Anointed
Anointed: simple past tense and past participle of anoint (to apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration).
Hey sunshine! I’ll never take your pride
You’re what I need, you’ve been anointed
This is the highlight of your miserable life
A pessimist is never disappointed
(Theaudience, ‘A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed’)
Indie band theaudience (one word, no space) are best known today for being the launching-pad for the later solo success of their singer, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, but their second charting single also displayed a useful command of the rock dictionary. (Or, if you will, the ‘rocktionary’). With its knowing lyrics and the louche qualities of Ellis-Bextor’s vaguely disinterested delivery, this was one of the small gems of the late Britpop period, reaching number 27 in the UK charts in 1998. Go on, have a listen – you’ve still gotta love that sky-high chorus, and as I’m sure the band quickly realised, it didn’t hurt to have a singer who looked as good as that.
Rock Vocab 
11 June 2009 at 8:50 am
Sophie Ellis-Bexter’s career was launched as a result of her mother presenting Blue Peter. I’m not certain her talent had much to do with it, even though, I fully admit, she has a distinctive voice
12 June 2009 at 2:37 am
Yeah, I remember the constant ribbing she got on Never Mind The Buzzcocks: incessant references to ‘sticky backed plastic’. And the NME, rather bitchily, made much of their observation that her face was somewhat rhomboid.
I first heard ‘A Pessimist…’ on BBC GLR one morning in 1998 without knowing who she was, and I was impressed with the catchy tune and her delivery, so I was sold.