lil skateboard P

Today I have officially reached saturation point with "Drop It Like It's Hot." Yes, I am charmed when Pharrell calls himself "lil skateboard P" but not so in his earlier allusion to the relative whitness of his yacht. Maybe this is his way of trading in hipster cache for street cred -which, I'm sure in the cyclical nature of male-infatuation grown up, only means more hipster cred. Alas, what would the world be without crass depictions of oral sex? Certainly no place for the Hidden Cameras. And ya, Snoop rhymes side with side in this lazy ass little video game jam, totally lame.

I have been reading Christine Yano's book "Tears of Longing" about the Japanese music enka. I've been trying to umm..find...some of it online and seem to not really know where to start. I think it might be a little to weirdly weird for me - like, a sentimental nationalist music derived from blues but only in the cultivation of the social construction of weariness and sadness, but not like, musical? and then...well, Yano's very few references to the music in relation to American music all have to do with older country...and the production system is like the star system of old or the last 10 years of pop production, but totally and completely geared towards mostly middle-aged women. It's like a whole world of Barbara Streisand. (btw, that link is soooo Fear and Loathing..., does anyone else have a problem thinking of C. Ricci as anything but Wednesday?). and, well, I have a feeling that the production of the music is going to sound like those really corny Whitney Houston ballads, like 'isn't this the most famous female vocalist in America? why don't you, umm, hire and orchestra instead of using that lame synth?'

on another note, i am weary with the prospect of top ten end of the year lists. if i were matos i'd be all over that shit and 1966 at the same time, or if I were sfj, i'd already be way into next year. Well, I'm not, and my flower-bedecked, fawn springing, frivolous girl mind just can't get wrapped around the wordy listinghood, but I do it because that's what keeps the boys talking. Stats. Not a diss to the Matos or the SFJ, btw, just the game.