{"id":11056,"date":"2011-05-25T00:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=11056"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:35:59","slug":"musical-ramblings-with-xtina-kajagoogoo-eminem-and-afroman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/musical-ramblings-with-xtina-kajagoogoo-eminem-and-afroman\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Ramblings With Xtina, Kajagoogoo, Eminem and Afroman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/words-of-fashion-wisdom-from-xtina\/\" target=\"_blank\">Like I&#8217;ve said before<\/a>, I loved Christina Aguilera&#8217;s raunchy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stripped-Christina-Aguilera\/dp\/B00006CXXU\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Stripped<\/em><\/a>-era look.  I never even liked her till I saw the &#8220;Dirrty&#8221; video, and then I was all, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=How%20YOU%20doin%27%3F\" target=\"_blank\">How YOU doin&#8217;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=xtina\" target=\"_blank\">Xtina<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kaej4Wjkj1Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kaej4Wjkj1Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What can I say? Sex sells! I have no idea why I&#8217;m thinking about this right now. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m still trying to find other shades of &#8220;it-never-comes-off&#8221; lipstick to supplement my favorite lip color, MAC\u2019s Pro Longwear Lipcolor in <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/red-lipstick-1-macs-lasting-lust\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lasting Lust<\/a>. None of the other Pro Longwear Lipcolors appeal to me, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylelist.com\/2011\/03\/02\/celebrity-makeup-artists-secrets\/?icid=maing|main5|dl11|sec1_lnk3|48050\" target=\"_blank\">Christina&#8217;s makeup dude recommends <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipcolorsense.com\/sense-makeup-lips\/lip-color-sense\/\" target=\"_blank\">LipSense<\/a>. I keep looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipcolorsense.com\/sense-makeup-lips\/lip-color-sense\/\" target=\"_blank\">LipSense website<\/a>, but I am too chicken to order anything I can&#8217;t try on first because I&#8217;ve had some bad luck with that. I might try a pink <a href=\"http:\/\/www.occmakeup.com\/lips.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lip Tar<\/a> after seeing it on a friend.<\/p>\n<p>I recently managed to move Christina&#8217;s music &#8212; and all my other songs &#8212; from iTunes on a dying PC to iTunes on my functional Apple. Apple doesn&#8217;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&#8217;t have all the CDs now, because, you know, we weren&#8217;t supposed to need &#8217;em. I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imtoo.com\/ipod-computer-transfer.html\" target=\"_blank\">ImTOO iPod Transfer software<\/a> and was mostly successful. The only problem is with the album art. When I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kajagoogoo\" target=\"_blank\">1980s band Kajagoogoo<\/a>&#8216;s album cover and heard Eminem instead, I experienced a moment of severe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_dissonance\" target=\"_blank\">cognitive dissonance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='Rbe8Ox33SDpQZ6Yn3F0ylQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/112145458' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Rbe8Ox33SDpQZ6Yn3F0ylQ',sig:'f_LV1o6_7L4qNeIKe4XzdsEWllRxfaPAaZ0jyVdPWC8=',w:'399px',h:'594px',items:'112145458',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This might not be ImTOO&#8217;s fault. I&#8217;ve been listening to Afroman&#8217;s &#8220;Because I Got High&#8221; a lot. Maybe my iPod is stoned.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WeYsTmIzjkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WeYsTmIzjkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2001, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Because_I_Got_High_%28song%29\">Because I Got High<\/a>&#8221; made it to 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. If I recall correctly, the song disappeared from radio playlists after 9\/11 when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1101010924-175112,00.html\">we all thought we&#8217;d never laugh again<\/a>. But now that I think of it, the song is all about how the guy ruined his life by getting high, so it&#8217;s really a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Just_Say_No\">Nancy-Reagan-worthy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/when-kids-ask-those-awkward-questions\/\">anti-drug<\/a> song! Afroman was robbed.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Interesting news! Christina is working with <em>Stripped<\/em> producer <a href=\"http:\/\/perezhilton.com\/2011-05-24-christina-aguilera-reunites-with-producer-scott-storch-for-new-album\">Scott Storch<\/a> again. Sounds like a good plan to me! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like I&#8217;ve said before, I loved Christina Aguilera&#8217;s raunchy Stripped-era look. I never even liked her till I saw the &#8220;Dirrty&#8221; video, and then I was all, &#8220;How YOU doin&#8217;, Xtina?&#8221; What can I say? Sex sells! I have no idea why I&#8217;m thinking about this right now. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m still trying to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/musical-ramblings-with-xtina-kajagoogoo-eminem-and-afroman\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,561,42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-eminem","9":"category-music","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11056"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11070,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions\/11070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}