(Thanks again to Caitlin, who somehow finds the best stuff)
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May 10
Everytime I make a run, Girl, you turn around and cry
This song makes me cry every. single. goddamn time I hear it:
Including today. Once my friend Stephanie and I tried to karaoke it, but we had to stop and apologize for being too white. Wyclef Jean, an undersung genius.
04
May 10
There’s nothing not to love about me
Oh, Happy Day! There’s a new Beyoncé video! Check out “Why Don’t You Love Me”:
Things that I love:
- She’s parodying/inhabiting the role of post-war (up through 1970s) housewife, one that we usually seen in the context of being oh-so-very-white.
- It was filmed with a vintagey/Super 8 kind of feel, which somehow contributes to Beyoncé’s even-more-than-usual face-melting hotness.
- This video is ostensibly about a man who wronged/is wronging her, but there are no men in the video. And let’s be honest here, who needs men when we have so much hot Beyoncé to look at?
- That funktastic driving bassline and percussion, combined with the lyrics (“I got beauty, I got class, I got style, and I got ass /And you don’t even care to care”; “There’s nothing not to love about me”) make this a pretty decent “You wronged me and I am ANGRY” anthem, though I’d like to see a little more tooth. “Good Luck” by the Basement Jaxx, you’ve almost got some competition.
- She feather-dusts her Grammys. Yeah, that’s right.
- Did I mention her runny eye makeup? While drinking those giant fucking martinis? Sweet Jesus, that pot roast isn’t the only thing that’s on fire.
03
May 10
The 2010 Whitney Biennial, Part 2
Continuing from Part 1, here’s Part 2: Continue reading →
