Blog Posts by John Kordosh

Exciting news, readers! Now that we're into December, the spirit of the season has gripped us like nobody's business! So — from now until the big day — we'll be featuring nothing but Xmas videos!

This week, we're happy to welcome talented saxophonist Kenny G and his wistful version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The song, now a beloved classic, made its debut when Judy Garland sang it in the 1944 flick, Meet Me in St. Louis. Since then it's been covered by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Twisted Sister.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to Framed. This week our video is "Hit The Lights," the brand new offering from Selena Gomez & The Scene. You're sure to like it!

Selena is the star of the Disney Channel's excellent Wizards of Waverly Place, and is also a music star in her own right. Most importantly, though, she's Justin Bieber's girlfriend. And the young couple's made quite a splash in the press lately, with a recent appearance at the American Music Awards at which — we're told — they couldn't keep their hands off each other.

Welcome to Framed, the blog where the good times roll, week-in and week-out! And great news, readers: we've got Britney Spears' new video, "Criminal," this week, so tell everyone that Y! Music is the place to be!

Britney's no stranger to our blog; we've featured her videos three or four times previously, but — this time — the video actually has a plot! In a way!

Hi, readers! We're not only back, we're better than ever! And we offer you our profound thanks for returning after our long hiatus.

We'll recap our many adventures in an upcoming installment, but let's get right back to Framed! This week, our featured artist is Spanish-American pop star Enrique Iglesias, who's not only sold over 60 million albums, he's also dated tennis babe Anna Kournikova, with (in his words) no intention of marrying her.

Is he the best, or what?

Welcome back to Framed, readers. This week, we're presenting the Best Video We've Ever Seen.

It's the work of Punish Fort, a Seattle-based hard rock band, and is from their 2008 album, the niftily-titled Cripe, All Mighty. The song, about a creepy pumpkin-headed being, is called "Pumpkinhead," and--although it's absolutely the most obscure video to ever grace our blog--it shows that great art is not the province of the corporations. Good work, Punish Fort!

Hello readers, and welcome back to Framed, one of the many excellent music video blogs on the internet. Thanks for reading!

This week's guest artists are the Dixie Chicks, a solid, best-selling combo that has long since crossed over from country to mainstream pop. The gals--Martie Erwin Maguire, Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines--came out of Dallas in the late 1980s and, after much toil, hit it huge in the late '90s with their Wide Open Spaces and Fly LPs, both of which hit #1 on the country charts and landed in the Top 5 on the LP charts.

You know who makes less than $100 million a year? Interim Yahoo! CEO Tim Morse. Detroit Tigers' pitcher and almost-certain American League MVP Justin Verlander. Martin Scorsese. Michael Jordan. Barack Obama. The estate of John Lennon. The estate of Elvis Presley.

You know who makes more than $100 million a year?

The Catholic Church. Bill Gates. George Lucas. Jimmy Buffett.

Hola, readers! Welcome to Framed! Bienvenidos!

Everyone knows that we're livin' la vida loca here at Y! Music, but how many knew that we're also big fans of narcocorrido--musical stories about narcotics trafficking?

Probably not a lot of you! But this peculiarly Mexican-American song form is the folk music of today, and we're on board! So much so that we're using exclamation points with a DiMartinoesque casualness!

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Parents may be concerned that narcocorrido glorifies the drug overlords, but that's not strictly true. Singer Gabriel Berrelleza of this week's guest artists, Los Cuates de Sinaloa, explains: "A corrido is a musical story taken from real life. It can be about a tragic accident or praising a person... a lot of people think narcocorridos are only ones who can challenge the government. To them, it's like an action picture. The one who wins in the end is the good guy. And for those people, the government is the bad guy."