It's time to unveil a new feature at Pictures & Conversations! Trashy Thursdays will be happening every Thursday (duh) and will feature the trashy pop songs I kinda love. Don't get it twisted, I think pop music is an art form. But like all art, there are brilliant artistic works are fresh and dynamic and new as well as less inspired pieces of art. Sometimes those less inspired bits are as much fun as the "good" stuff, that's why we're getting trashy!
It was in 2003 that a sassy gal nicknamed K.Lo would come behind Clay Aiken (her future roommate) and Reuben Studdard on American Idol. I never saw that season, so my first taste of Kimberly Locke was this delightfully trashy pop single, "8th World Wonder."
It's really awful. Kimberly's vocals are good, she tries very hard to make lines like "seven days and seven nights of thunder/water's rising and I'm slipping under" seem anything but laughable. The music is generic teeny-pop sounds, which makes sense since producer Guy Roche also produced early Christina Aguilera hits like "What A Girl Wants." But it's catchy as hell, and you kinda root for this whirlwind romance to work out.
The video is hilariously trashy, we see the week long courtship going backwards with the date in the corner in really big, ugly Windows 95 fonts. Plus, the lame attempt at fashion forward outfits. The black jacket with the zippers on the sleeves is pretty cool, but the weird blouse with the missing shoulders that she answers the phone with on day 2 is just bad "plus size couture." And how about the dramatic page a day calander tear away? Hilar! Watch it here.
Despite being a trashy pop song, it was a huge hit in the Adult Contemporay market as well as in the dance clubs in a remixed format. Kimberly Locke has had many holiday hits since then, but as for a regular pop hit she's still looking for that followup to "8th World Wonder" Girlfriend needs to hook up with Max Martin, only he could make something equally trash-tastic.
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2 comments:
Love it! Although I will say that the video would have been 124% better if it was just a series of 'Kimberly looking into the camera' shots...
That girl can give a look like nobody's business!
(p.s. loving Trashy Thursday! except on my iPod it's like Trashy Sunday thru Saturday!)
Thanks, Junior! The idea came to me while listening to K.Lo that every week I need some trashy pop music in my life and, by extension, yours.
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