1000 and still sucking real hard

this week, lady gaga topped the billboard hot 100. the song with which she so did will likely cause queer america to forget that the village people ever existed. the tune 'born this way' defends 'alternative' lifestyles whilst pounding out a campy beat. of course, in my opinion, this song blows. but it's not alone.

it's been two and a half years since a song that i can actually stomach topped billboard. that was 'viva la vida' in june 2008. it spent one week at the top, then got kicked to the kerb gangsta-style by some repulsive rap shlock.

after digging a bit further, i learned that it was not until 2000 that i found another one-week chart-topper that i could endure. that one was from creed. going back a couple more years i found a tolerable song that spent more than one week at number one. aerosmith's post-'pump' crooning stayed on top for the entire month of june 1998. during the preceding eight years, there were but three more number ones that i liked.

finally in april and may of 1990 (twenty-one years ago!!) i found a solid, well-written, well-performed song. that was sinead o connor's 'nothing compares to you.' so it is, in that direction that i may cast my index finger and declare that the shit hit the fan and knocked it out the window and onto the street, whereupon several eighteen-wheelers with wide loads turned said fan into rubble. and that is precisely what music has become: rubble and excrement.