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August 5, 2005
WATCH ME AS I REPRESENT THE F.A.P.
Why is it so hard to find a 5th Avenue bar? It's like a Butterfinger without the emotional commitment.
Speaking of fluff, when I first heard Rihanna's "Pon De Replay," I was like, "Why haven't I heard this B-minus Gwen Stefani single? I mean, this B-plus Pink single?" It sounds like a song made in one of those music-production video games, with presets for "island rhythm" and such. Summer anthem? No. That would imply it codes temporally, which it emphatically does not - not a season, not a year, hardly even an era.
I mean, I'm not mad at the prefab. No disrespect to Tori Alamaze, but I fucks with the Pussycat Dolls version of "Don't Cha." And what's more, I believe it, a bunch of sassy glamazons telling you off for how broke your chick is. It's so real-life, so honest.
What I like even more is that the ambiracial fitness queen who fronts the group in the video - and maybe even sings lead - used to be in a prefab pop group, Eden's Crush, from the junior-league WB reality show Popstars. Nicole Scherzinger - below, center - had the pipes the last go round, but not the gimmick. [reports on Maile Misajon would be welcome}
Jah bless the PCs for her second chance, because I'm all about redemption. Just like Curtis Jackson, I'm a charitable dude. But seriously, let's all give Billy Danze a hug. Not only because his bedtime story is so scary, but because there's just no glory in being 50 Cent's corner boy. Watching him and Fame manning the block while 50 is "in the hood" in the back of the chauffured Bentley is as potent an argument for DIY capitalism as I've seen on BET ever. Friends don't let friends sign bad deals without ownership potential.
[Unrelated: Head over to The Suburbs Are Killing Us for about five versions of Alphaville's "Forever Young," one of the most unjustly slept-on German post-new-wave ballads that may or may not be about nuclear holocaust. I had one of my first slow dances to the original version. CTY F&M, stand up.]
Posted by jon at August 5, 2005 3:47 PM
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> one of the most unjustly slept-on German post-new-wave ballads that may or may not be about nuclear holocaust....
Really?? I feel like I heard that track ALL the time in my youngers days. Wasn't it the lynchpin song in the soundtrack for one of the bigger 80's teen flicks also?
Posted by: ian at August 7, 2005 11:29 AM