Humanizing The Vacuum

House rules! This time I’m not confined to Billboard.

“Billboard magazine’s dance/disco chart, which began in 1974 and ranked the popularity of tracks in New York City discothèques, expanded to feature multiple charts each week which highlighted playlists in various cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Boston, Phoenix, Detroit and Houston,” Wikipedia states. In 1976 Billboard…

As much as it might pain my boomer readers who read Robert Christgau’s scathing review of its soundtrack and wondered why he couldn’t flash the badge of his generosity, or, perhaps, drove their cars into their parents on hearing “She’s Like the Wind” or “Hungry Eyes,” I owe Dirty Dancing…

Drake realized the ambitions shared in “Successful,” his collaboration with Trey Songz. “They be starin’ at the money like it’s unfamiliar/I get it, I live it, to me there’s nothing realer,” he rasps. It would get realer within a year. Pop was changing during this period. Hip-hop’s dominance in ringtones…