One song a day is much easier than a review proper. If you like the song you can dig up the group on your own =D Still, some basic info on this indie group 'The bird and the bee' which I chanced upon on a chinese music blog trix.cn. The L.A. based duo consists of vocalist Inara George and keyboardist Greg Kurstin who worked with Red Hot Chilli Peppers before. Their style is a bit dance and electro indie. I'd say Inara sounds like Imogen Heap, but softer and more dreamy pop.
The bird and the bee official website
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I just knew this from one of their interviews: How does the band name suggest 'sex'? Seems it's a common saying in English.Someone enlighten me.
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Continue here,
They released the eponymous LP on Jan, 2007.
Here's the first track on the album 'Again and Again'
F*cking Boyfriend
Sunday, June 10, 2007
The Bird and the Bee
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I like their sound a lot, I'll actually look for it on iTunes. I'd put them in the electro category.... If you like them, you might want to try Le Tigre. They're a little more abrasive, but for some reason they remind me of bird and the bee.
ReplyDeleteThe "birds and the bees" is a euphemism that American parents often use to refer to the word "sex" or the topic of sexual intercourse. I guess it comes from our puritan background. I always thought it was stupid because it doesn't make any sense as a euphemism. A bee stinging a bird isn't really penetration in a sexual sense.
Thanks for the info! lol the euphemism is way too obscure -.-! Chinese parents(the older generation) like to borrow this excuse when it comes to the bird and the bee: 'I picked you up from the garbage bin'. I think that's puritan to its max.
ReplyDeleteI'm not too much into electro but this group is pretty addictive =D I'll upload the album (though for sure I have no plan to purchase the album currently)
I'm saving up for garnet crow dvd... what a money leeching month...
very strange--i've heard the 'again and again' track before at least a couple of times, but just can't recall anything about it...i googled them and interestingly up came a rather sour review of their music...i'll leave it until i hear them out..:P
ReplyDeleteas for the euphemism, google gave me this--
" Several sources give credit to the great Cole Porter for coining the phrase. One of the legendary musician's more famous songs was "Let's Do It." The 1928 standard contains the lyrics:
Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
World Wide Words goes on to explain that the first "explicit use of the phrase" didn't occur until 1939. An article on filmmaking from the Freeport Journal Standard stated: "A Frenchman was born sophisticated: he knows about the birds and the bees." Hey, hey -- vive la France!
The Straight Dope believes poet Samuel Coleridge was the likely originator. His poem, the cheerfully titled "Work Without Hope," opens with:
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--"
interesting...in other note, i kinda believed i was picked up from a garbage can...:(
Is there a song by Ella Fitzgerald that goes like 'blah blah do it, giraffes do it, whatever animals do it, let's do it too?' Fragments of my broken memory -.-
ReplyDeleteA follow up on the idiom, wiki's entry offers this explanation: birds hatch, bees pollinate which imply pregnancy and insemination.
This has become such a geeky literature thread!
And never mind the sour review!
ahem, someone is apparently still online...pulled another all nighter or wat?!
ReplyDeleteyeah lady ella did sing that, my guess is that's the same song (maybe different version) cole porter wrote. (talking about which, i still haven't done that 'over the rainbow' post..many months ago)
and oh--did you have problems downloading from trix's links? some sites i just can't download from, IE or FF...odd...:(
and word verification--thought we aren't having spams in a long time? (lazy..)
"I picked you up from the garbage bin"? That's a new one on me...heh heh.
ReplyDeleteHow much is that garnet crow dvd anyway?
Nothing wrong with a geeky literature thread....
Close to 40 US dollars... Yea i know it's about like, 8 meals? Since I haven't been earning much I'll save up =(
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