5. M.I.A. at the Superbowl Some of us had a good year, some of us had a bad year, and some of us got upstaged at the Super Bowl when M.I.A. flipped the bird in the middle of our set. Madonna falls solidly into that last category. In the endless string of calculations that Madge’s career has become, her secret cadre of Kabbalah oracles couldn’t possibly have predicted that M.I.A. of all people would take the opportunity to make a statement on the world’s largest stage. Except, there she is in ... [Read more]

Like the British Invasion that touched down on the tarmac at JFK on February 7th, 1964, the Korean Wave reached a new high water mark on September 20th, 2012 when PSY’s “Gangnam Style” became the most “liked” video ever on YouTube and the most watched video of 2012 with over 355 million views as of October 3rd. Another Korean-Pop milestone occurred earlier in the year on January 31st, 2012 when Girls’ Generation became the first South Korean band to perform on syndicated television in the US, b... [Read more]