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“The contents of Unapologetic are effectively trolling the public. The incident between Rihanna and Brown, and the wider issue it represents, is being reduced to a series of shock-tactic soundbites (with a few lines neatly sampled from Michael Jackson’s ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’). It’s nobody’s business, they sing, but we’ll tell you all about it anyway, wind you up in the process, and get good publicity material from an issue as trifling as – oh – physical violence against a woman.

This also reveals how the internet often works in the most terrible way. In terms of online popularity, page hits are king. As a result, provocative subjects and statements that prompt instant reactions – and finger-clicks – take precedence. They form the bedrock of comment-board-driven editorial planning, in a world where comments themselves barely get moderated. Debates on weighty subjects on TV and radio are also now all about polarised positions. (As a sidenote, I was asked to be part of a debate about Madonna on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour last year, but was excused after talking to a researcher, because I didn’t simply love or hate Madonna.) This twisted, provocative logic, where extreme positions and statements are everything, is festering within our culture, and infecting it.”

A Sorry State: Pop Marketing & Rihanna’s Unapologetic.

If you are complaining about a banal pop song but can’t muster a more inventive way to express yourself than typing “OMFG BITCH YOU SUCK”, then you really ought to consider folding your laptop shut and sitting quietly in the corner until that fallow lifespan of yours eventually reaches its conclusion.

Charlie Brooker on the case of Internet vs. Rebecca Black @ The Guardian

La fin de la fin du monde

Calogero • L'Embellie

Calogero - La fin de la fin du monde (L’Embellie, 2009)

Esto no sé muy bien cómo categorizarlo (¿folk pop francés?) pero es un disco fenomenal para escuchar durante un día gris y moñancólico. Ahem.

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The Laughter

The Mary Onettes • The Mary Onettes

They talk about you, they talk about me.
Talking about we’ve done through the years.
Ask me about it I know what you feel.
I’ll hold this together for you.

Some things we do.
I know it’s a few, moments to keep in my heart for you.
You painted the picture the way that we are,
but they’ll never see it the way we do.

A constant pain, but a colorful pain
goes through our love and it’s always the same.
My lack of direction could be what you call
a freeway to anxiety.

We never do it the way that they’re doing it here.
We never say it the way that they’re saying it here.
We don’t share the laughter, we don’t share the laughter.

They talk about me, they talk about us.
Talking about we’ve done through the years.
Ask me about it I feel what you feel.
I’ll hold this together for you.

You brought me to life, you’ll bring me to death.
And right about the time we captured it all.

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