Tag: Perez Hilton
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Pavlov’s Pop – Is Pop Music Brainwashing You?
Pop music – does it really exist? I mean of course it does, but as something that is popular, in the way that you choose it? It seems increasingly you don’t – like in Russia the pop chooses you, through incessant repetition. The video from PBS’s Idea Channel above and this article describes it as…
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Faux outrage in the age of celebrity
As Jack Gleeson points out in this video from his talk at Oxford Union, it’s slightly ironic to post a video critiquing celebrity by someone who was asked to talk because of same – but as others have pointed out the popular Game of Thrones actor has decided to step away from the limelight and…
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Miley vs Sinead – the mashup
Been watching the war of words between Sinead O’Connor and Miley Cyrus…it’s all very sad but not mentioned it here as it’s all kind of ONTD/TMZ/Perez Hilton territory. Have to say though I’m Team Sinead after Miley’s tweet about Sinead and the Pope picture on SNL and comments about mental illness…I suspect Miley is just…
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Madonna Has A Kiki – Official video!
Original mashup if you’ve been under a rock or hiding from the Belize authorities, is by Captain Obvious (aka me) and it’s been a long time coming (especially after Scissor Sisters and then Perez Hilton loved it) but here’s the official video from Instamatic (also aka me). Yes it’s confusing having all these aliases, but it makes…
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Madonna Has a Kiki…all over the interwebs
This is gonna be a squeee-filled post and mega namedroppy, but really I don’t care – if one of your favourite bands and one of the best pop bands of all time likes one of my mashups, then girl, I am gonna SQUEE like a bitch. Yes on Friday, while I was travelling to deepest…
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Black mirror / being an asshole
Not a massive fan of Tegan and Sara and their folkiness and had mixed views about the whole Tyler vs Tegan controversy, but after watching the second episode of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror this quote from the recent Stereogum interview struck a chord: Tegan said something recently that really hit home with me. She said…