04 Thursday Jun 2015
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Billboard, Bitch I'm Madonna, dance music, funny, gay, Ghosttown Madonna, humor, Jimmy Fallon, LGBT, Madonna, music, music reviews, pop music, queer
12 Billboard #1 songs, 47 top 40 hits and 44 #1 dance songs…cause the gays love Madonna. The whole album is awesome, the Mike Cruz mix of Ghosttown BITCH I”M MADONNA
23 Tuesday Dec 2014
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American Horror Story, gay, gay blog, gay Miami, Hozier, Imagine Dragons, Jennifer Lawrence, LGBT, Matt Bomer, Meghan Trainor, music 2014, music reviews, Passenger
1. Take Me To Church – Hozier
2. Let Her Go – Passsenger
3. Stolen Dance – Milky Chance
4. Prayer in C – Lily Wood
5. The Hanging Tree – James Howard & Jernnifer Lawrence
Demons – Imagine Dragons
All About That Bass – Meghan Trainor
Habits – Tov Love
The Heart Wants What it Wants – Selena Gomez
Red Eyes – The War on Drugs
Bailando – Enrique Iglesias
Chandelier – Sia
Two Weeks – FKA Twigs
Seasons – Future Islands
Never Catch Me – Flying Lotus
No Fun – The Presets
Sunlight – The Magician
Night Changes – One Direction (haters gonna hate, but I love this song, reminds me of 70’s folk)
Slave to Love – Bryan Ferry (definitely not new, but one of my all-time favorites. I was delighted to hear it playing throughout thesce ne where Finn Wittrock picks up and then murders Matt Bomer, who was playing a gay prostitute in American Horror Story Freakshow).
18 Thursday Dec 2014
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gay, hip hop, LGBT, M.I.A., M.I.A. Madonna, M.I.A. super bowl, music, music reviews, Paper Planes, pop music, queer, Santigold, Slumdog Millionaire
My favorite song of 2007
Sometimes I think sitting on trains
Every stop I get to, I’m clocking that game
Everyone’s a winner, we’re making our fame
Bona fide hustler making my name
16 Sunday Nov 2014
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culture, dance music, EDM, fort lauderdale, gay, gay blog, LGBT, Miami, music reviews, queer, south beach, Stolen Dance Milky Chance, Waves Mr. Probz
Admittedly my club music knowledge isn’t what it once was, but I really like these 2 catchy cool tunes
16 Saturday Aug 2014
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All About That Bass, dance music, dating, funny, gay, gay blog, LGBT, Meghan Trainor, music, music reviews, pop music, relationships
I’m bringing booty back
Go ahead and tell them skinny bitches
Because I’m all about that bass
08 Friday Aug 2014
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1999, atlanta, dance music, gay, gay music, house music, LGBT, lifestyle, music, music reviews, new orleans, pop culture, queer, SM Trax
In the beginning there was House music
And House music had its own groove
And from this groove came the groove of all grooves
When one day some DJ’s declared
“Let this House be progressive”
And progressive house was born
26 Saturday Jul 2014
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One of my favorite all time songs
17 Tuesday Jun 2014
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alcohol, Baker Street, Bassmonkeys, cover songs, dance music, depression, DJ Ross & Marvin, gay, Gerry Rafferty, house music, Lady V, LGBT, Michael Mind, music, music reviews, Peyton, promiscuity, queer, remix, sex, the 70's, the 80's, The Fierce Collective, UK
The lyrics are about alcohol and depression, promiscuity, sex and “People with No Soul”
’”Baker Street”
Winding your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well, another crazy day
You’ll drink the night away
And forget about everything
This city desert makes you feel so cold
It’s got so many people, but it’s got no soul
And it’s taken you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything
You used to think that it was so easy
You used to say that it was so easy
But you’re trying, you’re trying now
Another year and then you’d be happy
Just one more year and then you’d be happy
But you’re crying, you’re crying now
Way down the street there’s a light in his place
He opens the door, he’s got that look on his face
And he asks you where you’ve been
You tell him who you’ve seen
And you talk about anything
He’s got this dream about buying some land
He’s gonna give up the booze and the one-night stands
And then he’ll settle down
In some quiet little town
And forget about everything
But you know he’ll always keep moving
You know he’s never gonna stop moving
‘Cause he’s rolling, he’s the rolling stone
And when you wake up, it’s a new morning
The sun is shining, it’s a new morning
And you’re going, you’re going home
07 Saturday Jun 2014
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Always a Woman to Me Billy Joel, atlanta, Casey Kasem, culture, Dancing in the Moonlight King Harvest, dating, gay, LGBT, lifestyle, love, music, music reviews, Night Moves Bob Seger, perspective, point of view, relationships, the 1970's
These songs take me back to a happy time, 7 years old, listening to Casey Kasem on American Top 40 and singing to myself…all alone in whatever trailer or apartment I was in, or at my Granny’s.
