Time is unkind to music and music videos. Unlike most other matters of taste, the first has the death of its cool artificially accelerated so you can go out and blow your beer tickets on the latest thing, and the second needs to keep evolving lest youthful audiences get bored and go back to playing …

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Back in the early 1930s, before the Hays Code forced Hollywood into a puritan straightjacket it would take decades to wriggle out of, the silver screen was not quite as innocent as one might expect. Several movies of the period had no compunction in showcasing what was, for the day, a healthy amount of nudity …

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For the record, I love Lana Del Rey’s song “Born to Die.” The romantic balderdash does nothing for this little black duck, but the music and vocals are dark and foreboding, somber, yet soothing to the point of being soporific. Why this chick’s album has received such vitriolic reviews is anyone’s guess. Mine (guess, not …

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