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The EditoriaList: Top 5 Songs From TV Christmas Specials
posted: December 20, 2013
To a certain generation, nothing says Christmas quite like the airing of old-school TV specials. When you’re a kid, they herald the arrival of the season. Each weird cartoon (and they are all pretty bizarro)…
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Why Almost Everyone Loves "Bowing Down" To Beyoncé
posted: December 18, 2013
To be clear, this is not really about Beyoncé’s new album. It’s not about her incorporation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s feminist TED Talk on the track “Flawless.” It’s not about her anti-marketing strategy. And it’s definitely not about judging…
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Review: Childish Gambino ‘Because the Internet’
posted: December 17, 2013
While Donald Glover listed a slew of personal worries in a headline-grabbing series of Instagram notes earlier this year, his greatest fear must be stagnating. The 30 Rock writer turned Community star turned showrunner of a…
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R. Kelly Is Suuuuuuper Sketchy, Remember?
posted: December 16, 2013
R. Kelly A couple of pieces making the rounds today remind us that Robert Kelly is a really suspect dude and quite probably a sexually predatory monster (note: insert the word “allegedly” wherever applicable here).…
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Lana Del Rey Stole Half An Hour Of My Life And I Will Never Get It Back
posted: December 11, 2013
I really tried to give Lana Del Rey the benefit of the doubt on this one. I swear. I was hoping that her half-hour long short film Tropico, an epic tale based on the biblical story…
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Great Poets Whose Words Inspired Songs
posted: December 11, 2013
Tim Kinsella Tim Kinsella, the Chicago-based musician who accidentally helped invent what we know as emo while cutting his teeth in bands like Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, just released one of the more…
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