Day in Pop Report for 05/28/2015
Now Azalea is being criticized once again--though this time though the stakes are higher. Some people are not happy that the Aussie rapper walked away with the Top Rap Song Billboard Music Award for her hit collaboration with Charli XCX, "Fancy," to the point where they've started a petition to have it taken away. So far over 17,000 people have signed. While that might sound petty, the petition may have some validity. It turns out that "Fancy" was technically released a month before the eligibility period began. "The eligibility time period for nominations is March 10th, 2014 through March 2015," the petition states. Read more here.
In the clip, the Carnage and ILoveMakonnen track 'I Like Tuh" is being played, revealing a massive crowd due to the sky-high perspective from the scaffolding area above the stage. Soon, the woman is seen nonchalantly climbing over the railing before she plunges into the darkness below, seemingly with a little help from another woman standing on the platform with her. The obviously stunned group of fans around her peer over the railing, exchanging shocked glances at what has just happened. There are scant details regarding the woman's condition after the fall, but the person who shot the video, Chris Saliture, has offered more details courtesy of a Reddit posting. "There was black fabric over on the scaffolding so no one up top could drop anything onto the performers.," Saliture posted. "I'm pretty sure she thought it was solid and was planning to walk out to the edge to get a better view of the stage. Incredibly stupid no matter what she was thinking but that's my best guess. She was alive at the bottom but was rolling around clearly in a lot of pain." Read more and watch the video here.
Now, a week ahead of its official release, Everything Is 4 is streaming in full via MTV. In addition to "Want to Want Me," Everything Is 4 features the already-released "Cheyenne," "Get Ugly," "Broke" (featuring Stevie Wonder and Keith Urban) and yesterday's "Try Me," with Matoma and Jennifer Lopez. But that's not all. The album also features collaborations with K. Michelle, Meghan Trainor and Julia Michaels in addition to purely solo material. Read more and grab the stream link here.
The country singer-songwriter has been teasing fans for the past week on social media to "Get ready'" and on Tuesday (May 26) a cryptic "Get Ready // 3 days" was revealed with what looks to be the letters E and S. Could this be an album title? Or better yet, a release date for the new album? Either way, Moore has been tight-lipped.In an interview with Radio.com during Country Radio Seminar, when we asked for an album preview on his forthcoming record Moore simply said "no." He then further elaborated why he wouldn't give us any details. "Because I don't want the fans to know what I'm coming with," he said slyly. "My diehard fans think they know everything. A lot of times they think they know everything that I'm doing and the moves I'm going to make and they're talking about it. 'Well, no he's not going to do that. He's going to put this song.' Y'all don't know what the hell I'm going to do when it's all said and done."" Read more here.
After returning home from presumably this past weekend's Sasquatch! festival, Lamar and his friends decided to turn their phones on TMZ reporters, getting in the faces of the interviewer while asking him questions. A highlight of the clip comes when Lamar and his cohorts turn from the interviewer and pounce on the television camera man, making him visually uncomfortable. Of course, if this doesn't get the paps off your back, Lamar showed another technique: alerting them to fellow L.A. rapper Schoolboy Q's presence a few feet away, distracting them so Lamar could make his escape. In other Lamar news, the rapper made a stop by The Ellen Degeneres Show Wednesday (May 27) to perform To Pimp a Butterfly track, "These Walls." Watch it here.
When Bon Jovi was still opening for Eddie Money, the singer, known for hits like "Take Me Home Tonight" and "Shakin'" took pity on the young band, supplying them with cold cuts to eat from the tour rider. "I'd give them all the meats and stuff like that," recalls Money, noting that they were very poor. But, living up to his name, Money did give them a little cash, too. 'I'd put about a hundred bucks, a hundred and fifty bucks in his pocket," Money said of Bon Jovi. Read more here.
