Will You Count Me In?

[vovat]

For this installment of songs that I find irritating, we'll take a look at something called "Bubbly," by our old friend Colbie Caillat. Wait, did I call her an "old friend"? Actually, I know nothing about her other than this song, and the fact that she guest starred in an Archie comic.

You know, flowers in a girl's hair are often a sure way to my heart, but you're not doing it for me, Colbie. And what's with that spelling of your name, anyway? It's not how the cheese spells it!

Anyway, I never liked the song, but I found it positively disturbing when I learned that one of the lines was "I get the tinglies in a silly place." Um, Colbie, I think that's the kind of thing you should get checked out by your gynecologist. And the line right before it is "every time I see your bubbly face." Um, is that something like this?

Or maybe this?

Or she could mean this.

Regardless, someone who uses cutesy slang like that is probably the sort who's going to get preggers from her hubby. And that just makes me want to toss my cookies.

As for the chorus, with its "starts in my toes, makes me crinkle my nose" stuff, that kind of reminds me of Winnie-the-Pooh's "Tiddly Pom" song. Which I guess isn't a bad thing, except it reminds me that Pooh Bear is a much better songwriter than Colbie.

Comments

[eagledna.livejournal.com]

I hated this song the first time I heard it because I recognized that it would be one that would get constant airtime, and the "makes me crinkle my nose" always immediately made me think of Toucan Sam in the Froot Loops commercials saying "Follow my nose!" I have no idea why, but that made me hate the song even more, even though I hold no grudge against Toucan Sam. And I want to pronounce her last name "KAI-AT."

[eagledna.livejournal.com]

On a completely unrelated note, I was listening to Pistolero while reading your post, only to see you are listening to Black Francis. What a small music world we live in!

[alicornmoon.livejournal.com]

What's so wrong with being cute and bubbly? :P It's okay, it's fine, it's not hurting anyone thank you :3!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Black Francis is the anti-Caillat!

Maybe Colbie needs to license her song out for Froot Loops commercials. And yeah, I don't get her last name's pronunciation either. But then, my middle name is pronounced oddly too, so I guess I can't complain too much about that.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Nothing, really. It's just that I think this song is trying to be cute and failing, sort of like Paul Frank merchandise.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

As for the chorus, with its "starts in my toes, makes me crinkle my nose" stuff, that kind of reminds me of Winnie-the-Pooh's "Tiddly Pom" song. Which I guess isn't a bad thing, except it reminds me that Pooh Bear is a much better songwriter than Colbie.

I have both these thoughts too!

[loz]

For a long, long time I thought she was saying 'your rubber face'. Considering she's not eight, she's way too old to be using these kinds of metaphors.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe she's mentally still eight years old.