pop snippets

First the fashion chain Zara, now army barracks? It’s so hard not to be conspiratorial. Perhaps this is all prophesying the rise of an army of fascist fashionistas, who distract us with handbags and mesmerize us with falling hemlines as civilizations are razed in our name?

Oh wait. Never mind.

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I’m watching Fox’s Don’t Forget the Lyrics. There is a black minister from Topeka, Kansas singing karaoke-ing The Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar.”

Something is very wrong with this. It’s difficult to be sure. But I am reminded of sitting in my tiny study in my old Flatbush apartment. Looking out the window, I see a squirrel perched on a fence post, chowing down on a chicken wing.

A chill goes through me. Oh Wayne.

Dan DeLuca has a great article in the Philadephia Inquirer, on the dominance of the revenge narrative in pop music by women.

The cultural predominance of the female revenge narrative came up continually in my class on women and pop last semester, and it seems to be a trend that emerges every few years or so– enough that it might be time to think about when the theme makes it big comebacks, over and beyond its status as a trend.

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Gee, you never know where clicking will lead you. Somehow, our Easter morning clicking at the PD household led us to Sanjaya Malakar’s sister’s myspace page.

Sigh. No comment.

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You should check out this video, which is Alanis Morrisette’s remake of Fergie’s/The Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps.” I’ve also included the original video, in case you are one of the few people who have never ever heard the original.

The videos are after the jump, and you should also check out the comments on YouTube and Racialicious, which has also posted the video.

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Let me know what you do with the video at the end of this post. I picked up over at Heavy (I work so hard for you!).

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