Ponytail. Giant white top. Huge gold hoop earrings. Green sunglasses. A beer bottle in one hand. Lily Allen dancing to Kasabian during Big Day Out…wow. Link via ONTD
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February 2007
I usually love all things Avril Lavigne, but I have been deeply disturbed over the new video of her single, “Girlfriend”. It’s like a perfect storm of awful–with acting so bad it could win a Razzie, outfits so bad they belong in the rubbish bin (knee high striped tube socks??? WHY???), moral/song theme so awful it could have been a Fergie song, AND A DANCE SEQUENCE??? AAAAAARRRRUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! Avril don’t dance!!! (Or shouldn’t be allowed to.)
There are, like, so many things wrong with this video and song I can’t even begin to list them. I just want to throw myself against the wall after watching this. I can’t figure out how something like this happened, it’s just so…mindnumbing.
It’s like the Pussycat Doll’s “Don’t Cha”, but without the sass and 10x as more childish. Why is she regressing by doing dumbed-down versions of Gwen Stefani dance songs? Avril don’t do happy and upbeat well, it just comes off as obnoxious.
Let’s take a look at some sample lyrics:
In a second you’ll be wrapped around my finger
‘Cause I can, cause I can do it better
There’s no other, so when’s it gonna sink in
She’s so stupid, what the hell were you thinking?
What??? This is like the theme song of romantically deranged tween girls everywhere. If you could have him wrapped around your finger in a second, why are you spending 3 minutes and 49 seconds telling me about it? JUST DO IT AND LEAVE ME ALONE!
When Avril is singing the song she looks like even she can’t believe this pile of crap she’s performing. She’s making bratty faces at the camera, almost as to say “yeah, I know, it’s totally obnoxious, eat it up you mindless bitches!”
I also have a problem w/ the continuity. Why is blonde Avril interacting with the dude? It’s dark-haired Avril that is the one in the song. Oh my god. I can’t believe I just spent time thinking about continuity in a music video. It’s that bad.
I much prefer vintage (and more somber) Avril like “My Happy Ending”:
Or the greatest Avril Lavigne video ever, “I’m With You”:
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I think we’ve all heard about the manga Lavigne is involved in, but here’s a preview.
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The movie is based on a poem found by Ridley’s daughter, Jordan, and stars Daria Werbowy in a revolving spread of roles
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The movie!
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All you kids have been buzzing in my ear about this, so here’s a post devoted to your whisperings: it has been rumored that Miss Karen Elson and Mister Jack White will have another addition to their family because Karen is pregnant again. According to Us Weekly, “They’re very happy and excited.” (Link from Anne.)
Does that mean little Scarlett will soon have a sibling to play with?
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1. Watching the new VH1 “reality television” show, The Agency–which focuses on the lives of the agents that make up the high-end men’s and women’s board of the Wilhelmina modeling agency.
A good portion of the first episode is comprised of talking about a teenage model named Chloe with loads of “potential”…except for the fact that is is “fat”. And by “fat” they mean “extremely skinny, but not skinny enough to see through you.”
2. An article about the incredible shrinking model in New York magazine. It talks about how all the super-skinny models coming out of Russia are disposable and will literally starve themselves just to escape the extreme poverty they were born into. Basically–their “meal ticket” is starving them to death.
3. The “fashion week food diary” of Anne Slowey, Fashion-News Director and Accessories Editor of Elle magazine. Over the course of 3 days, the net total of actual “food” eaten equals: Milanese eggs, camembert cheese with crackers, three olives, vegetable soup, 2 Organic Food Bars, 2 ounces seviche, guacamole and chips, fennel salad, squash soup, one caviar potato tidbit, and two mini meat tidbits. THIS IS OVER 3 DAYS! I probably eat that amount in ONE DAY. The rest of what she consumes is alcohol, tea, Synergy Kombucha drinks, and water.
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Kirsten and her new man friend, Drew’s ex Fabrizio, were spotted leaving Teddy’s in LA this week.
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Gary Lightbody’s band is the butt of many jokes. But why Snow Patrol, and not The Feeling, Keane or, heck, Razorlight?
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I think Bloc Party might have a chance of breaking the US is that they’re one of the few British bands who still deal with emotion. Songs about lost love, teenage angst and being an eternal outsider. Sounds familiar? Emo is big business over in the States
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James Murphy is blogging for the Guardian UK music blog. Swweeeet
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Apparently starring in Kenneth Cole’s stupid RSVP cologne campaign isn’t enough. The American public has to smell Bon Jovi.
