random thoughts

• The weird thing about Ace of Base (who apparently reunited, with two new chicks) is that, of the other other two, the guy named "Buddha" is not the fat one. He's Joker.


• I want to sample a song, but start in the middle of the measure, just to fuck with people.


• The main advance of EDM in the last ten years was they figured out to fiddle with the knobs on the subtractive synth while you are playing it.


• I want to write a rap song called Errday Like Thursday, but then you'd also have to explain that Thursday is a really good day too because you're such a baller that you don't have to work a full-time job.


• It's actually kind of remarkable that beatboxing is a thing, let alone one with relative street credibility, because, a priori, you would have guessed that making naturalistic sounds with your mouth would be the milieu of very young children.


• When you hear Rebecca Black, you can thank Orange County for that.
  
  Really, it's not her fault. This is what happens when you let people with no life experience create art.


• One of the little ridiculosities about Wikipedia is the pseudo-musicological analyses of popular music. It's a fucking rock song: it's in 4/4 and A major.


• I wonder if they sell a lot of copies of Michael Bublé's Christmas album (Reprise) at Amoeba records--actually, they probably do, ironically.


• The Kia gerbils should cover that song My Neck, My Back (Lick It) (Artemis)--I guess that would be the Khia gerbils, who I believe did a collabo with Richard Gere.


• I know everyone loves the music of their youth, but I think people who grew up in the '70s have a far better claim to the hegemony of their music than people who grew up in the '80s.


• I thought it was weird that some people (on the Internet) think Careless Whisper (Columbia) is by Wham!, and others by George Michael--I thought some people are just confused and/or make shit up. But it turns out that it's by different people in different countries, so that's okay, I guess.


• Probably the most annoying thing about a cappella is that every college a cappella thinks it's going to be so shocking that they decided to sing a (stupid) pop song, like no other a cappella group would ever think to do that.


• I tried watching a little bit of Glee--it's difficult.


• I tend not to like genres of music predicated on people dressing ugly on purpose.


• I heard a rap version of Paula Abdul's Straight Up (Virgin) and wondered how you could possibly have any street cred after covering a Paula Abdul song.


• One thing about Glee, American Idol, &.c. is that they perpetuate the notion that you're supposed to sing like that--in particular, fill as much space as you can with vocals. That's not always ideal.


• They Might Be Giants is basically REM for children.


• I've always thought of the B-52s as a music version of Gilligan's Island.


• Someone should make an album in response to RMFAO called Apology (for Party Rocking) Accepted.


• The name "Sufjan" is a Persian word meaning "wuss."


• They should make a combination of Baby, It's Cold Outside (-) and Faggoty Attention (JAH).
  
  Or it should go, "'The neighbors might think' / 'Baby, it’s bad out there' / 'Say, what’s in this drink' / 'Rohypnol.'"


• Lenny Kravitz should have called his album (Atlantic) Black and White Lenny Kravitz.


• When I do conjecture that Ke$ha has sex with homeless people, please keep in mind, I'm not criticizing her lifestyle; I'm saying that in a celebratory fashion.


• Flavor Flav wears a big clock around his neck, which would actually not be that weird if it were digital, because then he'd just be a gym coach.


• Christmastime makes me wonder how Nelly would pronounce the word "myrrh."