random thoughts

• If people riot in protest of their not showing EDC The Movie, the won't know what to do!


• A couple of my friends went to Jay-Z's retirement concert (at the time, I had just driven three hours in the other direction across Los Angeles, so when they called me, I was like, um, I don't really feel like driving back); I wonder how their (memory of the) experience was marred by Jay-Z coming back out of retirement a year later.


• There's definitely the kind of single that's catchy and you like it, but it doesn't compel you to check out the artist's other songs.


• Judging from the segue music in different MLB teams' radio baseball broadcasts, places closer to the middle of the country have more aggressively bad taste in music, whereas in the coastal cities, it's more just inoffensive bad.


• P!nk should have a song My Anger Tries To Hide My Low Self-Esteem.


• They really let too many people record pop albums. I wonder if that many people think they're that talented, or if they realize that success isn't that correlated with talent.


• The Rent Is 2 Damn High party was actually co-founded by Prince.


• If I wanted to write popular pop songs, I would just go to Urban Dictionary and write them about the pages with the most hits. (Also, I'm surprised there's not yet a hit rap single called DTF.)


• Actually, even though Uffie is sort of a trust fund kid who doesn't have a lot of discernible talent (besides being kind of hot in a rich slut way; her musical and personality sensibilities are not unlike that of an eight-year-old), her album (Elektra) actually has a few decent tracks on it--it's just that they happen to be the ones on which she seems to have the least creative input. Really, you have think of this as a Feadz album.
  
  Also, in response to a random review I read: I don't think that Uffie has a "wannabe English accent"--she grew up in Hong Kong; that's the way people talk there. You could argue that Honkies in general talk with a "wannabe English accent," but that's a different argument, and not really a review of Uffie.
  
  Generically, I'm kind of fascinated by the trainwreck that she is--it's intereseting how people are so worldly that they become petty. Also, it's remarkable how predictable her taste and choices are based on the fact that she's a spoiled white girl.


• People seem to rap more and more about Grey Goose (well, mostly suburban white kids), which is weird, because I don't think anyone who takes alcohol seriously thinks of Grey Goose as being particularly good.


• When there's a "rock" starlet, it's kind of funny how she'll be in her twenties, and the guys in her band will be, like forty.
  
  Also, I think a girl like Avril Lavigne is a bit old for the worldview espoused in her songs.


• I don't think the guys in Far East Movement can tell each other apart either.


• If I were a professional touch-typist, I'd also use the stage name "Alicia Keys."


• This nine-year-old girl told me that if you meet Lady Gaga, you're supposed to poke her face. Man, that must be really annoying to be Lady Gaga and everyone keeps trying to poke your face.


• I never found Allan Sherman particularly funny, but I guess, based on what ended up happening, he didn't either.


• I don't see why bands get to protect their names with IP protection, because it's not like people have unique names.


• I want to make a pop-rock CD called Bibliotheque.


• I think "glee clubs" are ironically named, because that is not what I feel when I hear them. It's more like a "white exuberance club."


• All of these allegations are making me wonder: how does one apply to be Britney Spears's bodyguard.
  
  Even if she's being gross, I feel like you fuck Britney Spears if only so that you can tell people that you did.
  
  The one thing that could have made Britney Spears trashier is had her parents named her "Britnay."


• I was listening to a Japanese beatboxer, and it's kind of funny that he rendered the English words as sounds. I guess to him, there's no difference.


• I don't get why Lenny Kravitz is always heralded as such an amazing producer. The only thing notable about his production is that he does it himself--and his production technique is a bit stiff and elementary. I don't think he'd get hired as a pure producer if not for the other music skills he brings to the table.


• It's weird to see rock music written in music notation, because that kind of defeats the purpose fo rock music.


• Brian Setzer ended up becoming one of the elite guitar players of this generation (in my opinion; I've actually been saying this for at least fifteen years), which I don't think you would have guessed from the beginning.