Tonight brings us the finale of MTV’s daily countdown show TRL, and MTV is pulling out a few stops to celebrate its end: A few live performances, a few interviews, a return to hosting duties by TRL OG Carson Daly. In some ways, this denouement was inevitable: The fizzy, sheeny, ever-expanding America that was epitomized by the rise of both the first Britney era and TRL some 10 years ago is all but over, what with a seemingly neverending bust ensuing and the concept of “popular music” being less popular than ever. But that doesn’t mean we can’t eulogize it, right? Full coverage begins after the jump. MORE »
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Idolator Live-Blogs The “TRL” Finale: 1-800-DIAL-MTV, We Knew Ye When
The “TRL” Finale Will Mark The End Of Pop Culture As We Know It
We’ve already mentioned the imminent TV return of… MORE »
(The Return Of) Presented Without Comment: Nelly, Taylor Swift, And Even More Web 2.No Action
Forever ago (ok, March), Idolator featured links to selected news items that seemed to merit attention, but perhaps not a post of their own. Playing into recent criticisms of the music-blog format, here are three press releases that seem notable, yet not notable enough to blow out into its own post. MORE »
Now That Katy Perry Is Gone, I Can Watch “FNMTV” Again
The Pete Wentz project FNMTV promises a world of entertainment this week for those of you who aren’t seeing Mission of Burma tonight (grrr). This week’s all-over-the-place lineup of videos is rather charming–save the inclusion of the madness called Shwayze. MORE »
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Five Singles Janet Jackson Shouldn’t Bother Relearning For Her Tour
Janet Jackson has some ambitious plans for her upcoming tour. “My true goal is to try at least do every single that I’ve ever had. So, I’ve got to figure out a way to fit this in two hours, and yet give them enough of each song so that they don’t feel hungry for more of that song in particular.” Wow! If we generously qualify “single” as songs with American-released videos (and ignore some airplay-charting B-sides), that’s still more than 30 tracks. Seeing as how she’s probably too proud to just ignore everything she’s done since the wardrobe malfunction, I’ve got five post-Rhythm Nation 1814 (the singles on that and Control are unfuckwithable) songs that she might think about just yelling the title of in the middle of a medley. MORE »
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Nelly, Ciara And Jermaine Dupri Fondly Recall Sneakers
There are two types of raps about sneakers: labors of love like “My Adidas” and corporate shilling, like The Game making sure to mention Nike on almost every track on The Documentary. “Stepped On My J’s” is probably the latter. Nelly’s rap (which rhymes “what now?” with “what now?” MORE »
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The BET Awards Promise Big Stars, Big Hits And The Word “Feat.”
As the MTV Music Awards become clumsier with every passing year in a less-than-subtle expression of how much acknowledging musical accomplishments has become an annoyance for a network that would much rather chase teenagers around with cameras, the BET Awards stand as the only place where you’ll see the biggest acts in pop music (Lil’ Wayne, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey and Nelly are already scheduled to perform) presented with production value and professional competence, acknowledging elders (Al Green and Quincy Jones will respectively receive lifetime achievement and humanitarian awards) without turning into a hoary grandpa fest. “Best Group” seems a little duo heavy, and it’s funny to see T-Pain lead the nominations solely on guest spots, but it’s refreshing to see a “Best Female Hip-Hop Artist” category. A list of the awards and nominees below. MORE »
Itinerant Bruce Springsteen Eludes A Collabo-Hungry Nelly
Bruce Springsteen, not unlike Carmen SanDiego, is hopping from continent to continent, always one step ahead of Nelly, who still dreams of finding the wily rocker and forcing him to collaborate on a song that would hopefully be titled “Over & Over Again & Again.” MORE »
Nelly Is The New Boredoms
Making me dreadanticipate Idolator’s BET Hip-Hop Awards live-blog even moreso than I was already–and finally bringing together early ’00s pop-rap and ladies who play the tympani–Nelly is “holding open auditions for an all-girl drumline for his performance at the awards on October 13″ according to… MORE »
