Who??

K, I don't get it.

I thought Mariah Carey was a JOKE. She went all looney not long ago and everyone thought she was off her rocker. Granted, losing your mind maybe isn't a nice/good reason to not like someone's music any more...but her music was crap (though in my opinion it always was). Now she's all over the place again and everyone is swooning saying how wonderful she is and her album killed Fiddy the week it was released...now she's the #1 chart topping woman of all time? (Something like 14 #1 singles or something...) WTF???

I don't get it. I officially announce that I just don't fucking get it. Who buys her albums? Who requests her music? There are seriously that many little girls out there that really love her so completely that she can be at the top again just like "that"?? I officially have no clue how the World works. Either someone has a helluva lot of money and is paying someone off or doing something to boost her career (which I don't doubt could be happening at all)...or the world is off IT'S rocker and the listening public are the ones who have gone totally looney.

When I went to see George a few weeks ago he mentioned interviewing Mariah, but it was about another topic, about his interviewing style and about not asking personal questions...about going for the kill and when not to. (He was saying he interviewed her right when she was cracking and he could see her about to cry so he just stopped the interview. He's a good man. He said it was just insane, he wasn't about to interview someone and make an ass out of them or make them cry when they were obviously going through some problems.) But my actual point of interest in this instance is another discussion he had that was about the singer/songwriter types (he didn't mention names, but I presume he means the likes of John Mayer, etc, as that's who I attach "singer/songwriter" to anyway) and how they were big because record companies biggest drive is to aim for the 20-34 female audience. While I love George's opinion, I find that hard to believe. Granted, John and many of the so called singer-songwriter types have done well and there was soon an over abundance of such S-S, most of which were/are horribly untalented and no where near John's league...maybe that group BUYS more or something, but it seems the even younger girls would be more the prime subject of media hype. The 13-18 age group. Maybe it's been worked out in the figures they actually don't buy as much....but I'm sure that's the age group that made the likes of Britney, NSync, The BSB, Mariah (the first time around), Christina and all those successful and I'm sure its the next generation of that age group that is buying Mariah's stuff now. Mainly because I don't know who the hell else would be buying it. I'm in the 20-34 age group that George mentioned and quite obviously the singer-songwriter type works in that age group, haha, cause I know alot of us love him...but there's no way any one of us would be caught dead with a Mariah Carey cd. It would just never happen. So maybe we go to more concerts because we can do what we want supposedly because we are self-sustaining...but I still don't believe that. Those young kids are crazy...they buy more into the CRAP that Mariah can sell...I don't just mean her music (haha) I mean allllll the merch. And I'm sure their parents buy them alot of that crap and send them to just as many (if not more) concerts than us working class students and young adults can afford to go to. We're too busy trying to figure out how to make it to the $60 U2 or Green Day concert that comes up every 5 years, haha. Ok, so I bought some $5 stickers, but I don't think they can sustain themselves on sticker sales alone. So George, I love you...but I don't believe you. (This time, lol.)

If someone can find me 5 people who bought this new Mariah Carey album that are over the age of 20, I will be VERY amazed. (Then I may go shoot myself.)

And on a less bitchy note, haha....watching tv and U2 were just on talking about various things but the interviewer asked them about iPods and gave them the U2 themed iPod. SO funny. He was like...do you guys even know how to work it?? LMAO. Bono took it and started mocking him by poking it randomly and yelling at it "uhhh do you hit this? or this? Maybe this?" (in a really stupid "hick" voice) and Edge grabbed it away from him and held it up to his ear like a cell phone and was like "helllooo? Are you in there? I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!!" Haha. So funny! Bono looked at it for a bit though and decided that "it was the sexiest thing since the electric guitar"......sadly...I'd have to agree. How a little silver (in my case anyway) electronic box can be "sexy" is beyond me...yet...it is. Hehe. Mine's only the iPod mini, but I like it more than the bigger ones. Which only proves one of my friend's greatest points (he full of ridiculous ones too, like how he smokes Player's because his Dad looks likes the Player's guy and always smoked them himself, haha).............

** To make something cuter, just make a smaller version of it. **

SO TRUE! Case in point...babies. Puppies, bunnies, kittens, calves, baby goats...any babies are just damn cute. Tiny purses....tiny shoes...baby carrots...mini skirts....(ahem)...really....if you want to make it cuter, just make it smaller. Ok....so maybe that's not ALWAYS true, haha. Cough. Ahem. ;) Bigger can be better in instances, there is always the exception to any rule. But I think the majority is true here, smaller = cuter.

So that post started out in left field and ended up in the parking lot. Sorry bout that.

Just to keep it real though....check out the latest from BNL co-frontman, Steven Page, a side project...

www.thevanityproject.com

The first single, if there is one and you want to call it that, Wilted Rose is currently the weeks free download at iTunes Canada and I got it the other day. Definitely enjoying that one alot. Which reminds me...speaking of insanity in the world of music. Now I'm not a huge Coldplay fan, but they are decent...I read that the latest Coldplay single got booted from the top of the charts in the UK by a song inspired by a RING TONE. A song that was nothing, made from crap-ass ringtone??? The sky is falling.

Which also reminds me...check out Zach Braff's blog....love the boy, but he can't find anything to do in Montreal?? I've never been, but I hear it most certainly has no shortage of things to do. But his blog his hysterical. And I say "that reminds me" because I believe Zach is linked to the new Chicken Little movie...or maybe he's just looking forward to it, haha.

But aren't we all?