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But, instead of compromising her brand and this tour, the debacle actually brought more interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, most attended these shows for the music, but there's also a sort of twisted voyeuristic schadenfreude at work here. Because of everything that led up to the tour, it began to feel like the final act of a great romance we've all been a part of in a strange parasitic way for years. We watched as they strutted their young love back in 2003 for Beyonce's debut single \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/ViwtNLUqkMY\">Crazy In Love\u003c/a>.\" We watched as she \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/uRVcKXlF42o\">revealed her pregnant belly\u003c/a> at an awards show. We watched them vacation and \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/pAT8CdKkKAY\">talk about utopia, Jesus, and Sade on a yacht\u003c/a>. So it makes sense that we would want to be there for the undoing of all that romantic history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13070\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy.jpg\" alt=\"bey-cryy\" width=\"350\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy-400x501.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">The tour's lights and video montages and pyrotechnics couldn't fully distract from the main event: taking a microscope to every choreographed interaction Beyonce and Jay shared on stage. Having attended both shows (\u003ca href=\"http://media.giphy.com/media/13jJIY0llDdip2/giphy.gif\">YOLO\u003c/a>), I had a lot of time to parse the body language and the main takeaway was that something is not right. Jay sidles up to hug Beyonce from behind at the end of \"Drunk In Love\" and Beyonce does her best not to recoil (\"OMG, she hates him!\" screamed two girls in front of me). Beyonce is a good actress, but she always lets a little something slip during these few interactions. And then there's Beyonce in a wedding dress fighting back tears while singing a song about a lying, trifling man from a 12 year relationship (the same time span as her courtship with Jay), or Beyonce borrowing Lauryn Hill's wounded \"It ain't workin, it ain't workin\" mantra from \"Ex Factor,\" or Jay mournfully rapping \"\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">I can understand why you want a divorce now\" in \"Song Cry.\" These songs are old, but the fact that they were specifically selected over countless others is noteworthy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So all of this could mean two things. A. The rumors are true. They're only staying together to make bank ($100 million so far from this tour) before announcing their conscious uncoupling after the tour wraps. Or B. This entire divorce thing is part publicity stunt, part performance art. Messing with the idea of their marriage and family for profit would be a cynical move, but perhaps there are two marriages at work here, the one they live at home and the one they live for us on stage. Maybe they feel fine messing with our conception of them because, at the end of the day, we \u003cem>don't\u003c/em> know them; it's all fiction. And what makes better fiction than a plot twist or a heartbreaking betrayal? As much as we are obsessed with happily ever after, we sure do get bored of it pretty quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the fantasy they package and present to us holds no real value in their day-to-day reality; maybe they are just playing characters in a modern day opera, putting on the show they know we want to see. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13029\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1.jpg\" alt=\"carrie\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good news for anyone who loved the Oscar-winning film \u003cem>Shakespeare in Love\u003c/em>: the \u003ca href=\"http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/shakespeare-in-love-adapter-revels-in-rave-reviews-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent musical adaptation\u003c/a> of the story of Shakespeare and his muse for \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em> is getting rave reviews in London. If you watched the original movie back in 1998 and thought, \"It's good, but what if the Bard had a power ballad explaining his feelings for Viola?\", then this is the musical for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few years, the silver screen has become the go-to source for theater producers looking to create a sure-fire musical hit. It makes sense; if audiences loved the movie, of course they'll love it on stage with a couple of chorus lines and catchy hooks thrown in. Some have been successful (\u003cem>Hairspray\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Producers\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Lion King\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Monty Python's Spamalot)\u003c/em>, while others\u003cem> \u003c/em>sound like SNL parodies or show tune hallucinations. Wouldn't you have loved to have been in the meeting where some brave composer said: \"You know what I could write a killer score for? That Stephen King movie about the girl soaked in pig blood at her prom. Her mother can sing a whole \"Dirty Pillows\" number. And, at the end, the destruction of the gym can be a piece of interpretive dance!\" Seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of our favorite odd musical adaptations, from supernatural feminist metaphors (\u003cem>The Witches of Eastwick\u003c/em>) to bungee jumping superheroes (\u003cem>Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Witches of Eastwick\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT43o2uRG8E&list=PLNXSK9RU25sj4Q_AZaW_BCpjWX-GffkRm\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Irving's novel of magical happenings was adapted into a film in 1987 starring Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer as the titular witches. In 2000, composer Dana P. Rowe, lyricist John Dempsey and hit-making producer Cameron Mackintosh decided to take the story to the London stage. Five, six, seven, eight; spell, hex, curse, conjure JAZZ HANDS! This time, the witches were led by Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, with the devilish role portrayed in the film by Jack Nicholson going to \u003cem>Deadwood\u003c/em> actor Ian McShane. Problems surrounded the new production with rewrites, cast changes and special effects challenges, but the show has gone on to tour Europe and Australia (although never really becoming a hit with U.S. audiences). A musical about a polyamorous arrangement of witches and a gossipy small town chorus sounds like a good place to start. Unfortunatley, supernatural/horror elements never really worked in a musical setting, and don't even get us started on the infamous \"cherry-pit