It occurred to me that not everyone might understand the highly unsearchable long name I chose for my site. (Think branding) There are 3 main reasons.
1. I obsessed with Mike Doughty’s “Tremendous Brunettes”–the version with Dave Matthews there’s just something about the two of them together that makes me giddy
2. Stems from “Tremendous Brunettes”–basically, I’m not brunette and I’m tremendous and it’s way cooler to be a tremendous somethingette than just tremendous…so I thought hmmm I’m blonde…I am a blondette…
3. This post really sucks! So how bout I prove to you that I didn’t just make up a word?
From the Urban Dictionary:
1. blondette
A hair color that is between blond and brunette. Blondettes may consider themselves to be brunette but frequently have others call their hair color blond, resulting in confusion as to what their hair color really is. May also be natural blonde whose hair is going through the darker stages of blond in transition to becoming a brunette.
Does not apply to hair that is dyed with blond and brunette streaks.
Blondettes are frequently called: Dirty Blond, Dark Blond, Light light brunette, sun bleached brunette.
^ yep. My hair now naturally a medium to dark blonde (minus highlights) but was much lighter when I was younger. I’m adding the lyrics to the song for anyone who’s interested. (P.S. click the link if you want to buy Haughty Melodic or just listen to some samples of the cd. )
Tremendous Brunette
Mike Doughty
All them tremendous brunettes around
Slow down, don’t fuck with my high
I want to be left alone here with my monsters and
Say, now it’s time to ride
To see lovely girls and to not put the moves on them
Praise now the baby genius
She skips in the shade of the lonely sour apple tree
While she snaps on her gum
Her gleaming teeth bared and the shine that she shows to me
All of your ill-gotten gains
That you have whipped up to a rich, foamy lather, girl
Nameless gnaw of my pains
Like three hundred trumpets, and just one is out of tune
