Confession: I don’t like Lady CaCa.

She is the new Madonna. By that I mean she has very little talent for music and very very much talent for self-promotion. But then, Madonna takes the best producers (well, Hard Candy excepted) and they make the best out of her talent, ending up with a product that is sometimes acceptable and sometimes genius. CaCa hasn’t got anything except for self-promotion, and she’s not exactly doing it in a subdued, classy way — “I can think myself to orgasm” anyone? “I cook in stilettos and undies” anyone? “My look is walking art” anyone? Well, she got to number one in the UK and US simultaneously. Well, so did Eamonn with his amazingly artistic “Fuck You (I Don’t Want You Back)”.

Her latest single, “Poker Face” is… well, yeah, it is. I’ve heard it three times and I can’t even remember if it was uptempo, midtempo or a ballad, that’s how memorable it is. But luckily we have Kid Cudi to take care of turning it into something catchy:

“I Poke Her Face”. Geddit? Of course you do — anyone with half a brain does. It’s seventh grade fun. It’s three (two of them rather rich) boy stoners making fun of the girl who wears very few clothes. It’s very silly, very politically incorrect and much, much more exciting than Lady “I was arrested for wearing just my underwear on the street but I explained it was art” CaCa can ever be — because, unlike CaCa, it doesn’t pretend to be anything else than it is.

Alternative review of this song here.

I’ve been very unhappy that all search terms people use to get to my blog are so… unexciting. Like, “vanessa daou joe sent me torrent” — well fuck you, buy the CD, it’s not like Vanessa is likely to make gazillions out of it. Or “saint etienne method of modern love torrent” — I kind of sympathise with that one, since they took deliberate care and worked long on making the single practically impossible to purchase. But finally the day has come — someone found my blog when googling for “kid cudi naked”. RESULT!!!!!!

(Except not really. But dear reader or readeresse, if you find the photo you are looking for SEND ME THE LINK PLEASE.)

You might have noticed Kid Cudi debuts in my top 10 this week, erm, twice. (As a featured artist on Kanye West’s track and solo/remixed by Crookers.) This is largely due to two facts:

1. Cudi is amazing
2. Cudi is amazing

The mixtape he’s made for a clothing company 10DEEP is so good it makes me want to buy their clothes whatever they look like. AND IT IS FREE!!1! It mixes trip-hop, electro and old-school hiphop effortlessly and orgasmically. Download it immediately. No need to thank me really. I’m just the messenger (and late to the party since The Important Blogs found out about Cudi a year ago or so.)

It doesn’t hurt either that Cudi looks like that:

Kid Cudi looking dishy

“Amazing.”