Notes on watching videos as background whilst working:
My God, the women really do look like whores. There's one video at present in which 3 unlikely looking herberts in crap tshirts are surrounded by anything up to 50 women who are either deeply tanned or are Caribbean, all wearing the skimpiest bikinis possible, girating, covered in glistening oils whilst the ugly blokes do this Jamaican style riff rapping over the top. It's so incongruous it looks perverse.
Eminem's new soul scouring single suffers from being executed within a very boring production genre. It's a shame because the guy's matured in to such an honest artist - here he is ripping himself apart about his failures as a father and husband when there must be millions of blokes who are far more useless than he is. Sort it out, boy! More angry political songs from you in future please.
The Streets new single! Well. he's beginning to sound a little too grown up to be using "street grammar" in the way he does. "When you wasn't famous" jars watching an obviously older, more confident, richer guy typing a "get me out of here, chauffeur" message in to his glammy mobile from a drug rehabilitation centre! Nice to see he still has the worst clothes sense I've seen since jarvis Cocker's quite unbearable taste in shoes. Some things don't change. But, regardless of the song's limitations, it retains his open honesty and chirpy, articulate demeanor. Most astonishingly, it was relatively decently produced! This is a singular step forward, given that the first two fantastic albums were nevertheless two of the worst produced records I've ever heard. The killer is that it's so catchy, once you've heard it, the chorus just can't help but be stuck in your head. Fair play. But then I'm a fan so my critical judgement is a bit lax in that dept.
Kanye west is overrated, but memorable and handsome, in a friendly, sideburnsy kind of way. Black Eye Peas are awful, and weirdly, the girl singer (whose management must be grooming her for solo singles / a career, a la Gwen Stefani) looks so much like a younger version of my friend Cherie it's a bit weird. Meanwhile, Gwen Stefani's stylists are obsessed with the fact that she has a washboard stomach in her mid-thirties.
Fed up with hearing identikit bands wearing tight black jeans and bad dark jackets being oh so fucking radical with their guitar playing. I mean bless them, but how many sub-Pulp-with-added-slight-gothic-punk bands can one person listen to?
Oh and Madonna with her flicky haircut looks uncannily like Camille Paglia (dressed in bizarre gymnastics/disco gear). That's about as freakily meta as anyone could want, innit.