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beauty and the geeks

"Digg Girl" Toys With Nerds' Emotions Just Enough To Get Her A Record Deal


One last Super Bowl post and then we are done (unless the powers that be at the big game announce that yes, Diamond Dave and Co. will show up next year): Perhaps you recall the commercial at the game's outset that featured a young woman mewling a "sensitive" tune for about a minute, followed by a pitch to buy the song the Doritos logo. That singer was Kina Grannis; she won the Doritos "Crash The Super Bowl" contest that spotlighted musicians who, in the words of a Wall Street Journal piece from Friday, "reflect Doritos' 'bold, intense' image because they 'bring a passion' to their music." Not to mention their ability to use the fawning attention of geekboys in order to get what they want! More »

1:45 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,056 views, 7 comments

Latest by Ianny: Her song is internet quality, but I don't think it was really television or record deal quality. As for The Digg Song, it's better than the song that won her the contest in my opinion. Best of luck more »

see, i knew a bud bowl-less super bowl would come to no good

Fox Sports Is Down With The Arcade Fire (So Much They Swiped One Of Their Songs For An Ad?)


So while the rest of us were busy reading books/playing Yahtzee/waiting for The Wire last night, those music geeks actually tuned to the Super Bowl may have noticed, as Pitchfork did, that this "NFL On Fox" promo is backed by the big finish of the Arcade Fire's "No Cars Go." Turns out it wasn't such an outre choice; the AF song fits the grunting gridiron heroics almost a little too well. And perhaps Fox's clever ad department didn't want to spoil the chocolate-into-peanut butter combination of epic Canadian indie rock and epic American sporting events by bothering to get the required go-ahead to use the tune? More »

11:30 AM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Jess Harvell
1,441 views, 17 comments

Latest by queensissy: @Lucas Jensen: Yeah, but I think BMI's going to calculate this based on "Weekend daytime non-featured use" blah blah blah. They don't weight by viewership, do they? more »

next year, in tampa

It's Never Too Early To Start Thinking About The Super Bowl XLIII Halftime Show

Immediately after Tom Petty's halftime performance at the Super Bowl ended, some friends and I tried to think of other artists who would be candidates for what's essentially become the biggest platform for classic rockers to announce to Americans that, yes, they still exist and would like to be worthy of some of your dollars pronto. But with time ticking on and the pool of musicians who appeal to a great swath of Americans eroding by the day because of the increased fragmenting of the musical sphere and the classic-rocker demo getting, y'know, old, who can America's TV programmers turn to in an effort to make their subjects stay seated on their couches for 20-plus minutes? After the jump, a poll: Who should be the frontrunner for next year's Super Bowl halftime show, keeping in mind the ultraconservative post-Janet classic-rock leanings of the whole enterprise? (Also, if someone could tell us why no one thought to ask Van Halen what they were up to on Feb. 3 until about 10 minutes after the final note of "Runnin' Down A Dream" rang out, that would be great. Seriously. Diamond Dave on the big stage? That would have been a show.) More »

10:30 AM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,038 views, 42 comments

Latest by DJorn: Lightning Bolt, who could set up on the grass in one corner of the stadium, nowhere near the empty and elaborate stage. more »

refusenikism

What Did You Listen To When You Weren't Watching The Super Bowl?

Despite being freakishly tall and quite beefy in my younger days, and therefore courted by every high school football coach who laid eyes on me despite the fact that I turned into King Spazz the minute a ball (or stick) (or curling broom) was placed in my hands, I was a shut-in music geek and as such it was my understanding that we did not care for the sporting life! And yet here is the entire musical blogosphere talking up Super Bowl commercials and "pass interference" this morning? Did not one of you hold true to the ideals of our nerdy youth and resist the Fox Sports lure? More »

10:00 AM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Jess Harvell
502 views, 33 comments

Latest by scarletvirtue: @Lucas Jensen: This year was the first time I'd seen the Puppy Bowl - and seeing how some of those cats reacted to the confetti, I'm almost surprised that one of them slept through it! I thought it was fun to more »

last night's party

Tom Petty's Completely Passable, If Somewhat Snoozeworthy Halftime Show

Raise your hand if you thought Tom Petty's halftime show was, well, fine, although the momentum of it was killed by stacking two midtempo songs right in the middle. (Perhaps Fox nixed "Refugee" for being too political?) And keep it raised if you were the person at your party who said, "Hey, that's weird that they billed him as playing with the Heartbreakers, since 75% of the material was from his billed-as-a-solo album Full Moon Fever." Or the person who said, "Wait, didn't he use this song to advertise for the NBA a few years ago?" OK, hands down. More »

8:38 AM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,770 views, 16 comments

Latest by rad_matter: @DHMBIB: Actually it was Willie Nelson at halftime. Fox tried to find the Black Crowes but I believe they were too stoned out of their minds to remember their Super Bowl gig. more »