What The Kids Are Listening To: Taio Cruz
It’s always interesting to take a peek at Billboard’s HOT HOT singles chart, the Hot 100, and to be mystified at what’s popular with our nation’s youth these days. I’m turning 40 this year, and I feel increasingly like an…
What the Kids Are Listening to: Boom Boom Pow!
It’s weird. Will.i.am as a solo artist doesn’t really do it for me. And Fergie’s stuff – successful as she is – doesn’t hit me in the right place. But the Black Eyed Peas as a collective unit – the…
What the Kids Are Listening To: Asher Roth – “I Love College”
This week is pretty much the perfect storm for the music geek in me. Two new Prince albums on constant rotation (a familiar feeling from the good ol’ days), a Springsteen show on Friday, and Bruce Cockburn in Flagstaff on…
What the Kids Are Listening to: Flo Rida’s “Right Round”
“You spin my head right round right round when you go down when you go down down.” – Flo Rida, “Right Round” Sigh. Yeah, well, this is the #1 song in the country right now. I guess subtlety and any…
What the Kids are Listening to: Katy Perry
Getting a high profile shout out from Mama Madge when you’ve not even released your first record sets some damned high expectations. From what I can tell of young Katy Perry it seems like she has the ability to deliver…
What the Kids are Listening to: Juno
I had originally entitled this one What the Kids Everyone is Listening to: Juno Up up down down left right left right B A start Just because we use cheats doesn’t mean we’re not smart I don’t see what anyone…
What the Kids are Listening to: Flo Rida
The # 1 song in the country, folks, is “Low” by Flo Rida. It’s your basic club hit of the month. The same machismo / underlying misogyny, the same “baby girl” references, the same drum machine programming. Same same same.…
What the Kids are Listening to: Beautiful Girls
I know it’s Thursday and not Sunday, but I’ve had this one in my hopper for a day or so… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6o8NlrbHg 336 278] I’m going to turn on the cantankerous old man voice now: what in the heck are these…
What the Kids are Listening to: A Bay Bay!
Look out, Billboard Hot 100, Hurricane Chris is stormin’ up the charts! I’ve expanded my weekly look of the Billboard Hot 100 from the top five to the top ten (since the same five songs have been in the top…
What the Kids are Listening To: Fergie
The five top songs on this week’s Billboard Top 100 are the same as last week. Boring, but I’ll continue on with week 2 of “What the Kids are Listening To”… this week, we look at Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t…