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The Five Types of '90s Pop Songs

By Dan Moore
Jan 31, 2014

I should begin here: During the actual '90s, I was much too busy listening to Japanese videogame soundtracks (educate yourself) to actually enjoy '90s pop music. My first-hand memories of most of it are hearing it in a car, at a skating rink, on somebody else's Discman, and shaking my...
Spotify Gift Cards are Stupid: What to Give to The Music Fan Who Already Has Nothing

By Dan Moore
Dec 20, 2013

Deep inside Spotify headquarters, at this very moment, some poor marketing team is tasked with the idea of making Spotify gift accounts sound like a good idea for a Christmas present. I know this because I am too cheap to pay to make the Spotify ads go away. So far...
The NSYNC Reunion Will Probably Happen, Even Though No One Cares About the Music

By Dan Moore
Aug 22, 2013

NSYNC reunion talk has dominated music news this week, because everybody in America really, really misses the '90s, and despite a non-denial from Lance Bass it seems like there's still a good chance it actually happens, even if nobody at the VMAs was planning on it originally. (How could they...
Phil Ramone Made Crappy Music the Right Way

By Dan Moore
Apr 1, 2013

Phil Ramone, who died Saturday following an aneurysm, produced an astonishing number of albums it's not cool to enjoy. Wikipedia helpfully provides a category full of them. He was in on Rod Stewart's first pop standards album; he did the Sinead O'Connor album after the one Sinead O'Connor album; he...
Now Michelle Shocked Is On Yahoo! News, Because That's What Internet Outrage Does

By Dan Moore
Mar 29, 2013

The internet is a perfectly efficient outrage generator. People need things to be super-pissed about, so that they can express their social positions to their friends; they burn through that outrage in an orgy of vague, well-intentioned social media protest; they look for something else to be super-pissed about, having...

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