Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

Ah shit. Keith Harris: “Lil Jon says bend over! Lil Jon says touch your toes! Now shake ya tailfeather! Ho, Lil Jon didn’t say to shake no tailfeather!” Jon C. coming with fire too.

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Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

MORE P-N-J

Robert Christgau talks ’03.

Comments that kill by Josh Clover, Kris Ex and Hua Hsu. Great stuff throughout by Kandia Crazy Horse and Greg Tate

I’m still processing all this. Soon come…

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Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

PAZZ N JOP

The results are in…the best showing for hip-hop in years, due to Outkast and Dizzee’s reverse crossover dribble.

ALBUMS

1 OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista)

2 The White Stripes Elephant (V2)

3 Fountains of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers (S-Curve)

4 Radiohead Hail to the Thief (Capitol)

5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (Interscope)

6 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)

7 New Pornographers Electric Version (Matador)

8 Basement Jaxx Kish Kash (Astralwerks)

9 Drive-By Truckers Decoration Day (New West)

10 Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner (XL import)

SINGLES

1 OutKast “Hey Ya!” (Arista)

2 Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (Columbia)

3 The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” (Third Man/V2)

4 Kelis “Milkshake” (Star Trak/Arista)

5 50 Cent “In Da Club” (G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)

6 Johnny Cash “Hurt” (Universal)

7 Fountains of Wayne “Stacy’s Mom” (S-Curve/Virgin)

8 R. Kelly “Ignition-Remix” (Jive)

9 Junior Senior “Move Your Feet” (Atlantic)

10 Panjabi MC featuring Jay-Z “Beware of the Boys (Mundian To Bach Ke)”

(Sequence)

Full results are here.

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Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

Actually, Julianne, I think this is a pretty good trade. I’ve been hoping Shareef might get a real team since “The Quickening”!

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Monday, February 9th, 2004

Minority Applications Drop at Michigan. Same thing happened at the University of California and the University of Texas.

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Monday, February 9th, 2004

Keith Harris calmly dissects the latest round of Beatlemania.

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Monday, February 9th, 2004

Late on this but thanks to Aaron Wherry, here’s an item from last Tuesday’s WWD on the latest shake-ups at The Source. Truth is, there’s a lot more going on there than is written here, believe.

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Monday, February 9th, 2004

A great piece on Republican messaging and the lack of a progressive equivalent. Thanks to Lizz Mendez Berry.

Speaking of which, it seems to me that Bush failed miserably yesterday in his bid to make the case for war and jobs. Here’s Howard Kurtz’ grok on the topic. Today’s jobs report has to add fuel to the fire, seen as more empty promises. This could be a case for the Reeps of good planning, poor execution.

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Monday, February 9th, 2004

GRAMS, I MEAN, GRAMMYS

Nice to see:

* Prince and Beyonce doing Ike and Tina, the good years.

* Sean Paul on the big stage, although the song was all wrong. Maybe “When the World Is Running Down”?

* Justin keeping his hands on the organ.

* Pharrell as Ringo.

* Luther.

* FUNK!

Not so fun to see:

* Dave Matthews forgetting the words.

* Alicia out of key. Guess her register does have a limit.

* Quentin “Let me show you why me and Nik Cohn can use the N word” Tarantino.

Unsubstantiated rumors:

* Coldplay’s Chris Martin has signed on to do all yelling for the Kerry campaign.

* Cristina Aguilera is making a kids’ album with Hillary Duff. They will not be kissing on the cover.

* Justin Timberlake left after the show to record a remix with Ruben Studdard of “Sorry 2004”.

* Michael Powell is replacing Judy McGrath at MTV.

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Sunday, February 8th, 2004

On CNN last night…

HOWARD KURTZ, host CNN “Reliable Sources” show: Let’s talk about tonight Grammy awards. It’s not clear whether Janet Jackson is showing up or is disinvited, but Justin Timberlake, why is he being allowed to even show his face? I mean, if I reach over — well, let’s not go there.

GLORIA BORGER, co-host of CNBC’s “Capital Report”: Show his face, much less anything else.

KURTZ: He’s the guy who liberated Janet Jackson’s breast. Why does he get to go on national television a week later?

BORGER: Well, you know, this is the question that I’ve talked to a lot of women about this, actually. Because while none of us believe Janet Jackson did the right thing, we also believe that she is taking the complete fall for this, that Justin Timberlake has distanced himself from Janet Jackson, saying nice things like, “I didn’t need this for my career.”

And yet he gets to go on the Grammies and sing tonight and she doesn’t.

KURTZ: Right after the — Right after the event he was seen on “Access Hollywood” saying, “This is pretty cool. We gave people something to talk about.”

And later he’s all “I’m clearly so sorry.”

BORGER: Really too different — Clearly too different stories.

KURTZ: Right.

BORGER: When you dissect it. But guess what? He gets to sing.

KURTZ: Jeff Greenfield, CBS dangles goodies before Jessica Lynch to try to get an interview with her.

CBS makes that music special deal with Michael Jackson, where he got a lot of money.

CBS then has MTV, you know, produce this halftime show, which not only featured this moment we keep talking about but, you know, rap lyrics like I want to get you naked.

Isn’t there a pattern of bad judgment here?

JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN senior analyst: They’ve had a bad track on this. I mean, you know, you could also raise some questions, since they were so shocked at this, they did have to approve the ads they ran at $2.3 million for 30 seconds, that featured, among other things, a dog biting a man’s crotch, a flatulent horse and a monkey making sexual advances to a woman.

So, you know, that used to be the Tiffany network and I guess they’re just in the same primordial ooze that the rest of us are in, looking those of us who look at it so we can comment on it while watching the tape 500 times.

KURTZ: So your view — you view, Jeff. You use the term hypocrisy bowl. There’s hypocrisy plenty to go around, because everybody who’s anywhere near a camera gets to both exploit this and denounce it and joke about it and hopefully get people to watch.

GREENFIELD: Yes, I mean, it’s kind of like the, you know, the confession magazines of the ’50s that used to run these lurid stories about sexual perversion while having the attitude of “Isn’t it terrible. Let us show you this again so you’ll know just how bad it is.” Yes.

KURTZ: So aren’t the networks, not to mention newspapers and magazines, which have run many, many articles on this, aren’t they as bad as Janet Jackson? She allowed the exposure, and everybody else is going to make sure that we never ever forget it.

MELINDA HENNEBERGER, reporter for “Newsweek” magazine: I don’t know, but I do think that overall the coverage has been valid. Because I think for a lot of people…

KURTZ: Not excessive?

HENNEBERGER: I’m not so sure, because I think a lot of Americans were really upset about it. I mean, if the FCC got 200,000 calls and e-mails on it, I think we have to respond, too.

KURTZ: But Gloria Borger keeps replaying it on her show.

BORGER: I keep replaying it. Well, and then we have debates over Justin Timberlake and over — but, you know, it’s also to be fair. Let’s just — it’s a diversion. It’s sort of a fun story at Janet Jackson’s expense.

KURTZ: Not Iraq.

BORGER: Yes. It is not Iraq. We are a nation at war. We deal with that. But that is one of those diversions that we can all relate to, because some of us got to watch it with our children, and we really didn’t think that was a terrific idea.

And I agree with Jeff. I thought a lot of those ads on erectile dysfunction and the rest during the Super Bowl were probably not a great idea either…

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