Charlie Sheen Vs. The World

Over the past three weeks the world had been reading and watching the news of Charlie Sheen's manic behaviour. His dictonomous lifestyle had been circulating rumors that he would be voluntarily leaving the you-should-come-to-the-priest-once-you-seen-it show Two And A Half Men. The rumours were as close as it is. Instead, about half a week later, Warner Bros. decided to axe the show because of his behaviour.

Later, Sheen has his back hatchet running still. Simultaneously at the day where Natalie Portman won her Oscar and the Oscar hosts had backfired (there was a Sheen joke during the telecast), he starts up rants about the Two And A Half Men creator (also the maker of Big Bang Theory) Chuck Lorre calling him an 'earthworm', appeared in 60 Minutes-styled interviews, and just after that started his Twitter which he instantly gained more 2 million followers in the process in which he broke the world record for gaining more followers in the fastest time. At the same time as he got his Twitter and started a slap fight with American film critic Roger Ebert, the dude turned bizzarre as his ramblings turned into a philosophy. He managed to have his vocabulary more prominent with terms like "tiger blood" and "winning" (a literal term) into our cultural bibles. But this is where we get more annoyed by him. He starts off his own webcast along with a bunch of posers he claim to be his mates. Nobody watched that podcast because, repeat, we get more annoyed by him.

Charlie Sheen thinks he's above the world where his notorious lifestyle doesn't make him the only one gaining it. He's the Hollywood version of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who is currently charged of underage sex with a minor. Both are "public figures" who have a lot in common where their I-don't-care playboy lifestyle becomes more prominent by the minute. Berlusconi however doesn't do lines of coke nor drink 3 bottles every 24 hours. But he does bring in girls at their early 20s to social parties and into politics. And like Sheen brings out his own philosophical quotes

Throughout the week, I had used the words 'attention seeking whore' twice during the week and I may say it again to people who gets into our head for all the pointless reasons. Once for describing a teen sensation over his malignant political views and quoting 'rape happens for a reason' and given he's everywhere. now I can describe Sheen with those three words. He's a crude and hedonistic misogynist and the more he's exposed to the media, the more he's easily off the hook.

Sheen used to have some potential when he was 20th Century Charlie Sheen where he's the son and brother of veteran actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez. He was appearing in movies like platoon or Wall Street with Michael Douglas. So far he had snorts 8148 lines of cocaine each month, earns less that a million dollars for each episode in Two And A Half Men, and slept with 5000 women. And so far if his father or the member of the Brat Pack is watching, they would have hanged their heads in shame.

In reference to the title, Charlie battle against the world watching him. Like Scott Pilgrim, he would have to face seven evil exes in his life, but when first heard of it, he would skim it. The dude would feel great as tiger blood would keep him winning. Kanye West had once said:

"Champaigne wishes, thirty white bitches, man that shit is fucking ridiculous"

IF Sheen was to be Oscar Wilde, then he will learn that he was wasted on the young.

Quick music - Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

From literally one of the world's biggest bands, The Suburbs, their latest album is one of the most addictive albums I have listened from a band. Arcade Fire is a new Radiohead for a new generation. Their contemporary lyrics deal with living in a suburban life and dealing with the national id of yourself. It may not have greater like their previous albums Neon Bible or Funeral (which I haven't heard yet) but The Suburbs is their most ambitious yet.

The album is nominated in both Album Of The Year and the indie-restricted category Alternative Album Of The Year. It may win Album Of The Year based on critical analysis but it certainly will win Alternative.

Listen to tracks: The Suburbs, Ready To Start, Sprawl II, Empty Room, Half Light (No Celebration).

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Reading reviews from Pitchfork is boring unless an album recieves a perfect score. (10.0). Kanye West's latest MBDTF is the first album to recieve that score since Wilco and sparked a range of opinions on Twitter. Besides I would have gave The Social Network a 10.0

 But it's right that the record should receive that kind of score because this is literally a work of art from West as it makes hip hop more into a art form. He's inspired by the all lows to create this classic that is metaphorically an abstract portrait of a modern man.

He may be that genre's Radiohead or Thom Yorke. College Dropout or Late Registration is his The Bends, Graduation is his OK Computer, 808s was his Kid A, this record would be his In Rainbows or another OK Computer but like that album more critically acclaimed.

I never heard hip hop with such ambition and really grandiose as this album and it goes within its hype that may have West forgiven.

Listen to tracks: Runaway, Monster, Power, Gorgeous, So Appalled, Lost In The World

Vampire Weekend - Contra

This is one of those albums that I listen when I feel happy. Let's face it. Hipster culture makes me happy. Music, movies and women who are act like hipsters. Vampire Weekend is one of them. And it's one of their catchiest record to date.

