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Why are British girls so much better at communicating their rage than us Americans?
No, seriously. Where can we get some of that snark?
We have spent much time praising the likes of singer-songwriters
Kate Nash, Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen, and, who knows whether it's
something in the water (or tea? har har), these girls all hail from the
UK. We felt it only right then to dedicate the first article of
Fabyuhluhs's regular Tuesday Tuneage feature to the women artists who,
in accents we covet, inspire us to rock out and stick it to the man
every time we hit play.
>>Click to listen to the Fabyuhluhs Angry British Girls playlist, if the embed doesn't work for you<<
First up, nobody does artsy breakup songs quite the same as Kate Nash.
We don't really know who wronged her so seriously, but it resulted in
some choice music. Her album Made of Bricks, released in 2007, is one
big break-up opera. Get ready for some good old empowerment:
Foundations- This music video, which narrates the
premeditations of an impending breakup, had us at yellow bowling ball
barreling through a line of shiny heels in the opening sequence. After
playing it through a few times, you're almost guaranteed to be belting
out the bitter lyrics, making every guy inch away, praying he never
becomes the object of your Kate Nash-induced scorn.
Merry Happy- Very artsy. This beautifully crafted song
reveals the two parts of a painfully familiar post-breakup woman: the
eff you face of the tough girl who runs into her ex-boyfriend in public
and also the lonely part that secretly misses the douchebag, even if
she can watch a stupid sunset alone. Listen to the track a couple times
and let the subtleties really sink in.
Dickhead- Really, the song is pretty self explanatory. The
theme is right there in the title and the lyrics leave little to be
inferred, which is a good idea when you're singing to a dickhead. It
goes something like this "Why you being a dickhead for/stop being a
dickhead... you're just fucking up situations". Can you relate? Because
we can. "I wish that you were more intelligent so that you could see
what you're doing is so shitty to me." Oh, burn! Do those cutting
lyrics give you warm fuzzies? Because they do us.
Pumpkin Soup- Ever been stuck in mixed signal land? The last
Kate Nash song on our playlist epitomizes it. He thinks you want more
than you do so he backs off so you try harder and then he falls head
over heels for you and that's not what you wanted either. If only you
were an acclaimed recording artist you could make a super cute music
video and tell him very clearly, "I just want your kiss, boy!"
Our next English girl crush is Amy Winehouse. We know, we
know, she's practically a crackwhore, but frankly Amy Winehouse knows
heartache better than the other females in our iTunes library. Her mix
of modern beats and themes with big band and deep south soulful vocals
conveys what we're all trying to say to that dumbass (is all the
vulgarity making us more scornful British girl-like and less blah
American? Here's to hoping!) who dumped you. The album we can't get
enough of is Back to Black, released back in 2006. We're not the only
fans, it was lavished with Grammys.
You Know I'm No Good- Mmm, mix sixties-style club jazz with a
solid beat and some damn sexy baritone saxophone with a confessional
monologue. You've got the perfect recipe for a self-loathing feminist
rant. Yum.
Back to Black- The album title song is a break-up track in
essence, with the same jazz elements that Winehouse is famous for, as
well as a very rich and steady line drum-kick and tambourine. Your guy
left you for his black widow ex? Let Amy help, she's been there. "He
left no time to regret, kept his dick wet with his same old safe bet."
He Can Only Hold Her- With its peppy guitar theme and
bouncing bass-line, this pseudo-hip hop style song details a poor girl
fallen out of love with love. Even though her life sucks (whatever went
down with her incarcerated hubby and her anyways?), Winehouse does
empowerment very well, in all forms of the word. She'll remind you what
it is to be a woman; in case you forgot.
[Bonus Track!] Eff Me Pumps- Back before Amy was a
heroin-addict, when she was the "real" Amy Winehouse and wasn't
emaciated, she stood for something. This song is an anthem for the
real-life girls, so sing it proud, and laugh in the face of all those
stupid girls in the
