Thursday, October 11, 2012
Whatevs / Moving Pictures Spurgeon's General Warning: Los Angeles, I'm Yours
Posted by Ashley Spurgeon on Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:12 AM
“California Gurls”, Katy Perry
Surely the best song about California Gurls/Girls, if for no other reason than it doesn’t reduce Southern Girls to nothing more than “the way they talk.” :(
New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a nonsense article about Bruce Springsteen which included the observation that “Millions of people around the world are ferociously attached to Tupac Shakur’s version of Compton.” I asked Sean Maloney, our resident rap expert, just how many raps Tupac did about Compton and he responded, “He was from Oakland. If he mentions it at all, which I doubt, it's fleeting.” So the only reason David Brooks thinks Tupac rapped about Compton is because of the chorus to “California Love,” and Tupac doesn’t even sing the chorus. That David Brooks has heard this song at all is hilarious to me, and the fact that he didn’t feel the need to confirm anything via Google or Sean Maloney is both hilarious and egregious.
Brooks also referred to Brideshead Revisited as a story about an Edwardian manor house, but the Edwardian Era ended in 1910 (or at the start of World War, I if we’re being generous) and the story of Brideshead begins in the 1920s. I mean this stuff is right there on Wikipedia. I should get paid more than David Brooks, is what I’m saying.
“California Sun” Ramones
Perhaps the partiest version, which means it’s the best version.
No hair metal, no Doors, no Randy Newman. I’m going to have a good time.
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