Like I’ve said before, I loved Christina Aguilera’s raunchy Stripped-era look. I never even liked her till I saw the “Dirrty” video, and then I was all, “How YOU doin’, Xtina?”
What can I say? Sex sells! I have no idea why I’m thinking about this right now. Maybe it’s because I’m still trying to find other shades of “it-never-comes-off” lipstick to supplement my favorite lip color, MAC’s Pro Longwear Lipcolor in Lasting Lust. None of the other Pro Longwear Lipcolors appeal to me, and Christina’s makeup dude recommends LipSense. I keep looking at the LipSense website, but I am too chicken to order anything I can’t try on first because I’ve had some bad luck with that. I might try a pink Lip Tar after seeing it on a friend.
I recently managed to move Christina’s music — and all my other songs — from iTunes on a dying PC to iTunes on my functional Apple. Apple doesn’t make that easy. I have a feeling that Steve Jobs would prefer that I repurchase all the music I downloaded from CDs. Unfortunately, not all that music is on iTunes and I don’t have all the CDs now, because, you know, we weren’t supposed to need ’em. I used ImTOO iPod Transfer software and was mostly successful. The only problem is with the album art. When I saw 1980s band Kajagoogoo‘s album cover and heard Eminem instead, I experienced a moment of severe cognitive dissonance.
This might not be ImTOO’s fault. I’ve been listening to Afroman’s “Because I Got High” a lot. Maybe my iPod is stoned.
Back in 2001, “Because I Got High” made it to 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. If I recall correctly, the song disappeared from radio playlists after 9/11 when we all thought we’d never laugh again. But now that I think of it, the song is all about how the guy ruined his life by getting high, so it’s really a Nancy-Reagan-worthy anti-drug song! Afroman was robbed.
UPDATED TO ADD: Interesting news! Christina is working with Stripped producer Scott Storch again. Sounds like a good plan to me!
I used a program called iRip to transfer music from my iphone back to my pc lappy. It worked well.We have 100s of cds and we are way too lazy to transfer all of them to itunes. I like having ‘things’ like cds and books, except I now have a kindle and am pretty much reading everything I can get hold of on that.I am rambling, I’ve been sick….
Ha!!! I am sick too, hence MY rambling!
I quite enjoyed this random ramble! You know, I actually don’t really remember pre-sex xtina. I remeber genie in a bottle but she writhing around in the sand in that too, isnt she?
Yeah. That scandalized a lot of people but I was like, “Meh.” It wasn’t enough for me!
I like this stream of consciousness post! I used to laugh my a** off at that Afroman song. And why does any cosmetic with “lust” in the title make me want to buy it? My current lip gloss is MAC Lust, a lovely nude shade. I feel very naughty when I apply it and I think it’s just cos of the name.
What do you think of the Nars Orgasm products?
I lever liked her till Dirtyy either! 🙂
When I first saw that video, I fell in love.
I just had to update my iphone on my pc and I swear, Apple makes itunes an absolute piece of shit to run on a pc. It takes so long, I hate it. Why cant things just work!?
I have a LOT of issues with Apple.
I just bought my first red lipstick in about a thousand years. Benefit Frenched. I feel both like a sexy vixen and a lady when I wear it. I think that might be a good thing.
That’s what red lipstick is all about!
This is too funny, but so true about sex selling!!! Hysterical doll!!
xoxo,
Mel
oh man… that LaChapelle photo is SO funny to see now… She sure has changed her style a lot
i think i hated christina’s look back then, but it sure looks a lot better NOW than she has been looking lately! if that makes any sense.
and i cannot even TELL YOU how many times i have had to upload my cds to various pcs. MADDENING. absolutely MADDENING. i have had more than one pc die, and then a mac die, and re-uploading all that shit is INFURIATING. now they have some kind of deal where you are authorized to upload your music to 5 different computers, but mine is already on FOUR (3 of which have died), so i am kind of freaking that i might have to do it AGAIN in the near future. needless to say, i will not buy this music again. i will upload cds again if i have to. argh. which means storing 300+ cds forever. annoying!
Hi my dear-sorry you’re having transfer difficulties, newer technology should be making things easier, not harder!!
Love Kajagoogoo and Afroman, they are cool, funny and a bit nostalgic!
Cristina was never my cup of tea or glass of dirty water. Eminem is a powerful poet but the raping of mama and the killing of ex-girlfriend always made me a bit worry. However I must say that I do listen to some of his lighter songs and his new cd was easier to relate to as well.
He should blame it instead on his sobriety!
Can you imagine how upset I was when I found out I’d wiped the Spice Girls from my ipod AND already got rid of the cds? Tragedy!
Oh, the humanity!!!
Ahh I loved Stripped-era Xtina too. She went a little well lame after that, all 40s and pretty and boring. Glad to hear she’s working with Scott Storch again!
Yeah, I don’t love the “Old Hollywood” look on her because it’s so boring compared to her wild days!
Love Xtina, but now that I think about it, I didn’t like her until she got naughty either! Never thought about it! Love your blog, keep the ramblin’ coming!
Interesting fact, Afroman was based out of a town where my husband and I used to live so we listened to a lot of his stuff. After his second album wasn’t as popular he got saved and I think did some Christian rap then he got less saved and started to regular rap again. My favorite song by him is Mississippi. It talks about all the crappy little towns where we had to live until the husband finished his degree.
I loved Limhal!
i saw afroman in concert a couple months ago!!! first row standing! i was probably the only non-stoned person in the room….but it was still amazing. my ipod is stoned even if im not 🙂
new ring is stunning of course, by the way. im wearing the woolf right now after retiring it for a couple months 🙂
symbolic of a both contemplative and aggressive entrance into the “real world” post graduation.
i know i say this all the time, but thank you for being such consistent inspiration.
Aw, you’re very sweet!
And I’m loving that you saw Afroman.