My friend David Rubinson is incensed.\u00c2\u00a0 Couldn’t everybody see that the Susan Boyle phenomenon was manipulated?\u00c2\u00a0 That as a producer of "Britain’s Got Talent" Simon Cowell had to have already seen her act, and therefore he was feigning surprise, as he rubbed his hands together and plotted how he was going to turn this into dough?<\/p>\n
If the qualifying age for "American Idol" ends at 28, how come General Larry Platt got an audition?<\/p>\n
Come on, have you ever been on set?\u00c2\u00a0 The main goal is to go home!\u00c2\u00a0 You’re gonna waste time seeing someone who can’t possibly win?<\/p>\n
Which is why reality TV is no longer seen as real.\u00c2\u00a0 And will have an ever-diminishing lifespan as a result.\u00c2\u00a0 Kind of like the music business.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, people buy the Top Forty dreck, but they don’t love it!\u00c2\u00a0 And if they love something, they have no problem forking over their dough.\u00c2\u00a0 Just look at Taylor Swift!<\/p>\n
But all this is to tell you that when my inbox started lighting up with parodies of "Pants On The Ground", I had no idea what they were talking about.\u00c2\u00a0 I had to resort to Google to get the story.<\/p>\n
And I was up to speed just that fast.<\/p>\n
And I applaud General Larry for protesting the backward slide in race advancement.\u00c2\u00a0 Kind of like the backward slide in women’s rights.\u00c2\u00a0 All those women burned their bras and refused to shave their legs so their progeny could dress like ho’s and trade on their looks.\u00c2\u00a0 Huh?\u00c2\u00a0 If I didn’t live through it, I wouldn’t believe it.<\/p>\n
But the real reason I’m writing this screed is to get you to watch this clip, Jimmy Fallon’s Neil Young version of "Pants On The Ground".<\/p>\n
Once again, I didn’t get hipped to it by watching Jimmy’s show, but by Howard Stern, who saw it and thought it was a new Neil Young song.<\/p>\n
Sounds like it, wouldn’t you say?<\/p>\n
And can we stop revering Neil and admit that he hasn’t done decent work in eons?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, he’s done reasonable work, but not exceptional work.<\/p>\n
Then again, it’s hard to beat up on Neil Young when I saw Eric Clapton in an ad for a Fender myTouch.\u00c2\u00a0 I bet he doesn’t even use this HTC piece of shit.\u00c2\u00a0 Just like John Mayer shilled for BlackBerry and is constantly talking about using his iPhone.<\/p>\n
And I still think Jimmy Fallon is great in the basement, but not on TV, but I do respect his song parodies, going all the way back to the MTV Movie Awards, so check out this clip and tell me it doesn’t sound just as good as Neil Young’s recent material.<\/p>\n
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