That is a photo taken from Britney Spears comeback single “Womanizer” which was released to radio last week and has taken the blogs by storm. The video for the single will be premiered on ABC’s 20/20 on Friday night.
As an old school Britney fan, I am happy to see her life is on track again. Her promotional blitz through New York last week was good. She looked happy, healthy, and it was funny to see even see her visiting kids in the Bronx. I know people from Manhattan that don’t even go into the Bronx.
Today her single is digitally released to iTunes for sale. “Womanizer” is a fast paced dance track with a chorus that will get stuck in your head. While it isn’t the urban club banger on the level of “Gimme More”, it’s still a solid comeback single.
And if the album is as good as “Blackout”, with her in a better mental space to promote it, the CD should be the big comeback album “Blackout” could have been.
Thanks to my gym membership, I hear a lot of different dance songs while working out that I will never hear otherwise. One song that I heard the other day stuck out. It was the song “I Remember from the Canadian DJ Deadmau5.
Upon hearing the song I was instantly into it. The beat is great. The vocals are really dreamy and cool. And the chorus hooks you in. The song features the American DJ Kaskade. Kaskade had that single “Steppin Out” which was just as good.
Back in the day when I worked after school at The Gap was a fun time in my life. I met a lot of good people there. Made good money for a 16 year old. Had fun. And enjoyed a pretty good discount.
I remember looking like the people in the commercials below because basically I bought everything on the Men’s side of the store.
Which brings me to the topic of this blog post. Remember when The Gap commercials were good? Sure after the 900th time of seeing heroin addicted models in leather pants singing Depeche Mode can grate your nerves. But they did their job. You noticed them. And so what about the communist undertones “EVERYONE IN LEATHER” “EVERYONE IN CORDS”. It was like crazy capitalist mind control and it worked.
The Gap should really bring them back for their Fall campaign. Why waste money in a terrible economy when you can repackage something that worked from the past?
“EVERYBODY IN CORDS”
“EVERYBODY IN LEATHER”
Do you remember these commercials? If so did you enjoy them?
By the way, they can leave “EVERYBODY IN VESTS” out… I hated that commercial. But it’s mainly saved by the wimpy guy in the middle that tries to OD and freak it on his one line of singing “In my love!” with mad attitude.
While I may not care much for Eva Longria in real life. Nor about her frequentely blogged about personal life. I do think her work on “Desperate Housewives” is underrated.
She does things that are not the nicest, but you never hate her for it.
And if the first episode of Season 5 is any indication, it’s her year come Emmy time.
Seriously, how could you not laugh at this?
I am digging this new storyline, even though it is a bit like Celia from “Weeds”.
So far we have seen Hampton’s frolicking, a hook up-then-break up between Dan and Serena, Blair and her English Royal boyfriend (who was dating his own step mother), the redemption of Jenny Humphrey, and finally Serena’s ascension to the top of the social A List.
Remember that Arnold Schwarzenegger classic “The Running Man”? In the film he played a man wrongfully accused of killing scores of people and is placed in prison. When he escapes, he is soon caught and is put on a futuristic gladiator TV program where he must fight for his freedom.
In that movie, there were ads for fake TV shows.
(Fast Forward to 6:36)
So I joke that TV is starting to look like the fictional shows from this movie all the time. But yesterday I came across a game show that was so diabolically retarded, that I couldn’t believe that an ENTIRE hour was spent on such a thin premise.
The show is FOX’s newest import “Hole in the Wall”.
There are really no words to describe how silly this all is. But the sad thing is that I totally watched the entire episode. I also really love how you can see how hard these people are concentrating to get into the hole.
Shenanigans…
PS: I heard it was number 1 in it’s timeslot. Crazy…
Ok, whoever hasn’t heard of the hacktackular phrase “Putting (insert random beauty product here) on a pig” to describe something that doesn’t change is living in a box. I always hear this phrase, so when Obama said it with regards to the McCain/Palin ticket’s sudden message of “CHANGE” (when they are aligned with the failed policies of the last 8 years) I understood what he was saying and what he meant.
But to my surprise, you have people who think it’s a direct insult?
How is it an insult? Explain it to me. I gather people have never seen the classic John Carpenter film “They Live” which stars the incredible Rowdy Roddy Piper. “They Live” was a movie about an ordinary man who comes across a pair of Ray Ban Sunglasses that allow him to see Aliens living amongst us.
And in one scene he uses the phrase: (Fast Forward to minute 4:47)
Now as you see from the clip, the incredible Mr. Piper in using the phrase is essentially telling the Ugly Alien Woman that no matter how much she fixes her hair, she is still an Ugly Alien Woman.
It’s unfortunate that with the advent of 24 hour news media coverage, the networks look for perceived gaffes on the campaign trail to exploit for a story. And the McCain campaign should know better. Especially since he has used the phrase before, when talking about Hillary Clinton:
And why is anyone taking this far when the real person who degraded themselves was Sarah Palin herself? She said that the difference between a Hockey Mom (a label she has given herself) and a pitbull was “Lipstick”. And this was met to huge applause at the GOP convention. But I don’t get how comparing a mother who dotes on their children to a pitbull dog is acceptable. Especially when a female dog is called a “Bitch”. So basically is she calling herself a “Bitch”?
