The Morning Dump: Hallelujah resurrected, McSweeneys conceited, Canada explained (sorta), Nicki Minaj examined
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump, Music on 27. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
I remember discovering Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” sometime in the late ’90s and feeling like I had found something so special and private I couldn’t share it with anyone. That was youthful naivete of course, and now “Hallelujah” and its multitude of versions (from Rufus Wainwright to kiddie band Paramore to popera [...]
The wtf world of Nicki Minaj
Posted by Jef in Music, Rappers on 29. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
I’m starting to really like Nicki Minaj and I don’t entirely know why. Which is part of her appeal, I guess, even though I know that sounds stupid. What I do know is that there is something intuitive about her approach — in this post-internet world everybody is a fucking performance artist, but Minaj rises [...]
