Monday, April 24, 2006
This one is a couple of weeks old, but it takes a few weeks for this stuff to trickle down to Arizona...
Just got the third album by The Streets, the nom-de-verse UK's rap empresario Mike Skinner. "The hardest way to make an easy leaving" its too bad, but it didn't grab me on the first listen like the first two albums did.
One thing thats pretty funny ... One track "When you wasn't famous" is about Mikey Streets having sex with an unnamed pop star who did crazy amounts of crack cocaine and still "looked great on CD:UK" (kid-friendly pop show) the next day, then Mike was still wasted. The funny part was all the speculation in the UK tabloid press (seems like Mike has them figured out at least) about who the mystery girl was.
Then, when he did the song on Top of the Pops (yet-another-pop-show) he dedicated the song to Cheryl Tweedy, of the girl-pop group Girls Aloud (pictured below). This was a joke apparently, and caused a quick rebuttal from Cheryl's agent. Just as well, as she is about to get married to Arsenal's Ashley Cole.
The bit that struck me as odd was that if Cheryl really is the girl in the song, wouldn't Ashley realize? After all, you'd think he would know if his fiancee liked to toot mad amounts of rock!
Side note: "Its a fair crack" is Irish slang meaning "Its pretty good". Sorry - I couldn't help it.
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Just got the third album by The Streets, the nom-de-verse UK's rap empresario Mike Skinner. "The hardest way to make an easy leaving" its too bad, but it didn't grab me on the first listen like the first two albums did.
One thing thats pretty funny ... One track "When you wasn't famous" is about Mikey Streets having sex with an unnamed pop star who did crazy amounts of crack cocaine and still "looked great on CD:UK" (kid-friendly pop show) the next day, then Mike was still wasted. The funny part was all the speculation in the UK tabloid press (seems like Mike has them figured out at least) about who the mystery girl was.
Then, when he did the song on Top of the Pops (yet-another-pop-show) he dedicated the song to Cheryl Tweedy, of the girl-pop group Girls Aloud (pictured below). This was a joke apparently, and caused a quick rebuttal from Cheryl's agent. Just as well, as she is about to get married to Arsenal's Ashley Cole.
The bit that struck me as odd was that if Cheryl really is the girl in the song, wouldn't Ashley realize? After all, you'd think he would know if his fiancee liked to toot mad amounts of rock!
Side note: "Its a fair crack" is Irish slang meaning "Its pretty good". Sorry - I couldn't help it.
