It's pretty basic visual language. We see a tight shot of Don's face, a smile, and the ad appears. It's presumptive to interpret it any other way, really.
Her antics always felt somewhat post-modern to me, like she was just going through the formality of a child star being discomfortingly sexualized with a wink. Either way I enjoyed how much it seemed to piss the right people off; people who would have no hesitation objectifying her if she wasn't in on the act.
She does a really nice job of singing under two voices that definitely aren't a natural match for her usual lead vocals.
I've been playing "Fool for Love" on repeat for two weeks now:
"Turn around. Go home."
This felt like an absurdist short film laid on top of the Children's Hospital backdrop, wouldn't be surprised if it was an old script someone slightly rewrote to better suit the characters. Anyway, really charming and superb direction.
The candid shots of the music sheet are an awesome little peek into the process as they literally just write out 1111 4444 1151 or whatever for the chord changes. Gotta love the no bullshit approach to country music songwriting.
Remember it in the context of her being in awe of living in a NYC penthouse. Don was gracious for the attention because he got to see himself through the eyes of a young girl with her whole life ahead of her and not those of a cynical realtor who recognizes how empty his apartment and by extension his life really is.
Well for a brief time there, I'd make the case that Fallon had one of the best writing staffs in late night (excluding Colbert Report), producing wonderfully weird bits that would have been right at home in Letterman or Conan's heydays - Wheel of Carpet Samples, 7th Floor West. Over time, he just settled into doing…
People concerned about totally unrelated people's "professionalism" always seems weird to me. Do you honestly care? Or do you just feel like you should care? Because you absolutely shouldn't.
I think he just wants to shut down any member of his staff taking shots at the quality of another late night show, cause, y'know, that shit's quickly gonna come back on him.
The remotes that are closeted product placements work really well because the people he's playing off have to be straight men to maintain the "dignity" of their brand. Watching a grown man forced to indulge another grown man listing off a doll's food allergies is fucking hysterical.
He was on Stax (or technically Volt). Atlantic just did their distribution. And Stax had an unreal arsenal of songwriting talent at that time.
This is why James Carr always edges out Otis for me as the greatest southern soul singer and You Got My Mind Messed up as the greatest southern soul album. He would take unknown material like "Dark End of the Street" and make it a standard. It was pretty rare for him to retread over something that was already a hit.
Nice, I wanted to go with Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, until I checked and saw their first album was released in 2010.
Arctic Monkeys
Black Keys
Constantines
Drive-By Truckers
Elbow
Fleet Foxes
Greenhornes
The Hold Steady
International Noise Conspiracy
Jayhawks
King Khan & The Shrines/BBQ Show
Lucero
Magnolia Electric Co.
National
Old '97s
Pack A.D.
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Sloan
Titus Andronicus
The Unicorns (I got nothing else)
Visqueen
White…
Kids these days just don't have the hard knocks life experience needed to play the existential dread of Donnie Darko.
I don't get why everyone's passively going along with this "twitter is a place to work out jokes" mentality. It's a much bigger audience than you're going to get stumbling through half a bit out in a club. Millions of people may well read your words, some are going to inevitably be offended. Either own it and defend…
This article is sorely missing The (Fabulous) Wailers, who were the first and in my opinion just barely edge out The Sonics as the best in that initial wave of Northwest garage bands. They recorded "Louie Louie" years before either The Kingsmen or Paul Revere and The Raiders got their hands on it. Best known track is…