puking scene\" that made it into the show. Some things just shouldn't be sung about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Fearless Vampire Killers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of all of Roman Polanski's films, 1967's \u003cem>The Fearless Vampire Killers\u003c/em> is probably the most appropriate for a musical adaptation (not that that means much; it's just a better choice than \u003cem>The Pianist\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Rosemary's Baby)\u003c/em>. The story of a 19th century professor hunting Eastern Europe for proof of vampires (and his eventual encounter with the bloodsuckers) was given a score by Jim Steinman and originally found success in Vienna in 1997. When the team tried to transfer the show to Broadway in 2002 (retitling it \u003cem>Dance of the Vampires\u003c/em>), the trouble began. Temperamental \u003cem>Phantom of the Opera\u003c/em> star Michael Crawford apparently insisted on changes to his Count character, and the horror or spoof question surrounding the tone of the show was never resolved. In the end, the musical looked and sounded like a Meatloaf music video and audiences stayed away. In addition to \u003cem>Dance of the Vampires, \u003c/em> adaptations of \u003cem>Dracula\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Interview with the Vampire\u003c/em> have also famously flopped on stage. Theater makers, take the hint; the undead are not musical material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Heathers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/Gpad8LUEwsg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1988 mean teen classic starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty first found its way to the stage in a 2010 concert and is closing off-Broadway this August after a five month run. The show kind of works because it \u003cem>gets\u003c/em> that turning a story about murder via Draino, faked gay suicide pacts and the sinister side of adolescence into a bunch of chipper show tunes is kind of ridiculous; composers and lyricists Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy are totally in on the joke. The original \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em> was almost operatic in its insanity and songs like \"My Dead Gay Son\" make good use of some of the most quotable lines from the film. That said, it's still a totally absurd premise for a musical, but the score helps keep the irony and darkness front and center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Rocky\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-qD7oa1K8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1976 Academy Award-winning boxing classic \u003cem>Rocky\u003c/em> is known for a lot of things: great training montages, an underdog hero and stunning shots of Philly. What it's not known for is a particularly verbal or even enunciation-friendly leading man. The idea of mumbling, taken-one-too-many-punches-to-the-mouth Rocky singing a love ballad to Adrienne is laughable, although we can totally see Apollo Creed busting into song, since he was practically the James Brown of boxing. The adaption, originated in Hamburg in 2012 with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Thomas Meehan, is currently playing on Broadway. What works for the show is the athleticism in the choreography (jump ropes, for crying out loud!) and the fact that we get to hear \"Eye of the Tiger\" onstage. But the idea of Rocky Balboa singing is just too much. If we were going to turn a Stallone movie into a musical, our first choice would be \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105477/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!\u003c/em> \u003c/a>without a doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/4hiS2u9QCJg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superheroes have a troubled history in musical theater (see notorious 1966 show and 1975 television special \u003cem>It's A Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman\u003c/em>), but that didn't stop \u003cem>Lion King\u003c/em> director Julie Taymor and U2 composer and lyricists Bono and The Edge from trying to wring a few songs out of Spider-Man. The production is one of the most notorious in recent Broadway history; a year before opening, stunt disasters, rewrites, sky rocking budgets and the eventual dismissal of Taymor from the show all made the musical highly anticipated for all the wrong reasons. When the show finally opened in 2011, it had the distinction of having the most previews in Broadway history (182, to be exact) and was also the most expensive show ever produced for the Great White Way. While critics were dazzled by the stunts and Eiko Ishioka's costumes, everything else was blasted. Call me old fashioned, but the Green Goblin is so much less menacing when he's playing the piano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Carrie\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/sYgRMHv68W4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1988, $8 million musical adaptation of \u003cem>Carrie\u003c/em> seems like a really bizarre idea, even in light of the cult status the blood-soaked flop has earned in subsequent revivals. \u003cem>Fame\u003c/em> composer and lyricist Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford wrote the score, Debbie Allen choreographed and legit diva Betty Buckley (the singer of \"Memory\" in \u003cem>Cats\u003c/em>) was cast as Carrie's religious fanatic mom, but not even those pros could turn the musical that never should have been into a hit. Critical response was negative and audiences were bewildered during the short 15 performance run; some performances ended with both boos and standing ovations. Some fun facts from the show: the original actress playing Carrie's mother in previews resigned from the show after nearly being decapitated by a set piece, a song about Carrie's period scare in the locker room was sadly cut in try-outs and the actresses that played Carrie through the productions almost were electrocuted multiple times when their mics shorted out after getting drenched with blood at the prom. No matter what may come, we're betting \u003cem>Carrie\u003c/em> will hold its spot as the most absurd musical adaptation ever (unless I finally get to produce my all-singing tribute to the sexual-compulsive film \u003cem>Shame\u003c/em> sometime in the next few years!).\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13029\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1.jpg\" alt=\"carrie\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good news for anyone who loved the Oscar-winning film \u003cem>Shakespeare in Love\u003c/em>: the \u003ca href=\"http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/shakespeare-in-love-adapter-revels-in-rave-reviews-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent musical adaptation\u003c/a> of the story of Shakespeare and his muse for \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em> is getting rave reviews in London. If you watched the original movie back in 1998 and thought, \"It's good, but what if the Bard had a power ballad explaining his feelings for Viola?