Studs and a Song #5 _ "Sweater Weather" (The Neighbourhood)

Today's Song Selection:

"Sweater Weather" - The Neighbourhood

Studs and a Song #4 - "Grown Woman" (Beyoncé)

Today's Song Selection:

"Grown Woman" - Beyoncé

Studs and a Song #3 - "Go Kindergarten" (The Lonely Island)

Today's Song Selection:

"Go Kindergarten" - The Lonely Island feat. Robyn

Studs and a Song #2 - "Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools" (DENA)

Today's Song Selection:

"Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools" - D E N A

For more music, visit my pop music website, Vertigo Shtick

Studs and a Song - "Royals" (Lorde)

Hello all, I'm back from...let's call it a summer vacation so it sounds intentional. Of course, there's still a good deal more summer left yet (or winter, if you're on the bottom side of the globe), and I'm here to provide the meat to go along with the sizzling heat (or to bring some your way, if you're on the bottom side of the globe)! Just for fun, I thought for the month of August I'd try out some semi-themed posts according to the day of the week. Here's the lineup:

Mon: Men in the Mirror
Tues: Tattuesday
Wed: Wild Card
Thu: Togetherness
Fri: Favorites
Sat & Sun: Studs and a Song

As you'll see below, on weekend days I'll be adding a little extra something along with the hot dude photos, to tie into my other life as a pop music blogger. My website, Vertigo Shtick, is a mix of news, reviews, commentary, interviews, and fun tidbits about pop music, with the overall goal of approaching pop music as something worthy of actual criticism and discussion. In other words, I write lots of interesting think pieces about Britney Spears. If that at all stirs your curiosity, I very much invite you to come by and take a look at it!

Regardless, I have little doubt that you might at least get something out of these posts, as I would go so far as to say I'm as adept at picking hot music as I am hot men, so if you like my taste in male models and photography I daresay you might like my taste in music too, if you try! And if you do find something you like, please let me know!

Today's Song Selection:

"Royals" - Lorde

I Put My Headphones On, Got My Hands in My Pocket

Check out the bottom of the post for a little extra theme-related treat, courtesy of my other life as a pop music blogger :)

Killing Me Softly With His Song

This past weekend was an exciting one for me blogwise, as my new pop music blog Vertigo Shtick (which unlike the enjoyable if non-original collections on the Adonis Blogs consists mainly of my own original content) moved from its startup Blogspot address to its very own domain, VertigoShtick.com on Sunday, the same day the blog's Fan Page debuted on Facebook. This coming Sunday I will be a panel member for the yearly Oscar simulcast panel show by BBC Radio 5 Live programme "Up All Night," on which I will be introduced as a pop culture/entertainment blogger. As it is the most listened-to "Up All Night" broadcast of the entire year, that means that a healthy number of insomniac Brits and particularly anglophilic Americans will be told about the blog and encouraged to pay it a visit. Well, I couldn't get over how unprofessional it would sound to list my blog at anything other than its own domain, so I took the plunge, and am looking forward to learning if it pays off any dividends in traffic, even minor ones.


Since it feels like a good time to step up promotion of the blog (which will adopt a more aesthetically and organizationally pleasing website form in May of this year), I thought it might be wise to introduce the several thousand daily visitors to the Adonis Complex blogs to Vertigo Shtick in hopes that some might take a peek and like what you see there as well! But since I would never eschew the topic of this blog for the sake of my other, I felt it appropriate to promote the pop music blog within a post of some of the hunkiest pop stars of yesterday and today - sadly, there are not nearly as many as one might think, but we'll make do! After all, who cares if 98 Degrees is no longer together when we can still reminisce about their hot shirtless album photo (below) or just the overall hotness of singer Nick Lachey (above), who famously went on to become the ex- Mr. Jessica Simpson?


Of course, there's my favorite boy-bander photo of all time, from Justin Timberlake's Rolling Stone cover shoot of the early 2000s.


And gay or straight, the one thing not ambiguous about Latin sensation Ricky Martin was always his painfully good looks...



Speaking of Latin lovers, how about Enrique Iglesias, in my opinion one of the hottest male pop singers in history?



And finally, it's sometimes easy to forget that before Mark Wahlberg was an Oscar-nominated actor and father, he was the pants-dropping little brother of a New Kid on the Block by the name of Marky Mark. The beautiful-bodied stud who dedicated his 1992 book Marky Mark to "my cock" also became further known from his 1992 Calvin Klein underwear campaign.





So if that all isn't enough to earn a visit from you to VertigoShtick.com, I feel sorry for your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend, because you are impossible to win over!

Jeans Jingles!

As I was thinking up a title for my second "jeans"-themed post, I realized that not only do I have a plethora of photos of hunks in jeans, I can think of quite a number of songs I enjoy in which "jeans" appear at least once, albeit often in the most oblique of ways. But surely my readers can think of even more, and I can make this into a fun weekly post that brings not only visual but aural enjoyment as well, wherein each post will include a new such song for your listening pleasure!

And since my first choice has yet to become available on Lala.com and I haven't yet mastered another way to embed songs on here, I hereby give you the first of the Jeans Jingles: the fantastic single "Konichiwa Bitches," by the Swedish pop goddess Robyn. Enjoy!

Konichiwa Bitches - Robyn

 

 So if you can think of more fun songs with "jeans" in the lyrics, leave a comment! This'll be fun!

        

Buy the single here:














r just get the whole amazing album (titled, uniquely, "Robyn") here, and you won't be sorry.

1, 2, 3 Thursday

Oh, Britney. She just keeps getting better. And how poetic is it that her (long overdue!) third song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was the whimsical, sexy/slutty, relentlessly exhilarating throwaway single released to promote her second hits collection (appropriately entitled "The Singles Collection," which you can purchase for a paltry $11.99 on Amazon!), the Max Martin-produced "3?" (An mp3 of the hot single is available for $1.29 on Amazon as well...I swear I don't work for them or even get anything from hocking the Spears, I just love her so.)


I can't wait to see the video (which apparently features the Princess of Pop performing new - and legit - choreography after her abundantly sensual if mildly disappointing dance-free video for "Radar").


To tide us all over, I dedicate this post to the Ringmaster herself and her third #1; may there be many, many more to come.