Come with me as I chronicle an entire hour of MTV Hits, MTV’s digltal-cable channel that deigns to show pop videos during non-early-morning daylight hours. Why? Well, why not, really. Come join me in the upper reaches of the Optimum band after the jump. MORE »
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apropos of nothing
Live-Blogging One Hour Of MTV Hits: Here’s What You’re Missing When You Say You Miss Videos
putting the pseudo in pseudo-event
MTV Panders To The “Remember When MTV Showed Music Videos” Crowd With Throwback Video Music Awards Category
Perhaps realizing that a good chunk of the people who still care about its brand wouldn’t know a 3OH!3 from a GaGa, MTV has added a new, retro-tastic category to this year’s Video Music Awards: Best Video That Should Have Won A Moonman, in which an overlooked clip from years gone by gets its space-statue due. (I do wonder if the presentation of said award will be shown on VH1, if only because it can then be blown out into an hour-long special about Loving The Videos That Lost At The Video Music Awards or somesuch.) There are 10 clips up for this honor, and they hail from eras as long-ago as MTV’s earliest days and as recent as the YouTube Age. My biases in this category are probably given away by the above screen grab, but you might think* differently! MORE »
(intentional) leak of the day
Dr. Dre Detoxes With The Only Carbonated Beverage That Shares His Title
Continuing in the tradition of Dr. J, Kelsey “Dr. Fraiser Crane” Grammer, and Gene “Dr. Love” Simmons, Dr. Dre has lent his expertise to a Dr Pepper commercial–and he’s also allowed them to use a few seconds of a track from his forever-delayed Detox. (It’s not the song playing in the first bit of the ad, in case you hit play and got worried.) MORE »
Eminem’s “We Made You” video will get an actual… MORE »
Eminem’s “We Made You” video will get an actual… MORE »
Eminem’s “We Made You” video will get an actual… MORE »
Eminem’s “We Made You” video will get an actual… MORE »
Eminem’s “We Made You” video will get an actual… MORE »
The N.W.A. Biopic: Will It Surpass Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s “I Tried”?
Because any cultural phenomenon can now go from “destroying the fabric of polite society” to “ready for the multiplex” in two decades or less, the epic journey of gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A. is supposedly being condensed to 120 minutes of fun as I type this post. Hip-hop biopics have quite the ignoble history, with “enjoyably schlocky” being the best thing you can say about 95 percent of them. (Not that musical biopics as whole have a much better strike rate.) But at least Straight Outta Compton seems to have N.W.A.’s creative core on board, which gives one at least a teensy bit of hope. MORE »
It happened one weekend
Seven-Word Reviews Of Seven New Pop Songs
This was one of those two-day stretches where pop leak blogs were in overdrive, thanks to the songs leaking from every crevice in the music industry’s crumbling firmament (including its artists’ own blogs). Who wins? Well, the ad sales team at RapidShare, for sure. As far as listeners’ fates, the results are decidedly more mixed, as you’ll see from the brief reviews of new songs by Kanye West and T-Pain, Green Day, Dr. Dre and T.I., the Black Eyed Peas, Depeche Mode, Jennifer Lopez, and Ciara located after the jump. MORE »
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