Blog Posts by John Kordosh

Hi, everybody, and welcome to Framed, the blog that promises nothing... and delivers!

Our very special guest stars this week are the Police, a band that dominated the '80s like nobody's business. Their five studio albums all went platinum. They had six Top 10 singles in the U.S. -- 10 in the U.K. -- and went on to win six Grammys. And they were inducted into the prestigious Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame back in 2003.

Led by bassist/singer/songwriter Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting, the Police's novel reggae sound wowed the simple folk of the 1980s and propelled the band to superstardom. This week's video is one of their earlier songs: "Message in a Bottle," the sensational castaway-looking-for-love metaphor. Readers may recall that Sting performed it solo on the Hurricane Sandy telethon last year.

Please forgive the lousy quality of the video -- it was made in the days before science, after all -- and, instead, enjoy our very funny captions, which, as always, are "aces!"

Absolutely shocking and completely unexpected news, readers! After Y! Music's Dave DiMartino reviewed the new History of the Eagles LP in his blog last week, it seems the Eagles themselves read his comments!

And the comments weren't kind! Not by a long shot!

Now we hear that the band, dispirited by what they saw as a well-written and well-informed indictment of their entire career, have abruptly given up on their signature country-rock sound and taken up (holy cow!) death metal!

Needless to say, the world of music has been taken aback by this ... huh? ... what's that? Is somebody out there waving at us, trying to get our attention?

Yes! Somebody is! Why, it's our old friend and fellow Y! Music blogger, Rob O'Connor! Everybody likes Bob-O!

Come on in, Bob-O!

What's that? Hmm. Um hmm. Really? You're kidding!

Really?

Wow. OK, OK. Well, thanks for the heads up. Seriously, man. Yeah, yeah, we'll bring the hot dogs to your thing. Again. Hot dogs can be expensive, you know.

Important blog note! This week, Framed welcomes the amazing Eagles of Death Metal and their great video, "I Want You So Hard."

We're starting to like this guy, PSY. He's the Korean rapper genius who gave us "Gangnam Style," the worldwide smash that inspired dozens of humorous knock-off videos... even one by the insane North Koreans... and made Seoul's Gangnam District an internationally-known locale.

It's probably because, the way we see it, Framed and PSY have a lot in common. PSY is a satirical artist, as are we. We both target the privileged and self-satisfied. Plus, you've got those one-point-five billion page views.

And those are just ours! PSY gets a lot of views, too!

Ahem.

This week's video, of course, is "Gentleman," another great Vevo premiere, and another feather in the rapper's cap. The vid gathered almost 19 million views on YouTube within 24 hours of its release, totally eclipsing the previous champ, Justin Bieber's "Beauty and a Beat." We're not really sure what it's about, but PSY is still pretty funny, as always, with the goofy dance moves.

Please enjoy this great new video and let us know what you think! We're going to make some Lipton's Noodle Soup!

Important blog note!

If you were with us two weeks ago, when we featured Creedence Clearwater Revival, you may have noticed that readers kicked us in the teeth with their comments. "Not funny," decried many. "Ageist tripe," said one. "Delusional," noted another. "Where are the funny captions?" said more than one. We could go on.

It would be fair to say that well over 98% of the many hundreds of posts opined that Framed was stupid, a stupid idea, and very stupidly executed.

It's a brutal verdict, but we still want to thank everyone who took the time to post. Heck, everybody's got a right to their opinion.

We'd also like to thank a friend of ours for subbing at the last minute and actually writing the CCR captions. Thanks, Dave!

You rock!

Years ago... many, many years ago... essentially, we're talking about minutes after the Big Bang here... there was a band called Creedence Clearwater Revival that was a hit-making machine. Although they never had a song hit #1 in the U.S., they had five that hit #2. And a couple of their albums did hit #1.

CCR, as the now-old people called them, offered a memorable bluegrass/swamp rock sound driven by guitarist/singer John Fogerty's catchy songs. Many of them, like "Proud Mary," "Fortunate Son," and "Bad Moon Rising," are now regarded as classics.

