February 2012
“There was David Guetta, flopping about like a Muppet behind the mixer, jabbing...”
– Philip Sherburne on the Grammys’ lame dance music simulacrum. (via marathonpacks)
reblogging to point out an excellent article, but also a hilarious comment: “You guys [at Spin] need to keep Phillip Sherburne before he gets snatched up by Pitchfork.”
(via natepatrin)
lastbutnotleast:
cajunboy:
Don’t Disturb This...
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“There were a lot of ‘oh, by the way’s,’” Goldsmith said, describing the lead up...”
– Iowa creators of Interlude dance excited to bust a move with first lady | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
Let the record show that Michelle Obama led 12,000 kids (and my wife) in a dance to a song by Attack Attack! yesterday.
(via desnoise)
ALERT: LINK INCLUDES VIDEO OF MICHELLE...
karaj:
i was creeping your tumblr. (again.)
—everyone, including people i’m meeting for the first time. (nb: i feel like everyone’s creeping of everyone else’s tumblr gives new meaning to the TLC song. it’s like, tumblr creeping as a feminist strategy related to gossip. think about it and play some TLC.)
What qualifies as “creeping” in this context? Are...
marathonpacks:
Houston was the queen of Adult Contemporary—but her adultness made her not quite contemporary. She was old-fashioned, a little bit fuddy-duddy; your grandmother loved her. She sang about grown-up emotions, and had no feel for the attitude, or the rhythms, of hip-hop. She spent the early ’90s in a tug-of-war with Mariah Carey for chart supremacy, but Carey’s hip-hop savvy ensured...
andrewtsks asked: You know I wanna hear your dispute with that Jody Rosen quote about Whitney Houston.
“Black artists are often faced with the problem of having to elevate through...”
– Brent Staples, “Black Characters in Search of Reality,” New York Times (via jalylah)
reverenddollars:
reverend dollars, better lives...
Scores of kids during last night's Grammy Awards,... →
MY HEART SINGS WITH THE HOPE THAT BOOMER HEGEMONY MAY SOON PASS INTO THE NIGHT
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