\", then this is the musical for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few years, the silver screen has become the go-to source for theater producers looking to create a sure-fire musical hit. It makes sense; if audiences loved the movie, of course they'll love it on stage with a couple of chorus lines and catchy hooks thrown in. Some have been successful (\u003cem>Hairspray\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Producers\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Lion King\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Monty Python's Spamalot)\u003c/em>, while others\u003cem> \u003c/em>sound like SNL parodies or show tune hallucinations. Wouldn't you have loved to have been in the meeting where some brave composer said: \"You know what I could write a killer score for? That Stephen King movie about the girl soaked in pig blood at her prom. Her mother can sing a whole \"Dirty Pillows\" number. And, at the end, the destruction of the gym can be a piece of interpretive dance!\" Seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of our favorite odd musical adaptations, from supernatural feminist metaphors (\u003cem>The Witches of Eastwick\u003c/em>) to bungee jumping superheroes (\u003cem>Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Witches of Eastwick\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/AT43o2uRG8E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/AT43o2uRG8E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>John Irving's novel of magical happenings was adapted into a film in 1987 starring Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer as the titular witches. In 2000, composer Dana P. Rowe, lyricist John Dempsey and hit-making producer Cameron Mackintosh decided to take the story to the London stage. Five, six, seven, eight; spell, hex, curse, conjure JAZZ HANDS! This time, the witches were led by Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, with the devilish role portrayed in the film by Jack Nicholson going to \u003cem>Deadwood\u003c/em> actor Ian McShane. Problems surrounded the new production with rewrites, cast changes and special effects challenges, but the show has gone on to tour Europe and Australia (although never really becoming a hit with U.S. audiences). A musical about a polyamorous arrangement of witches and a gossipy small town chorus sounds like a good place to start. Unfortunatley, supernatural/horror elements never really worked in a musical setting, and don't even get us started on the infamous \"cherry-pit puking scene\" that made it into the show. Some things just shouldn't be sung about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Fearless Vampire Killers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of all of Roman Polanski's films, 1967's \u003cem>The Fearless Vampire Killers\u003c/em> is probably the most appropriate for a musical adaptation (not that that means much; it's just a better choice than \u003cem>The Pianist\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Rosemary's Baby)\u003c/em>. The story of a 19th century professor hunting Eastern Europe for proof of vampires (and his eventual encounter with the bloodsuckers) was given a score by Jim Steinman and originally found success in Vienna in 1997. When the team tried to transfer the show to Broadway in 2002 (retitling it \u003cem>Dance of the Vampires\u003c/em>), the trouble began. Temperamental \u003cem>Phantom of the Opera\u003c/em> star Michael Crawford apparently insisted on changes to his Count character, and the horror or spoof question surrounding the tone of the show was never resolved. In the end, the musical looked and sounded like a Meatloaf music video and audiences stayed away. In addition to \u003cem>Dance of the Vampires, \u003c/em> adaptations of \u003cem>Dracula\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Interview with the Vampire\u003c/em> have also famously flopped on stage. Theater makers, take the hint; the undead are not musical material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Heathers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Gpad8LUEwsg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Gpad8LUEwsg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The 1988 mean teen classic starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty first found its way to the stage in a 2010 concert and is closing off-Broadway this August after a five month run. The show kind of works because it \u003cem>gets\u003c/em> that turning a story about murder via Draino, faked gay suicide pacts and the sinister side of adolescence into a bunch of chipper show tunes is kind of ridiculous; composers and lyricists Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy are totally in on the joke. The original \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em> was almost operatic in its insanity and songs like \"My Dead Gay Son\" make good use of some of the most quotable lines from the film. That said, it's still a totally absurd premise for a musical, but the score helps keep the irony and darkness front and center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Rocky\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/f7-qD7oa1K8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/f7-qD7oa1K8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The 1976 Academy Award-winning boxing classic \u003cem>Rocky\u003c/em> is known for a lot of things: great training montages, an underdog hero and stunning shots of Philly. What it's not known for is a particularly verbal or even enunciation-friendly leading man. The idea of mumbling, taken-one-too-many-punches-to-the-mouth Rocky singing a love ballad to Adrienne is laughable, although we can totally see Apollo Creed busting into song, since he was practically the James Brown of boxing. The adaption, originated in Hamburg in 2012 with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Thomas Meehan, is currently playing on Broadway. What works for the show is the athleticism in the choreography (jump ropes, for crying out loud!) and the fact that we get to hear \"Eye of the Tiger\" onstage. But the idea of Rocky Balboa singing is just too much. If we were going to turn a Stallone movie into a musical, our first choice would be \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105477/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Stop! 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12745\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Selfy.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Hatfield, aka Twerk\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Selfy.