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Don’t expect me to be posting much tomorrow. I plan to spend the whole day alphabetizing my CDs. Literally.
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Ashley Tisdale’s Facebook just informed me that today’s the last day to vote for Best Pop Video for the MTV awards. For whatever reason, they’re letting their audience choose the nominees this year, sort of; anyone who’s brave and high-tech enough to navigate their insane website can vote for their favorite of 280 (!) or so videos in each category.
I wanted to vote for The Long Blondes’ Guilt, which is nominated despite the fact that I’m sure American MTV has never even looked at the video, never mind shown it. But I can’t find a button to actually vote. I mean, I don’t think it would make a difference, since Guilt is currently in about 248th place.
The top 5, in terms of views at least, are Lollipop (boring!), No Air (boring!), Touch My Body (boring!), Piece of Me (boring!) and Chris Brown’s With You (boring!). Lagging behind are Bleeding Love (boring!), Damaged (boring!), Love In This Club (stupid but boring!), and two other boring Chris Brown videos.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like Chris Brown as much as the next screaming eleven year old. But I also like, you know, videos that look cool.
Somebody on my DList just posted a bulletin about this, the first new music from Brandy since her totally dull Talk About Our Love era four years ago.
While I can’t say I like everything she’s done–giving birth on MTV, putting Kanye West on the lead track to her last album, accidentally killing somebody, judging America’s Got Talent, and so forth–she’s had a lot of my favorite R&B songs of the last dozen or so years: I Wanna Be Down, Sittin’ Up In My Room, The Boy Is Mine, What About Us?, Full Moon… They’re so good I’ll even forgive her for doing that Another Day In Paradise cover with her dumb brother.
As for the new track, I think I like it. It sounds a little too Timbaland-assisted to be really exciting, but I like that she’s got back some of the pizzazz that she was lacking in 2004. I’ve only listened to it once, and only on my crappy work speakers that have no bass, so I’ll reserve opinion until later today. But woo, new Brandy!
Here’s the linky-poo.
