{"id":2620,"date":"2010-03-15T00:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T04:41:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-07T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T18:04:32","slug":"spot-the-actual-music-references-in-this-record-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/spot-the-actual-music-references-in-this-record-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot the Actual Music References in This Record Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kUs9YzY7t-8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn the March 19 issue of <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> there&#8217;s a record review for <em>Hands<\/em>, a new album by an artist known as <strong>Little Boots<\/strong>, that is shockingly devoid of musical content!<\/p>\n<p>The reviewer&#8217;s name is <strong>Melissa Maerz<\/strong>, about whom I know absolutely nothing. It goes without saying that <em>EW<\/em> is not the sort of magazine a music lover&#8217;s music lover like myself should fret over for lack of musical content, but at least I think my beef is justified as a bathroom reader&#8217;s bathroom reader. Check out the mini-review, which I&#8217;ve copied in full, <em>after the jump<\/em>, and see if you can spot any actual music references.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Litte Boots<br \/>\n<em>Hands<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>POP<\/strong> (ELECKTRA)<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been called &#8220;new Kylie&#8221; and &#8220;little Britney,&#8221; but U.K. sprite Little Boots thinks she&#8217;s more underground than that. One video even finds her in a backless minidress, dancing with prostitutes, gang members, and homeless people. Still, musically, she&#8217;s great at taking superstar glamour to the streets: It&#8217;s megaclub gold for the broke-ass rest of us. <strong>B+<\/strong> <em>Melissa Maerz<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Maerz, congratulations on having written as dumb-ass a record review as has ever been written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the March 19 issue of Entertainment Weekly there&#8217;s a record review for Hands, a new album by an artist known as Little Boots, that is shockingly devoid of musical content! The reviewer&#8217;s name is Melissa Maerz, about whom I know absolutely nothing. It goes without saying that EW is not the sort of magazine <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/spot-the-actual-music-references-in-this-record-review\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}