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OMFG: Maybe you saw Gossip Girl this week and you were, like, totally captivated by the storylines: Where will Jenny live now? Why does Dan always have to have such a conscience? What’s up with Serena’s new boy-toy? Also: Blair got totally out-smarted, WTF?!?!
Not that I’ve ever seen the show…
Anyway, apparently–like I said, never seen the show, OK?–Doug Burr‘s “Graniteville” was used during the scene when Jenny totally went off on that chick who, you might remember, played Marissa’s little sister on The OC. Crazy. Or, rather, I think it’d be crazy, if I watched the show. You know what I mean.
Here’s what some fansite about the show had to say about the use of Burr’s track, on an otherwise Kings of Leon-filled night:
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One last spotlight: “Graniteville”, by singer-songwriter Doug Burr, might not match Jenny’s fury as she yells at Agnes, but it’s a great foreshadowing of her later despair. While Burr’s Texas roots definitely show in his music, the sound isn’t exactly “country”. Burr has called today’s homogenized pop country a “broken model”, and fusion sounds such as his might be a good fix.
So how ’bout that?
And, in other exciting, less personally self-incriminating news, the folks at Spune have announce the official release date for Burr’s upcoming Psalms-influenced release, The Shawl (read about the recording process for the disc here): It’ll be out on Tuesday, December 9–just a few weeks away. So keep an eye out for that. —Pete Freedman
