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...strikingly toned down version of 1994’s “Crazy.” She plays a department store worker who hides under the cashier during close-down to let her boyfriend in after-hours for a night of G-rated megastore fun. The video is a mash-up of scenes from the couple’s crazy night in various departments and shots of DeGraw and company singing and performing beneath a garish chandalier while constantly smiling. The intended concept of the video, in my best judgment, is “Gavin DeGraw is doing a girl...
...Afterparty Babies,” Canadianproducer, DJ, and rapper CadenceWeapon (a.k.a. Rollie Pemberton) demonstrateshis talent for layering multiple beatsand lyrics with wit and self-assurance.For those who prefer lyrically sophisticatedrap music to high-end production,“Afterparty Babies” is a must. Reminiscentof the mash-ups of GirlTalk, the deliveryof Minneapolis rap artist POS, and thesocial commentary of an above-averagebackpacker, the album has a unique tonalpalette. He is both self-deprecating andcritical: in his introduction, for example,he calls into question his own unplannedbirth to delegitimize the whole concept ofthe “accidental child?...
...accessible to the people that are most affected by it: contemporary indie music lovers.Manhattan group Vampire Weekend, however, is the most recent group to try to posit a solution. To give you an idea of their sound: if African chanteuse Angélique Kidjo produced a mash-up cover of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and the Talking Heads’ “(Anything But) Flowers” that was performed by The Cars and The Talking Heads, their self-titled debut album would be it. They call their sound...
...broader contours, Cloverfield evokes real-life horror. The Wall Street area already had its monster mash, on 9/11. So there's no way you can watch downtown panic and crumbling towers without it seeming a bit... familiar. Naturally the director says, he didn't want to diminish or exploit the residue of grief from 9/11. And, as the press notes inform us, "The visual effects teams even took care that the collapsing buildings in the film were older-looking structures that did not evoke the style of the structures that were attacked six years earlier." You're right, visual effects...
Eating in the 21st century is part travel, part cultural mash-up. Sure, there are towns in Italy and France that eat only the limited dishes they've perfected over centuries: carbonara or cassoulet. And it's amazing to eat in those towns, or to down tapas at a stall in the middle of the Bouqueria farmers' market in Barcelona. But those villagers are just luckier versions of people who eat at their local McDonald's every day. I want the world to come to me, to see it shrink so small it fits on my plate. I want Maine...