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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 717px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10938 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_leather-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"m&m_leather\" width=\"717\" height=\"477\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stephen Shearer; \u003ca href=\"http://www.gotceleb.com/miley-cyrus-by-brian-bowen-smith-photoshoot-2014-01-11.html/miley-cyrus-brian-bowen-smith-photoshoot-21\">Brian Bowen Smith\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/t-magazine/28well-abramovic.html\">Jean-Baptiste Mondino\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2013 was a breakout year for Pop's latest wild child Miley Cyrus, having shed her G-rated image for a new, more mature direction. Hardly a week went by without a controversy -- butchering her hair, dropping Molly and marijuana references, twerking on live TV, NSFW fashion shoots -- each one making plain that Miley is not your tween role model anymore. We may dismiss her viewer provocation, exploitation of sexuality, and self-destructive tendencies as headline-grabbing antics, but perhaps there's more going on here. Similar tactics have been used by contemporary artist Marina Abramovic, the \"grandmother of performance art.\" Marina also had a stellar 2013, founding a performance art institute, starring in an opera about her death, writing James Franco's biography, and most famously, inspiring \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG2oNqBy-Y\">Jay-Z's recent video for \"Picasso Baby.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your reaction is \"Marina who?\" then here's a brief introduction. Marina Abramovic made a name for herself in the anarchic heyday of Performance Art in the 1970s as an ultra-serious zealot. Performances such as her seminal \u003cem>Rhythm\u003c/em> series were notorious for the dangerous circumstances she devised, and her endurance of self-imposed penances. In her legendary work \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/71952791\" target=\"_blank\">Rhythm 0\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>(1974), Marina offered spectators the opportunity to pleasure or harm her naked body with a myriad of objects ranging from a feather to a loaded gun, which audience members proceeded to do. Fast forward to 2010: for \u003cem>The Artist is Present\u003c/em>, a work staged at the MoMA in conjunction with a career survey and \u003ca href=\"http://marinafilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">documented by HBO\u003c/a>, Marina silently locked eyes, one at a time, with hundreds of thousands of spectators queued up over three months (736 hours total).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marina is taking advantage of her fame while making a significant shift in her career with some high-profile celebrity collaborations. On the heels of her MoMA show, Marina has found her brand in demand by Lady Gaga, James Franco, and Jay-Z. For his \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG2oNqBy-Y\" target=\"_blank\">Picasso Baby\" music video\u003c/a>, Jay-Z reinterpreted Marina's \u003cem>The Artist Is Present\u003c/em> at Pace Gallery, featuring himself as the Artist, rapping and strutting, and casting Marina as one of many reveling VIP participants. \"Picasso Baby\" is subtitled \"A Performance Art Video,\" but is it performance art, a music video, a hybrid?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caught off guard, viewers often don't know what to make of these new hybrids. (Critic Jerry Saltz, who was in attendance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2013/07/jerry-saltz-face-to-face-with-jay-z.html\" target=\"_blank\">went in skeptical and left \"elated\"\u003c/a>.) When artists long for celebrity fame and pop stars flaunt Art World cred, traditionally separate frameworks of interpretation break down and merge together. The Art World badge gives an aura of seriousness to celebrity bearers, but perhaps it's not necessary anymore, if the boundary between the two worlds is so porous. Perhaps we can stretch out this broad hybridized pop/art framework a bit further, to reevaluate work lacking that aura of seriousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 737px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/05/miley-abramovic-the-artist-came-in-like-a-wrecking-ball/mm_crying/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10937\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10937 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_crying-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"m&m_crying\" width=\"737\" height=\"369\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stephen Shearer; \u003cem>Happy Christmas\u003c/em> by Marina Abramovic and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8\">still from \"Wrecking Ball,\" directed by Terry Richardson\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/10/miley-cyrus-wrecking-ball\" target=\"_blank\">\"Wrecking Ball\"\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/10/miley-cyrus-wrecking-ball\" target=\"_blank\">is the centerpiece of Miley's campaign\u003c/a> to reinvent herself. The video has been written off by some critics for its overt raunchiness, but let's ignore that bias and consider the work from a different perspective. When compared to Marina's \u003cem>Rhythm\u003c/em> series (specifically \u003cem>Rhythm 0\u003c/em>), some interesting parallels emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic elements of \"Wrecking Ball\" -- a nude female, some dangerous tools, and a set built for us to see destroyed -- comprise a \u003cem>mise-en-scène\u003c/em> reminiscent of Marina's \u003cem>Rhythm\u003c/em> series. The action takes place in a bare, minimalist cinder block room -- a kind of \"white cube\" gallery space -- decorated and atmospherically hardened by icons of hands-on demolition, a sledge hammer, a wrecking ball, and concrete detritus. Marina's \u003cem>Rhythm\u003c/em> series turned the gallery space into a variety of dangerous environments, experimenting with different kinds of threats: environmental (such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/5190\" target=\"_blank\">the burning star of \u003cem>Rhythm 5\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> inside of which Marina nearly asphyxiated); social (the audience of \u003cem>Rhythm 0\u003c/em>); self-destructive (\u003ca href=\"http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/03/24/listening-to-marina-abramovic-rhythm-10\" target=\"_blank\">cutting herself with a knife in \u003cem>Rhythm 10\u003c/em>\u003c/a>). \u003cem>Rhythm 0\u003c/em> in particular is notable for its use of conventional tools appropriated as weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/05/miley-abramovic-the-artist-came-in-like-a-wrecking-ball/mm_show3-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10970\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10970 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_show31.jpg\" alt=\"m&m_show3\" width=\"765\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_show31.jpg 956w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_show31-400x200.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_show31-800x400.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stephen Shearer; \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8\">still from \"Wrecking Ball,\" directed by Terry Richardson\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Rhythm 0\u003c/em> (1974) by Marina Abramovic\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miley appears scantily dressed or completely nude in a variety of vignettes: getting friendly with a sledgehammer, bareback riding a wrecking ball, walking toward the viewer during the demolition, or writhing on the rubble. Performing nude is a familiar trope of Marina's: a challenge to perceptions of vulnerability. That same purpose is narratively served for Miley. Her nudity is part of her power over us, to whom she was previously victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the sexual innuendo of her performance, Miley spins the tale of our breakup to us, with a gaze punctuated by tears. As the wrecking ball slams into cinder block, bringing down the walls, Miley walks toward us in a seductive confrontation. We wrecked her, and now she wrecks us. In \u003cem>Rhythm 0,\u003c/em> Marina put everything on the line,\u003cem> \u003c/em>revealing the mixture of fetish, misogyny, and appetite for violence in her audience. Some pleasuring did occur at the audience's hands, but the part we remember and talk about is the\u003ca href=\"http://writingtoinform.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rhytm-0.jpg?w=323\" target=\"_blank\"> loaded gun held to her head at the end\u003c/a>. \"Wrecking Ball\" offers us the vicarious experience of Miley's seduction, her revenge, and her self-destruction, while at the same time, we become Miley's tormentor as she sings to us; Marina's stripped-down relational aesthetics reverberating through the fourth wall. Miley put it all on the line for us, and we didn't realize how far she would go, taking us down with her in a blaze of glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 819px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/05/miley-abramovic-the-artist-came-in-like-a-wrecking-ball/mm_artist/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10936\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10936 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_artist-1024x302.jpg\" alt=\"m&m_artist\" width=\"819\" height=\"242\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stephen Shearer; \u003ca href=\"http://rancinan.com/PICTURES/Pictures_-_RANCINAN/PICTURE_52_-_RANCINAN.html\">Gerard Rancinan\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8\">still from \"Wrecking Ball,\" directed by Terry Richardson\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We may speculate that the full nudity was at director Terry Richardson's behest, but Miley's general objectification in \"Wrecking Ball\" seems like her decision, part of her new identity, and the key to realizing this is understanding that we sexualize her only when \u003cem>she \u003c/em>says so. For her follow-up interview with Barbara Walters, Miley dressed in a loose-fitting outfit of long pants and a collared and fully-buttoned blouse. While fashionable, her unrevealing and non-sexual attire is her saying \"no.\" This also echos \u003cem>Rhythm 0\u003c/em>; at the end of the performance, Marina rose and approached surrounding audience members, who scattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there a direct, causal connection between Marina Abramovic and \"Wrecking Ball\"? It's doubtful. But Marina is treading deeper into Miley's territory, contaminating pop culture, and any explication of current events should take her work into account. Issues of intent and originality are typical cannon fodder and a lazy critique; we fire the gun when we don't like the work and holster it when we do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RoseLee Goldberg, the foremost authority on performance art, points out that Marina \"recognized that the only way that she could get people to fully experience her work was to make them stop in their tracks, and to be with her in real time, one hundred percent and without distraction.