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Scissor Sisters: 'Kiss You Off'
Released on Monday, May 28 2007
Published Monday, May 14 2007, 14:57 BST | By Nick Levine | 1 comment
Ladies and gentlemen, a question for you: can a single be too successful? The Scissor Sisters' 'I Don't Feel Like Dancin' spent a month at number one and became the fourth biggest selling single of last year. Fantastic, no? Well...not entirely. It became so ubiquitous that the follow-up singles from the New York glamourpusses' Ta Dah LP pretty much slipped under the radar: 'Land Of A Thousand Words' and 'She's My Man' limped into the charts at numbers 19 and 29 respectively.
The next question: has 'Kiss You Off', the fourth single from the album, got enough junk in its trunk to break through the glass ceiling laid down by the success of 'Dancing'? You know what, it might just. Mining the same interface between Studio 54 exuberance and widescreen rock power as Blondie's underrated 'War Child', it's all scrawling guitar solos, power chords and choruses as strident and snappy as an agitated anti-fur campaigner. And Ana Matronic - on lead vocal duties here - can kiss us off any day of the week. Mwah!
The next question: has 'Kiss You Off', the fourth single from the album, got enough junk in its trunk to break through the glass ceiling laid down by the success of 'Dancing'? You know what, it might just. Mining the same interface between Studio 54 exuberance and widescreen rock power as Blondie's underrated 'War Child', it's all scrawling guitar solos, power chords and choruses as strident and snappy as an agitated anti-fur campaigner. And Ana Matronic - on lead vocal duties here - can kiss us off any day of the week. Mwah!
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I hope it does as well as it deserves. Everyone I know who has the album has said it should be a single. (...they probably want to dance to it in the clubs...) I like that you included a Blondie comparison in your review, there is certainly an element of Blondie there. AND with Ana Matronic on lead vocals, it's a fresh sound to the group, singles wise.