Way To Go, Kanye!
The above headline is not sarcasm. And I’m not a fan of Beyonce’s solo work, but Kanye West (one of the few Western mainstream artists that gets my money every goddamn time to begin with) jumping in and interrupting pop-country puppet Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for her undeserved MTV award was great. Last night’s incident was a reminder of why Kanye West is one of the few hip-hop artists worth paying attention to in an era dominated by talentless 50 Cent clones, and why artists like Taylor Swift are a total joke in the current state of Nashville’s parade of fake-country artists that wouldn’t survive a week, let alone a entire tour, with a legit country artist like Hank III or Willie Nelson.
Let’s see what these people who are quick to defend Taylor Swift now will say when she’s playing nothing but state fairs in five to ten years, while Kanye West is still making records as both artist and producer.
ETA: Triggerman over at SavingCountryMusic.com has his own, rather lethal point of view on last night here.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to Morning Musume’s leader and one of my favorite MoMusus, Ai Takahashi! She’s 23 today!
How mindblowing is it that Takitty has gone from this, eleven years ago (a rare pre-Morning Musume TV appearance)…
…to this (Takitty’s first PV with MiniMoni, after she’d been in Morning Musume for at least a year)…
To, most recently, this. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, even though this blog focuses mainly on the music, as a hardcore Morning Musume fan I proudly present to you, via her latest PB, Ai Takahashi and her J-Pop Badonkadonk (and yes, you can click on the pic to see the aforementioned badonkadonk in non-thumbnailed form):
