OMG! On Sunday, M.I.A. posted da “truff” about that New York Times profile on the blinged-out N.E.E.T. blog. So what is the real truth behind Lynn Hirschberg’s article? Well, it’s not all that different than what Hirschberg wrote – just tossed up on a tacky, borderline-[...]
Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’
May 28th, 2010 - 2:10 am § in True/Slant
M.I.A.'s sloganeering: not quite Joe the Plumber
The word “terrorist” pops up seven times in Lynn Hirschberg’s New York Times profile of M.I.A. Within the context of the article, “terrorist” appeared to be something of a default word for M.I.A.: whereas others fill spaces in their sentences with “um” and &[...]
March 17th, 2010 - 11:18 pm § in True/Slant
R.I.P. Big Star's Alex Chilton
The New York Times‘ ArtsBeat blog has confirmed the death of Big Star singer and guitarist Alex Chilton: Alex Chilton, the mercurial if influential rock musician, whose work spanned an eclectic gamut from the soul songs of the Box Tops to the multiple incarnations of his pop band Big Star, has[...]
March 2nd, 2010 - 2:20 pm § in True/Slant
OK Go were right: 'This Too' did pass, new video embed-able
I knew OK Go cemented their names in the viral video history books when one of my professors said their video for “Here It Goes Again” was one of the big events in YouTube history. So, when their original video for “This Too Shall Pass” was blocked from blog embeds, I figured[...]
December 23rd, 2009 - 12:19 am § in True/Slant
The Decade In Emo
It was indeed “A Decade Under The Influence.” But while Taking Back Sunday could string together a few solid hits drenched in a post-hardcore milieu and cut with pop sensibilities, chances are no one in the band could have predicted how influential emo would become in the aughts. The presence of[...]
November 25th, 2009 - 5:50 pm § in True/Slant
ABC should thank Adam Lambert
A lot has been said about Adam Lambert’s performance on the American Music Awards Sunday night. With all the hubbub of his “racy” performance, what’s most surprising about the entire escapade and commentary in the days since the show is that there is commentary in the days fo[...]
September 25th, 2009 - 9:52 pm § in Perfect Lines
…And I'm All Out Of Bubblegum
Oh, the many wonders of Goggle: [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9005367754264973286#] With all the video sites out there, I tend to forget Google video exists, but they’ve got some great stuff. Like John Carpenter’s They Live, a fantastic cult movie that seems as in[...]
July 20th, 2009 - 12:53 am § in Perfect Lines
Scoop?
Well, I haven’t gotten out to Warped just yet, but even so, it seems that I got the jump on the New York Times with my piece on the whole scrunk thing for The Phoenix. Ok, perhaps that’s a huuuuuge overstatement, but Jon Caramanica did notice the combination of electronics and screamo a[...]
February 17th, 2009 - 11:50 pm § in Perfect Lines
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In a good-natured piece in one of the many blogs run by The New York Times entitled, “‘Emo Lincoln’ Gets the Flickr Treatment,” Noam Cohen and Robert Mackey point out how the the following photo of Abraham Lincoln is tagged with the words “emo” and “punkR[...]