Yeah, but does it come with an NPR logo?

This reminds me of my father-in-law’s second wedding, when he married the woman he’d been having an affair with (well, one of the women, anyway).

It probably is ‘one’ of her kitchens.  A friend of mine is a fancy architect here in Los Angeles, and it’s common for rich people to have a show kitchen, the one that they cook in and host in, and the actual functional kitchen that their chef and caterers work in.

This is just another sad story of cops trying to profit off of innocent drivers that are fully-capable of jumping their cars and should not be hassled by “the man”. The fact that he crashed has nothing to do with this. Everyone makes mistakes.

Man, he plays up the sweet-dork bit, but Ben Folds is a D-O-G. He reminds me of a terrible ex.

WHY HAVEN’T I QUIT INSTAGRAM YET it continues to be the worrrrst.

It always makes me chuckle that one of the smarmiest, over used love songs, “The Luckiest,” was written by a man who subsequently left his wife for his yoga instructor.

I am a huge fan of Neil Young, and his songs really move me. But I can’t seem to reconcile my feelings with the fact that he left his wife of 36 years for Darryl (or for anyone). I know I don’t know the full story - I’m sure none of us do and it’s not our business - but I can’t believe that a man can write a song like…

Darryl Hannah and Neil Young aside, I am not looking forward to all of 2020’s “we got married after ten minutes and now we can’t stand each other” divorce drama. But Ariana Grande turned surviving the Manchester bombing into an interesting album, so maybe with a divorce under her belt she will become the first Disney…

Oh, I dunno. It’s not just that they’ve “been dating” since 2014, it’s that 2014 was the year he started having an affair with her and left his by-all-accounts-pretty-awesome wife of 36 years. So, nice that everyone’s happy and moving on, I guess, but it was kind of ugly there for a minute.

Neil left his wife of like a billion years for Darryl, so I find their story a little less charming. Though he is still one of the best sad-person musicians ever.

After a few bad starts, I made everybody call me Dr. for a few months at my job. It made me look like a total asshole, but also constantly reminded everybody that although I was younger than everybody in the room- and the only woman- I had the right to be there. Seven years in and my coworkers and I can joke about it,…

Not to sidetrack this with Garth Brooks...but are the writers ok with it? Are they being compensated properly?

A minute about the music business.

My son is in music school and one of his teachers is signed to a writing deal. Do you know they have “songwriting camps” for major artists like Garth Brooks and others? What…

Who does Lauryn Hill respect though? She lost a lawsuit and had to pay her musicians so her absolute dismissal of Glasper’s claims rings hollow at best, and a total lie if we’re being less generous. And she constantly treats her audiences like shit, cancelling shows, being unforgivably late and cutting out after a few…

I know Emmylou Harris, Bjorke, Loretta Lynn and Neko Case have had problems getting other musicians to listen to them. Were they lacking musical chops too? Hell, Barbara Mandrell had problems getting guys to listen to her and she is a writer/singer/producer who plays 6 instruments and started touring as a steel…

Ehhhhh--she does have talent. An absurd amount of it. She just has an abrasive personality and is difficult to work with. I get the need to be assertive, but you don’t get a pass for being an asshole just because you’re a woman and thus “need to be,” sorry. 

Is it really “whataboutism” to point out that the artist most famous for demanding writer credits on other people’s work is Garth Brooks and he does not seem to suffer the same consequences?  I am pointing out a double standard where a double standard exists.

I still don’t agree with this sentiment.

Aretha Franklin was notorious for being a controlling perfectionist.

As a woman in a predominantly and historically male field, I get it. Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones will always have respect before they enter the room. A black woman will have to earn that respect again and again and again.