[i.munro]

I cannot get Jay-Z's current single out of my head 

not normally a bad thing but the stuck bit is Ms Keys bellowing the chorus.

questions :

do you think he specified tuneless bellowng or do you reckon that was her idea ?

why Empire state? what empire?

is anybody else having this problem?

[slackline]

do you think he specified tuneless bellowng or do you reckon that was her idea ?

Probably a combined effort.

why Empire state? what empire?

 

is anybody else having this problem?

No, I don't even know what tune you're talking about, todays music has consisted mainly of Surgeon, Andrew Weatherall, Evil Nine, Tocadisco, Ambivalent and Groove Armada (to drown out the whittering of my office co-habitors, who need to turn the volume down on their voice boxes!!!).

[i.munro]

 

Ah, of course!

[Jaspersharpe]

Bridget Kelly sings it much better than Alicia Keys. Great voice.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/jay-z/video/empire-state-of-mind-live-at-emas

[SA Chris]

why Empire state? what empire?

I assumed it was Jay-Z being dead clever like and combining Empire State Building with New York State of Mind and getting Empire State of Mind.

He's good at stuff like that.

[i.munro]

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I assumed it was Jay-Z being dead clever like and combining Empire State Building with New York State of Mind and getting Empire State of Mind.

Not on this occasion accoeding to wikipedia it's the state nickname like Florida is "the sunshine state" ?

[SA Chris]

Yes, but it is called the empire state building got it's name because it is in the empire state?

So both from the same place, essentially. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building