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    Why Can’t Girl Groups Last?

    If you ever take a 40,000 foot view of music, you see that bands are always composed of boys (or 1 singer girl + the rest boys) and the solo acts are always female. Why don’t musical groups of all girls never seem to last? They either dissipate in a one-hit wonder or the distinguishable member gets a solo career. I love all-girl groups. I’ve got a lot of songs from The Donnas, Destiny’s Child, The Bangles. But it’s rare for them to last more than an album. I suppose you could say that’s the fate for nearly all bands, male or female, but it seems like bands of more…

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    Analysis of Demi Lovato’s “Heart Attack”

    This damn song has been in my head for days, so I figured I’d take a tip from “Todd in the Shadows” and look at what the hell is up with this song. I think the world must have a “So-bad-it’s-good” relationship with the music world. Or a “We Love Stupid” relationship. But there are so many bad, horrible songs out there. Jason DeRulo’s “Talk Dirty to Me“, Black Eyed Peas’s “My Humps“, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe“, Britney Spears’s “Toxic“, “Gorilla” by Bruno Mars, anything by Katy Perry or Ke$ha. Songs that plummet past the pit of “low quality” into “this shit is ridiculous”. Some people are even…