Not to get too esoteric on you, but Barnett reminds me of Perry Como, who crooned exactly 100 hits in pre-rock 'n' roll 1943-1954 and kept going till 1960 and beyond, including a number-two 1955 cover of Gene and Eunice's "Ko Ko Mo" and the number-one 1956 teen-targeted "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)." Como hosted his long-running TV show in a cardigan, was married to the same woman for 65 years, and died of Alzheimer's complications in 2001, and though as a kid I thought he was boring, I now admire how likable and decent he was. I enjoy the same traits in Barnett even more because unlike Como she never pretends the world is easy, which is certainly one reason that for all her cameos and collabs, this is only her second solo album since 2015's breakthrough Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. Barnett's tenuous love life seems unkind only by mishap; her talky, slightly sour pitch suits melodies that don't come easy. Watching the world burn doesn't stop her from noticing trees turn green which doesn't distract her from the ones that are nothing but char. She congratulates one friend on her or his new place and asks another "Are you good? Are you eating?/I'll call you back next week." Is she actually such a mensch? It's impossible to be sure. But she definitely makes it sound that way. A-
shut your whore mouth, cuckgau
>>131000160>but Barnett reminds me of Perry Como, who crooned exactly 100 hits in pre-rock 'n' roll 1943-1954It was 52 hits according to Norm N. Nite's "Rock On" and he had 82 in total.
>>131000160Is there anything this woman can't do?
>>131000160careful, Bob, you don't want to trigger the Mitch Miller schizo guy
>>131000160i too remember when P4k swore she actually meant anything
>>131000160>was married to the same woman for 65 yearsThat sounds awful.
she looks like Paul McCartney in drag
>>131000160Perry Como? lol watWe hearing Dean Martin in Mac Demarco next?
>>131001980Was Paul touring in Australia in the late 80s and he met her mother backstage and...bitch needs to do a DNA test. 'Cause it's actually unnerving how much she looks like him.
>>131000218Maybe more since the Billboard only had 30 positions until August '58.
Another childless aging Millenial roastie. Noice.
>>131000160>Barnett reminds me of Perry Comothanks OP, gonna check out that name.t. the courtneyfag
>>131005585why would you want to listen to amazingly boring 50s housewife pop slop though?
>>131005620court-association is reason enough for me, so I guess because christgau and this thread said so. so far it doesn't sound like my thing, but I dig some of that general 50s vibe here and there. wonder if any of his stuff ever made it into genre movies back then or maybe into related vidya decades later. can totally see it being on the Stubbs the Zombie soundtrack - now that's an esoteric title drop.>>131001980>>131002104there used to be a cutesy meme among fans sometimes around the TMHYRF era that she looks like paul and bones (that bass player dude with the beard and the glasses) is a dead ringer for lennon. checked out from CB-related discussions on normie platforms a long time ago, but good memories all the same.
>>131005714If you mean Bones Hillman the Midnight Oil bassist, he was born in '58 when Lennon was a teenager in Liverpool just starting what would eventually become the Beatles so he couldn't possibly be his dad.
>>131005976bones sloane, courtney barnett's bassist, obviously. pretty sure he's the wrong age too, mind, DOB must've been closer to 1990 than '80.
courtneyfag and mitch miller schizo, a crossover for the ages
>>131007328I'll take it. thanks for not lumping me in with the em*ly spammer
