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Popbitch has revealed the impetus for Timbaland and Chris Cornell's unholy alliance: "To get the gig, Timbaland got hold of Cornell's mobile number and called him up personally to ask him to let him produce the record. He rhapsodied about Soungarden's early albums on Sub Pop, before they signed to a major, to the extent that Cornell realised the producer was a genuine fan and the two bonded." I swear, if this results in the album featuring "Nothing To Say '09", complete with Timbaland doing his "ehh, ehhh, ehhh"s in the background, I quit. [Popbitch]
Was anyone out there really clamoring for a sequel to Timbaland's Shock Value? Well, too bad, there's one coming, and it's on track to have a leftover track from Hard Candy as well as a Jonas Brothers cameo. It was apparently in high demand because the first Shock Value went platinum in "London," which the producer asserts is "the hardest place to go platinum." Sigh. [MTV]
Following an intimate church ceremony that was so casual, the bride and groom wore sweatpants, Timbaland and Monique Idlett (who's also the mother of his infant daughter Reign) had a big-ass formal wedding in Aruba yesterday. Guests included Jimmy Iovine and collaborators past and present: Missy Elliott, Ginwuine, Keri Hilson, Danja, and... wait for it... Magoo! [Us Magazine]
everybody's a winner
It could be residual inspirational song ear-cheese from last week's American Idol finale, but on first listen I was pretty convinced that Dima Bilan's "Believe," which won the 2008 Eurovision song contest on Saturday night, was an amalgam of this country's Lite-FM staples of the past 12 years—the Enrique Iglesias opening, the bits of Lonestar's "Amazed" and Mariah Carey's various mid-'90s ballads that are strewn throughout. (Although the yoga-ish dancing is, uh, quite original.) Finding out that the recorded version of the track was produced by Timbaland was merely the icing on my "this song would not exist without the songs it is made up of" cake, and it should serve as an ominous sign that the iconic producer has moved on from simply ripping himself off to taking "inspiration" from the songs that his earliest productions provided a radio respite from. More »
Eurovision Gets Timbalanded
It could be residual inspirational song ear-cheese from last week's American Idol finale, but on first listen I was pretty convinced that Dima Bilan's "Believe," which won the 2008 Eurovision song contest on Saturday night, was an amalgam of this country's Lite-FM staples of the past 12 years—the Enrique Iglesias opening, the bits of Lonestar's "Amazed" and Mariah Carey's various mid-'90s ballads that are strewn throughout. (Although the yoga-ish dancing is, uh, quite original.) Finding out that the recorded version of the track was produced by Timbaland was merely the icing on my "this song would not exist without the songs it is made up of" cake, and it should serve as an ominous sign that the iconic producer has moved on from simply ripping himself off to taking "inspiration" from the songs that his earliest productions provided a radio respite from. More »
branding
Madonna, Justin Timberlake and "Verizon Mobile Producer In Residence" Timbaland have teamed up to make a remix of "4 Minutes" by... Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Evidently the trio went into Verizon Wireless' mobile recording studio after the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony and created this "Underground Remix" of their Top 10 hit for the mobile-phone company. If you take the effort to buy this remix, you'll also get footage of the trio holding hands and dancing around a mic while chanting "Can you hear me now?"
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Madonna And Justin Timberlake To Remix Their Own Damn Hit For Verizon
Madonna, Justin Timberlake and "Verizon Mobile Producer In Residence" Timbaland have teamed up to make a remix of "4 Minutes" by... Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Evidently the trio went into Verizon Wireless' mobile recording studio after the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony and created this "Underground Remix" of their Top 10 hit for the mobile-phone company. If you take the effort to buy this remix, you'll also get footage of the trio holding hands and dancing around a mic while chanting "Can you hear me now?"
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Things That Keeping Fuse On In The Background Taught Me
Not only is Madonna's new single reminiscent of the theme to The Price Is Right, its chorus is also pretty much a carbon copy of the sung hook for Flo Rida's "Elevator." And both songs feature Timbaland, who clearly is getting all of his ideas from hanging out in clubs that are playing nothing but his songs. I just sang the chorus to Madge's song while the video was playing in the background, and it was a perfect match. I encourage you to do the same. (Click the cover for an embed of the "Elevator" clip.)
videodrone
Madonna's video for "Four Minutes"—featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, and bearing a title that's been chopped down from "Four Minutes To Save The World," presumably for national-security reasons—debuted on the Internet this morning, and its extended JT-and-Madge mating dance not only squicked me out at a way-too-early hour, it had even more indications that Hard Candy will be Madonna's "I'm out of ideas because the whole idea of 'subculture' has bubbled away in the social-networking era" album. The video, and five conclusions to take away from it, after the jump.
