It is hilarious that Guy Gardner and Judge Dredd are supposed to be Americans

thecallus:

Hipster social justice types complain about a lack of minorities on the shows they watch while refusing to watch the shows with the most minorities on the teevee: pro sports

America! Where we make helicopters of our native tribes and dollar coins of our feminist heroes! America!

naasirheydari:

al-Latif: the one who saves you in the subtlest of ways such that you don’t even realize you were in danger. 

Been thinking about songs, and categories of songs. Not quite genres, but categories that cut across genres. Like yeah, “love song” is a staple of crooner, R&B, and torch genres, but at the same time hard rockers do power ballads and gangsta rappers do slow jams. And in fact they’re kind of given a pass to cut directly against their usual image and output style there specifically because of the recognized crosscutting category.

Christmas songs. That’s an interesting one, it’s kind of the granddaddy of novelty music, people put out whole Christmas albums. Of course there’s an economic incentive, if you make it into the canon (last done by Mariah Carey I think) it’s basically royalties forever, and even if not well hey, come December even genre-specific distribution channels are expected to sprinkle in some - like, I know 0 other songs by The Waitresses.

Stripper songs - I hear the Atlanta strip clubs are a big part of breaking new rappers, but the hair rockers did a lot of songs for/about strippers too, and the nü metal/votechcore wave of the ’90s-2000s actually did this a lot better than their radio dirges.

The most marginal one of these categories I can think of is songs designed for a father/daughter dance at a wedding. Yet that still is an actual category, with hundreds of examples, even though I have no idea what the commercial angle would even be there.

bloodandhedonism:

Elvira, always reblog.

duranypie:

steveperrybootypop:

i replaced the audio in mick jagger and david bowie’s video for “dancing in the street” with the song “cotton eye joe”

i’ve spent like 3 hours of my saturday evening just laughing at this so it’s only fair to share it

Rednex was… Swedish? Okay I guess I buy it. It’s weird, the whole ‘90s Swedish-Belgian-German technoridiculousness. I was into happy hardcore so I saw a lot of influence from that, but America on average only really got that through this and maybe Aqua’s Barbie Girl*, which now that I think of it were taking iconic Americana as ornaments and I wonder if we even got the joke.

I mean hell though this isn’t too far off from actual Eurovision stuff that as far as I can tell is taken seriously, maybe they don’t get the joke either. Hell, maybe I don’t get the joke.

Well between Max Martin and The Matrix and Dr. Luke and whoever I guess our pop is fully NW European technoridiculized now too. And it’s amazing.

*oh I guess Vengaboys too

(I guess maybe that’s what happens to pop when you’ve burned through the idiom of folk authenticity and can’t switch to the backup reservoir marked “black people”?)

Porn is like written poetry: once limited by narrow transmisson channels, it embedded itself in other, narrative, genres and forms. But improved technology and changing mores briefly allowed for a flourishing popular industry before becoming so oversaturated that few people could make a living at it; now it’s basically taken as a given that everyone will create some at some point, mostly in their teenage student days.

spacetwinks:

final businessweek article is “top 10 things wrong with these millennials waving sledgehammers and mall katanas in the street, screaming at us, climbing the gates”

Did any of the Aerobooru/moe anthropomorphism guys ever make a FLIR-T(hermal) joke because that would be clever

I went in for a tetanus booster a few months ago and the nurse was like “did you get injured by rusty metal?” and I was like “no, just due” and she was like “wow, it’s rare that I see someone your age that on top of things” and I was like “…my mom told me to.”

scibot9000:

remember that song from last week’s episode of FiM? 

I thought pinkie’s vocal were perfectly cheesy for a hhc type tune

so I made this. I’m pretty happy with it, although I can’t think of a decent title

The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles is a modern FMV homage to Mad Dog McCree featuring Lloyd Kaufman and Wiley Wiggins.

What.

kanotynes:

I can’t believe he’s gone

westayedinthewater:

when do EDM kids evolve into juggalos

horse-evabooks:

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Paean to the golden years of fake Twitter-spambot poetry.