Comments on: So put your good dress on

So put your good dress on

divabat — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:31:41 -0800

We Are Smug is the side project of former Savage Garden frontman turned electropop showman Darren Hayes and collaborator and fellow electronic musician Robert Conley. Hayes and Conley had been working on this project secretly for about two years before releasing it online for free on Hayes's birthday. There are no current plans to tour or sell this album, aside from the free download, but there are already official music videos. (Warning: last link potentially triggering.)

By: ford and the prefects

ford and the prefects — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:01:13 -0800

The first 30-seconds of "Watching Me, Watching You" made me feel like I'd just opened up a keygen.

By: Nattie

Nattie — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:17:17 -0800

Darren Hayes is my favorite singer ever. This wasn't really my thing but I was glad he had fun doing it and put it out there for free.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:52:02 -0800

Oh. I thought you meant "second video may trigger seizures." Warning: There's a ton of police brutality in that video.

By: Darned account name

Darned account name — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:51:15 -0800

I really like the arrangement and instrumentation, but the vocals and especially the lyrics are annoying and trite.

By: mary8nne

mary8nne — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:40:42 -0800

Revisiting that NIN sound from the 90s seems like a strange choice for 2009. I really don't like this at all. Its just sounds very cheesy and dated (but in a 1990s way).

By: mary8nne

mary8nne — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:41:32 -0800

I really cannot listen to all this, its just too awful.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:08:05 -0800

Wow. Just...horrible. It really took them two years to make this dreck? Methinks they should have kept it secret.

By: orville sash

orville sash — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:18:52 -0800

Maybe you guys haven't heard Savage Garden before, but my expectations for this were couched about exactly where they belonged.

By: divabat

divabat — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:14:06 -0800

Sounds like Nattie and I are the only Darren Hayes fans around here. Alright then. *moves along*

By: orville sash

orville sash — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:50:16 -0800

metafilter: We're a bunch of pretentious music snobs! (wait...I don't think I'm doing this right.)

By: orville sash

orville sash — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:55:32 -0800

Ok, now I think I've got it: Metafilter: We Are Smug

By: mrmojoflying

mrmojoflying — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:55:38 -0800

Clever bit of synthpop but I ask you, where's the 2008 version of Erasure or The Petshop Boys?

By: bjrn

bjrn — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:07:18 -0800

I quite like it. It's a bit silly and cheesy at points, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, it suits the whole style of the album.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:50:59 -0800

Sounds like Nattie and I are the only Darren Hayes fans around here. Alright then. *moves along* me three!