The Kylie Minogue song title refers to the sound of a beating heart. Lyrics here, at Genius. It's not some kind of portmanteau, as I'd originally guessed (perhaps a combination of "madam" and "pa"). There are many songs about heartbeats. You may think of Buddy Holly or Herman's Hermits, but there are many many more. So to use the syllables "Padam" injects some originality. Other than that, it is just a song about feeling turned on by someone you meet in a bar and wanting to go somewhere private with them: "I hear it and I know... I know you wanna take me home..." etc.. etc.🎥 @Andy and Vice President @KamalaHarris dance to “Padam Padam” at Stonewall! pic.twitter.com/LkAkHOAMnV
— Kylie Minogue Central (@MinogueCentral) June 27, 2023
Here's the NYT "popcast" about the song: "Kylie Minogue’s ‘Padam Padam’ and the Queer Club-Pop Canon/The global star’s single has become the soundtrack of Pride this year, opening fresh conversations about pop divas and their gay fans." ("... 'Padam Padam' is... part of a longer list of diva anthems — from Lady Gaga, Madonna, and many others — that become, in effect, gay canon").
Here's the Vulture article "The World’s Heart Beats in Sync With 'Padam Padam'" ("The song unofficially became the grand marshal of New York Pride... It was played approximately every 15 minutes somewhere in the city, and for every 'Padam, Padam,' a new angel got their jockstrap").
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I learned in 8th grade physiology that the sound of a beating heart is lub-dub.
Oh look, the pod person is trying to convince everyone that it's a human woman again. She should've worn her godawful technicolor dreamcoat. That thing was literally custom designed for just such a.....whatever the hell that was.
That big gaping smile is getting so old. Not just hers but everyone's. It's so transparently phony.
"I'm FINE! I'm SO HAPPY! Look at me LOLing!"
You never saw Maggie Thatcher caper about like that.
OK? what? Is she the VP... or the head of the social committee? what a joke.
The DiFranco Family has the best song about Heartbeats!
This is Kamala Harris' highest and best use.
Kamala has yet to see a real stonewall, but one's coming.
She looks so unserious in this video. It's not what I want to see in a VP or President. I blame Clinton playing sax on Arsenio -- it's all downhill from there.
Dear Presidents: STOP trying to act like the Cool Kids.
I hate to sound old fashioned. But here goes. The lyrics to that song provide glamor and legitimacy to meaningless zipless sex. I understand the impulse, but if sex isn't about more than plumbing, hydraulics, and a pleasure cascade, we are just animals. Let's just crawl into the orgasm machine.
Never heard of this song til now. It sounds like a gay robot singing it. Can't we just go back to gays liking decent songs like Dancing Queen and Its Raining Men?
The real VP news is Trucker Carlson taking her down on his Twitter monologue last night. How can Biden keep her on the ticket when he is so infirm and she is so widely disliked?
The only "Padam, Padam" I know is a k-drama from a dozen years ago.
Politician panders. Film at 11.
Not much rhythm with the VP.
Is this Edith Piaf's Padam, Padam from 1951?
Isn't the Kylie Minogue song Padam Padam inspired by the Edith Piaf song Padam Padam?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2U9GbBnf1o
I thought this was pretty obvious, but I'm not finding anybody else saying so. In the Piaf song, padam padam padam is the beat in a haunting melody and it is sung like a heartbeat. There is also a reference in the song to a wooden heart at the end of the song.
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Edith-Piaf/padam-padam/translation/english
Onomatopoeia, the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.
Not even these efforts can make her likeable. I wonder how the DNC is going to dump her? They have had some practice with that N J Senate race a few years ago.
Ever heard of Edith Piaf ? There is a world out there.
https://open.spotify.com/track/194uD6fRM58ztn7Z1Mfyr2
"I thought this was pretty obvious, but I'm not finding anybody else saying so."
The article I linked to said it: "The title comes from an Édith Piaf song and represents the sound of a heart beating. That kind of meaningful but meaningless content is perfect internet fodder."
Don't be lured into advertising something by your sense that you know more than someone else. It's a trick.
Prediction: Kamala Harris will be the first woman President of the United States.
“a new angel got their jockstrap”
Boy, they’re really trying hard to be vulgar.
I rather liked her Can't Get You Out of My Head (mainly because it's in a minor key) and she had a pretty funny lingerie commercial a few years ago, but this song is. . . .something ChatGPT might have come up with. And sang.
But, that's her thang.
She'd be more into raga rap.
I get Edith Piaf mixed up with Mireille Mathieu.
Bob Boyd said...
"Prediction: Kamala Harris will be the first woman President of the United States."
Yea after Biden is impeached/25th Amendment out of office.. maybe by next year. But once that is done she will be primaried out by her own party.
Ellen used to dance on her show too. Later, we learned she was pure evil. Coincidence?
The Edith Piaf song is about a woman struggling to survive with the heart-heavy regrets of love lost.
The "new gay anthem" is about picking up a stranger in a bar for casual sex.
I read the article until I got to the part about a drag queen dressing up like a six-year old Shirley Temple to sing the anonymous bar sex version.
I would be more disturbed by Kamala Harris bouncing along to it if she really seemed to be enjoying such a parade of pathetic perviness.
“… I like it- I like it…”
What else was she expected to say?
She has no neck.
My 4month old grandson has more neck that that.
Ugh.
Oh, &what’s Stonewall? A movie?
"...that you need to play for your people."
Your people? WTF?
Tell me the Donna Summer songs so lip-synced by the queers of my youth still get played!
Or has the disco era truly passed?
Is she ALWAYS that awkward, and scripted??
madAsHell,
Not always -- sometimes she's even worse.
Oh, &what’s Stonewall? A movie?
A riot at a gay club
@Paul
Biden won't be impeached or otherwise kicked out. He'll step down to great praise and let Kamala be Pres for a few minutes before the next President is installed. That'll be her reward for cooperating with being sidelined.
Full disclosure: My political prediction track record is abysmal.
Remember, this person - who had to drop out of the race before the first ballot was cast in Iowa - is a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Thanks, leftists.
Kamala made a sex tape with Hunter.
Tom Arnold has the video.
It's just another song... like Frank Zappa said, disco is just a way to lubricate relations between the humans.
As for the Veep, eh... 4/10 on the cringe meter. She's just doing what she's expected to do.
Same, @ampersand 11:20, same. How did we get here, where the government thinks it’s their job to promote and celebrate the rainbow of sterile erotic impulses. That’s gotta be a 10 on the sickometer.
Goofus and Giggles.
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