Another Year In America June 25, 2009

While "Boom Boom Pow"'s electro strangeness holds its grip on the top spot, an electro-hip-hop sk8er crossover genre crashes the Top 40 for the first time. Holy flash, the new is actually new, even if it cops moves from old futurism.

( New Boyz )

( Billy Currington )

Cool Jerks

Jadakiss discovers the Jerk, is impressed.

How to jerk instructional videos are here.

Here's "We Jerkin":

Watch on YouTube

( Here it is on Dailymotion if Britain blocks the YouTube )

Michael Jackson

I posted this over on my MySpace while waiting for livejournal to finish maintenance:

He had multiple directions left for his music, if he'd wanted. A spectacular voice that he often kept puritanically spare. I'd have liked to hear him in settings by Ryan Leslie (spare meets spare) or The-Dream (spectacular meets lush and rough). Also wondered if his lyrics would say more about his consuming terror. Terror and a dazzling voice. And maybe he'd have found an interviewer to open up to; his lyrics showed insights into his torments, even if he came across as desperately naive. And of course his story will forever be shadowed by the child molestation charges, and the widespread assumption he was crazy. Maybe it was just terror, a brilliant perfectionist adrift.

(I've listed "Smooth Criminal" as the music for this post, thinking of the repeated line "Annie are you OK, are you OK Annie?" fading out as Annie fades out.)