xujun still wants to argue with me on britney so i shall enlighten him.
why britney isn't a loser:
1. Britney has never sung a song live in her whole pathetic life. Most videos featuring her "live" has evidence of her lip-synching slipping. a: show me some other videos of her lip-synching other than the gimme more mtv vma 2007 performance.
2. Britney has no stage presence at all. It's like you notice the background dancers more than her. In the video of 2007 MTV awards performance of Gimme More, it is obvious that Rihanna would rather talk to her friend than look at Britney. a: she has no stage presence at all, that's why you can observe her lip-synching. what is rihanna telling her friend, is it about what to eat for breakfast tomorrow, is it about how to gouge out chris brown's eye or is it about britney's fantastic or poor performance? obviously it's the latter because it's more related, so after all it's still related to britney and not about something else.
3. She can only gain attention by shaving her head or beating up a car with an umbrella. a: what about lip-synching and divorce and fighting a custody for children?
4. Her song's are just catchy and most of them have no real meaning at all. This is thanks to her producers and not her. a: who said songs must have a meaning? and how would you know it has no real meaning? you either can't hear what she's singing or you don't bother reading the lyrics. and also producers are there for the purpose of making the songs sounds nice.
5. She sleep randomly with other people and then fight for custody of her children a: you randomly give crappy facts. rihanna randomly picked up chris brown's phone to find out that paris new bff is chris brown. britney is not as loose as you think she is. divorce is very common in hollywood, so obviously fighting for custody would be common too.
6. britney is holder of multiple guiness world records
7. britney is the biggest selling artist of this decade.
so sad, 2 weeks later going back. it's such great fun slacking here.
anyway, i found out i got a miserable msg of 3.00. but then i suspect there's a problem with the chinese marks because it's near impossibility for me to fail an assignment.
also, out of boredom and slack here, i have editted my album grading rubrics once again. i have found unfairness in the rubrics, such as if you have a lot of songs on an album, there's a higher possibility of getting more higher rated songs. so now it works on percentage. and the most drastic change would be mariah carey's "the emancipation of mimi", which dropped from 4.5 to 3.71, and thus dropping out of top 10 into the 18th position.
my newer album grading standard: - average grade of all the songs - if 40% or more songs on the album are at least 4.5/5, the album gets 5 stars automatically. - if 70% or more songs on the album are at least 4/5, the album gets 4.5 stars automatically. - if 70% of the at least 4/5 songs consist of at least 20% of at least 4.5/5 songs, the album gets 5 stars automatically.
1. Madonna - The Immaculate Collection - 76.2% 4.5 = 5 2. Madonna - True Blue - 55.6% 4.5 = 5 3. Madonna - Ray Of Light - 46.2% 4.5 = 5 4. Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor - 41.7% 4.5 = 5 5. Def Leppard - Hysteria - 75% 4 + 33.3% 4.5 = 5 6. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - 75% 4 = 4.5 7. Metallica - Death Magnetic - 70% 4 = 4.5 8. Madonna - Madonna - 4.00 9. Madonna - Hard Candy - 3.96 10. Madonna - Like A Prayer - 3.95 11. Nirvana - Nevermind - 3.92 12. Madonna - Music - 3.85 13. Britney Spears - Britney - 3.83 14. Britney Spears - Blackout - 3.79* 14. Britney Spears - In The Zone - 3.79* 16. Madonna - Bedtime Stories - 3.77 17. Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again - 3.75 18. Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi - 3.71 19. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded - 3.70 20. Nelly Furtado - Loose - 3.69 21. Britney Spears - Circus - 3.67 22. Cher - Believe - 3.65* 22. Madonna - Like A Virgin - 3.65* 24. Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time - 3.59 25. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad - 3.54 26. Madonna - Erotica - 3.50* 26. Mariah Carey - E=MC2 - 3.50* 28. Leona Lewis - Spirit - 3.46 29. Kylie Minouge - Fever - 3.46 30. Janet Jackson - Discipline - 3.42 31. Madonna - American Life - 3.32 32. Madonna - Evita - 3.32 33. Alicia Keys - As I Am - 3.21 34. Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion - 2.85 *means that the 2 albums have same grades
you might also ask why madonna occupies so many positions in the top 10. why else is she my favourite singer? mika's the only one who failed my album review (less than 3 is considered fail for me). i will try to speed up my pace of album reviewing, although i think it's difficult for me.
this week is immersion week in the china students' class. somehow i went to the gep like class and then they were learning something like sequence of number for math, and i had no idea what the teacher was teaching. and then the students were so quiet during class and then they do duty everyday even during lunch and the classroom is spick and span. during geography i was sleeping because the teacher told the students to do the exercises for the whole period.
anyway i happened to record down a short video of mr lim playing some badminton like thing. somehow he sprained his ankle playing basketball today.