That’s what people should be asking her. But I forget that the press hasn’t been given access to Palin yet. Which I guess is understandable since she is you know running for the second highest job in the US Government. It’s understandable that we don’t get to talk to her at all. (Sarcasm).
Remember when the VMA’s were a credible awards show filled with memorable performances and moments?
Remember when there were comedians who hosted the big night and they actually made you laugh?
Does anyone remember when Rock Music was actually featured during the show? I can remember when the VMA’s were an important night of TV viewing in my home, but when I tuned in last night I realized that I am either way too old for this shit anymore, or music does in fact suck.
Everytime I hear this song I think about how my cousin and I were the only 2 people dancing and singing to this song at a party yelling “YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU WERE WAITING - CONTEMPLATING!”
My love for Ciara is pretty well documented here. I think she is an extremely talented dancer who knows how to give a good performance. Even her 60 second dance cameo during Chris Brown’s BET Awards performance was great stuff.
So when you have obvious talent like Ciara does, why take it all off for a magazine when your main competitors like Rihanna or Beyonce are not doing the same (and are selling well)?
So apparently she decided to parrot a speech written for her (by a George Bush speech writer) that essentially tried to play Barack Obama, his candidacy, his experience, and his 18 million supporters. While the MSM thinks she did a great job, to me she came off as smug, arrogant, condescending.
Had Barack Obama or Joe Biden decided upon a similar approach during their speeches, they would have been admonished by the GOP and their puppet pundits for being “elitists” or “out of touch”.
I guess the GOP has now decided that important issues like the Economy don’t matter any more (since it wasn’t mentioned). Just the typical personal attacks and nonsense that defined the Dubya Era.
Here is my video response to Palin’s speech:
By the way, not to be a “Hater” myself, but anyone who aspired to be a journalist (and actually has a degree in journalism) can convincingly read a teleprompter. I’m just saying.
As I kicked back and watched the new version of “90210″ last night, I got this sense of Deja Vu.
While I can attribute the familiar feeling mostly to the cast being made up of people from other shows I watched, I couldn’t really figure out my feeling until midway through the 1st hour.
Here is another T-Pain song that is ridiculous, yet catchy and bound to get stuck into your head for days. It’s his latest single “Can’t Believe It”.
I have not been this huge fan of the guy. I really disliked “Love With A Stripper”. But his one, two punch of “Buy You A Drank” and “Bartender” last year really made me appreciate his love of drunken party anthems.
“Gossip Girl” is a show that I actually started watching by chance. It was basically my best friends fault. I would suffer through “Top Model” with her and “Gossip Girl” came on right after. But after a while I mysteriously began to watch even if she wasn’t there. And I slowly became a fan of the show.
What is this fuckery I spied on iTunes? I was browsing through the Top 20 iTunes songs and noticed that the version of UK Singer Estelle’s smash hit “American Boy” was listed as “AMERICAN BOY” Tribute to Estelle.
When I listened to it, I really couldn’t believe my ears.
What happened here? And why is this bootleg version of the song the official download for Estelle’s far superior “American Boy”?
Is shit like this even allowed?
The singer here sounds like some broke down 40 something karaoke singer who used to sing Freestyle songs on Bronx Public Access in the early 90’s, but is now washed up and working for tips (to buy a new flexees girdle) at the local bar.
Apple and iTunes are on some grimey stuff with this shit. I mean if you are going to copy a song on the cheap, at least have someone who CAN SING re-record the song. I got offended that this even existed. But then I got even MORE offended that people downloaded this bootleg “Kids Bop” bullshit all the way to #18 on the charts.
Seriously people? You can’t tell the difference? Maybe I should re-record a version of Al B. Sure’s “Nite and Day” in a fucked up high pitched voice after I have taken about 6 shots of Patron Silver? It won’t sound the same, but I guess people won’t notice?
Here is the real Estelle and the real version of the song.
Historic times indeed. Studying in a run down Catholic Elementary school, learning American History, living in a neighborhood forgotten by most, I never thought I’d see a day that either a Woman or an African American man could run for President and actually win a major party’s nomination.
I didn’t excpect much from the first “Fast and the Furious” movie, yet I walked away pretty surprised. The original film rounded up an impressive cast of young actors who were all on the verge of stardom. While most did break out and do something with themselves, others just seemed to fall off the radar.
And I remember my disappointment with “2 Fast 2 Furious” when it only retained one original member of the cast (Paul Walker).
And then came “Tokyo Drift”. A film that was better than expected and even featured a surprise cameo from Diesel at the end.
So now the stage is set for Part 4. A film that is really a sequel to part 1, as all of the original cast members have returned.
The movie looks good and shares the same director as “Tokyo Drift”. So it has to at least be the mindless fun we are all expecting.
Am I biased when I write about Latino singers? No? Ok cool.
Well I was flicking through the channels and landed on MTV3 (Tres). And this video was playing. Couple of things though. Why haven’t I seen this video on regular MTV? Or on BET? Or heard this song on a Rhythmic Station like KTU?
Anyhow, the song is catchy. The beat is cool. And the dude can sing, dance and play guitar.
What else do you need to craft a credible career in Pop Music?
Only thing I can think of when it comes to criticism is probably giving advice to homeboy to Man Up a bit with his clothing style. His stylist was on some bitch assness with the shit he was wearing towards the beginning.
