You’re all invited to my house next Sunday morning for brunch.
Here’s why… after a semi grueling trip to the gym we unload and shower and hit the kitchen to replace the carbs we just burned off and chug juice like Bruce Jenner.
But the banter is what you’d come for not the soy cream ‘cheese’
It resembles a magazine war room
“OK whattaya got?’ becomes the kick off of what to write about on a Sunday when most of those in the biz are getting pedicures and weaves for tonight’s Grammys
“how about $280. Clapton tickets at the Garden?’…..”how no one has heard of any of the bands on my ipod?’, ‘why does my mom think Pitbull is hot?’….
and then it hits me
We are again completely out of touch AGAIN
Name me the top 5 songs according to Billboard this week
1- keesha
2- lady ga ga
3 that band that sounds like nicklebackstainedshinedown
4 young weezy
5…..
Out comes the lap top and we look and see
ew
But we also notice a pretty interesting trend
WHY THE HELL DOES JUST ABOUT EVERY ARTIST HAVE ANOTHER ARTIST AS ”FEATURED”?
Its Little Rascals “lets put on a show” mentality. Everyone seems to want to sing with a friend. and the match ups are pretty funny
Lady Gaga Featuring Beyonce
Trey Songz Featuring Fabolous
Jay Sean Featuring Sean Paul & Lil Jon
Timbaland Featuring Justin Timberlake
Young Money Featuring Lloyd
Justin Bieber Featuring Ludacris (this one is pretty funny)
David Guetta Featuring Akon
That’s just in the top 20. Someone care to explain this to me?
So I pick the most tolerable sounding which would be Ga Ga and Beyonce.
And it seems to me all you have to do to be featured is to shout out a line or two or a verse. Does this increase my chances of a hit? So I can call it a new Beyonce song or a Ga Ga song..like a reversible wind breaker? Personally it seems week to me. Telephone on the other hand is a pretty fun song and the line “I cant text with a drink in my hand’ will be the problem tonight when I’m seeing Shinobi in Boston.
I don’t see much of that trend on the ‘Rock’ side of things I could also be out of touch with that but from searching and asking I’m not finding to many. There are the huge applause moments at a concert when say Pete Wentz steps up with Cobra Starship but as a recording it seems only the dance house gets the match ups. Wonder why. Ego or Cash flow?