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absolute clusterfuck with its massive redone production threatening at times to drown out nicki minaj s inimitable rapping the insane almost nonsensical chorus combined with the raping of a classic children s tune but amid all the nuttiness which is nicki s forte anyways something about starships clicks into place even more than super bass it pushes nicki into the popstar realm she clearly doesn t want to embrace this is a complete shame as a nicki views being a popstar as being a negative thing and b if she wanted to embrace it she could be the most fascinating popstar around starships is proof that nicki knows how to combine her rapping with her singing into something completely original unlike her guetta single turn me on which relies far too much on her singing no starships were meant to fly makes absolutely no sense but i honestly wouldn t have it any other way posted by dame james at 1 36 pm no comments labels nicki minaj pop music wednesday april 18 2012 the dame s 2012 playlist avicii levels yes technically it s a 2011 track but like most ignorant americans i wasn t even aware of this avicii track until the levels sampling vastly inferior flo rida hit good feeling came out last december when i did discover it along with a number of other brilliant avicii tim berg singles there was an instant spark together levels and i had a blazing chemistry most romantic comedy pairings could only dream of and like every romantic comedy ever it was a case of opposites attracting avicii with his house music stylings and i who normally can barely stomach extended remixes of pop tunes let alone straight house music shouldn t have gotten along yet here i am singing along with levels despite that 95 of the song is instrumental we ve overcome the odds and proved that we re a match made in heaven and it s all because of levels posted by dame james at 3 00 pm no comments labels avicii pop music scandinavia lovin the dame s 2012 playlist dragonette let it go dragonette has always been a band that i ve appreciated far more than i ve ever loved they had a couple of great tracks on their fixin to thrill album from 2009 their collaboration with martin solveig hello was nice the first ten times or so i heard but it quickly wore out its welcome so color me surprised when i fell head over heels with let it go the minute i heard it this doesn t happen very often so i knew that this was not a drill if someone asked me to describe let it go i could only use one word euphoric i absolutely adore the way that infectious pulsing beat nearly drowns out every lyric in the song it s a risky stylistic choice especially considering that the lyrics aren t even bad by any means and that the way the lead singer howls let it goooooooooooo is the best part of the song but it pays off in aces for the group with one triumphant single dragonette has gone from meh to a must listen at all costs in other words there is hope for you still to turn things around keri hilson posted by dame james at 10 00 am no comments labels dragonette pop music the dame s 2012 playlist lana del rey off to the races the main reason i allowed all songs released in 2012 not just the singles to be eligible for my year end list is because of off to the races a track so good i couldn t disqualify it because some bonehead executive decided not to release it i will admit that i was initially dismissive of ms del rey not completely understanding the hype surrounding video games and most of the sneak peaks from born to die actually i believe my exact words were wake me up when she does a dance track despite my reservations i gave her album a listen when it came out and color me surprised i actually liked a good portion of it the album s standout without a doubt is this five minute magnum opus from the moment lana moans that first lyric my old man is a bad man i was enamored i love the almost sinister vibe the song gives off which combined with its already frank sexuality he likes to watch me in the glass room bathroom makes for an intriguing pairing i ve mentioned this before but when i listen to music i rarely listen to lyrics usually i base my opinions on how the song makes me feel off to the races is no different but the lyrics here add even more texture to a song i already can t get out of my subconscious lana del rey hasn t given me a dance track like a requested instead she has given me something more than i could have ever hoped for a living breathing unequivocal masterpiece posted by dame james at 12 00 am no comments labels lana del rey pop music tuesday april 17 2012 the dame s 2012 playlist justin bieber boyfriend even if boyfriend doesn t end up as my favorite song of 2011 it will most certainly be the smartest song bieber has somehow managed to find a song that matures his sound and style while continuing to appeal to the kiddies who made him famous in the first place and if you don t understand how difficult that is just ask miley cyrus who grew up too quickly on can t be tamed for her teen fans yes the fondue line is still atrocious but justin has so much swagger you barely notice just how bad it is perhaps what is most impressive about boyfriend is that it sounds so sexy like a song you could easily see yourself having sex to at some point in the future even though it s never extremely explicit or profane bieber gets the message across without turning into a justin timberlake sex machine how he does it i ll never know i m just glad that the biebz learned from the mistakes of so many other teen heartthrobs who have fallen once they reached the other side of puberty posted by dame james at 10 44 am no comments labels boys boys boys justin bieber pop music monday april 16 2012 you need to practice backing that ass up when i tweeted a few weeks ago that juvenile s back that ass up was a seminal part of my childhood i wasn t being facetious and when i say that every time i think of the song i think of my mother no my family wasn t as fucked up as you re probably thinking i ve already spoken numerous times about how trl ran my life between the ages of 11 and 14 one of the great things about the show was that it introduced me to music that i never would have heard otherwise an obvious example of this would be back that ass up a raunchy rap song that wouldn t have played anywhere near the top 40 radio stations i listened to the reason i remember this song and especially the accompanying music video so much is because my mother would literally force me to change the channel every time the video came on although my mother isn t the biggest fan of rap music oddly enough however r kelly s ignition remix is one of her favorite songs ever she was mainly offended by the video as you may remember it featured a fair amount of curvacious women with luscious bottoms shaking what their mama gave them in front of the camera while it looks like nothing more than a parody of late 90 s rap videos today something about it really irked my mother