“I keep my friends around, try to stay close to them, try to treat them right. I try to stay in touch… — Rob Sheffield Friend Copy Share Image
She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high… — Rob Sheffield Beautiful Copy Share Image
Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about 'Express Yourself,' and she's turned Madonna's fourth-best single… — Rob Sheffield About Copy Share Image
But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs… — Rob Sheffield Attention Copy Share Image
“The country singers understand. It’s always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.… — Rob Sheffield Country Copy Share Image
“He said 'My kingdom is not of this world.' So did Bowie. It tapped into the whole Catholic idea of creating your… — Rob Sheffield Bowie Copy Share Image
“We want to freeze the perfect moment, hold on to it, at least long enough to understand it. But it dances on… — Rob Sheffield Astronomy Copy Share Image
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to… — Rob Sheffield Agony Copy Share Image
“You lose a certain type of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded… — Rob Sheffield Cynic Copy Share Image
That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of… — Rob Sheffield About Copy Share Image
'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on… — Rob Sheffield Dance Copy Share Image
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that… — Rob Sheffield Adulthood Copy Share Image
“In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in… — Rob Sheffield Clap Copy Share Image
Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just… — Rob Sheffield Drummer Copy Share Image
Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore… — Rob Sheffield Cheat Copy Share Image
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape.… — Rob Sheffield Better job Copy Share Image
“It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people… — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem… — Rob Sheffield Blanket Copy Share Image
“It started off as a playful fantasy we talked about. Then the fantasy became a plan, the way fantasies sometimes do, and… — Rob Sheffield Birthday Copy Share Image
The hottest trash-disco star in the world: Ke$ha! She has a lot in common with Kiss, actually, even spelling her name with… — Rob Sheffield Actually Copy Share Image
The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field… — Rob Sheffield Anchor Copy Share Image
“I've played the song for a lot of people who respond, 'Hmmmm, this is interesting,' but in a way it's more like… — Rob Sheffield Song Copy Share Image
“You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because… — Rob Sheffield Love Copy Share Image
Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena… — Rob Sheffield Arena Copy Share Image
“We couldn't believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We'd lived for just… — Rob Sheffield Favorite song Copy Share Image
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and… — Rob Sheffield Appetite Copy Share Image
Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News'… — Rob Sheffield Abc Copy Share Image
The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that… — Rob Sheffield About Copy Share Image
“I hate when people question my ability to get from one place to another without mutilating myself. It's tantamount to saying, "Try… — Rob Sheffield Death Copy Share Image
“You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether… — Rob Sheffield Life Copy Share Image
I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the… — Rob Sheffield Concerned Copy Share Image
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with… — Rob Sheffield Balls Copy Share Image
One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that… — Rob Sheffield After Copy Share Image
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way… — Rob Sheffield Claws Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested… — Rob Sheffield Anyone Copy Share Image
'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization… — Rob Sheffield American Copy Share Image
Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or… — Rob Sheffield About Copy Share Image
Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or… — Rob Sheffield Also Copy Share Image
You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from… — Rob Sheffield America Copy Share Image
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a… — Rob Sheffield Action Copy Share Image
