Comments on: Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:55:17 +0000

Or an attempt at borrowing some much needed credibility. Meow.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:33:08 +0000

No idea.

As to Scarlett, I have no idea. Basically scores and scores of people love Tom Waits so I guess if you think you can sing, there’s a depressing inevitability about this kind of thing. So, erm, yes. My guess is vanity project.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:20:15 +0000

(By the way – why am I getting random line breaks in my comments?)

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:19:39 +0000

Do we know anything of Ms. Johanssen’s particular attraction to Tom Waits? Or is it simply another vanity project diguised as an actress spreading her artistic wings?

Minnie Driver, anyone?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:48:30 +0000

Poof.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:52:46 +0000

The mooted Johansson Waits album has been talked about for well over a year now — there’s a ton of net chatter about it since it was first ‘suggested’ way back at the tail end of ’06/early ’07. There was a lot of excitement across the TW blogs in September ’07 about an October release, & again in October about a November release. Who knows if it will actually happen. Will it be any good? Probably not, because it is Johansson (essentially a flake) – but, I bet there will be at least one track all the poo pooers will go ooh, wow to.

As for Toad’s extraordinary vision of SJ being dildoed from behind by Jessica Alba, what is it with the attraction of this woman? She looks like a galago (bush baby) holding in a particularly thorn-impacted shit. Similarly, Jessica Alba looks like she’s been inflated with a bicycle pump & comes with a tin of vaseline. Clearly, both of them do fuck all for me in the trouser department.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:05:50 +0000

Can I take it that the fact that this comment thread has gone so woefully astray is a damning indictment of the overwhelming dullness of this album?

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:41:01 +0000

I heard that was the concept for the first video.

(by “heard”, I mean “dreamt”.)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:31:00 +0000

I don’t resent other people doing Tom Waits covers, partly because there are so many it would be hard to keep up with who to hate. Even Rod Stewart’s are so bad they’re actually quite funny. The only problem with singing his songs is that it’s impossible to do them as well as the man himself, so she can sing her heart out but it’s a bit of a futile exercise.

Who, ultimately, gives a shit about Scarlett singing Tom Waits songs, unless she’s doing it in the nude whilst being dildoed from behind by Jessica Alba. Then I might pay a little more attention.

By: mjrc

mjrc — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:52:21 +0000

yeah, i thought the fox news angle kind of added to the “jaysus fucking christ” aspect of the news.

i thought you’d be more, i don’t know, offended by this tidbit? being the tom waits fan that you are.