Night Moves – Bob Seger
Dancing in the Moonlight – King Harvest
Always a Woman to Me – Billy Joel
18 Sunday May 2014
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buy John's book $3.99, dance music, Dario G, dating, DJ, gay, house music, LGBT, Life in a Northern Town, music, music reviews, new orleans, pop culture, pop music, queer, relationships, sex, Sunchyme Dario G, tampa, the 80's, the Dream Academy, top 40
Sunchyme vs. Life in a Northern Town
08 Thursday May 2014
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alternative, Apple, atlanta, buy John's book, cover songs, dating, funny, gay, Gigantic commercial, Gigantic Iphone, Gigantic Pixies, humor, Iphone 5, LGBT, music, music reviews, Orlando, pop culture, relationships, sex, St. Petersburg, Steven Chicurel, tampa, The Pixies
This song, used in an Iphone commercial, is playing my head 24-7…the commercial version, a cover, sounds better than the original Pixies’ version.
04 Friday Apr 2014
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@thejohnjernigan, abortion, Ben Folds, Brick - Ben Folds Five, buy John's book $3.99, Columbine, culture, dating, Foster the People, gay, LGBT, love, music, music reviews, perspective, point of view, Pumped Up Kicks, relationships, sex, song meaning
Two of my favorite songs of the last decade. I would blithely sing along, thinking that Ben was kind of unhappy with his relationship, and that Foster the People had bought some new tennis shoes. Recently I have found out that Brick is about Ben and his girlfriend getting an abortion, and Pumped Up Kicks is about the shooting up of the singer’s school, like Columbine.
Brick
“Up the stairs to the apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They’re not home to find us out
And we drive”
Pumped Up Kicks
“Yeah, he found a six shooter gun in his dad’s closet
hidden with a box of fun things
I don’t even know what but he’s coming for you, yeah, he’s coming for you
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you better run, better run faster than my bullet”
02 Wednesday Apr 2014
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Sunrise vs. I Can’t Go For That
The same chill bassline…
26 Wednesday Mar 2014
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07 Friday Mar 2014
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Dolly Parton, Nina Simone and Miley Cyrus…three of my favorite people in the world
02 Sunday Mar 2014
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dating, fun., gay, Lesbian, LGBT, M.I.A., Madonna, music, music reviews, No one on the corner has swagger like us, Paper Planes, relationships, sex, Slumdog Millionaire, Sri Lanka
No one on the corner has swagger like us
24 Monday Feb 2014
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Nobody Loves Me, it’s true
19 Wednesday Feb 2014
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ATL, atlanta, Beyonce, Biggie, black culture, Brooklyn, Detroit, funny, gay, hip hop, humor, Jay-Z, LGBT, Michigan, music, music reviews, New York, R&B, racism, rap, the blacker the berry, the Bronx, the D, the struggle, thug life, Tupac, ya'll ain't bout dis life
tbaby represent, Tupac alive
ya’ll ain’t bout dis life
19 Wednesday Feb 2014
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atlanta, batty boy, dancehall, entertainment, fun., gay, Gyptian, Jamaica, Lesbian, LGBT, Marijuana, Miami, music, music reviews, Nicki Minaj, Patois, pop culture, Rasta, reggae, Usain Bolt, weed
Gyal me wann fi hold yuhhh
put me arms right arounddd ya
Gyal you give me the tightest hole me eva seen in my life
Gyal me wann fi just squeeze yahh
Put me ting right around ya
Gyal you give me the tightest hole me eva seen my life ohhhh
Me eye dem dry and me nuh care
Me tek it anytime and anywhere
Inna de spare
So we nuh care
And as a woman. I will be there
Mi want a girl who will take me away
Me want a gyal who can wine pon me
Wid it gooddd
And make me feel it
Show me that you could girl
Gyal me wann fi hold yuhhh
put me arms right arounddd ya
Gyal you give me the tightest grip me eva seen in my life
Gyal me juss wann fi holdd yahh
Put me ting all around ya
Gyal you give me the tightest hole me eva seen in my life
Like a fast bike pon di road vvruum rumm ruum
Climb pon di back and she a boom boom boom
Gimme a moggle run a di fat cu cuum cuum
Mi nuh ramp wid mi nozzel
mi a get my boom boom
She deh out a control
a mi first she want in har soul
she say more pon more
and still she groan
and still mi multiply more
Gyal me wann fi hold yuhh
put me arms right arounddd ya
Gyal you give me the tightest hold me eva seen in my life
Gyal me juss wann fi hold yuhh
put me arms right arounddd ya
Gyal you give me the tightest hold me eva seen in my life
Like a fast bike pon di road vvruum rumm ruum
Climb pon di back and she a boom
Gimme di moggle run a di cu cuum cuum
Mi nuh ramp when a time fi watch my pum
She deh out a control
a more fire she want in har soul
she say more pon more
and still she groan
and still mi multiply more
Gyal me wann fi hold yuhh
put me tinnngs right arounddd ya
Gyal you give me the tightest hole me eva seen in my life
Gyal me juss wann fi hold yuhh
put me arms right arounddd ya
