Almost Gold? Try Solid Gold!!! Peter, Bjorn & John’s Young Folks Kick off ‘Gossip Girl’ Premiere
DAMN cuz. Syndication, meet your new outlet for songs we were psyched about, 9 months ago minimum = Gossip Girl! I gotta admit I feigned sickness and stayed in for the night (sorry Black Lips) thanks to Gawker’s enthusiasm for the new CW production, which, BTW, is effing awesome. Props for actually filming it in the city too- no Felicity flubs here. One thing though. How does one vanish from the city ‘to boarding school in Conneticut?’ That, by my calculations, is like 3 stops on Metro North. 40 minutes by car TOPS? It’s not like getting shipped off to Gstaad people… Or NH for that matter.
Ok ok, onto the inevitable first episode playlist: Young Folks by Peter, Bjorn and John unfurls along with the requisite cityscape; What Goes Around by Justin Timberlake; Back to Black by Amy Winehouse; Hang Me Up to Dry by the Cold War Kids; and somewhere in the mix I swear I heard Something to Believe In by Aqualung. Conspicuously absent from inside the episode? Fergie’s ‘Glamorous.’ Ok ok I know I’m missing the track from the party, along with some others, but I gotta get back to my deadlines. SPOILER ALERT *Here is an interactive map* that contains juicy tidbits about episodes 1 thru 5.
PS WTF? This was supposed to be a post on Almost Gold! Sigh. Shout out to Calvin and Walter Meego anyway…….
PPS WTF x a billion : in an effort to soothe my sudden craving out of left field for a JT mp3, I stumbled across this mashup which quite frankly, DJ ShyBoy is pulling off quite nicely (let’s face it, who hasn’t tried to mash something into ‘Around the World’ at one point or another and failed massively: