Featured movies musicLee Monday, December 5th, 2011 7:00am “The Rainbow Connection”: Just How Many Songs Are There About Rainbows? Not nearly as many as Kermit seems to suggest. Read More »
Featured musicLee Monday, November 7th, 2011 7:00am The Musical Talmud: “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO In which LMFAO redefines “rock.” Read More »
Featured musicLee Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 7:00am The Musical Talmud: “Hold It Against Me” by Britney Spears Hold exactly *what* against you, Britney? Read More »
Featured musicLee Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 7:00am The Musical Talmud: Economic Themes in “Mine” by Taylor Swift Taylor Swift on social mobility, private property, and rebellion of maintaining the status quo. Read More »
Featured musicLee Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 8:00am The Musical Talmud: “One Less Lonely Girl” by Justin Bieber Justin Bieber shows us the path out of America’s recession through auto-tune and baby-faced good looks. Read More »
Featured musicLee Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 7:20am The Musical Talmud, Think/Counter-Think Edition: “Party in the USA” Sheely and Lee spar over the political science interpretation of “Party in the USA.” Read More »
Featured musicLee Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 7:00am The Musical Talmud: I Gotta Feeling A series of non sequitur party-related cliches, or a treatise on power and predeterminism? (It can be both, I suppose). Read More »
Featured musicLee Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 6:45am Textalyzing Albums: Word Frequency in the Lyrics of Born To Run, Straight Outta Compton, and Taylor Swift We now have a new tool to help us decipher pop music lyrics: totally unnecessary quantitative analysis. Read More »
Featured musicThink Tank Friday, July 10th, 2009 9:04am Perspectives on Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” [Think Tank] Take my hand. We’ll Overthink It, I swear. Read More »
musicsheely Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 9:45am Kanye West Doesn’t Suck Ass: Even the Superficial Raps are Super Official If this analysis of the themes developed in Kanye’s lyrics doesn’t convince you that he is a better rapper than many other Top 40 regulars, it is worth remembering just how low the bar is. Read More »