maybe she felt that the women were being exploited which is a valid response either way i always found it funny that my mother reacted so strongly to something as inconsequential as back that ass up fast forward twelve or so years on a whim i decided to listen to drake s take care a decision based upon the fact that i loved find your love a couple years ago and that i ve claimed on many occasions that drake could get it in anytime he wanted after listening to the album i decided that he could still get it in and that i liked the album it didn t strike me until a day or so later that one of my favorite songs on take care practice sounded strangely familiar after another listen it clicked into place practice samples back that ass up in stark contrast to the original s bluntness drake s song uses the infamous chorus as a smooth sexy come on by the end of the song s four minute runtime i certainly wanted to back my ass up on drake even more than i had before okay okay i hear some grumbling so i better get this out of the way practice isn t a completely perfect song after you get over the initial boner inducing hotness of it all and you pay attention to the non juvenile lyrics the song loses some of its amazingness practice is about drake coming to terms with his girlfriend not being a virgin and how he must rationalize this as her getting some practice in for their sexual relationship can you say ick have straight men not evolved to the point of accepting that girls get horny too and that it s completely unrealistic to expect a woman in 2012 to remain a virgin for one man some point in the future while he gets to go out and bang as many chicks as he wants because that s what men do it s almost enough to hate the song but then drake gets back to that chorus and i forget any and all moral misgivings i have about the song no one ever said i was a great moral crusader now that i ve reached the end of this post i realized that the point of this whole essay was probably to post pictures of drake ah such is life at least you all get a reward for reading this damn thing posted by dame james at 1 16 am no comments labels 90 s music boys boys boys drake friday april 6 2012 violence the hunger games from the moment the advertising campaign for the hunger games kicked into high gear a lot of questions were raised about the film s central conceit of children murdering other children for sport how would the film handle it would they embrace the violence or sanitize it completely just how much could they show and still get a pg 13 rating surprisingly the hunger games handles this delicate balance between genuine suspense tastelessness gracefully in the process it becomes a commentary on the role of violence in contemporary cinema no it s not the most thorough nor is it the most insightful investigation we have seen but it s probably the best we were ever going to be given in a pg 13 studio produced blockbuster aimed at both teens and adults besides this is the film our blood thirsty culture needs to see and reflect on right now our culture s obsession with violence particularly in the media has been discussed ad nauseum since the columbine shooting over a decade ago we have no problem letting teens watch people gleefully kill one another in endless action films or sadistic torture porn horror films show a woman receiving oral however and suddenly we must think of the children and protect them the hunger games is one of the few recent mainstream films i can recall where we are forced to stop and think about the violence going on the first image we see of kid on kid violence doesn t occur until about 30 minutes into the film after only hearing about it up until then the hunger games commentators are showing clips from previous years explaining how the game works at the very end they pause on this photo of a kid holding a brick standing over another kid with blood coming out of his head i laughed at first but quickly understood what i was watching was not funny instead i was uncomfortable the image only appears for a couple seconds but i m sick to my stomach thinking of it now the context it s presented in passes the moment off as an ordinary moment just an instance of one kid bringing glory to his district by winning the games but it s clearly not what the filmmakers want us to come away with they are asking us to think about how anyone could not only condone this but actively participate in it every single year looking forward to it like a six year old child looks forward to christmas when the film gets to the actual hunger games the violence becomes even more confrontational most of the murders take place off screen or are obscured by rapid editing and blurry camerawork the ones we do see however are just as uncomfortable to watch as that first image we don t celebrate any of the deaths or wish for more gore as we would in a typical action film or at least one that starred adults what we see is enough thank you very much even when one of the contestants is killed by another to save katniss we don t cheer on her demise the gleeful psychotic monologue she delivers as she has katniss in her clutches makes it easier to watch her death sure but we re only relieved that katniss is okay not that one of the villains is dead her death is just another sad consequence of this game and this culture when people do die it s often presented in a surprisingly unsentimental way there is no excessive outpouring of emotion just the bare minimum needed to get through the scene while watching the hunger games i was reminded of grave of the fireflies presentation of death a scary reality of this harsh unpredictable world the protagonists are thrown into the lack of sentimentality makes the film sadder but it also makes the deaths scarier and more realistic rue s relatively quiet death forces us to ponder the violence much more than if there was an emotional buffer to distract us we have to question how anyone could allow such a thing could happen to such a little girl because there s nothing else to think about the hunger games makes no definitive statement on violence on cinema to do this the film would have needed someone like michael haneke to confront us openly and directly with these murderous children instead of hiding behind a blurry camera what the hunger games does though is start the conversation by directly addressing the very same audience who goes to see these gratuitously violent films i m not saying it will change the world but maybe the hunger games will get some people to start questioning why they enjoy watching people mutilate and kill other people at the cinema posted by dame james at 2 12 pm no comments labels film rants hunger games le cinema newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom forget eve it s all about me dame james kalamazoo michigan united states a child of marx and coca cola who strives to be dame judi dench when he grows up or kristen stewart i haven t 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