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Selfy-400x276.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Hatfield, a.k.a. Twerk\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first heard about \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twerking\" target=\"_blank\">twerking\u003c/a>,\" I had no idea that, through my husband, I had a direct and unique personal connection to the brazen dance craze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meet \u003ca href=\"http://www.audibleoddities.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Hatfield\u003c/a>, also known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.discogs.com/artist/2839-Twerk\" target=\"_blank\">Twerk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1989, he was a skinny, 16-year-old skateboarder living in Santa Cruz, California. Like many other white kids in the late '80s, he and his group of friends were just getting into hip-hop music. They were fascinated with the rising \"b-boy\" movement at the time and were inspired by artists like \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_B._%26_Rakim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eric B. and Rakim\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPMD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">EPMD\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: left;margin-right: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7t8eoA_1jQ?rel=0&w=300&h=225]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Graffiti was a big part of being a 'b-boy' and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=b%20boy&defid=2182205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">culture encompassed music, dancing and art\u003c/a>. Hatfield and his crew, a.k.a. the \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.graffiti.org/lords/\" target=\"_blank\">Lords\u003c/a>,\" emulated their idols and started spinning hip-hop music and 'doing burners' or 'piecing graffiti:' creating works of original art on buildings, under bridges and on the walls of tunnels throughout Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His friend Jason, a.k.a. Kolage, came up with the graffiti name \"Twerk\" for Hatfield in 1990. Jason had already experimented with varying combinations of letters and had generated a list of names that started with \"Tw.\" Twine, Twerp, Twirk, Twurq were some early iterations. But when Hatfield saw \"Twerk,\" he thought it was the best candidate for his art and it became his graffiti nom de plume through the mid-'90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Visually, I liked the way it looked, the way the letters interacted with each other,\" says Hatfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Twerk-1994-SF.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-12746\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Twerk-1994-SF-1024x355.jpg\" alt=\"Early graffiti work by Shawn Hatfield (Twerk) in San Francisco from 1994\" width=\"1024\" height=\"355\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early graffiti work by Shawn Hatfield (Twerk) in San Francisco from 1994.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Hatfield became more deeply involved in music, he began using Twerk as his DJ name when he'd spin techno records at local raves and clubs in the Bay Area, as well as\u003ca href=\"http://www.discogs.com/artist/2839-Twerk\"> the name he used for his original works\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157777946&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hip-hop group Yin Yang Twins released the song, \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying_Yang_Twins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Whistle While You Twurk\u003c/a>\" in 2000. It was the first time Hatfield had heard this term (with an alternate spelling) being used in a different context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: right;margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl2067vJiIY?rel=0&w=300&h=225]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\"I remember when I first heard the song and realized that the spelling was different and didn't think much of it. I had basically dismissed it at that point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that changed over time as more songs began to emerge that used the same spelling as his artist name. Hatfield became annoyed when he saw that \"Twerk\" was getting pushed down in search results online and being taken over by booty-shaking. \"I was frustrated that my music was being buried on the internet. It was getting increasingly more difficult to find. And then I was getting frustrated by telling people about my work and having it being confused with this new definition, as if I was naming myself after it, and eventually became so popular it seemed to completely annihilate any meaning that was connected to my art. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12780\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/twerktmf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-12780\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/twerktmf-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Hatfield, aka Twerk, performing at the Transmediale Festival on February 16, 2002\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Hatfield, a.k.a. Twerk, performing at the Transmediale Festival on February 16, 2002\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He created his own \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twerk&defid=212752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Urban Dictionary listing\u003c/a> in 2003 in response to the cultural persistence of \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twerk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"rhythmic gyrating of the lower fleshy extremities\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twerking\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia\u003c/a>, ‘twerking’, as relating to dance moves, evolved as thus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Comparisons have been made with traditional African dances, for instance the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapouka\" target=\"_blank\">Mapouka\u003c/a> from West Africa which was banned from the television of Ivory Coast due to its suggestive nature.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, twerking was introduced into hip-hop culture by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_music\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans bounce music\u003c/a> scene. In 1993, DJ Jubilee recorded the dance tune \"Do The Jubilee All\" in which he chanted, \"Twerk baby, twerk baby, twerk, twerk, twerk.\" The video for the song increased the popularity of twerking. In 1995, New Orleans-based rapper Cheeky Blakk recorded the song \"Twerk Something!