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Originally Posted by Zer0
I've a similar relationship with She & Him where I like their albums on the first two listens before they really start to grate, as much as I like Zooey Deschanel and everything.
I liked Europe but the first Allo Darlin' album is by far their best, some even consider Europe their sophomore slump. Their music doesn't sound forced in any way or have a novelty factor like what I find with some indiepop bands and that's what makes their albums stand up well to repeated listens. They're half Australian half English actually, and based in London. You can certainly tell that their frontwoman Elizabeth Morris is from Australia as her accent comes through nicely in her singing.
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AMG wrote about Zooey Deschanel's aspiring vocal career with She & Him:
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It’s hard to be ambivalent about Zooey Deschanel. She’s a polarizing personality, one whose deadpan movie roles and big Bambi eyes are either charming or too cute for their own good. The same can be said for She & Him, a soft rock duo that features Deschanel doing what she does best as a film star: acting utterly adorable alongside a quiet, talented male character.
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Zooey's quirky and precocious persona began to wear thin for me around the time she reached the age of 30. In the United States she does a frequently aired 30 second commercial for the iPhone which makes me want to bullet in my brain rather than endure the torture of Zooey saying cute things to her iPhone app. UK internet comedian Paperlily does a funny satire of Zooey's iPhone ad:
"Quirky & precocious" are acceptable and often attractive traits for naive college coeds, but as a woman grows into middle age, those fashionably quirky traits of a school girl blossom into annoying personality disorders.
There thousands of female vocalists with more talent than Zooey, who earn their living singing for tips in the piano bar of a Holiday Inn motel. Zooey's only advantage is she's way cuter than all of them.
I don't understand my own pathological dislike of Zooey Deschanel. I usually have a high threshold of tolerance for fashionably quirky women who dress in fashionably quirky Bohemian apparel. But something about Zooey Deschanel stirs up the evil demon that lurks in the dark swamp lands of my subconscious mind.