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It is not yet time to stick a fork in Madonna. The grande dame of pop isn’t done just yet.
Pop music is supposed to be a young person’s game, but Madonna, as she’s done so often throughout her quarter-century career, ignores the rules by sounding vital and relevant, even as she approaches her 50th birthday.
“They say that a good thing never lasts, and then it has to fall,” she sings on her new album, “Hard Candy.” “Those are the people that didn’t amount to much at all.”
The 11th studio set of her career — and her last for Warner Bros. Records, the longtime label that she’s leaving for a wide-ranging deal with concert promoter Live Nation — “Hard Candy” is a heady, frisky sugar rush of urban dance-pop come-ons in which Madge finally gets into the hip-hop groove.
“See which flavor you like/And I’ll have it for you,” she coos in album opener, “Candy Shop,” a hooky song driven by a twitchy, syncopated drum pattern. “Come on into my store/I’ve got candy galore.” Advertising herself as “your one-stop candy store,” she purrs: “Sticky and sweet/My sugar is raw.”
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It’s said he who doesn’t remember history is doomed to repeat it. Well, how does that explain cable television? Vanilla Ice has a new “Greatest Hits” album just out that redefines both the words “Greatest” and “Hits” simultaneously! That shows more genius than his entire career. But be warned, if you celebrate his banal awfulness, you will only be further rewarded with more of the same. The MC Hammer comeback will spring into full force. Nelly will re-find his magical band-aid and Fred Durst will be given a reason to exist. We need to save the planet now. I don’t want to say that ignoring Will Smith can have the same effect on the environment as cutting down greenhouse gas emissions, but what if it turned out to be true?
Here are the 25 Worst Rappers of All-Time. We might have a 26th to add if Bill Cosby gets his act together and releases the “rap” album he threatens!
One look at Grammy history reveals a long list of winners seemingly picked by a blindfolded man chucking darts at a wall of album covers.
The Handless Organist Truly Is A Miracle of God, mostly because it led to me looking for other bad album covers. And I found lots. So many it was tough to narrow down the list here, but here are the best (worst?) 27 of the bunch (we’ll count Ms. Organist up top as number one).
Christian Bale is in talks to star in the next installment of the Terminator movie franchise. He will be reprising the role of John Connor in the forthcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Producer Moritz Borman has dismissed claims Vin Diesel is up for a part, but won’t dismiss Bale talks. Bale is even listed on the IMDb page.
After shedding hair and panties last year, Britney Spears rarely shocks. So when court papers recently revealed that the pop tart doesn’t save or invest any of her roughly $737,000 monthly income, financial and entertainment insiders weren’t surprised.
In fact, they say, Britney may be on her way to joining the ranks of rapper MC Hammer and members of the R&B group TLC — celeb acts that spent too much, too fast and saved or invested far too little, and wound up filing for bankruptcy.
Since reporting Monday that Nine Inch Nails had dumped its record label and was to offer future albums direct to the public, Oasis and Jamiroquai have also joined the move away from the record industry, but the biggest announcement of all is news today that Madonna has dumped the record industry. According to reports, Madonna has signed a $120million deal with L.A. based concert promotion firm Live Nation to distribute three studio albums, promote concert tours, sell merchandise and license Madonna’s name.
Whilst the deal differs from Nine Inch Nails in that Madonna is not offering direct-to-public albums, Live Nation isn’t a record company. The deal shows that even for a world famous act, a record company is no longer required in the days of digital downloads and P2P music sharing.
You saw the video. Now an important industry insider named Bob Lefsetz explains why Kanye has to beg people to buy his album, while Reznor earns fans through his sincere railing against the broken industry they are both tied to. “This is a gargantuan story on the Net. Made by those who care, not the mainstream media or paid street teamers.”
More Britney Spears bashing. Of course she’ll make a comeback, on “celebrity generic reality show” when she needs some cash….Oh! the schadenfreude.
Listeners who only know the rapper Plies from his current hit, “Shawty,” might be shocked — happily shocked, one hopes — by his debut album.
Like so many songs on the radio “Shawty” is built around a toothsome refrain by the R&B cyborg known as T-Pain. But between those choruses lurks a marvelously uncouth rapper.
At a time when hip-hop is dominated by cheerful dance tracks and gooey love songs, Plies is a welcome anomaly: a foulmouthed, streetwise storyteller who seems eager to spoil hip-hop’s good mood.
Plies comes from Ft. Myers, Fla., and he earned himself an eager underground following with a series of mixtapes.
Now after a series of delays comes “The Real Testament,” Plies’ major-label debut that sounds about as raw as his mixtapes. In Plies’ deep-Florida drawl and elastic approach to meter, you might hear an echo of the gruff Miami rapper Trick Daddy. But Plies’ reedy voice and hot-blooded temperament give these songs a power all their own, whether he’s taunting a probation officer or apologizing to his mother.
No doubt the Atlantic executives are most excited about “Hypnotized,” a brisk and breezy Akon collaboration that may well find a home on the pop charts. But the album also includes a slow and woozy revenge track (”Goons Lurkin”), as well as “1 Mo Time,” in which Plies tries a notably unsentimental approach to seduction.
By Kelefa Sanneh, New York Times