Tag: Scissor Sisters

Scissor Sisters – Only The Horses

It sounds like Jake Shears is singing, sure, but everything else has changed.

Tom: This doesn’t sound like the Scissor Sisters.

Tim: Ooh, pretty colours.

Tom: I mean, it sounds like Jake Shears is singing, sure, but everything else has changed. They’ve been slowly edging in a new direction for a while, and this… well, with this they’ve just made a break for it.

Tim: I like it a lot. It’s a very different style — you can certainly hear the Calvin Harris production — and I think it’s a great track.

Tom: Which is a shame, because I loved how they used to sound. I try to keep an open mind about artists taking new styles, but when they’re as generic as this… it’s like they’ve stripped away almost everything that made them original. It’s Calvin Harris (who produced it) featuring the Scissor Sisters.

Tim: Hmm…you may have a point there. But still — actually, no, that’s a very good point. As a track, I like it, but we don’t really need another band joining in the multitude of acts there already are doing stuff like this.

Tom: There are some bands who’ve taken amazing new directions… but this isn’t one of them. It’s not bad. It’ll get airplay. But it ain’t the Scissor Sisters I know.

Scissor Sisters – Any Which Way

A decent enough tune, but the verses don’t seem to have much to them.

Tom: The new Scissor Sisters single – the second one off the new album – is out today.

Tom: I don’t know what’s more surprising – that the Scissor Sisters are still going, or that they’re still good.

Tim: Hmm. I loved Fire With Fire, and this one doesn’t really live up to it for me. It’s still a decent enough tune, but the verses don’t seem to have much to them and are largely forgettable; thirty seconds after I’ve heard it I’m remembering it as just one repeating chorus, which I will probably be singing to myself for at least the next 24 hours.

Tom: The video’s a textbook case of ‘chuck in as many ideas as you can, some of them will work’, but somehow it still seems like a cohesive whole.

Tim: You’re right about that. I like to imagine them having filmed about half a dozen separate and completely different ones and then just cutting between them at random intervals throughout the song.

Tom: Any video which features Ana Matronic pulling open her top and sexily intoning “just take me” has at least something I can appreciate – even if the sushi roll bombardment that follows sends rather confusing messages.