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" Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. "
Rob Sheffield
Her
Style
Look
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" Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so. "
Rob Sheffield
Robot
Beyond
Black
" Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again. "
Rob Sheffield
Parking
Show
Memorable
" One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours. "
Rob Sheffield
Growing Up
Growing
You
" Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image. "
Rob Sheffield
Own
Audience
Thanks
" 'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. "
Rob Sheffield
Way
Family
American
" God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life. "
Rob Sheffield
God
Life
Love
" Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire. "
Rob Sheffield
American
Perfect
Squad
" It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs. "
Rob Sheffield
Nobody
Play
Power
" Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before. "
Rob Sheffield
Future
Culture
Seeing
" The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point. "
Rob Sheffield
Anchor
Job
Important
" It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time when the church was so connected to the world. "
Rob Sheffield
Time
Best
Church
" Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake. "
Rob Sheffield
Dance
Me
Think
" In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad. "
Rob Sheffield
Weird
Loneliness
Pet
" Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd. "
Rob Sheffield
Reach
Live
Guitar
" Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive. "
Rob Sheffield
My Life
Me
Life
" It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans. "
Rob Sheffield
Turn
Only
Old
" That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves. "
Rob Sheffield
People
Kind
Down
" 'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end. "
Rob Sheffield
American
Lesson
Exit
" Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them. "
Rob Sheffield
Promises
Paris
History
" Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one. "
Rob Sheffield
Play
She
Common Sense
" It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles? "
Rob Sheffield
Love
Show
Kind
" You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude. "
Rob Sheffield
Beehive
Attitude
You
" That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers. "
Rob Sheffield
Blood
True
Secret
" Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship. "
Rob Sheffield
Us
Relationship
Music
" Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got. "
Rob Sheffield
Lose
American
Nobody
" On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills. "
Rob Sheffield
Sitting
Job
Skills
" Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies. "
Rob Sheffield
Touch
Space
Devotion
" People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!' "
Rob Sheffield
You
Hockey
People
" We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. "
Rob Sheffield
Get
Sometimes
Miserable
" Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning. "
Rob Sheffield
I Can
Song
Morning