I wrote a big feature on the industry behind this kind of movies a few years ago: http://grantland.com/features/a-look-how-ripoff-factory-called-asylum-makes-mockery-box-office/
That same movie studio is now more famous for the Sharknado series.
Too bad John Fred didn't have a Sharknado in him.
I have given 10s to three Beatles songs. As of right now, only the Beatles and the Rolling Stones (who also have three) have multiple 10s.
Kid Rock doesn't have any #1 singles, but his highest-charting song ("Picture" with Sheryl Crow, #4 in 2002) would've been an 8.
There's nothing random about them. She's using the conversation to show how quickly these people are moving on from the death of this person who they know, and how oblivious they are to their daughter's suffering.
Yeah I'm thinking I'll throw that in when something notable got boxed out. Won't write an essay or anything but it kinda helps me situate a song historically.
I like it. But it's kinda depressing to write about that group in the midst of what appears to be a prolonged breakup, and it came out during a very, very busy week. It got overshadowed. It happens.
Kanye is the most important cultural figure to come out of music this century. But Wayne has done much, much more to change the way people rap. Also, Wayne has influenced Kanye, and Kanye has not influenced Wayne.
Simmons employs a lot of my friends, and my best recent freelance checks have had his name on the upper lefthand corner, so I continue to ride with him.
This occurs to me when I was writing it, and I kept writing it anyway.
Real talk tho: Simmons is a huge influence. Finding his early-00s stuff was a total lightbulb moment.
Factual corrections to boneheaded errors are extremely helpful and always welcome in this comments section. People bitching that the articles do not exactly reflect their own feelings are not.
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