Brooks’s choices highlight the subversive messaging of the Inauguration Day in music, which is that, finally, the White House is no longer occupied by a leader who, if he didn’t quite literally hate music, was publicly despised by enough musicians to have made the past four years of ceremonies and rallies grate as much for taste as for ideology. Trump closed his final speech to the public as president yesterday with the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.,” a(n ostensible) gay sex anthem he overused on last year’s campaign trail to balance out hate and demagoguery through whimsical dance. When he tried to embrace American music, he got sued, clowned for his choices, or both. His use of classic-rock gems like Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” at his events repeated the Reagan-era faux pas of mistaking a song about how hard it is to live in America with a simple … [Read more...] about The Jarring Spectacle of Having an Administration Worth Singing for Again
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Jimmy Fallon stages Saved by the Bell reunion: watch video
"Kelly that's great," he replies enthusiastically. "I love you and I'll always love you. We should run off to Las Vegas and get married." The high school sweethearts ended up doing just that in spin-off film Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas after the series ended. … [Read more...] about Jimmy Fallon stages Saved by the Bell reunion: watch video
Spoon’s Britt Daniel on the 10th Anniversary of
When Spoon’s most recent album, Hot Thoughts, was released earlier this year, a common critical talking point was that this was their “dance record.” Spoon had become known for its economy and ability to make two or three instruments sound like all you could ever want on a track, but the Austin-born band — founded by front man Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno — had been slowly adding layers to their sound over their two most recent records. Hot Thoughts is certainly a more electronic record than anything else they’ve released thus far, but is our collective memory so short that we’ve forgotten the maraca-shaking shimmy of “Don’t You Evah,” off 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, a song so catchy it made this tiny robot dance? … [Read more...] about Spoon’s Britt Daniel on the 10th Anniversary of
