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Why are the worst songs the most popular?

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“Hollaback Girl” first song with one million commercial downloads

For the first time since the advent of commercial digital music downloads, a recording has passed the 1,000,000 mark in download sales. The song, former Billboard #1 “Hollaback Girl” from Gwen Stefani’s debut album Love. Angel. Music., had sales of approximately 995,000 downloads as of Friday, September 30. The recording has averaged 15,000 downloads per week since it’s release on November 25, 2004.

Now, I like Gwen Stefani. Some of the stuff No Doubt did was amazing; but her transformation from Orange County cutie to ghetto-fabulous has been incredibly contrived and baffling. Moreover, “Hollaback Girl” has to be the most insipid piece of songwriting (and I use that term loosely) I’ve heard in years. Yet for some reason unknown to anyone with the slightest shred of musical taste, it’s incredibly popular.

That s*** is indeed bananas.

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Now this is some information we all can use

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How to Survive a Freestyle Battle Rap

…cuz’ I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a potentially dangerous situation where I needed finely-honed battle rap skills.

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Fire!

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Before I could get good and asleep tonight, I was awoken by what seemed to be a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind… I could tell there was some sort of commotion outside, and there were all kinds of flashing lights outside… after opening the blinds, it turns out there were about a half dozen fire trucks and police cars in the parking lot of my apartment.

It soon became apparent that the building next to mine was on fire – the bottom-level apartment was quickly being overtaken by the flames… the door was open, and you could see inside – pretty spooky really. Eventually the flames started spreading outside to the apartment above it. After what seemed like a very long time, the firemen got the hoses going and put the fire out pretty quickly. I don’t think anyone was hurt in the process, thank God.

Now to get a few hours of sleep before I have to be at work…

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Disgusting

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CNN has been on at work all day, and I have to say I am completely disgusted at everyone that is trying to turn the Hurricane Katrina issue into a political/racial fight. Not to mention the apparent glee with which they keep rebroadcasting the New Orleans mayor saying “G_d D__n” over and over again.