I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again, but Devo’s cover of Satisfaction is the truest version of that song for me. Mothersbaugh sounds like someone who genuinely can’t get no satisfaction, and the coiled-spring tightness of their version encapsulates a feeling of barely controlled lust/mania in a way…

Then don’t follow Jemele Hill’s personal twitter. No one’s forcing you to listen to what she says on her down time.

Well Jemele Hill is, before she was an employee at ESPN, a human being with her own values.

Why should a fing sports game host a patriotic exhibition beforehand? The hell is the point of that?

Effectively Silencing Political Notions

And she is speaking on a personal Twitter profile. Why should they suspend her for having personal opinions?

I honestly wonder how much of ESPN’s recent actions against Jemele Hill are partially motivated by ESPN trying to undercut the MESPN/too liberal narrative that some anti-ESPN conservative outlets (Clay Travis, FS1) are pushing.

take a hike, lenny kravitz!

You want to pretend that the people who deliver your sport highlight packages are vacuous robots who don’t have opinions of their own and won’t use their personal social media accounts to share their opinions? Cool shit.

Two week vacay in October? Nice!

The answer is “pathetic jingoistic displays before sporting events”.

Money. Can’t believe you still haven’t figured it out, Mayweather.

When I was a kid, I used to wonder, “What does ESPN stand for?”

The finances around Hound Dog certainly smack of cultural appropriation and racism considering how little Thornton ultimately got in royalties, but the song is a Lieber/Stoller tune. A piece written for an African American woman, from the point of view of a woman, by two Jewish men, made culturally immortal by a white…

This is very true. It’s why “best albums” lists pretty much all cap off about ‘65 or later.

...Lady Gaga’s partnership with Tony Bennett on their 2014 album of Great American Songbook standards...

Weird Al and Michael Bolton?

If you look at a lot of albums pre-mid/late 1960s, it seems like a lot of them are mostly covers. Plenty of artists played standards or covered the same blues/R&B/folk/country songs over and over again(mixed in with their own songs). I’ve got plenty of 50s or 60s albums where they have a couple original singles on it…

Now I heard there was a brand new book.
Padgett wrote so I’ll take a look,
But you don’t care for cover music, do ya?
Buckley’s was great, and Cale’s from Shrek
But all the rest are fucking dreck.
‘Cause every asshole on the Voice sings “Hallelujah.”

Yeah, I kind of had mixed feeling about that. I assume he chose the song because it combined a Petty tribute and a message of strength to the Vegas victims, but the “gonna stand my ground” line made my skin crawl.