The Come Up Show/Flickr
Rae Sremmurd doing an awesome mannequin challenge in June 2015.
(The Come Up Show/Flickr)
Rae Sremmurd doing an awesome mannequin challenge in June 2015.
(The Come Up Show/Flickr)
MUSICREDEF PICKS
Drake, Rolling Stones, Rae Sremmurd, Brands & Lyrics, Split Single...
Matty Karas, curator November 17, 2016
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Rae Sremmurd are only black Beatles in the space of a pop song, but in their dazed self-asssurance, they sound giant-sized, like their tune has been beamed from a dimension where African American Mississippian twenty-somethings could be welcomed as the same musical geniuses a quartet of wisecracking white Liverpudlians were in the 1960s.
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Hip-hop group with backward name from ELVIS PRESLEY's hometown goes to #1 with a "DAY TRIPPER"-quoting song called "BLACK BEATLES" with a little help from their white BEATLE friend. And HILLARY CLINTON. Go behind the meme with RAE SREMMURD in our REDEF MusicSET "Single-Minded: Rae Sremmurd, 'Black Beatle'"... Who are you supposed to believe when the self-appointed artist-friendly streaming service goes up against THE ARTIST? Asking for (the estate of) a friend... I'm unclear why NAPSTER is trumpeting the fact that it has landed the METALLICA catalog, which mostly serves to remind us that, until this week, Napster didn't have what SPOTIFY has had for several years. But it gives me the chance to link to this pre-YOUTUBE animated classic, which dates to a time when LARS ULRICH et. al. were at war with an entirely different company, also named NAPSTER, that did have the catalog. So thank you, new Napster... SHAZAM promises to fix this, but it turns out the app leaves your phone mic on even after you think you've stopped recording. Which is problematic in about 10,000 BLACK MIRROR-y ways. The company swears there's no "meaningful risk" and says it will update the app in a few days... In the same spirit as CHRIS CHRISTIE's continuing struggle to understand why his love for BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN isn't reciprocated, the JACKSON BROWNE fan who's building the DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE is disappointed that his rock idol is protesting his work. Get to know your heroes, people. Also, doesn't anyone listen to lyrics anymore?... RIP MILTON OKUN.

Matty Karas, curator

November 17, 2016