The Village Voice, August 29th, 2007
On the bewildering summertime dominance of Tay Zonday and R. Kelly
The New York Times sounded bummed last month when it crowned Rihanna's "Umbrella" as Song of the Summer, perhaps crestfallen that there was no real contender to the throne. Sure, the strains of i/mbre77a-e/7a-e/7a-ay-ay-aysaturating the radio waves neatly coincided with a season of freak flooding in both London and New York City (and Minnesota and Denmark and . . .), but a lithe Bahamian announcing that "It's raining more than evah" doesn't quite do away with the summertime blues.
Yet earlier this month, no less a pop-culture...
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