Last Splash

The gene pool could use a little Chlorine.

Someone shoot me...I've gone completely crazy. So, we all know I love music, and while I generally prefer singer-songwriter and motown and classic rock and the old standards, I also have an intense interest in music in general. Any music. Well, almost any music. There is little rap that I like (love me some Out'Kast, though) and when J pulls out his old Conway Twitty-Merle Haggard-Bocephus crap I shut myself into the bathtub with a magazine and a glass of wine and try to block it out. But I digress...the real issue here is that I can hear the good in (some) pop music, although Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson are both total fabrications of talent. And lately, more and more decent pop music has come onto the scene. But that gives me no excuse for the sudden longing to buy Justin Timberlake's, Beyonce's, and Christina Aguilara's new CD's. I think if they came out at different times, I could handle it, because I could mix them in with something else, like a Sam Cooke classic or OutKast's new soundtrack from Idlewild, but if I marched into my local BestBuy and went to the checkout with those 3 particular CD's, I would feel really embarrassed. Like, I would flush more than if I were buying condoms and whipped cream at the grocery store.

The music, however, is actually really good. I know you ask how, but it is genuinely something different for each artist, and different for pop. A step in the right direction, which for Timberlake means more hip-hop and some really cool futuristic sounds, and for Aguilara it means more throwback to the sounds of the 30's and 40's layed over a really very 80's style hook. Beyonce is just Beyonce...(my fiance is in love with her, I think) but the song she performed at the VMA's really had a more raw edge than the America's Sweetheart R&B she's done in the past. And she can dance far better than Britney "I've had 14 years of dance lessons" Spears. All in all, a good crop of pop, if you like that sort of thing. Will I be buying them all? Hell, no! Did I download "sexy back" as my ringtone this morning? You betcha.

posted by: Cannonball14 at 15:33 | link | comments (4) |
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#1  07 September 2006 - 19:41

 

You could buy them online so that nobody would see you buying them all at once. I've long been a fan of Christina's...she has so much talent. I'm glad she's getting out of her hoochie mama stage.

Oh, and how about this? I started liking Paris Hilton's song before I knew it was Paris singing. Ergo, I like Paris's song.

greeneyes

#2  12 September 2006 - 12:30

 

I thought of you when I saw this...I'm sure you'll enjoy it. :-)


http://www.newsobserver.com/1235/story/481010.html

greeneyes

#3  13 September 2006 - 13:15

 

Ah, yes...this has caused quite the riot in our household. Usually cartoons are based on fiction and speculation, but this one is pretty dead on. I can't understand how Amato thinks he is still duping us into thinking he's a fantastic coach building a program? What? By the way, did you watch our Philip Rivers make his NFL debut Monday night?

Cannonball14

#4  14 September 2006 - 18:31

 

I didn't...by the time Monday rolled around I was so footballed out...the Iowa game was insanely nervewracking, then I had to support my FSU friends in their game, then the OSU/Texas game (even though that wasn't nearly as nervewracking as I expected). Then on Sunday my Packers got steamrolled.

greeneyes

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