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Music Fridays: Olympics Edition
Of course, I can’t think of anything that has less overlap than the world of sports and that of pop music. Some musicians work out a lot, and obviously, athletes listen to music. But there’s not many songs about sports (except maybe surfing), and the ones that there are suck.…
Zoo to use pop music to keep giraffes calm on New Year’s Eve
THE HAGUE — Keepers at a Dutch zoo have found an unorthodox solution to calm down skittish giraffes spooked by the sound of thousands of end-of-year fireworks going off: playing them pop music. “We have tried a few things to calm the giraffes down over the years,” Amersfoort Animal Park…
A dialogue in pop music
Argument, by Beyonce: ; Counterargument, by Jarvis Cocker: To be clear, while the term "cunts" is sexist as hell, it functionally means "asshole" in this context, and this post doesn't make sense unless you take the word in the spirit in which it was intended. I think Beyonce is…
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