If you are in or around your mid-twenties, this probably isn’t the first time you’ve felt the cold hands of classic-rockdom closing around your neck. (For me, it was seeing a Garden State DVD on the bargain shelf at an FYE. And then, right afterward, it was thinking, “Man, I…
There’s something fascinating and a little frightening about putting together a playlist for an event that is not you sitting in front of your computer in a bathrobe, refreshing Twitter. All the things you take for granted in the music you enjoy–the little background flourishes that charmed you once and…
Jessica Simpson’s TV show–that is, her new TV show, a sitcom set to air on NBC–is going to be about her life as a celebrity. You should immediately be able to spot the problem, here: Her life as a celebrity is already about her life as a celebrity. The first…
Destiny’s Child released their first major-label song on the soundtrack to Men in Black, which came out on CD, cassette, and MiniDisc; they became famous shortly before Monica Lewinsky. This is the kind of thing a pop star less secure than Beyonce wouldn’t want to draw attention toward, which is…
Pranks are never more effective than when a prankster finds the precise border between reality and absurdity and just barely steps over it. This week’s #CutForBieber trending topic–in which Justin Bieber fans were supposed to be cutting themselves in an attempt to force their ur-boyfriend off marijuana–was a perfectly executed…
Psy’s “Gangnam Style” is now the most-viewed YouTube video ever, which means it’s been watched more than 830 million times. That means that the single biggest pop culture event of 2012 — the video you’re most likely to talk about with your grandma at Christmas — was, as I predicted…
