{ music video & multi-frame comic } Imogen Heap: Let's do the white girl twist (like we did last summer)

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What she was there to record: Imogen Heap – Just for now (live at Studio 11 on 103.1 FM [Los Angeles, California], November 3, 2006), online at dailymotion.com (accessed 08-Sep-08).

Nominated for two Grammys in 2006, Imogen Heap is one of those extraordinary musicians whose talent seems to know no end, as this video demonstrates. In the video, she performs a live, a capella, multi-track, one-woman powershift version of a song from her well-received 2005 album, Speak for Yourself. I guarantee you'll be astounded by what you hear, although probably not entirely in a positive way.

There's just something disagreeable about her effort.

In trying to figure out what's unattractive about Imogen's performance (over confidence? soul-less execution? meatless squeal? rat's nest hair?), I eventually hit upon M.K. Brown's comic from the 1980s: Let's do the white girl twist (like we did last summer) (reproduced below). I suppose I first saw Brown's comic in the National Lampoon, but it's been published elsewhere. See if you don't agree it captures Imogene's approach to popular music.


M.K. Brown: Let's do the white girl twist (like we did last summer)

Posted by 3Dsound at Sunday, January 20, 2008 6:04 PM
Categories: graphic storytelling and visual narrative, multi-frame comic, rock music, video, pop music, music video
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  • Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:22 PM Pam wrote:
    Oh, too funny, the White Girl Twist. That is so - right.
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  • Monday, January 28, 2008 9:08 AM 3D wrote:
    Yeah? I wanted to publish this over at TFTML, but then thought .... maybe not, because I suspect there are legions of Imogen's fans who'd violently disagree .. but they're wrong.
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  • Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:45 PM Pam wrote:
    Well, all of those four gardening folks that read my blog might REBEL - but I'm not sure that will really affect the planet.

    (I'm in a music void. Any suggestions?)
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  • Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:16 PM Guido wrote:
    Dancing for you, pal, is not what she was there to record.

    As for your fulsome feline hiss ...

    Hope someone notifies me, if Heap ever offers an opinion of any Thing you have (ever) mastered, or, in your case, 'the best you could muster'

    You will never achieve to a fraction of her talent, and will never re-perform any piece of music as many times as she has re-interpreted this one

    I advised female artist M.K.Brown that her work (C)1986 White Girl Twist [hic], is being levered to insult a female musician.

    Pick on your own size, bub.
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  • Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:24 PM 3D wrote:
    I'm glad my review of Imogen's video caught your eye. It's what blogs, such as mine, aspire to.
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  • Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:25 PM 3D wrote:
    I'm glad my review of Imogene's video caught your eye. It's what personal blogs, such as mine, aspire to.
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