२८ जून, २०२३

Kamala likes the song of the summer and is ready to see Stonewall.

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.

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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cassandra lite म्हणाले...

I learned in 8th grade physiology that the sound of a beating heart is lub-dub.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

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.

wild chicken म्हणाले...

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.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

OK? what? Is she the VP... or the head of the social committee? what a joke.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

The DiFranco Family has the best song about Heartbeats!

Ice Nine म्हणाले...

This is Kamala Harris' highest and best use.

PM म्हणाले...

Kamala has yet to see a real stonewall, but one's coming.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

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.

Ampersand म्हणाले...

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.

Gunner म्हणाले...

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?

Mountain Maven म्हणाले...

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?

MB म्हणाले...

The only "Padam, Padam" I know is a k-drama from a dozen years ago.

Howard (not that Howard) म्हणाले...

Politician panders. Film at 11.

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

Not much rhythm with the VP.

matthew49 म्हणाले...

Is this Edith Piaf's Padam, Padam from 1951?

Gerda Sprinchorn म्हणाले...

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

Earnest Prole म्हणाले...

Onomatopoeia, the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.

Michael K म्हणाले...

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.

swissoldie म्हणाले...


Ever heard of Edith Piaf ? There is a world out there.




https://open.spotify.com/track/194uD6fRM58ztn7Z1Mfyr2

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"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."

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Don't be lured into advertising something by your sense that you know more than someone else. It's a trick.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

Prediction: Kamala Harris will be the first woman President of the United States.

Sydney म्हणाले...

“a new angel got their jockstrap”
Boy, they’re really trying hard to be vulgar.

Anthony म्हणाले...

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.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

She'd be more into raga rap.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

I get Edith Piaf mixed up with Mireille Mathieu.

Paul म्हणाले...

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.

Floris म्हणाले...

Ellen used to dance on her show too. Later, we learned she was pure evil. Coincidence?

Tina Trent म्हणाले...

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.

farmgirl म्हणाले...

“… 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.

farmgirl म्हणाले...

Oh, &what’s Stonewall? A movie?

Free Manure While You Wait! म्हणाले...

"...that you need to play for your people."

Your people? WTF?

mikee म्हणाले...

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?

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Is she ALWAYS that awkward, and scripted??

Kirk Parker म्हणाले...

madAsHell,

Not always -- sometimes she's even worse.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Oh, &what’s Stonewall? A movie?

A riot at a gay club

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

@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.

Jim at म्हणाले...

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.

FullMoon म्हणाले...

Kamala made a sex tape with Hunter.
Tom Arnold has the video.

Will Cate म्हणाले...

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.

Caroline म्हणाले...

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.

Bunkypotatohead म्हणाले...

Goofus and Giggles.