On a trawl through the beauteous pages of the Guardian’s music section online, up popped a cheeky interview with French rock gods Phoenix,who are not only enjoying a blaze of success with their latest album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix AND as a well deserved Grammy, but are also apparently providing musical inspiration to under-tens across the world. They referenced this adorable video as “something that would bring a tear to the eye of a Nazi Officer.”
Je suis complètement d’accord.
Apparently also tweeted by Kylie (her opinion’s got to count for something), this YouTube bounty features a gaggle of elementary school children singing their little hearts out to Phoenix’s Lisztomania with more emphatic hand gestures and soaring melodies than all of Mariah Carey’s greatest hits. I wouldn’t say I’m normally in the habit of publishing the latest YouTube phenomenon but this is one deserved exception.
It’s a double whammy - I’m currently also loving this Holy Ghost! Loves Paris remix siphoned off an always fabulous Kitsuné remix compilation (number 2, fyi). Throbbing bass and dancing synths give it an almost Friendly Fires feel.
Read the rest of the interview here AND get 8 live tracks performed by Phoenix in Sydney completely free!! There’s nowt like a freebie.
On a completely, completely different note, I don’t think you could get any further from Phoenix and small school children than this next track.
Featuring all of the Young Money lot (aka my dream crew), and the immortal lyrics “Call me Mr Flintstone, I can make your bedrock”, it is SUCH a terrible song that it went right round the back of the scale of awfulness and bounced back out at amazing. Currently dominating that elusive half an hour in the Exeter clubs where they put on Rihanna, then Iyaz, followed by JLS, it’s also got Drake in it, which immediately makes it immense in my book. With a banterous video depicting a day-in-the-life of Young Money, crammed with strategically placed hotties, red phone boxes and the yummy Lloyd hiding behind a fridge, it’s as catchy as lice in a nursery. Just try and stop yourself jiggling about like a fool.
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