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Pointless Cover Songs (or more proof that I’m hopelessly retro)

By ~LS~ On June 20, 2009 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Music, Pop Culture

I just saw one of the trailers for the new Fame and obviously there’s a buzz about the quality of the remake. I have some hope for it since it has Debbie Allen, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelsey Grammer, and Charles S. Dutton in it. I just like the original Irene Cara song, and Erica Gimple’s version, corny as they comes off today. The new version sounds generic to me.

I already talked about Seether’s remake of Careless Whisper. Since I’m on vacation, I decided to make a pointless list of pointless cover songs. Note, I made this list prior to finding the Covers Project, which is actually a pretty decent website. So….

My Top Ten List of Pointless Cover Songs (in no particular order):

1. Anything by Britney Spears (goes without saying….)

2. Imagine by John Lennon, pointless cover by Perfect Circle

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Sweet Honey in the Rock and Some Political Thoughts

By ~LS~ On June 18, 2009 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Louisiana, Music, Politics, Race, YWCA

Sweet Honey in the Rock is one of my all-time favorite musical groups. I got to thinking about Sweet Honey the other day when I was donating my clothing and I wrote about the politics of second-hand clothing. In learning about what actually happens to donated clothes, I was left with a sick feeling about my own consumption and how easily I succumb to buying things. I regularly feel guilty about going to Wal-Mart despite full awareness of why shopping there is so utterly wrong. I haven’t reflected on this problem the way I used to in women’s studies classes — the hopeless, damned if you do, damned if you don’t feeling you get when your consciousness is raised about consumption. I don’t want to donate my clothing to exploitative rag-making multinational corporations. I don’t want to toss my clothes in a landfill, either. So the only [...]

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Twilight

By ~LS~ On October 24, 2008 · Add Comment · In Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Age, Movies, Music, Pop Culture

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Random Musings – Liz Phair

By ~LS~ On July 15, 2008 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Goals, Music, Threes

Three random musings:

1. I can’t believe it’s been fifteen years since Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville.” I’ve been listening to the CD a lot lately for some reason and then FLOW posted a brief commentary on its impact fifteen years later. I really loved this album, but I didn’t find it as much of a feminist anthem as might have. But it’s fifteenth anniversary re-release reminds me that back in ’93 I was busy listening to Indigo Girls and Melissa Ethridge. There was a brief spike in popularity for women musicians in the late 90s with the Lilith Fair crew, but today the scene for me is bleak. Maybe it’s that generation gap, again. So I asked Willow to name for me three contemporary women rockers. Here’s her list: Amy Lee, Avril Lavigne (which she says with a cringe), Hayley Williams (Paramore).

2. Although I had a myspace [...]

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Amy Winehouse’s Valerie

By ~LS~ On June 9, 2008 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Music, Pop Culture

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104 The X Redux

By ~LS~ On April 8, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Gender, Louisiana, Music, Pop Culture, Sexism

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Pointless Cover Songs (or more proof that I’m hopelessly retro)

Sweet Honey in the Rock and Some Political Thoughts

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