{"id":218,"date":"2006-07-18T11:24:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2006\/and-in-music-news\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T18:24:01","slug":"and-in-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2006\/and-in-music-news\/","title":{"rendered":"And In Music News&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/jason\/files\/justin-and-paris.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Justin Timberlake and Paris Hilton\" title=\"Justin Timberlake and Paris Hilton\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nFirst, checkout <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.guardian.co.uk\/features\/story\/0,,1820880,00.html\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Bringing Back Sexy&#8221;<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/omm\"><i>The Observer Music Monthly<\/i><\/a> which touches on topics such as Justin Timberlake&#8217;s drug use, his thoughts on tabloids, and what why &#8220;&#8216;music&#8217;s gone to such shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t fill your daily need of pop music writing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\"><i>Slate<\/i><\/a> has an excellent article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2145719\/\">&#8220;Paris Hilton, Anti-Hero.&#8221;<\/a> Despite the headline, the article is mostly about all the &#8220;diva music&#8221; (i.e. female vocalist) coming out this summer (Mariah, Shakira, Pink, Ciara, Rihanna, Jessica Simpson, Nelly Furtado, Janet Jackson, Beyonce, etc. etc. etc.). It&#8217;s a really smart article and ultimately makes the point that the &#8220;king of pop&#8221; music title should now be called &#8220;the king of pop&#8221; since women are the best-selling pop musicians nowadays. Forget Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, or even Justin Timberlake &#8212; the women are where it&#8217;s at.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I prefer Justin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hype.non-standard.net\/search\/sexyback\/1\/\">&#8220;SexyBack&#8221;<\/a> over Paris&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/hype.non-standard.net\/search\/stars%20are%20blind\/1\/\">&#8220;Stars Are Blind&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; but that&#8217;s just me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, checkout &#8220;I&#8217;m Bringing Back Sexy&#8221; from The Observer Music Monthly which touches on topics such as Justin Timberlake&#8217;s drug use, his thoughts on tabloids, and what why &#8220;&#8216;music&#8217;s gone to such shit.&#8221; If that doesn&#8217;t fill your daily need of pop music writing, Slate has an excellent article titled &#8220;Paris Hilton, Anti-Hero.&#8221; Despite the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2006\/and-in-music-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And In Music News&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,37],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}