Like Hartford's wife, Mrs. Gummo can't stand Joanna Newsom, but I took her to Stamford to see the Maury show one time, so she owes me.
Either way, let's do it.
You've barely scratched the surface. On "Poison" by Bell Biv DeVoe:
"If you can’t identify 'Poison' by the chattering drum intro alone, then you’re hopelessly ill-equipped to have any meaningful discussions of modern music. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is. If someone says 'never trust a big butt and a smile' and you don’t catch the reference, then you’re probably a complete square."
On "Motownphilly" by Boyz II Men:
"This song has it all: snappy banter about how well they can sing, a video featuring their orange blazers and high-top haircuts, something about all the steaks they can eat, that part where they go 'dmm dmm dmm da da,' and the best drum intro this side of 'Poison.' Verdict: A heartbreaking glance at an alternate universe in which Boyz II Men didn’t suck."
And those are both from the same article.
A friend played me "Inertiatic ESP" for the first time back in 2003, and I thought, "Wow! I didn't know Cedric could sing like that."
I then downloaded a live performance of "Inertiatic ESP" from KaZaA, and I thought, "Wow! Now I know Cedric can't sing like that."
This Slate piece is easily the greatest/dumbest thing to come out of this entire controversy.
"Unfortunately, however, Leaving Neverland offers up a racial spectacle—two white men trashing the reputation of a black man—and then refuses to grapple with that spectacle’s historical dimensions."
Exactly how warped do you have to be to think this?
"Whether or not the allegations presented in the film are true, and whether or not it ever intended to do so, Leaving Neverland dangerously reinforces the gay-folks-are-predators stereotype—if only because it never acknowledges that such a stereotype exists in the first place."
#NotAllGays, and $1 million says if they had acknowledged it, this yutz would be out there saying even acknowledging the stereotype perpetuates it.
Are you the guy I politely refrained from correcting yesterday by explaining that "posse" implies "armed"—not criminality—and that words don't infer things—people do—and that "posse" is used interchangeably with "crew" and "entourage" to mean people of any race who follow a celebrity around, which is why Julia used "entourage" in the very next paragraph to describe the exact same group of people, and that maybe you should look shit up before you run around calling out professional music journalists for dog-whistle that racism that isn't dog-whistle racism?
❤️ Bless
inb4 "Everybody steals."
Listen to the whole episode.
This ain't Iggy Pop writing "Lust for Life" to sound like a Motown song or "Blurred Lines" nodding to "Got to Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye. It's "I'm gonna use the same chords in the same order with the same melody in the same part of the song, all with full knowledge of which song I'm ripping off."
Especially that detailed spreadsheet he talked about on the "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" episode of Song Exploder, the one of other people's songs he likes and wants to steal.
Don't worry: He makes an anagram of the original title to make himself forget it was written by someone else and trick himself into thinking he wrote it.
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