Love and Beth Ditto

While waiting to meet a friend for dinner yesterday I decided to waste some time in a local bookstore. I was looking for fashion inspiration but ended up finding a new favorite band.

While scanning this months covers of American and British pop culture magazines I came across this one:


First I was incredibly shocked and impressed that a woman that's NOT 5 feet and 100lbs was featured on the cover of a magazine then I needed to find out who this woman was. I opened to the article and began to read. I soon found out that this woman, Beth Ditto, is the front woman for the band Gossip whom I had never heard of. Her ballsyness and love and support for feminism and the riot grrrl movement pushed me to follow up and find out what kind of music this girl is doing. I'm not really sure how to define it. It's a mix of Heart, a bit of originial pop punk and full on girl power. I love it!

Reading this article in Love magazine I also found out that way back in 2006 Sony Music started a "gay" record label that has since dissolved. Interesting huh?

Check out one of The Gossips videos below...

I'm baaaack...

I really need to update more regularly.

So I just saw Mariah Carey's video for her new single "Obsessed". One word, creepy. As you can probably figure out from the title of the song it's about obsession and in the video there is a "male" that is constantly around Mariah throughout her day, following her, taking pictures of her etc and as it turns out the "male" is in fact Mariah dressed as a male and not very well I might add. I also noticed that her boobs have gotten a lot bigger. Just a side note.



I'm in the market for a radio. I know I can find all the music I want online even in video form but there's something very comforting going about your daily household business with a radio on in the background. And as far removed as I may feel from Western pop culture the big radio station here in Tokyo, Inter FM stays up-to-date with J-music AND Western music (their website is how I found that Mariah Carey video).

I miss working at a music store :(