Le Grammy Whammy: Lessons from Hancock to the Winehouse generation

• Author: Kim
• Filed under: 'Ze Think Tank, Events, Foreign Artist, Mainstream, Music
• Date: Feb 12,2008

A couple of nights ago I caught on to the 50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards, and amidst jeers on Kanye West who is, as usual, perpetually pompous (sneered at the organizers for playing the music on him while he was still making his speech), it was meant to be a respectable event. The Grammy Awards made an effort to recognize just about everyone worth mentioning from over the 50 years it has been going on. But the formalities got a little off-set when you have the guy from Arrested Development hosting and making awkward jokes at the same time, and…wait, did I mention Kanye West? Read the rest of this entry »

Evil, evil MTV!

• Author: Kim
• Filed under: 'Ze Think Tank, Events, Foreign Artist, Mainstream, Music, News
• Date: Sep 19,2007

Okay, Kanye West rants publicly, and unabashedly “WHY DID I LOSE?!” at the recently held MTV Video Music Awards. I’m sure some of you have heard of it. He rats about why a black guy can’t win (And offhandedly mentions indignantly that Black Eyed Peas - which includes a black guy - won over him the previous year). And why did you let Britney Spears do that horrendous performance? Let me (Kanye) do the opening for once! Why let an awkward post-pregnancy physique show on TV? I topped the charts, yo!
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ALAVET!

• Author: Kim
• Filed under: 'Ze Think Tank, Foreign Artist, Mainstream, Music, Music Videos
• Date: Apr 24,2007

Here’s a video of Alanis Morisette’s cover of The Black Eyed Peas‘ song “My humps”. I’m shunning comments about how much a lot of people dislike this song. I just think it’s ridiculously brilliant. It’s a parody of how insipid songs, videos and pop culture can get. And the touch that Alanis put in to it just underscored feminist undertones. ALAVET!