Last Night Over Dinner

Me: I heard this great song today on the radio.

Madhubby: Oh, yeah? What's it called?

Me: Mmm...Southern Cross, I think. It's such a good song.

Madhubby: Yeah, it has been for about thirty years, honey.

Outdated

I often hear how thirty is the new twenty and I do know some pretty immature adults - some of whom are thirty-six years old (hi, Madhubby) - but I never considered myself all that youthful until today while listening to the radio. The announcer introduced the next song: And here's The Christmas Song by JT. I got so excited and turned up the radio thinking Justin Timberlake had a new Christmas song. Um... yeah...apparently "JT" in old folks speak means James Taylor.

Apple is the New Oprah

Have you noticed that whenever Apple grabs onto a song and injects it into an iPod commercial, that song then spreads like a virus over the airwaves? The latest iPod hit? 1234 by Feist. Ohmigod. Lame song. Lamer video. I'd download some Kanye West to my iPod before adding Feist to my play list and that's major because I think Kanye West sucks. Plus, he's angry. I don't mind that he's angry because I can totally rock angry; I was that black girl bumping NWA and Tupac back in the day but I can't take that he's angry and walks around like his sh*t don't stink.

But Feist is straight-up trash. Apple ought to fire their talent scout and just play regular music for the masses. Did they sell fewer units when their commercials featured U2 instead of some random, robotic punk girl? No, I don't think so. I'd wager, they sold more units that month because the U2 iPod was so cool. Now that my favorite Indie station plays Feist's stupid song at least once an hour, I have to find a new radio station because one more oooh-oh-oh is enough to make me go ghetto.

Minutes To Midnight

The eagerly anticipated Linkin Park cd Minutes To Midnight dropped yesterday morning, so I hit Target early to snatch up a copy. LOVE it. The new disc is all about Chester, which is so nice because Mike S. is so annoying, though he does mix it up on the bold new tune "Bleed it Out," whose name defies it party beats; I've already added this catchy tune to my iPod gym playlist.

I'd heard the new disc was going to be a departure from LP's earlier work and it is, but it comes at a time when My Chemical Romance and AFI have already saturated the listening public with a similar sound, thus making Linkin Park's new disc just another mainstream alternative venture.

I love how one minute, Chester is low-key and melancholy on "Leave Out All The Rest," then he's right back to his roots in the one-two punch of "Given Up." Some other relatively slow tunes round out the cd and of course, the very popular "What I've Done" is there, too. A good disc by my estimation, though Madhubby thinks their last cd, Meteora, was better. Still, we both agree it's a good effort and we can't wait to see them with the fam this summer .