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WHAT A BIZARRO CLIP!

Is it just me or is this song absolutely effing ridiculous? While listening to this song for the bajillionth time on Hot 97 as I cleaned my house top to bottom, I wondered to myself "Where is the female response to this song?"

Remember the days when a lady or a girl-group would release a controversial song and subsequently a dude or a guy-group would drop a song in response? I miss that kind of tit-for-tat competitive oneupmanship, especially when it concerned a battle of the sexes and who can be more righteous.

Par exemple:


This song is amazing and the clip is so blatantly directed by Hype Williams. It's somehow a very dated look now, but at the time everyone and everything looked like a futuristic cyberpunk on the set of Hackers or something.

Also, TLC. Come on, TLC were so gooooood. I don't think such an all-girl pop group exists today. They were incredibly hot, sex positive ("Baby Baby Baby", "Red Light Special"), repped safe sex practices ("Waterfalls"), and had songs that ran the gamut from how hard it is to maintain a healthy female self image ("Unpretty") as well as how to ditch a loser dude who doesn't value you/leeches off you ("No Scrubs"). They were totally balls-out feminist and had major radio play and had videos in heavy rotation and were voted "hottest babes of the year" or something to that effect. Holy hell, where are my feminist pop queens of now! I'm getting beside myself...


Obviously, TLC won this round because who even remembers Sporty Theivz, but the concept is what I'm talking about! I want the response songs.

P.S. How great is the shot in this video where the dude is standing in the park covered in actual pigeons!!! Whaaaaaaaaaattttt thhhhheeeeeeee fffffffffffffff. I am a little shocked and bummed though, to espy someone who looks a lot like Eve hanging with Sporty Theivs at the end of the song. Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Can somebody confirm?

Maybe it's not a direct response to "Invented Sex", but I still like to think it's a way of evening out the playing field:

These lyrics are pure gold!

It's been a long time/Shouldn't have left U

Faithful blog readers (if you exist),
I am sorry for being so negligent. It's just that I've been simultaneously super busy/very boring and because of this I am tongue tied.

(Yes, that's right. It is a real thing to be tongue tied. I've learned this and many other things I never considered and never wanted to consider while sort of babysitting a very, very new baby the last few days. Parenting seems like an even scarier prospect than ever in the world of me. All the glamour of bebes and motherhood has faded for good.)

On a lighter note, do you remember That dog.? I loved them! I loved them so much! "Minneapolis" was one of the first songs I learned on the bass guitar.



Also, WHITNEY HOUSTON'S WEAVE!

Why don't music videos look like this anymore?

too good to not blog LIVE

me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLMHjiafRqs

how do you feel about this
i think that person has an ovenmit for a glove

lauren: haha
this dude looks like he just got off work, and i could do without all the heavy panting
there is something a little "silence of the lambs" about this
can someone play goodbye horses in the background?

DEATH BY STEREO

Nicely done.

nostalg-DEEZ NUTZ

P.S. We are going to see Built To Spill tonight.

(The link has nothing to do with nostalgia, or BTS.)

I was too freaked out to deal with it all/And too fucked up to care

I don't know why I slept on Mary Lou Lord for so long, but for the last two weeks I've been suffering serious bouts of nostalgia, and her music fits in to those cracks of memory perfectly. The changing of the seasons gets me every time. I think the fall, especially, carries the weight of all that is New England to me, old, musty, covered in sea spray, a damp misty morning fog, witchery and the smell of fires a burnin' ev'rywhere. It's the kind of thing that only those of us born within its 6 states can understand (the kind of thing that those begot in the mid-Atlantic region only pretend to understand.) It's in the blood.

I am really intrigued by Mary's history as a busker in London, Boston and elsewhere, and I've always read her name amongst Kill Rock Star's roster, and now listening to got no shadow on repeat I feel like I must make my pilgrimage back to Boston, a city I never lived in but might as well have considering the amount of time I spent (or wasted?) there as an adolescent.

Speaking of adolescents/adolescence, I am still wowing over Whip It! (Astute review here.) I want to be 17 years old again (NOT!!! I was a terror at 17, completely miserable, but kind of yeah, I still want to be 17.) Mostly Whip It! made me want to be part of a roving, ranting girlpack. I want a team of screaming banshees to fuck shit up with by my side at all times, just complete fierce, feral animals as bffs. I love rollerskating, but I fear getting hurt. I love extreme sports/Bad News Bears/Ladybugs-esque films. And I love this new spat of very fun, albeit imperfect, movies about girl adolescence, written, directed, and produced by womens.

And I love the new man candy starring as Juno's love interest in Whip It! SWOOOOOOOooooooooonnnnnNNN, What an elfin dreamsicle! Isn't it funny that he wrote the song that is used in this commercial? A friend of mine sings an excellent parody of this song that goes "I like cute girls, and puppies and kittens..." I would watch Whip It! again for many reasons, one of them being to stare that this hunk for another hour and 51 minutes.

And now to blow yr mind and bring this bloggy full circle:
Whip It! features a brief cameo by Har Mar Superstar, née Sean Tillman, also known as Sean Na Na, who released a split album with Mary Lou Lord a few years back featuring this song, a bonafide hit and perennial on 159 party mixes:


Sean Tillman, everybody, yesterday and today!




This is my mind on a potent cocktail of 12+ hours of sleep, coffee with soymilk and sparkling pomegranate and seltzer mix. Huzzah!