One fluke hit? Which one? "Ready or Not"? "Killing Me Softly"? (Both those went #1 in the UK.) "Fugee-La"? "No Woman No Cry"? "Vocab"? "Nappy Heads"?
Or their solo hits, which among many examples includes Lauryn Hill's US #1 "Doo Wop"? Pras's "Ghetto Supastar"? (#1 in six countries) Wyclef's "We Trying to Stay Alive" or "Guantanamera" or "Gone till November"?
. . . and that class-action lawsuit against Purdue Pharmaceuticals is taking forever, while fraggles are still ODing on oxy to this day, those that haven't gotten strung out on black tar and fentanyl at least.
When a gay transgender cyborg futurist radical Latina isn't woke enough, that's how you know that the Purge is really working and that humankind is undeniably gliding toward a bold new liberal paradise.
My first-grader has been obsessed with Star Wars for the past 3 or 4 years, so any new content is a godsend. This Boba Fett series feels a little more episodic than the Mandalorian to me -- that lack of an overarching source of tension is probably what lowers the stakes. But then again I re-watched most of the Mandalorian this past fall and I was sort of surprised by how episodic that series was, in hindsight. It seems like he's trying to return Baby Yoda to his home, but that's pretty hazy over the course of the seasons -- it's really more about protecting him from a different threat each week. (They never should have gotten rid of Cara Dune, either.)
The Vespa chase and the pseudo-punks in this past episode were almost unbearably corny, which forces me to remember that it's a kids' show.
In fairness to your teenaged self, who might feel left behind by your by your newly-avowed perspective, laughing at someone's death is still a pretty Rush Limbaugh thing to do
Not only did Ellen get religious housewives and conservative old women to accept LGBTQ folks, she also exposed them to this song and its guitar solo. There's still plenty to be said for subverting mainstream perspectives from within the mainstream. Tip o' the cap!
Does anyone know if this is a real studio audience, or piped-in applause?
"the site speculates that he’s trying to turn her into some kind of clone of his estranged wife Kim Kardashian"
Kanye is entering his James-Stewart-in-"Vertigo" phase
Yes . . . pretty much everyone I know who still goes to festivals are super into Goose and Billy Strings, so maybe this will entice some of them to go with me this year and I can smuggle 100 Gecs and 21 Savage into their brainspheres
Does Allison Russell consider herself a country singer? More power to her and her fans, but the stuff I've heard from her sounds like French-Canadian soul-influenced torch songs to me. They don't sound like anything I've heard on country radio in my lifetime, so I don't see how it would fit into the genre, much less allow her to compete with the successful genre hits. Does she even live in Nashville?
1. Yes!!!!
2. Yes!
3. Well, of course it is, it is a rip-off of "Into the Groove"! Tory Lanez gets 0 points. Even Bruno Mars and Puff Daddy would blush at this approach!
My wife went to the Phish shows in Vegas over Halloween at the MGM, a similar venue to MSG, and about ten people she went with tested positive for Covid (most likely Omicron). Not a single one got more sick than a common November cold. There were no long-term consequences. I really don't get these cancellations.
The congressional pandering is going to be like a gaggle of peacocks on the first day of spring rutting season.
They better hope the Capitol Police have a good security plan in place if AOC and the Squad and Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz and every other back-bench social media-thirsty Member of Congress start to storm the front of the committee room to get the best spot for the cameras. This is a crowd that could easily turn violent in its attempts to grandstand.
I mean, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who has held a longer and more sustained dislike of Eric Clapton than me, but he's got a point. If you get a cease-and-desist letter telling you to stop, and you dare the lawyers to enforce the letter, you kind of get what you ask for, especially when you're not exactly clearly in the right here.
I have a great many bootleg recordings, but it's pretty murky territory, ethically. Intellectual property is pretty important for musicians.
And please, if we all agree that Clapton sucks, let's not make a hero out of a person who owns a bootleg CD of an 80s Eric Clapton concert. Her ownership in the first place makes her and her CD "fruit from a poisonous tree," to quote Felix Frankfurter.
Interestingly, the only group who voted for Trump less in 2020 than in 2016 was white men. Trump increased his vote share among women and all minority groups in 2020 vs. 2016.
Trump increased the GOP vote for most minority groups even compared to Romney in 2012 and McCain in 2008.
It will be interested if this trend continues -- if I were a Republican I would be somewhat optimistic.
The most hilarious thing about demagogues is the binary they must straddle: everything is a potentially-disastrous plot against them that puts their very existence in danger, yet they're strong and powerful and their opponents are weak and pathetic.
The same guy who constantly poses in front of military parades and stacks of missiles and vows to bring the world's most powerful military "to its knees" also fears that thumb-drives full of makeup-wearing boy bands preaching about mental health and self-care will make his powerful nation "crumble like a damp wall."
Ha, very close, but there too! I live in University Heights, just a couple blocks from the North Park water tower. Jack White looks like one of these women I see hauling beer kegs on dollies into the craft breweries on 30th Street every morning when I'm walking my dog at dawn. Good SoCal geography, man!
These slowed-down covers are getting just as stale as the endless "let's do an 80s pop song in mall-punk style" covers got in the 90s. The fact that they're nearly always in service of a commercial doesn't help.
The general Stonewall Jackson was a pretty amazing dude. Very, very complicated person. True racial progressive. Religious fanatic, but followed orders into a war to secede from the nation he'd fought bravely for in the Mexican-American War. Inept college professor at VMI, but a military genius. When I was a kid I went on a couple of field trips to the farm he grew up on, Jackson's Mill, in Lewis County, WV. I've read a few books about him. Talk about the "old, weird America"! The 19th century was barbaric and unsettling.
Three-6 should've brought out Kool Moe Dee for a reprise of the old Harlem World diss: "Now hold on Bizzy Bone, I don't mean to be bold/But put that satan-worshipping bullshit on hold . . . "
They no doubt generated some of that online gossip also, judging by their quickness to Tweet about it and garner Likes and presumably pat themselves on the back for their righteous indignation.
One Halloween I was tripping on mushrooms dressed as the cowboy from the Village People, at a local 7-11 buying several 40s at about midnight, when I heard a bewildered teenager say to his friend, "Hey, that's our substitute teacher from Biology today!"
It was I, and it was true . . .
That might be. I think it's especially sad since no doubt Houston has been grieving and many fans were looking for this show to be a cathartic, unifying outlet for their grief.
My neighbor survived the Route 91 mass shooting in Vegas a few years ago, and her PTSD therapist suggested she go to as many shows and large public gathering as possible as a way to get over her fear of them.
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