You can find anything out on the internet these days. Anything. And when one is investigating an act one is unfamilar with it’s good practice to check out Wikipedia, wait 11 minutes for the artist’s MySpace page to load, and so on.
For once, with Bertie Blackman, I’m not going to do that. I’m going to wait and see if the information comes to me. I’ll pretend this is a fun “experiment” rather than a symptom of my laziness. Do you know anything about Bertie Blackman? Leave information in the comments.
All I know, thanks to YouTube’s geographical info, is that she’s considerably more popular in one country than any other:
Her – yes HER, OMG WEIRD, RIGHT? – song “Thump” is an urgent, immediate, quiet-loud, um, thump in the synapses. I loves it, I do.
There are a couple of remixes here, too. Not as good as the original though, which seems a novel happening these days.
Bobby Brown appeared on VH1′s Behind The Music last week. If you’re looking for a detailed breakdown of his and Whitney’s daily drug intake you’ll be disappointed, but it does have its highlights.
I think mine is when Bobby says that at the peak of his fame he would find himself on a tour bus, see someone driving a car he liked the look
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Stuart Waterman on
Monday September 28th, 2009 at
8:30 am
This has been said elsewhere plenty recently, but John Hughes’ untimely recent clog-popping reminded us that, without the killer soundtracks, his movies wouldn’t have been quite so fondly remembered. While Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson are among the first things I think of when I hear The Breakfast Club mentioned, so is “Don’t You Forget About Me”.
Watching the marvellous Adventurelandat the weekend I was struck at how worthy it is of joining the pantheon of Great, Funny, Sweet Teen Movies With Amazing Soundtracks. Is Kristen Stewart going to be thought of as the new Molly Ringwald? She’s certainly angsty enough, if, perhaps, a tad too pretty.
Anyway, the Adventureland soundtrack is helped by the fact that the film is set in the 80s and that the kids like smoking dope to forget their lousy jobs and dysfunctional families. They drive around feeling tortured and listening to Lou Reed, David Bowie, The Replacements and Husker
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Stuart Waterman on
Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at
8:30 am
The dancefloor is traditionally a place of joy, somewhere we can all forget the stresses and strains of everyday life by flailing our limbs rhythmically alongside friends and/or people we are keen to sex on.
However, over the years numerous pop songs have detailed disturbing events to have taken place on the dancefloor. Arson, indecent exposure – even bloody murder – have all occurred, calling into question the security arrangements at the nitespots in question and almost certainly ruining many people’s nights out.
These are the top five lyrical crimes committed on the dancefloor.
That Louise Doherty went along to see that rapper Example the other night. Here she talk:
I swore I’d never go to another Example gig after the last time, when the man himself called me an idiot.
I’m certain there are many things I’ve done which deserve that charming accolade, but going to a gig on my own because I’m a long-time proponent of Example’s particularly unique brand of dysfunctional electro pop – while my friends aren’t (yet) – is not one of them.
The incident filled me with fury and resentment:
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Stuart Waterman on
Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at
8:30 am
You might need to be “of a certain age” to recall Shanice’s “I Love Your Smile”. If you’re not that age, this is it:
“Psych”.
Well, while you might assume Shanice fell down the same pop/R&B plughole as Ralph Tresvant, Urlesque recently revealed that she’s still going. Even if “still going” in this case means “uploading videos of herself singing in her living room to YouTube”.
Here she is doing Christina’s “Beautiful”. Warning – it may start understated, but some severe wailing soon follows:
Comfy-looking sofa, isn’t it? Mine’s PVC
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Stuart Waterman on
Monday September 7th, 2009 at
8:30 am
