Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Yodel-a-he-hoo

I am hip deep in mundane life activities today. (You know, the stuff I ignored last week when I was living in my pajamas typing frenetically.) This might be a tad depressing, but for my deep and abiding love of laundry. The ability to take piles of chaos and turn them, in just a little over an hour, into neat and ordered opportunities for fashion greatness (not to mention blog exaggeration) brings peace and joy to my cluttered soul.

As I sort, wash, dry, and fold, I'm giggling to myself about Gwen Stefani's new single. I'm not sure why, but sampling the yodeling goat song (lyrics inexplicably provided by the National Institute of Health/Department of Human Services) from "The Sound of Music" strikes me as one of the funniest things I've ever heard. When I saw the video - which looks so Madonna-esque that Gwen should fess up to a tribute even if she didn't have the Divine Diva in mind as she wielded her riding crop and donned her platinum wig - I thought, "Yay Gwen." Honestly, she's an impossible mix of creative and normal, always teetering right at the edge of embarrassing but never falling over. She inspires me, as I stand here folding laundry (in an outfit that teeters on the edge of embarrassing...) I think she's our generation's unheralded music genius. I hope she does a follow up single based on "Climb Every Mountain,"...it might enjoy some crossover success in self-help circles if Gwen plays her cards right :)

6 comments:

Jess Riley said...

I think Gwen's gorgeous. Haven't heard her new single yet, but I've heard lots about it.

xxxx said...

Gwen told Entertainment Weekly that she's like a Trekkie for the Sound of Music ... totally obsessed. Funny, huh?

Anonymous said...

I'm still deciding if I like that song or not. It's strange, but I really like the yodeling part. It's the rest of the song...a bit too repetitive for my taste.

Anonymous said...

That sounds hilarious, but alas, I have not seen or heard it! And I agree, a remake of Climb Every Mountain would be priceless.

LEstes65 said...

We are a huge Gwen fan here. We had her 1st solo album on the other day and Cai & Liam were dancing with wild abandon. We programmed out the one song that features the sh** word very clearly. That's all I need the boys to start spouting around the 'hood, eh? But Liam's favorite bands include Gwen, No Doubt and Super Chick. He has good taste.

TTQ said...

I love Early Winter on the new Sweetest Escape albumn.