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Ok, so we have a situation. And I don't mean whatshisfuck from Jersey Beach. Laguna Shore. Whatever.
I mean Alison fucking Goldfrapp.
Listen: I have defended Goldfrapp to the death. I loved her when she did coke and discovered the low-end of a Moog. I loved her when she did more coke and became a glassy-eyed whore. I loved her even more when she did so much coke that she fell the fuck down, face first, on the dance floor, and clawed her way up only to become a superhuman robosextrokitten made of drugs, lust, and stardust. And I obsessed all year over the album where she retreated to the forest to find herself.
But what the fuck is this new shit, "Rocket"? This is not something I can abide. I play her cover of Olivia Newton John's "Physical" out in public at any opportunity, but this...this is beyond O.N.J. territory. This is "I just got high off of a Mr Frosty at Wendys and now I want to go to Icing and get my bellybutton pierced" shit, only from the 80s so it probably involves wearing Electric Youth, denim jackets and a bedazzler.
You could check it out if you wanted to. But you don't.
"I gotta rocket/UR GOIN ONNIT"? God I hope this isn't what all this was leading up to. Because if the actual single image and sound are to be believed (sound + vision, amirite or amirite), um...Goldfrapp's joined the fucking GHOSTBUSTERS and we should just all hide. Forever.
You FAILED me, Goldfrapp. You are the reason people leave the church, and/or stop listenign to Wilco: because there's no use believing in someone you spend years defending. People don't change...unless it's change into suck.
Goldfrapp 
Reader Comments (2)
Beautiful article, I agree with all your declarations of love for the many incarnations of Goldfrapp... I'm heartbroken to hear the Goldfrapp single. I hope this style of her music goes on a rocket and never comes back.
As I said in my article about the up-and-coming UK artists, the 80s have never died in Britain and there is a huge revival of the snyth/pop sound -- La Roux, Ellie Goulding, Delphic, Hurts. I hate to think that Goldfrapp is following a trend, but they also want to sell albums. I hate to admit it, but Rocket has been stuck in my head all damn day. It's catchy as fuck and it really does remind me of "Jump" by Van Halen. Bands do reinvent themselves (think of Everything but the Girl going from folksy to dance/trip-hop), but Goldfrapp likes to do it on every album. In a couple of years they'll probably do an album of polka hits.