If you even glance at music blogs once a month, there is no way that you have not experienced the GaGa firestorm that has consumed pop music lovers around the globe. It is pretty staggering to see just how pervasive she has become in the span of a year, especially when you take into [...]
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If you want to talk about one of the classiest pop songs of the ’90s, you wouldn’t have to look any further than Annie Lennox’s debut disc Diva, which yielded several top 10 hits around the globe, although she just hit the Top 40 in the US with two singles. In fact, Diva only [...]
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Music videos have seen their better days in being able to help a song get a foothold in the marketplace, with only a few recent examples of ones that can be directly attributed with a song’s success (“Single Ladies”, anyone?). In most cases, the videos just seem like an afterthought or a mandatory exercise [...]
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Mr Hudson posted a video today of a Jay-Z show in London that he showed up at to sing “Young Forever”, a riff on Alphaville’s “Forever Young”. Here’s a clip of the chorus done a couple of times. You better bet that this will show up in a concert video or promotional video [...]
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Popjustice posted a pretty brilliant remix of Mini Viva’s “I Wish” today, and I listened to it several times this morning as I was getting ready for work. One of the great things about YouTube videos is that they also show you related videos, and through this I discovered a live performance of “I [...]
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So Kris, Adam, and Alison have all dropped their first singles, which meant that Danny Gokey’s first offering couldn’t be too far behind. Courtesy of MJ’s Blog, here is “It’s Only”:
If you want to see a perfect example of someone that is so desperate for fame that they will latch on to anything that [...]
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With a big ol’ h/t to Scopitone Saturday, here’s the new Mini Viva video for “I Wish”. SS notes that there has been a buzz about the track being as epic as GA’s “Untouchable”, and while I agree it doesn’t quite hit that height, this is a pretty solid second offering from MV, and worthy [...]
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With a big ol’ h/t to Scopitone Saturday, here’s the new Mini Viva video for “I Wish”. SS notes that there has been a buzz about the track being as epic as GA’s “Untouchable”, and while I agree it doesn’t quite hit that height, this is a pretty solid second offering from MV. Here’s hoping [...]
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Wow…how quickly was Adam absorbed into the corporate pop machine? “Time for Miracles”, from the upcoming movie 2012, is as slick a power soundtrack ballad as they come, and the video is as cheesy as you would expect. But it’s really about the song itself, and that song is pretty decent compared to [...]
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In an age where a successful tour is measured in terms of spectacle and bang for the buck, it is very easy to lose sight of what brought you and those artists together: the music. We want the biggest bang for our buck, and if anything even remotely doesn’t measure up to our expectations, [...]
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Our savior from the Black Eyed Peas juggernaut, Jay Sean, may have given up his hold on the top of the Hot 100, but “Down” is still just about everywhere I turn these past few weeks. I have watched the video a couple of times, but while watching it this morning on the VH1 [...]
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Did some major turf war break out in the UK? Well, no. This is what happens when I am stuck in traffic with Radio 1. While I was grooving to “Break Your Heart”, my mind started thinking about Taio’s chances here in the US, and that lead to fellow UK R&B crooners [...]
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You would think that with the collective damage that the Black Eyed Peas have done via their chart domination over the past six months, I would take a step back and avoid any BEP-related posts. Apparently, I am a glutton for punishment. Here is their new video for “Meet Me Halfway”, which finds [...]
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Two country-pop videos for you today. Video number one is a bonafide hit with a bizarre video to accompany it, courtesy of Carrie Underwood. She’s heading for the top of the country chart in no time at all, but honestly, what does this video have to do with a “Cowboy Casanova”?
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When I decided to write up a review of the new Blake Lewis CD Heartbreak on Vinyl, I did so with a bit of hesitation. Not only do I know several people in the blogosphere will be looking at this release quite closely, but also because I really loved his debut CD, and no one [...]
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- If you haven’t done so already, check out the contest to win one of three Noisettes CDs. The winners will be announced this weekend.
- Current songs that sound really good on the radio: Alphabeat’s “The Spell”, which is up on Radio 1 in advance of its release on October 18th, and REALLY needs [...]
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- If you haven’t done so already, check out the contest to win one of three Noisettes CDs. The winners will be announced this weekend.
- Current songs that sound really good on the radio: Alphabeat’s “The Spell”, which is up on Radio 1 in advance of its release on October 18th, and REALLY needs [...]
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Sometimes the musical blogosphere seems a bit detached from the rest of the world, because we seem to operate with our own agenda and timetable, and that doesn’t always match up with reality. A few months ago, you would have sworn that the new Pet Shop Boys was released worldwide, but the reality of [...]
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No, this isn’t a Hilary Duff flashback. This is a flashback to the mid-90s, when Toni Braxton ruled the Pop, Dance and R&B charts with hit after hit. She’s back after a few years away from the charts with “Yesterday”, her first single on Atlantic Records. At first listen, this song sounds [...]
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I’ve linked to them a couple of times, but one of the best pop sites out on the Web at the moment is Idolator, which did a pretty brilliant breakdown of country pop from the 90s and today, leading up to Taylor Swift’s recent #1 pop airplay hit “You Belong To Me”. Granted, she [...]
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