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  • Friday Throwback – Criminal

    When I was in college, I worked at Blockbuster Video. At Blockbuster, we had to play these promotional tapes that were created simply to promote Blockbuster the brand, movies and games that were out at the time, and for some odd reason, music videos. While running tapes one day (putting them back on the shelf) I noticed a skinny young woman with these mesmerizing eyes on the TV screen. I’d heard her music before, but never knew what she looked like. Fiona Apple’s Criminal was playing and I was oddly attracted to this 95 pound woman without an ounce of curve in her body. It was all because of this video.

    • Is it me, or is this the same set as her Sleep To Dream video?
    • She’s been a bad, bad girl, you know.
    • Girls who break boys just because they can aren’t nice.
    • The tank top like pajama look with the purple stockings isn’t a good one.
    • But the purple panties is.
    • That man nearly cut her neck with his toe nails.
    • I wonder if she was comfy with being in her underwear the entire video.
    • Great video until she squirts whatever that fake stuff is out of the bottle.

    With three hot albums in 10 years Fiona Apple is one of those artists that can consistently put out great music without having to stay in the public eye or feel the need to record constantly. She gives us a chance to miss her. Even though The Extraordinary Machine was her worst selling record, I’m sure she’ll be back with a vengeance. And hopefully we’ll see the purple panties again.

  • Friday (I Mean Monday) Throwback – The Pleasure Principle

    I tried to get this done on Friday, but oh well. Monday it is. I’ll still try to write them on Fridays in the future.

    Did you know that when Janet Jackson was 17, she did what people told her?

    The Pleasure Principle was the last of the singles from her coming out party album Control. And while it might’ve only been the 6th single of a 9 song project, it’s video is one that I adore. It’s bootyful.

    • Janet was looking a little like Michael with the knee pads. Wait, MJ wears shin guards.
    • I now want to dance in a warehouse in my bare feet like Kevin Bacon. Ok, maybe not, but it looks cool.
    • She’s even wearing a wristband. I wonder if she stole that from James DeBarge.
    • It’s the pleasure principle, principle, oh ohhhh ohhhh oh.
    • How many people have broken something trying to run and tip the chair like that?
    • Check out that cabbage patch. That was like Jerry Rice in the end zone.
    • I see an ode to her big bro in there.
    • My buddy Kenny Threeths, Arsenio Hall, and me were there three biggest Janet Jackson fans I knew.
    • Everything about this video is cool except that fake back flip off the box.

    Now that Janet has left Virgin and is going to be making records under Island/Def Jam, can she take it back to her glory days? Probably not. The one thing that can take her back to the top is risky. But if she wants to make it back to the top, it might be something she simply has to do. The first thing is that she has to politely dump Jermaine Dupri. We don’t want him trying to ruin her in the industry. Do it nicely. Secondly, call up Willis Jackson. Third, change your name to Charlene, and you and Willis can be together once again. I think it can happen. And then maybe he can be happy again.

  • Usher & Tameka: No Ribs, No Ring?!?!??!?!

    What does the 11th hour cancellation of Usher’s wedding to future baby momma/former stylist Tameka Foster have to do with his music? Well, if you’re the cynical sort, it could be plenty. Usher has an album coming out this fall (a very important one, actually, considering that his last album, “Confessions”, sold 10 million copies in the U.S.). Remember the gambit Usher’s publicity folks ran prior to “Confessions”‘s release, suggesting that Usher’s relationship with TLC’s Chilli was put on ice because he got another woman pregnant? While no hard facts suggest that it’s the case, I can’t help but wonder if this whole young man/older woman/Usher’s upset mom thing is just a publicity stunt set up to create awareness about Usher’s upcoming CD. If so, it’s sort of genius and sick at the same time…I mean, come on, do they really expect the general public to believe that the wedding was cancelled because Usher wanted a finely catered wedding and Tameka wanted barbecue to be served??