Tag: review
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Left Ogres: Anatomy of a Shrek Song

An Expedition Through the Cultural Swamp in Search of Happily Ever After Cinematic Swamp Sounds This shouldn’t surprise you, but Shrek, based on the 1990 children’s book by William Steig, is the second highest grossing animated film franchise of all time. From the movies themselves, to the decades-long avalanche of schlocky merchandise, to its horrendous…
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“It’s 2003, And Where Do You Wanna Be?”

Revisiting Smash Mouth’s Get The Picture? OK. I found this CD at the bottom of a drawer in my childhood bedroom on a visit to my parents’ house one weekend. You have to understand, I listened to this album a lot when it dropped. I was in second or third grade, and I was at…