For the record: It wasn't the notes Olivia sang or did not sing (she did fine in that department), Olivia probably has a better range than Carly ever had, who wasn't the most athletic female singer on earth even in her heyday (she just had a pleasant voice with a nice timbre). Olivia basically sang the song phonetically - she might as well have sung Sweet Home Alabama without knowing what "Neil Young", "Southern Man", "the governor in Birmingham" and "Watergate" mean. I don't think she had any grasp of what the words
You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair and that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee clouds in my coffeefeel like to a grown woman who meets a former lover years later, that mix of wistful longing and kicking yourself for ever having succumbed to the guy's charm.
Whether Olivia also has a nice voice (like Carly), I can't really tell from her "
Paramore meets Taylor Swift with a generous dose of Britney"-vid and the overproduced audio track. And tell me,
liebe Amerikaner, is being a cheerleader (or not being one)
still such a national obsession with you as all these vids featuring young women artists seem to indicate? In the Year Of Our Lord 2022, it strikes me as something so archaic and wholly untouched by the feminism discussion of recent years and decades (which wasn't all bad, you know), I kind of wonder and scratch my head. Playboy Bunny and flight attendant have gone somewhat out of style as career choices for women, but the cheerleader really seems to hold on fast. What would only Daria & Jane say?!