This week's video, "Lookin' Out My Back Door," is a down-home tune from 1970, and features some rare Creedence footage, with Fogerty kickin' it on a couch while the band pretends to play. There's no doubt you'll enjoy this nostalgic number, and -- as always! -- our very humorous captions!

Important blog note! Framed will be taking next week off, as we're driving Jim The Bird to his new home at the San Diego Zoo aviary. Jim -- perhaps Framed's most beloved continuing character -- will be in the company of Toucan Sam, Chilly Willy the Penguin, and other celebrated birds in his new digs!

See you in two weeks!

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Framed. We'd like to remind you that Framed is always brewed at 34°.

We've featured much-loved rapper 50 Cent many times in this blog, so when we heard there was a 50 Cent debut on Vevo -- Robert of the Radish texted us! -- we were all over it. We downloaded it, froze pictures, wrote captions, drank to excess... all the stuff you've got to do in this business. And, when we were done, we thought, "Well, we still got it. Our captions not only rule, they super-rule! Captions that merely 'rule' run and hide from our captions!"

We did mention the excess drinking, right?

Ahem. Anyway, we were getting ready to send it in to Y! Music, when we had a thought.

"Hey!" it went. "Was that actually a music video?"

"What do you mean, thought?" we replied. "We just got it off Vevo. What else could it be?"

"Maybe it's part of Vevo's 'Music Is My Sport' series," the thought said.

"What? What the...?"

"You may have just written the first installment of Framed that actually doesn't feature a 'music video,' per se," the thought continued.

"Well, we will be darned!" we said. "Do you think the folks at Y! Music will notice?"

We both laughed merrily, and then went out for more drinks. We got into a bit of trouble over on Lankershim, but that's a story for another day.

Hooray! David Archuleta's back in Framed! For those of you who've slept through our 5+ years of existence, as we have, David's our #1 favorite ex-Am I contestant ever! He was robbed and should've won!

He didn't, but we've still featured him multiple times in this very blog. When we last saw Dave -- four months ago, to the minute -- we reported he was on his way to Chile to serve a Mormon mission in that South American land. We didn't think we'd see him back here for a couple of years, but this week's vid is a Vevo debut!

So maybe that mission didn't work out. Or the Chilean folks told David to get lost in their language, Chilean. Or maybe Chile simply vanished from the face of the Earth, opening up some sweet Argentinean ocean views.

Whatever. We just don't know! What we do know is this: David's back in the biggest of ways with his new song, "Don't Run Away." The video is simply killer, and very reminiscent of the glory days of A-Ha, because it's just a bunch of drawings.

Yes, it's Good News Week all around, readers. If you read only one blog this week, it should be Framed, because this week's captions are super-good and super-funny. We'll probably try to write another good blog next week, too. Or maybe we'll just kick back and take the week off.

Because nothing matters! God bless!

Everyone likes alt rock, and no one more than us, so it's a great pleasure to welcome Arcade Fire to this week's blog.

The Montreal-based combo -- they're a septet -- are one of the most critically-acclaimed groups in recent memory. They won last year's Grammy for Album of the Year. They've also won BRIT, Juno and NME awards, and more. We were gonna call Dave DiMartino for an incisive critical comment, but he's probably watching a Blaxploitation flick or something.

He does that, you know.

Hello, readers. Once again, it's time to explain this blog: what it is and why it exists. Pull up a chair!

Framed posts a new music video every week. Usually a very popular music video. We watch it and then we watch it again, this time freezing the video in key spots. We cull a still picture -- a frame, if you will -- at that point, and then write a funny caption for it.

See, that's what makes Framed different from the other Y! Music blogs. We actually try to be funny, on purpose. We may not always succeed -- humor is a subjective thing, after all -- but we're always in there, trying. We take this blog very seriously.

Except for last week; we phoned in that one. As you noticed.

This week we welcome back the great Taylor Swift, the gal who's pretty much owned the charts for the last couple of years. We've got her just-released-last-week hit, "22," in which she simply sings about the joys of being a young woman. It's a good song and a good video... light-hearted but meaningful.

Have fun, enjoy Taylor and our captions, and be back next week when things turn deadly serious!