My iPod's Playin'... [07.08]
State of Being : The Tings Rocks!
That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings
Album: We Started Nothing; Genre: Indie
Call it shrewd marketing strategy, but with a band name like "The Ting Tings", who wouldn't be intrigued to find out more about the group. An English indie-pop band formed in 2006, they finally hit the jackpot when the executives at Apple chose one of their single "Shut Up And Let Me Go" for their iPod advertisement in Apr 2008. Released shortly to the US, this song became The Ting Tings' first single to chart inside the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
Even though "Shut Up And Let Me Go" is a hit in the US, I personally favoured another one of their single also taken from their debut album "We Started Nothing". Equally infectious and brimming with fizzy goodness, "That's Not My Name" is already a Number 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart.
Described as "no-flab electro-pop nugget" by the music critics, the song is built around a hypnotic drum beat, plenty of hand-clappings and a chanted chorus that is so reminiscence of the 1982 hit "Hey Mickey" by Toni Basil, instant and familar even after 26 years.
That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings
Album: We Started Nothing; Genre: Indie
Call it shrewd marketing strategy, but with a band name like "The Ting Tings", who wouldn't be intrigued to find out more about the group. An English indie-pop band formed in 2006, they finally hit the jackpot when the executives at Apple chose one of their single "Shut Up And Let Me Go" for their iPod advertisement in Apr 2008. Released shortly to the US, this song became The Ting Tings' first single to chart inside the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
Even though "Shut Up And Let Me Go" is a hit in the US, I personally favoured another one of their single also taken from their debut album "We Started Nothing". Equally infectious and brimming with fizzy goodness, "That's Not My Name" is already a Number 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart.
Described as "no-flab electro-pop nugget" by the music critics, the song is built around a hypnotic drum beat, plenty of hand-clappings and a chanted chorus that is so reminiscence of the 1982 hit "Hey Mickey" by Toni Basil, instant and familar even after 26 years.
They call me ''Hell', They call me 'Stacey', They call me 'her', They call me 'Jane'
That's not my name, That's not my name, That's not my name, That's not my name
That's not my name, That's not my name, That's not my name, That's not my name
And judging by the repetitive lyrics, sometime it's the most simplistic of songs that manage to burrow into your subconscious and then stay there making you repeat the same lines over and over again in your brain...
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