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...also that as one gets older the core audiences are younger and their reference points are different. What they laugh at and find funny, as those opposed to me, who came out of the '60s and '70s, is different. One does have to be aware to some degree of pop culture and what younger people laugh...
...Back in the world of bricks and mortar, the likes of H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt, the two largest tax prep outfits, are still able to charge an average of $150 to $200 a pop for doing a return. Pricing at these companies regularly rises 5% to 7% a year, according to Kartik Mehta, an analyst at FTN Midwest Securities - evidence that neither is exactly scrambling to hold on to customers. And the business model works even when the $49.95 price tag for TurboTax Deluxe Deduction Maximizer is taken out of the equation; that is, when the cost...
...Give It To Me”—which features Timberlake and Furtado, Timbaland’s golden boy and girl—is nothing new, though still a great song. It’s another entry in Timbaland’s project to reconcile pop, hip-hop, and electronica, opening with a solid drum-line beat and taking the listener home with heavy synth lines. “Bounce” is by far the most intense song on the album. Its continuous synth bassline, combined with the sick flows of Missy and Dre, as well as JT?...
...task to top that album, even for its brilliant creator.Despite the evolution Bird demonstrates in his latest, “Armchair Apocrypha,” the album is just not as captivating as its immediate predecessor. Listening to Bird’s subtle stylings and soaring, intellectual, rustic chamber pop, it seems impossible that he could have ever been a part of the ultra-swinging Squirrel Nut Zippers. He has transformed from floor-stomping fiddler into a mega-orchestral artist for the ages. Yet some aspects of “Armchair Apocrypha” aren’t improvements over...
Fountains of Wayne have definitely got it going on. The power-pop crooners who brought us “Stacy’s Mom” and “Mexican Wine” are back again, and this time their trademarks—unexpected subject matter and high-energy refrains—are more pronounced than ever. Mega-hit “Stacy’s Mom” dealt with teenage lust, but the band’s topics typically have far more gravity—and variety. “Traffic and Weather” addresses...