Paris Hilton, “Drunk Text”
She’s not even bothering with that much singing as part of her “singing career.” Good for you, Paris.
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Prose; pop!
Prose; pop!
Unlike most writers, Rohin Guha is not terribly afraid of pop music. He also does a bit of online content production and social media development and if you want his help on that, go here for more details. This is his vanity blog. He would love to hear from you. Honest.
DANCE TO THE BEATS OF MY DRUM: Advice, Art, Bollywood, Gardening, Lana Del Rey, Lit, Movies, Music, Social Media
SPOTLIGHT: Songs With Ladies Dropping F-Bombs, 2012: The Year of the Outsider, Quitting Facebook & Signing Back Up to Life, An Open Letter to the Ladies In My Life Over the Years
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DANCE TO THE BEATS OF MY DRUM: Advice, Art, Bollywood, Gardening, Lana Del Rey, Lit, Movies, Music, Social Media
SPOTLIGHT: Songs With Ladies Dropping F-Bombs, 2012: The Year of the Outsider, Quitting Facebook & Signing Back Up to Life, An Open Letter to the Ladies In My Life Over the Years
@ohrohin email CV What's on your mind?
February 23, 2012
February 17, 2012
Samsaya, “Video Games”
This Lana Del Rey cover is exceptional because you could imagine swirling a glass of champagne violently as this played in the background and you left what’s-his-face a strident voicemail about ____ or ____.
February 10, 2012
Happy Valentine’s Day, tumblrhearts! I made you this mix and it is called GENERIC LOVE SONGS: VOL. 1 because it has generic love songs that are perfect for getting you into “that mood” whether “that mood” means softly-lit lobster dinners with your sweetiepie or a midday macking session with the guy manning the falafel cart around the corner from your office. Love in the city takes on many forms and celebrate it this Valentine’s Day with these GENERIC LOVE SONGS! Your tracklisting, in no particular order:
• Carishma, “Glow In the Dark”
• Samantha Mumba, “Lately”
• Coco Lee, “Before I Fall In Love”
• Girls Aloud, “Memory of You”
• Tina Arena & Marc Anthony, “I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You”
• Leonardo’s Bride, “Even When I’m Sleeping”
• Taylor Swift, “You Belong With Me”
• Jamelia, “Something About You”
• Cheryl Cole, “Fight For This Love (Live)”
Prepare your clicking finger and get the mix here!
February 10, 2012
Carishma, “Glow In the Dark”
This song is so ordinary that it is perfect and brilliant. You’ve felt the same way about “Teenage Dream” and “Party In the USA.”
Anyone who runs into me on the street in coming days, do not be alarmed if I’m lipsynching along to this bit of pop hot-messery.
February 7, 2012
Dear Peter Robinson and Sasha Frere-Jones,
I would like to start the GOOD Magazine equivalent of a pop music website with both of you. The goal of such a site would be two-fold: To spread awareness about and brilliant pop music and to consider pop music from a global POV. I think the idea of pop as a geographically-restricted (geotargeted is the industry term for it!) commodity is silly and old-fashioned. Why shouldn’t Super Bowl viewers understand that the origins of Madonna’s “L.U.V.” chorus came from a place probably not too far away from the “L.O.V.E.” chorus that Nicola Roberts delivered last year? More than that, if the internet has truly globalized all of us, why should we live in an age when a genuinely brilliant slab of J-Pop can’t be marketed to go Top 10 in English-speaking territories? I think more Top 40 listeners than we are aware of would rather hear a brilliant slab of J-Pop than that terrible LMFAO “Party Rock Anthem” song for the 10,000th time in a day.
However, I am merely on my second cup of coffee; all ideas sound good right now. Although, I think this kind of website would be wonderful at the end of the day.
Yours,
Rohin
February 6, 2012
"The trend of letting people who know nothing about music profile musicians is as outdated as fretting about cursing."
SFJ hits the nail on the head. It’s the reason why Spin, Rolling Stone, Paste, and Pitchfork are such editorial dead-ends for me. Related news: I was looking for a U.S.-based music writer whose opinion I could trust as much as I do that of Popjustice’s Peter Robinson. Mission accomplished!
February 5, 2012
Greek Goddesses: Madonna, Super Bowl Halftime Show (2012); Kylie, Les Folies Tour (2011)
January 20, 2012
25 years of Kylie Minogue in 17 minutes.
From Popjustice:
This is a far more powerful video than you initially expect it to be. By about halfway through you realise that as well as this compilation telling the story of modern pop, every twenty seconds you’re being hit with a song that either defined or played in the background of key parts of your own life. Yours is a life whose ups and downs have all been accompanied by a Kylie song. You are Generation K.