\" a call-and-response dance song dedicated to twerking. In 1997, DJ Jubilee recorded \"Get Ready, Ready\" in which he encouraged listeners to \"Twerk it!\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12747\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/TwerkTwerkTwerk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-12747\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/TwerkTwerkTwerk-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"A t-shirt sent to Hatfield as a funny joke from a friend. \" width=\"300\" height=\"195\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A t-shirt sent to Hatfield as a funny joke from a friend.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, twerking hit an all-time high. As Wikipedia notes, \"\u003ci>In 2013, \"twerk\" was added to the \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" style=\"color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Oxford Dictionary Online\" href=\"http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/twerk\">Oxford Dictionary Online\u003c/a>. The dictionary said the word had been around for 20 years, but the evidence for it to be included in the dictionary had tipped the scale when U.S. pop star \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miley_Cyrus\" target=\"_blank\">Miley Cyrus\u003c/a> gave a controversial and headline-producing twerking dance at the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Awards\" target=\"_blank\">MTV Video Music Awards\u003c/a> on August 25, 2013.\"\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Hatfield's career had shifted again in the early aughts from performing to being behind-the-scenes as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.audibleoddities.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mastering engineer\u003c/a>. Fans, friends and colleagues have ironically noted how the twerking trend has put a small spotlight back on his old music career:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Way before Miley Cyrus was twerkin on TV, Shawn Hatfield (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AudibleOddities\">@AudibleOddities\u003c/a>) was getting his introspective Twerk on: \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/eYvytuZPiQ\">http://t.co/eYvytuZPiQ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Trifonic (@trifonic) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/trifonic/statuses/372894037079887873\">August 29, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AudibleOddities\">@AudibleOddities\u003c/a> Must be great having the whole world talking about you the past couple of days… \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TwerkIt?src=hash\">#TwerkIt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Don Gunn (@don_k_gunn) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/don_k_gunn/statuses/372576532356546560\">August 28, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's interesting that words can simultaneously evolve from different locations with different meanings,\" says Hatfield. \"I'm older now and I take myself a lot less seriously. It doesn't bother me anymore and in some ways, I find it humorous. I still get teased all the time by my friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Hatfield says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"http://rlv.zcache.com/keep_calm_and_twerk_on_post_cards-r0314ceaa618c405ab25bdc502828b667_vgbaq_8byvr_324.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://rlv.zcache.com/keep_calm_and_twerk_on_post_cards-r0314ceaa618c405ab25bdc502828b667_vgbaq_8byvr_324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Zazzle.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12745\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Selfy.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Hatfield, aka Twerk\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Selfy.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Selfy-400x276.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Hatfield, a.k.a. Twerk\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first heard about \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twerking\" target=\"_blank\">twerking\u003c/a>,\" I had no idea that, through my husband, I had a direct and unique personal connection to the brazen dance craze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meet \u003ca href=\"http://www.audibleoddities.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Hatfield\u003c/a>, also known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.discogs.com/artist/2839-Twerk\" target=\"_blank\">Twerk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1989, he was a skinny, 16-year-old skateboarder living in Santa Cruz, California. Like many other white kids in the late '80s, he and his group of friends were just getting into hip-hop music. They were fascinated with the rising \"b-boy\" movement at the time and were inspired by artists like \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_B._%26_Rakim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eric B. and Rakim\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPMD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">EPMD\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: left;margin-right: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/E7t8eoA_1jQ?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/E7t8eoA_1jQ?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Graffiti was a big part of being a 'b-boy' and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=b%20boy&defid=2182205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">culture encompassed music, dancing and art\u003c/a>. Hatfield and his crew, a.k.a. the \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.graffiti.org/lords/\" target=\"_blank\">Lords\u003c/a>,\" emulated their idols and started spinning hip-hop music and 'doing burners' or 'piecing graffiti:' creating works of original art on buildings, under bridges and on the walls of tunnels throughout Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His friend Jason, a.k.a. Kolage, came up with the graffiti name \"Twerk\" for Hatfield in 1990. Jason had already experimented with varying combinations of letters and had generated a list of names that started with \"Tw.\" Twine, Twerp, Twirk, Twurq were some early iterations. But when Hatfield saw \"Twerk,\" he thought it was the best candidate for his art and it became his graffiti nom de plume through the mid-'90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Visually, I liked the way it looked, the way the letters interacted with each other,\" says Hatfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Twerk-1994-SF.