Maybe this is what they mean by Twitter “influence”: 50 Cent recommends a stock, and the price goes up over 350%. Does the SEC know about this?
Archive for the ‘Hahaha’ Category
It’s not all Vitaminwater
Monday, January 10th, 2011Stop this train
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010Maura Johnston and Christopher R. Weingarten eviscerate “Hey, Soul Sister”. I had no idea it was based on a fantasy of hippie chicks dancing around a bonfire at Burning Man, and I can’t possibly describe how much more that makes me hate it.
Sucking at the internets
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010The difficulties of posting a new Diddy – Dirty Money video sends Eskay at Nah Right off on a rant:
It’s pretty obvious that these companies suck at the internet. And they hire people who suck at the internet and then they promote them. And then they teach their children and their children’s children to suck at the internet, and that’s why there are people out there who still use Internet Explorer and send me unsolicited music on Twitter.
Read the whole thing.
Update: And if there’s anybody who knows less about how music works on the internet than the record labels, it’s the government.
Peter Max: still chasing trends in vivid color
Friday, December 10th, 2010Out of nowhere the Thomas Kinkade of psychedelia decides to jump on the Taylor Swift bandwagon by painting over her album covers. I would like to thank Max, however, for leading me to Swift’s online store, where, along with the usual t-shirts, guitar picks, and posters, you can also buy socks, gloves, hats, blankets, jewelry, a “Love Story” Christmas stocking, and a teddy bear wearing a Taylor Swift t-shirt. One stop shopping!
Gleeful forgetting
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010MTV “News” provides a brief history of Wham!’s “Last Christmas”, tracking nearly every cover version you’re likely to have heard over the last 25 years. Why? Because they just sang it on Glee, of course. Except the Glee Cast sang it last year, too, which MTV doesn’t seem to remember. Not that I blame them; I’m trying to forget it, myself. But from a pseudo-news organization you expect something more…uh…oh, never mind.
Creeping senility
Saturday, November 20th, 2010Robert Redford’s introduction to the latest Sundance catalog:
I love the mountains. They sit in a huge silence, interrupted by the occasional echoing crash of Spring avalanches, But their silence is divine. A powerful quiet that brings in autumn and grows in winter as snow falls, broken only by the “tintinnabulation… from the bells.” The holiday bells. Then silence again. As the mountains again claim their poise. Ahh…….
It’s the weird semi-quote from Poe that convinces me he’s losing it (not to mention that “Ahh……”). Or has he always been this much of a nut?
Bye-bye Disney
Monday, November 15th, 2010There are many ways to let a former employer know what you think of them, but I’m not sure it’s ever been done with the cover art for a single before. Rock Mafia, aka the production team of Tim James and Antonina Armato, were responsible for the best of the Disney-pop singles of the last few years: Aly & AJ’s “Potential Break-up Song”, Selena Gomez’s “Naturally” and “Falling Down”, and a slew of Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana records, including “Can’t Be Tamed” and “See You Again”. Now they appear to have severed their connection with Disney and gone off on their own. Their first single, “The Big Bang”, which hit the Hot 100 this week, is being promoted with a decidedly un-Disneyish video starring Cyrus. But it’s one of the other songs streaming on the Rock Mafia website that really sends the message, or at least the cover art does:
I don’t think Walt would approve. Or Roy.
Quote of the day
Saturday, October 30th, 2010“I’m an old soul and an opera guy, but I’m also a twenty-something who loves poop humor. It’s important to make sure people see both sides of that.” —Josh Groban
I’m so naive
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010I should have realized that reallybanderson on Twitter wasn’t really Brett Anderson of Suede. I’m disappointed, but it doesn’t matter. It’s still one of the best satires of the pop star ego I’ve read, and the funniest thing I’ve seen so far on Twitter. And who knows, maybe reallybanderson really is Brett Anderson and he’s just using the NME to throw people off the scent. He’s tricky, that Brett Anderson.
