Another Blog Milestone

Well, here we are readers. 20,000 views! I’m so impressed by your interest in my interests and I’m thrilled to be a go-to media generator. I promise to keep things cutting-edge as ever and here’s to another day. Another post about another band or another pilot, whether it be written for 5 readers or 1,000, here’s to the future. Honestly, it may not be a big deal but I don’t know what standards are for blogs these days. Moreover, I just wouldn’t know the first thing about being jaded.

Mimi

Are you Chuck, on the Gossip Girl?

This week on One Tree Hill, Nathan Scott was still being kept prisoner in some Eastern European country, Detective Dan was taking too long to put the pieces together and Haley, handing her kids off to Lucas, was about to admit how broken she was.

That’s right, folks. We were given an underwhelming guest appearance by CMM, who seemed to come back for the final season as merely an obligation. After turning his back on his alma mater of sorts for all those bigtime Hollywood movies he is not currently starring in. Austin Nichols holds the reigns on OTH while Chad can’t even seem to master a grown-up hairstyle. And for this weak airport performance he dialed in, you just know he still he made a nice monogrammed LV luggage set full of green.

Meanwhile, Chase has been made active duty in the Air Force again, Alex is gone again, and Chuck’s dad is abusive. I just feel like we’ve been here before. There’s only so much Crazy Clay & Quinn and rival cafe drama we can take.

And last but not least significantly, OTH dared to ask that one big question in the context of no means no: “Are you Chuck, on the Gossip Girl?” Here, here. Nathan is no silly prep school girl and this is not a deserted rooftop.

Mimi

A Truth & Dair

On Gossip Girl, the admittance of feelings had finally arrived and we never knew we wanted Blair and Humphrey together so badly.

The Princess and The Frog

Another admittance of sorts ousted the Charlie Rhodes imposter at long last…but will that make room for the real Charlie Rhodes?

Which twist surprised you more? Are you a fan of Dair? Weigh in under the comments section!

Mimi

Everything You Say Is Fire

Mainstream enough for clubs, yes. Odd enough for hipsters, yes.

The real question is not who is The Naked And Famous? but how did these artists come together to create The Naked And Famous? What set of circumstances trapped this energy in one room before this set of individuals realized they were golden?

TNAF were a recipe for success from the start, with mellow male vocals trading off for electric female vocals, all the while backed by vibrating synth and a steady drumbeat. They bring a polished, computerized effect hipster band Black Kids could never quite pull off. Not to mention the most important ingredient here was style.

[Notes on their debut Passive Me, Aggressive You]

Punching In A Dream callously skips through a waterfall, in a private rainforest rave. This music makes you tap your fingers and tingle with a distant happiness. Almost as if you just know there’s a TNAF rave taking place somewhere.

Girls Like You sounds like the offbeat version of a song that would have backed an end-scene to an 80′s movie. Only this time, there would not be a cliche drive-off-into-the-sunset-in-my-boyfriend’s-car ending. Maybe kill the boyfriend, take the car.

Or perhaps this mix of darling and sinister…

That’s just it. Something is a bit off-putting with this band. It may sound like bubble gum techno-pop but it’s a bit more twisted. You wouldn’t exactly trust them to pet sit. Their twisted nature is captured on tracks like The Ends and The Sun.

The Naked And Famous seem to rack up cool points left and right. They’re from New Zealand. Their stage psuedonyms are Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith. Maybe they are dangerously close to being considered a gimmick; ”Ooh, wow, watch the indie girl 

pull a rabbit out of her hat.”         

Maybe they are a summer love that leaves with the sun. Maybe they’re a seductive desert mirage. But most times it begins with a song, simple as that.

[Presenting Young Blood, a reincarnated Time To Pretend-esque song for the kids]

Mimi