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Rad Romance
Bad Romance recommences the Lady Gaga chronicles and her redefining of the craft of pop music in the twenty-first century. Conceptively moving away from the lacklustre guild known as MTV where fraternising and sexual vacuity reigned, pop music is reclaiming its identity and depth. // Fame Monster. 23 November 2009.
Why so Much Eighties Music Sounds so Bad These Days
*author’s note: not all the music of the eighties was bad. Some of it, like Black Flag, Stan Ridgeway, The Pastels and The Feelies, was really quite excellent. It’s just that even a decent band had to wade through baffling production choices. And there were an awful lot of bands that barely qualified as decent.
Ah, remember the eighties? It was a decade like no other: smart dress and hair-styles a whiplash reaction to the sloppy sixties and seventies. The kids who had dropped out in the sixties mellowed and regrouped in the seventies, grew bored and realized that power and money may possibly be the greatest aphrodisiacs invented by a capitalist culture.
Almost as a deliberate spit in the eye to what had come before; the eighties brought a whole-hearted embracement of the capitalist consumer culture that was represented in Reagan’s America, Thatcher’s England, and to a much lesser extent, Mulroney’s Canada. No one better exemplified the “me-first” attitude of the eighties than Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas’s greed-driven character in Oliver Stone’s 1987 classic Wall Street.
“I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip...” - Gordon Gekko
That to me is the eighties.
Now, as every decade ought, the eighties has its soundtrack. I mean, how can you picture the opening scene of John Hughes’ Breakfast Club without thinking about Jim Kerr and the rest of his Simple Minds? How can you think of the song “Oh Yeah” by Swiss oddities Yello without thinking of Principal Ed Rooney climbing bedraggled onto a school bus at the end of Farris Beuler’s Day Off?
And MTV... whew, it was a whole new way to experience music. Now, instead of having only the radio to guide you, the visual medium would henceforth become equally as dominant. You could replace all those images your brain conjured up with whatever some video auteur had in mind, be it Madonna slutting it up on the front of a gondola, a little girl mutilating a grand piano with a chain-saw, or two bearded rockers from Texas continually supporting the underdog by supplying him with a fine set of wheels.
MTV’s baffling initial refusal to play black artists was only made obvious when Michael Jackson’s 1982 smash “Billie Jean” was climbing the charts. MTV relented on this unstated policy, and the video that introduced the moonwalk to the world was put in high rotation. After the colour barrier was broken (which MTV seemed fond of advertising, instead of being ashamed of having created one in the first place), the floodgates were open and anything was fair game.
Now, instead of only presenting videos made mostly by aging white rockers and British New Wave bands (the Brits had been making promotional videos since the sixties), any song with a catchy video was fair game. This accent on the reliance of image came at exactly the wrong time. It came at a time when recording technology had improved so much in its 100 year existence, that producers were starting to detach themselves from what made music vital in the first place.
Tomorrow, I'll point to where and why the music of the eighties went wrong, and what brought it back on track. Stay tuned.
World's Strictest Parents | MTV
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Kind of a neat show. Troubled teenagers go live with "strict" parents for a week. It's funny because they're not strict. Basically, they're just not allowed to do illegal things--underage smoking, drinking, clubbing. They make them work and they have to earn privileges. Sometimes MTV surprises me.
ABC Launches Facebook Connect Integration - "FlashFoward" Promo w/ FB Integration
This afternoon Facebook posted an update about all the television networks that have integrated Facebook Connect, including ABC who has two new exciting integrations. The first is a promotion for the series “FlashForward” which takes advantage of Facebook Connect to integrate your profile data into a promotion. It’s similar to other promotions we’ve seen such as the Doritos promotion and the Prototype XBox game trailer.
In contrast to MySpace, who also has their own identity service, Facebook has been focused on striking large media integrations with Connect. Not only do these partnerships help increase engagement on the partner sites but it also helps Facebook expand the reach of Facebook Connect. Google has been heavily promoting their own service, Friend Connect, which is similar to Facebook Connect and they’ve already successfully generated 8 million communities.However Facebook’s model is a smart one as they are going after high profile sites which end up generating more press coverage, building buzz for Facebook Connect. In addition to ABC’s FastForward trailer, ABC will also be launching a new video player tomorrow which leverages Facebook Connect to created a social experience as visitors watch full episodes of ABC content from the ABC website.
This sounds somewhat similar to Hulu’s integration, however it appears that this may be more integrated with the actual video player. We won’t know for sure until tomorrow, but this definitely sounds like what we would expect out of a truly interactive social viewing experience. Facebook is also highlighting a number of their other television integrations in today’s blog post.
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The Hoff Drunk at EMA's 09 (via @farquaad)
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Don't hassle the Hoff.
Porno Ping Pong
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