I talked Ashton Shepherd's "Whiskey Won The Battle" out of obscurity and into Tom Ewing's World Cup Of 2008 competition coming up in March, and have already prepared my spontaneous retort for when the song gets eliminated early on:

"Tonight the ballot let me down!"

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The regular question - what REALLY obvious/huge 2008 things are we missing?
- The World ( Read more... )

So far The Voice in 2012 has produced no moments of genius to match Dia Frampton's "Heartless," though "Cinderella" is audacious enough to make me think there's a chance we'll get one. And I've found six standouts that are better than good (and I'm doing this all by YouTube, so my listening hasn't been all-inclusive). Here they are in no particular ( Read more... )

Near unanimous opinion online that Dia Frampton had a Cher Lloyd a-star-is-born moment several days ago on NBC's The Voice with her twisting and half wispy, half guttural version of Kanye West's "Heartless." It continues to grow for me the more I listen, her voice scooping into the soil and rising up to what I'll describe incongruously as a dark ( Read more... )