After all, Underwood got her start in the country music business roughly 10 years ago, during her first CMA performance after her "American Idol" victory in 2005. The CMA Music Festival will take place June 11 through 14 in Nashville. Underwood will hit the stage on June 13, joining previously announced country crooners Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Lee Brice, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Keith Urban, Brett Eldredge, Florida Georgia Line, Randy Houser, Sam Hunt, Alan Jackson, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Maddie & Tae, Neal McCoy, Rascal Flatts, Thomas Rhett, Darius Rucker, Cole Swindell, the Band Perry, The Oak Ridge Boys, Wynonna & The Big Noise, Chris Young and Zac Brown Band. Read more here.
Hosted by Atlanta mainstay DJ Holiday, the tape consists of seven new cuts. None of these largely swerve from Gates' established modus operandi--Auto-Tune-drenched hooks laid over stinging, trunk-rattling trap percussion. The lyrical content also doesn't diverge from what Gates has always give us. He croons and barks about the emotional drain of selling drugs and defending himself against attackers, alternating between braggadocio and vulnerability in equal measure. Gates is fascinating because he never presents a single facet--his threats sparkle with exposed raw nerves, and his addresses to lovers always indicate an unreachable inner distance. On Murder For Hire, Kevin Gates continues mixing tenderness and brash confidence in a way no one else in the game can approximate. Stream it here.
Each band member gets their own homage of a story: Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Stop Making Sense, Guitar Hero and, um, "November Rain" (skip to 7:30), which was approximately as long as this video The viewer is supposed to leave with some future-past sense of tragedies to come born of tragedies that have already occurred. It's the kind of trick really good science fiction writers are adept at pulling off by invoking technology and a fear of the unknown. The director tries to create a nostalgic feeling by jumping between '80s-style video, down to the square screen and fuzzy filters applied. The problem is, this is still a 13-minute clip with no storyline. In this world there is no hero or anti-hero. No mind-blowing revelations. Only self-loathing, on and on. There are so many morals, addressing racial inequality, the military industrial complex, domestic abuse and even global climate change that it's hard to leave this video feeling like you can do anything and so, like Julian Casablancas in a junkyard with spray-painted white sunglasses, you will sit and do nothing. Watch it here.
Luckily, Swift's BFF Lorde broke down the meaning of the teen slang last year after she tweeted "mom" in response to Kim Kardashian's internet-breaking attempt of a magazine cover. "It basically jokingly means 'adopt me/be my second mom/i think of you as a mother figure you are so epic'," Lorde explained later on her Tumblr. Even with that compliment in mind though, Swift has given her reasons why she isn't into the tag. When one fan shared a video of her mother griping about how her daughter refers to Swift as "mom," the pop star responded on Tumblr. "This is a passionate plea and I see her reasoning," Swift wrote. "Your mom birthed you. I was off playing in coffee houses. Your mom tended to you when you cried as a toddler. I drew lyrics on my arms and stomped around in cowboy boots while you cried in the night. Your mom taught you how to speak and read. I was like 'come on! Let's all have fun and jump around at this concert and paint our faces with glitter!' So no, I have not earned the right to be referred to as your 'Mom'. I'm more like your crazy aunt. So you shall not call me 'Mom'. No, it's Aunt Becky." Read more here.
Lopez debuted her new long bob at LAX, where she was en route to Morocco to start her tour.It was just Lopez's hair that turned heads at the airport, though--while she was trying to catch that plane, US Weekly reports she was confetti bombed by a clown called Richie the Barber, who also got Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian last year. Hey, at least it drew attention to her new look, right? Right'? Lopez's last album, A.K.A., hit stores last year, scoring a top 20 hit in the U.S. with "Booty," featuring Iggy Azalea. Check out the visuals here.
'There's a male-female duet on here, which is something I've never done before, with Cassadee Pope, that I think everybody is gonna be really excited about," Young said. 'There's a song that Vince Gill came in and guested on." The country singer added that he switched gears as to what might be expected on his new album and is also co-producing the project. Read more here.
Warner Bros. Pictures describes the stunts as being "performed by elite athletes representing the world's best in class in big-wave surfing, wingsuit flying, sheer-face snowboarding, free rock climbing, and high-speed motorcycling." The film is directed by Ericson Core, who cut his teeth as the cinematographer on action flicks like The Fast and the Furious, Daredevil and Invincible. The original 1991 film was directed by the first woman ever to win a directing Oscar, Katherine Bigelow. Point Break is in theaters on December 25. Watch the trailer here.
