Kaylee ,'Shindig'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I want the Yoko mug and the McCartney lunch box. Ha! Those are great!
I have made my executive decision to buy the U2 iPod. I'm going to go home tonight and make sure my computer can handle the upgrade to XP, and that my CD burner will still work with XP. Then tomorrow I'm heading to the Apple store where I can get the feel of a regular-sized iPod and see their weekly presentation on the iPod/iTunes.
Thanks for answering all my questions and feeding my desire for this piece of machinery!
Then tomorrow I'm heading to the Apple store where I can get the feel of a regular-sized iPod and see their weekly presentation on the iPod/iTunes.
Oooh - once you touch one you will just have to have it....
I'm fully expecting to want to buy one on sight, but will have to remind myself that I'm pre-ordering the U2 one instead.
...for the upcoming critter.
hayden, I had no idea. Congratulations! When is the release date?
Thanks, Fiona! February 18 is the projected release date. It's a little kicker!
We have been immersing ourselves in chanson, so I found some Chevalier in English. It was all silly novelty songs. (Including, of course, "If the nightingale could sing like you/They'd sing much sweeter than you do/'Cause you brought a new kind of love to me.")
I went out and bought a Chevalier album in French. ("Valentine"). Apparently he sang silly novelty songs in French, too. Chevalier: Silly Novelty Songs guy.
Hayden! Congratulations!!
Did anyone here read the piece in today's NYT about rockism? It was rilliy good I thought.
I'm reading it right now! (AIFG?) [link]
A rockist is someone who reduces rock 'n' roll to a caricature, then uses that caricature as a weapon. Rockism means idolizing the authentic old legend (or underground hero) while mocking the latest pop star; lionizing punk while barely tolerating disco; loving the live show and hating the music video; extolling the growling performer while hating the lip-syncher.
Definitely one of the arguments we made in the Bubblegum book. Goes back to the age-old valuation of what's "authentic" - even though time and again that's proven to be a false and indefensible virtue.
Still...
You can argue that the shape-shifting feminist hip-pop of Ms. Aguilera is every bit as radical as the punk rock of the 1970's (and it is),
I think this overstates Christina's value as a pop creator and/or icon.
And let's stop pretending that serious rock songs will last forever, as if anything could, and that shiny pop songs are inherently disposable, as if that were necessarily a bad thing. Van Morrison's "Into the Music" was released the same year as the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"; which do you hear more often?
This seems a little specious. Van's Astral Weeks is about 35 years old and it is still a consistent seller. That's eons in pop terms. "Rapper's Delight" was a signal event in pop music - it probably gets played as much for its iconic value as it does for its own "pop" qualities. And Van's "Brown Eyed Girl" was a near-perfect pop song. Right down to the Sha la las.