"Turn on the Lights"

After the entire summer passed, I grew to accept this for the ratchet love song it truly would like to be.

But there were some hurdles I had to jump to get here:

The abusive use of autotune cannot disguise that it sounds like Future is trying to sing while battling throat cancer. But never mind that.


Never mind that he is not on beat for the entire second verse. The melody compels me to keep listening, somehow. Luv to the producer.   My biggest issue was the first 30 seconds.
Literally, stop it at 00:27.

Yo, WHAT did he say?

"Is that her in the VIP line, with the V-tine, and the Ees-Sarant?"

I'd look over to my imaginary passenger and ask, Did he say V-time? What the hell is that? And what is ees sarant? I was so disturbed I had to Google the lyrics. Apparently this fool was saying Vuitton and Yves Saint Laurent.

I guess he had to create sum kinda country contraction to make it fit. I don't know. But what I do believe is, this is why they try to keep certain labels away from us.

Best Song of 2010

2010 was a year of mediocre music. Yeah, I said it.  There were a couple pretty good songs, but not too many great ones.
With that in mind, my vote for the best song was a pretty easy decision. It goes to Miguel aka Miguel Jontel, feat J. Cole with "All I Want is You."
A soulful song with great lyrics, a couple clever rap verses, and a real groovy beat. The music was simple really, just a sparse guitar loop over a little snare that repeats and repeats - didn't build or do anything too exciting, but it has yet to get old, and I'm still tapping my toes.

Head Scratcher

I heard Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music (home of artists such as Common, John Legend, Kid Cudi and Big Sean) recently signed Mos Def: + and...

Charlie Wilson: ?

I'll have to double check that one.

Thurs. July 8: Knock, Knock Pt I

Hey Good People!
Here's an intro about my mission for Thursday, July 8. My editors are really interested in this story about code enforcement violations, and they wanted me to find ppl who were guilty of said offense. In 90+ degree heat.
I also went to a theater camp and saw sum amazing kids rehearsing for "Footloose!" I'm a sucker for musicals, so this story appealed to me, but I was def expecting sumthing amateur-ish, to be quite honest.