Confessions of a Skye Friday

Shot/reverse: Canadian voyeurs Skye Sweetnam and Kalan Porter find sadistic pleasure in watching Lindsay Lohan sort out some daddy issues

A late installment, in part because I jumped the gun on Cruella on Skyednesday. PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO. I understand that Disney producers do not equal James Robertson (although she's rerecording with many, er, flashier producers on this one...and I don't even know who produced the Dizny track) but it demonstrates that:

1) Skye can SING SING SING -- those are some golden pipes. The girl has range, too.

2) It is conceivable that Skye might record the heavily orchestrated epic seven-minute rock odyssey that her voice and posture deserve (the Disney track displays her Queen harmony skills). Try it out with the pirate song, maybe? I dunno if Skye is ready to unleash the biggest Top 40 arena-rock monster of her career just yet -- but if she moves in that direction, I won't complain.

Not much to report since Wednesday, except you can watch Skye's presenter intro at the Juno's over at YouTube. Of course she got robbed in the Best New Artist category; the world isn't ready.

I turn your attention instead to Lindsay Lohan, who I've dissed a few times 'round here for what I've called a big ol' flop of a second album. Well, I'm reconsidering. In part because of this recent comment:

She spends most of "Fastlane" winking at the sound man. On "I Want You to Want Me" she does the vocal equivalent of playing air guitar. On "Who Loves You?" she's plastering the room in so much ham that pigs are picketing outside the studio.

So I listened again -- I still can't get through the bulk of the middle stretch, but the aforementioned highlights (plus "Confessions" and "I Live for the Day" -- the only Andreas Carlsson track on here [he also wrote "Symptoms of You"] -- and minus the Cheap Trick cover which I still think doesn't work) are pretty awesome. (Hm, I kind of like the title track, too, listening to it right now.) Not a great track record overall, but I definitely missed "Who Loves You?"

First (yes, that's a pun -- wait for it), the song itself is unlike anything else on the album; it's closer to Speak material with its dirty synth bass line and killer dance chorus that for some reason didn't stick first time round. Second, the lyrics are GREAT. Her double entendre delivery has come a long way. I didn't even notice these lines for some reason:

You crawled under my skin and I feel you there/ You're with me all the time/ You come everywhere/ When I need my space, I'll push you away/ But then I want you back/ You're hard to erase

And the more explicit chorus:

Nothing gets me off the way that you do/ You drive me crazy when you step in the room

But there's more! There's an edited expletive in this song where Lindsay snarls, "YOU'RE HARD TO F***IN' ERASE!" And the brief outro is classic -- (sub-Ashlee Courtney Love scream:) "WHO LOVES YOU!!!" followed by (ambivalent shrug) "Me."

It's HARD TO F***IN' EXPLAIN. Listen for yerself. And then compare to some REAL dad-therapy, two years before it was cool!

The Lindsay - Who Loves You

Fefe Dobson - Unforgiven

If you haven't, listen to Skye's track from the other day. I posted prematurely (Lindsay, you have full permission to use that in your next song).