Hello, readers! Welcome to this, the 900th Framed ever written! What a milestone!

To help us celebrate, we called our good friend Mike Love of the Beach Boys, the amazingly talented Southern Californian rock group who've scored dozens of hits over the years.

"Mike," we said. "Help us out here. We've become the talk of the internet and need to bring in some heavy duty talent for our important 900th blog. What can you, as the leader of America's greatest rock band, do to help us?"

"Framed, I'm glad you called!" Mike enthused. (Mike is impossibly generous and talented, as a simple web search will attest. "Like all people, I read you every week and marvel at your insight, your wit, and--can I be candid?--your humanity. Your cheerfulness in carrying all the Y! Music blogs, week in, week out...doing all the heavy lifting...well, it's an inspiration is what it is."

"You are too kind, our friend."

"Here's what I see," he continued. "I see captions to the greatest Beach Boys song of them all. I

Hi-ho, readers, and welcome to Framed, the only blog that tells you the truth and makes stuff up!  At literally the same time!

We are an embarrassment of riches, or--at the very least--an embarrassment.

Every now and again, we like to introduce ourselves to new readers, so, if you're a regular, go get a drink or something.  We'll do this in a friendly Q-and-A format to make it as painless as possible.

Q: What is Framed?

A: Framed is a weekly blog that appears in Y! Music. Every week we feature a different music video. We "freeze" a dozen pictures from the video and post them.

Q: But is there a twist?

A: Yes. Yes, there is. We write our own captions to the still pictures. 

Q: And are these captions funny?

A: Oh, they're plenty funny. Comedic gold, one might say.

Q: But, at the same time, will they make me think?

A: Indeed they will. We stuff an unprecedented amount of social commentary into our captions. And that's not just us saying it, that's The Journal of Unprecedented Amounts of

We admit that, sometimes, we want to be a billionaire so freaking bad. How about you, readers? Is this something that interests you?

If so, you have something in common with this week's featured star, Travie McCoy. Last month, he released the first single off of his debut solo LP, Lazarus, and it was titled "Billionaire." It's about his wish to be in a whole new tax bracket, play basketball with the President, and hang out with Oprah. And who among us would deny Travie his dream?

Not us, that's for sure. The last time we looked, the song was #4 in Billboard's Top 100, so Travie's on his way. The publicity of being in Framed, of course, will only add fuel to his unstoppable momentum...and, hey, we're glad to help out, Travie.

He's joined in both the song and the video by singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, and we have to admit that it's a pretty mellow tune. Please enjoy everything about this week's blog, and we cordially invite you back for next week, when Framed continues to amaze and

If this is June, it must be time to have Justin Bieber back in Framed. He hasn't been our featured star since late April, for God's sake. Please accept our deepest apologies, and please don't sign that online petition to have our blogging license revoked.

Justin is the teenaged superstar whose latest LP, My World 2.0, has stood civilization on its ear. The album has been in the top five since its release, and Y! Music charts expert Paul Grein reports that its big single, "Baby," has topped  two million downloads. But did Justin slow down and build a world-class koi pond, as, say, a lazy blogger with his bucks might?

No! Instead, he's recorded yet another great song, this one the theme for the cinematic blockbuster, The Karate Kid, which stars Jaden Smith as Ralph Macchio.  Justin and Jaden combine to deliver "Never Say Never," an astonishingly uplifting song about something or another. Justin sings. Jaden raps. We quite like it!

Please let us know if you like it, too. We'll be back