My good friend Jon over at You Must Learn found this great video about what 9 year-olds thinks about the last 10 years of culture and current events [video after the jump].
These kids are adorable, smart, and damn lucky they never had to deal with dial up [using the house phone and the Internet at the same time because your family's cool enough to have 2 phone lines? I remember never wanting to leave the computer room] Like what you see? Tweet This Read more>>>
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Repeat (1) is a "feature" in the vein of my old 99 cents column. These are the songs that are stuck in my head and worth the 99 cents from iTunes
I watched Janet Jackson's performance at the American Music Awards and I have to say, I wasn't terribly impressed. I love, love, love Janet Jackson, but she seems a little tired. I'd like to believe it was just a bad night; Janet's still got it. Here's the video:
She got through a lot of her big hits [though Rhythm Nation was conspicuously absent]. When she got to the end, though, I remembered how much I loved "Together Again" from The Velvet Rope album. It's very 90s, very gay club, a la Crystal Waters. I think she ended with that song as a tribute to her brother. Since then, I've had that song stuck in my head.
This has to be one of the more ridiculous songs I've heard in recent memory. The lyrics are, unsurprisingly, terrible, and I refuse to believe that Beyonce is actually down with peddling amateur porn. Luckily, the video is quite a visual feast. I'm posting mostly because it looks like Beyonce loves retro things, too: note the Bettie Page wig, the 20s-inspired hat, and the classic Bond babe get up on the motorcycle.
A good friend once asked me, "Why is there nothing on your iPod that came out after '97?" I'm 21. Think that about sums it up.
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