- Given enough time, wouldn't every album eventually go platinum? Or is it asymptotic? (Can something measured in discrete units be asymptotic?)
- Rebbie, La Toya, Randy and Janet should have formed a band called "The Jackson Other 4."
Actually, what would have been awesome is if they kept kicking out and replacing members of The Jackson 5 (à la Menudo), either with an endless succession of Jackson children, or little Puerto Rican boys.
- All the bands that say that their music defies categorization, that it can't be labeled by a genre, they are all generic rock bands.
- The Bee Gees had two distinct periods of exceptional success: doing soft rock in the '60s and disco in the '70s. They're the Rickey Henderson of music.
- There are certain songs--like Kelis's Milkshake (Arista), you have to think even Kelis and the Neptunes were surprised that that became a hit.
I was listening to various hipster, &c. covers of it, and they are all insufferable. Look, it's actually a pretty musically interesting (or, at least, unconventional) song, so it's totally disingenuous to mock it as stupid when your version strips out all of the interestingness. I mean, you can strip down any song to a melody and power chords, if you want to. So fuck people in Brooklyn with acoustic guitars.
- I am coming more and more to the conclusion that Kelly Clarkson has shitty taste in music. I'd probably dislike her less if someone else picked her songs for her.
I find that my new music consumption tends to decrease during the summer (baseball season). Also, I'm on a stand-up comedy kick right now.
