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Pop Frippery.: GaGa: Verdict
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Saturday, April 10, 2010. OK, so I didn't enjoy GaGa. Possibly, but not necessarily erroneously. It wasn't just my extreme age dulling my enjoyment. Basically, it wasn't a great show. Or, rather, it wasn't a show great enough to match the truly great things GaGa is doing in every other sphere - her clips, visual imagery, appearances etc. Because the production was merely mediocre, everything seemed slightly duller. Than one would expect: her costumes weren't nearly as interesting or avant garde. Have bee...
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Pop Frippery.: February 2010
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Monday, February 8, 2010. Has she had work done? Is a vacant starlet in the truest sense (see this. Nonetheless her complete plastic surgery makeover is a bold move, and raises some interesting questions about, umm, the boundaries of identity. While I'm tempted to say that in becoming a completely different person. Is making a profound political statement, she's most likely playing out some kind of body dysmorphia. Unfortunately her face is so bruised she's unable to promote her new album Superficial.
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Pop Frippery.: December 2009
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A song to make me happy. Sunday, December 13, 2009. I somehow got a hold of a physical copy of Shakira's. Album, even though the release has now been pulled until 2010, which suggests record company disarray and panic. Very sad. But anyway, the album is strong, although only nine tracks (if you exclude the Spanish version of She Wolf. Which puts it in The Fame Monster. Mini-album territory. Men in this Town. With only slight modulation. (In an album of nine tracks, how can there be filler? I Am The Blob.
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Pop Frippery.: Goldfrapp
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Was unfairly maligned, but nonetheless I love the new Goldfrapp. Rilliant but inane lyrics ('I've got a rocket/you're goin' on it'). Jaunty, smiley bass, rockety bleepy sounds, a Light Years. Style countdown and a final rocket blast - these are all very good things. And the new Xanadu inspired styling is ace, if somewhat derivative these days. But if there's anyone who deserves to do Xanadu, it's Alison Goldfrapp. Makes my heart leap! February 3, 2010 at 8:46 PM. I Am The Blob.
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Pop Frippery.: Not Myself Tonight
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010. I'm reluctant to slag this off, because a) I think Xtina. Has done some really good stuff (albeit mostly in the Stripped. Period) and b) it's too easy in the era of Lady GaGa. To assume that those who've come before her are now stealing her moves. That might be partly true, but the reality is more reciprocal, and I'm sure Xtina has also in a sense paved the way. For GaGa (just as Kylie has - there I said it). But enough moderation. Not Myself Tonight. Vids which, if you take them...
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Therapeutic Baking: Make it snappy. And cakey.
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Emotional outpourings. with recipes! Friday, January 14, 2011. Make it snappy. And cakey. Oh wow. Years have passed. A lot has happened - I got quite sick and I had to change the way I eat. To stay well, I have changed the way I cook and bake too. But yumminess MUST be had and a new food hero is David Lebovitz who has this brilliant life living and cooking in Paris and experimenting with many different ways of making sweet treats. From what I've tried, he gets it very right. January 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM.
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Therapeutic Baking: July 2009
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Emotional outpourings. with recipes! Monday, July 27, 2009. Must remember to blog! I will. Soon. I promise! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I Am The Blob. Julia's Empty Fruit Bowl. The Rose Bakery, Paris. Must remember to blog! Black and white cookie. View my complete profile.
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Therapeutic Baking: School Daze
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Emotional outpourings. with recipes! Sunday, November 15, 2009. I went to my primary school fete today. Actually it has always been known as a 'Bazaar' as it's Princes Hill you know and we like to be fancy and do things differently of course. I was hung over from karaoke last night (how does the craziness of karaoke happen? Our childhood rivalry reared its comfortingly familiar head as I tried to persuade her to give it to me and then simply tried to steal it from her. As I walked back up Princes Hill to...
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Pop Frippery.: June 2010
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The All The Lovers. Clip is here, and it is very satisfying, if not the genre defining moment we had all hoped for. In a sense there's not much too it that the various 'making-of' pics hadn't already revealed - Kylie. But haven't we seen these heaving piles (hmm, that sounds iffy) of young people before? Hasn't there been some kind of soccer ad, or Nike ad, that's done this already? Or is it this. Era imagery. Good on her for being blasted in fake tan, airbrushed to death and h...
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Pop Frippery.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010. I'm excited. But also scared and afraid of disappointment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Camille Paglia @ Salon. A Wild Young Under-Whimsy. I Am The Blob. Julia's empty fruit bowl. Vortex of bad pop. So You Think You Can Dance. Sophie B. Hawkins. US car industry/ pop cultural commonalities. Im excited. But also scared and afraid of disap. Gabriella Cilmi has blindsided me with this. I s. View my complete profile. Balling.bread [at] gmail.com.
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