The ambiguous lyrics can be heard from Cousins and Holiday because of the fast pace and the slow but mellow Diplomat's Son which reminds me of a movie made by Woody Allen. But all for a while Vampire Weekend mixes African beats and reggae with pop. It's what indie rock is all about



Listen to tracks: White Sky, Cousins, Giving Up The Gun, Diplomat's Son 

Kanye West: The 21st Century Pariah

A lot of rappers had never made controversy these days, in their lifetimes. We see Eminem releasing Recovery which had him back to the very top people think they deserved. But we never seen Drake arrested in an average drug bust. But Lil Wayne and T.I. are both rappers who are currently serving their time in prison. Yet Wayne still makes a lot of money with his latest album 'I am Not a Human Being' whilst serving an eight-month sentence for illegal weapon possession... oh I found that he had served his time out. But T.I. is still in prison and unlike Wayne had never given us new material.

But these rappers never made a lot of fuss. Because the media doesn't care thankfully. And yet I never cared about any of their music. I liked Eminem but his old stuff was greater than his recent material which Eminem basically complain about everything in his life. His kids is overly alluded so was his ex-wife and these totally untrue stories about domestic violence ('Love The Way You Lie"). He's sounding like a whiny b#@ch.

 But what do people cared was Kanye West. His latest album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had just arrived in stores and believe it or not, it's possible that West's career would be certain for a revival... unless he'd say anything stupid.

The latest from West was that he broke his silence about Taylor Swift commenting on how he used that MTV Awards incident to boost his career (it is also rumored that Swift had used famous people she would date with to grab fame). He said that he never been defended by her in every interview she is in and said that he is incidently responsible for her own good. Chances would be very slim.

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Kanye West launches into ANOTHER tirade about Taylor Swift and ...

This was one of the controversies he had caused this year. The last thing he did was to cancel a Today Show Interview because of what's mentioned above.

West now has PR issues. No matter what he says, the media would use his comments as an interpretation of his arrogant behaviour. But I still have faith on this guy because I feel sorry for him that he had to be treated by a totally biased media and society. To me he's like Mark Zuckerberg from The Social Network. He has similar qualities as him and most of all he's a stingy zeigeist where like him we are the narcissists of the public. (and about Taylor Swift, she gets too much attention. Sorry)

But an album that was getting rave reviews (some of the reviews considered this his best album yet) would likely to ressurect him back from the dead. Listening to West's latest material is like a form of art. West's album had turned hip hop into a portrait of ourselves.

It's interesting to say that nobody would allow West to have his opinion on anything in life. You can actually follow his opinions on Twitter which the site had made him so resilient. Opinions that Taylor Swift is not a great singer is almost uncalled for and even saying how good Kanye West is in the music universe is almost blasphemy.

West would have never made these comments if his mother never died. This was one of those myths about Kanye. Everything that turned him into a Sid Vicious was because of his mother Donna who died from cosmetic surgery implications. West would have honoured her mother if he had raised awareness about the dangers of plastic surgery.

The best thing about West and his controversies was that he got the balls to stand up and say how bewildered you are and how shocking it is. I mean no matter what he say about an issue whether it was about an American President, which music video was the best of all time, whether he should win an award, it's his own opinion. Believe it or not, I actually support his views. Beyonce would've won Best Female Video for Single Ladies because it was so clever while Swift's video of You Belong WIth Me is almost predictable as it is. Girl sees boy, boy get stuck with skank and girl and boy fall in love.

I actually thought that when Kanye said that George Bush doesn't care about black people during America's effort for Hurricane Katrina victims, he's reffering to Bush not working enough for Katrina not refering to Bush as a racist. But Kanye also refers to the majority of New Orleans is African American. So what's the big fuss. it's just an euphemism West had made to comment about Bush's worst moment in his presidency. Five years later, Bush had admit that it was the worst moment he'd experienced during his time.

I'm a huge fan of this guy. Every album he had recorded (College Dropout, Late Registration and even My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy) are masterpieces. It shows and deliver really abstract emotion. But despite this, the albums are also considered to be the killers of hip hop. You got to be serious. You can still hear hip hop even though there are no baggy pants or iradical lyrics about the gangster lifestyle. Why do you think rapping is dead. But what makes rapping almost dead was the autotuning. Jay Z's song DOA (Death Of Autotune) try to spread the message across but never worked. However I don't think that hip hop is extinct. It's just like saying rock music is dead.

As for me, West's mistakes and personality had reflected on who I am. West's barraging on the stage and saying what he thinks is like how I think about the world's music today. His spirit shows that when you have caused a scene, it still makes you sane.

For whatever complaints there is about Kanye West, the good thing about him now is that he could have been the columnist of a music magazine if the pressure is too much for him. But West may have scored a comeback and learned his mistakes and try to move on. But the media couldn't give a damn about it and even if he tries to recover from being a social outcast, they still going to remind him about that incident because Taylor Swift is more popular than she was in her 'Fearless' years.

West should be known to make the proverb 'Ignorance is Bliss' greater. But he's more prone to making that quote into the portrait of ourselves