Dragonette - I Get Around (Mercury)
3/5
By: Christiana Spens
I've been listening to 'I Get Around' for months now, a sultry, sexy little pop song that is extremely addictive and laced with sin and charm in equal measure. So when I received the promo, I knew at once that something strange had happened to my copy, when something sounding a bit like the Streets started playing. Immediately I pouted in sincere disappointment that Dragonette had unwittingly abandoned me. I examined the CD, and it still remains a mystery to me how some random mix of some random band has wiped 'I Get Around', as that's what's printed on the record...
Luckily, I had already heard them, otherwise you would be reading something like "this is a bit like hearing junkies trip out on the night bus on a Tuesday with a storm outside". Dragonette, however, are the antidote. They're the shot of adrenalin when you've overdosed on grey grungy grimey music accidentally. They're fun, they're upbeat, and yet with undertones of debauchery and outfits in rubber to give it an edge - it's not an alcopop, it's a cocktail. I'm guessing a Cosmopolitan - cranberry, vodka, lime, cute glass... Peaches would have approved. Peaches Geldof will probably play it a lot at her little DJ nights. "I say yes when I oughta say no..." It's like those cherry-flavoured clove cigarettes which leave a sweet residue on your lips - even non-smokers would appreciate them.
With the revved-up sexuality of a modern Alice in a Wonderland of red lipstick and strobe lights and bottles that say "Drink Me," Dragonette - Martina Sorbara, her husband Dan Kurtz, and Simon Craig and Joel Stouffer - are an addictive alternative to the nauseatingly mainstream and manufactured pop acts that taint our air-waves and clubs. With genuine playfulness and charisma, they sing like they should have known better, turning the idea of pop on its head, making a kind of rebellion out of singing pop music over anything else. They may taste like cherry, but they're still tobacco. And you will probably get addicted.
Artists in this article: Dragonette
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