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...excited about the new entertainment that continues to pop up as the holiday nears, though I hope that the more respectable celebrities will exercise caution in their holiday special endeavors. My few words of advice to entertainers as a holiday consumer: don’t use this as a time to experiment with crossing genres from singing to acting or vice versa, or to soften a hard image by surrounding yourself with singing children or elderly people. And when in doubt, do as some stars do and mysteriously, or rather strategically, disappear from the holiday radar screen?...
Last Sunday, Harvard’s perennially lighthearted undergraduates crowded around the TV for yet another Halloween episode of “The Simpsons.” Dartboard has always appreciated our campus’ special connection to that venerated, animated institution of pop culture. What seems like harmless fun on Fox every Sunday night is in fact controlled by the long, dead hand of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine and now produces drug-addled sitcom writers. And for those in need...
...most part ... [collections] I’ve browsed share the same 800- or 900-song collection of late 90s teen pop and prescribed 60s and 70s rock classics,” Nicholas B. Sylvester ’04 wrote in an e-mail. “Which is not surprising: keep in mind that there were 1800 people who paid to see Guster, and most of them probably enjoyed the show. All this is to say Harvard students’ musical taste is very underdeveloped and homogenous and I don’t see iTunes sharing being nearly the vehicle...
Despite a lot of similarities, crossbreeding it with pop is risky: the rottweiler is as likely to eat the fluffy little poodle as to share genetic material. Even then, the hybrid is usually brainless and sterile: see Blink...
...music never entirely succumbs to this gloom, with bright shiny guitar lines and evilly catchy choruses. This is pop music with growl and bite...