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| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | | 9:43 pm |
FIRST HALF CONTENTION!
Wooooo halfway through the year!
Contending for top ten in relative order of likingitness!
Erykah Badu - 4th World War
Dolly Parton - Backwoods Barbie
Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
Danity Kane - Welcome to the Dollhouse
Booka Shade - The Sun and the Neon Light
Lil' Mama - VYP
Lil' Wayne - Carter 3
Britta Persson - Kill Hollywood Me
Taylor Swift - Live from Soho + all live appearances
Black Mountain - In the Future
Taio Cruz - Departure
Van Hunt - Popular
V/A - Step Up 2 OST
Processing but probably won't make 10: Keak da Sneak, Girl Talk, Vanilla Hudge (10x better than her first album, but 10 x 1/2 is only 5, which is about how many tracks I might listen to again).*
*You may be wondering how I came up with this math. Unfortunately the algorithm is classified.
Not even sure what I'm anticipating other than Cassie.
Side note: I need to post something about WALL-E. Some really sour and lazy social commentary happening within an otherwise magical robot-meets-robot-after-humans-fuck-up-the-earth tale.
Current Music: Vanilla Hudge - Identified...well, I could probably pick her out of a line-up | | Friday, June 27th, 2008 | | 5:27 pm |
Someone who is not Emily will appreciate this...
...Since I've said it to her about twenty times in the past four days or so and she's about ready to kill me.
THE LIL' WAYNE TO NON-LIL' WAYNE RATIO AMONGST OPEN-WINDOWED CARS IN PHILADELPHIA IS STAGGERING. It's gotta be 5:1 if not 8 or 9!
Songs identified in order of frequency:
- A Milli (by far the most popular)
- Lollipop and Got Money (possibly from radio)
- Phone Home (DEFINITELY not from radio)
- 3 Peat
-Mrs. Officer
-some of the really bad ones toward the end whose names I forget
Current Music: Girl Talk - Cheap but Effective Mash-Up Album | | Thursday, June 19th, 2008 | | 6:08 pm |
DAMN.
Hate realizing how good an album too late to fall within the realm of acceptable year-end list fudging. Was stupid not to get into Ciara's The Evolution sooner, but been listening to it quite a bit since I got it used at a decent price. Some albums I just need a physical copy to give it the number of listens it needs to click (which in this case was probably, like, one and a half, but I got closer to just half).
Current Music: Ciara - I Proceed | | Saturday, June 14th, 2008 | | 2:43 am |
| | Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | | 9:42 pm |
So I'm listening to "Carter 3" and...
Ummmmm I'm pretty sure Lil' Wayne brags about RAPING A BABY on the first track.
THE GWARTER III.
Current Music: Lil' Wayne - 3 Peat (Babyraper) | | Friday, June 6th, 2008 | | 10:40 pm |
Then, for one fraction of a second, he understood what it might've been like to be Theodor Adorno
"Today, Miley Cyrus will be taking the stage in Fayetteville, AR at the University of Arkansas for the annual Walmart stockholders meeting."
LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE a COMMODITIZE and COMMODE-O-FY OUR MUZIKZ! WHY IT IS NOTHING MORE THAN A STOCKHOLDERS MEATING AND THEN WHERE WOULD WE BE! IZZZZZ INISCAPIBLE!
Current Music: COMMODE MUSIC BECAUSE IT IS ALL CRAP I SAY CRAP | | Monday, June 2nd, 2008 | | 9:08 pm |
What do we think of this statement?
Re: Ashlee and What It Means: "I think that's the sentiment that you'll never get in Avril or most of her derivatives -- a sense of resigned joy at the thought that things aren't worse. (That isn't something that screams "teenager" to me, in fact think a lot of adults have trouble really capturing that feeling, and I think it's a common thread through a lot of Ashlee's songs.)" | | Saturday, May 24th, 2008 | | 3:52 pm |
Russian Artist CLEARLY NOT SINGING IN RUSSIAN. Hmph. Ummmmmm, excuse me, JIM BEANZ is the co-writer on this???? Weird. Also, this song sucks. | | Saturday, May 17th, 2008 | | 12:47 am |
Wow. Because I decided to watch EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY for the first time in...ohhhh fifteen years or so...I learn that Camp Rock was written by Julie Brown. Weeeeeeeeird. Soooo basically we have a Julie Brown/Kara DioGuardi collaboration here. And I still have a feeling it's gonna suck. Current Music: Julie Brown - Something about "Superman with a Lobotomy." | | Monday, May 12th, 2008 | | 7:32 pm |
Late entry into Scooter World yields larfs. Seriously, all history-makin' aside, I'd never even heard their take on Super-Ramp!. SIBERIAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! (Actually, don't think the #1 did make history, did it? Just made a lot of people smile!) Current Music: Scooter - RAMP! The Logical Song, Which Is the Answer to Its Own Question | | Sunday, May 11th, 2008 | | 5:15 pm |
What I wrote in response to this ugly little post post that I wouldn't have even noticed if I hadn't found it in a Technorati search [full disclosure, y'know], from a blog I think I'd googled once and found the only paper I know of about Soulja Boy (which I still haven't read, but maybe I should now...): ( Comment Below )Don't know why I even waste my time with this stuff, except that I'm procrastinating from doing other work. It just sucks to know that there are actually professors out there that are bringing these assumptions and frameworks into the classroom (and so easily conflating the aesthetic choices of students with their ability to think critically about the music they listen to -- if the problem is just critical thinking, then he needs to encourage his students to articulate WHY they like the white dudes better, and stop bringing "poptimism" into it!). | | Monday, May 5th, 2008 | | 9:12 pm |
Duh, duh, duh duh duh, dunnadunnadunna duh, duh duh duh.