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Madonna's New Video Reveals That She Isn't Afraid To Go After Britney's Sloppy Seconds (And Neither Is Justin Timberlake)
Madonna's video for "Four Minutes"—featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, and bearing a title that's been chopped down from "Four Minutes To Save The World," presumably for national-security reasons—debuted on the Internet this morning, and its extended JT-and-Madge mating dance not only squicked me out at a way-too-early hour, it had even more indications that Hard Candy will be Madonna's "I'm out of ideas because the whole idea of 'subculture' has bubbled away in the social-networking era" album. The video, and five conclusions to take away from it, after the jump.
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promiscuous producer
No matter what you think of Timbo, if you want to get a good idea of what the new music industry model might look like, the following clip of Tim at work on his new bus is a good roadmap. It's also pretty awesome.
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Timbaland: I Has a Bus
No matter what you think of Timbo, if you want to get a good idea of what the new music industry model might look like, the following clip of Tim at work on his new bus is a good roadmap. It's also pretty awesome.
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leak of the weekend
Madonna Stops The Clock
ARTIST: Madonna (ft. Timbaland and Justin Timberlake)
TITLE: "Four Minutes To Save The World"
WEB DEBUT: Feb. 29, 2008
videodrone
Will the latest song from Flo Rida's forthcoming Mail On Sunday, the Timbaland-assisted "Elevator," be as unstoppable as the year's only No. 1 single, his track "Low"? It has hot-spring synths, more product placement capped by shoutouts to Nelly's clothing line, and an attempt to remind listeners of the fact that they enjoyed the "ella, ella" call a few months ago, although back then those syllables were coming from Rihanna and not Timbaland. I'll root for this track's success if only because then maybe the still-kicking "Low" will finally recede from the nation's consciousness, even though on this single—like on his last—the top-billed Flo kind of takes a back seat to his collaborators in every way save "exposed muscles" and "self-glorifying back tattoo." [OnSmash via Sit Down Stand Up]
Flo Rida And Timbaland Are Trying To Push Your Buttons
Will the latest song from Flo Rida's forthcoming Mail On Sunday, the Timbaland-assisted "Elevator," be as unstoppable as the year's only No. 1 single, his track "Low"? It has hot-spring synths, more product placement capped by shoutouts to Nelly's clothing line, and an attempt to remind listeners of the fact that they enjoyed the "ella, ella" call a few months ago, although back then those syllables were coming from Rihanna and not Timbaland. I'll root for this track's success if only because then maybe the still-kicking "Low" will finally recede from the nation's consciousness, even though on this single—like on his last—the top-billed Flo kind of takes a back seat to his collaborators in every way save "exposed muscles" and "self-glorifying back tattoo." [OnSmash via Sit Down Stand Up]
Timbaland is days from unveiling the first installment in a "mobile-only album" released in conjunction with the bastards who overcharge me every month, Verizon, where (slightly less disgruntled) customers can purchase one new track a month (made on a bus, like Keith Partridge with creepy ill-gotten bodybuilder musculature) for the next 11 months. Rumored collaborators include Taylor Swift, Chris Cornell, and OneRepublic. (Naturally.) It will be precisely as crummy as Shock Value except it will be trapped on people's phones, unless they work out a radio deal. In which case we might be looking at another "The Way I Are." (Cool.) Which also means we might be looking at another "Apologize." (No.) [Billboard]
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Sure, British tabloids exist to exaggerate, but even accounting for a purple-tipped editing pen being used to punch up these rumors straight from the London set of Madonna's next video, we're already a little wary about the premiere of the final product. But maybe you've long harbored secret fantasies about engaging in S&M with bodybuilding pop superproducers?
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Madonna Plays Master And Servant With The Two Timbs
Sure, British tabloids exist to exaggerate, but even accounting for a purple-tipped editing pen being used to punch up these rumors straight from the London set of Madonna's next video, we're already a little wary about the premiere of the final product. But maybe you've long harbored secret fantasies about engaging in S&M with bodybuilding pop superproducers?
