Your Tuesday morning pick-me-up: “I made an edit of ‘Come Sail Away’ that takes out all of that tender, sensitive crap out and gets right to the ROCK.” Brought to you by the guy who Autotuned a baby and turned it into a song. You’re welcome! [the Matt Smith] MORE »
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Abe Sauer at The Awl visits Britney Spears’ show in Grand Forks, N.D., where the pop star has an $850,000 taxpayer-funded guarantee, and turns out a very good read on the concert business, the classist overtones that Spears mockery tends to have, and the betrayal of Bruce Springsteen. Recommended x 10. [The Awl] MORE »
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Lily Allen Gives Her Label The Fear By Claiming That She’s Quitting Music
Lily Allen has had something of a busy Internet week, starting a blog-clearinghouse for artists’ views on file sharing and getting into rows with “Everything Must Be Free For Me” types as a result of her saying that she kind of was not into the idea of people not paying for her record. Yesterday she put up a post on the site and had a throwaway line that piqued some curiosity: “Just so you know, I have not renegotiated my record contract and have no plans to make another record (applause).” What? MORE »
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Our friends at The Awl have debuted Ryan Adams’ video-game column, and it is a delight, looking back on the old-school console game Gorf while mulling over the possibility of Danzig and Whitesnake squaring off at an arcade. There’s also a video co-directed by Adams and his wife, noted Jandek enthusiast Amanda Adams (a.k.a. Mandy Moore). [The Awl] MORE »
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Drake The Latest Person To Long For The Pre-Internet Era
It’s been a long week (that isn’t over yet) and because of that, I think it’s a good time to shine a little bit of light on a recent blog post by Drake, the child-star-cum-hip-hop-heartthrob who’s been spending his injury-occasioned downtime thinking about the Internet, fame, and the crazy inferno of postmodernity: MORE »
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“American Idol” Auditions Inspire Much Blogging About Everyone Else’s Outsized Egos
Well-compensated American Idol host Ryan Seacrest is at the show’s tryouts in Denver today, and he let a somewhat surprising factoid about this year’s auditions slip via Twitter: The most popular song at this year’s cattle calls has been Miley Cyrus’ pseudo-inspirational bit of jangle-pop “The Climb,” even though it seems like it would be somewhat unfriendly to the showboating that traditionally gets contestants through to the pre-Hollywood round. (Would Miley get through a “singing competition,” ever? I ask you.) Anyway, to see if this claim bore out, I did a little digging through the blogs of people who have tried out for Idol in the past few weeks, and while I didn’t see a lot of Miley name-dropping, I did notice a common theme! MORE »
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In case you haven’t been sad enough about Michael Jackson’s death, his ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley has posted her thoughts about his passing to her blog: “At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, ‘I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.’ I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that. 14 years later I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears.” Much more at the link. [Lisa Marie Presley's MySpace Blog] MORE »
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To continue on the thread we started last night, Jeff Rosenthal at It’s The Real has posted a bunch of songs that sample other Michael Jackson tracks, as well as a few rarities. Among them: “All About The Benjamins (Remix)”; Lil’ Romeo’s “I Want You Back”-biting “My Baby”; and a demo Run-DMC recorded for Jackson that was neer included on a proper album. [Made-Up Memories] MORE »
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Hmm… the “follow me as I try out for American Idol” blog that I stumbled across last week hasn’t been updated since Saturday, when the singing blogger registered for the Chicago auditions. Those took place on Monday. Could this be a hint that the hopeful made it, or something more ominous? I hope she didn’t lose her voice during the seventh inning of Sunday’s Cubs game! [My Journey to American Idol Season 9 / Earlier] MORE »
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Ne-Yo Finally Putting On His Advice-Giver Hat
Earlier this year, I chatted with the R & B master Ne-Yo and I told him that he should put his considerable talent for pinpointing how people deal with the whole love-und-romance thing to work sharing his wisdom on all things romantic. Well, he’s finally taken some time out of his busy songwriting schedule and taken my advice, doling out a few thoughts on love, happiness, and the two possibly interacting on his blog. (OK, so I’m probably not the only person who let him know that he had quite a bead on the whole “love” thing and should let others in on it, but let a girl live with her delusions for at least a paragraph.) His post, after the jump. MORE »
