- I made you and now, I hate you. Such is the attitude of
songwriter Charli XCX, the auteur behind electro-popsters’ Icona Pop’s hit
single “I Love It.” The track became a ubiquitous club and party anthem and
raced up the charts despite being nauseatingly sugary and poppy to the point of
inducing diabetes in listeners, but the woman who penned the song – pop stars
not writing their own music, shocker – is not a fan of it in retrospect. Asked
about her most famous creation, Charli XCX described “I Love It” as one of "the most annoying songs in the
world." That’s saying something because Charli XCX has worked with a slew
of pop hacks on their mainstream anthems, including collaborating with Iggy
Azalea on her top hit “Fancy” and second single “Boom Clap.” She has also been
writing with producers Stargate and had plenty to say about her recent work. “"I've
played it to a couple of people and they're like, 'Oh my God this sounds like
it's going to go into an Avicii kind of moment.' And I'm like, 'Yeah but just
wait', and then it doesn't and it does something totally awesome and cool,” she
said. “That's what I like about them, they're kind of on the line and I feel
the same way about myself sometimes. 'I Love It' is one of the most annoying
songs in the world but it's kind of cool and it's the same with '90s fashion
which I'm obsessed with - it's so wrong it's right." In summing up[ her
penchant for pop crap, Charli XCX added that she strives to make music that
appeals to a large number of people because she doesn’t want to make a “hipster
record,” i.e. one that doesn’t sell lots of copies and make her a sh*t ton of
money……….
- Where’s the blow? That is the question authorities in
Paris are asking after it was revealed that one of their own police officers is
facing preliminary charges related to the disappearance of 116 lbs. of the
Bolivian marching powder from the police headquarters' evidence room. Prosecutor's
office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre did not identify the officer accused
of thieving what had to be quite a few bricks of the Colombian nose candy, but
did say that the unidentified anti-narcotics officer faces charges including
transport, possession and sale of narcotics and covering up a drug ring. In
other words, this officer may have lifted the coke in order to help out some
drug-dealing friends by making crucial evidence against them vanish. So far,
the sticky icky in question remains AWOL. It was being held in a locked room at
the Paris police headquarters just steps from the Notre Dame Cathedral, smack
dab in the middle of one of the City of Lights’ most tourist-infested areas. It
was reported missing on July 31 and despite the evidence against him, the
suspect has denied the charges against him, according to Thibault-Lecuivre.
Question marks abound in the case, including the exact street value of the
missing drugs. According to prosecutors, the estimated value of the stash is
$2.7 million, but that figure could go up or down depending upon which A-list
celebrities are currently visiting the French capital and looking to hoover down
a few lines of crank before they board their private jet to parts unknown………
- FC Barcelona has a lot to learn about protecting itself. The
Spanish super club made a bold move recently when it acquired controversial
striker Luis Suarez from Liverpool for a transfer fee in excess of $100
million, the move could come back to bite club officials because of a gross
mistake in Suarez’s new contract. According to Barcelona president Josep Maria
Bartomeu, Suarez's deal does not contain a "no biting" clause and that’s
a problem because there are three biting incidents and counting on Suarez’s
résumé. The most recent bite came during the World Cup in June, when Suarez
clamped down on the shoulder of Italian forward Giorgio Chiellini. The bite got
Suarez booted from the Cup and earned him a global four-month ban, meaning he
will not play for his new team until October. When he finally does get on the
pitch, Barcelona officials are going to find themselves remorseful that they
didn’t include that no-bite clause because given his track record, the next act
of cannibalism can’t be far off. "No, there is no clause. If the clause
did exist we wouldn't say it, but it doesn't exist,” Bartomeu said. We didn't
rethink the decision [to sign him] and we told Luis after the bite. He knows he
did wrong. He apologized. That's very important for us.” Nice try, Joe. Not
only should you have written explicit language into the contract to discourage
biting, but you should have also mandated an actual Hannibal Lecter mask for
Suarez in all games and Kevlar padding for all of his teammates and opponents
in order to prevent them from receiving an unwanted imprint of Suarez’s teeth
on some part of their body……….
- Why so angsty, Ken Krieger? Sure, running for elected
office and not being on all of the ballots is a problem, but winners rise above
problems. Krieger has a dream to represent the Mesquite district on the Peoria,
Ariz. city council and as a first-time candidate for public office, he went in naïvely
thinking that filling out the necessary paperwork and jumping through all of
the necessary hoops meant that he – like all other candidates – would be on all
of the actual ballots available to voters at local polling stations. That didn’t
happen and when election day rolled around and ballots were sent out, his name
was absent from 8,500 of them.
"I'm
gonna make sure people understand that I was left off that ballot and they
should give me a chance and find out who I am," Krieger said. The ballots
in question went out to early voters, so it’s not as if the actual election day
was impacted by the omission. Krieger did not appear on those early ballots because
his status was on hold while a judge reviewed his paperwork even though another
judge approved his candidacy back in June. "I failed to put him back on
the ballot," said Maricopa County Director of Elections Karen Osborne.
"I regret it very much." Osborne boldly labeled the omission a
personal error and noted that election officials remedied her mistake by
mailing a replacement ballot to all early voters. Along with their replacement
ballot, the lazy souls who requested to vote without having to go anywhere to
do so also receive a note explaining the situation. So…problem solved, right?
Nope. Kreiger's attorney says the county isn't going far enough to fix its own
mistake. Kory Langhofer is demanding that the city hold a special election
to ensure fairness, which sounds like an expensive way to fix a problem that
five people care about. City officials are resisting that proposal and well
they should as an inefficient bureaucratic organization choked by red tape………..
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