Best Single of 2009
Music • by mh • September 5th, 2009
The best single of 2009 is Lily Allen’s “The Fear,” hands down. She manages to combine the post 9/11 paranoia of the last decade, consumerism, trash culture, our obsession with fame and wealth. It’s all summed up in the unbelievably line, “I don’t know what’s right and what’s real any more / and I don’t know how I’m meant to feel any more.” This says more about the post 9/11 world’s total confusion and identity crisis than everything U2 and Bruce Springsteen produced in the last 10 years.
Amazing song, and the only thing that was worth hearing this year on VH1.
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Bruce Springsteen, cool, cool line, decade, fame and wealth, Fear, last decade, Lily Allen, paranoia, post, puke, single, trash culture, true response, vh1, western cultureShow comments
Top 10/Bottom 3 September 2009
Film/TV, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Politics, Random, Top 10/Bottom 3 • by mh • September 1st, 2009
Top 10
- Public option for health care
- Socialism
- Robert Wyatt’s new boxed set
- My birthday (Sept 1)
- Longplayer Live
- Cataclysm
- The Guild
- District 9
- Tod Dockstander’s Aerial #1-3 (going on my top 10 of 2000s list)
- Patton Oswalt
Bottom 3
- Idiots who think Socialism is something bad
- Idiots who think public health care is evil
- Idiots who protest against their own self interest because someone on the radio told them to
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Documentally, Live, Longplayer, VimeoShow comments