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raybearI haven't listened to the radio at work in more than 2 months. Here are songs I've heard today:
112 -- Peaches and Cream
Carl Thomas and Faith Evans -- Emotional remix
What It Is -- Busta Rhymes and Kelis
Bad Boy for Life -- Sean Combs
Still D.R.E. -- Dr. Dre and Eminem
We Need a Resolution -- Aaliyah
Fallin -- alycia keys
Ok, I heard a couple "new" songs too, including my Mary J. Blige song. But for the most part, it's the EXACT same stuff that was playing this summer. I'm having flashbacks here. But did I ever change the channel? No.
Had a pretty productive work day. Pleadings in order. Inboxes (I have three) no longer overlowing.
Damn, they just started playing No Scrubs. I'm suddenly remembering the story MelRo told about driving through Pennsylvania and listening to the Lady Marmalade remake and the radio station cut out the Lil Kim verse. I guess she was too black for western Pennsylvania. Where, incidentally, I remember seeing several barns decorated with confederate flags. Hello -- where's the fcking Mason-Dixon line? You get double ignorance points for that.
Which reminds me of an incident last weekend, with MelRo's friend who was in town. I was flipping through the channels and passed by MTV2 playing Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz (eastside of Atlanta, thankyouverymuch) and their booty song "Bia Bia". In the video, Lil Jon is wearing a t-shirt with the confederate flag, and have a couple draped around in the background. Her friend was like "wow - that's weird. why are they wearing that....?" and I summed it up brilliantly. "Um...they're Southern."
Wha?
I might have added something about them reclaiming the image, or more accurately, I might have mumbled something about it.
Maybe you had to be there. It was sorta funny. But then again, I crack myself up.
I'm feeling wholly and completely inarticulate. This is what happens when one works too hard at the job -- it takes away brain power that would normally be devoted to shirking activities.
Or maybe rap music is making me stupid. That's what they tell me, after all.
I'm going home soon.
112 -- Peaches and Cream
Carl Thomas and Faith Evans -- Emotional remix
What It Is -- Busta Rhymes and Kelis
Bad Boy for Life -- Sean Combs
Still D.R.E. -- Dr. Dre and Eminem
We Need a Resolution -- Aaliyah
Fallin -- alycia keys
Ok, I heard a couple "new" songs too, including my Mary J. Blige song. But for the most part, it's the EXACT same stuff that was playing this summer. I'm having flashbacks here. But did I ever change the channel? No.
Had a pretty productive work day. Pleadings in order. Inboxes (I have three) no longer overlowing.
Damn, they just started playing No Scrubs. I'm suddenly remembering the story MelRo told about driving through Pennsylvania and listening to the Lady Marmalade remake and the radio station cut out the Lil Kim verse. I guess she was too black for western Pennsylvania. Where, incidentally, I remember seeing several barns decorated with confederate flags. Hello -- where's the fcking Mason-Dixon line? You get double ignorance points for that.
Which reminds me of an incident last weekend, with MelRo's friend who was in town. I was flipping through the channels and passed by MTV2 playing Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz (eastside of Atlanta, thankyouverymuch) and their booty song "Bia Bia". In the video, Lil Jon is wearing a t-shirt with the confederate flag, and have a couple draped around in the background. Her friend was like "wow - that's weird. why are they wearing that....?" and I summed it up brilliantly. "Um...they're Southern."
Wha?
I might have added something about them reclaiming the image, or more accurately, I might have mumbled something about it.
Maybe you had to be there. It was sorta funny. But then again, I crack myself up.
I'm feeling wholly and completely inarticulate. This is what happens when one works too hard at the job -- it takes away brain power that would normally be devoted to shirking activities.
Or maybe rap music is making me stupid. That's what they tell me, after all.
I'm going home soon.
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Date: 2001-11-01 03:13 pm (UTC)um...pretty soon the Man will have you so brain washed that you'll think rap music makes you commit violent crimes!
You gotta snap out of it ray--it's sucking yer will to live!
don't give in to pop music,
Joe