“Paid My Dues”? To The Mickey Mouse Club?

Thanks to Luke, for fowarding this explanation, straight from Nelly himself about the double r thing, which found from the Popbitch newsletter:

>> The double rr explanation <<

It is verry simple

Christina Aguilera on the other hand is from

Staten Island, New York. The reason her new

single is called Dirrty is because she’s a

bandwagon-jumping little ex-Mouseketeer wannabe.

I finally got to hear the song – it sounds like Dangerous-era Michael Jackson, which is pretty good, but not particularly amazing. A lot of people are saying that Usher and Justin Timberlake are trying to sound like Michael Jackson, but I think they are just tapping into his spirit, whereas this actually sounds like something he’d actually record. She sings that she’s “sweating til (her) clothes come off”, which is another nod to Nelly’s “Hot In Herre”, but also suggests that she must sweat ALL. THE. TIME. It must have been realllllllly hot at the MTV awards…

Get Your Hair Did

A note to my ILM-posting, indie-loathing, Missy-worshipping readers: I’ve come to like “Work It” more since last week. It doesn’t seem quite so shambling anymore, and it’s got a few pretty funny lyrics in there, too. I can’t really imagine people dancing to this with any kind of grace, it seems more like headphone music to my ears. Not really a problem at all, though.

Plug:

Cameron Stewart, a person I’m very proud to call a friendly acquaintance of mine, has a lovely new website, with lots of nice drawings to see. Go look at it, and make sure you check out the Royal Tenenbaums drawing in the sketchbook section.

A Note To Paul Cox:

I imagine that between 1975 and 1990, there were thousands upon thousands of songs from around the world recorded for 7″ records and self-released cassettes that deserve to be heard by larger audiences for the first time. The real obstacle is the actual collecting of the material. How thrilling it would be to undertake such a task; combing the singles racks of small record stores all around the world hoping to find those special, unheard releases.

Paul, you don’t need to. You should check out Hyped2Death’s compilation series covering obscure DIY from the late 70s-80s. This guy is way ahead of you. I’ve found quite a few great songs from buying a bunch of those Homework compilations, in particular.