Not really understanding the lyrics you’re singing is apparently another thing that falls under the rubric of “just bein’ Miley.” An interview with Billy Ray Cyrus’ spawn reveals that the lyric in her Velveeta-and-Miracle-Whip single “Party In The USA” about hearing a Jay-Z song while in a taxicab is, shockingly, not based on real events. Someone else wrote that lyric, and she just did her job and warbled it through eighty layers of post-production. In fact, she’s never heard a Jay-Z song! Because she doesn’t listen to pop music! At all! Wait, what? MORE »
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If We Can’t Believe In The Idea Of Miley Cyrus Being In A Taxicab While A Jay-Z Song Was On, What Can We Believe In?
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The Music Business Will Probably Not Stop Believing In Oprah Anytime Soon
This week’s album charts are topped by Canadian crooner Michael Bublé, who rode Friday appearance on Oprah that was keenly titled to the release of his new album, Crazy Love, to the No. 1 spot. Bublé’s album sold 132,000 copies despite only being available for three days of the sales week, which we can probably attribute to the power of Harpo Productions’ founder. But further down the chart, another act showed that Oprah’s audience is fairly, shall we say, faithful to the music recommendations she gives! MORE »
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Amy Winehouse Backup Singer Works The “Viral” World
Let’s say you’re an R & B singer who has a new album coming out soon, and your greatest claim to fame is that you’ve worked with a chronically beleaguered pop star in the past. How to get people to know that you have an album coming out? How about getting your “pal” into a studio to record a pronunciation-challenged freestyle, making sure there’s a video camera nearby, and releasing it online with your own URL superimposed over the entirety of the clip? God, it would be genius if it didn’t seem icky, what with its inspiring classy comments like “somebody please fire this crack whore from celebrity status.” [YouTube / Zalon] MORE »
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The Music Industry Learns About Oprah’s Strength
Sales of Whitney Houston’s comeback album I Look To You boomeranged by 77%—to 156,000 copies—after her two-part interview on last week’s Oprah, which was full of juicy details about her drug use and marriage to Bobby Brown and lots of great opportunities to make amazing animated GIFs. The album’s sold 548,000 copies in its three weeks on shelves, which is not a shabby number for this age in which the Adult Contemporary charts that Whitney tailored her product to are almost as impenetrable as the nation’s mass consciousness about the fact that, yes, there is still new music being released these days, and some of it’s even for sale. After the jump, Whitney’s performance of the album’s Diane Warren-penned redemption song “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength.” MORE »
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Taylor Swift Is Sick Of Talking About The Video Music Awards, But Lil Mama Sure Isn’t
Unsurprisingly, the news cycle of Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift at the 2009 Video Music Awards stretched into a second week, with some morning-radio DJ pressing and pressing the issue during an interview with Swift while she primly asked him to please talk about something, anything else. He, being of the clueless mook ilk, refused, so finally, instead of letting him finish—during which the DJ was apparently going to ask Swift for a psychological evaluation of the design-conscious MC—she basically handed the phone to her publicist and said “you deal with him, because I sure don’t want to anymore.” This is the same young lady who everyone felt needed rescuing a scant eight days ago? Seems like she has at least some moxie. Clip after the jump. MORE »
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Is Susan Boyle’s Rolling Stones Cover Going To Save The Music Industry?
Given that I’m a little more interested in the weird Photoshop job that inserted the Simon Cowell-elevated singer Susan Boyle into the above tableau than her cover of “Wild Horses,” which was released yesterday via (sigh) Perez Hilton’s site, I’m going to say that this is a push. Preorder-related excitement aside, is a cover of one of the most covered Rolling Stones songs going to kick-start the record-buying impulse among a country of people who are increasingly averse to that sort of thing? I guess her appearance on tomorrow night’s America’s Got Talent finale will give us a hint. For now, a stream is after the jump. MORE »
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Will Oprah Save The Music Business?
I’ve long wondered if an “Oprah’s Music Club”—an analogue to her beloved-by-publishers Book Club, in which the talk-show host gives a tome her blessing, causing it to actually be stocked in stores in anticipation of sales going sky-high—would be a boon for the music business, particularly in this time of faltering sales and eternally delayed projects. Well, the new season of her signature show bows next week, and its first few episodes will certainly be a test of whether or not she can make her audience feel like buying music once again. MORE »
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Britney Spears To New York: “Stalk Me For Fabulous Prizes”
Pop supernova Britney Spears is hosting one of those Twitter scavenger hunt contests, with the grand prize being two front-row tickets to her show tonight at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The search’s object? Well, it’s apparently for the singer herself. (I know.) Lest you think that “find Britney Spears in New York” is a mission that’s dependent on one’s ability to come up with the right formula that employs the Starbucks site’s “search by store” function and one’s innate ability to detect the paparazzi’s signature scent of slightly musty desperation, she’s offering clues up via Twitter. The first one: MORE »
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Miley Cyrus Is Just Screwing With Everyone Now
On the heels of a controversy over whether or not Miley Cyrus was miming a striptease in her “tribute to Tennessee” at this week’s Teen Choice Awards comes… Hannah Montana-branded cherries. We’ll know that everyone’s having a laugh when the tie-in extends to Cyrus offering up her very own recipe for a cherry pie, I guess. [Dlisted] MORE »
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Can Janet Jackson Sell Magazines Better Than She Can Sell Records These Days?
According to reports, Harper’s Bazaar editor Glenda Bailey has decided that the October cover of her magazine will feature none other than Janet Jackson, despite the pop singer not gracing the cover of a fashion rag since the ill-fated 20 Y.O. era. Hmm? MORE »
