Annie-Chewing Gum

[Kid Presentable]

I should not like this, but I heard it on a late night drive home, and since had to track it down. A number of people claim to like pop music. I hope they like this, it's the best pop song I've heard in a long time. I predict a global phenomenon.

ps: download it yourselves.

Norwegian singer/songwriter Annie (Anne Lilia Berge Strand) makes her full-length debut with what must surely be the year's sunniest album. Not since the days of The Tom Tom Club, Bananarama, and "Lucky Star"-era Madonna, has dance-pop been this fun, this bouncy, this unabashedly optimistic (1999 single "Greatest Hit" even samples the latter's "Everybody"). So don't say you haven't been warned: Anniemal is a pretension-free zone. With its "Oh no, oh no / You've got it all wrong / You think you're chocolate / But you're chewing gum" refrain, 2004's insanely addictive single "Chewing Gum" is the jewel in this sparkling crown. The R2D2-like bloops and bleeps and Annie's sweet "ah-ah-ahs" and "la-la-las" just make it shine all the brighter. Hippie-disco extravaganza "Come Together," which tops the seven-minute mark, is another standout, while the sentimental "My Best Friend" is, arguably, the only clunker on one of 2005's most notable releases. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

It's very Tom Tom Club, the song in question.

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

if it was going to happen it would have happened already. good tune though. that's for sure. she's one foxy chick too. check out her previous "pop smash hit", 'the greatest hit' (as mentioned in the thingy). even more of a chooooon! in my onion. :)

[Kid Presentable]

if it was going to happen it would have happened already. good tune though. that's for sure. she's one foxy chick too. check out her previous "pop smash hit", 'the greatest hit' (as mentioned in the thingy). even more of a chooooon! in my onion. :)

She's very pretty. That gum song is bonkers. I've listenend to it 20 times in a row. I'm going mental from it. It's like teletubbies for my ears.

She produces her own stuff, and DJ's too right?

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

i think she does a little production, but most of it is other people. 'chewing gum' was produced by ex-mashup master & popbitch richard x. 'greatest hit' was produced by erot, who is sadly no longer with us. one of the guys from royksopp did a couple of tracks on her album.

[Kid Presentable]

i think she does a little production, but most of it is other people. 'chewing gum' was produced by ex-mashup master & popbitch richard x. 'greatest hit' was produced by erot, who is sadly no longer with us. one of the guys from royksopp did a couple of tracks on her album.

Richard X? Who did the sugababes 'Freak like Me'? No wonder I like this.

I'm losing my marbles. 30 times over I've listened to this now. I might nick the album.

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

yes him. good pop music he makes. yes.

[DroppinScience]

She's a lot of fun. Try out "Anniemal" (that's her album). I think you'll enjoy it. :)

[Kid Presentable]

She's a lot of fun. Try out "Anniemal" (that's her album). I think you'll enjoy it. :)

Oh No!

[Tzar]

Hilltops new album comes out in March (!)

that's all i care about right now in life.

[Rancid_Beasties]

I still probably like heartbeats the best, then greatest hit second, then chewing gum third. Shes the first pure sugar pop artist I've liked in a long time. The album is just plain infectious.

[Kid Presentable]

Yeah, can't say I rate Heartbeats.

The video for chewing gum is on Youtube. The multiple buttock dancers add a new element to this song, especially after 200 listens.

[Tompz]

It's a good song, cool lyrics too. Got some serious rotation around these parts a while ago.

[Kid Presentable]

Thanks for the heads up, Kid Presentable. I liked the song. I'll have to give her album a shot sometime. (y)
Word up. You still got that smoking avatar?

-badmeaninggood

[Kid Presentable]

So the song is good, no?

[MagicCowboy]

I'll be damned if the song ain't the cutest.