http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:44:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-65253 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-65253#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:44:05 +0000 HeyThatsMyBike http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-65253 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-65253/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-64401 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-64401#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:16:51 +0000 Tom_SF http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-64401 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-64401/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63708 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63708#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:48:09 +0000 Maura Johnston http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63708 Fearless was at 5.4 million sales (it sold 32k); Taylor Swift is at 4.6m. Perhaps Fearless will sell consistently enough over the coming years for it to inch above 10m someday, but that will likely not happen until 2015 or so. And who knows if there'll even be a music industry then, etc. As far as her next album breaking the diamond mark, I sense a "difficult third record" is on the horizon...]]> Fearless was at 5.4 million sales (it sold 32k); Taylor Swift is at 4.6m. Perhaps Fearless will sell consistently enough over the coming years for it to inch above 10m someday, but that will likely not happen until 2015 or so. And who knows if there'll even be a music industry then, etc. As far as her next album breaking the diamond mark, I sense a "difficult third record" is on the horizon...]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63708/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63698 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63698#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:38:51 +0000 Maura Johnston http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63698 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63698/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63693 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63693#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:34:33 +0000 janine http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63693 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63693/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63678 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63678#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:09:45 +0000 Maura Johnston http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63678 updates his YouTube page a lot. Also, I guess to pander to us olds who are near the age of being parents of his fanbase (his mother and I are the same age!), he recorded a song that interpolates the Cardigans' "Lovefool." As far as teen-scream sensations of recent vintage, he seems pretty legit as opposed to the Internet-borne smoke and mirrors of Tokio Hotel. Last fall he sparked a riot at Roosevelt Field (!!) and his album's been selling well for 2010 -- it's not moving NSync numbers, but it is near the million-sold mark, which is a rarer and rarer feat these days. The bonus-track version of his album, My World 2.0, is coming out in March, a mere four months after its original version. The first single debuted at No. 5 on the Hot 100 last week, and it features Ludacris, who I should say has one of my favorite voices ever. (I think it's the way he swallows certain consonants?) All that said, there is something about this kid that really creeps me out. Perhaps it is the outsized ego lurking underneath that carefully blow-dried hair-helmet? The other day on the red carpet show someone asked him a(n admittedly dumb) question about whether or not he was nervous presenting at the Grammys as such a young'un, and his answer was something akin to "I don't get nervous." Steely resolve! Kinda calls all the romantic longing in his songs into question, though.]]> updates his YouTube page a lot. Also, I guess to pander to us olds who are near the age of being parents of his fanbase (his mother and I are the same age!), he recorded a song that interpolates the Cardigans' "Lovefool." As far as teen-scream sensations of recent vintage, he seems pretty legit as opposed to the Internet-borne smoke and mirrors of Tokio Hotel. Last fall he sparked a riot at Roosevelt Field (!!) and his album's been selling well for 2010 -- it's not moving NSync numbers, but it is near the million-sold mark, which is a rarer and rarer feat these days. The bonus-track version of his album, My World 2.0, is coming out in March, a mere four months after its original version. The first single debuted at No. 5 on the Hot 100 last week, and it features Ludacris, who I should say has one of my favorite voices ever. (I think it's the way he swallows certain consonants?) All that said, there is something about this kid that really creeps me out. Perhaps it is the outsized ego lurking underneath that carefully blow-dried hair-helmet? The other day on the red carpet show someone asked him a(n admittedly dumb) question about whether or not he was nervous presenting at the Grammys as such a young'un, and his answer was something akin to "I don't get nervous." Steely resolve! Kinda calls all the romantic longing in his songs into question, though.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63678/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63648 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63648#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:24:55 +0000 KarenUhOh http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63648 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63648/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63644 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(And Lady Miss Kier's wrapped it all up perfectly.)]]> Sandra Bernhard's twitter feed told me all I needed to know. (And Lady Miss Kier's wrapped it all up perfectly.)]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63570/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63568 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63568#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:40:39 +0000 Fredrick http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63568 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63568/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63564 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63564#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:39:55 +0000 6h057 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63564 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63564/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63563 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63563#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:36:26 +0000 Dickdogfood http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63563 (Never mind that her two albums have sold some 10 million copies combined to date-and a lot of those sales happened way before September's incident.) Huh. I wasn't aware of her sales numbers; I sorta assumed they were more deflated than that. What do you think the chances that she'll get the first RIAA diamond award in many a moon?]]> (Never mind that her two albums have sold some 10 million copies combined to date-and a lot of those sales happened way before September's incident.) Huh. I wasn't aware of her sales numbers; I sorta assumed they were more deflated than that. What do you think the chances that she'll get the first RIAA diamond award in many a moon?]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63563/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63562 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63562#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:32:47 +0000 devaluingmyfame http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63562 http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/everything-your-facebook-friends-said-about-the-grammys-is-probably-wrong-by-maura-k-johnston#comment-63562/feed 0