Your Fat Friend

[imomus]

After a brief and enjoyable hiatus I spent showing friends from France and Greece round Berlin, I've got back to work on 'The 2005 Album From Momus' (provisionally entitled 'The Artist Overwhelmed By The Grandeur Of Ancient Ruins'). This is something of a trifle, but I think you can hear that I'm happy to get back to my studio. The music gives pride of place in the Momus Geo-Musical Museum to a fossil of Schubert, around which dance Indian singers and 1980s 'Classicism-and-Atrocity' synths. The theme comes partly from a piece in Vice magazine entitled 'Ode To The Fat Friend', and partly from the 'Fat Lady' song in the Berlin musical Cabaret. If you download, like and keep the mp3, suggested donation is a dollar or so by Paypal. The song may appear in the same or a different form on the next Momus album. And by the way, thanks so much to everyone who's contributed so far!

Your Fat Friend

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Your Fat Friend

She's so fabulous
She's so ludicrous
She's so dangerous
Your fat friend

She's intelligent
An experiment
She's an elephant
Your fat friend

Will you run away with me?
Let's go walking on the sea
Just Jesus Christ and you and me and
Your fat friend

See her fumble, see her flirt
In her massive mini-skirt
She is quite the extravert
Here comes your fat girlfriend

She's so fabulous
She's so ludicrous
She's so dangerous
Your fat friend

I love Coco, you love Jim
Your fat friend she loves him
But he can't love her, he's too thin
For your fat friend

One and one makes three not two
She will stick to you like glue
Don't fuck around with you-know-who
Here comes your fat girlfriend

She's intelligent
An experiment
She's an elephant
Your fat friend

Comments

Phatgirl Quim

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't the song owe as much to Dave Brubeck or the Swingle Singers--and, heavens forbid, "Puttin' on the Ritz" Taco--as it does directly to Bach or Schubert?

That's not to say I don't find it romping good fun!

Cheers...

Another Chubby Chaser

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, lots of Swingle Singers action in our house when I was a kid. It was 'the acceptible face of pop music' for my parents. I'm also very much into the French pop tradition, which draws heavily on jazzed-up classical models: think Michel Legrand or Claude Nougaro. They would never have broken out of Western pitching, though: sample-bending makes this 'jazz' queasily microtonal.