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Guilty Pleasures: Ke$ha Parties In The Name Of Premature Death As Obama Wins...
On the basis of evidence that once-reliable wedge issues like abortion and gay rights are no longer helping Republicans win any elections, some observers are declaring that after 30 years, the Culture...
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Guilty Pleasures: Special Thanksgiving Turkey Edition (Or Start Getting...
It may be a little early to call Patrice Wilson the Phil Spector of the Meme Era, but “It’s Thanksgiving,” the gloriously cheesy song and video he produced for his tween client Nicole Westbrook, proves...
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Guilty Pleasures: The Strangeness And Greatness That Is Darlene Love And...
There is no stranger genre of popular music than Christmas music—and yes, I’m including seapunk. A commercial juggernaut so powerful that even Paul McCartney’s terrible “Wonderful Christmastime” earns...
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Guilty Pleasures: Macklemore Ups The Ante With “Thrift Shop”; Is He The...
What genre does Seattle rapper Macklemore belong to? Indie hip-hop, yes, but in 2012 that term could describe any rapper besides the approximately eight lucky MCs who have major label contracts. His...
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Guilty Pleasures: 5 Totally Radical 80s Christmas Songs That Haven’t Been...
Click here to view the embedded video. “Funky, Funky Xmas” by New Kids on the Block (1989) Generation X celebrated the last Christmas of the 80s with chiseled abs and baggy-jean crotch thrusts as NKOTB...
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Guilty Pleasures: Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta Think You Might Like It
(Transcript of story conference prior to shooting the video for “I Think You Might Like It” by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta) “Okay, so we’ve got our list of things that absolutely must be in...
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Guilty Pleasures: Billy Squier’s “Rock Me Tonite”, MTV And Homosexuality In...
Anyone who lived through the 80s with their eyes open, or has read a history like Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On, knows that the 80s were a time when homophobia became deadly on an unprecedented...
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Guilty Pleasures: Little Big Town’s Tornado
“Shane Drake” sounds like the name of a Will Ferrell character in a movie satire about a high-rolling video director, but Shane Drake is an actual video director, a multiple VMA nominee who won the...
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Guilty Pleasures: Sister Rosetta Tharpe Goes Down By The Riverside
What’s a preacher’s wife singing gospel music doing in a column called “Guilty Pleasures”? Well, for starters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was technically a preacher’s ex-wife. Describing her husband, who...
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Guilty Pleasures: Indulge In Justin Timberlake’s Perfect Comeback With The...
As I was deciding what to write about the new video for Justin Timberlake‘s single “Suit & Tie,” my editor shared her pithy opinion. “This video is basically the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen,”...
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