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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?" and "crib" with "crib" and "crib") is mere filler before he can awkwardly segue to the Do The Right Thing-quoting chorus, and Ciara (who sounds the best of the three) focuses on her beauty, but Jermanie Dupri plays the good spokesperson, describing the joy a young man feels when he dons his first pair of Jordans, and how one should collect them all. In the video, he even dresses up like Mars Blackmon. Ah, when ads were ads. [YouTube]
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.
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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." "I was really trying to get The Boss, but The Boss is all over the world," said Nelly at the Kids' Choice Awards last night. "It didn't really work out. I know he's interested in doing it. And I'm interested in doing it." But there is still hope. "We still might get a chance to get it off. We're saving it. We might repackage it for the holidays." Perhaps a snap remix of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," then. Nelly wants Springsteen Collaboration [Yahoo via AP]
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 XXL. Interested parties "should know how to play the trumpet, tuba, snare drum, bass drum or tri toms and be able to march with their instrument." Perhaps they will then use his head as a drum in retaliation for the "Tip Drill" video.
Nelly is about to debut Pimp Juice Purple, an upgrade of his "popular" energy drink with "a mixture of pomegranate, acai, prickly pear and other flavors." Prickly pear! Speaking of upgrades, he's also got another round of his Pimp Juice P.I.M.P. "Upgrade Your Life" scholarship contest in the works? Was it too gauche to just call it "Pimp Your Life" or what? [XXL]
- 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]
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:
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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...
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- 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]
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?
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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.
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And in our No. 16 track of 2007, she lets the music take her back to the dance clubs of 1987.
