I don’t normally post videos of programs I watch, unless they’re in context of something bigger, like a list, but this was too good to pass up. Another instant highlight from Jon Stewart’s reign as King of Late Night, he stuck it to the Donald for eating pizza like a pansy, or, even worse, a non-New Yorker.
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Occasionally I browse the pop music world/charts/blogs and see what the kids are listening to. Sometimes I am pleased with what I find, most of the time I am not. This is a journal of my discoveries.
Catching Up On: Wacka Flocka Flame
Although Pitchfork gave the album an 8.0, I really don’t understand the appeal. Â This guy’s lyrics are unintelligible, and frankly, when I can understand them, they’re pretty simple. Â And while that’s not necessarily a dealbreaker for me (I did give Wiz Khalifa a thumbs up several days ago), the melody and production don’t really add any plus signs for me. Â This radio hit, which I’ve been unable to avoid lately, is jawdroppingly atrocious.
Catching Up On: Big Time Rush
Apparently this is a tween sensation that’s been around for years on Nickelodeon, but this is the hit that will cross them over to the pop radio masses, Bieber style. Â The tune itself is pretty catchy, it’s good for a Friday night club run, though I could do without the continuing destruction of the legacy of Snoop Dogg.
Catching Up On: Mindless Behavior
Another R&B-based boy band, they all look 14 years old and are produced pretty slickly and whathaveyou. Â Watch the video, and you can tell they all think they’re Usher, but it doesn’t hide the fact the melody is straight-up Disney. Â And the lyrics, a romantic homage to texting your honey, are just pretty damn hilarious.
Catching Up On: Fabolous
Now to the good stuff: while I’m not necessarily “catching up on” Fabolous, who has been awesome for years, this new single is banging. Â This is what the rap radio game needs right now, an elder statesmen showing everybody how it’s done.
Catching Up On: Swizz Beatz
Hardest beat on the charts right now, and it needs to be on the radio more. Â In the same vein as his collaboration with Jay Z in “On To the Next One” (even the video is similar), Swizz keeps it simple and LOUD. And remember Eve? Yeah, she’s on here too.
Memorial Day weekend is a wonderful time – the unofficial start of summer, with BBQ, fun in the sun, and general good vibes for all on a three-day break. But it always used to have a pretty stellar soundtrack – the WOXY Modern Rock 500. If WOXY were still around, you bet I would be listening and listing everything I heard. The WOXY crew compiled a list of some of the finest songs to ever grace alternative radio, new and old, and the #1 song was different every year. After 97X left the FM dial and WOXY went Internet-only, the countdown continued until last year, when the station was suddenly taken from us. But we still have the music and the memories, and so, as a tribute this Memorial Day, I leave you with a sampling of tracks we might have heard today on WOXY.COM.
Trailers for upcoming movies. Some are good, some not as much.
Trailers for upcoming movies. Some are good, some not as much.
SNL hiphop trio the Lonely Island haven’t exactly hit gold yet with the leaked tracks from their upcoming sophomore release Turtleneck and Chain (the title track featuring Snoop Dogg has been the best, though the joke grows stale by the second verse). Where, you might be wondering, are the “I’m On a Boat”s or the “Jizz In My Pants”s or even the “Dick In a Box”s?
Well, never fear – Samberg and Co. haven’t lost their touch, especially when recruiting pop icon Michael Bolton. This one’s funny for sure, and it features one of Bolton’s trademark “big, sexy hooks.”
