Lady Gregg or Old Gaga?

I have bad brain wiring that makes my brain link songs together and I will often inappropriately belt out the chorus of a completely unrelated song at the end of the original song's verse, confusing all around me.

In this instance though, I think it stands to reason... allow me to explain, with the use of diagrams...

I have travelled a very wide spectrum with Lady Gaga - initially I just thought she was an annoying pop culture thingy for the youngsters, then I began to understand her to be genuinely making a lot of effort as a performance artist, and now I understand her to be a living, breathing audiovisual art installation I seem to have embraced her. To the point of purchasing her album "The Fame". The second I heard the chorus of "Love Game", I immediately started doing an analogue mashup, bursting into the chorus of the Old Gregg/Howard Moon classic "Do you love me?".

Now, an experiment, if you will. If you are not familiar with either reference, might I suggest you listen to the two songs in reverse order, starting with the Mighty Boosh song "Do You Love Me?", and then and only then, listening to the Lady Gaga song "Love Game". Now, having both videos loaded up, cue "Do You Love Me?" to 0:16. Play "Love Game" to about 1:14, stop and play "Do You Love Me?" and tell me you can't see what my brain was doing there.






In fact, in the googling required for this post, I have discovered that a few people have already made this connection, and have done some mashups of their own.

I don't mind them, but I have a feeling I might one day take this a little step further and attempt an acoustic mashup of my own... stay tuned... and let me know which stage name I should use of the two titular options above.

Fukkin Mixxtape

why can't I get just one?

❥(morning) Mixtape love...

I slept in today. I really wish I didn't.



from D's mornings mixtape

rise and shine!

FUKKIN' pop MIXXTAPE

If ever you're surrounded by nuff nuffs...just think:



(...and yes, I know this is new school, and supercute pop...and in its own way, this little clip is quite endearing...but hey, FUCK YOU!, nonetheless...)

FUKKIN' MIXXTAPE

It's my Birthday! So FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WATCHYA TELL ME!!!

Fukkin' Mixxtape

So, it's my birthday soon. Dave, I still owe you your birthday presents. One of which is a FUKKIN' MIXXTAPE! - songs with the word "Fark" in them.

Seeing as a) I won't see you for a while and b) we could both use a teensy ray of fun to alleviate work and study stress, here goes the first of several in a countdown of FUKKIN great songs. The list is almost complete in my mind goo... f*cking excellent...

❥Mixtape love... and heartbreak

...They're breaking your heart...it's not just teenage boys...

All boys do that.

Jen's Christmas Mixtape 2008, Track 1 but introduced to me by my fabulous feline friend...

❥Mixtape Love

As you are

[Kate]
Sit back, you don't have to work so hard
It makes me tired to watch you try
Relax, you already played your cards
And I know which ones are a lie

[Riki]
It makes me really sad to see
The things you think you have to be
Just to be enough for me
When you already are

[Both]
Why can't you just look at you
In the same way that I do?
Through all that's false and all that's true
I like you, as you are

[Kate]
I know that you can get sad sometimes
I see it mostly when you smile
Let go of all of your supposed crimes
Just be with me for a while

[Riki]
I know this may be hard to hear
But all your tricks are really clear
I see right through your slick veneer
To the secret life you hide

[Both]
Why can't you just look at you
In the same way that I do?
Through all that's false and all that's true
I like you as you are

Take me in
Believe me when I say
You're more than just okay
You're perfect as you are

Thanks Jen for introducing me to Garfunkel and Oates (track 15, 2009 Christmas mixtape).

This song makes me feel loved, even though it makes me cry more whilst my broken heart heals. If Pathology has taught us nothing more, it's that healing hurts. Damn bradykinin...