Butterfly Fly Away - Miley and Billy Ray Cirus Cover

This song is pretty...pretty stupid. Fathers and daughters probably shouldn't record songs together. Unless you wait, like Natalie Cole, until the dad has died and then capitalize on their success by singing along with a video of them. Just saying..

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Day of Silence - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1950-2009

Ourhitparade.com is observing a day of silence for Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. It was with great sadness that we learned that she passed into another realm last night. She was a mighty queer theorist, writer and such an amazing human. I had the great pleasure of spending lovely afternoons with Eve, her husband Hal and our friend Claudia, doing crafts and gabbing. The conversations were always enlightening but what I remember most about those afternoons was the joy of living that Eve and Hal radiated. My heart is with Hal in this time and I send Eve a Panda to help her transition...Read her books and may her spirit live on and on...

Kenny

The Climb - Miley Cyrus Cover by Neal Medlyn

This a version of "the Climb" by Miley Cyrus that I've been working for my show in October 2009 at Dance Theatre Workshop, tentatively titled ...HERS A QUEEN, and primarily made out of Britney Spears songs.

Samples of Gimme More underscore all the songs and all the action in the show, see, as they do here.

Enjoy yourselves, kids!

Neal

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Just Dance - Lady Gaga Cover by Neal Medlyn

Guest Post by Neal Medlyn


As bass player types are the ones who seem most likely to benefit from the drunkenness sung about in this song, I figured I'd make this cover pretty much all bass guitar.


Neal
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FLASHBACK FRIDAYS - Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman Cover

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

This song and in fact, the entire first Tracy Chapman album was the soundtrack of my summer of 1988. I had just broken up with my first boyfriend (or rather, he broke up with me..) and I was living with a friend Bill who is a painter. I was would sit and watch him paint while we listened to this album over and over on cassette. My first boyfriend is now an Episcopal priest.

Kenny

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Whatever You Like - TI via Weird Al Yankovic Cover by Neal Medlyn

WHATEVER YOU LIKE - WEIRD AL YANKOVIC

I've long had a soft spot for Weird Al. At some point in my youth, I had all of his albums up to that point on tape. I laughed out loud for about a week when I saw his video for "Fat" and he got his hand stuck in a mouse trap.

No real reason to jazz it up this much except that nothing says recession so much as dead art-forms like jazz. Oh snap! But come on, you all know that jazz is dead, right? Not that you'd know it by the amount of time and energy that is devoted to, shall we say, making love to that particular corpse.

But still, it's dead and there's not space here to go into all the reasons why. Nor is there space to go into why it's a good thing, either.

It's just that this recession just brings to mind all the things that died with the end of the last boom. I think, for me, forever associated with this last bout of ugly faced prosperity would be my experience doing a show that was seemingly heavily marketed to those who were flush with all that undue, dubious, fictitious and fractious money.

There was just something about those guffawing faces in their too fancy clothes, trying to take digital pictures of themselves grabbing my penis that seemed like an unsuccessful virus: not adapted to survive and flaming out fast.

Turns out that's what happened to their economy, and hopefully those nasty people are boo hooing their ways into obsolescence....like jazz!

See, it came back around after all, this blog post!

Anyway, I have a secret plan to do a Weird Al show one of these days. Don't steal this idea cuz I'm very, very excited about it. I feel like it might be the most post-modern thing one could ever do, therefore I'm saving it for my next museum gig assuming, in this economy, one of those ever comes back around...

Love,

Neal

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I Know You Want Me - Pitbull Cover by Neal Medlyn

I KNOW YOU WANT ME (CALLE OCHO MORE ENGLISH EXTENDED MIX) BY PITBULL
OUR HIT PARADE GOES REGGAETON

Here's a little known fact: I have a BA in Sociology with a minor in Spanish.

I love the music of the singer Selena. I visited her statue on the beach in Corpus Christi (one of my favorite towns) and was sad.

I live in a neighborhood where reggaeton is often to be heard.

I sometimes watch Mun2 late at night, after Hannah Montana, where Pitbull has his own show called La Esquina.

I know that La Esquina means the corner, as in where people often congregate in order to rap with one another.

I don't give a fuck what you say, Pitbull and Lil Jon's "THE ANTHEM" is the best goddamned song ever.

Assuming you are interested in moving your culo, that is.

X,

NM

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