Pop Culture for Fun

I recently read a review for the Lady Gaga themed Glee episode. It mentioned the singer as being still too outre and avant-garde to the get the treatment Glee did on Madonna. I beg to disagree. Lady Gaga is actually pretty mainstream. The 224 million views “Bad Romance” has on Youtube suggest it. The thing [...]

Posted on June 12th, 2010 by MrWiseguy
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p {text-align: justify}   Well, it’s new, it’s a lot of fun, and totally unexpected: Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder. Once Flo Rida’s “Low” starts playing, I dare you not to laugh. G5..playa!!!   One more for Tom Cruise, this time along side Danny DeVito and Kevin Spacey in Austin Powers: Goldmember, as the movie versions of [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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I remember when the musical scene in the U.S. was diverse. Back in 1999, for example, Eminem had just started out, Britney as well, there were the Offspring, Cher was having one last blast, there were the TLC (now that was RnB), Ricky Martin was reaching his peek, Shania Twain had released her most popular [...]

Posted on September 26th, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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  I was born in the year of “War”, the year of “Venus”, of “Take My Breath Away”, of “Papa Don’t Preach” and the year of “Manic Monday”. So what?   Does that mean that I’m influenced today by those songs?I honestly don’t know.But, fact it, even though the following were hits during that year, I’m not [...]

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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I once read an article from an IMDB link, about the evolution of soundtracks in the film industry.Everyone can remember hits like “My Heart Will Go On“, “I Will Always Love You“, or “Take My Breath Away“.Songs written specifically for the movies they appeared in.Songs that you’d here everywhere at the time.Songs that would haunt [...]

Posted on June 12th, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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