\" If a top-tier contemporary artist requires such concessions from her audience, can't we approach \"Wrecking Ball\" with the same seriousness? Let Miley take us, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1713881/miley-cyrus-defends-wrecking-ball.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">as she says\u003c/a>, \"into [our] imagination a little bit and see kind of what the video really means and the way it's so vulnerable.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Hardly a week went by without a controversy -- butchering her hair, dropping Molly and marijuana references, twerking on live TV, NSFW fashion shoots -- each one making plain that Miley is not your tween role model anymore. We may dismiss her viewer provocation, exploitation of sexuality, and self-destructive tendencies as headline-grabbing antics, but perhaps there's more going on here. Similar tactics have been used by contemporary artist Marina Abramovic, the \"grandmother of performance art.\" Marina also had a stellar 2013, founding a performance art institute, starring in an opera about her death, writing James Franco's biography, and most famously, inspiring \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG2oNqBy-Y\">Jay-Z's recent video for \"Picasso Baby.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your reaction is \"Marina who?\" then here's a brief introduction. Marina Abramovic made a name for herself in the anarchic heyday of Performance Art in the 1970s as an ultra-serious zealot. 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For his \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG2oNqBy-Y\" target=\"_blank\">Picasso Baby\" music video\u003c/a>, Jay-Z reinterpreted Marina's \u003cem>The Artist Is Present\u003c/em> at Pace Gallery, featuring himself as the Artist, rapping and strutting, and casting Marina as one of many reveling VIP participants. \"Picasso Baby\" is subtitled \"A Performance Art Video,\" but is it performance art, a music video, a hybrid?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caught off guard, viewers often don't know what to make of these new hybrids. (Critic Jerry Saltz, who was in attendance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2013/07/jerry-saltz-face-to-face-with-jay-z.html\" target=\"_blank\">went in skeptical and left \"elated\"\u003c/a>.) When artists long for celebrity fame and pop stars flaunt Art World cred, traditionally separate frameworks of interpretation break down and merge together. The Art World badge gives an aura of seriousness to celebrity bearers, but perhaps it's not necessary anymore, if the boundary between the two worlds is so porous. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic elements of \"Wrecking Ball\" -- a nude female, some dangerous tools, and a set built for us to see destroyed -- comprise a \u003cem>mise-en-scène\u003c/em> reminiscent of Marina's \u003cem>Rhythm\u003c/em> series. The action takes place in a bare, minimalist cinder block room -- a kind of \"white cube\" gallery space -- decorated and atmospherically hardened by icons of hands-on demolition, a sledge hammer, a wrecking ball, and concrete detritus. Marina's \u003cem>Rhythm\u003c/em> series turned the gallery space into a variety of dangerous environments, experimenting with different kinds of threats: environmental (such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/5190\" target=\"_blank\">the burning star of \u003cem>Rhythm 5\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> inside of which Marina nearly asphyxiated); social (the audience of \u003cem>Rhythm 0\u003c/em>); self-destructive (\u003ca href=\"http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/03/24/listening-to-marina-abramovic-rhythm-10\" target=\"_blank\">cutting herself with a knife in \u003cem>Rhythm 10\u003c/em>\u003c/a>). \u003cem>Rhythm 0\u003c/em> in particular is notable for its use of conventional tools appropriated as weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/05/miley-abramovic-the-artist-came-in-like-a-wrecking-ball/mm_show3-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10970\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10970 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_show31.jpg\" alt=\"m&m_show3\" width=\"765\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_show31.jpg 956w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_show31-400x200.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_show31-800x400.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stephen Shearer; \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8\">still from \"Wrecking Ball,\" directed by Terry Richardson\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Rhythm 0\u003c/em> (1974) by Marina Abramovic\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miley appears scantily dressed or completely nude in a variety of vignettes: getting friendly with a sledgehammer, bareback riding a wrecking ball, walking toward the viewer during the demolition, or writhing on the rubble. Performing nude is a familiar trope of Marina's: a challenge to perceptions of vulnerability. That same purpose is narratively served for Miley. Her nudity is part of her power over us, to whom she was previously victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the sexual innuendo of her performance, Miley spins the tale of our breakup to us, with a gaze punctuated by tears. As the wrecking ball slams into cinder block, bringing down the walls, Miley walks toward us in a seductive confrontation. We wrecked her, and now she wrecks us. In \u003cem>Rhythm 0,\u003c/em> Marina put everything on the line,\u003cem> \u003c/em>revealing the mixture of fetish, misogyny, and appetite for violence in her audience. Some pleasuring did occur at the audience's hands, but the part we remember and talk about is the\u003ca href=\"http://writingtoinform.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rhytm-0.jpg?w=323\" target=\"_blank\"> loaded gun held to her head at the end\u003c/a>. \"Wrecking Ball\" offers us the vicarious experience of Miley's seduction, her revenge, and her self-destruction, while at the same time, we become Miley's tormentor as she sings to us; Marina's stripped-down relational aesthetics reverberating through the fourth wall. Miley put it all on the line for us, and we didn't realize how far she would go, taking us down with her in a blaze of glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 819px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/05/miley-abramovic-the-artist-came-in-like-a-wrecking-ball/mm_artist/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10936\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10936 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/mm_artist-1024x302.jpg\" alt=\"m&m_artist\" width=\"819\" height=\"242\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stephen Shearer; \u003ca href=\"http://rancinan.com/PICTURES/Pictures_-_RANCINAN/PICTURE_52_-_RANCINAN.html\">Gerard Rancinan\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8\">still from \"Wrecking Ball,\" directed by Terry Richardson\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We may speculate that the full nudity was at director Terry Richardson's behest, but Miley's general objectification in \"Wrecking Ball\" seems like her decision, part of her new identity, and the key to realizing this is understanding that we sexualize her only when \u003cem>she \u003c/em>says so. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 536px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/28/7-bands-you-really-should-be-listening-to/unnamed/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10796\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"536\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/unnamed.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/unnamed-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/unnamed-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/unnamed-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/unnamed-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/unnamed-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/unnamed-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top left: The Soft Moon, I Break Horses, POW!, iamamiwhoami, Warpaint, MØ.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We're merely a month into the new year and already there are so many musical endeavors to be excited about! Too-cool-for-school singles from some of my favorite weirdos, long awaited new albums, local acts livening up our beloved and embattled city: all reasons to get psyched about the music of 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First up, we have \u003ca href=\"http://secretthirteen.org/secret-thirteen-interview-the-soft-moon/\">Luis Vasquez\u003c/a> of The Soft Moon, who I am intermittently obsessed with (and who fuels this by never touring nearby, and canceling the one show I had tickets to). He describes his music as \"a separate world with its own rules, emotions and aesthetics.\" This seems very true. I would be hard pressed to really describe this band coherently, as they either make me want to dance, scare me, or just pleasantly envelop me. Lucky for us, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesoftmoon.com/\">The Soft Moon\u003c/a> has two new singles out now, which will also be available on 7\" and cassette (man, I wish I had a cassette player) on February 3. Check out a video for one of the new singles below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/fTJVjKHU4cQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Jonna Lee's hard-to-type electronic and multimedia project iamamiwhoami already has two awesome albums, \u003cem>Kin\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Bounty\u003c/em>, which remind me a bit of Fever Ray in the best of ways. She has been up to all sorts of mysterious stuff for the past few years, including a period of time when her identify was a secret and she \u003ca href=\"http://iamamiwhoami.wikia.com/wiki/An_Inscrutable_Interview\">answered interview questions with cryptic poetry\u003c/a>. Like \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/13/the-genius-behind-beyonces-surprise-game-changing-visual-album-self-titled/\">someone else just famously did\u003c/a>, iamamiwhoami made music videos for every song on \u003cem>Kin, \u003c/em>which can all be played together as a 45 minute movie. Her new single, \"Fountain,\" came out just a few days ago, with an accompanying music video of Jonna wrapped in plastic and dancing weirdly on the beach. Here's hoping that \"Fountain\" is a sign that all the \u003ca href=\"http://iamamiwhoami.wikia.com/wiki/rascal\">crawling through the desert\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://iamamiwhoami.wikia.com/wiki/t\">dancing naked in the forest\u003c/a>, and other antics will continue!