Marina and the Diamonds, who should be bigger than this Lady Gaga person, actually write nice pop songs that will never make it here because they are good songs (see also: Noisettes). Oh, well!
What's nice, though, is that all the thirteen songs (bar one) on their album are between 3:00 - 4:00 in length! Very odd to see on a playlist. No 1:02 breathy "atmosphere" track, no six-minute power ballad in the manner of Bonnie Tyler only fresher for today...just three minute pop songs! With her classy-yet-chick-from-the-Motels diction all over. Good!
This puts me in mind of something that had made me nuts for sixteen years: the way the British press was complicit in putting forth a myth that Oasis wrote "perfect three minute songs." I must have read this, what?, at least five times in the nineties. Well, no, even from the very beginning Oasis were given to bloat and letting all their songs roll on far too long. This Orwellian "give them a big enough lie and they will swallow it" posturing by the UK press is something for which we all must pay and which will continue to make us all suffer.
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