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-12746\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/Twerk-1994-SF-1024x355.jpg\" alt=\"Early graffiti work by Shawn Hatfield (Twerk) in San Francisco from 1994\" width=\"1024\" height=\"355\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early graffiti work by Shawn Hatfield (Twerk) in San Francisco from 1994.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Hatfield became more deeply involved in music, he began using Twerk as his DJ name when he'd spin techno records at local raves and clubs in the Bay Area, as well as\u003ca href=\"http://www.discogs.com/artist/2839-Twerk\"> the name he used for his original works\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157777946&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hip-hop group Yin Yang Twins released the song, \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying_Yang_Twins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Whistle While You Twurk\u003c/a>\" in 2000. It was the first time Hatfield had heard this term (with an alternate spelling) being used in a different context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: right;margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gl2067vJiIY?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gl2067vJiIY?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\"I remember when I first heard the song and realized that the spelling was different and didn't think much of it. I had basically dismissed it at that point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that changed over time as more songs began to emerge that used the same spelling as his artist name. Hatfield became annoyed when he saw that \"Twerk\" was getting pushed down in search results online and being taken over by booty-shaking. \"I was frustrated that my music was being buried on the internet. It was getting increasingly more difficult to find. And then I was getting frustrated by telling people about my work and having it being confused with this new definition, as if I was naming myself after it, and eventually became so popular it seemed to completely annihilate any meaning that was connected to my art. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12780\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/twerktmf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-12780\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/twerktmf-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Hatfield, aka Twerk, performing at the Transmediale Festival on February 16, 2002\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Hatfield, a.k.a. Twerk, performing at the Transmediale Festival on February 16, 2002\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He created his own \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twerk&defid=212752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Urban Dictionary listing\u003c/a> in 2003 in response to the cultural persistence of \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twerk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"rhythmic gyrating of the lower fleshy extremities\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twerking\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia\u003c/a>, ‘twerking’, as relating to dance moves, evolved as thus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Comparisons have been made with traditional African dances, for instance the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapouka\" target=\"_blank\">Mapouka\u003c/a> from West Africa which was banned from the television of Ivory Coast due to its suggestive nature.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, twerking was introduced into hip-hop culture by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_music\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans bounce music\u003c/a> scene. In 1993, DJ Jubilee recorded the dance tune \"Do The Jubilee All\" in which he chanted, \"Twerk baby, twerk baby, twerk, twerk, twerk.\" The video for the song increased the popularity of twerking. In 1995, New Orleans-based rapper Cheeky Blakk recorded the song \"Twerk Something!\" a call-and-response dance song dedicated to twerking. In 1997, DJ Jubilee recorded \"Get Ready, Ready\" in which he encouraged listeners to \"Twerk it!\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12747\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/TwerkTwerkTwerk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-12747\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/TwerkTwerkTwerk-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"A t-shirt sent to Hatfield as a funny joke from a friend. \" width=\"300\" height=\"195\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A t-shirt sent to Hatfield as a funny joke from a friend.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, twerking hit an all-time high. As Wikipedia notes, \"\u003ci>In 2013, \"twerk\" was added to the \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" style=\"color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Oxford Dictionary Online\" href=\"http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/twerk\">Oxford Dictionary Online\u003c/a>. The dictionary said the word had been around for 20 years, but the evidence for it to be included in the dictionary had tipped the scale when U.S. pop star \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miley_Cyrus\" target=\"_blank\">Miley Cyrus\u003c/a> gave a controversial and headline-producing twerking dance at the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Awards\" target=\"_blank\">MTV Video Music Awards\u003c/a> on August 25, 2013.\"\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Hatfield's career had shifted again in the early aughts from performing to being behind-the-scenes as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.audibleoddities.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mastering engineer\u003c/a>. Fans, friends and colleagues have ironically noted how the twerking trend has put a small spotlight back on his old music career:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Way before Miley Cyrus was twerkin on TV, Shawn Hatfield (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AudibleOddities\">@AudibleOddities\u003c/a>) was getting his introspective Twerk on: \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/eYvytuZPiQ\">http://t.co/eYvytuZPiQ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Trifonic (@trifonic) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/trifonic/statuses/372894037079887873\">August 29, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AudibleOddities\">@AudibleOddities\u003c/a> Must be great having the whole world talking about you the past couple of days… \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TwerkIt?src=hash\">#TwerkIt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Don Gunn (@don_k_gunn) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/don_k_gunn/statuses/372576532356546560\">August 28, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's interesting that words can simultaneously evolve from different locations with different meanings,\" says Hatfield. \"I'm older now and I take myself a lot less seriously. It doesn't bother me anymore and in some ways, I find it humorous. I still get teased all the time by my friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Hatfield says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"http://rlv.zcache.com/keep_calm_and_twerk_on_post_cards-r0314ceaa618c405ab25bdc502828b667_vgbaq_8byvr_324.