\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/bRazgMj_cfE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>And next we have \u003ca href=\"http://www.momomoyouth.com/\">MØ\u003c/a> (which means virgin in Old Norse!). Oft compared to Grimes, MØ has been teasing us with EPs, sultry singles, and swaggering \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uIVBxWZVU\">music videos\u003c/a> of her riding mopeds, wearing leopard print unitards and dancing with chainsaws for many months now. The good news is she will finally be releasing her debut \u003cem>No Mythologies to Follow\u003c/em> on March 10. It was hard to pick a favorite video, but the chainsaw dance won out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/wFrth4NFogc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In case only having one or two songs to listen to just isn't going to cut it, there are some actual recent full-length new albums out too. On January 21, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dummymag.com/features/warpaint-interview-we-found-ourselves\">Warpaint\u003c/a> released their eponymous album, and it's full of lovely, ghostly, bad ass perfection. Also, director Chris Cunningham has been working on an \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-teaser-trailer-for-chris-cunninghams-documentary-on-la-rockers-warpaint-20140121\">as-yet-unreleased documentary/music video project\u003c/a> with the band that promises to be intriguing based on the clip below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/mHKPdYX_OLQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The second album from \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibreakhorses.se/\">I Break Horses\u003c/a>, \u003cem>Chiaroscuro, \u003c/em>was released in mid-January as well, and unlike many others on this list, they will actually be coming through San Francisco on May 2, playing a show at The Independent. Don't miss it! Maria Lindén will probably wear a cool, velvet cape that you will want to steal or copy cat. I've been anxiously awaiting this album ever since the single \"\u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15697-denial/\">Denial\"\u003c/a> came out last summer, and it doesn't disappoint. The video for \"Faith\" sort of looks like a depressing perfume ad, but I still love it. Or maybe that's why I love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/BWmYpjWHT8E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>San Francisco based \u003ca href=\"http://www.castlefacerecords.com/collections/pow\">POW!'s\u003c/a> new album has been described as a \"punk eulogy to our fair city.\" Catch them at \u003ca href=\"http://www.hemlocktavern.com/calendar/pow-los-craters-massenger-the-electric-magpie/\">Hemlock \u003c/a>on February 1 to see exactly what that sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/83528732\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>And I saved the best for last! Trust, the brilliant collaboration between \u003ca href=\"http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/true-faith-an-interview-with-trust/\">Robert Alfons\u003c/a> and Austra's Maya Postepski, have a new album, \u003cem>Joyland\u003c/em>, coming out on March 4. \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/ttrustt/rescue-mister\">A new single\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OuUpUmoJy0&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1\">teaser trailer \u003c/a> are all I have to go on, but their first album, \u003cem>TRST\u003c/em>, is one of my all time favorites, and I'm almost afraid of how high my expectations are. There is nothing quite like the thrill of waiting for something new from one of your favorite bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5OuUpUmoJy0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Happy listening, everyone!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>P.S. One bonus band since I can't help myself. The dreamy Italian band Be Forest has a new album, \u003cem>Earthbeat\u003c/em>, out February 4. Listen to a single from it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/116879794&color=ff6600\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Too-cool-for-school singles from some of my favorite weirdos, long awaited new albums, local acts livening up our beloved and embattled city: all reasons to get psyched about the music of 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First up, we have \u003ca href=\"http://secretthirteen.org/secret-thirteen-interview-the-soft-moon/\">Luis Vasquez\u003c/a> of The Soft Moon, who I am intermittently obsessed with (and who fuels this by never touring nearby, and canceling the one show I had tickets to). He describes his music as \"a separate world with its own rules, emotions and aesthetics.\" This seems very true. I would be hard pressed to really describe this band coherently, as they either make me want to dance, scare me, or just pleasantly envelop me. Lucky for us, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesoftmoon.com/\">The Soft Moon\u003c/a> has two new singles out now, which will also be available on 7\" and cassette (man, I wish I had a cassette player) on February 3. 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Like \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/13/the-genius-behind-beyonces-surprise-game-changing-visual-album-self-titled/\">someone else just famously did\u003c/a>, iamamiwhoami made music videos for every song on \u003cem>Kin, \u003c/em>which can all be played together as a 45 minute movie. Her new single, \"Fountain,\" came out just a few days ago, with an accompanying music video of Jonna wrapped in plastic and dancing weirdly on the beach. 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It was hard to pick a favorite video, but the chainsaw dance won out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/wFrth4NFogc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In case only having one or two songs to listen to just isn't going to cut it, there are some actual recent full-length new albums out too. On January 21, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dummymag.com/features/warpaint-interview-we-found-ourselves\">Warpaint\u003c/a> released their eponymous album, and it's full of lovely, ghostly, bad ass perfection. 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Or maybe that's why I love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/BWmYpjWHT8E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>San Francisco based \u003ca href=\"http://www.castlefacerecords.com/collections/pow\">POW!'s\u003c/a> new album has been described as a \"punk eulogy to our fair city.\" Catch them at \u003ca href=\"http://www.hemlocktavern.com/calendar/pow-los-craters-massenger-the-electric-magpie/\">Hemlock \u003c/a>on February 1 to see exactly what that sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/83528732\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>And I saved the best for last! 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/16/macaulay-culkin-serves-up-a-pizza-punk-trend-already-started-by-bay-area-band-pizza-underground/1-pizza/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10609\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10609 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/1-Pizza.gif\" alt=\"1-Pizza\" width=\"516\" height=\"345\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Pizza and music go together like parties and fun, so it’s no surprise that pizza-themed music has been snagging headlines as of late. Music blogs have been heating up all winter long with talk of new pizza projects from seasoned pros and musical novices alike. In mid-December, alt-rockers the Foo Fighters treated patrons of Moorpark, California’s Rock 'n' Roll Pizza to \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvJQAOm9yOE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a two and a half hour set\u003c/a> (their first gig since October 2012). With the Foos’ performance coming just days after the announcement of child-star turned joke-rocker Macaulay Culkin’s new pizza-centric musical project, we have to wonder if Mac inspired the Foos to hop on the pizza train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">[contextly_sidebar id=\"af1d854392a348bf20dfb28dae8e1dd4\"]Oh, you didn’t hear? Macaulay Culkin is back on the scene with a brand new pizza-themed Lou Reed/Velvet Underground cover band. That’s right; let that sink in. We can’t be sure if the plan for the band was hatched before or after the Velvet Underground's iconic frontman, Lou Reed, passed away. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pzm1lQX0qU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we can be sure that Mac is no stranger to mixing pizza with art\u003c/a>... and let’s just assume that when Culkin emancipated himself from his money-hungry parents in 1996 at age 16, his diet consisted largely of pizza (this seems like a reasonable guess to me).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">We can all imagine the scenario that inspired the pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band: you’re sitting around with pals, late at night, when someone gets the brilliant idea to change all the lyrics to Lou Reed songs to be about pizza. “Ya know, like 'Take a Bite of the Wild Slice!,'\" some clever pal shouts. Somehow, the eruption of laughter turns into serious motivation. And the songs practically write themselves (because they have already been written)! Turning silly ideas into reality is what celebrities are great at, so Culkin and his cohorts headed to Mac’s house to record the creatively named \u003ca href=\"http://thepizzaunderground.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pizza Underground’s first demo\u003c/a>. You can purchase this for as little as $1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgIEdaOHryc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Pizza Underground, or “PU” as I call them, unleashed their cheesy tunes to a bar full of raucous Brooklynites, all hopped up on the free pizza and orange soda that circulated the room (you have the chance to relive this when \u003ca href=\"http://www.ticketfly.com/event/453123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they play San Francisco on March 5th\u003c/a>). And of course they had fans at their first “show” (it was an 8-minute performance, where the band mimicked the Velvet Underground’s traditional black-on-black style). As the \u003cem>Daily Beast’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/14/the-pizza-underground-review-eight-minutes-at-macaulay-culkin-s-pizza-party.