Each week, I check out VH1′s The 20 (formerly Top 20 countdown), and then I rearrange the songs based on my estimation of their quality. This week, for the 20th Anniversary, a top music video from every year of the past two decades was presented.
Original Version
2014. Pharrell – “Happy”
2013. Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell Williams & T.I. – “Blurred Lines”
2012. Gotye – “Somebody That I Used to Know”
2011. Adele – “Rolling in the Deep”
2010. Usher ft. will.i.am – “OMG”
2009. Beyoncé – “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
2008. Leona Lewis – “Bleeding Love”
2007. Daughtry – “It’s Not Over
Viewer’s Choice: Missy Elliott – “Get Ur Freak On”
2006. Kanye West ft. Gwen Stefani – “Gold Digger”
2005. Gwen Stefani – “Hollaback Girl”
2004. Outkast – “Hey Ya!”
2003. Matchbox Twenty – “Unwell”
2002. Nickelback – “How You Remind Me”
2001. Alicia Keys – “Fallin'”
2000. Santana ft. Rob Thomas – “Smooth”
1999. Backstreet Boys – “I Want It That Way”
1998. Shania Twain – “You’re Still the One”
1997. Spice Girls – “Wannabe”
1996. Alanis Morissette – “Ironic”
1995. Mariah Carey – “Fantasy”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Get Ur Freak On
2. Somebody That I Used to Know
3. Rolling in the Deep
4. Happy
5. Fantasy
6. Fallin’
7. Wannabe
8. Blurred Lines
9. Hey Ya!
10. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
11. OMG
12. I Want It That Way
13. Smooth
14. Gold Digger
15. Ironic
16. Hollaback Girl
17. Bleeding Love
18. How You Remind Me
19. You’re Still the One
20. Unwell
21. It’s Not Over
In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.
Sunday – Silicon Valley
Monday – Jeopardy!
Tuesday – iZombie, and I’m excited for Season 2.
Wednesday – Jeopardy!
Thursday – Hannibal – the stag is back!
Friday – Childrens Hospital
Saturday – Orphan Black
Each week, I check out VH1′s The 20 (formerly Top 20 countdown), and then I rearrange the songs based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. Jason Derulo – “Want to Want Me”
2. Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth – “See You Again”
3. Tove Lo – “Talking Body”
4. Walk the Moon – “Shut Up and Dance”
5. Fifth Harmony ft. Kid Ink – “Worth It”
6. Andy Grammer – “Honey, I’m Good.”
7. Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Bad Blood”
8. Nick Jonas – “Chains”
9. Sia – “Elastic Heart”
10. Echosmith – “Bright”
11. George Ezra – “Budapest”
12. Meghan Trainor – “Dear Future Husband”
13. Carly Rae Jepsen – “I Really Like You”
14. David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha, & Afrojack – “Hey Mama”
15. Shaggy ft. Mohombi, Faydee, Costi – “I Need Your Love”
16. Ellie Goulding – “Love Me Like You Do”
17. Adam Lambert – “Ghost Town”
18. Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea – “Pretty Girls”
19. Rachel Platten – “Fight Song”
20. Ed Sheeran – “Photograph”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Elastic Heart
2. I Really Like You
3. Talking Body
4. See You Again
5. Hey Mama
6. Bad Blood
7. Chains
8. Want to Want Me
9. Pretty Girls
10. Shut Up and Dance
11. Love Me Like You Do
12. Budapest
13. Ghost Town
14. Fight Song
15. Worth It
16. Photograph
17. I Need Your Love
18. Bright
19. Dear Future Husband
20. Honey, I’m Good.
YARDLEY, PA/NEW YORK, NY – June 8, 2015 – Writer/blogger/media creator Jeffrey Malone has re-designed and re-launched his personal website. It can be found at www.jeffreymalone.com. It features samples of and links to his articles, videos, photography, and design work.
“Since receiving my Media Studies Master’s degree a few weeks ago, I have been excited to update my site, and I am happy to announce I have completed this project (for now),” said Jeffrey. “I’m still hungry,” he added. “I’m always hungry.”
JeffreyMalone.com is now the central space to consume Jeff’s professional and personal creative efforts and to contact Jeff for his sevices.
In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.
Sunday – Silicon Valley
Monday – American Dad!
Tuesday – I almost couldn’t believe than an episode of Community could still be this good.
Wednesday – Jeopardy!
