There are a lot of songs that reminisce fondly about a simpler time, when we were younger and nothing sucked quite as bad as everything sucks now. But twenty years ago, in the Summer of 1990, I was 17, my family was on the verge of homelessness, and I blamed myself for it. You see, a couple years earlier, my dad lost his job at a Chrysler (formerly American Motors) plant in Kenosha, […]
Seriously. This is the only reason I care about the World Cup: A German a capella World Cup-themed parody of Eddy Grant’s 1989 anti-Apartheid protest song “Gimme Hope Joanna”, accompanied by South Park-esque animation. Thank you, Basta. A thousand times, thank you.
Here’s Eddy Grant’s original:
Here’s the video for the second single from Kelis’s forthcoming fifth album Flesh Tone. It’s her first new studio album in almost 5 years; her first album under her freshly inked deal with the will.i.am Music Group and Interscope and also the first record since she became a mother (by rapper Nas). The DJ Ammo-produced “4th of July (Fireworks)” follows closely behind the amazing “Acapella”, which (not for nothing) topped Billboard’s dance charts […]