Nach dem was ich bisher von The Honeydrips gehört habe sind Mikael Carlssons überwiegend elektronisch instrumentierte Popsongs eine große popkulturelle Referenztravaganza, mit Songtiteln wie Lack Of Love Will Tear Us Apart oder James Dean als zentraler Figur in Fall From A Height das auch Filmzitate aus Annie Hall sampelt und später wiederum von The Field in der letztjährigen !!!-Kollabo umgewerkelt wurde. Aber am besten gefällt mir Hej Då Karolin, da macht Carlsson eine (ohne jetzt den Text zu verstehen vermutliche) monströs schmalzige Ballade aus Riz Ortolanis Titelmelodie der feinsten italienischen Kannibalen-Exploitation aller Zeiten: Eine romantische Version von Cannibal Holocaust.

[MP3] The Honeydrips - Hej Då Karolin

• When it comes to pop, “style over substance” is an enduring criticism: almost as powerful as it is dumb. So often pop plays a shell game with the ideas – using style as a mask or code to make sure the right people get the substance; or using the excuse of artistry to get away with the most outrageous leaps in style. “Stand And Deliver” is a stylist’s manifesto in lyric and sound, and in the record’s worst line – “Deep meaning philosophies where only showbiz loses” – Adam buys into the binary himself and betrays a certain fretful conservatism. Why not turn philosophies into showbiz, like the rest of the New Pop was doing? (It hadn’t done the Beatles or McLaren any harm, after all)
  Tom Ewings imposantes "Popular"-Projekt, Profile aller Singles die es je auf Platz Eins der UK-Charts geschafft haben, nähert sich dem Tag meiner Geburt. #479: Adam And The Ants - Stand And Deliver, den Song kannte ich ehrlich nicht bis zu Chynna Clugstons wunderbarem Blue Monday.

• [...] helps to illustrate the frustrating overabundance of unnecessarily reworked material being hurled at listeners. Want more proof? Take a listen to the bounty of remixes clogging up music-blog aggregators such as Hype Machine and count how few actually move you and how many are there to give bloggers another reason/excuse to keep a band's name in the elbo.ws headlines.
  Haha, bin ich also nicht der letzte dem deswegen der Kragen geplatzt ist.

• At least one long and winding road to hell is paved with interpretations of rock lyrics. Writing on the subject tends to fall apart because lyrics make less sense to the eye than to the ear. Words are blurred and bent by the music that swirls around them. "A song doesn't exist to convey the meaning of the words," the critic Simon Frith has written. "Rather, the words exist to convey the meaning of the song." A Cambridge psychologist once found that if a singer deliberately switches from ordinary words to nonsense syllables in the middle of a song only a few people hear anything amiss.
  The Pavement Tapes von Alex Ross, auch nachzulesen im Booklet zur Brighten The Corners-Neuauflage.

• Pitchforks größter AC-Fanboy im Chatinterview über Merriweather Post Pavilion und numerische Bewertungen im Allgemeinen.