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videodrone
The latest single to emerge from Timbaland's Shock Value is "Scream," a Nicole Scherzinger/Keri Hilson track filled with bad sex metaphors (cake! pie! designated driving!) that Interscope, no doubt, has released in large part because the label's suits still holding on to hope that someone will eventually give a damn about the lead Pussycat Doll's singing/orgasmic moaning abilities. More »
Timbaland Masterminds The World's "Sexiest" Bank Robbery (Or Something)
The latest single to emerge from Timbaland's Shock Value is "Scream," a Nicole Scherzinger/Keri Hilson track filled with bad sex metaphors (cake! pie! designated driving!) that Interscope, no doubt, has released in large part because the label's suits still holding on to hope that someone will eventually give a damn about the lead Pussycat Doll's singing/orgasmic moaning abilities. More »
tony little wept
When one thinks of pop star scandals involving drugs, one doesn't usually first think of the "performance enhancing" variety, but at least three musicians have now been "named in connection with an Albany-based steroid investigation." So who's ditching their Hip-Hop Abs workout videos to join the sports world's finest anabolic abusers?
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Musicians May Be Trading Their Personal Trainers For Steroids
When one thinks of pop star scandals involving drugs, one doesn't usually first think of the "performance enhancing" variety, but at least three musicians have now been "named in connection with an Albany-based steroid investigation." So who's ditching their Hip-Hop Abs workout videos to join the sports world's finest anabolic abusers?
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year-end analysis
New York's Top 40 Fans Discover This New Artist Named Timbaland
In years past, New York top 40 powerhouse Z100 turned over its Christmas programming to a commercial-free all-seasonal-music block, but they've abandoned that practice in recent years, no doubt because other stations had hopped on that bandwagon back in late November. (Although I would like to register a complaint about not hearing Bruce Springsteen's version of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" at all this year until approximately 11:05 a.m. yesterday. In the NYC metro area, no less! What the hell?) In its place, the station is running its Top 100 of 2007 countdown on what seems to be endless loop, and given that I spent a lot of time in cars these past two days and this chart deviates just enough from the year-end Hot 100 to be kinda interesting, I figured I'd share it. Timbaland took the top two spots, with the "The Way I Are" placing at No. 1 and the still-not-very-good Scott Storch dis track "Give It To Me" somehow landing at No. 2.
THE GOOD: Two Pink tracks—"Who Knew and the oft-censored "U & Ur Hand"—placed in the top 10, as did Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right." Also, Elliott Yamin wound up being the highest-charting American Idol alum of the year who wasn't Daughtry*, with "Wait For You" (No. 19) just nosing out "Before He Cheats" (No. 20).
THE BAD: In a year that was pretty lackluster for rock-on-pop-radio to begin with, the highest-charting representative of the genre is... the limp, sub-CW-theme "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls, which landed at No. 8. Is it because they played the Jingle Ball? I'm seriously curious.
THE WHAAAA? At approximately 7 p.m. Monday, the Best New Artist voting (part of some listener polls that are running in conjunction with this list's airing/trying to pad the station's web stats before the year ends) was led by the moptopped Jonas Brothers, with Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana in second place. In third place? Timbaland. Hey, if he keeps it up in the polls, maybe he could get a Disney Channel show of his own!
on the scene
Jingle Ball 2007: BJs For The JBs
Our headline was actually one out of the several hundred text messages that scrolled across a video ticker high above the stage at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, when a sold-out crowd of tweens and teens (and Idolator) took in the pop chart mish-mash of New York radio station Z100's annual Jingle Ball, and the junior high horndogs who sent in that text weren't talking about James Brown's sidemen, but the Jonas Brothers, the pre-fab pop-punk puppy dogs fresh off a leg of the Hannah Montana tour. All night, the mere mention of the Brothers' names prompted screams so loud you'd think the arena had spontaneously popped a collective cherry, and for four hours, hundreds of exclamation point-riddled messages pledged love to one Brother or another, though usually more along the lines of a chaste hug than fellatio. And taken against the rest of the evening's performances, America's squealing affection towards Disney's latest attempt to bail out the industry (for at least another 12 months) wasn't necessarily misplaced.
