Yup. This site still "slaps" (haha) when it comes to film and TV reviews, but the music department has always been pretty dodgy. Dawes just cemented it.

Mad About You is my karaoke jam.

Yes, I know this also makes me old, but it really bugs me that music writers of all people would start insisting that you have to like this thing that everybody else likes - like awkward high-schoolers sucking up to the popular kids in some vain hope for acceptance. Bieber doesn't pay attention to you, so really, why…

"with the increased ability to find more specific music, the mainstream has contracted to a much more concentrated core, leaving music writers with (a) fewer common points of reference to cover that can attract a readership, and (b) a more active role in cultivating the idea that the mainstream is relevant and worth…

I'm with Mikosqz. The perfect response when a defensive poptimist accuses you of elitism is: "A critical stance where everything popular is good is as boring as a stance where everything popular is bad."

Good point. I suppose for the rest of the world, the 80s is not remembered as an era of 'choco-bliss'. Would be interesting contrast this with a video montage of the 80s in Europe or Africa.

I'm hoping they wisely kept him out of the trailer. His cameo in the first one was priceless because it was so unexpected, but also so, so right.

I was hoping it was Demi Moore in real life.

But sadly, this is how a lot of runaway or homeless youth survive - either sleeping on trains or 'survival sex'. It's especially common among LGBT youth who get kicked out of or otherwise have to leave home.

Agreed, unless the makeup is intentionally artificial as some sort of artistic statement. A straight retelling of Othello should cast a passably "Moorish" actor, but if Anthony Hopkins wants to wear blackface, he might as well put on a dress and play Desdemona too (which would, ironically, be more historically…

It really is. "a white guy making fun of my dad" exactly sums up why we second generation assimilated kids are still so angry about this. You want to make fun of me, I can take it, but mock my parents and you can eat a dick.

Yup. Utterly delightful.

I Missed Again is blue-eyed soul at its finest.

Okay, basic math. The population of the U.S. is 320 million, of which 60% are white. That means—if we have a low opinion of white Americans—there are 192 million - let's say 200 million people - that might find reductive racist shit funny. Movies like Transformers, however, are not just for American audiences - they…

His turn as the racist fruit-seller on FOTC was great. I was hoping this article would have a link, but guess I'll have to provide it myself:

Seriously, there will always be a place in my heart for "the thinkin' gal's crumpet" - as he was described by the British music press so many years ago - but he's really got to cut down on the lager.

"either brilliant or insipid"

Oh, and "So Into You" is a great choice for a cover. One of the better covers AVC has put up in a while!

Throughout this article, I kept wondering "isn't this Iggy Azalea?" and why does Iggy Azalea even exist when there was already Kreayshawn and Azalea Banks? What kind of evil hive-mind is creating all these hacky caricatures in hip hop these days?

They did have my hair, which makes me wonder about my hairstyle now…