Bucket list: Do X with The Wanted

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These guys are totally hot in a “we’re not 12” sort of way. I dig it. If only they would DANCE. For THE LOVE OF GOD, if you’re going to be in a boy band and not play instruments, give us some fucking dance moves. That’s all we ask.

Cuz I just got PAID

Happy Friday bitches!!! Have a fun weekend spending reasonably, only because we are economically forced to.

PS: Why aren’t all the new boy bands dancing like NSYNC used to? New Kids on the Block even danced the shit out of their sets. I refuse to pay attention to One Direction or The Wanted until I see some dance moves or at least full frontal. Those are the conditions. Take it or leave it, boy band HACKS.

#salty

Listen: Patrick Park’s “Something Pretty”

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I always thought the lyrics were “I walked a hundred miles in Tubekistan” which makes the song way different than the actual lyrics “tobacco skin”. Such a pretty song from our compilation O.C. soundtracks. And now that you’re thinking of the O.C., you’re totally singing “Californiaaaaa. CalifornIIIIAAAAA!!!!!!!” And if you weren’t, you are now. You’re welcome.

Mixtape Monday: Le Musicassette’s “Black Devil Disco Club”

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Darker than Glitters Mixtape

Monday’s are bleak my friends. Filled with sleepy eyes, regrettable memories of your weekend second life and not.enough.coffee. This mixtape is cool and just weird enough to keep you on your toes during whatever it is that won’t keep you awake at work. If that doesn’t convince you, there’s Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” 4 minutes in. DO IT. Your morning report will be fucking kick-ass because of it. Promise.

Happy Monday!!!

Netflix nightcap: Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale Tour

Oh. MY. GOD. I can’t believe they let her put on that show. Honestly.

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First of all, I am a HUGE Britney fan. I love the songs and her early choreographed dance sequences. I spent all of the 2007/2008 school year forcing people to listen to Blackout. But Britney Spears Live: The Femme Fatale Tour makes me really sad. And it will probably make you sad too.

It was forgivable in the beginning of Brit’s career that she lip-synced here and there because she was gracing our eyes with the coolest dance moves of the new millennium to the coolest dance hits by the biggest and most successful pop producers in the world. She used to put on a high-energy dance performance while acting out the song. Now she moves around semi-mindlessly, clearly lip-syncing and disappointing fans with her lackluster dance production to songs that were made for a pop-dance breakdown.

After countless knee-surgeries and a likely prescription for lithium (never forget Britney 2007), she can’t quite move like she used to. Which is understood by everyone. But continuing to lip-sync during a show where you’re not even heavily dancing is just getting absurd. What’s the point of the live show if you get little more than seeing a famous person?

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The concert is full of Britney’s greatest hits. She performs them by walking back and forth on stage, moving her arms with our best 6th grade dance moves and lip-syncing the whole time. The costumes looked cheap. At some points in the concert, she would just stand next to things, like a pole, and touch them from time to time. She was also allowed to sit (after the exhaustion of “singing” and “dancing”) on a huge swing that a guy climbed while she mouthed along to a ballad.

This woman is either an autistic savant pop/dance music genius who has gone aloof or a seriously damaged famous person being medicated and put on stage to walk around perform because she makes lots of money.

Do not watch this movie. It will do nothing besides make you feel sad that Britney isn’t the Britney we grew up with and angry that somebody makes millions of dollars for walking around on a stage sort of giving a shit about what’s going on.

I love Britney so much. A part of her will be in my heart forever. But this concert movie is a harsh reality check. We better keep admiring her saucy dance tracks from audio sources only because watching it live is hard. You’ve been warned.

Music: Fiona Apple bitches

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Fiona Apple’s cover art for her new album (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) “The idler wheel is wiser than the driver of the screw and whipping cords will serve you more than ropes will ever do” I heard it’s now the longest album name ever. In this day and age of breaking DUI records and most panty flashes in the history of the world, it’s nice to see an artist break a pretty neutral record. Way to go, Fiona.

Here’s some Fiona ear candy until the new album comes out. If it’s even half as good as Extraordinary Machinewe have nothing to worry about.

Listen: Brenda K Starr’s “I Still Believe”

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Total ex-lover music porn next to a rainy window. Also, she sings in Spanish! There’s our new language practice software, set to pop music ballads and 80s drums.

Music: Aaaaaand I now know why JC Chasez can’t have a solo music career

Because he records things like this.

This might be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard, and the worst 80s tribute video ever made.

Can you imagine JC showing this song to Justin Timberlake? Either Justin is a great liar who hates JC and wants his solo career to fail or JC is an idiot.

Here’s a video of JC singing an NSYNC song with Matthew Morrison of Glee. I bet JC really misses those NSYNC days. He sounds good doing NSYNC, not weird 80s creep songs that don’t even take advantage of his 4 octave range!

Watch this now: Johnny Kemp’s “Just Got Paid”

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I’m knee deep in an all out NSYNC obsession and pop music BINGE right now. It’s weird and nostalgic and oddly refreshing to get away from super synthy heavy tunes that are plaguing all radio stations, except when Adele is on (so every 5 minutes).

But here we have an original of a song that was featured on NSYNC’s second album No Strings Attached . “Just Got Paid” was actually recorded in 1988 by a guy named Johnny Kemp. I’ve never heard of him before. Maybe I’ll begin my Johnny Kemp obsession right now, cuz this song is all sorts of funky funky jam.