Blood is pouring down his face--a face of the video that he teased Tuesday on Instagram, leading some to believe that he'd been in a fight. He walks around the corner of the car, a woman in blue gloves emerges from the front seat, and he opens the backdoor to allow another woman to clamber out. From there we see him lumber down the street, framed in the background by flashing police lights and flames emerging from the vehicle. Then he enters a mansion, walks up the stairs and in the last shot of the video finds himself face to face with an undeniably Lynchian tableau--an old, smiling man perched on a bed with two young women, bathed in red light. Our protagonist gazes at them as the screen goes black. Read more here.
On Wednesday (May 27) NiFi Music Fest announced its inaugural event, to be held Aug. 28-30 at the Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ken., Billboard reports. The fest will be headlined by a mix of rock and country stars: Green Day, Miranda Lambert and Kings of Leon will play, along with Gov't Mule, Hank Williams Jr., Weezer, Brantley Gilbert and many more. The NiFi fest is the first of potentially multiple similar fests at Speedway Motorsports Inc.-owned tracks in the U.S., with fests planned for the Texas Motor Speedway in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C. Further, Sonoma Raceway in California and Atlanta's Atlanta Motor Speedway may also receive similar events. Read more and see the full lineup here.
In it, Cher dons a floor-length black Marc Jacobs gown, matching black military jacket and leather gloves. The styling is very retro--think The Witches of Eastwick. This, of course, comes after Cher attended the Met Gala and was asked a very important question by Andre Leon Talley. They discussed their love for Chinese food, Cher admitting that, yes, she does indeed enjoy food from the Asian country. The hard-hitting questions. Check it out here.
In the brief teaser clip of Wayans' spirited performance, he's seen in full-tilt camera-mugging mode, displaying some limber dance moves, flirting with women in the front row and inspiring co-host Chrissy Teigen to get her groove on to Pharrell's smash single. Wayans goes on to get up close and personal with his competition, Queen Latifah, who seems to be both amused and annoyed by the attention. When he turns his attention to the show's host, LL Cool J, the legendary rapper is quick to move as far away from the action as possible. Check out the clip here.
Winter is For Kierkegaard is the oldest song on the album and the only one not written in LA. In 2008, after I graduated from Georgia State University, I moved to Europe. I had figured out a sneaky way to get a student loan from my old university (even though I had finished my courses), and I thought "I yep. I should spend that?" I moved to Prague first to become certified to teach English as a foreign language, and moved to Paris to find a job shortly after. I ran out of money pretty early on, and the teaching wasn't giving me enough to really pay bills. So, I was living on cheap Scotch and cans of Choucroute from Carrefour which were basically random cuts of cheap meat and frankfurters in a big can with pickled cabbage. They weren't good, but there were cheap. It was the first season of my life that I felt completely and utterly free. When the weather was good, my friends and I would eat baguettes and olives on the Pont Des Artes, which is a bridge across the Seine, just west of the Ile de La Cite. On Wednesdays I would play at the Highlander Pub's Open Mic on rue Nevers. On Mondays I would play at the Tennessee Bar in the Latin Quarter. I was living off of $5 a day and buying and reading so many used books (that I would sell back to the other English used bookstore and sometimes make a profit). When winter came, the sun was setting at 3:30, and I was staying up until 6am most nights. The inspiration for the song started with a quote I saw from Karl Marx written on the wall at the Palais de Tokyo Museum that said "Tout ce qui est solide se dissout dans l'air" which means "all that is solid melts into air" which I thought was beautiful and poetic and made some sense to me at the time. Incidentally I was also reading Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart Is To Will One Thing and It was somewhere in a whiskey fog in the early morning Paris winter when this song found its way onto my Sony cassette recorder. It isn't structured like most of my other songs, and I still don't know what it means, but I feel the influences of it every time I sing it- being 22 and broke in Paris, reading too many heavy books, insisting that it wasn't too cold to go for a picnic on the bridge. That was a good year. Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself here and learn more about the album right here!
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