{"id":51,"date":"2007-08-03T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-09-02T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:20:55","slug":"51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/51\/","title":{"rendered":"And now, the news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hope summer&#8217;s treating you well!<br \/>\nJust a few words from us &#8211; first of all Flunk are artist of the month on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auralgasms.com\">Auralgasms.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nClick the picture above to access their radio.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nancydrewmovie.warnerbros.com\/\">Nancy Drew movie<\/a> featuring our <strong>Blue Monday<\/strong> version (it&#8217;s also on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancydrewsoundtrack.com\/\">soundtrack<\/a>) premiered in the US in June, on Friday August 10 it&#8217;s in the theatres in Norway.<br \/>\nJust realised how the song is used in the movie. Here&#8217;s from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/19121635\/site\/newsweek\/page\/0\/\">review in Newsweek\/msnbc.com<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>Nancy&#8217;s ditched the hybrid and is back in a retro-cool 1959 blue roadster. She also wears outfits cut from vintage Butterick patterns. Yet she does Internet research, listens to Flunk on her iPod and attends ultrahip Hollywood High.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4118620a20777.html\">review in The Domonion Post<\/a> (New Zealand) is finding the scene slightly annoying:<br \/>\n<em>Even the anachronisms are out of whack in Nancy&#8217;s world. This kid drives a beautifully restored Nash Metropolitan, opines that &#8220;nothing sounds like vinyl&#8221;, and then downloads Flunk&#8217;s 2002 Blue Monday remake on to her oft-seen iPod: Product placement is always irritating, but it&#8217;s not usually completely nonsensical.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope summer&#8217;s treating you well! Just a few words from us &#8211; first of all Flunk are artist of the month on Auralgasms.com. Click the picture above to access their radio. The Nancy Drew movie featuring our Blue Monday version (it&#8217;s also on the soundtrack) premiered in the US in June, on Friday August 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,37,36],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-monday","tag-review","tag-soundtrack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}