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Porn Shoes

 
 

What I love about Porn Shoes by The French is that almost nothing happens in it. It’s about a date, but describes only the moment at which the girl arrives. It’s completely unromantic - they’re not entirely into each other, and the guy’s feelings are neither idealised nor entirely boorish. It’s about small, normal emotions instead of soul-consuming love or crushing loss. The lyrics are plain, so it poeticises the affair solely with music, letting the electric blips and synth ebb suggest the mood and significance.

She wore gold shoes with Diamante
Like Kylie wore on TV
They kept her feeling sexy
They were what she always wanted
But he thought they looked like porn shoes
Like the porn stars wear in porn films

“I tried to place as many brand names in there as possible,” Hayman notes, “in the hope that it might get me advertising work.”

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Dave McLeod: Sort of a surreal, British indie version of Dashboard Confessional tracks Hands Down and Remember To Breath, the very genre and style that they are imitating/twisting.

I wonder if there's anything else he's attemtping through the brand names thats passing over my head, probably something related to that chorus bit you quote.

bob_arctor: Oooh cheers for that. Love the song. Gotta love songs with good lyrics.

 
 

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An unknown php script is randomly causing 15-second chokings of my server's CPU, ultimately hogging so much of its time that my host suspend this entire website for a few minutes. So I've snipped all non-essential elements until I can diagnose it. Apologies if you've encountered one of these CPU Exceeded screens. Believe it or not, what would help most with my diagnosis is lots and lots of people visiting James as often as possible over the next few days. Rolo desserts are also effective.