Thank you. She's so totally underwhelming.

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And this my friends is why you never want to become popular with hipsters. Once you become popular amongst the unwashed masses, the hipsters will turn on you.

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With all due respect to MIA, there are 4 million births in the U.S. each year. 75% of these women work. So, I think MIA looked great, and "rocked it", etc. - but let's face it - that is her job, and there are millions of women out there doing theirs for a lot less pay, TV time, and hair & makeup staff.

She had to show up for one night and do a performance for a few minutes. Plenty of us did 8-hour days, plus a commute, and listened to our bosses whine "how long until you think you would be available by phone?" until the contractions started.

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40 weeks in 9 1/4 months.

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Thanks, we're having a boy.

Also, sure it's her job, but dancing about on stage while shouting out lyrics on your due date is not something anyone in any movement oriented profession tends to do and to do well. That is most likely why you do not see many knocked up Sugarplum Fairies prancing about.

And no matter the math of it all (and we can also throw in that it's all an estimate, etc...), at that point in time, it feels like a lot of weeks and all the fun stuff is over.

I merely pointing out, that the woman is WAY pregnant and she did a great job, not to discount at all the millions of women who have also been pregnant.

And yes, there are still pudding pops...mmmm, but also make some pudding and stick in the freezer. Good stuff, too and highly recommended in a pinch!

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@FreddieBietzsche: And that six-week-long no-pokey-pokey period after birth feels like 10 months to us! So we're even. [ducking and running]

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Jonas Brothers are underrated. Grossly overexposed by their megaconglomerate label and ridiculously popular with an insane and annoying fanbase...yes, all those things. but also underrated and unfairly shat upon.

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It's like going on a date with someone and their parents are with them. It's like, "Uh...are we ever gonna be alone?"

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I feel much like your parent metaphor while looking at the looming cloud of pretension and "I'm not branded" branding hovering over other bands that have less visible marketing puppeteers (but have them all the same - because everyone does.)

"They become precisely that hype." OMG. I am rolling.

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Plus they're basically post-emo and people hate that. I'm trying to be logical here, not hating.

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But for the record I do happen to think MIA is a HUGE gimmick with nothing underneath. You don't need corporate direction to learn how to be a gimmick as a means to success. (Julia Allison, Ann Coulter,etc.) Everyone's under the thumb of self-promotion these days.

I have no idea what you mean by post-emo or why it is bad...through no fault of anyone but myself. I sort of missed emo by virtue of my advanced age (29), LOL, and do not like it. I don't care about scenes and I like what I like (even if they are on a Disney label and do lots of embarrassing things that bear ignoring), so I don't have that baggage I guess, but the scene-pack-mentality drives me nuts, as do baseless arguments about authenticity. I find this distasteful, and so I argue. But your response was very understanding, LOL.

If "real rock and roll" is a fullterm pregnant lady in a bodystocking lipsyncing the same line 50 times, not the people actually playing instruments and singing, by virtue of their chosen marketing techniques, it's just not a groupthink I'll be joining in on.

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