Rogueish
04/23/12
Wow, Armageddon is a hella #dads movie. The fact that the dad dying at the end makes it more, not less, dads, might say something interesting about the relationship between dialectic and #nodads (tentatively: Bruce Willis fulfills his role as a dad, and so the negation that is his death maintains his place in the restricted dad economy; if there is a #nodads dialectic, it would have to be of the sort discussed by Derrida in “From a Restricted to a General Economy”). Also, what’s with the repeated trope in the film in which one character orders another to say certain words? Some kind of insistence on the nom du père over the non du père? Anyway, watching Armageddon yesterday reminded me of the episode of Wizards of Waverly Place based on the movie, in which Selena Gomez plays the role of Bruce Willis.
Miley Cyrus - Can't Be Tamed
04/30/10
The bridge isn’t too bad, but the new Miley Cyrus track “Can’t Be Tamed” is certainly no “Party in the USA”; that Danja sound wasn’t exactly new three years ago when Britney adopted it, and it hasn’t aged well. I was all set to make my usual rant about how come massively rich Disney never springs the cash for decent songwriters for its biggest artists (with the obvious exception of Dr Luke for, yes, “Party in the USA”); but it turns out that the people who wrote and produced “Can’t Be Tamed” were also behind Selena Gomez’s great “Naturally.” So the terribleness of this track is entirely inexplicable.
