
The Musical Talmud: Tik Tok (by Ke$ha)
On memory, selling weirdness, and the Persistence of Persistence.
On memory, selling weirdness, and the Persistence of Persistence.
Timbaland drives a stake through the heart of the vampire phenomenon.
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Justin Bieber shows us the path out of America’s recession through auto-tune and baby-faced good looks.
Listen to it again, for the first time. Ten millionth time. Whichever.
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Man does not rap by lyrics alone.
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I remember a lot of things. So does Jay Sean.
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Taylor Swift on social mobility, private property, and rebellion of maintaining the status quo.
What is a G6? Who is Three six? And why does everybody keep popping bottles?
Hold exactly *what* against you, Britney?
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There are many boy bands. This is a man band.
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Which seat should YOU take?
Unpacking the Manifesto of Mother Monster
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You’d think that this supposedly great musician would actually sing while playing his guitar, but no.
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Should probably be titled “Run the World (Girls) (Don’t, obviously, or why would we even need this?)”
In which LMFAO redefines “rock.”
Pop musicians love quoting Friedrich Nietzsche. But do they love what he means?
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Catch the first Video Musical Talmud, on the song you were probably singing in your head before you read this.
In a new video commentary, Fenzel breaks down the most electromagnetically radiant song in pop music today.
How useful is this guy’s advice, anyway?
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Why “Thrift Shop” and “Suit and Tie” make a perfect pairing atop the Billboard chart.
In which we explore the creation of syncretic postmodern identities in Taylor Swift’s “22.”
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On a surface level, Hotline Bling is about slut-shaming. But dig down deeper….and it’s still about slut-shaming, but in a way worth of Overthinking.
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