Loading ...To prepare for the Cleveland Indians’ playoff opener against the (sigh) Yankees this evening, the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Chuck Yarborough has put together a compendium of the players’ at-bat music picks, complete with YouTube/MySpace links and “funny” commentary on each song. (In response to Jhonny Peralta’s selection of Daddy Yankee’s “Impacto,” Yarborough writes: “Domo Arigato Mr. Impacto.” Don’t you just love when big media gets bloggy?)
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50 Cent’s Latest Collaborators Not Really Helping Elevate His Status
Tue Aug 14 2007 by Maura
Oh, 50. We know you want to get a lot of exposure before Curtis’ Sept. 11 release date, and we’re sure that the idea of doing a song for ESPN’s Saturday night college-football telecasts seemed like a good way to pump up your “brand awareness” among the jock-jam crowd. More »
Jon Bon Jovi’s Support For Arena Football Extends To Sample-Clearance World
Wed Jul 18 2007 by Maura
Meet Reggie Stephens, who also goes by the name Famouz; a former player for the New York Giants and the Arena Football League’s Nashville Kats, Famouz became, er, sorta famous today for being the first person to legally sample a Bon Jovi song on a hip-hop track. More »
Hapless Baseball Team Shows Fans Its Sad, Sad Playlist
Tue Jun 12 2007 by Maura
If there’s one baseball tradition that should be messed with as little as possible, it’s the seventh-inning stretch, when fans can stand up, try to get their last beer of the evening, and belt out “Take Me Out To The Ballgame.” But that’s what the Kansas City Royals–currently trying to stave off their fourth straight 100-loss season–are in the mood to do. In what’s clearly an attempt to distract their fans from more headlines about “rebuilding,” they’ve launched a competition to select their new seventh-inning stretch song. And not to get all Project X, but we have to run down the team’s list of candidates, which not only reads to us like a DJ’s “Un-Super Sweet 16″ playlist, it inadvertently highlights the team’s struggles:
David Wright’s At-Bat Music: What, No “This Is Why I’m Hot”?
Fri Mar 23 2007 by Maura
One of our favorite aspects of the start of baseball season, aside from, of course, the games: The possibility of new at-bat songs, those 30-second musical snippets that herald a home-team player’s arrival on the field. Mets third baseman David Wright has been agonizing about his choices for this season during most of Spring Training, and with good reason: How can you improve on the opening skronk-blast of “Brass Monkey,” one of the songs Wright used last year?
Anyway, the Mets have decided to open voting on this matter to the fans, listing 60 songs that will eventually be narrowed down to a final four. While some of the candidates are almost as horrific as “Our Team, Our Time,” we came up with a four-pack that’ll serve David through the season’s doggiest days, and threw in a write-in for good measure:
NFL Already Worried About Super Bowl XLII Halftime Show
Mon Feb 26 2007 by Maura
The NFL is apparently figuring that there’s only one way to top this year’s completely epic performance by Prince at this year’s Super Bowl, and that’s to bring in The Boss. From Variety:
Bruce Springsteen and Norah Jones are at the top of the list. The NFL is hoping the recent successes of Prince, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney can be used as leverage to bring in the Boss while Jones would be ideal to sing the National Anthem during the pregame ceremonies, according to NFL VP of programming Charles Coplin. More »
Gett Off (The Air): Rejected Super Bowl Halftime Show Ideas
Fri Feb 2 2007 by idolguest3
More than a few eyebrows went up after the NFL announced Prince as the halftime performer for Super Bowl XLI–not just because it’s been merely three years since Janet’s little friend said hi to the TV people, but because most of the billion-plus viewing audience is probably expecting some form of actual royalty to hit the stage, instead of the guy who once sang “People call me rude, I wish we were all nude.” Idolator was lucky enough to snag an internal memo between the NFL and CBS in which clueless-yet-inventive entertainment coordinators and PR flacks attempted to concoct some alternative options for the Purple One’s performance. After the jump, see the highlights.
Ron Artest Wants You To Know That His Heart Will Go On
Wed Nov 22 2006 by Maura
Sacramento King-slash-MC Ron Artest revealed his sensitive side in an interview with The Smoking Section , where he praised Nelly for not “talking about killing people” and gave a certain breast-beating Canadian some love: Give us an artist/group from another genre that you’d like to collabo. More »
“Centerfield” Singer Attempts To Rack Up More Frequent-Flyer Miles For Football
Fri Nov 17 2006 by Maura
Some people will do anything to make sure they don’t miss any of Thursday’s NFL offerings. Take John Fogerty, who’s actually going to brave Thanksgiving travel and hit two of that day’s three halftime shows: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty will be flying around the country to make… More »
Idolator Asks: Were You The Person Who Bought Ron Artest’s Album?
Thu Nov 9 2006 by Maura
According to SoundScan, the Sacramento Kings’ Ron Artest sold one–that’s right, one*–copy of his album, My World, in its first week on the shelves. The XXL columnist who pointed out this statistic is calling for a SoundScan recount, but we’d like to launch a search for this person. More »
