ChaffPost - Post-Election Edition (Laughing at Children IS VERY MEAN AND WRONG)

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2. The one and only mention of the Britney/K-Fed divorce EVER on this blog, ready?

WHO CARES

[EDIT: sorry to take away some of the snark with an edit, but the context for this is specific, i.e. last night's news broadcasts, which managed to shoehorn the DIVORCE between election stats where it was very much unwanted.]

3. Hannah Montana at #1 for second week in a row, even though that MCR album is much better. Sorry, had to be said.

4. New Stylus column ran and I reluctantly decided to keep the typos in at the last minute because they were so adorable. Not so great this time out -- only thing I'll mention here is that a Lucy Woodward reference was cut (Alexandra Slate and Lucy were linked in Johnny Loftus's Allmusic review from 2003...he has quite a few good teenpop reviews at AMG, and he was also the ONLY person to vote for Skye Sweetnam's album in the 2004 Pitchfork year-end list). Check the comments section for "issues." Which maybe I'll address when the person bringing them up isn't an idiot.

Stay tooned for the INDIE TEENPOP AWARDS PRE-GAME SHOW (who needs to be contacted for this to happen, btw?).

[EDIT: also cut from the column was a link to the Esquire article that was quoted in the Voice Leslie Carter review. It's available here if you have a library card, if not email me and I'll hook you up.]

5. I'm going to combine P&J '97-'98 thoughts into a combined middle school edition. I think the Shamefully Belated Discoveries have basically ended, although I'm sure there will be a few songs I've never heard down the line. I might start using songs from the comments to find SBDs, so f'rinstance in '97 it probably goes to this.