Choire, I can't be Google Image Search-ing John Harbaugh like this. What have you done?
@Natasha VC: Fair enough.
But aren't these films intended for well-meaning, fragile, cerebral, maladjusted girls with an anemic sexual persona and child-like notions about men? And not "ladies in their twenties"?
Kind of a moot point as Harry Homophobe also isn't reading The New York Review of Books.
@ArmCandy: Ben McKenzie's fake OC name was Ryan Atwood DUH. And none of this explains SouthLAnd...
That artificial fuzzy, old-vinyl sound is irritating.
"I've got two treasures in my handbag tonight. The first one, Felipe tossed to me just before I left the office: Cocaine City 12 DVD starring Jada, Styles, Yayo, French Montana and Max B, and et cetera."
ADMIT IT: YOU'VE HEARD OF JADAKISS.
(j/k)
Eh. Can't tell if that part is really as problematic as it sounds, or if it's just this crap mix.
This isn't necessarily true. There is a subset of Fall Out Boy fans who like "anything but rap and country." Sure, I don't want 50 Cent to be the standard-bearer of contemporary hip-hop to that crowd, either, but certainly will be some people going to these shows who will have to reckon with a FOB endorsement of an artist whose music is of a genre they categorically ignore.
At the same time, I'm all for calling BS on the "challenging your audience" pitch here, because -- yeah -- clearly that's not what this is actually about, whether or not said audience may actually be challenged.
Remind anyone else of the Buddha machine?
OH JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY
Not gonna lie, this story is turning me into a RR supporter. And that keffiyeh.
I legitimately liked the T-Pain track R. Ross did, "The Boss".
How hot is Marisa Tomei's boyfriend?
I was thinking the same thing! In my stupor, I missed like five whole minutes of the ceremony.
On the other hand, last week Lewis also wrote a bizarre screed-which may an intentional joke-for Bloomberg arguing that the problem with Wall Street is actually a lack of greed and selfishness, so take his advice for what it's worth.
Considering that Lewis wrote the article in character, under the fictitious moniker, "Hedge-fund man," and that, you know, the article is horrifying and explicitly sexist, I would say you're onto something with that "intentional joke" thing.
@lempha: Oh, and by the way, when Colby O'Donis starts his verse on "Just Dance" (esp. in the video), it's sooooooo Hot Chicks With Douchebags.
@eriq78: She's no Kylie.
Precisely. Every song I've heard of hers I first mistook for a really "good" Pussycat Dolls song (not a compliment).
@VoxPopuli: Precisely. And being Facebook friends with someone isn't "being in contact" with them.(@gladys_kravitz), it's being able to get a small glimpse into how they represent a largely insignificant part of themselves, on the internet, if you so choose. It's just as easy for the both of you to mutually ignore each other regardless.
@Yellowbelt: Okay, like, I think this is shitty too, but isn't demanding that we all write letters to Wrigley's begging for Chris Brown to lose his endorsement a little extreme, considering that we're relying on EW message boards as a source of information...
@mepo: Well, his song, "Forever" for one, was written intentionally to be a Doublemint ad (lyrics = "Double your please, double your fun/ And dance forever"). (Interestingly, CBS couldn't pull this ad in time for the Grammys telecast...)
