On the heels of my Cure-fan-upsetting post on the artistic viability of the double album, Lupe Fiasco has threatened to take absurdity to a new level with a triple album titled LupEND. I'm not entirely sure of the math, but it would appear a triple album would be approximately 66% more unnecessary than a double-disc set. I actually like Lupe quite a bit (despite finding The Cool a bit confounding), but if he isn't intending to close his career by releasing a three-disc set, he might find his career closed for him. [Billboard]
Earlier this year, I posted the video for "Supa Sexxy", former Gap Band singer Charlie Wilson's collaboration with T-Pain. At the time, I wonderd why the track wasn't more popular. Now, it's eight months later and the album of the same title seems to be lost forever. But why?
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Tabloid fixture and sometime singer Amy Winehouse has told a UK gossip columnist that even though her stab at a theme to the new James Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace, was rejected in favor of a collaboration between Jack White and Alicia Keys, she's going to get it together enough to record the song anyway. Really!
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Could a press release from Drinks Americas Holdings, the beverage company that has a joint venture with Universal Music Group to develop beverages of the alcoholic and virgin varieties around the record company's artists, have offered business-page readers an inside line on a possible release date for Dr. Dre's years-in-the-making Detox? A press release issued today by the company claims that not only will Dre's branded cognac and sparkling vodka be released to the marketplace sometime within the next 60 days, said product launches will go hand-in-hand with the release of Detox, courtesy of a "fully integrated marketing program." I guess the plan is to get drunk on the liquor, and then detox with... oh, you know. The relevant chunk of the release is after the jump.
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