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caitlin Dickson put it\u003c/a>, “what culturally-conscious Brooklyn 20 or 30-something \u003cem>wouldn’t\u003c/em> stand outside in 35 degrees to catch a glimpse of Kevin McAllister singing pizza-themed adaptations of songs they’ve been listening to on Spotify ever since Lou Reed died?\" By mid-December, it seemed like the Pizza Underground was on top of the world, but as it turns out, Mac’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/verymuchso/the-13-cheesiest-songs-about-pizza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not the first person to sing about pizza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Example:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIt2CdbBo_w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As word of Culkin and Co.’s \"hilarious\" pizza-punk concept made its way westward, pioneering pizza punx and Bay Area tough guys, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/personalandthepizzas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Personal and the Pizzas\u003c/a>, rolled up their sleeves and prepared for a fight. You see, Personal and the Pizzas have been serving up hot tracks dripping with delectable pizza puns since 2010 and haven’t received even a small slice of big attention for it. The main difference being that Personal and the Pizzas made up their songs all by themselves (which I guess makes them slightly harder to know than songs that have been circulating since the '70s). Oh, and they aren’t famous child stars, which, at least in this scenario, seems to put them at a disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.emusic.com/17dots/2013/12/12/personal-the-pizzas-fire-back-at-macaulay-culkins-pizza-themed-velvet-underground-cover-band/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eMusic reached out\u003c/a> to the Bay Area bad boys for their reaction to Culkin’s wayfarer-wearing, wannabe beatnik band. Not surprisingly, Personal had some heated words for Culkin and his cronies:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“First we’re gonna kill em!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">THEN! we’re gonna sue em!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">DONT MESS WITH THE F**KIN’ PIZZAS, PR*CK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">I CAN REED MOTHERF**KER\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">I CAN REED.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Kill first, sue later, got it. And Personal is right; he can Reed. I can Reed, too. We all can because Reed already Reed-ed before us. Still, threats of death and lawsuits and claims of unoriginality can’t keep the Party Monster down. PU marches on, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jan/07/pizza-underground-macaulay-culkin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releasing a new music video\u003c/a> which features a Macaulay Culkin kazoo solo. 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Our friends at NPR's Tiny Desk have been bringing it all year with performances. Catch up on everything from the one with the most gorilla suits to the one with the most unexpected use of a bucket of water for music purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/12/26/mother-falcon_wide-7af8a0736d58e5cc46c847db3e746e9e1028448b.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013/2013/12/27/257394375/2013-the-year-in-tiny-desk-concerts\" target=\"_blank\">2013: The Year In Tiny Desk Concerts\u003c/a>the stories Hayley Bartels/NPR For weeks now, we've been compiling lists of 2013's best music - favorite albums, favorite songs, individual staff members' personal Top 10 lists and so on. 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There's nothing like looking at gorgeous snapshots of our fair planet from space to put your life into perspective, which is the perfect mindset to be in on the eve of New Year's Eve! Turn into that heart-eyed emoji as you look through these NASA photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/12/ISS036-E-002105_lrg-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/nasa-best-of-earth-from-space\" target=\"_blank\">The Most Amazing Images NASA Took of Earth From Space This Year\u003c/a>NASA's fleet of satellites took a slew of beautiful images of Earth this year. 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Applying a rank to the year's best can be a stress-inducing, conflict-intensive process behind the scenes, but we wouldn't dare attempt such a maneuver when the topic is NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fblogs%2Fbestmusic2013%2F2013%2F12%2F27%2F257394375%2F2013-the-year-in-tiny-desk-concerts\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">via \u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">Npr\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Have you noticed that it's gotten harder and harder to stay on top of all the new music out there, now that you no longer have a radio gig at the college radio station? 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"headTitle": "Kathleen Hanna on Riot Grrrl History, Her Battle with Lyme Disease, and ‘The Punk Singer’ | KQED",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10289\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10289\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10289\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/kathleen-hanna.png\" alt=\"Photo: Dusty Lombard\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/kathleen-hanna.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/kathleen-hanna-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifcfilms.com/uncategorized/the-punk-singer\">Dusty Lombard\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In the early ’90s, Kathleen Hanna erupted onto the alternative music scene as the powerful voice of the band \u003ca href=\"http://bikinikill.com/\">Bikini Kill\u003c/a>, and quickly became regarded as the rock ‘n’ roll godmother of third wave feminism. Hanna and her cohorts were the brains behind the Riot Grrrl movement, an underground, feminist punk movement that worked to create a safe space for women in the music scene through photocopied fanzines, female-fueled discussion groups, activism, and good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. Her sharp tongue and ferocious performances with Bikini Kill (and, later, dance-punk trio, \u003ca href=\"http://www.letigreworld.com/\">Le Tigre\u003c/a>) made Hanna the most recognizable (and loudest) voice of the Riot Grrl movement, bewitching a new generation of free-thinking females.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Five years ago, much to the bewilderment of her loyal fans, Hanna dropped the mic, claiming she’d said all she needed to say, and stopped performing. It wasn’t until the autobiographical, career-spanning documentary \u003cem>The Punk Singer\u003c/em> that Hanna bravely revealed to the world that she’d been struggling with late-stage Lyme disease. The debilitating illness, misdiagnosed for years, sidelined Hanna for some time, but the songstress fought tooth and nail to restore her health and still managed to find time and energy to start a new band, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thejulieruinband.com/wp/\">The Julie Ruin\u003c/a>, along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Through archival footage and dozens of interviews with friends and fellow artists, \u003cem>The Punk Singer\u003c/em>, weaves the story of Kathleen Hanna. Interesting, inspiring, and always honest, director Sini Anderson creates a beautiful tribute to a living legend. So when the opportunity presented itself, I jumped at the chance to chat with one of my personal heroes regarding her mysterious disappearance, the modern face of feminism, and the silent US epidemic, Lyme disease. Below is our (too short for this fan-girl!) conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 207px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10275 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/KH2-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dusty Lombard\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KQED Pop: So, I saw \u003cem>The Punk Singer\u003c/em> twice last week.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Kathleen Hanna:\u003c/strong> Woah!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I know, I know. I rented it on iTunes and I saw it at the \u003ca href=\"http://roxie.com/\">Roxie Theatre\u003c/a> in San Francisco. So I guess my first question is, how does it feel to have a film made about your career and your life?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> Um…it feels weird. It wasn’t like \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2481948/\">Sini\u003c/a> pointed a gun to my head and made me do it, but I made it under the duress of being a sick person and thinking this is my only chance to have my work remembered and this is a way that my work can, in a way, be archived. So to actually be so much better, physically now, and having to live with what I’ve done. It’s like, woah! I shared all this stuff. I totally laid myself bare in all these ways that I probably wouldn’t have if I wasn’t sick. Cause when you get sick you have this thing of just radical honesty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard for me to watch, it’s embarrassing, it’s all of those things. I don’t watch it. I saw it once in the theater, but it’s one of those things I’d like to watch when I’m 65 and be like, “Oh look, look what I did!”\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=’arts_13808185′]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>You have a knack for taking the hardships you’ve faced in your life and using that as fuel for your art. I’m curious how you encourage and support someone who’s going through a rough time in their life to do the same?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> It’s a really hard line because I kind of hate that American idea of “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” and those kind of clichés. I feel like I’ve very much fallen prey in my own life to that kind of misguided optimism. At the same time, I’ve learned [a lot] over the last couple years, not just from being sick but from going to a bunch of cabaret performances (I know that sounds crazy). My friend \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/423888/the-tender-side-of-bridget-everett-new-yorks-sexiest-most-terrifying-alt-cabaret-sensation/\">B\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/423888/the-tender-side-of-bridget-everett-new-yorks-sexiest-most-terrifying-alt-cabaret-sensation/\">ridget Everett is an amazing cabaret artist\u003c/a> and she takes a lot of her life tragedies and dysfunctional childhood things and she turns them into jokes. Because they’re so upsetting, they make you laugh. I really believe in tragedy plus time equals humor. And I feel like telling your story over and over again, whether it’s to a therapist or a camera, or an interview sometimes, takes the sting out of it. And turns it into just a story in your life that you can goof around with. It doesn’t have to be this thing that defines you or controls you. It could be something that gives you fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10292\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 383px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10292\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10292 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Screen-shot-2013-12-17-at-4.58.16-PM.png\" alt=\"Photo: Dustin Lombard\" width=\"383\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Screen-shot-2013-12-17-at-4.58.16-PM.png 782w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Screen-shot-2013-12-17-at-4.58.16-PM-400x251.