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Mariah Carey’s Game Of Whack-A-Mole Continues

mariahthatchick.jpgFollowing yesterday’s closure of the pop-centric MP3 blog Kevipod Music, which happened because the site posted a link to a snippet of Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body,” other sites hosted by Google’s free-blogging service Blogspot, like ALi’s Blog, have been subject to DMCA smackdowns as well, although with a little Googling you can see that sites that are independently hosted or on Wordpress.com have so far escaped Carey’s label’s wrath. MORE »

"Touch My Body"? Seriously? That's the best her writers can come up with? Will the next single be called "I Love You"?

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Mariah Carey Comes Down Hard On Music Blogger

mariahthatchick.jpgWhile trawling my RSS feeds, I found a post from the interminably cheery MP3 blog Kevipod Music that was decidedly different in tone than the site’s other posts. A snippet: “Sorry for the inconvenience, this was not hacked by any way or was it stolen from kevipod. I know most of you are concerned. Kevipod will be tried to be restored.” Going to the blog revealed that the site had been stripped of its pop-starlet-filled banners, and the “sorry” post was the only one on the site–because the original Kevipod Music had been taken down by Blogger after one too many DMCA complaints*. Which is probably not all that surprising, given the site’s penchant for linking to leaked copies of singles on ZShare and other third-party upload sites, but it still bummed out the 18-year-old Madrid resident, who took to another blog to plead his case: MORE »

What I don't understand is this thing about "I want my URL back! It's MY url!"

Umm, no. It's blogspot's. I mean, at least invest in a dedicated domain instead of being pwned by blogger/google.

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Janet Jackson’s “Feedback” had a small uptick in sales this week, meaning that it could actually move up the Hot 100 after stalling a few weeks ago. MORE »

As bad as things are generally for Janet these days, she's had an album rescued by a second single before.

Back in '97 The Velvet Rope was starting to ebb because of the weak radio performance of "Got 'til It's Gone" (still one of my favorite of her singles); Virgin didn't even release it as a U.S. single (the prevailing trend at the time), in hopes they could move lots of albums, but it wasn't a strong enough hit to pull that off. So in winter '98, they dropped "Together Again," complete with a single release, and it became her umpteenth No. 1 hit and revived the album.

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Ashlee Simpson’s forthcoming album has apparently been pushed back yet again, after being moved from last November. MORE »

Is the "hidden gem" going to be that crap one-off single from two years ago?

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Janet Jackson is apparently going to make her triumphant return to network TV on the 2008 Grammys, if this overly excitable backup dancer who talked to MTV Canada–because he’s from the Great White North, duh!–is to be believed. MORE »

I'm expecting it to fall too unlike Janet Jackson fans that go to every gossip site on the interwebs and call skeptical people "haters."

Back on-topic, Janet|Xone, what may be one of the better Janet Jackson fansites, confirmed that Janet will not appear at the Grammys...and their source was the always reliable Media Take-Out.

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Paula Abdul Is Not Really Making Her New Single Her Own

paulaaaaa.jpgARTIST: Paula Abdul
TITLE: “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow”
WEB DEBUT: Jan. 18, 2008 MORE »

Can't wait for that Katharine McPhee B-sides collection.

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In the latest attempt to save her increasingly doomed solo album, Nicole Scherzinger is going the “singing about her vagina over a vaguely ‘ethnic-sounding’ track produced by Akon” route. MORE »

Had her vagina been that huge, it would have been released first. This is either poorly chosen empowerment, or she has some horny dudes in her voting demographic.

'course the song could just be good, but hell, I refuse to listen.

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In the latest attempt to save her increasingly doomed solo album, Nicole Scherzinger is going the “singing about her vagina over a vaguely ‘ethnic-sounding’ track produced by Akon” route. MORE »

Had her vagina been that huge, it would have been released first. This is either poorly chosen empowerment, or she has some horny dudes in her voting demographic.

'course the song could just be good, but hell, I refuse to listen.

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Will a breathy, “ethnic”-sounding single with a title that will no doubt inspire a thousand “punani” jokes save Nicole Scherzinger’s Her Name Is Nicole? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean Jimmy Iovine won’t pour wayyyy too much money out of Interscope’s coffers in an effort to find out! MORE »

How is it that the Cassie of Interscope releasing three singles. Ah, OK.

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Will a breathy, “ethnic”-sounding single with a title that will no doubt inspire a thousand “punani” jokes save Nicole Scherzinger’s Her Name Is Nicole? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean Jimmy Iovine won’t pour wayyyy too much money out of Interscope’s coffers in an effort to find out! MORE »

How is it that the Cassie of Interscope releasing three singles. Ah, OK.

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