Mark Ronson and Boy George have created the best song and music video of this year. Watch this RIGHT NOW and I dare you to try not to cry. You will fail: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/video/download/00015155/Five years ago, I watched Boy George's E! True Hollywood Story with my late grandfather. Midway through the program, my grandpa said to himself, "He could have had it all. One of the most beautiful voices but he did too many stupid drugs." I had never thought about it but Boy George does have not only an emotive, and uncanny voice, but he also wrote some of the most beautifully melancholic dance songs of all time. Of course "Karma Chameleon" and "Do You Will Want to Hurt Me" have been thrown into the New Wave guilty pleasure collection, but at their heart, more so than any overrated Cure song, these songs are poetic confessions about loneliness. Sadly, pop culturalist have written more about his make up than his lyrics. Enjoying his fame, the lonely Mr. George confused drugs and leaches with love. In the last twenty-years, he's flipped floped from hipster London DJ and musical lyricist to drug addicted reality TV has been. Instead of jumping on a flight to LA to record Britneyesque tunes with Dr. Luke (I'm looking at you, Cyndi Lauper), Mr. George has collaborated with Mark Ronson on a song that doesn't hide anything. He blatantly says he's a has been that searched for love in all the wrong night clubs. He just wants "somebody to love" him. For someone who always hid behind makeup, it's compelling to hear him open up and not leave anything a secret. You HEAR HIS SADNESS. You HEAR HIM MELODICALLY ACHE. Now, go watch the brilliant video that combines his current state to his past, showing that the has been and the star are forever intertwined. He rose and fell for the same reasons. Perhaps, by revealing this flaw, he may finally take the place along Whitney Houston, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon that he deserves to have. I'm rooting for you, Mr. George, go get them, tiger!
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