I hope that the New Year has been treating you well thus far! It's been a good minute since I've added a new post, things have been crazy taking a 3-week winterterm course (hooray statistics!).
Already, January is shaping up to be a pretty exciting month. Here are a few things on my radar right now...
- T-Pain and AutoTune: Could it be that AutoTune really is "out" as T-Pain proclaims at the end of the Can't Believe It remix with Justin Timberlake? I know the remix has been out for a good couple of months, but after having heard him screaming at the end of the track,"autotune is on its way out," I immediately ran to my trusty laptop and took to the web looking for answers. I came up with something like this: Apparently T-Pain thinks that he should be getting paid, yes PAID by other artists to receive his "blessing" over the Computer Love- sounding chaos that has been blowing up the airwaves. Apparently Diddy paid T-Pain to do a collab on his forthcoming album. Yup, extra royalties to T-Pain because he "brought back" that fun synthesizer voice thing that was used back in like the 70s (check out Snoops Sensual Seduction video, there's a point where he's singing through the tube thing). Check out the full report here
- Speaking of autotune and singing, I have to give a shout out to my little sister doing her thing on this track. Yes, there is Autotune; but it's for effect. I wonder if T-Pain would want royalties for something that people can do in the basements of their house with their own equipment.
- Notorious is coming out on Friday and I cannot WAIT to see it! I love, love, love biopics, and this one should be juicy (pun intended). There is already a lot of buzz surrounding this film, and apparently the Queen Bee Lil' Kim is not to pleased about how she was portrayed in the film. Check out the statement she released through her publicist.
- Washington, D.C. is about to be shut down. Bush declared a state of emergency today that goes into effect on Saturday. Already it's been announced that a bunch of roads are going to be closed and several metro stops will be inoperable. It seems like things change as to who can go where and bring what everyday, but check out some of these websites for the most up to the minute information:
- http://www.inauguration.dc.gov/index.asp
- www.wmata.com
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011301583.html?hpid=topnews
My last nugget for the New Year involves MTV's Real World. I've loved this show ever since I can remember, but in the last few years it's been full of crap. It formed its on stereotypes and kind of stayed in them: exotic location, insanely nice house, token gay man, token black man, stereotypical blond, the anti-blond, small town guy/girl who has never been around people who don't look like them. I was both relieved and excited when I tuned in last week to see a cast unlike one MTV has put on the air in a long, long time. This season is really going to bring up a lot of hot-button issues such as being transgendered in America, being a War Vetran at the age of 23, and hiding your sexuality (yes that was a stab at the Salt Lake city-native Chet, I really do think he is gay, and isn't out because he is Mormon and risks being thrown out of his family.)
Excited to see how the Inaugural weekend pans out, how The Real World ends, and how the rest of this year goes. The world always seems so pregnant with possibilities in the month of January, but why not carry that spirit with you all the time, eh?
