Not ‘Picking Up Good Vibrations’ in Reviews of Coachella Music Festival!

Ben Ratcliff over at the New York Times review of Coachella comes off as a qualified, fairly good one. But it looks like he`s hiding something; when I read between the lines; he seems to be saying the California music festival (which has been running for 12 years now) was a little stale and uninspired. The technical end of things, the organization and coordination, was strong however. The highlight seems to be the 2,000 giant white balls that spilled out from the stage during  Arcade Fire`s finale.

Not much footage of Coachella has been uploaded yet over on YouTube, so I haven`t been able to make my own assessments of the festival. Chromeo`s performance of Night By Night is over there, and it seems to reinforce what Ben Ratcliff wrote, lots of high tech equipment but an apparent spiritual vacuum. I also noted how few hits the videos are getting; noone clicking on these Chromeo uploads.

Duran Duran`s video is anemic also; one video over there has zero hits. I almost clicked it just to break the ice. I wasn`t there, I`m in Austin, but Coachella may be somewhat pooped-out. If Kanye West was the headline act, that`s not a good sign. I`ve tried out Arcade Fire several times and I come up with nothing. I`ll try a different stereo or ipod, and maybe that will help. Hell, anything sounds good on Bang And Olufsen speakers!

Taylor Swift Shines Like An Angel After MTV Stunt!

Taylor Swift was right in the midst of her acceptance speech for Best Female Video on the MTV Video Music Awards last night, when Kanye West abruptly grabbed her microphone. He proceeded to heap praise on Beyonce`s competing video, implying that hers was much better than Taylor`s. What was looking like a fairly dry affair was suddenly charged with controversy and newsworthiness!

CNN ran it as a Headline Story today, and coupled it in with other recent public outbursts, like Joe Wilson`s “you lie” blurt last week during Obama`s all important ‘health care reform’ speech. A…Serena Williams` outburst at the U.S. Open was also mentioned as ‘inappropriate behavior’ for a role-model in sports. Yet another public fopaux is mirrored by the booze-swilling Kanye West, who saw an opening to steal the ‘sizzle in the steak’ from the more wholesome Taylor Swift.

I am embarrassed to admit it, but I`ve never even heard of Taylor Swift. She should be able to make lemonade out of this lemon and boost her career now. I may even buy a few of her songs on itunes now. The poor lass was given a public lashing by that obnoxious rap artist. Kanye should be made to apologize in the congress chambers; maybe he could make a joint appearance with Joe Wilson and they could sing an ‘apology duet.’ *(source-CNN-photo is from 2008 MTV awards) **P.S. An AFTERTHOUGHT is that these ify celebrities are blaring Linda Blairs from The Exorcist-THE DEVIL MADE ME SAY IT!