January 15, 2009

Drop it

Most pop music writing comes with a past-due date on its phraseology, but the cliche that stands out as the most consistently irritating to me — not to mention bizarrely physiological — is the phrase “album drops,” as in “the album drops this month.” Why does a record release share a category of action with testicles, placentae and excrement?

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