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bagman67
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Yep, she's kind of a rough-up looking thirty. My guess is she won't be flying to switzerland for a body-fluids replacement anytime soon, but still and all...
I think the best thing that can be said of her catalog is that Richard Thompson covered "Oops, I Did It Again" and translated it into a very ominous, dark song.
Bagman sez: Check it out.
I think the best thing that can be said of her catalog is that Richard Thompson covered "Oops, I Did It Again" and translated it into a very ominous, dark song.
Bagman sez: Check it out.
Cagey
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I don't think Mr. Thompson made it dark; it started out that way but was originally presented in typical pop fashion to make the message seem relevant and entertaining. Add a lotta synthesizers, lights, sexy moves and hooker dust to a scantily-clad girl-child and Poof! Mass appeal. But really, it's just an ode to mindless, careless, empty relationships. Dark stuff, heavy with despair. No surprise, considering its source.
Britney, Christine Aguilara and Justin Timberlake are all products of this weird Orlando-based industry where Svengali-wannabees comb through the detritus of the Disney Empire's singing/dancing child-sprite Disney World "entertainment", looking for product that can be re-packaged, either stuffed or starved depending, sprinkled with "hooker dust* and gurgitated upon the masses. Though I read an account of a Timberlake recording session where he came in with his guitars and keyboards and taught the guitarists their parts and did the keyboard parts himself - and it wasn't even written by Justin Timberlake! (and he does all his own stunts!) But Britney & Christine have their "issues"... fortunately there are enough psychiatric alcohol-analogs that you can usually keep the organism up and twitching long enough to extract full value.
What's interesting to me is that the largest successes in the new wave of musical comedy acts like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Rihanna are now largely self-generated. They've figured out the market, "written" their own material and they get to keep a large chunk of the money for themselves. There's still doubtless some racehorse financing behind them, but they're presenting "the package" to the investors themselves, assuaging worries about longevity, provided enough glimpses of upcoming variations to "guarantee" the Sinatra/Beatles/Madonna/KISS trick of keeping concert seats filled with affluent 60-year-olds. There are no sure bets of course, Rihanna's schtick about the assassinatory capabilities of her terrifyingly-powerful secret magic twat** can only hold up if her tastes for candy and champagne don't turn her old, fat and mean like... aw Whitney, dammit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaGdlr-aUg
Yay! metal!... yay. oooh.... i'm so scared!
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**(speelcheck keeps misspeilling this! Honey-pot?)
What's interesting to me is that the largest successes in the new wave of musical comedy acts like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Rihanna are now largely self-generated. They've figured out the market, "written" their own material and they get to keep a large chunk of the money for themselves. There's still doubtless some racehorse financing behind them, but they're presenting "the package" to the investors themselves, assuaging worries about longevity, provided enough glimpses of upcoming variations to "guarantee" the Sinatra/Beatles/Madonna/KISS trick of keeping concert seats filled with affluent 60-year-olds. There are no sure bets of course, Rihanna's schtick about the assassinatory capabilities of her terrifyingly-powerful secret magic twat** can only hold up if her tastes for candy and champagne don't turn her old, fat and mean like... aw Whitney, dammit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaGdlr-aUg
Yay! metal!... yay. oooh.... i'm so scared!
*( :icon_thumright
**(speelcheck keeps misspeilling this! Honey-pot?)
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Speaking of Just a Timberlake, did you know he bought MySpace? Yeah. $35M. NewsCorp (Rupert Murdoch's cash cow) paid $580M for it a few years ago, couldn't make it work, and now Mr. Timberlake figures he can Do It Right. How one of the world's largest media companies could fail to make a simple social networking site work is a mystery for the ages (although Murdoch is surprisingly dense for someone so successful), so maybe JT got a deal.
