u/stenpen22

There was a thread about Non-Toxic Poptimism about ABBA, and I wrote a comment comparing their reappraisal to Fleetwood Mac’s; this made me remember how, despite knowing a lot of their songs, I really went to check them out after a Bastille cover of Dreams off one of their “Other People’s Heartache” mixtapes, which were these projects full of covers, mashups, and snippets from movies.

As a young teen I had a very strange-yet-emphatic Bastille obsession, and I honestly thank them for introducing me to so many songs through those mixtapes, even movies/tv shows like Twin Peaks through their song Laura Palmer (and a mashup of their aforementioned song with the Twin Peaks Theme on a mixtape). I go back now and have a bit of nostalgia for that first album in particular, but also feel a lot of their music was pretty standard Tumblr-era pop rock. A similar situation is Twenty One Pilots, who I spent 2014-2016 stanning to a scary degree, and cannot even try to listen to their music without cringing.

I want to know if there’s any artist for you who were pivotal or had a personal impact on your artistic (primarily musical) interests that you can recognize or thank, but would never listen to now?

As someone from Ireland (though not Dublin), I feel blessed that one of the best cast trips (Orange County Ireland trip) was in my country. The iconic moment where Kelly says that bit about Tamra‘s daughter was outside this one vintage/emo-alternative clothes shop in Temple Bar (the one with the skeleton mural) that I’ve been in once or twice, and I had actually gone into the pub they were in beforehand to use the toilet before I had ever seen the episodes, which makes it funnier for me when that nose-flicking bit happened. The “department store” they were kicked out of is a chain in Ireland, Brown Thomas. It also makes me so uncomfortable knowing how long that final bus ride to the airport would have been, as Powerscourt Hotel is in County Wicklow, below Dublin, and the airport is about at least 20+ minute drive from Dublin city centre, depending on traffic and which roads were taken; the drive was definitely at least an hour and a half.

Anyway, with all that said, do any of you have any stories, anecdotes, or fun facts about whenever a cast visited your city or country?

I was going through a bit of a binge of her 2016-2019 output (both released and leaked) and I was reminded of how Charli used to sing in an accent on songs like Sticky, Blame It On U, Delicious, Thoughts, Miami, Party Party, Rrring, Pop The Balloons, Die 4, Waterfall (most prominent on Sticky).

She’s changed how she sings so much since there, and that accent/singing style definitely originated on True Romance/Sucker/the Tumblr voice, but I have a lot of nostalgia for it! I used to find it really cool when I was younger listening to those songs, and now I find to be very over-the-top (in a campy way). It reminds me a bit of how Madonna put on this British accent when she was with Guy Ritchie in the late 90s and early 00s.

Basically, does anyone have other songs they can think of where she uses that accent, how people feel about it, specific words she would over-pronounce (like love as lauv)? I just can’t stop thinking about it!