Drake got “WAP’d” by Cardi and Megan on this week’s Hot 100, but he did move up the No. 2 leaderboard.
(August 25, 2020). When it comes to hip-hop songs and the subject of women, Drake has pretty much been a non-offender in recent years, even going as far as to…
I’m feeling “We The People” – that song by the Staple Singers you heard at the end of the DNC Thursday
(August 21, 2020). Could “We The People,” the 1972 gem by the Staple Singers, be Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s “Don’t Stop” of 2020? Folks who are too young –…
Analysis: With “WAP,” Cardi’s and Megan’s MEG (metaphor & euphemism game) is tight! Let us count the ways…
(August 16, 2020). People have been complaining for years that music isn’t creative anymore and how lyrical nuance and metaphor were lost with the 20th century. Enter Cardi B and…
Women went from WAP to VEEP (candidate) in five days; it’s all about the same thing: empowerment.
(August 11, 2020). Four days ago, two star female rappers, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, released what has been perhaps the most scrutinized new song and video of 2020…
‘Even in the Quietest Moments’: 3 Old Guys ponder Supertramp’s pre-‘Breakfast’ appetizer
(Aug. 6, 2020). In 1977, before there was Breakfast in America, Supertramp’s megahit album from 1979, the British prog-rock/pop outfit released the nugget that was Even in the Quietest Moments,…