Ah, late night tweeting at its best. Sometimes, you have to be up late to catch all the good stuff.
On Thursday evening, Mr. West tweeted out a link to the remix to his latest single, Power. It was being sent around earlier in the day, but this was the official tweet.
Kanye West: OFFICIAL POWER REMIX http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/
That link is fine and dandy, but use this one instead. It’s a bit more direct.
It’s available to check out or download for free. Get it before it’s gone.
Oh yeah. Yello. If you’ve heard of Yello at all, those are the first words that will pop into your head: Oo-oo-oo-ooh yeah. And then: Chick. Chicka-chickaaah. But the signature hit by the Zurich, Switzerland-based studio duo of Boris Blank and Dieter Meier – the one you hear as Ferris Bueller frantically scrambles to get home to bed before either of his parents or the school principal realize he was ever gone – was really sort of the beginning of the end of Yello’s awesomeness. They’d put out three ridiculously inventive electronic dance records, often satirizing the culture of consumption and celebrity with both the oversold charm and the unabashed cynicism of an election year politician, but with later records like One Second (1986), Flag (1988), and Zebra (1991), their music started to compliment the culture of excess more than critique it, sort of internalizing the expensive emptiness they had always represented the opposite of.
No longer satire, Yello’s music became the soundtrack – literally – for late 80s trash culture, showing up in movies like She Devil (the Rosanne Barr vs. Meryl Streep divorce-revenge dark comedy, which I actually love), Nuns on the Run, and – oh gawd, no – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. No question their later records are stylish and they sound really good (I actually like Flag a lot), but they’re missing a lot of the impish fun of their early singles, like this one from their third full-length You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess: “I Love You”. (I know.)
From their sorely underappreciated album WYSIWYG (their first new album following their breakout hit “Tubthumping”), here’s Chumbawamba and their – [giggle] – affectionate tribute to Paris Hilton and her ilk. “You can buy your friends, but I’ll hate you for free.”