Mindlessness & Thursdays Go Together

(Updated June 26, fix lyric ref)

It occurs to me that I'm being a bit too serious.

Hey, when the world is an immense trainwreck crashing all around you and you seem to be the only adult on the car, you worry, you get angry, you run around and do stuff. But once the wheels come off of the tracks while the train is still moving, it's beyond anything you can do and you might as well surrender to intertia. In the end when you have done all that you can, you just sit back and wait for the moment that all of the metal folds up around you when the inertia encounters the immovable object, or perhaps you get lucky and a hundred cars of freight and passengers all slide more-or-less gently to a stop.

Might as well put on some music and crank all knobs completely clockwise.

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I said I'd be trying to find some europop and ideally this page with send your browser into a screaming crash landing.

This, I think, might be the German equivalent of Miley Cyrus, or maybe not. At least it shows that girl groups that have actual talent not only still exist, but can put out a video that isn't all about skin and strut. Too bad you have to go to Germany to see it.

Sorry, can't embed it, so you get a popwindow: Debbie Rockt! "Ich Rocke"

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And then there's a bit of French pop from Alizee. Remember, French pop isn't for everyone but this one's a bit naughty:



"It's not my fault
When the cat's got my tongue
I see them gather 'round to pounce
It's not my fault
That I hear everything around me, is 'Lolita'
Me, Lolita".

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Moving right along back to Deutschland, here in a popwindow is video prooof that no German anywhere -- especially not in Germany -- has ever had a sense of humor. Please see Deichkind -- Ich Betaube Mich.

Now you will understand why Frankfort is the industrial and banking capital of the world. It's the deep and endless seriousness, I tell you.

And then there's Yvonne Catterfeld, who can sing a sappy ballad far better than Britney has done for years:



But of course no German popmuzik sampler is complete without the Cookie Monster lyrics of Rammstein:

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