Ne-Yo will be the latest urban artist to cross over to the soap-opera world on May 21 and 22, when he performs on
All My Children; he'll be the featured musical entertainment at the wedding of two Pine Valley residents, and all won't go according to plan on the romance front, natch. What
will proceed the way the script intends is the cross-promotion for Ne-Yo's forthcoming album
Year Of The Gentleman, from which the evil genius crooner's wedding toasts will be drawn. "Stop This World" is described by the album's press release as "embracing Lennon and McCartney with the same vigor as Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson... [it] should be hailed as one of the most beautiful love songs in years," while the other track on the docket is "Closer," in which the production duo Stargate dispenses with its "Irreplaceable" strummed-guitar template and brings the Eurodisco tension. Oh, Ne-Yo, you really do know how to get me excited. A YouTube rip of "Closer" is after the jump.
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What was that discussion we were having yesterday about music videos being a profit sink for cable channels? I guess the higher-ups at Fuse, the Cablevision-run music network that's been slipping further down the "incoherent programming" slope every day, have been engaging in similar discussions in their overdecorated offices, since a casting call for a "dating game show" went out from the network earlier this week. Unlike the vapid surfer-bunny types who populate Next and Parental Control, though, Fuse is keeping it real by making this game show sort of about musicians, music trivia, and "people who love musicians" who can also name at least one member of the Beatles! (Reading the casting notice makes me think that first names only are probably OK.) Details after the jump.
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