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://rlv.zcache.com/keep_calm_and_twerk_on_post_cards-r0314ceaa618c405ab25bdc502828b667_vgbaq_8byvr_324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Zazzle.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/26/soundtracks-for-all-your-bay-area-road-trips/san-francisco-road-trip/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12581\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/san-francisco-road-trip.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Thinkstock\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/san-francisco-road-trip.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/san-francisco-road-trip-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Thinkstock\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Summers in San Francisco make me itch to get out of the city every weekend. While the city is lovely during the summer (albeit cold), I long for long breezy car rides, warm evenings where you don’t have to put on a sweater, and any body of water where I can swim. Besides packing the requisite toothbrush, shades, bathing suit, tank tops, sunscreen, and casual-but-literary novel, I always make sure to bring the perfect soundtrack for that particular kind of road trip. Here are a couple recent releases and the best Bay Area trips where you should spin them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12557\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/IMG_0806.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12557 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/IMG_0806-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0806\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windshield view of the Bay Bridge.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robyn/Royskopp’s \u003ci>Do It Again\u003c/i> = crossing into/from the East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re taking the Bay Bridge, BART, or ferry to cross between San Francisco and the East Bay, there's something about the throbbing collaboration between Swedish pop auteur, Robyn, and her pals Royskopp that captures the beauty of going over or under the Bay and discovering the summer fun that's just a short stretch of water away. Opener, “Monument” is practically about the bridge: “I will let this monument represent a moment of my life.” And \"Do It Again\" is the perfect combo of Robyn's romance-on-the-dancefloor songwriting and Royskopp's dark beats to blast when you have to return home to your side of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kelis’\u003ci> Food\u003c/i> = \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco,+CA/Guerneville,+CA/@38.2343924,-122.7080557,9z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!2m2!1d-122.4194155!2d37.7749295!1m5!1m1!1s0x80841f39fbf9d055:0x2cc3770dddb5fab2!2m2!1d-122.9961102!2d38.5018575!3e0\">River Road\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An easy day trip away, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Guerneville,+CA/@38.4978599,-122.994786,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80841f39fbf9d055:0x2cc3770dddb5fab2\">River Road\u003c/a> is a perfect place to laze about and drink beers while floating down the Russian River. Whether you get into the shenanigans of Guerneville or go a little further to \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/monte-rio-beach-monte-rio\">Monte Rio\u003c/a> where it's a little less crowded, you'll need something good to listen to while making the last 20 miles to fresh water. Kelis' funky, retro new album is the perfect answer until you get find a spot to settle your blankets and barbecue to \"Jerk Ribs\" or \"Friday Fish Fry.\" And because the song titles will surely stoke your appetite, grab a fancy bite to eat at \u003ca href=\"http://eatatboon.com/\">Boon Eat + Drink\u003c/a> or a burger and beer at \u003ca href=\"http://www.stumptown.com/\">Stumptown Brewery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-12561 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/IMG_6594-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6594\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cstrong>Lana Del Rey’s \u003ci>Ultraviolence\u003c/i> = \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco,+CA/Big+Sur/@37.2316094,-121.9923581,8z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m16!4m15!1m5!1m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!2m2!1d-122.4194155!2d37.7749295!1m5!1m1!1s0x808de8a7780e4d77:0x37e8d859caefac61!2m2!1d-121.8181792!2d36.331608!2m1!6e4!3e0\">Big Sur\u003c/a> on a foggy day\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everybody’s talking about Lana’s sophomore sad-sack triumph. I wouldn’t call her Americana masterpiece much of a road trip banger (especially for the driver!), but imagine an inevitable foggy morning driving down the coast on Highway 1 listening to “West Coast” or “Cruel World.” All those blown-out-of-proportion guitars, all those crashing waves and rocky cliffs: they were practically meant to be together. Round out the drive by stopping by t\u003ca href=\"http://www.henrymiller.org/\">he Henry Miller Memorial Library\u003c/a>, where you can channel Del Rey's literary references and browse books full of sad girls and old men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SZA’s \u003ci>Z\u003c/i> = \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco,+CA/Orr+Hot+Springs+Resort,+13201+Orr+Springs+Rd,+Ukiah,+CA+95482/@38.6775694,-122.8963591,8z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m16!4m15!1m5!1m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!2m2!1d-122.4194155!2d37.7749295!1m5!1m1!1s0x808174399ef472ad:0x8da28f7caca3e2c!2m2!1d-123.367796!2d39.231613!2m1!6e4!3e0\">Orr Hot Springs Road\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orr Hot Springs Road is one of the most beautiful roads north of the Bay Area. Mountainous and remote, it connects Ukiah on the 101 to Mendocino on the 1 and contains \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/orr-hot-springs-resort-ukiah\">Orr Hot Springs Resort\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=434\">Montgomery Woods\u003c/a>. Non-single cut, \"Julia\" sums up the curvy roads, the clothing-optional quietness of the hot springs, and the magical trickling light in the redwood groves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12562\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/IMG_6572.