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dustin Lombard\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So if you were to write your Riot Grrrl manifesto now, would you make any changes to it? Or would you remain true to what you said at the time when you originally wrote it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> I think I would have a lot of stupid, sagely advice in my new Riot Grrrl manifesto that nobody would want to hear. I’m glad that I wrote it how I wrote it, however flawed it was because, I wrote it, you know? I didn’t write it and throw it in the trash, I actually printed it. When I read it now, yeah, it’s embarrassing. I feel like there’s a lot of me really trying to cover all my bases and just making sure I mention like speciesism. And I’m not saying that that’s not an important topic, but I feel like I was trying to kind of do this very ’90s, white, middle-class, college educated girl thing of ‘I’m critiquing myself while I’m asserting myself.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">And I think that actually makes it harder for people to critique you. Because you’re like ‘I already critiqued myself. Look I included everyone in this!’ Yeah, I’m including everyone but it’s surrounded by a bunch of pictures of white women. So it’s like, am I really including everyone in this? How homogeneous is the punk scene and that’s where this is being distributed? And all those kinds of questions. So I think I would probably be more honest about what position I was writing from and that I wasn’t able to write this universal, overarching thing. I was writing from my own point of view. I’d make that more obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Do you feel that, as it has evolved, \u003cstrong>the Riot Grrrl movement\u003c/strong> remained true to its roots or has it shifted in some significant way in your eyes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> I don’t even know if Riot Grrl still exists as such. I think that right now there’s this interesting transitional phase where people who have been influenced by Riot Grrrl or who have pushed against it in a lot of really interesting ways are now creating brand new things. There’s the \u003ca href=\"http://poczineproject.tumblr.com/\">People of Color Zine Project\u003c/a>. There’s also the \u003ca href=\"http://birdsongmag.tumblr.com/\">Birdsong Collective\u003c/a> here in New York — they distribute zines, they put on shows — and I also see \u003ca href=\"http://www.kathleenhanna.com/girls-rock-camp-alliance/\">Girls Rock Camp\u003c/a> as being something that kind of fulfills the promise that Riot Grrrl never really achieved. They are physically getting young women, all different kinds of young women, together to make music and giving them skills to work together. Those are the places I see Riot Grrrl manifesting itself and that is really exciting. I don’t think Riot Grrrl needs to be repeated. It already happened. And it doesn’t need to be fetishized or anything. I think it needs to be critiqued and challenged because that’s the way that things grow and get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s go back to the topic of Lyme disease. Will it get out of your system? Will you be better?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH: \u003c/strong>I don’t know. My doctor used to treat AIDS patients and now he treats Lyme disease patients. And he has spoken to me about how there is a similar denial within the medical community and within the larger culture, which is ridiculous because I’ve spoke to two different journalists today, one whose mom had it for 14 years and is still struggling and another who was like ‘yeah, my two brothers have it,’ and I’ve only talked to five reporters today. So it’s a pretty huge deal and they’re still kind of working out the treatments for it. Nobody really knows. There’s not going to be a point where I get tested and I’m clear and then I go back every six months and check to see if I’m clear. It’s more like living day to day. I’m still in treatment now and I’ll be done in about two more months, and then I go on the maintenance program. Then, hopefully I can start weaning off my meds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10293\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10293\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10293\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10293 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/3-Kathleen-Hanna-playing-the-drums.-Photo-courtesy-of-Allison-Michael-Orenstein-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Allison Michael Orenstein\" width=\"286\" height=\"430\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Allison Michael Orenstein\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Yeah, that looked painful.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> Oh, that stuff in the movie is like nothing. It’s so funny to me. I was like, you should use something way harsher than that because that was a good day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>I appreciate you sharing the rough things you’re going through because I know that you’re going to heighten awareness of it. So I’m curious if there’s anything that you want people to know about Lyme disease? Something they don’t know that needs to be said.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> I think the main thing is, if you’ve gotten a negative test, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. I was tested two times. If you’re tested when you’re on antibiotics, it often doesn’t show up. If you’re a late stage Lyme disease person, it often doesn’t show up. It’s a disease that typically needs to be diagnosed by your symptoms. I had uveitis which is inflammation of the eye and my eye got bright red. It was like having pink eye except someone was punching me in the eye over and over. My optometrist said “You either have MS, lupus, celiac, Crohn’s or Lyme,” and I said I can’t have Lyme because I was tested for it twice. And that’s really sad to me. That’s the main thing: even if you’ve been tested, look into what the symptoms are. Watch the movie \u003cem>Under Our Skin\u003c/em>. If you recognize yourself, you may have it. Find a good doctor and don’t give up. Don’t ever give up on finding the proper treatment because it is out there. It just has to be individualized to where you’re at. It’s expensive, but it’s your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Well, I’m glad you’re on the right track for your health and I hope you’re feeling better.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will you ever quit being out there, being a voice?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> I think that the way that I will be out there will probably change. I really want to write comedy, I really want to do visual art. I really still want to play music desperately. I’ve been playing shows — actually our San Francisco show was a total blast — and I know I want to keep writing music. So I just think that when I get bored of one thing, I’ll just move on to the next. And I love lecturing. That’s something I could see myself doing until, you know, I drop dead at the podium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Please don’t. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/fwrXC5OXqgc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Catch \u003c/em>The Punk Singer\u003cem> in San Francisco at \u003ca href=\"http://www.theroxie.com\">the Roxie Theatre\u003c/a> tonight (December 19, 2013) or rent it on iTunes!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>You have a knack for taking the hardships you’ve faced in your life and using that as fuel for your art. I’m curious how you encourage and support someone who’s going through a rough time in their life to do the same?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> It’s a really hard line because I kind of hate that American idea of “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” and those kind of clichés. I feel like I’ve very much fallen prey in my own life to that kind of misguided optimism. At the same time, I’ve learned [a lot] over the last couple years, not just from being sick but from going to a bunch of cabaret performances (I know that sounds crazy). My friend \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/423888/the-tender-side-of-bridget-everett-new-yorks-sexiest-most-terrifying-alt-cabaret-sensation/\">B\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/423888/the-tender-side-of-bridget-everett-new-yorks-sexiest-most-terrifying-alt-cabaret-sensation/\">ridget Everett is an amazing cabaret artist\u003c/a> and she takes a lot of her life tragedies and dysfunctional childhood things and she turns them into jokes. Because they’re so upsetting, they make you laugh. I really believe in tragedy plus time equals humor. And I feel like telling your story over and over again, whether it’s to a therapist or a camera, or an interview sometimes, takes the sting out of it. And turns it into just a story in your life that you can goof around with. It doesn’t have to be this thing that defines you or controls you. It could be something that gives you fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10292\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 383px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10292\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10292 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Screen-shot-2013-12-17-at-4.58.16-PM.png\" alt=\"Photo: Dustin Lombard\" width=\"383\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Screen-shot-2013-12-17-at-4.58.16-PM.png 782w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Screen-shot-2013-12-17-at-4.58.16-PM-400x251.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dustin Lombard\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So if you were to write your Riot Grrrl manifesto now, would you make any changes to it? Or would you remain true to what you said at the time when you originally wrote it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> I think I would have a lot of stupid, sagely advice in my new Riot Grrrl manifesto that nobody would want to hear. I’m glad that I wrote it how I wrote it, however flawed it was because, I wrote it, you know? I didn’t write it and throw it in the trash, I actually printed it. When I read it now, yeah, it’s embarrassing. I feel like there’s a lot of me really trying to cover all my bases and just making sure I mention like speciesism. And I’m not saying that that’s not an important topic, but I feel like I was trying to kind of do this very ’90s, white, middle-class, college educated girl thing of ‘I’m critiquing myself while I’m asserting myself.