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Jennifer Lopez Wallpaper — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:24:15 +0000

I love Jennifer Lopez. Badly she is not my Girlfriend :).

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Ben Peek » Blog Archive » Women Aren’t Cool? — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:22:29 +0000

[...] strolling round the net before heading off to teach, and I came across this on the Coolness Index: It may be too hard to tell whether an artist is cool, but we have all sorts of ways to tell that an [...]

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The Coolness Index « Tape Noise Diary — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:12:20 +0000

[...] a comment » Music Machinery takes a look at the coolness factor. Normally “coolness” is something that teenagers [...]

By: jaycruz

jaycruz — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:53:55 +0000

It’s interest to note how the “coolness” factor has shifted in popular music. It’s also ironic because popular music consumption has gravitated to an intellectual pursuit, (sense of “musical taste”, “cultural relevancy”, “musicianship knowledge”) Just like in the classical realm. That explains the Radiohead’s and today’s uncool. In another time Lady Gaga or Britney Spears would be the “coolest” thing. Just like the Beatles in the late 50′s and early 60′s. But today’s “cool” is the intellectual cool. Anything that’s trying to reach your emotional yugular gets discarded, which is silly because Radiohead or Bjork can be equally satisfying emotionally as Britney. :)

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Link Round-Up: Release the Charts Edition — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:59:41 +0000

[...] the songs that people are embarrassed about other people knowing they like or listen to them. As Paul points out, these are the guilty pleasure [...]

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Friday Afternoon Links VII-iii-2009 « Randy Gibson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:23:42 +0000

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By: tourist.tam

tourist.tam — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:53:18 +0000

Oh that’s cool, it’s not like people start to find classical (chopin, dvorak and the like) as uncool, just yet.

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Kill Ugly Radio » Elsewhere — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:58:58 +0000

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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:02:20 +0000

[...] Mitä musiikkia Last.fm käyttäjät eivät tahdo kuunnella? – Ja mitä se kertoo musiikin cooliudesta? [...]

By: julee

julee — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:29:48 +0000

Hi, this is a very useful and informative yet very “cool” post!

The measurement of musical expression is one of my specialities in musicology research, so you might consider that I am into quantitative stuff, by the way.

I, however, think how one perceives something or someone is cool / uncool is more of a subjective, qualitative and relative matter than of quantitatively measurable aspect. I also hear that LastFM has their own bias.

Let’s take a few examples. although I am a classical musician myself, I wouldn’t necessarily consider Chopin or Maxwell Davis as cool, but some might! I merely think that Chopin or Maxwell Davis could fit into a recital repertoire or a research topic, but that’s all! Similarly, some might consider Placido Domingo as cool (because of his cross-over works and so on), but would anybody consider Maria Calas as cool? My uncle would say that Sir Cliff is a pretty cool icon, but I wouldn’t. Do you see what I mean?

anyway, Cheers for a great post and I hope to see more of wonderful ideas here and beyond!