Lazerboy!

The video for Sergey and Timati's elector-pop song Lazerboy has arrived and it is super cool, filled with lasers and Kanye West sunglasses. Sergey's wears amazing outfits especially the ripped suit. I like how I don't know what the heck they are saying in this song. That fact that it's in Russian just makes it even cooler to me. I like the call response bit when Sergey says something in Russian then Timati says "Say oooh" and when the skanky woman does her little bit after the chorus and says Lazerboy. The slow part starting at 2: 15 is another great part of the song even though the laser making out scene is really out there. The whole thing with the phone cord is amazing though and same with the skanky woman holding the scissors after having cut up Sergey's suit. Also, they shoot lasers out of their fingers at the end. I love Sergey and this song.

Tidbits

-Emily Blunt (the sharp-tongued Emily in the Devil Wears Prada), one of my favorite young actresses, is dating Jon Krasinski of The Office. I'm so happy for them. Both of them are simply amazing.

-Taylor Swift's album, Fearless, topped the charts this week. Congrats, Taylor!

-Russian popstar Sergey performed a super colorful, deliciously poppy live cover of Erasure's Love to Hate You at this Latvian concert thing a few months ago. I LOVE his purple tank top! The choreography is also amazingly late 90's/early 00's!! Also, I love his expressions. He's so campy and pop. I love it.

Sergey Lazarev Covers "Love To Hate You" by Erasure from EQ Video on Vimeo.

New Sugababes!

The Sugababes have released the video for their second single off Catfights and Spotlights, No Can Do. This video is amazing. It is very smexy and very feminist, and I love it! Also, they all look really glam. I love the part when they walk over the bridge of men and how the men wince in pain as one of the gals steps on them with her super high heels. Also, its very cool how the men are just there to serve the gals (ex. the part when the two guys make themselves like tables). Another great part is at the end when Heidi (the blonde) is going down the line of men with a megaphone. Also, the song is very good too, very old school, but with slight modern touches like the reverb/echo of the horns and brass. The melody and tempo are very upbeat and sunny, but the lyrics are most definitely not. The best part is at the end when they sing: "Don't try and even call me on the telephone, it don't mean a thing cause I'm on my own". This is their hot-men-in-their-underwear-are-jerks-so-we-will-treat-them-as-servants video. Every girl group needs one of those. Brilliant.

Sasha Fierce Has Arrived

Beyonce's third album, the amazingly titled I Am...Sasha Fierce was released Tuesday. Surprisingly, I'm not going crazy over the album. It doesn't have the singles Dangerously in Love had (the classic Crazy in Love, Baby Boy, Naughty Girl) or the consistency and lack of filler that B'Day had. I usually adore Beyonce's upbeat numbers, but only a few have grabbed me on this new album. The slower songs are quite good though. I don't like how she split the album up into ballads and upbeat songs. I know she's trying to make a point, but it's kind of silly. People want a mix of ballads and dance tunes on pop records or in my case, all upbeat tunes. I love my Beyonce though, and I admire her for the risk she's taking. She's expanding her horizons. I'm liking Halo, Disappear, Ego, Scared of Lonely, Sweet Dreams, Radio and Single Ladies at the moment. The other songs on the album just didn't really jump out at me. The rest of the ballads sounded kind of the same and could have been sung by anyone. Radio, Scared of Lonely, and Single Ladies are great though. Radio and Scared of Lonely are very modern and of the moment especially the screechy synth laser sounds in Radio. I also love how Scared of Lonely has this hard bouncy walking beat. Single Ladies is a dazzling, dizzying mess of fierceness, sassy lyrics, and hard-hitting, super fast, back-breaking, workout-inducing beats that works pretty darn well. It's super catchy. The video is also amazing with the sick nasty choreography and crazy silver glove. It really shows how talented Beyonce is. The video for If I Were a Boy is even better. It's truly moving and enhances the song, giving it more meaning and context which is rare for a video to do. I watched her AOL Sessions and her voice is just crazy good (obviously). It can soar or it can have grit as she shown in a cover of Etta James' At Last. The photo on the left was taken at the AOL sessions. I love it. It's simple, and I love the Suga Mama in the background. All my love Sasha.

My Two New Interests

1) The amazingness that is CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. Now I've watched Mr. Cooper before and appreciated his talent and divine weave, but watching him on Election Night was absolutely delightful. He was smart, aware, and funny. Well done my Silver Fox.

