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.
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How to Survive the Thriller
Don’t just stand there, bust a move.
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Bruce Springsteen’s Sequel to “The Wrestler”
Given his fixation with people/things that have only one of something (ponies and tricks, dogs and legs, men with arms, etc.), we figured it’d go something like this: (Lyrics by Belinkie, Fenzel, and Lee. Guitar, piano, and vocals by Lee.) … Continued
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Can You Hear Me Running?
The band on stage in “All I Need is a Miracle” is clearly playing out the last synthesized bars of “Silent Running” as the video begins. Are we to presume that the stories of these two videos are somehow connected?
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If this is not Overthinking It, I don’t know what is.
So musician Damon Alburn (Blur) and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl) joined forces to create The Gorillaz, a fictional cartoon band with real albums that are actually kind of cool. They then upped the ante with Monkey: Journey to the … Continued
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Take On Me, The Sequel
Once upon a time, an 80s girl was reading a subversive comic book in a diner while listening to that one A-ha song everyone likes. But lo! Out of one of the comic’s frames pops a sketchy hand – the … Continued