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">And I think that actually makes it harder for people to critique you. Because you’re like ‘I already critiqued myself. Look I included everyone in this!’ Yeah, I’m including everyone but it’s surrounded by a bunch of pictures of white women. So it’s like, am I really including everyone in this? How homogeneous is the punk scene and that’s where this is being distributed? And all those kinds of questions. So I think I would probably be more honest about what position I was writing from and that I wasn’t able to write this universal, overarching thing. I was writing from my own point of view. I’d make that more obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Do you feel that, as it has evolved, \u003cstrong>the Riot Grrrl movement\u003c/strong> remained true to its roots or has it shifted in some significant way in your eyes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> I don’t even know if Riot Grrl still exists as such. I think that right now there’s this interesting transitional phase where people who have been influenced by Riot Grrrl or who have pushed against it in a lot of really interesting ways are now creating brand new things. There’s the \u003ca href=\"http://poczineproject.tumblr.com/\">People of Color Zine Project\u003c/a>. There’s also the \u003ca href=\"http://birdsongmag.tumblr.com/\">Birdsong Collective\u003c/a> here in New York — they distribute zines, they put on shows — and I also see \u003ca href=\"http://www.kathleenhanna.com/girls-rock-camp-alliance/\">Girls Rock Camp\u003c/a> as being something that kind of fulfills the promise that Riot Grrrl never really achieved. They are physically getting young women, all different kinds of young women, together to make music and giving them skills to work together. Those are the places I see Riot Grrrl manifesting itself and that is really exciting. I don’t think Riot Grrrl needs to be repeated. It already happened. And it doesn’t need to be fetishized or anything. I think it needs to be critiqued and challenged because that’s the way that things grow and get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s go back to the topic of Lyme disease. Will it get out of your system? Will you be better?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH: \u003c/strong>I don’t know. My doctor used to treat AIDS patients and now he treats Lyme disease patients. And he has spoken to me about how there is a similar denial within the medical community and within the larger culture, which is ridiculous because I’ve spoke to two different journalists today, one whose mom had it for 14 years and is still struggling and another who was like ‘yeah, my two brothers have it,’ and I’ve only talked to five reporters today. So it’s a pretty huge deal and they’re still kind of working out the treatments for it. Nobody really knows. There’s not going to be a point where I get tested and I’m clear and then I go back every six months and check to see if I’m clear. It’s more like living day to day. I’m still in treatment now and I’ll be done in about two more months, and then I go on the maintenance program. Then, hopefully I can start weaning off my meds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10293\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10293\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10293\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10293 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/3-Kathleen-Hanna-playing-the-drums.-Photo-courtesy-of-Allison-Michael-Orenstein-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Allison Michael Orenstein\" width=\"286\" height=\"430\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Allison Michael Orenstein\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Yeah, that looked painful.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> Oh, that stuff in the movie is like nothing. It’s so funny to me. I was like, you should use something way harsher than that because that was a good day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>I appreciate you sharing the rough things you’re going through because I know that you’re going to heighten awareness of it. So I’m curious if there’s anything that you want people to know about Lyme disease? Something they don’t know that needs to be said.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> I think the main thing is, if you’ve gotten a negative test, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. I was tested two times. If you’re tested when you’re on antibiotics, it often doesn’t show up. If you’re a late stage Lyme disease person, it often doesn’t show up. It’s a disease that typically needs to be diagnosed by your symptoms. I had uveitis which is inflammation of the eye and my eye got bright red. It was like having pink eye except someone was punching me in the eye over and over. My optometrist said “You either have MS, lupus, celiac, Crohn’s or Lyme,” and I said I can’t have Lyme because I was tested for it twice. And that’s really sad to me. That’s the main thing: even if you’ve been tested, look into what the symptoms are. Watch the movie \u003cem>Under Our Skin\u003c/em>. If you recognize yourself, you may have it. Find a good doctor and don’t give up. Don’t ever give up on finding the proper treatment because it is out there. It just has to be individualized to where you’re at. It’s expensive, but it’s your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Well, I’m glad you’re on the right track for your health and I hope you’re feeling better.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will you ever quit being out there, being a voice?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>KH:\u003c/strong> I think that the way that I will be out there will probably change. 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A snippet of \"We should all be feminists,\" Adichie's \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc\">TED talk on feminism\u003c/a>, was sampled on a song called \"Flawless\" in an attempt to finally pin down the definition of feminism. You might not think that this is necessary, or maybe you even believe that \u003ca href=\"http://realcoloredgirls.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/the-problem-with-beyhive-bottom-bitch-feminism/\">Beyoncé isn't one to be lecturing about the topic\u003c/a>, but, despite the tireless work of everyone from Gloria Steinem to Tavi Gevinson, there is still some confusion surrounding the term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u003cem>\"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful. Otherwise you will threaten the man.'\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u003cem> Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u003cem>We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u003cem> Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.\" -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[contextly_sidebar id=\"85a35935937e3db130e64bfefd03e3aa\"]\u003c/em>When asked whether they are feminists, famous women too often distance themselves from the idea either because they think being a feminist somehow means they hate men (\"I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.\" -- \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/5329960/lady-gaga-very-obsessed-with-monsters-and-playgirls-not-feminism\">Lady Gaga\u003c/a>), or they think the term has a negative connotation (\"I think when people hear feminist, it's like, 'Get out of my way, I don't need anyone.' I love that I'm being taken care of and I have a man that's a leader.\" -- \u003ca href=\"http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/30/kelly-clarkson-not-a-feminist/?utm_source=All_The_Web&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+time/entertainment+%28TIME:+Entertainment%29&utm_term=Entertainment\">Kelly Clarkson\u003c/a>), or they think being a feminist means you're a negative whiner (\"I think [considering myself a feminist] would isolate me. I think it's important to do positive stuff. It's more important to be asking than complaining.\" --\u003ca href=\"http://herfiveradio.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-are-celebrities-so-reluctant-to.html\">Bjork\u003c/a>), or that it means you're a lesbian (\"For me, feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.\" -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/24/gender.pop\">Geri Halliwell\u003c/a> a.k.a. 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The dancing and the instantaneous costume changes embodies everything that is pop: fast, luxurious, excessive, ephemeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/K4gcQj_NZ30\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Morphing wasn’t just a boy’s game. Mya’s video for \"My Love is Like Whoa\" features her in an Adidas running getup that changes from blue to red and back to blue as she uses her tightest dance moves to prove what her love is like. This clip only pulls the morphing off thanks to great editing and Mya’s precise dancing skills because it’s clear that director, Paul Hunter, didn’t use any fancy technology, but the effect is the same: pop stars have a huge wardrobe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/0P4A1K4lXDo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/RGc79llajx4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Not only Michael, but the whole family got in on the morphing trend during the '90s. Michael indoctrinated Janet into the fold in their epic \"Scream\" short film. Everything morphs into everything: Michael into Janet, Warhol into Pollock, Buddha into Magritte. The Jacksons had the power to have whatever they wanted and, when they got tired of it, they could just turn it into something else. Janet used the technique again in her collaboration with Busta Rhymes, \"What’s It Gonna Be?” Rhymes and an entire marching band morph out of a silver water wall à la Alex Mack in order to parade around a purple leather-clad Janet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/XS088Opj9o0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Madonna’s \"Frozen\" shows that morphing isn’t just about excess and showing off how many styles you can flaunt in one video. Her spooky and contemplative clip demonstrates that not only can she wear whatever she wants, but she can be anything she wants. 