On Listicle Without Commentary: 21 Songs That Prove 2010 Has Been A Startlingly Good Year For New Music So Far
Maura, thank you for including Justin Bieber. But where's the Kate Nash?
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On The 'Alejandro' Video: Lady Gaga and Failures of Pastiche
No one has mentioned the best part of this great video: no product placement!
The recession is officially over. Gaga has enough money to make a music video on her own.
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On Sleigh Bells, "Treats"
Maura's right - the album sounds like a wide range of stuff. I hear Lil Wayne, the Ronettes, Ratatat, MIA (no surprise there), hair metal and Katamari's theme music. Love it so much. I've already listened to "Tell 'Em" forty times in the last two weeks.
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On The Internet: It's Pretty Much As Mean As All Of Us
Whether anonymous or not, it is also much easier to be mean to someone when you don't have to say the mean things to their face. Back in the old days, when you wanted to be mean to someone without saying it directly to their face, you had to write a letter and do it that way. Now, we can turn our passing annoyances into major, life-changing jabs simply because we hadn't had coffee yet and hit the send button instead of the delete button.
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On "People on the Internet Like to Argue About Music More Than They Like to Enjoy Music": Maura Johnston and Seth Colter Walls on Genre, 2009 and Pazz + Jop
Maura and Seth - great piece! I love to read about two intelligent music critics nerdily gush about their favorite songs/albums (even and especially when I disagree!) than read another "ANIMAL COLLECTIVE IN TOP SPOT MEANS EVERYONE SUCKS/IS WONDERFUL" article. Kudos!
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On Zachary Woolfe: Another Long Vampire Weekend
Too-young elegies for a mis-remembered New York are totally not my thing. And I'm talking about ZW, not VW.
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On Britain's Number Two School Beats America's Number One
Yeah, what's the British equivalent for America's community colleges? Chip vans in an overgrown parking lot? The broken glass and vomit on Oxford Street come Sunday morning? David Cameron's ass hair?