Adam Lambert’s entire extra-spacy album For Your Entertainment premiered today on his MySpace page, so you don’t have to wait til its release date next week to find out how outrageously orgasmic it turned out. (Answer: Very.)
We’re digging most of the album, though we could have lived without Lambert trying so hard to showcase his stylistic range (Idol’s over! You did fine! Move on.) The track Linda Perry co-wrote with Lambert, “A Loaded Smile,” is solid on its own, but we’re going to take a leap and assume the other ballads will be remixed for optimal club-friendliness.
But the most intriguing song on the album is the Lady Gaga contribution “Fever,” which has been seriously hyped since well before anyone even heard a note. Did Glambert do Gaga proud? Compare Adam’s version to Gaga’s original demo after the jump: MORE »
2:39 PM on Tue Nov 17 2009
By Becky Bain
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We’ve got the intergalactic album cover where he’s ripping off Kanye West’s metro (are people still saying metro, or is there some newer, cooler way to describe a fashionable straight man?) schtick. Then he stole his style from Michael Jackson while performing at a concert in New Jersey. Still latching onto the MJ craze right now, Brown is releasing a new song on his album called “Bad.” What, “Thriller” would have been too obvious? MORE »
3:54 PM on Thu Nov 12 2009
By Becky Bain
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Not only did Kelly Clarkson wear a completely goofy costume during her show in St. Charles, Mo., on Saturday night, she also dressed up her current single “Already Gone” as its Beyoncé-led doppleganger “Halo,” even engaging in some B-styled vocal acrobatics. Full-size pic and clip after the jump. MORE »
9:30 AM on Mon Nov 2 2009
By Maura
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The No. 1 Yankee fan of right now speaks on the ripple that “Death Of Autotune (D.O.A.)” caused, and how he was just trying to, like, save hip-hop from itself and stuff: “I really wanted to have the conversation, like ‘are we just going to sound like each other? Everyone’s going to sound the same? That’s what we’re gonna do? Don’t ya’ll know this is dangerous? And this is just how rock and roll got pushed from the forefront?’ We did this to rock and roll. Everyone was doing the hair-band thing on MTV with the tight pants. They all had the big hair, just different colored tights. It just became about more of a look and a sound than the emotion of the music. And that’s what hip-hop’s becoming. It’s losing the emotion — you can’t have emotion in the robotic voice. I can’t feel anything!” I like to think that when Jay-Z surveys the landscape (once it’s been scrubbed of his AutoTune-utilizing pals like T-Pain and Kanye, of course), a tear comes to his eyes, and all he can see is the video after the jump: MORE »
4:30 PM on Tue Oct 27 2009
By Maura
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Former Extreme Championship Wrestling boss Paul Heyman has taken to his Web site to decry the similarities between the cover for Rihanna’s new single “Russian Roulette” and the artwork for 1998’s ECW: Extreme Music, which featured contributions from the likes of Motörhead, Megadeth, and White Zombie. The charges? MORE »
12:15 PM on Thu Oct 22 2009
By Maura
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As it turns out, the new Michael Jackson song that was released earlier today—entitled “This Is It,” to coincide with the imminent concert film of the same name—is a retitled, only slightly reworked version of “I Never Heard,” a track that Jackson and ex-teen idol Paul Anka wrote in 1983 that was later recorded by the freestyle singer Sa-Fire. Anka, as you might expect, is really not happy about this, especially since his name has been erased from the new track’s list of composers! “They will be sued if they don’t correct it,” Anka told the New York Times. He also shed some light on the song’s origins! MORE »
6:15 PM on Mon Oct 12 2009
By Maura
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Oh, come on, like I was the only one whose first thought upon seeing the overly self-impressed singer’s ginormous “KISS ME NOW” necklace was “Lacroix, sweetie… people will think ‘wow, it’s a Lacroix.’ ” (I guess that makes me the Saffron of this situation?) [Buzznet / AbFab screencap via YouTube] MORE »
5:00 PM on Wed Oct 7 2009
By Maura
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As if the instant denouement that greeted Guns N’ Roses long-in-the-works Chinese Democracy wasn’t sad enough, now comes the news that German electro-gaze composer Ulrich Schnauss is suing GNR frontman Axl Rose, along with Interscope-Geffen-A&M and a few people who have been associated with the Guns brand in recent years, for copyright infringement. Schnauss and two labels that distribute his work claim in the lawsuit that the track “Riad N’ The Bedouins” ripped off not one but two of his compositions, and as a result they want a million dollars in damages. Clips of all three tracks, after the jump! MORE »
12:00 PM on Tue Oct 6 2009
By Maura
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With the release of their first album since bringing in new frontman William DuVall, Black Gives Way To Blue, the dark Seattle rock band Alice In Chains has been making the promotional rounds lately. And a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! made one fan of dark Seattle bands wonder: Did Alice In Chains borrow from Nirvana — specifically, the Nevermind track “Polly” — when sitting down to hash out their new song “Your Decision”? Let’s go to the videotape! MORE »
9:30 AM on Tue Oct 6 2009
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The UK pop trio Sugababes, whose lineup was realigned last week when founding member Keisha Buchanan was swapped out for former UK Eurovision rep Jade Ewen, have rush-reworked their RedOne-produced single “About A Girl.” The techno-leaning, truncheon-like track—which is the second single from their forthcoming American makeover album Sweet 7—had already been released under the Keisha lineup. You know what this means, right? We can all compare Sugababes 3.0 and Sugababes 4.0 directly, thanks to the magic of YouTube! Clips after the jump. MORE »
12:00 PM on Mon Sep 28 2009
By Maura
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