I like the Monkees :(

Harry Nilsson wrote songs for them and George Harrison was a fan

I like the Monkees, the Spice Girls and Judas Priest. So I guess ten years from now I’ll find myself liking Kate Perry.

Wow – what’s with the Judas Priest rip? The criticism of the Monkees is fairly off base too, as Derek commented, but Judas Priest is an awesome and important band. Rob Halford came out as the first openly gay man in a legendary heavy metal band. I can understand that maybe you just don’t like metal, but JP is the kind of band progressive people of all stripes should rally around. At the very least, they don’t belong on a list with the Spice Girls and Katy Perry.

So glad I’m not the only person who keeps referring to Katy Perry as ‘Kate Perry’.

I haven’t actually bothered listening to her hit music yet because it doesn’t seem right that someone should appear on the cover of Rolling Stone for only writing one hit song. It doesn’t make me feel confident in either artist or magazine.

It’s funny even if you like the bands. In fact argument of said bands only makes the strip’s point even stronger (and to me even funnier).

Bubblegum, metal and dance pop were not taken seriously by the (oh let’s pretend there’s a) critical establishment when they appeared (the latter two among fairly gendered lines, but that’s something else entirely).

And now I have to go and learn to spell Katy Perry’s name.

i miss the spice girls ;) oh, btw, I just had peanut butter sandwich, and I’m behind with this month’s rent. Hmmm… what a coincidence.

And yet Judas Priest struggled for recognition first under the shadow of Black Sabbath and then later under the shadow of Iron Maiden. In the latter case, metal had already become known to the “critical establishment” to the point of calling Iron Maiden part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.

I understand the point you are making about Judas Priest and critical success. It’s just that it looks weird placing them alongside Spice Girls and Monkees, who are so completely manufactured and phony, while Priest are working class lads playing stupid metal for a white trash audience. And they are really really good. Just read the lyrics and see how many overtly gay references you can find. Turn it into a drinking game and notice how you slip into a coma after three songs.
Priest is a Trojan horse of gayness, placed inside the heteronormative walls of heavy metal.
Also, they rock. As do you.

I think that the people on my twitter feed are the true cultural elite.

Jill Sobule kissed a girl years before Katy Perry did, and where did that get her?

Did Katy Perry write her hit song? I just assumed it was a cover of Jill Sobule’s.

Hey, look at me opening my mouth before reading to the end. And a month too late, no less.

A secret society had the author of dilbert appear to see if we were part of a secret cabal I only recognized him from the video on his online site

how can you possibly hate the author of “pleasant valley sunday” for anything but hypocrisy? (happy memorial day weekend…)

katy perry’s hot, though

. . . what meeting are they at?

Here’s how it works: Jane’s Addiction’s “Ritual de lo Habitual” comes out in August 1990. Rolling Stone gives a negative two star review in October. The album manages to reach #19 in the Billboard top 200 regardless. Two songs manage to become #1 hits on the Modern Rock charts and they chart quite high up elsewhere as well. The band headlines the first Lollapalooza, which was conceived as their farewell tour, and their songs get strong airplay on MTV.

In 2003 Rolling Stone rank the album as the 453rd greatest of all time.

Even as a staunch supporter of gay and lesbian rights, I have to look at “I kissed a girl” and wonder if a male artist could achieve the same heights with a song titled “I kissed a dude”…