Gyal you give me the tightest hold me eva seen in my life
Gyal me wann fi just squeeze yahh
Put me ting right around ya
Gyal you give me tightest hole me evaseen in my life
ohhhh
Me eye dem dry and me nuh care
Me tek it anytime and anywhere
Inna deh spere
So we na care
And as a woman I will be there
Mi want a girl who will take me away
Me want a gyal who can wine pon me
Wid it gooddd
And mek mi feel it
Show me that you could girll
Gyal me wann fi hold yuhh
put me arms right arounddd ya
Gyal you give me the tightest grip me eva seen in my life
Gyal me juss wann fi hold yahh
Put me ting right around ya
Gyal you give me tightest hole me eva seen in my life
My lifeee
12 Wednesday Feb 2014
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10 Monday Feb 2014
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Yo, yo, excuse mi baby, but I really just have to tell yuh this
It’s been awhile since I’m admiring yuh tenderness
Yuh Coca Cola bottle shape and all yuh cherry lips
A yuh alone? Mi waan fi hug love up and then mi kiss
And I waan fi show yuh, I’m a man dat’s very romantic
But yuh mi favorite true mi girl dat’s why mi never hitched
Nuh think, ah true yuh see mi now ah, yuh mi waan fi ship
But listen when mi sing this, nah tek fi kicks
07 Friday Feb 2014
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Budweiser Superbowl commercial, dating, gay, john jernigan, Let Her Go, LGBT, loneliness, love, music, music reviews, Passenger, perspective, point of view, sex
for Alan
Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you’ll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast
Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
‘Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
22 Wednesday Jan 2014
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14 Tuesday Jan 2014
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art, blues, buy John's book on Amazon, classical, culture, dating, folk, gay, gospel, inspirational, jazz, john jernigan, LGBT, love, Montreaux, music, music reviews, new orleans, Nina Simone, R&B, relationships, sex, Tampa Bay
One of my greatest loves, Nina Simone. Favorite of her songs include Sinnerman, Lilac Wine, Ain’t Got No/ I Got Life, Feeling Good, My Baby Just Cares for Me, Mississippi Goddam, I Put a Spell On You, Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood and Sugar in My Bowl (which I still want).
Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.Her musical style arose from a fusion of gospel and pop songs with classical music, in particular with influences from her first inspiration, Johann Sebastian Bach and accompanied with her expressive jazz-like singing in her characteristic contralto.
A civil rights message was standard in Simone’s recording repertoire, becoming a part of her live performances. Simone performed and spoke at many civil rights meetings, such as at the Selma to Montgomery marches.
Simone’s bearing and stage presence earned her the title “High Priestess of Soul.” She was a piano player, singer, and performer, “separately and simultaneously”. On stage, Simone moved from gospel to blues, jazz, and folk, to numbers with European classical styling, and Bach-style fugal counterpoint.
16 Monday Dec 2013
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15 Sunday Dec 2013
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blues, culture, dating, gay, gay blog, jazz, john jernigan, LGBT, love, music, music reviews, Nina Simone, relationships, sex, soul, Verve remixed
Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me… I cannot see clearly
Isn’t that she coming to me nearly here?
Lilac wine is sweet and heady where’s my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where’s my love?
Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn’t that she, or am I just going crazy, dear?
Lilac Wine, I feel unready for my love…
12 Thursday Dec 2013
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culture, dating, gay, gay blog, john jernigan, LGBT, music, music reviews, new wave, perspective, Pet Shop Boys, point of view, pop culture, queer, relationships, sex, the 80's
Go to work and take your calls
Hang the fruits of your labor on the walls
Such precision and care
What does it matter if there’s no one here to share
All I want is what you want
I’m always waiting for a red letter day
For something special, somehow new
Someone saying “I love you”
Baby, I’m waiting for that red letter day
12 Thursday Dec 2013
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10 Tuesday Dec 2013
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Adam Levine, Almighty mix, Blake Shelton, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Christina Aguilera, culture, gay, Hannah Jones, inspirational, john jernigan, music, music reviews, pop music, Tessanne Chin, The Voice
Sail on silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
08 Sunday Dec 2013
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A Great Big World, Alex & Sierra, culture, dating, Demi Lovato, gay, inspirational, john jernigan, Kelly Rowland, LGBT, music, music reviews, pop culture, relationships, Say Something, sex, Simon Cowell, The X Factor
Say something, I’m giving up on you
The Gay Road Less Traveled 