Kylie Minogue has survived a quarter-century in the music business and I think part of that was due to the fact that the American marketplace only discovered her about 12-13 years after her first single—when “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” became one of the biggest singles of 2001. But Minogue’s done something even more amazing. She’s managed to penetrate the very difficult J-Pop and Bollywood markets too. Sure she’s had creative missteps along the way, but this is a videography of a pop diva who loves what she is doing. I do wonder if she’s eligible to get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year.
January 19, 2012
Oh hey there. I have put together another mixtape for you. It is a delicious collection of women who very cavalierly drop the f-bomb. This a full breakdown of what songs are included:
• Martha Wainwright, “Bloody Motherfucking Asshole”
• Robyn, “Don’t Fucking Tell Me What To Do”
• Peaches, “Fuck the Pain Away”
• the bird & the bee, “Fucking Boyfriend”
• Erykah Badu, “Fucking Your Friends”
• Kate Miller-Heidke, “Are You Fucking Kidding Me? (Live)”
• Lily Allen, “Fuck You”
• Liz Phair, “Fuck and Run”
• Bob Sinclar & Sophie Ellis-Bextor, “Fuck With You”
• Mylène Farmer, “Fuck Them All”
• Electrik Red, “We Fuck You”
Download it here!
January 17, 2012
A quick note to fictionists, dancers, poets, artists, firebreathers, singers, and professional screamers
Slapdash is a new multimedia Brooklyn-based series that launched in late 2011. They are currently seeking performers for their February installment, themed Sex Ed.
Fringe benefits of performing at the Sex Ed edition of Slapdash: You will be performing alongside me and I’m not sure if you have you have read that book I wrote (“STOP HREF’ING THAT BOOK ROHIN WE GET IT YOU WROTE IT”-Everybody), but everything about that book is steeped in Sex Ed and I am not at all a terrible reciter of things if my Courtney Stodden poetry project is anything to go by.
But if not for February, do chuck your hat into the ring for future installments of Slapdash. Zane Van Dusen, who put this whole shebang together, is a stand-up guy—when he isn’t sitting down. He is also quite radical. He is ALSO in Mindtroll. But more than that, I’ve gone to a few of these and have always come away inspired. And laughing. That is the most important. The laughing part.
January 13, 2012
(Tumblr isn’t recognizing that I want you to fast forward 2:08 into this video, so go ahead and do that. Because it is the awesomest part of a pop song lately.)
When I was a teenager
Lookin’ for a label and a little clean danger
Had an appetite for new adventure
Open every ‘do not enter’
Yeah I was tryin’ hard to be somebody
Be the cool kid at the party
Lookin’ at me la-di-da-di, hottie hottie, hot tamale
Stranger feelin’ up my body
Told me I could be somebody
Wait,
Someone sat me, went home, and I called my mommy
Hell no, I’m not that girl
I still wanna be the leader of the f*cking free world
Yeah I’m a big dreamer
I’m a believer
Just try to tell me no, I’ma go full steam but it
No, can’t slow me down
I built this house from the inside out
Block by block from the bottom to the top
I know just who I is
And I know just who I’m not
January 12, 2012
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Utada Hikaru, “Never Let Go”
Does that intro sound familiar? If so, it’s probably because you heard it previously in:
• “Shape of My Heart” by Sting
But it was also sampled in:
• “Get Him Back”by Monica
• “Release Me” by Blaque
• “Rise & Fall” by Craig David
• “Shape” by the Sugababes
Among a host of other hip-hop and urban pop tunes.
January 12, 2012
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Stevie Nicks vs. Britney Spears, “Till the Dream Ends”
(h/t to Tyler Coates)
January 10, 2012
Solutions
Yesterday, I linked to the writer Roxane Gay’s response to Lev Grossman’s Time entry about seven books he is looking forward to 2012. What she found most troubling was Grossman’s seemingly flippant acknowledgment that there were no women or people of color on his year-end list. There are two parts about Gay’s piece at The Rumpus that I loved—in addition to addressing Grossman’s oversight, she presents her list of books by those same underrepresented segments of the publishing world.
But.
The discussion really picks up comments—and what I love is that Grossman chimes in in the comments section and Gay is not so quick to let him off the hook just because he bothered to chime in. Gay is patient, but fierce. I like her style. But she got me thinking about solutions. One of my own pet peeves along these similar lines is a lack of South Asian representation in popular Western culture. So here is my own attempt to curate some wonderful media that South Asians around the world are making that people—whether they are South Asian or not!—should consume.
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