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January 27, 2009

New Ben Lee - "Blue Denim"

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It's been a minute since onetime noise addict Ben Lee teamed up with a Saved By The Bell star after proclaiming his love for Against Me!. He's back with his seventh album The Rebirth Of Venus -- the above thumbnail is the somewhat creepy album art -- which is where you'll find "Blue Denim." This is how he describes the song:

Around the time I wrote this, the whole world seemed to be talking about Miley Cyrus and her saucy photos. Everything was so black and white. You had to either approve or disapprove. The conversation seemed overly focused on morality. This song is for Miley. If I could have sat and had a chat with her when all that drama was going down, I'd have told her "Don't let anyone demonize your emerging sexuality. Don't let anyone make you feel bad about yourself. But know that you have a power as a young woman, that for better or worse, can build and destroy civilizations."

Here goes, Miley, you civilization wrecker.

The Rebirth Of Venus is out 2/10 via New West.

Posted at 11:04 AM by brandon
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Not trying to deliberately rack up negative red arrow points, but seriously I can't believe this guy is still around and making music.

Posted by: partyboy at 01/27/09 11:23 AM  | Reply
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snore. i miss "awake is the new sleep."

Posted by: annie onymous at 01/27/09 11:25 AM  | Reply
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I don't really listen to this kind of Ben Lee, Joshua Radin music, but I can't imagine under what circumstances someone would write music about Miley Cyrus' emerging sexuality.

Posted by: Robert Wohner at 01/27/09 11:37 AM  | Reply
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What a pretentious guy. There's a difference between "emerging sexuality" and putting up revealing pictures on the internet. Is that the new rite of initiation for puberty, showing off for peds on the web? As for Ben Lee himself, both his album art and his song are boring and look/sound like they just got sent here from the 90's. Lame.

Posted by: Elvis vs. Shark profile link at 01/27/09 11:50 AM  | Reply
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very stupid and pointless.

Posted by: laura at 01/27/09 11:55 AM  | Reply
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is that his new wife, diane court, on the right in the album art?

Posted by: amy at 01/27/09 11:57 AM  | Reply
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His music the hipster garbage ive ever herd

Posted by: yeah at 01/27/09 12:14 PM  | Reply
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what he worse live, too jamaican

Posted by: mattgcn  in reply to yeah's comment at 01/29/09 11:09 PM  | Reply
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"It's been a minute..."?

Posted by: Bob at 01/27/09 12:20 PM  | Reply
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this is nothing. search for his new (australian) single 'i love pop music'.

oh god. i'm sorry.

Posted by: hoi polloi at 01/27/09 7:49 PM  | Reply
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claire danes needs to break his heart again, stat.

Posted by: sass at 01/28/09 1:41 AM  | Reply
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I cannot believe how much I hate this guy... Catch My Disease just had to be both one of the most irritating earworms of the decade AND completely and utterly ubiquitous in Australia for an entire year.

Posted by: Richaod profile link at 01/28/09 7:15 AM  | Reply
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