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The (Imagined?) Politics of The R&B Music Video
Please excuse the incoherence that’s about to unfold. So there I was in the gym yesterday, running 10 kilometres (WOO!) to nowhere, when the new Timberlake and Timbaland video came on. Accordingly, and...
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Have You Met Ms Monáe?
Janelle Monáe is impossibly cute and impossibly talented. I first heard of her a few years ago when she appeared in Idlewild, the OutKast film. Next I heard of her was when she released Many Moons, an...
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Toni Braxton: Grown and Sexy
A few months ago at Stoke Newington’s Rose and Crown pub quiz, a question came up that only three people in the entire pub knew the answer to. The question was, “Who released the album Secrets in...
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40 Licks
I don’t know about you, but I get all the information I need to live from music videos. For instance, I’ve learned that unless my abs are scarily hard, I must not expose them to the public [Fergie, in...
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Unthinkable – Alicia Keys As Styled By Someone Who Likes Her
This song, Unthinkable, by Alicia Keys is giving me life right now. On an album filled with dreck, it stood out from the get go – soulful, with a classic ‘Slow Jam’ beat and keening vocals. Anyway, she...
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It Ain’t My Fault
Seriously, someone needs to tell Mos Def that I’m tired of waiting for him to come sweep me off my feet. His presence is only half the reason why I can’t stop playing this video, found via HarlemLoves....
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Whip It Good!
At the time of writing this post, Black Twitter was in a frenzy of retweeting links. I refuse to be ashamed at how enthused I was to see the new video for Willow Smith’s single Whip My Hair. It’s a...
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Black Fridays: What’s Race Got To Do With It?
I read a fantastic piece on Jezebel several months back, written by Danielle Belton of The Black Snob. The article was about the tiers of commercial celebrity gossip which exist within mainstream...
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On Words And Unfortunate Accompanying Images
Late last week, I heard Kelly Rowland’s new single, Motivation. It features Lil Wayne (a man who inspired me to make a very funny visual gag one time; ask my pal J – she’ll tell you) and is one of the...
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Mini-me pop
Rediscovered Jessie Ware’s record earlier this week, and have been unable to stop playing my favourite track off it, Sweet Talk. It’s Sade 2.0, basically, and I AM HERE FOR IT. Inevitably, I went and...
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