{"id":190,"date":"2011-10-17T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2011-10-17T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:03:17","slug":"music-monday-tell-me-something-i-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Tell Me Something I Don&#8217;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I might have mentioned before that I love Selena Gomez. It&#8217;s true! I do. This was one of the first songs of hers that I heard. It&#8217;s featured in <em>Another Cinderella Story<\/em> and I highly recommend it for working out or just listening to it and feeling sassier. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_RRyniZG0Jo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I actually just watched that video for the first time and it is kind of weird. Selena is both a sexy maid and a sexy referee? What is happening?<\/p>\n<p>However, this, the official video, is not the version of the song I first heard. This is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fCVZoV3eEpQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did you listen to both? Did you catch the difference? Listen to the random rapper at 1:46. In the Disney version:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Selena hit the track, like a surfer making waves<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the original version?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Selena hit the track, like Katrina making waves<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Note: on this particular video there are completely mis-transcribed lyrics on screen. Trust me. It&#8217;s &#8220;like Katrina making waves.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, my friends and I listened to the original version a bunch and always laughed at that line. Was there seriously a Hurricane Katrina reference in this tween pop song? Or was it supposed to be a reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katrina_And_The_Waves\">Katrina and the Waves<\/a>? (Obscure, but less offensive.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we did some research and came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tell_Me_Something_I_Don%27t_Know#Tell_Me_Something_I_Don.27t_Know\">this from Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Tell Me Something I Don&#8217;t Know&#8221; by Selena Gomez was released as a single on August 5, 2008 on iTunes[11] and a Radio Disney version (which removes the Hurricane Katrina reference) was released on September 9, 2008, on iTunes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Controversial! Selena really is just like Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I might have mentioned before that I love Selena Gomez. It&#8217;s true! I do. This was one of the first songs of hers that I heard. It&#8217;s featured in Another Cinderella Story and I highly recommend it for working out or just listening to it and feeling sassier. I actually just watched that video for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=190\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music Monday: Tell Me Something I Don&#8217;t Know<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,124,108],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hurricane-katrina","tag-music-monday","tag-selena-gomez","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}