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.
Posts Tagged: video
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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.
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Apr 10
It’s so cold…
Here’s a great song for a rainy day, which it is where I’m writing from, both inside and out:
What’s up, 1999? I think I got this on a free sampler CD that came with an issue of Q.
5
Mar 10
Boom boom boom, let’s go back to my room
This was the other email in my inbox the other day:
from my friend CL. I’d never heard it before, but I feel kind of dirty now, like I need to go rinse the Venga Boys out of my mouth with some real New Order.
3
Mar 10
Tips on Seducing an Exploded Bed Frame
I woke up this morning some of the most wonderful things in my inbox. A photoshopped picture of my head into Destiny’s Child, and two great youtube videos. I’m going to share one with you today that I’m sure you would see sooner or later, but that I think you need to see sooner. I love Russia. I love 1976. I love shitty lip synching. Please, internet*, find something that combines them all.
Done and done. There’s not really much I can add to this via commentary, so just enjoy it.
*By internet, I of course mean “Hilly.”
