Music Forum / Flaming Lips- She Don't Use Jelly

Is anyone else completely offended by this song? Occasionally I forget my IPod and have to listen to the radio. And I've heard this song and hated it... But today the host mentioned that it was the Flaming Lips, and I just felt completely cheapened. I have their Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album, and I love it. To hear this shit coming out of the radio, though... It sounds like something they wrote while they were high, and it somehow ended up on an album as a bonus track. Enter the infinitie wisdom of record labels...

What really pisses me off, though, is that their good music, like the Yoshimi album, is completely ignored by the mainstream, while this bullshit is flooding my radio. Granted, this happens all the time, but this song is so bad that I just can't let it go.

Basically, this just brings me to the question, would you rather go unknown by mainstream media and maintain your artistic integrity, or be known, but for a bullshit song like this and have the rest of your work ignored?







The lyrics, just in cause you haven't heard this abomination:

I know a girl who thinks of ghosts
She'll make ya breakfast
She'll make ya toast
She don't use butter
She don't use cheese
She don't use jelly
Or any of these
She uses vaseline(x3).

I know a guy who goes to shows
When he's at home and he blows his nose
He don't use tissues or his sleeve
He don't use napkins or any of these
He uses magazines(x5).


I know a girl who reminds me of Cher
(reminds me of Cher).
She's always changing
(she's always changing).
The color of her hair
(color of her hair).
She don't use nothing
That ya buy at the store
She likes her hair to be real orange
She uses tangerines(x6).






It makes me mad to just have read over them again. Fuck.

Well, that song most definitely is horrible. I lost my iPod cable so I can't update my nano from 3 years ago... I really should order a new one for $2... anyway, my point is that I have to listen to this crap at the gym all the time, along with the rest of the crap they play there. The very worst part is I almost have some of these songs memorized. I caught myself whistling to a jonas brothers song in the bathroom the other day... I wanted to beat myself up.

This will never end, there will always be crap promoted and idiots will listen to it and love it. I guess in answer to your question, you have to choose between integrity and a fatter paycheck. The Flaming Lips made their choice, I don't blame them, but I also don't have to listen to them.

*goes to order ipod cable*

Wait...your nano lasted three years?

Well it isn't in mint condition, but it's alive. 1st generation 4GB nano, got it right when they came out. I could replace it, but well, it still works. With the cable I ordered I will hopefully get even more use out of it.

C'mon now, the Flaming Lips have always had terrible lyrics. If you're going to judge a Lips song solely on that (I'm not saying you were, though) then you probably won't like it.

But yeah, that's on of their weaker songs. I really don't get mainstream radio, it's either bland garbage or some ridiculous too-weird garbage.

you know this song came out almost ten years before Yoshimi, right?

Well it isn't in mint condition, but it's alive. 1st generation 4GB nano, got it right when they came out. I could replace it, but well, it still works. With the cable I ordered I will hopefully get even more use out of it.

haha nice, mine died after sixth months and they ignored the warranty, so I am no longer purchasing products from apple.

you know this song came out almost ten years before Yoshimi, right?

Well, I think the point is that their better albums (Yoshimi, The Soft Bulletin, Clouds Taste Metallic) are pretty much ignored while songs like She Don't Use Jelly and albums like At War With The Mystics get noticed.

Most of their stuff before The Soft Bulletin is utter rubbish anyways so don't feel bad about not liking the song.

In a sense, this song is the equivalant to a really bad comedy in music. It is hilarious. Therefor, it is great. I do, however, agree that the Flaming Lips have become a lot 'better' with Yoshimi, etc. However, to call 'She don't use Jelly' a bad song... Oh wait, i agree with you on that as well, i just tend to thoroughly enjoy all its good badness. Wonderful!

I just like that one guitar line at the chorus, the doo-do-do-do-do-do-doo-do-do-do-do-do-do.

It's pretty sick. But I wish they had of saved it.