Still from a television advertisement for soap, 1965

Today’s transcript consists of selected outtakes of an email roundtable on Lady Gaga between Michael Hardy, Aileen Kwun, Richard Funkhouser and Zachary Sachs. A longer commentary will appear in the first issue of Ply.

Birdman, “Money to Blow” f. Drake, Lil Wayne. Cash Money, 2010.
Directed by Gil Green pretending to be Hype Williams.

Today’s Transcript originally appeared on The Knoblr.

Zachary Sachs: I dunno how I feel about Drake.

Alex Naidus: yeah people i talk to are torn. i turned a corner with him at some point. hard to put my finger on it. i completely understand some people’s apathy. he just passes my very rudimentary “will i download this no name person’s single from nahright if there’s a __ cameo on it” test. the beats on that birdman album though. fuck’s sake.

Zach: It’s sort of an album, for chrissakes.

Detail from an ABC magazine advertisement, 1980s

In our new feature, Transcript, we just paste in conversations instead of actually writing. Today, Andrew Romano (Newsweek) and Zachary Sachs chat about Personal and the Pizzas’ “I Don’t Feel So Happy Now No More” (Rob’s House, 2009).