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scrdchao

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August 12, 2006
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How come my posts keep cutting off?

Brad

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I have no idea why that keeps happening, but that is an extremely beautiful river.

Posted over 2 years ago
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very strange...are you adding any strange formattting?

Posted over 2 years ago
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scrdchao says:

none at all

Posted over 2 years ago
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Other Tags: Xtina

OK OK- I know . But I have my reasons. . First of all, she has one heck of an instrument . Vocally , her range and breath control are amazing . Also, as a young Latina with very little formal education and a lot of cultural capital, she occupies a very unique position in American culture . Especially because she insists on using that capital to make the records she wants .

Her label didn't want to release Stripped (the last album) but she said it was her clearest expression of her ideas and what she , as an artist need to talk about. . She wanted to talk to women about harnessing their power - whether it be sexually , or in accepting one's body , or mentoring each other.

On   this  new  album  she  says she was  channeling Ella Fitagerald and Billie Holliday -  that she   wanted  to  bring glamour   back  to  the music business.
Sure ,  it's easy  to  say  she's  a corporate tool  and it's just hype -  but is that just  another way of  marginalizing her  because she's  female and undereducated? Green Day is also on a major label-  if Billie Joe Armstrong made a statement  concerning what  his  album meant to  him -  would he be dismissed so  automatically?  Just a thought .

Brad

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I have to say: first reaction to her new album being a double album... impressed. Not sure why. Ambition on this level always impresses me on a gut level, before I get a chance to think about it.

I am not sure I have ever liked Christina but I'm not afraid to check it out and see. That being said: not at all a fan of "SexyBack" by JT. Maybe the rest of the album stands it up.

Posted over 2 years ago
Artist: Album: American Edit
Other Tags: mashup

Somebody hipped me to Dean Gray/American Edit.... I haven't had that kind of immediate Wow!! reaction since I discovered Astral Weeks. Problem is, I'm trying to buy it - and I can't find it available for purchase . It's amazing. Mashups - a lot of it using Green Day , but including things like speeches , commercials TV show jingles all in the mix. Also he manages to mash 6 or 7 songs , creating bridges with them. As someone qho does some sound design - this is impossible stuff. Right now American Jesus and Novocaine Rhapsody (yes , he riffis off of Queen) are my favorites out of what my friend played me . I'd say run out and buy it - except ya can't. :( Grrr.

Ohh,  by the way , I'm new here .  

Brad

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Tyler says:

2 things:

1) Now i want that....helluv hard. I'll try and track it down so i too can feel that magical music tingle

2) WELCOME!!!

Posted over 2 years ago
Anonymous says:

Welcome to MOG!!

Posted over 2 years ago
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scrdchao says:

Thanks guys . I feel all warm and mushy and loved now.

Posted over 2 years ago
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