t you like yourself?

Should I bend over?

Should I look older just to be put on the shelf?

I try to be like Grace Kelly

But all her looks were too sad

So I try a little Freddie

I’ve gone identity mad!

I could be brown

I could be blue

I could be violet sky

I could be hurtful

I could be purple

I could be anything you like

Gotta be green

Gotta be mean

Gotta be everything more

Why don’t you like me?

Why don’t you like me?

Why don’t you walk out the door!

Say what you want to satisfy yourself

But you only want what everybody else says you should want

I could be brown

I could be blue

I could be violet sky

I could be hurtful

I could be purple

I could be anything you like

Gotta be green

Gotta be mean

Gotta be everything more

Why don’t you like me?

Why don’t you like me?

Why don’t you walk out the door!

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Essa outra é da banda Piebald, que é bem ruim, por sinal. Não pretendo ouvir nunca mais, hahahaha. É bem chatinha, enfim, e os filmes da Grace nem tinham um padrão assim...

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Grace Kelly With Wings

That's more than a dress it's a Grace Kelly movie
You can see my benefit
Leave it on my doorstep or on my windowsill
I've got to take care of it, I've got to water it
You can light the candle while I get the lights
The cactus needs more light we've got to take care of it
That's more than a dress that's a Grace Kelly movie
Dressed up to the nodes' we'll make our grand entrance
With prickers in our fingers we tried to take care of it
We can't work like this and on she said
That's more than a dress you can see my benefit, yeah (x2)
That's more than a dress throw caution to the wind, yeah (x2)
And you've got the sexy legs
And that's more than a dress you can see my benefit
And you can see my (x3)
And thats more than a dress, you can see my benefit
And you can see my (x3)
And so my feet got cold
So I put my socks on, now im back on track
I just might take your ?
So what if it’s in my eyes (x3)
Leave it on my doorstep or on my window sill
With prickers in our fingers we try to take care of it
And that's more than a dress, that's a Grace Kelly movie

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Acho que essa fala do acidente? Não sei. Essa é uma banda alemã de punk... Ainda que a música seja mais levinha, mais pra pop-rock.

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Die Ärzte - Grace Kelly

Es war in Monaco letztes Jahr

Ich strich ihr zärtlich über's Haar

Sie sah auf die Uhr, dann sah sie mich an:

"Es ist schon spät, ich muß zurück zu meinem Mann!"

Und ich ließ sie gehen.

Warum habe ich sie gehen lassen?

Dafür werde ich mich immer hassen.

Ref.

Grace Kelly, paß auf, in der Kurve lauert der Tod.

Grace Kelly, paß auf, in der Kurve lauert der Tod.

So fuhr sie davon, und sie war so schön!

Ich hab' sie als letzter noch lebend gesehen....

Sie winkte noch einmal mit der linken Hand,

bevor sie um die nächste Kurve verschwand.

Und das Volk weinte mit mir.

Grace Kelly, verlaß mich nicht

Wie soll ich leben ohne Dich?

Ref.

Grace Kelly paß auf..

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Ficou meio especial Grace Kelly, mas pra fechar, vamos de Long Blondes e Madonna, sem mais delongas.

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Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karina, Arlene Dahl

por The Long Blondes

Como não achei uma foto bonita da Edie tipo portrait, não resisti a colocar essa, com o Andy.

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Anna Karina

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Arlene Dahl

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Lust In The Movies

A svelte young man, eighteen lovers to his name

And if the rumours are true then eighteen lovers came crawling back again

I don't feel well, I've got this rattling in my chest

The doctor said that I should give you up because I'm clinically obsessed

In the movies, you're in the movies

You're "in the movies" and you don't want to know me

But I know all about fear and desire, I know all about lust etc

Edie Sedgwick

Anna Karina

Arlene Dahl

I just want to be your sweetheart

A sweet young girl, dressed to the nines in cacharel

I'm under the weather, my heels click together and following her is hell

I feel quite ill, I've got this rattling in my chest

The doctor said that I should give it up, I need to get some rest

So never never never try to tell me it's a pleasure being alone

All I have here with me are the records and the books that I own

nag nag nag

nag nag nag

nag nag nag

NAG NAG NAG...

Bette Davis, Monroe, Brando etc

por Madona

Pra não encher de foto, escolhi a Bette Davis...

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Vogue

What at you looking at?

Strike a pose

Strike a pose

Vogue, vogue, vogue

Vogue, vogue, vogue

Look around everywhere you turn is heartache

It's everywhere that you go [look around]

You try everything you can to escape

The pain of life that you know [life that you know]

When all else fails and you long to be

Something better than you are today

I know a place where you can get away

It's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for, so

CHORUS:

Come on, vogue

et your body move to the music

[move to the music]

Hey, hey, hey

Come on, vogue

Let your body go with the flow

[go with the flow]

You know you can do it

It makes no difference if you're black or white

If you're a boy or a girl

If the music's pumping it will give you new life

You're a superstar, yes, that's what you are,you know it

Come on, vogue

Let your body groove to the music

[groove to the music]

Hey, hey, hey

Come on, vogue

Let your body go with the flow

[go with the flow]

You know you can do it

Beauty's where you find it

Not just where you bump and grind it

Soul is in the musical

That's where I feel so beautiful

Magical, life's a ball

So get up on the dance floor

CHORUS

Vogue, [Vogue]

Beauty's where you find it

[move to the music]

Vogue, [Vogue]

Beauty's where you find it [go with the flow]

Greta Garbo, and Monroe

Dietrich and DiMaggio

Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean

On the cover of a magazine

Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean

ture of a beauty queen

Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire

Ginger Rodgers, dance on air

They had style, they had grace

Rita Hayworth gave good face

Lauren, Katherine, Lana too

Bette Davis, we love you

Ladies with an attitude

Fellows that were in the mood

Don't just stand there, let's get to it

Strike a pose, there's nothing to it

Vogue, vogue

Oooh, you've got to

Let your body move to the music

Oooh, you've got to just

Let your body go with the flow

Oooh, you've got to

Vogue

PS- to chegando nas da Marilyn Monroe. Dava pra fazer um blog só disso. Fica pra depois.