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Rob Sheffield
American
Journalist
Born:
Feb 2
,
1966
Girl
Love
Music
People
World
You
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Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
Rob Sheffield
Day
First
Walks
President
Out
Pennant
Throws
Opening
Opening Day
Ball
Cubs
Era
Mathematically
Traditions
Get
Pitcher
Race
Full
Baseball
Away
Eliminated
Royals
Starting
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
Rob Sheffield
Sad
Loneliness
You
Pet
Big
Lust
Too
Heyday
City
Dressing
About
Guys
Songs
Weird
New
Sing
Boy
Big City
Were
Hear
New Order
Up
Cure
Mode
Shop
Depeche
Order
Eighties
Manner
Really
Pop
Pop Songs
Reason
Now
Why
Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.
Rob Sheffield
News
Strange
Experience
People
World
Style
Changed
ABC
Over
Still
Mix
Decades
Going
Difference
Old-Fashioned
Evening
Evening News
NBC
Watching
Nightly
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
Rob Sheffield
Death
Black
Late-Night
Seventies
Kind
Scare
Black Sabbath
Horror
Sabbath
Attic
Like
Go
Covers
Ambience
Very
American
Goes
Legends
Suburban
Urban
Ask
Downer
Even
Specific
Jessica
Album
Flowers
You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
Rob Sheffield
Attitude
You
Beat
Glam
Beehive
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.
Rob Sheffield
Become
Secret
Our
Those
Insatiable
Beasts
True
Roam
True Blood
Metaphor
Blood
The Secret Of
Craving
Transforming
Them
Even
Appetites
Creatures
Inner
Humans
Desires
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!
Rob Sheffield
You
Queen
Girl
Lonely
Singing
Party
Teenage
Teenage Girl
Rap
Tries
Dreaming
Voice
Both
Stuck
Hail
Along
Town
Like
She
Sounds
Loser
Hear
Greatness
Any
Where
Ordinary
Radio
Star
Nowhere
Her
Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.
Rob Sheffield
Game
Guitar
Punk
Shoes
Live
Other
Musical
Top
Seeing
Touch
Percent
Crowd
Emotional
Excess
Red
Reach
Match
Disco
Microphone
Anyone
Pop
Taylor
Taylor Swift
Swift
Now
Her
Right
Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.
Rob Sheffield
People
Other
No Idea
Both
Idea
Nobody
Like
Likes
Lots
Who
Many
Even
Watching
Oscars
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
Rob Sheffield
History
Experience
Girl
Few
Incredibly
Summer
Later
Months
Pleasure
Claiming
Bad
Would
Tried
Bad Girls
Point
Divisive
Nobody
Undeniable
Mass
Disco
Off
Michael
Michael Jackson
Wall
Jackson
After
Again
Create
Pop
Sucked
Ever
Set
Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.
Rob Sheffield
Lose
Every
Clean
Nobody
Got
American
Wants
Every American
Slate
Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.
Rob Sheffield
Comedy
Herself
TV
Boss
Writer
Knew
Also
She
Rock
Always
Version
Tina
Tina Fey
Fey
Just
Anyone
Lemon
Workaholic
Who
Works
Here
Liz
Watching
Playing
Plays
'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.
Rob Sheffield
Revenge
Style
Crest
Shameless
Like
Falcon
Camp
Soap
Eighties
Dynasty
Dallas
Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'
Rob Sheffield
Dog
Hero
Job
Channel
Through
Host
Head
Most
Hallmark
Up
Whether
Cool
Showing
Showing Up
Awards
Keeping
Oscars
It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'
Rob Sheffield
People
Long
Sense
Enough
Out
Easy
See
Horror
David
David Lynch
Never
Like
Look
Terms
Make
Makes
American
Burn
Movie
Pause
Average
Notice
Your
Why
Coherence
'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.
Rob Sheffield
Love
Me
Drive
Took
Though
Songs
Liking
Years
Even
Dozens
Start
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.
Rob Sheffield
Power
Other
Spell
Rules
Some
Never
Had
Songs
Weird
Nobody
Town
How
Heard
Bands
Get
Eighties
Ignoring
Who
Chords
Even
Lived
Away
Play
Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next.
Rob Sheffield
Too Much
Feeling
Whatever
Too
Way
Wildly
Part
Disappointed
Like
Liked
Did
Getting
Being
Anyone
Fan
Them
Then
Much
Next
Meant
Who
Hardly
Vaguely
The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.
Rob Sheffield
Love
Time
Culture
Speak
Nothing
Mark
Bro
Top
Dared
Kind
New
Name
Became
Were
His
Search
Series
Ever
'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.
Rob Sheffield
Innocent
Edge
Young
Stage
Despair
Adds
Voice
Voices
Adult
Pros
Also
Singers
Idol
Fit
Lots
Psycho
Realness
Mold
Who
Moms
The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that a band like this should exist, and people were impatiently waiting for them to show up.
Rob Sheffield
Waiting
People
Key
Band
Key Thing
About
Like
Obvious
Always
Were
Years
Exist
Up
Wanted
Them
Should
Show
Thing
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
Rob Sheffield
Black
Robot
Past
Slightly
Evolved
Exaggerated
Proof
Vocal
Mainstream
Like
Beyond
Sing
She
Stutter
Been
Years
Version
Just
Might
Us
Pop
Her
Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he plays the hits. But part of what makes him such an eternally fascinating star is that he lives in his own private purple world, even when he sets out to make the house quake.
Rob Sheffield
You
World
Try
Own
Every
Sets
Out
Kind
Purple
Arena
Tour
He
Part
Prince
Know
House
Make
Him
Makes
Does
Rock
Rock Star
Private
His
Normal
Hits
Being
Where
Decide
Eternally
Then
Who
Professional
Fascinating
Even
Star
Now
Now And Then
Lives
Plays
Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.
Rob Sheffield
Strange
World
Fans
Tough
Other
Tyler
Local
Joe
Boston
Mainly
Aerosmith
Dude
His
Perry
Overstate
Psyche
Different
Grip
Who
Whole
Star
Hometown
Belongs
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.
Rob Sheffield
Best
World
Own
Liars
Other
Our
Reliably
Entertaining
Indie
Crowd
Most
Houses
Audience
Rock
Cue
Hearing
Uplifting
Any
Maybe
Doomed
Show
Moments
Bones
One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they play around with all the classic tropes of art-damaged angst-noise perv-rock, they exude a totally cheery and boyish enthusiasm onstage, goofing around with their keyboards and beatboxes.
Rob Sheffield
Enthusiasm
Liars
Others
Keyboards
Though
One Of The Things
Classic
Totally
Onstage
Goofing
Make
Around
Boyish
Five
Different
After
Fascinating
Even
Each
Each One
Play
Things
Albums
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