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the biz

Hall And Oates Get Chewed Up

Over at Eric Beall's Berkleemusic.com blog, there's some discussion of Hall and Oates' suit against their publishing company, Warner/Chappell Music, which they claim has failed to protect "Maneater" from emulation and copying by other artists. If that sounds like a strange charge to you, well, it is, and it's presumably directed at Nelly Furtado, whose song "Maneater" (hmmm) bears some similarities to a certain Hall and Oates track. What makes the whole thing interesting is why Daryl and John are getting litigious: More »

11:30 AM on Thu Nov 20 2008
By Lucas Jensen
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Latest by CapnCalamity: Does "Maneater" really sample "Maneater?" I didn't really drink the Loose Kool-Aid, so I never really paid attention. more »

somethin 4 the weekend

Hiding Your Listening Habits On Social-Networking Sites? You Should Be Ashamed!

Today I ran across a neat page on Last.fm outlining the songs and artists that are most likely to be deleted from users' musical histories on the site, which charts its users' listening habits to come up with a bunch of charts that constitute a musical profile that's then shared with the world. While the No. 1 artist who's been deleted from peoples' listening habits isn't all that surprising—"[unknown]," who comes up when people don't fill out their ID3 tags properly before giving songs a spin—and I'm wholly unsurprised by snobbier music types out there being loath to not want to share how many times they've listened to "Piece Of Me" and "Girlfriend" with the world, there were some eyebrow-raising inclusions on both lists. Top five on each chart after the jump. More »

5:00 PM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,664 views, 18 comments

Latest by ineffable.me: @Poubelle: Yes, I was expecting Ashlee Simpson in that list for sure. I mean, just cause I heard that some people liked her first record or whatever. I wouldn't really know anything about that. more »

No. 16: Nelly Furtado Gets Minimalist And in our No. 16 track of 2007, she lets the music take her back to the dance clubs of 1987.

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liner notes

Liner Notes: Special All Tangentially Timbaland-Related Edition

- Timbaland hosted a fund-raising cocktail in Miami for Hillary Clinton, who quietly told aides that Shock Value "feels tossed together," and that Timbaland "needs to lose Yayo's digits, pronto." [Times Online]
- Nelly Furtado won five trophies at last night's Juno Awards ceremony, including Best Album, Best Single and Best Reference To A Phoenix Suns Point Guard. [BBC]
- Justin Timberlake took time from his busy pot-smoking horn-dogging schedule to host the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. [AP]

12:56 PM on Mon Apr 2 2007
By Brian Raftery
151 views, Comment

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Stuck On Repeat: Nelly Furtado Feels A Scandinavian Chill

Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right" is pretty inescapable at this point, but oddly enough, we're not sick of it yet, probably because it's really a freestyle lament in Timbaland's clothing. And now, it seems that its shelf-life has been extended for at least a few weeks by the Swedish DJ Stefski, who iced over the song's backing track even more, making Nelly sound even frostier: More »

1:46 PM on Tue Mar 6 2007
By mjohnston
473 views, 5 comments

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Timberlake's Pop Secret: Who's The Object Of His Deflection?

OnSmash has the video for the Timbaland/Timberlake/Furtado track "Give It To Me," in which each performer takes on an anonymous big star: Timbaland lashes out against a "piano man" who is, alas, probably not BIlly Joel, and Furtado disses an anonymous hyphenate. Most damning, though is Timberlake's take-down, in which he vents: "We missed you on the charts last week/Damn, that's right, you wasn't there/If sexy never left, then why's everybody on my shit?" There have been plenty of rumors about the identity of his target, but he's remained quiet so far... More »

12:14 PM on Tue Feb 27 2007
By Brian Raftery
7,034 views, 17 comments

Latest by biancaj678: Nelly is supposed to be talking about Fergie, bc in Ferg's song Fergalicious she said "and No, I'm not Permiscuous..." Nelly took that as a jab at her and retaliated with her verse on "give it to me" talking about more »

liner notes

Liner Notes: Nelly Furtado Now Rapping Terribly In Multiple Languages

- Nelly Furtado is recording a Spanish-language album. Judging by her most recent haircut, might we suggest a cover of "She Bangs"? [MTV News, via the far easier-to-read VH1.com]
- Bright Eyes' next album, tentatively titled Please Don't Sneeze—I'm So Very, Very Wispy, will be released in April. [NME]
- Legendary soul/funk label Stax will be revamped next year; their first signings include Issac Hayes and the woefully underappreciated Angie Stone. [Billboard]

1:23 PM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By Brian Raftery
165 views, 4 comments

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Leak Of The Day, Part Two: Timberlake, Timbaland And 'Tado Team Up

Discobelle.net has what appears to be a track from Timbaland's upcoming solo album, featuring cameos from Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake.
We love all things T-related, but again, we gotta ask: Where's Magoo? More »

2:59 PM on Mon Nov 13 2006
By Brian Raftery
3,603 views, 3 comments

Nelly Furtado Announces Career As Cher Impersonator At 'Fashion Rocks'
(You might want to try a black bra next time, hon.) [Photo credit: Getty Images]

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