Iron Man was pretty amazing. I don't think there's been a better superhero movie to come out in the recent crop of 'em, unless Sin City counts. (I'll still defend Hulk though!)
Anyway, my enjoyment of it was tempered somewhat because I couldn't get a pesky voice out of the back of my head saying "Jane Dark is gonna have a field day with this thing."
Which he isn't, because its politics 'n' stuff are fairly up front, if surprisingly complex.
Semi-related argument -- I was trying to distinguish this past week with a few people the difference between loosely embodying a context ("pop thing") and making an argument through narrative ("TV/movie thing"). Not that they're mutually exclusive at all, but that there's a difference between the "argument" that the South Park dudes are making in any given problematic politics episode and the one Ashlee Simpson or M.I.A. might be making in aggregate when you take the body of their work to sort of embody a certain social or political context (Ashlee's social context is usually WRONGLY identified as something more generalize-able than "Ashlee," which is almost always a mistake, hello Stephen Thomas Erlewine).
I was quick to back myself up a bit by saying (in reference to clear narrative social/political argument stuff) that it's a huge and often misguided step to project a particular, specific reading onto a general audience. But I think that it's even more problematic, and misguided, to do this with "context arguments," which tends to be where pop lives -- first you have to project a value system onto a disparate collection of distinct, if related, ideas, and then you have to project THAT onto a group of people. Which is why nearly everyone who writes about M.I.A.'s global political importance etc. is a jerk. (Last bit was an excellent conversation-ender, woooooops).
Current Music: Santogold - Some bonus track that is 100x worse than "Outta My Head"! | | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | | 1:52 am |
He's just bein' Radosh. DAMN IT: "I could listen to it over and over. In fact I have, which is why I've noticed that while it does have the awesome lyric, "she's just being Miley," it also opens with the idiotic line, "I've got my sight set on you, and I'm ready to aim." Um, if you have your sight set, you already ARE aiming." Current Music: Miley Cyrus - See You Again | | Saturday, April 26th, 2008 | | 10:10 am |
Weirdest Things about the Liner Notes to "Bittersweet World"
1. No sign of Kara DioGuardi anywhere. (Not even a thank you!)
2. Victor Valentine is apparently with BMI PUBLISHING. So if it's a fake name, it's, like, registered (or whatever the appropriate term is).
3. That rushed phrase they're singing in "Little Miss Obsessive" is "your side of the bed is still mine." Bit of a mouthful.
4. Clearly they've transcribed lyrics straight from the original notebook in which they were scribbled!
"Love sick dreamin when we first met / Ya gave me your world with no regret's"
"Show off / she just wanna take her close off"
5. Ummmmmm the dialect in "Murder": "Dey say I get away wit murda"
Current Music: Ashlee - Bittersweet World | | Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 | | 2:37 am |
Since I'm in a subjunctive mood...
If your girlfriend were hot like me, would your wish be fulfilled? | | Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 | | 10:14 am |
NO. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. "Has there ever been another pop star quite as shameless as Ashlee Simpson? Probably so, but nobody has ever quite so cravenly followed fashion's shifting tides as Ashlee, who has never seemed the slightest bit embarrassed to make herself over when styles changed." http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0xfwxztjldkeStephen Thomas Erlewine is hereby excommunicated from the Teenpop Fun Zone. Oh oh oh, he just needs to be fired for this, or at least kicked in the stomach. That's all there is to it. (The really sick thing is that the first idea here actually isn't that far off the mark, cf. recent dress-up conversation at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) koganbot's place, but his framing of it is so offensive to me I kind of want to send him a dead squirrel in the mail. Review gets worse as it goes along.) | | Monday, April 7th, 2008 | | 3:14 pm |
Who needs Pitchfork.TV when we already have the Dutch (and Youtube)?
Current Music: Radiohead - Bangers and Mash | | Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 | | 5:25 pm |
I expect this to peak, comedically speaking, sometime around 2014. (So it's a good thing I don't bet on these kinds of things.)  Current Music: SOULJA BOY YAHHHHHHH | | Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | | 11:13 pm |
Poptimux New Muxtape site provides a really easy way to make mixes -- see selections from Down on the Dancefloor here (excluded stuff that didn't match file format or wasn't good quality). http://bedbugs.muxtape.comPS check it out -- Vanilla Hudge's "Don't Talk" is exactly ONE er, TWO BEATS PER SECOND. Current Music: Jordan Pruitt - Miss Popularity | | Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | | 12:40 am |
Ashlee Simpson Officially Responds to Nosejob Allegations
"Anyone with two eyes should know the answer." |
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