2) Taylor Swift. I know, I know, she is country and I don't like country. I tried to get into it when I was younger: I bought a Kenny Chesney CD, but who was I kidding? I was making myself like it. Carrie Underwood, Shania, and Faith are good though, but they are more pop-country than country-pop. Anyways, Taylor Swift's songs are just really pretty and the melodies are pleasing. I like her voice too. I disliked Teardrops on My Guitar from her last album, but quite liked Our Song. Her new album, Fearless, came out on Tuesday, and I'm liking a lot of the songs. Her songs are very soothing and comforting. The lyrics are also quite good too, sometimes cliche, but sometimes very sweet and specific. She really knows how to sing a song and what to emphasize. That was my spiel.

New Girls Aloud

The new album is out!! I'm so happy! The songs I've heard are very good, but I don't know if it will match the near masterpiece status of last year's Tangled Up. I 'm loving the song the Pet Shop Boys contributed to the album. It's called The Loving Kind and it is honestly, one of the most beautiful and sad songs of the year. The first time I heard it, I loved it. It's similar to last year's Call the Shots, but I think it's better. I love the part after the first chorus when Nicola Roberts, the fragile voiced singer of the group (center in the picture above) sings "I'd do anything sing songs that lovers sing if I could change your mind am I not the loving kind" She sings it with so much sadness and heart; it's beautiful. Then, the song slows down and goes into this equally sad part about a train station and a crowded platform: "Somewhere on a Monday morning in the rush hour of another day standing on a crowded platform carelessly we lost our way". Amazing lyrics. The transitions in this song are seamless and it's a very subtle song as well. I love after they sing "disinclined" in the chorus how there's the subtle "ah ah ah ah" in the background. This song sounds shiny, metallic, and sophisticated. So pretty.

Yes, Yes, Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's president. I'm so happy. All is right.

Watching last night I noticed a few things:

-Watching CNN is the most intense bombardment of information. I love the dramatic noise that comes on when they make a prediction.

-The holograms, also on CNN, were hilarious. CNN was bursting at the seams with the most ridiculous technology. I particularly enjoyed when Will.i.am, lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas, was being interviewed by Anderson Cooper via hologram and how he did a little dance. Anderson Cooper didn't even react. Ahh, holograms. Everyone looks like a complete tool as a hologram, by the way. You just can't be taken seriously.

-I also just love Anderson Cooper. He just has something about him. He's a great reporter and journalist.

-Also, Jon King (I think that's his name) was having a lot of fun with that touch screen map last night. He was zooming in here and zooming out there. I loved when he was speculating how McCain could get up to 270 and he was saying "I'll give him this state and this one too,". Even he clearly wasn't going to win the state, he pressed it. It was just ridiculous after a point.

-Another great moment was when a black man on the CNN panel responded to Obama's win. All he said was 100 years ago the NAACP was formed and he didn't go into great detail. He let the facts stand for themselves. He was getting emotional, and it was truly moving.

-Also, I swear, Loni Love, the black woman who does the commentary on all the I Love the... on VH1 was on CNN crying and smiling in a bar in LA after the results had come in.

-Now on to the speech:

The part about the 106-year old woman really got me especially hearing it a second time. Also, Obama was talking about how the campaign started on the back porches of..., and the backyards of..., and I thought that showed how far he'd come.

-Oprah was in the audience

-Michelle Obama's dress was bold and modern, very metallic. I had mixed feelings, but I think it again showed how she is a modern American woman. I love her.

So much more to say. So much history made. Obama...congratulations! You are an inspiration to all. I don't know what else there is to say. It's just amazing.

Tina Fey News

The premiere of 30 Rock the other night was great. Also, it had 8.6 million viewers which are the best ratings the show has ever had. Yay!! There were so many clever and hilarious moments. Here are a few:

-Jenna's commercial for Tokyo University
-Tracy Jordan saying Noblesse Oblige
-Jenna saying: "I met Liz back in '93. I was dating O.J. Simpson then. He was really a gentleman," to the woman who is evaluating Liz to see if she is fit to adopt a child
-Jack having to seduce Don Geiss's "special" daughter who loves Mark Wahlberg and soap operas to the sounds of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
-Liz saying to Jack: "I had to hide all my Colin Firth movies in case they were considered erotica," Hahah. I love Liz. Also, how she had penis pasta.
-The fact that Liz keeps calling one of the black guys at work the name of the other black guy who works there. Also, the fact that the adoption agency evaluator has a black husband.
-The evaluator was played wonderfully by Megan Mullally (Karen from Will and Grace)
-When Jack and Liz had to have a pretend love scene in front of Don Geiss' daughter

Also, apparently Jon Hamm (Don Draper of Mad Men) will be doing a few episodes of the show playing Liz's love interest!!! So exciting. I love Jon Hamm. He was pretty darn funny on SNL last weekend. Ah yay! Oprah guest stars next week. Amazing.