Thursday – I’m still #blindsided by the loss of The Reg Man on Comedy Bang! Bang!
Friday – Whose Line is it Anyway?
Saturday – Orphan Black
Each week, I check out VH1′s The 20 (formerly Top 20 countdown), and then I rearrange the songs based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth – “See You Again”
2. Jason Derulo – “Want to Want Me”
3. Walk the Moon – “Shut Up and Dance”
4. Tove Lo – “Talking Body”
5. Fifth Harmony ft. Kid Ink – “Worth It”
6. Nick Jonas – “Chains”
7. Andy Grammer – “Honey, I’m Good.”
8. Echosmith – “Bright”
9. Meghan Trainor – “Dear Future Husband”
10. Sia – “Elastic Heart”
11. Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Bad Blood”
12. Ellie Goulding – “Love Me Like You Do”
13. George Ezra – “Budapest”
14. Carly Rae Jepsen – “I Really Like You”
15. Ryn Weaver – “Octahate”
16. Adam Lambert – “Ghost Town”
17. Shaggy ft. Mohombi, Faydee, Costi – “I Need Your Love”
18. Maroon 5 – “Sugar”
19. Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea – “Pretty Girls”
20. Rachel Platten – “Fight Song”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Elastic Heart
2. I Really Like You
3. Talking Body
4. See You Again
5. Octahate
6. Bad Blood
7. Chains
8. Want to Want Me
9. Pretty Girls
10. Love Me Like You Do
11. Shut Up and Dance
12. Budapest
13. Ghost Town
14. Fight Song
15. Sugar
16. Worth It
17. I Need Your Love
18. Bright
19. Dear Future Husband
20. Honey, I’m Good.
Community, “Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television” (CREDIT: Yahoo! Screen)
Even if there ends up being a movie or a season 7, I’ll still consider this one of the best series finales of all time.
This review was originally posted on Starpulse in June 2015.
“You saved my life, and changed it forever.”
Just as Jeff Winger was irrevocably changed by his friends forcing their way into his life, so too have “Community” fans been profoundly affected by this deeply personal show. This program and its lead character have always been marked by a push-pull between cynicism and sincerity. The guy who made a fake study group just to sleep with someone now cares so much that he cannot let go of the people he met through it. The sitcom that was so distrustful of institutions and deconstructive of all conventions ended the season (and possibly series) with the most heartfelt message from its creator about how much his audience has meant to him.
This essay was originally written as my final paper for my Media Theory class, taught by Barry Salmon, in Fall 2013 at The New School.
If the “medium is the message,” then what happens if the medium is the medium itself, or the anti-medium? The past few years have seen the rise of the “anti-talk show” in the alternative comedy scene, as typified by the podcast-turned-IFC series Comedy Bang! Bang!, local New York public-access cult sensation The Chris Gethard Show, the Funny or Die webseries Between Two Ferns, and Adult Swim’s The Eric André Show. These shows all consider the artifice and tropes of comedy talk shows and then ignore, analyze, trash, invert, and/or subvert them. Marshall McLuhan’s classic text is presented as a common sense formulation of how to consider any medium: “the personal and social consequences” are a result of the new “extension of ourselves” (129). So how then do we apply this commonsensical approach to a genre that is purposely nonsensical? McLuhan would surely be pleased by this trend of a genre that is strongly conscious of how the medium is the message, but an analysis of how these shows deconstruct their particular medium and genre is sure to melt your brain.
This essay was originally written as my final paper for my Sociology of Media class, taught by Paolo Carpignano, in Spring 2014 at The New School.
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin published Remediation: Understanding New Media in 2000. While their contention that all mediation is remediation was well-supported by the evidence available at the turn of the century, 14 years is a long time when it comes to the advancement of new media. One of their main examples of remediation is the CD-ROM (42-44), now an essentially obsolete medium. If Bolter and Grusin’s ideas are to hold up, then the forms of mediation that have taken the place of the CD-ROM must also be clear examples of remediation. Indeed, they anticipated that this would be the future, claiming that digital media would “function in a constant dialectic with earlier media, precisely as each earlier medium functioned when it was introduced” (50). They also postulated, “all mediation is remediation” (55). With this essay, I am picking up where they left off to show how developments since they published their take on the matter has proven them even more correct. Not only has media become even more remediated; it has made the world so hypermediated that it is clear that life itself is remediation.
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