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This is why we listen to it, for just a few moments to be someone or something that we’re not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that morphing technology has improved over the last decade and it is constantly used in movies and TV shows, music videos feature it less and less, probably due to decreased video budgets and declining record sales. It’s a shame to see such a dazzling technique fall to the wayside in favor of twerking and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VQoP2_eL4\">metallic lip gloss\u003c/a>. Please add recent examples or your own favorites in the comments!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/nashville/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9996\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-9996 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville.png\" alt=\"nashville\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Gratitude can \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/writing-health-benefits-journal_n_4242456.html\">help us sleep better, make us happier and inspire us to exercise\u003c/a>. Studies suggest \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/science/a-serving-of-gratitude-brings-healthy-dividends.html?_r=1&\">we ought to be writing letters to people who changed our lives\u003c/a> and reading the letters aloud to them. Yet, so often we don't take the time to really feel or acknowledge our gratitude, or maybe it seems kind of cheesy to do something like \u003ca href=\"http://www.learnvest.com/2011/11/how-making-a-gratitude-list-can-change-your-life/\">list what we're grateful for\u003c/a>. And yet, if we keep a gratitude journal, we may literally \u003ca href=\"http://www.gapsychology.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=309\">feel less physical pain in our lives\u003c/a>. When I stop to think about it at all, I'm insanely grateful for every single step I'm able to take, for my kneecaps, and my feet, and the sidewalk. For every single second. Every sensation. Every person I love. We forget sometimes to make space for this gratitude, to put it into words. Sure, we feel it vaguely. If someone asked, we'd say we're grateful. But for what? There's a power and intentionality behind saying who or what those things are, in pausing to actually consider the meaning of our specific gratitude. Whether we write it down or say it out loud or just think it inside our heads in complete sentences, it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My gratitude list would have to encompass both the profound and ridiculous, and everything in between. I'd be here all day listing everything from the cellular to the celestial. So instead, for now, I've compiled some pop(ish) culture people and their creations for my gratitude list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for the humor, revelation, wisdom, scariness, beauty, strangeness, uncertainty and longing within the words, images, and music that people make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/books/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9993\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-9993\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books.jpg\" alt=\"books\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003c/a>I'm grateful for poetry, something I love lately with a renewed fervor, in a way I haven't since I was an emo teenager. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6252\">Emily Kendal Frey\u003c/a> who writes, \"you sit in your body, quietly making blood/wild blood/bird of the world.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227__gQc8s4\">Mary Ruefle\u003c/a> who writes, \"I could see that the course of history had changed/even if you knew that you might not know there are moments seized with tenderness/this was one of them.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pen.org/poetry/one-way-doing-battle\">Lisa Ciccarello\u003c/a>, who writes, \"When I touched my wrist to my chest, it was shorthand for love.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/\">CA Conrad\u003c/a> who writes, \"part of the dream is that you accept your waking life as part of the dream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for language, ways we put language into forms and shapes and then attempt to explain our lives. I'm grateful there are people who try to do so. I'm grateful for everything I haven't read yet, for every line that moves me or confuses me or crystallizes something. I'm grateful for fiction and non-fiction. For the object of the book, for its weight, pages and fonts. I'm grateful for books found buried in thrift store bins, books I've loaned and given away so many times that I must buy them over and over (I'm looking at you, \u003cem>Jesus' Son\u003c/em>). I'm grateful for unfinished and forgotten books. I imagine the lucky person who picked up my 5 cent copy of Doris Lessing's \u003cem>The Summer Before The Dark\u003c/em> from the seat back pocket on the Jet Blue flight from Boston.\u003cem> \u003c/em>I'm grateful for Doris Lessing. I'm grateful Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize and for her sad, elegant, structurally incomparable short stories. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://horselesspress.com/\">small presses\u003c/a> and literary magazines, even the ones I don't have time to read piling on my end table. I'm grateful that I could read forever starting now and never get to it all. I'm grateful for everything I've ever read, for the jolt of each discovery, for \u003cem>The Count of Monte Cristo\u003c/em> in 5th grade and \u003cem>The Flamethrowers\u003c/em> last week, and everything in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for drama and melodrama. For example, I'm guiltily grateful for the glittery, inexplicable perfection of \u003cem>Nashville \u003c/em>and the country stars whose soap operas unfold within. I'm grateful for how weirdly addictive it is, for how fraught and sexy every duet seems. I'm grateful for fraught and sexy scenes in general. I'm grateful for the fact that I cannot stream \u003cem>Nashville\u003c/em> and so I must just watch it episode by episode, old school, the cliff hangers actually able to work their car crash/explosion/fade to darkness magic. I'm grateful for guilty pleasures of all sorts, for our eclecticism that allows us to encompass all we're attracted to -- the trashy, entertaining and sublime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful I somehow missed out on watching \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> for years, even though it was a cultural phenomenon, and now I get to start from the very beginning, while for many people it's already over. I'm grateful for suspense and anticipation, for the million delights, pleasures and surprises of narrative. For \u003cem>Scandal \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Homeland\u003c/em>, for quadruple agents, spies, and love affairs with the president, for juicy plots of all varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm so grateful Tempers finally has \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/tempersmusic/what-isnt-there-1?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Ftempersmusic%2Fwhat-isnt-there-1\">a new song\u003c/a>. I'm grateful for music, for how it's inextricably linked with our personal history, identity and memory. I'm grateful for the moment in the bar when I hear \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCOKAYIBmng\">The Lemonheads\u003c/a> and get all nostalgic, remembering some ephemeral fragment of being 13. I'm grateful for how it feels to listen to music while I get ready to go out, while I cook, while I work. I'm grateful for how, so often, a song says something sweeping and visceral and blood-level, that can be said in no other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/3IWs-3jw-TA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for Spotify and Shazam, for record players and juke boxes. I'm grateful for concerts, for standing in the dark, shoulder to shoulder. I'm grateful for how what we love and discover musically helps us understand and be who we are. I'm grateful there is always something new to hear. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.factmag.com/2013/10/13/new-talent-las-skin-town-on-crafting-dark-rb-for-children-of-the-90s/\">Skin Town\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://huntershunters.com/\">Hunters\u003c/a>, two bands I randomly read about today and have been listening to for the past hour. I'm grateful for the countless moods that can be evoked, transcended, and relished, with the right song as the soundtrack. I'm grateful for the music I listened to as a teenager. I'm grateful for the music my parents listened to while I was growing up. I'm grateful for the music my teenage students tell me is cool now. I'm grateful for mixed tapes from boys. For dancing. I'm so grateful for dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/movies/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9994\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-9994\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies.jpg\" alt=\"movies\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003c/a>I'm grateful for movies and movie theaters. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201311/michael-fassbender-cover-story-november-2013?currentPage=1\">Michael Fassbender\u003c/a> and his handsome face and how he chooses to mostly play such brutal, unattractive men. I'm grateful for artsy movies and action movies. I'm grateful that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/sanfrancisco/embarcaderocentercinema.htm\">Embarcadero Center Cinema re-opened\u003c/a>, and that you can drink wine at the Kabuki. I'm grateful for Sunday afternoons that feel the exact sort of cozy way that makes going to the movies the exact right thing to do. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://nofilmschool.com/2013/04/antonio-campos-perfect-and-sloppy/\">Antonio Campos\u003c/a>, Brit Marling and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACJWPd3VnI\">Todd Haynes\u003c/a>, to name just three of thousands. I'm grateful for previews. I love previews. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/nashville/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9996\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-9996 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville.png\" alt=\"nashville\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Gratitude can \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/writing-health-benefits-journal_n_4242456.html\">help us sleep better, make us happier and inspire us to exercise\u003c/a>. Studies suggest \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/science/a-serving-of-gratitude-brings-healthy-dividends.html?_r=1&\">we ought to be writing letters to people who changed our lives\u003c/a> and reading the letters aloud to them. Yet, so often we don't take the time to really feel or acknowledge our gratitude, or maybe it seems kind of cheesy to do something like \u003ca href=\"http://www.learnvest.com/2011/11/how-making-a-gratitude-list-can-change-your-life/\">list what we're grateful for\u003c/a>. And yet, if we keep a gratitude journal, we may literally \u003ca href=\"http://www.gapsychology.