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Ikea announced Tuesday that it will start charging customers 5 cents for every plastic bag they use to carry their booty of Glasklar dishes and Bibbi Snurr blankets. Proceeds from the surcharge will go to an environmental conservation group.
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A fashion photographer and blogger sets out to document the wholly original street style of the playground set.
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Conde Nast gobbles up fashion photo-blographer Scott Schuman.
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That led a man in Sacramento, Calif., to develop a new strategy for fighting back: Take the most persistent callers to small claims court. He has already received about $6,100 in damages from the telemarketers — and set up a Web site to teach others how
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The Electric Slide slithered out of ’70s disco venues to global popularity. But choreographer Richard Silver says his creation has lost key steps in more recent representations. He’s considering a suit to protect the artistic integrity of his dance.
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The inventor of the “Electric Slide,” an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more importantly, examples of bad dancing.
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Lily Allen strikes again! It has just been announced that Lily will be designing a collection of “signature dresses and accessories” for British “high street” (aka– mass market) chain New Look. Her collection will hit stores in 312 of the stores in the UK, France, Dubai, and Belgium between Mar 9th.
To put this in context–I think designing for New Look is not as plumb of a job as it would be for UK retailers like Top Shop or even Swedish company H&M.
Lily is known of course for sporting dresses with sneaker and GIGANTIC hoop earings. I’m sure this will make thousands of girls clamoring to look like Lily very HAPPY.
RELATED LINKS: My review of Lily’s Webster Hall show this month.
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Nope, it’s not another reality television show. I haven’t put too much thought into this theory, but judging from a recent job listing for an Executive Editor at Rolling Stone in the New media department, it seems as though RS has ideas of a new website brewing. How do I figure this out? Well first off, check out the job responsibilities:
Responsibilities: Rolling Stone magazine seeks a digitally experienced Executive Editor to create a music discovery site that features new, emerging artists both signed and unsigned; and provide an opportunity for artists and music enthusiasts to interact with one another. Artists will be enabled to mobilize their fanbase, and consumers will be exposed to new talent. Responsibilities include developing, launching, and managing this new venture.
Hmmm…that kinda sounds like this other website I’ve been too–maybe you’ve heard of it–I think it’s called MySpace. Or what about Purevolume.com? But I’m guessing in the new RS venture, it will be more editorially driven–you know, like a…uh…blog? But with REAL reporting done by REAL editors with REAL words.
Or something…
Thoughts?
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As women battle to squeeze into ever tinier designer gear, Maire Bonheim investigates the allure of size zero.
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NYLON mag wants to exploit you and your super-hip looking band. You could end up on the cover of the magazine without having to pass anyone your CD at MisShapes
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On the House is our regular column written by the owners and operators of the great food and beverage establishments of New York. Today, your proprietor is Mr. David Chang of Momofuku and Momofuku Ssam Bar, the latter of which is getting reviewed by Frank
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In the most glowing review of 2007, Frank Bruni awards Momofuku Ssam Bar an extremely complimentary solid two stars:
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Kirsten Dunst with a medium entourage and most importantly, Fab Moretti, at the Stoned Crow.
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I just turned on my local NPR station, WNYC, tonight and I heard this awesome song that sounded like the Talking Heads on John Schaefer’s show “New Sounds”…but I had never heard it before. Not that I’m a Talking Heads connoisseur or anything, so it wasn’t a surprise I didn’t know it–but I just couldn’t believe that I’d never heard the song used in a TV commercial, movie, a hipster dance party, or MTV show… Here are some sample lyrics:
In the future everyone will have the same haircut and the same clothes
In the future everyone will be very fat from the starchy diet
In the future everyone will be very thin from not having enough to eat
In the future it will be next to impossible to tell girls from boys, even in bed
In the future men will be ‘super-masculine’ and women will be ‘ultra-feminine’
“What IS this song?,” I asked myself as I Googled “in the future there will be no religion or spiritualism”–which happened to be the lyric being sung at the time.
Low and behold–Talking Heads.net had the answer–it was a song called “In the Future” off a very rare album released by David Byrne called “Music for the Knees Plays” released in 1985 and described as being an album comprised of “a series of musical vignettes designed as ‘joints’ between longer scenes in a projected theatrical epic by Robert Wilson entitled The CIVIL WarS.”
The album was only released on vinyl and cassette, never released on CD. But that hasn’t stopped at least one person from digitizing it so that you too can enjoy this great, tongue-in-cheek song:
DOWNLOAD: “In the Future” by David Byrne
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