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<blockquote data-quote="muzikfrk" data-source="post: 5751">Hello, everyone. Maura here. It&#039;s my first day in the editor&#039;s seat, and what better way to introduce my tenure than with the video for <a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/amerie/" target="_blank">Amerie</a>&#039;s summer-single-in-waiting &quot;Gotta Work&quot;--even if I have serious misgivings about all the Pussycat Dolls biting, a.k.a. the obvious attempt to <a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/amerie/a-please-release-me-special-the-amerie-album-is-still-mia-in-the-usa-272149.php" target="_blank">get her record noticed on these shores</a>? (Here&#039;s hoping there&#039;s an alternate &quot;headbanging in front of bucket-drum-players&quot; version of the clip floating around somewhere.) Anyway, things will be in a state of semi-flux around here for the next few weeks: people should be permanently installed around me soon; a redesign similar to the one <a href="http://www.gawker.com" target="_blank">other</a> <a href="http://www.defamer.com" target="_blank">Gawker</a> <a href="http://www.gizmodo.com" target="_blank">sites</a> have undergone will be put in place here early this week; and any first-person references will probably be in the singular now, although I have to say that after ten months, the semi-royal &quot;we&quot; is a tough, tough writing habit to break. But I&#039;m really excited about the terrific parade of guestbloggers coming on board to assist me, beginning with <a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/dan-gibson/" target="_blank">Dan Gibson</a> today. One thing that hasn&#039;t changed: You can keep sending tips to <a href="mailto:tips@idolator.com">the usual address</a>. Also, the crabby &#039;90s nostalgia will still be painfully high, if a bit more tinged with finds like <a href="http://lovehate.com/" target="_blank">this</a>: the entire <a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/love%5Chate/" target="_blank">Love/Hate</a> catalog, available as free MP3s. (Black Out In The Red Room did come out in 1990, after all.) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MsTWvaLwFc&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Famerieweb%2Ecom%2Fnewsmag%2Ephp" target="_blank">Amerie - Gotta Work [Offical Video]</a> [YouTube, via <a href="http://www.amerieweb.com" target="_blank">AmerieWeb</a>]<a href="http://lovehate.com/" target="_blank">love/hate rock band love/hate everything lovehate metal lovehate</a> [Official site]<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?a=Mg5RBV" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?i=Mg5RBV" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a><a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/announcements/a-note-from-the-new-editor-waking-up-at-the-crack-of-dawn-because-i-love-it-274070.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="muzikfrk, post: 5751"] Hello, everyone. Maura here. It's my first day in the editor's seat, and what better way to introduce my tenure than with the video for [URL="http://idolator.com/tunes/amerie/"]Amerie[/URL]'s summer-single-in-waiting "Gotta Work"--even if I have serious misgivings about all the Pussycat Dolls biting, a.k.a. the obvious attempt to [URL="http://idolator.com/tunes/amerie/a-please-release-me-special-the-amerie-album-is-still-mia-in-the-usa-272149.php"]get her record noticed on these shores[/URL]? (Here's hoping there's an alternate "headbanging in front of bucket-drum-players" version of the clip floating around somewhere.) Anyway, things will be in a state of semi-flux around here for the next few weeks: people should be permanently installed around me soon; a redesign similar to the one [URL="http://www.gawker.com"]other[/URL] [URL="http://www.defamer.com"]Gawker[/URL] [URL="http://www.gizmodo.com"]sites[/URL] have undergone will be put in place here early this week; and any first-person references will probably be in the singular now, although I have to say that after ten months, the semi-royal "we" is a tough, tough writing habit to break. But I'm really excited about the terrific parade of guestbloggers coming on board to assist me, beginning with [URL="http://idolator.com/tunes/dan-gibson/"]Dan Gibson[/URL] today. One thing that hasn't changed: You can keep sending tips to [EMAIL="tips@idolator.com"]the usual address[/EMAIL]. Also, the crabby '90s nostalgia will still be painfully high, if a bit more tinged with finds like [URL="http://lovehate.com/"]this[/URL]: the entire [URL="http://idolator.com/tunes/love%5Chate/"]Love/Hate[/URL] catalog, available as free MP3s. ([I]Black Out In The Red Room[/I] did come out in 1990, after all.) [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MsTWvaLwFc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Famerieweb%2Ecom%2Fnewsmag%2Ephp"]Amerie - Gotta Work [Offical Video][/URL] [YouTube, via [URL="http://www.amerieweb.com"]AmerieWeb[/URL]] [URL="http://lovehate.com/"]love/hate rock band love/hate everything lovehate metal lovehate[/URL] [Official site] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?a=Mg5RBV"][IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?i=Mg5RBV[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [url=http://idolator.com/tunes/announcements/a-note-from-the-new-editor-waking-up-at-the-crack-of-dawn-because-i-love-it-274070.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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