And, to be fair, the smacker in the video is female.
True. There's arguably some kind of subversion going on, but then woman-on-woman violence is no joke either. Never stopped them from playing it every week at my local lesbian bar.
Smack My Bitch Up has one of the most undeniable beats/hooks EVER. Proof being that I hate hate hate overly repetitive songs (Usher and JT, I'm looking at y'all) but it doesn't even ping me in that song.
Am I the only one disturbed by this thing's resemblance to Catherine Tate?
Am I bovvered? Yes.
Re: Janet Jackson, back when amyth and I were all up in the acafan shit, I was going to write a paper called "I'ma have you naked by the end of this song: Janet Jackson, a victim blamed."
I have no doubt that Kanye's race, age and music genre comparative to Taylor Swift's all factor into the hullaballoo.
"I'ma have you naked by the end of this song: Janet Jackson, a victim blamed."
I would read the hell out of that.
re: Pink's performance last night: she's so damn awesome. And that song is guaranteed to make me cry every damn time. I am such a sucker.
Smack My Bitch Up has one of the most undeniable beats/hooks EVER. Proof being that I hate hate hate overly repetitive songs (Usher and JT, I'm looking at y'all) but it doesn't even ping me in that song.
It's pretty catchy! I like the Fatboy Slim remix as well.
I have no doubt that Kanye's race, age and music genre comparative to Taylor Swift's all factor into the hullaballoo.
Really? Huh. I never saw it like that. I just saw Kanye being Kanye.
Well, most of the reaction I saw was the hilarious meme, so I don't know what you're referring to.
If he's a dick to Jay-Z or someone else adult/black/male, it's not even a story. Much less a Whole Thing.
then woman-on-woman violence is no joke either
Violence, period. It's not like it had me standing up and cheering, nor would I have if it had been a woman beating a man. Just that it's not a feminist issue, exactly, if it's not...or maybe it's still a feminist issue if it's a woman being beaten--it's just a different issue.
That having been said, it's a great song to hit shit to.
And that having been said, the Usher and JT I like, I really really like. But I don't have an extensive knowledge of either of their repertoires.
Not to confuse it with the JJ/JT debacle, but I think what Kanye did was, as my mother would say, showing his underpinnings outta doors. I think he deserves pretty much all the mocking and censure he gets. He's a cloddish buffoon, and I laugh that he yammered himself out of a Grammy invite. I just don't think that Taylor Swift deserves that much sympathy. She wasn't scarred.
I wish I could click on that Catherine Tate-ish link.
Thanks, Trudy.
I love Pink, too. I saw her crazy circus concert in Australia(well, on TV)
She is crazy-flexible...it's kind of fascinating. And, by fascinating,I kind of mean porn. Though I'm not usually into other blondes.ETA: Kanye totally acted like a dick, but they reported it like he puked on her then exposed himself, at which point I felt a little bad for him, despite the etiquette fail. When I actually saw it later, I was caught between "What a tool," and "That's it?!"(Not all that unusual for a Piven fan.)
