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June 6, 2018 at 12:04 am #1202559573
This seems like another show about a bunch of young, pretty people living wild, melodramatic lives, which were all the rage in British and Aussie TV for a few years. Could be decent but also could be very annoying and derivative.
ReplyDecember 31, 2017 at 7:42 am #1202452340I used to penalize Lane for it being in a borderline crap movie. But it’s almost easily my favorite performance out of the bunch. Though Isabelle Hupert and Maggie Gyllenhaal were my favorites that year.
Moore would have been a worthy winner. Kidman merely had the best bits in the otherwise pointless exercise known as “The Hours” (and the book remains one of my favorites). Zelleweger was just-fine, but her winning for that performance as opposed to ‘Bridget Jones’ or “Nurse Betty”? Nuh-huh.
ReplyJuly 15, 2017 at 9:03 pm #1202153665There’s already enough categories. Not everything needs to get nominated. And no matter how many categories there are things will get snubbed. If anything, they should get rid of genre categorization.
ReplySeptember 17, 2016 at 10:50 pm #1201923769But Scolari’s win had little to nothing to do with the new system.
The old system had issues because often times categories didn’t have any stand out submissions, and I’ve never been a fan of one episode determining the best for a whole season. But I’ll take that over people who clearly aren’t watching the submissions or most of the nominated shows voting pretty much blindly off of buzz and industry rec.
ReplyJuly 24, 2016 at 10:42 am #1201879537Anti is actually a step forward for Rihanna as far as her trying to move away the hit single chasing game. The hate for “Work” is OTT. It’s a perfectly solid song that’s at least something different than the blandness that has dominated the charts these last couple years. And the five or six best songs on the album sonically fit together. She just needs more direction and cohesion for the entire album next time. And she shouldn’t feel the need to entirely move away from the things she’s best at doing: singing about sex and being BadBytch.
ReplyJuly 23, 2016 at 10:03 am #1201879335I’m not really into comparing a group of artists just because they’re popular and have vaginas. So, this is the best I can do:
Rihanna’s best songs I enjoy more than the other women’s best. Beyonce and Taylor Swift have managed to release a couple almost great albums a piece, which imo the others haven’t. Gaga is probably the most overall talented. Beyonce’s the best entertainer. Perry is my least fav musically. I’mma need Adele to get away from the mopey, cliche ballad streak. Swift has the most unfortunate personality of the bunch.
The odd and good thing is I don’t think any of these women have reached their full potential.
ReplyJuly 12, 2016 at 12:28 pm #1201862400All four of Taylor’s last albums have been varying degrees of solid. Yes, she’s overexposed, calculated and doesn’t have much of a voice, but her music is just good enough for me not to be entirely annoyed by her. This Hiddleston mess is pushing it however. But I stopped paying much attention to celebrity gossip years ago.
July 7, 2016 at 11:32 am #1201860959Riley’s thinly veiled rant for why critics don’t love Bieber as much as he does. I mean they embraced Justin Timberlake, dammit!
ReplyJuly 6, 2016 at 8:56 pm #1201860804What’s the deal with all critics?
I’ve only heard the singles from his recent album. They haven’t done much for me but have certainly been better than anything I heard from him before. Maybe they gave him more of a break when he was a mere “teen singer”. Maybe some resent his continuous popularity and the desperate things he’s had to do to maintain that popularity. Maybe the album only has a few passable songs. As I’ve said quite a few times, music might be the most subjective art form. So, who knows. It’s not like it was panned.
ReplyMay 13, 2016 at 11:19 am #1201833235Like a lot of the series Six Feet Under’s finale hasn’t aged all that well.
Off the dome favorites: Friday Night Lights, Angel (though it wasn’t meant to be a series closer), Justified, 30 Rock, The Shield, The Mary Tyler Moore, Arrested Development (season three finale) Cheers, Carnivale
ReplyMay 7, 2016 at 7:06 pm #1201825843I still prefer her self-titled album. It’s one of my favorite albums of the decade. It could have used some editing, but it still contains many of her best songs. However, this has grown on me. It’s sonically and of course thematically interesting. But it’s lyrically pretty lacking. When you’re trying to go for something “deep” spewing well-worn idioms just won’t do. Cliches suffocate some otherwise solid songs (“Daddy Lessons”, “Love Drought”). Ending the album with “Formation” was kind of a mistake imo.
The overwhelming acclaim is definitely driven by politics and peer pressure. However, it’s a good effort. And it’s a good sign for a huge pop star to constantly look to evolve her sound. Hopefully Adele will be inspired not do another weepy, achingly mawkish, safe boring album next time around (that was unness shade I know).
Seeing her finally win AOTY would be cute. I really don’t care about the Grammys. But it would be to see.
“Sorry”, “Hold Up”, “Freedom” and “Daddy Lessons” sound like singles to me and in that order. Don’t get the pushing of “6 Inch” though it’s a solid song.
ReplyApril 25, 2016 at 5:24 pm #1201821300I figured the initial reviews would offer out of this world acclaim. However, I anticipate that score to even out to around 88, which obviously, is still great. The album is “different” and “personal” and “political” (but not really), which for Hip-hop/R&B music over the last five years is good enough to say it’s great. It is definitely more of a success than Anti, which is just a rambling mess with a few bright spots.
ReplyApril 24, 2016 at 10:57 am #1201820571Yes, half of her self-titled album is comprised of immediately catchy bops. “Blow”, “XO”, “Pretty Hurts”, “Grown Woman”- this is hardly experimental stuff. While “Partition” and “Drunk in Love” are fun rachet singles. 4 is pretty much straightforward r&b/pop. It just lacks huge pop singles. This album is by far the most experimental she’s gotten.
I like it well enough. I have grown a lil’ weary of this industrial, scattery, hook-less r&b music. And there’s not a lot of sonic variation on this. Her self-titled effort remains my favorite from her. I don’t know where it ranks with her other works. “Freedom”, “Don’t Hurt Yourself”, “6 Inch” and “Daddy Lessons” are the standouts for me.
ReplyAugust 23, 2015 at 3:26 am #358953I’m not certain I’d put “Chosen” in even my top 25 episodes of ‘Buffy’. The first half is awkward dot connecting. The final showdown was clumsily executed. And I still have issues with the death of a main character and the reaction or lack there of to that character’s death.
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