today's rant: what are you doing on stage?

to start, let me apologize.  the subject matter of which i will type the following words is based on jingle ball 2011, a whopping two months ago.  i honestly have no idea why it took me two months to work up an obvious gripe.  you good people deserve better than that.

for those who do not know, one of the most popular radio stations in the tri-state area is z100.  they are a top-40 pop music radio station.  it is my observation that they are the cause for most of my music gripes for the past 10 years.  the biggest of the gripes is playing the same musician hour after hour after hour after hour.  unfortunately for me, this behavior has been picked up by the local and smaller radio stations, saturating my radio dial with tweeny-bopping bullshit.

ok, time to get back on track.  every december, z100 has a concert at madison square garden called "jingle ball", which usually headlines one or two major top-40 music acts.  for the past two years, parts of the concert have been broadcasted 10 days after the concert on the fuse music channel.  two music acts on the line-up this year were pitbull and david guetta.  i have heard pitbull on the radio backing up the likes of j lo and enrique.  he compliments the songs nicely.  however, because of this, when i saw the replay of jingle ball, all he did was play other people's songs and then sing his part.  one minute tops.  of course, they have to play the hook in the song so the audience can sing along, but he just stood there, movin his shoulders and arms for seconds on end not really doing anything.  i wish i could get paid to do that.  when it came to david guetta, he played his "without you" song.  i mean this literally.  he took the record and played it on a turntable.  he stood there behind his booth in front of thousands of prepubescent girls and danced to the vinyl disc turning around and around.  oh, what an enthusiastic performance.  what the fuck is he getting paid for?  i can push the "play" button as well as the rest of them.  what scares me is that for all we know, he was naked from the waist down.

i don't care that whitney houston is dead.  bets now being taken for cause of death.