On Big Website Used To Be So Awesome But Totally Sucks Now, Say Cool Dudes
Just checking my number. Is George Martin #5? Or is that Pete Best?
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On Selling Herself Short: The Miscontexualization of Nicki Minaj
@janine. You got me. Point all takened and shit.
Yeah, rap/hip-hop be an easy target, but I'm jes trying to keep it real. Y'know what I'm sayin'?
R/HH is, near as i can tell, wanted and ingested for its rhythm (primarily) and its supposed fuck-da-man posture. But...let's let nicki speaks fo herseff:
"Yo Cassie
You a bad bitch I'm a call you Lassie
Just left the tour last date Tallahasse
Don't mind me
Even witcha GPS couldn't find me
Lookin at this boy I'm a call him McDreamy
I was wonderin if he got a good Dick Cheney
Got a Lamborghini so the doors go high
In a button down Chris Brown bow tie!"
Inspired.
R/HH is a commodity. It was a surprise...30 years ago; now it's just an ad during the superbowl. It's muzak.
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On Selling Herself Short: The Miscontexualization of Nicki Minaj
And, seriously, I read theawl.com because it tends towards satisfyingly good writing. But what do we make of this sentence?
"This means not only that we’ve developed expectations for Minaj’s lyrical skill, but that they’re seriously high expectations that Minaj herself set for us by being a skilled rapper with the most refreshing and unpredictable delivery since Eminem, her partner on “Roman’s Revenge.”"
Clumsy, ungrammatical, and senseless. Then there's this:
"Plus when she’s Roman, she just sounds really dope."
Thank you for that. It all makes sense, now. Dope. Yeah. Speaks a world.
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On Selling Herself Short: The Miscontexualization of Nicki Minaj
This is a spoof, right? Someone tell me this is a joke. Black female rapper who don't get her due wit intenshinul mispelins and all. Yo.
But I love this:
“it was projectile vomit. I realized that now that I’ve taken everything I’ve learned from the industry, I can finally do what I wanna do.”
You go, girl. Spit...it out.
I'm really fucking tired of the hippity hop culture. Yeah, ok, you're angry, you're bitter, you be geniuses of the internal rhyme. And, really, no one cares.
Get over yoselves. Self-referential lyrics may have been fourth-wall crumbling circa 1987 but we all done been there.
(on the back beat)
"yo, yo, yo/I'm a rebel with a contract/a cul-chu-ral terr-or-ist/i don't play yo rules/cept when i need to sign the bottom line and get my attorney to vet the details after ten phone calls which he _doesn't_ return, the white bastard...(oops...kinda messed up the rhythm there)/My name is /I said my name is /Did you hear me?/My name is /I gots it tattooed on my /Don't be axing what my name is/just read my /I'm gunna spit sumpin trenchant/And make you reach for your truncheon/That's a big ass word/I look it up an hour ago/When I was looking for something that rhymes with "trenchant", which I also just looked up because god know I can't...(oops, did it again)/My name is /(Did I say that already?)
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On New York City and TGI Friday's Don't Support the Troops
Why does everyone assume that...
1) It's de rigeur that we support "our" troops. (I pay for them, so why don't they do my laundry?)
2) ...Nope, that's it.
I've never been to a TGIF, but I assume they're not actively "unsupporting" the troops (heavens!). But, really, why this knee-jerk agreement that "our" troops _deserve_ to be supported? Yeah, we're all smartass liberal think-out-side-the-xobers, so why does everyone genuflect to the right-wing, hand-on-heart, notion that our paid assassins are untouchable?
I don't wish them death. But I don't want a veteran living near me any more than I want a sex offender living near my children.
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On Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" Overanalyzed
@londonlee, more than not a good thing (and I can't say I agree with your "not a bad record/vid"). It's bad enough that hollywood has been co-opted by "what else can we plunder?" paeans to "artists" in the stan lee orbit. Now pop music has plumbed the expressive possibilities of...t-shirts from the 70's? I want to see the video to "I'm with stupid ->"...oh, wait. I just did.