Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A.

Hearing this recently made me realise just how much my perceptions have changed in the last 10 years. I've often found going back that a lot of songs I loathed in the past are honestly pretty tolerable, and my hatred was probably stemming unfairly from my judging their positions as the latest entry in the canon. That in itself is kind of funny because hardly anything truly sticks, there are top 10 hits from 3-5 years ago that already feel like ancient relics. "Party In The U.S.A." is not that at all, and seems to be just as popular as it's ever been 10 years since release. Apart from the tenuous link to July 4th (hardly the most jarring example), I admittedly don't really understand what makes the song endure quite as much as it does. There's always a weird lottery of randomness to that. Admittedly I do wish Dr. Luke wasn't involved with it in hindsight.

I used to find every aspect of this song as a strike against it. As someone who basically only listened to [s]Muse[/s] artists who play real instruments at that time, it *was* an affront to what music stood for to me. Now I find the flaws kind of endearing. It's such a ridiculously dumb song. Miley cannot remotely make me believe the wide-eyed rural girl she plays in this song. The JAY-Z line goes without saying, though it's really amusing that he scored arguably the biggest hit of his career a few months after this. For that matter, Jessie J originally wrote this which brings to mind two things: 1. What is it with British pop stars and using JAY-Z references? 2. I can absolutely hear her singing the 'yeaaaaah' hook of this song in my head and I want it to stop now. In the end though I just find the whole thing harmless. There's at least something endearing about how absolutely overproduced it sounds.
Zuletzt editiert: 16.05.2019 20:18