I'm starting a blog again and decided to start now that I am on vacation. My first posts will be reflecting back on 2010. Right now I will start with the world of entertainment. These are not ranked in any particular order.
Ten things that really entertained me in 2010:
1. Here's to the ladies who don't sing so great!
In 2010 (and really in any year) my Ipod was filled with female singers who were more entertaining popstars than strong vocalists. In 2010 Katy Perry proved to me that she wasn't the one album wonder that I had thought she might be but hoped she wasn't when I saw her in concert in 2008. Perry entertained me with odes to stilettos in the sand, pearls, teenage dreams, and...uh.....peacocks. While spending most of my summer in Europe and waiting for Katy Perry's new CD to be released, I had Kylie Minogue who proved with her new music from Aphrodite that she deserves to be the international sensation that she is, and made me hope it would be this music that would finally help Kylie really catch on in America. But it appears it was not to be. Making Kylie Minogue's vocals sound like Pavarotti are the autotuned tunes of Ke$ha. Yeah I know she can't sing, but I couldn't resist her drunken appearances, her trash bag fashion sense and her simple silly rhymes about partying, drinking, glitter, more partying, more drinking and old dudes! And finally dominating the world of pop and country was Taylor Swift. In 2010 Swift continued her transformation from America's Sweetheart to America's Stalker (seriously why would ANY guy date her? they end up in a song). Whether it was singing about forgiving Kanye West (the best thing that ever happened to her career), boys who did her wrong, boys who she did wrong, and breaking up a wedding, my ears couldn't stop listening. Even when she was out of tune.
2. All You Zombies Hide Your Faces- I didn't think I would like The Walking Dead. Zombies have never scared me or really interested me because they are so very slow! But somehow The Walking Dead was different. Maybe it was the possibly doomed characters who reminded me of characters from my dearly departed Lost (Andrew Lincoln is the breakout star here!). Maybe it was the cleverness as shown in perhaps the best scene of any TV show in 2010 when two of the survivors cover themselves in blood and guts to trick the dead into thinking they are also walking dead so they can make there escape. Whatever it was, in six short episodes I was hooked. The Walking Dead was the only new show in 2010 that was appointment television. It is going to be a long wait for Season 2.
Number 3 and 4 are coming soon. One is from the world of books, the other is a cinematic end to characters who have awed inspired generations.
What TV series and pop music entertained you in 2010?
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