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Akon Is Really Taking His “Best Internet Act” Award Seriously
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“Don’t Forget The Lyrics” Has A Billy Vera Moment
One reason I love Google Trends: It allows me to keep up with Don’t Forget The Lyrics while not having to watch the show, thanks to the many searches for strings like “thriller lyrics” and “hit the road jack lyrics” and “movin on up lyrics” (sadly not for the awesome Primal Scream song). No. 7 on the list at this moment is, uh, “At This Moment” by Billy Vera and the Beaters, a song that I have a probably disproportional affection for thanks for a) the way it’s kind of the perfect slow-dance song and b) its introduction to the American populace via Family Ties, which was one of my favorite shows as a young lass and which I actually credit with a few personal musical epiphanies. I mean, do you remember when Nick wanted “Lola” as his wedding song? Once those Raincoats reissues came out I liked to think that he actually wanted their cover of the Kinks song playing, and not the original. MORE »
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Bret Michaels’ Version Of “Cum On Feel Tha Noize” Is Out Of Time (But It Makes Some Money Anyway)
Last night, Bret Michaels continued his run of TV exposure with an appearance on Don’t Forget The Lyrics, a show that, I admit, I would probably completely suck on because I am the queen of making syllables up to fit the words of certain songs. He gave up after being tripped up by the pre-chorus to Slade’s “Cum On Feel Tha Noize,” a song which he claims he can get right when he’s in his car. But can he get the melody right? Because there was a run of pretty rough notes there at the beginning. Cleanse your ears with Kevin DuBrow’s interpretation of the track, which is after the jump. MORE »
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“Don’t Forget The Lyrics” Flexes Its Soundscan Muscle
The top tier of this week’s album chart was pretty grim, thanks to a post-Grammy hangover that resulted in people promptly forgetting that they could easily buy albums by the likes of Jack Johnson (No. 1, off 42%), Alicia Keys (No. 2, off 51%) and Amy Winehouse (No. 3, off 55%). But lurking in its middle reaches was yet another testament to the power of televised music: Boyz II Men’s Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA shot up from No. 182 to No. 62 on a 157-percent sales gain, one derived in large part from the group’s appearance Thursday night on the Fox game show Don’t Forget The Lyrics, which featured them performing songs from the new album. Oh, if only music programming wasn’t such a ratings disaster, the music industry would be able to fix itself but good! MORE »
“Don’t Forget The Lyrics” Brings In Ringers
I noted during last night’s Idol eliminations that the harmonizers of Boyz II Men would be on Don’t Forget The Lyrics, the song-remembering game show that sends its viewers rushing to Google during its commercial breaks. MORE »
Googlers Want To Know: “Why Is That Boy With The Weird Glasses Singing About Superman?”
Google’s year-end wrapup of search trends–the Google Zeitgeist–came out last night, and in addition to finding out that Hannah Montana fans are much more likely to use search engines than Rolling Stones fans and that people were more interested in learning about emo than about gout, the search engine compiled its list of the 10 most popular lyrics searches this year: MORE »
“Don’t Forget The Lyrics” Really Needs To Come Out With A Home Game Soon
From Google Trends at around 10 p.m. ET last night, or right after Don’t Forget The Lyrics aired on the East Coast. Not sure about that No. 1 entry, though–is that a Radiohead b-side that somehow snuck into the show? MORE »
Music Industry Thrilled By Recent Trend Of Inane “Karaoke For Dummies” Game Shows
Don’t Forget The Lyrics and The Singing Bee–both of which, after summer runs that garnered ratings even better than ‘Til Death reruns, are returning this fall–have given an unexpected boon to the record industry, apparently because being reminded of a song inspires at least a few people to actually shell out the 99 cents required to put it on their hard drives: MORE »
Fox’s spin on The Singing Bee, the Wayne Brady-hosted Don’t Forget The Lyrics, gets picked up for the fall schedule thanks to a strong showing in the ratings. All Idolator readers should try out for this show. Seriously. MORE »
