"If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look At Me" track review - Pitchfork
posted by davidt on Wednesday June 07 2006, @10:00AM

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"If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look at Me" track review by Marc Hogan - Pitchfork (3.5 / 5 stars)

 
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"a ways" (sic)... (Score:0)
... "aways" is a northern English phrasing. It means the same as away.
Anonymous -- Wednesday June 07 2006, @01:01PM (#223865)
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Lyrics (Score:0)
I'm in the states so have to wait a bit for this but has anyone managed to post the lyrics to this song anywhere?
Anonymous -- Wednesday June 07 2006, @01:45PM (#223874)
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    I don't get it (Score:2, Informative)
    Does the reviewer think Morrissey is being too fake because he looks too handsome to say "If you don't like me/Don't look at me" or becaue the words don't convey the same feeling of that ancient rejection on Viva Hate times? Anyway, I just recall a saying that says (sic) that suffering sometimes enhances beauty; that there is something attractive and poetic in someone's silent and repressed...er...desire. Which I think Moz expresses quite well, and if he dresses well and looks so devotedly impeccabe, well, maybe it is to compensate for that feeling of rejection that sometimes never quite leaves the heart for good...the person suffering from the complex of ugly duckling may want to make up for the pain this complex causes by becoming a beautiful swann!! Haven't you guys read the ugly duckling's tale? I feel I am being so invasive of Moz's psyche; but he has handled even that with a graceful smile (and a beautiful long neck). :)
    Mrs. Woolf -- Wednesday June 07 2006, @01:48PM (#223875)
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    Cute (Score:1)
    See if I care! lol
    redpathetic <redpathetic@yahoo.com> -- Wednesday June 07 2006, @08:04PM (#223933)
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    Happy in this final acceptance of his own absurdity...Albert Camus
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      Is that a review? (Score:1)
      How can one put their name next to that piece of text and call it a song review? How does just simply presuming to understand the artist's motivation behind the lyrics constitute a full song review? The only thing we heard about regarding the actual music was, "chase-scene acoustic guitars" similar to "Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself". How can one possibly have LEARNT anything about the actual song?

      Thanks for nothing, BitchDork magazine!
      Osakaglen -- Sunday June 11 2006, @01:58AM (#224424)
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      Summer sky and throat bone dry The fields are all gold Dusty lane with a song in my brain And it stoned me to my soul
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