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12562\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/IMG_6572-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6572\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lady's bathroom at the Madonna Inn. Photo: Lisa Gordon\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mariah Carey’s \u003ci>Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse\u003c/i> = Paso Robles and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco,+CA/The+Madonna+Inn,+100+Madonna+Rd,+San+Luis+Obispo,+CA+93405/@36.9032047,-121.1959125,7z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m16!4m15!1m5!1m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!2m2!1d-122.4194155!2d37.7749295!1m5!1m1!1s0x80ecf0e660039bc7:0x6f2837fd2edba5ec!2m2!1d-120.674663!2d35.267297!2m1!6e4!3e0\">Madonna Inn\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is always a time and place for Mariah. Forget Sonoma and Napa, take old school jam “Dedicated” south to Paso Robles, which is known for its French-style blends and Zins. Roll up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.castorocellars.com/Discover-Castoro/Estate-Vineyards\">Castoro Cellars\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://jadavineyard.com/\">Jada Vineyard\u003c/a> blaring “Thirsty” and you will be well taken care of. The only way to end the tour would be to end up at the infamous and wildly decadent \u003ca href=\"http://www.madonnainn.com/\">Madonna Inn\u003c/a>, an over the top kitschy hotel that Mimi was practically born to rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Dress Well’s \u003ci>What Is This Heart?\u003c/i> = \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco,+CA/June+Lake,+CA/@38.619739,-120.7421601,7z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m16!4m15!1m5!1m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!2m2!1d-122.4194155!2d37.7749295!1m5!1m1!1s0x80966ae6eb4dd0ab:0x65648c79be3ffeb4!2m2!1d-119.0754232!2d37.7797825!2m1!6e4!3e0\">June Lake\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June Lake is almost too far to even get to from the Bay Area, but its secret and secluded mountain lakes are a magical place for a long weekend (or week or month). How to Dress Well's new release is just as magical and surprising. Secret, building choruses that are as clean and crisp as the Caribbean blue of the lake and as personal and honest as the sweet owners of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.junelakehaven.com/\">The Haven\u003c/a> or the bartenders of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thetigerbarcafe.com/\">The Tiger Bar and Cafe.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12563\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 224px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/IMG_2599.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12563 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/IMG_2599-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2599\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Road to Bodie. Photo: Lisa Gordon\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Black Keys’ \u003ci>Turn Blue\u003c/i> = \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco,+CA/Bodie,+CA/@38.619739,-120.7213407,7z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m16!4m15!1m5!1m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!2m2!1d-122.4194155!2d37.7749295!1m5!1m1!1s0x8097ca2bfa68c0cb:0x140de8f45eae419f!2m2!1d-119.0122222!2d38.2122222!2m1!6e4!3e0\">Bodie Ghost Town\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to travel down a dusty dirt road with sheep clanging their bells over the hillside before you even get to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bodie.com/\">Bodie Ghost Town\u003c/a>. The Black Keys’ most recent release captures the eerie, forlorn atmosphere not only of the town itself with its sand blown, abandoned homes full of rotting furniture, newspaper and drapery, but the road that gets you there. Title track “Turn Blue” perfectly expresses the sky as dusk settles and you hightail it out of there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to this playlist of the best cuts from each album:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:12134572776:playlist:03Rvf7goHYWVIk2n2RSigs\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And leave your favorite road trip albums in the comments!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I wouldn’t call her Americana masterpiece much of a road trip banger (especially for the driver!), but imagine an inevitable foggy morning driving down the coast on Highway 1 listening to “West Coast” or “Cruel World.” All those blown-out-of-proportion guitars, all those crashing waves and rocky cliffs: they were practically meant to be together. Round out the drive by stopping by t\u003ca href=\"http://www.henrymiller.org/\">he Henry Miller Memorial Library\u003c/a>, where you can channel Del Rey's literary references and browse books full of sad girls and old men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SZA’s \u003ci>Z\u003c/i> = \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco,+CA/Orr+Hot+Springs+Resort,+13201+Orr+Springs+Rd,+Ukiah,+CA+95482/@38.6775694,-122.8963591,8z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m16!4m15!1m5!1m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!2m2!1d-122.4194155!2d37.7749295!1m5!1m1!1s0x808174399ef472ad:0x8da28f7caca3e2c!2m2!1d-123.367796!2d39.231613!2m1!6e4!3e0\">Orr Hot Springs Road\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orr Hot Springs Road is one of the most beautiful roads north of the Bay Area. 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Moody and potent, it sets an appropriate tone for the rest of the album. The problem is that the second you get into it, it’s over. What's the point of its trimmed size? What’s the harm in building out this awesome track to a full-length song that can fully stand on its own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A much more recent example (\u003cem>XX\u003c/em> was released in 2009) is “(Intro) It’s Album Time” off Todd Terje’s debut album \u003cem>It’s Album Time\u003c/em>. Terje likes to have a little fun with the way he names his work (after a Norwegian music executive called his music good for a strandbar a.k.a. a beach bar, he titled his next hit single “Strandbar”), and this one is no different. But, Todd, why is this killer track 1:41 long?! In a day and age where drops can take twice as long as this entire song to happen, this feels jarring. Terje himself follows the long-drop trend; on this album alone there are five songs exceeding six minutes. 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