{"id":1642,"date":"2009-03-18T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2009-03-18T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T09:28:40","slug":"stunt-2009-week-11-chic-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/stunt-2009-week-11-chic-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunt 2009: Week 11 – Chic Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"

*This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article<\/a> on Karen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site<\/a> which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time.*<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, I said “God, I love disco.”<\/a> God was evidently listening, and suspected that I was full of bullshit, which is why he sent this playlist to test me. Turns out God knows me better than I know myself. Apparently I don’t love disco.<\/p>\n

Incomplete Spotify playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the first or second run through this playlist, I was aware that I wasn’t enjoying it as much as the week 9 playlist. Nothing that I could put my finger on, I just wasn’t getting the same buzz from it. In the interests of giving it a fair crack of the whip, I listened to the playlist again. But the more I listened to it, the worse it got.<\/p>\n

There are lots of incredibly funky basslines on this playlist, but that’s not enough to justify listening for half an hour. I’ve always been a little critical of the “Let’s See How Long We Can Stretch This Out For” school of songwriting, and that seems to be what’s going on here. I can look down the playlist and say “ooh, *Good Times* is a good song, as is *Lost In Music* and *I’m Coming Out* by Diana Ross and *Why* by Carly Simon” but when it comes to actually listening to the song all the way through, I find myself reaching for the skip button after a minute, because I know that there’s just going to be more of the same for another four minutes.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time that I have felt like God’s chewtoy.<\/a><\/p>\n

The next week’s playlist<\/h3>\n

Random number: 139
\nTwo playlists on this page, a coin toss selected – Dodgy French. The book says:<\/p>\n

> Somehow, putting a few French *mots* in an otherwise *anglais* song pretty much guarantees *s\u00c3\u00a9rieux* kitsch. Blondie managed to get away with it; way down at the other end of the scale, there’s Bill Wyman.<\/p>\n

\\#2 in the playlist is *Le Freak* by Chic, but we’ll ignore that one.<\/p>\n

Spotify playlist, once again woefully incomplete, don’t know why I bother<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article on Karen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time.* Two weeks ago, I said “God, I love disco.” God was evidently listening, and suspected that I was full of bullshit, which is why he sent this playlist to test […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-stunt-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}