Settled

Disclosure, no matter how many times I listen to your record, we're never getting together. It's not you/me, it's me/you.

Food for thght

Jay Rayner on Le Cinq

As soon as people giggle at Jay's article and direct their Facebook friends to the article, the backlash begins. I get it but it still irks me nonethelesss. In the social media world one has to immediately brace for a counter attack. You like it? You better justify your taste. 

The article is glorious and I am not doubting myself for a minute. (Maybe a second though.) It reminds me of Lilly Allen's pop style. You'll never really list her in your High Fidelity influenced top ten but it is entertaining and witty. While other writers remind me Noise - what is the essence/meaning/message- Allen and Rayner guide you with hooks and seemingly easy comparisons to the finish. It's never condescending nor overly complex. 

Eurotrash

Verhoeven=Haneke + glossy wrapping paper

Funny games

I know it's only April but I have already decided on the best single (which isn't really a single but who cares?) of 2017. Based on the catchy (as the flu) single by Ed Sheeran. His best song by far (which isn't saying much, amirite?). It blends my love for voyeuristic reality shows (cue Haneke slapping me on the head) and forrays into crappy pop songs. Yes, I like mediocrity and low brow programs. Esp when you're caught being the voyeur. 

It doesn't have to be the old scene.

When I was a teen, I was heavily into this, The Style Council and the like. Thinking I was turning away from my dad's obsession w Northern Soul, I was just digging an updated version.  Lol

Sheermaggedon

datapanik in the year sheero

Sublime title and content that actually spoke to me. Others have vomited over the barrage of Sheerness but it made me squirm. We are getting older and more distant from current pop culture. We can critique (and we should) but it only accentuates our age and distance from the product.  We need to distinguish ourselves from teens (urgh, ok, target audience sounds easier on the ears). As a parent I feel more aware of how differently I approach (current) music. The way my kids seem to care less about the artist itself nor the connections to others/the past. (Daft Punk helped out the Weeknd, so what? Rihanna was supposed to do Shape of Whomever Is Filling In That Spot) 

Raw truth

James Baldwin