I love that the criticism of "Born This Way" (sort of like the criticism of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) matters not at all. The song is a huge hit and for good reason: it's fucking awesome.

I listened to it like ten times on the way home. Just kept hitting replay. It's not something I do often.

I don't understand why people hate on pop music. If ( Read more... )

I didn't really say anything about seeing Lady GaGa on Tuesday. I can't think of much that I didn't say the first time around. She's completely changed The Monster Ball and restructured it as a musical with a plot (Little Shop meets The Wizard of Oz with obvious Taboo-ness); my feelings about it are pretty much the same. Some parts were better the ( Read more... )

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I have to talk about Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro” video, right? I still haven’t decided what I think of it. I know a lot of people don’t like it. Katy Perry, for example, tweeted: " Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke." I am still not entirely sure she was being serious. I know Perry used to be a Christian ( Read more... )

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( I'm sick. Humor me. )

Natasha and I saw Lady GaGa at Radio City tonight. Everyone who goes to this concert comes out spouting hyperbole: “BEST. CONCERT. EVER.” “I am forever changed.” “Gaga chewed me up and spit me out.” Since I always talk like this, you have no legitimate reason to believe me when I say that this is the best thing I have ever, ever seen. So I will ( Read more... )

Lately I am obsessed with listening to artists talk about their "process." I think I used to think it cheapened it, but now I know that you can never totally trust what an artist says and even if they are being honest, their word is never the end-all be-all because art exists outside its creator ( Read more... )

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"I want it to be like 'Thriller' if 'Thriller' took place in a bathhouse and were directed by David LaChapelle. Oh, and all the zombies look like Leigh Bowery."

That was actually kind of an awesome episode of SNL. The monologue was weak sauce, so I was concerned (since Ryan Reynolds is totally funny), but that Family Feud sketch was one of the cleverest things SNL has done in recent memory. Digital Short was kind of meh, but Reynolds did a pretty great job and showed a lot of range with a slew of accents. ( Read more... )

( Live-Blog of the 2009 VMAs )

Perez Hilton tweeted this girl doing a beautiful acoustic cover of "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon, but I love this one even more:

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It's just so sad. In the very real way that dirty old whores are sad.