Show & Tell: Kate Nash – “I Just Love You More”
Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Jef in Music, Show & Tell
There’s a couple of ways to approach this song, and I don’t think I care about most of them. Is Kate Nash totally unaware of Karen O? I’m guessing not. Is it a paint-by-numbers punk pose? Yeah I guess. But hurry let’s enjoy this shit before the internet tells us all those reasons this is horrible, because judging by how it made my brain giggle there’s something right happening. Let’s agree on a middle ground? Nash is totally fucking with her brand — repetitive chants stumbling around instead of clever phrases quietly turning — and how you feel about that depends on how you feel about Nash. Me? Who’s Kate Nash again? So whatever, the squealing hits like a palm full of psycho, it’s bloody but loving and the guitars are scuzzy switchblades that wait until Nash’s throat bulbs up with fluid from blubbering the same thing over and over again and then they flip out and start slashing and her voicebox innards — the sounds! — spray everywhere and we end up drenched like the prom-queen ending of “Carrie” but it’s endearing, if not outright awesome. At least for me. Hi-five, Kate Nash. Whoever you are.
Hit the jump:
Anupa
Feb 16th, 2010
So I was a really big fan of Kate Nash after she released “Made of Bricks” in 2007. People said she was a bootleg Lily Allen, but I only really like “Alright, Still”-era Allen anyway. Plus Nash is a great songwriter.
This song is good. It reminds me of late 70s/early 80s folk rock and has a 60s vibe to it as well. I hear the Karen O influence too. Only thing is that its a crazy departure from her original folky, “mockney”-accented stuff. I don’t mind it and not that I expect musicians to be one-dimensional, but I don’t necessarily understand or think I can fully appreciate the new direction without context.