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Friday, January 30, 2009

A full-on chemical reaction

The video for Annie Lennox's "Shining Light" is out - and it's a keeper.

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What I love most about it is how it hearkens back to the "Little Bird" video - with all the different Annie's, but instead this time, they are kind of in the vein of the Robert Palmer girls.

I love Annie Lennox, and unlike Matthew Rettenmund, I actually quite prefer her solo career to many things that she did with Eurythmics. I mean, Diva provided a large part of the soundtrack for the winter of 92/spring 93. My only trouble with her and this new release is that the new songs on the album are both covers. Someone who is such a natural songwriter really doesn't need to do covers! But one really can't quibble when she gave us one of the strongest albums of 2007 (with nary a cover present on that record) and continues to be such a class act.

Edit: Changed the title of the post - I could have sworn that's what she was singing!

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:52 PM

    OMG.

    Elvis lives!

    Or, is that Dynagirl?

    Deidre Hall would be pleased by the tribute.

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  2. It feels more Go Go's than Robert Palmer to me, but yeah, I can see that, too. The song wasn't as immediate for me as it was for others, but it's growing on me.

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  3. I want remixes of this song!

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