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more about #popcultureaneurysm more comments → BadUncle: "Pensive??" It's fucking twee. Should be the official soundtrack for CuteOverload. more » BicycleShed: It just seems like so many of the comments are based on people's emotional attachment to the Postal Service. If you feel, for example, that the Posta... more » Perhaps Not: I'm usually a so-what-who-cares kinda guy when it comes to this stuff but this really is impressively rip-offy, moreso than that stupid Kanye song tha... more » lukeoneil47: This rule of thumb usually comes in handy for me most frequently over on i09, but it works here as well: Pointing out when things resemble other thin... more » Senor_Macho_Solo: The Postal Service had Jenny Lewis. Let's leave it there. more » ninety_nine: Postal Service? Isn't that the band that got popular by being on the Garden State soundtrack? #molehill Also: "When Nirvana moved to Geffen Records, ... more » Caius: Owl Cities sound like they went to the Avril Lavigne school of songwriting. more » MissNormaDesmond: Well, I think both of them should pretty much just forward any royalties they earn to Prefab Sprout, so where are my indignation buddies? more » NightElfMohawk: Oh god, I had no idea who sang that shit Fireflies song... now I do and this disturbs me. I heard the chorus as a co-worker's ringtone last week and ... more » RCrumbudgeon: While 1,000 lightning bugs are hugging this guy the other 9,000 are busy sharpening their knives. Unbelievable, this guy, shilling a tin can version o... more » Poop Cooper: Wow, this guy went from zero-to-backlash in 60 seconds. more » uncle_wiggly: This controversy is reminiscent of the whole Thomas Edison/George Westinghouse AC/DC war. more » koolaid: after a close analysis: yes, the structure and the orchestration of the songs are VERY similar. However, this is nothing new. It's happened with ever... more » Conchie Birdie: Overproduced is putting it lightly. Mr. Young's voice has nothing on Mr. Gibbard's. Also, he is naive to think he's a part of something other than one... more » OokieDookie: Oh great, now in 5-10 years Williamsburgers are going to call this band "misunderstood," and Girl Talk will make a critically beloved remix. I can't ... more » -
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This Is How Your Major Label Pop Records Are Made: By Stealing
So, there's this band, Owl City, and they have songs, and teenagers like them. The song is basically a complete ripoff of the Postal Service, a great act. Given the chance to speak? More music dumbquotes to the Times, GO: More » -
#anthems
Important Questions: Is Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' the New 'New York, New York'?
There's an entire Sunday Styles item on Jay-Z's nu-New York anthem, which has now been performed at the VMAs, the World Series, City Hall, your son's bris, and everywhere else. Should Hova step off, or should Sinatra step over? More » -
#shutupnilla
Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly: Jay-Z's Biggest Fans
Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly didn't get tickets to last night's big Jay-Z show. So they decided to sit around and talk about how upset they were that they couldn't go. Thankfully, Beck didn't cry, but he did get huffy! More » -
#stalker
Public Service Announcement: Jay-Z, Oprah, Hanging Around Marcy Projects
I'm not a huge Oprah fan, but there's something about Jay-Z and Oprah walking around the Marcy Projects right now, chatting about whatever, that's really quite wonderful. In other news, thanks, Oprah, for stealing my dream profile assignment. H8Uagain. [RapRadar] -
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The Best of Racial Profiling, Pop Culture Edition
The arrest of Harvard's star African-American studies professor Henry Louis Gates has reignited national conversation about things like racial profiling! The important part of the conversation, however? What the best of pop culture has to say about it, naturally.
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Madonna's Michael Jackson Tribute at O2 Arena
Michael Jackson was supposed to perform a series of concerts at 02 arena; speculation has been that the preparation may or may not have been what killed him. Madonna performed there last night, and threw down for Jackson in tribute. More » -
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Bret Easton Ellis Thinks The Hills Is "A Modern Masterpiece"
So: Bret Easton Ellis is on the cover of expensive Amsterdam-based magazine Fantastic Man, drinking a Diet Coke. In it, he calls the soul-sucking experience that is The Hills "the greatest show that I have ever seen in my life."
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