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=309\">feel less physical pain in our lives\u003c/a>. When I stop to think about it at all, I'm insanely grateful for every single step I'm able to take, for my kneecaps, and my feet, and the sidewalk. For every single second. Every sensation. Every person I love. We forget sometimes to make space for this gratitude, to put it into words. Sure, we feel it vaguely. If someone asked, we'd say we're grateful. But for what? There's a power and intentionality behind saying who or what those things are, in pausing to actually consider the meaning of our specific gratitude. Whether we write it down or say it out loud or just think it inside our heads in complete sentences, it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My gratitude list would have to encompass both the profound and ridiculous, and everything in between. I'd be here all day listing everything from the cellular to the celestial. So instead, for now, I've compiled some pop(ish) culture people and their creations for my gratitude list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for the humor, revelation, wisdom, scariness, beauty, strangeness, uncertainty and longing within the words, images, and music that people make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/books/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9993\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-9993\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books.jpg\" alt=\"books\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003c/a>I'm grateful for poetry, something I love lately with a renewed fervor, in a way I haven't since I was an emo teenager. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6252\">Emily Kendal Frey\u003c/a> who writes, \"you sit in your body, quietly making blood/wild blood/bird of the world.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227__gQc8s4\">Mary Ruefle\u003c/a> who writes, \"I could see that the course of history had changed/even if you knew that you might not know there are moments seized with tenderness/this was one of them.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pen.org/poetry/one-way-doing-battle\">Lisa Ciccarello\u003c/a>, who writes, \"When I touched my wrist to my chest, it was shorthand for love.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/\">CA Conrad\u003c/a> who writes, \"part of the dream is that you accept your waking life as part of the dream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I'm grateful Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize and for her sad, elegant, structurally incomparable short stories. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://horselesspress.com/\">small presses\u003c/a> and literary magazines, even the ones I don't have time to read piling on my end table. I'm grateful that I could read forever starting now and never get to it all. I'm grateful for everything I've ever read, for the jolt of each discovery, for \u003cem>The Count of Monte Cristo\u003c/em> in 5th grade and \u003cem>The Flamethrowers\u003c/em> last week, and everything in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for drama and melodrama. For example, I'm guiltily grateful for the glittery, inexplicable perfection of \u003cem>Nashville \u003c/em>and the country stars whose soap operas unfold within. I'm grateful for how weirdly addictive it is, for how fraught and sexy every duet seems. I'm grateful for fraught and sexy scenes in general. I'm grateful for the fact that I cannot stream \u003cem>Nashville\u003c/em> and so I must just watch it episode by episode, old school, the cliff hangers actually able to work their car crash/explosion/fade to darkness magic. I'm grateful for guilty pleasures of all sorts, for our eclecticism that allows us to encompass all we're attracted to -- the trashy, entertaining and sublime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful I somehow missed out on watching \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> for years, even though it was a cultural phenomenon, and now I get to start from the very beginning, while for many people it's already over. I'm grateful for suspense and anticipation, for the million delights, pleasures and surprises of narrative. For \u003cem>Scandal \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Homeland\u003c/em>, for quadruple agents, spies, and love affairs with the president, for juicy plots of all varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm so grateful Tempers finally has \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/tempersmusic/what-isnt-there-1?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Ftempersmusic%2Fwhat-isnt-there-1\">a new song\u003c/a>. I'm grateful for music, for how it's inextricably linked with our personal history, identity and memory. I'm grateful for the moment in the bar when I hear \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCOKAYIBmng\">The Lemonheads\u003c/a> and get all nostalgic, remembering some ephemeral fragment of being 13. I'm grateful for how it feels to listen to music while I get ready to go out, while I cook, while I work. I'm grateful for how, so often, a song says something sweeping and visceral and blood-level, that can be said in no other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/3IWs-3jw-TA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for Spotify and Shazam, for record players and juke boxes. I'm grateful for concerts, for standing in the dark, shoulder to shoulder. I'm grateful for how what we love and discover musically helps us understand and be who we are. I'm grateful there is always something new to hear. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.factmag.com/2013/10/13/new-talent-las-skin-town-on-crafting-dark-rb-for-children-of-the-90s/\">Skin Town\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://huntershunters.com/\">Hunters\u003c/a>, two bands I randomly read about today and have been listening to for the past hour. 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I'm so grateful for dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/movies/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9994\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-9994\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies.jpg\" alt=\"movies\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003c/a>I'm grateful for movies and movie theaters. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“Weird Al” Yankovic was technically my first concert. At the time my mom, bless her heart, was worried that a lot of the culture I was consuming was parodying things I hadn’t seen the original of yet—this was the era (at least for me) of \u003cem>Animaniacs\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Mystery Science Theater 3000. \u003c/em>She had a point: I knew the words to \"Smells Like Nirvana\" way before I was even aware of who Nirvana was. But like a lot of kids, I loved the music and knew it was funny anyway, without ever having to see the source material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of parody itself has been bastardized in the past few years with things like \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FillWerreI\">“parody” Twitter accounts that are actually just generic jokes with the likeness of a funny celebrity or a character\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-surreally-incompetent-not-another-not-another,91699/\">parody movies that are just barrages of random pop culture references.\u003c/a> (Can I make myself the Bill O’Reilly of this cause and start going on about “the war on parody” to anyone who will listen? 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He is an archetypal Southern California dork, even after his makeover (circa the \u003cem>Running With Scissors\u003c/em> album, when I saw him live), often clad in stupid Hawaiian shirts, his voice a singularly zany honk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s an institution, and while I don’t listen to his music the way I did when I was a kid—can you imagine walking around with parodies in your earbuds now?—the fact that he’s still doing it in a relevant way represents something still really right with the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Re-listening to his catalogue, and listening to his newer stuff for the first time, I realized effective parody takes different approaches and works in different ways. For example, here is a video (dated 1979!) of Yankovic performing \"My Bologna,\" a parody of the Knack's \"My Sharona.\" \"My Bologna\" holds up really well—partly because, even at such an early stage in his career, he is so devoted to the character of accordion-playing bologna enthusiast, so willing to ham it up. I am \u003cem>so sorry \u003c/em>for that joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"singlevideo\">[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4_G7HHJ0GE]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The other part of why it holds up, and this may seem obvious, is that bologna is an incongruous thing to sing about. He does not try to be clever or make double entendres about it, he just sings about his love for bologna. Something about this approach seems incredibly natural to me now—I’m not sure if growing up on Yankovic’s music is the reason my friends and I like to change words to popular songs to be about the food we’re eating, or if it’s just something goofballs have always done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This formula paid off throughout Yankovic's career: \"My Bologna\" led to \"Eat It\" (\"Beat It\"), which led to \"Girls Just Want to Have Lunch,\" which begat \"Addicted to Spuds,\" (as in, “Might as well face it…”) There is an entire \u003cem>Food Album\u003c/em>, a compilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2006’s “Trapped in the Drive-Thru,” a parody of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet,” maybe constitutes an example of a different type of effective parody, though, despite its fast food theme. For one thing, it breaks what we could call the \u003cem>Scary Movie\u003c/em> rule of parody: it makes fun of something that is already humorous and self-aware. However, the pleasure in listening to “Trapped in the Drive-Thru,” like Aziz Ansari’s R. Kelly impression, comes from Yankovic pointing out specific idiosyncrasies of Kelly’s style, most notably in an interaction between the speaker and his wife around 1:17 involving a mishearing of the word “delivered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"singlevideo\">[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHnTocdD7sk]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Yankovic’s recent parody of T.I.’s “Whatever You Like” constitutes a third, rarer type of parody in his catalogue, in which the subject matter is actually the opposite of that of the original song. 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