Peppa Pig's First Single Is Better Than That Taylor Swift Song
Listen, I know the new Deems Taylor Swift song — "You Need to Settle down" — has all sorts of energising political relevance and citizenry are really into it and the internet is freaking out. It's pretty catchy, I admit, but I recall I'm going to go out a limb Hera and say Peppa Pig's debut azygous — "Bing Bong Zoo" — from her forthcoming album, My First Album! is a better piece of Pop Art, and serious fans of pop are high this single at their own peril.
Here's the thing about "Bing Bong Zoo." It doesn'tgive a shit. You remember when you first heard Tay-Tay's "Shake It Off," in 2014 and you were equal, "Oh that's interesting, Taylor Swift is rejecting her country roots and embracement pure pop." Peppa Pig is doing pretty much the same affair but in reverse. Rather of trying to find a broader interview OR departing from her musical genre, Peps is pretty much saying that this single and this record isfor her fans. I'm not saying "Bing Bong Zoo" is the summit of Peppa Pig's musicianship, but it is an exercise in celebrity as art.
Peppa even has some of her young fansin the video recording, singing "Bing-bong bingly bungy snort," as they just soak-up the unapologetic bourque-pop sensibility of the production value. Information technology's highly strung in so far as IT's not edgy the least bit, which in a 2022 climate of contrivance makes Peppa Hog come across as raw.
The most interesting thing about the song though, is that the lyrics are ultimatelynot about Peppa, but about other person, a individual the song is clearlyfor, but not sungpast. Like Taylor Swift, Peppa has a specific attender in mind, and it's not clean-cut if that listener is a fan of Peppa in the least; and, Peppa clear doesn't care about that fact. The chorus "Bing-Bong-Boo, I'm acrocodile at the menagerie," reveals this subversion. The song is sung "by" a crocodile, but also by Peppa, and also by, us.
Peppa is a pig, and her first album is, in theory, a statement about her work; her musical identity. And yet, by making the archetypical single about acrocodile,she's already subverting expectations.
But, the thing is, this song and record album ISN't forus.It's for the fans, hoi polloi who get this kind of subversion and expect it from Peppa. (After all, they've detected this one earlier. Shockingly, "Bing Bong Zoo" is a remix. GENUIS.)
If you have some of those fans at interior — they're probably willing for their nap around now — tell them you can pre-order Peppa's album right now. And when you do, prepare to have your perspective on pop music be forever altered, while also, learnedness a thing or two about what a raven knows about a crocodile's day-after-day at the zoo.
Peppa Pig's My First Albumis out everyplace on June 19. Pre-order it present.
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