Friday, March 13, 2009

The 333 Best Pop Songs of the 2000s: #159

#159: "Good Luck" (2003) - Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula

And as he's walking out the door, and she realizes that she can do this, she gains confidence. With this renewed vigor, just as he's about to drive away, she tells him to kiss off in the most fasicious way she can, and to be able to do this, she transforms herself into Lisa Kekaula (current singer of the L.A. neo-soul/punk the BellRays, whose sound is kind of like an American version of the Clash, except the BellRays use soul as their mixer instead of ska and reggae), and she brings the electro DJ duo Basement Jaxx with her, and together, they channel the spirits of Gloria Gaynor and Donna Summer and Chris Stein and Giorgio Moroder and Prince in order to give our heroine the backbone she needs to shut the door on him, put on her boogie shoes and her punkified wighat and go dancing with her sistas 'cause it's Spring Break people, and it's time to kick out the jams.


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