Day in Pop Report for 11/07/2014
Lee Anne Callahan-Longo, the general manager of Queen B's Parkwood Entertainment told Billboard, "It's completely made up. After all the hubbub this weekend, we kind of said, 'Well, let's just put it out and say what it is.' It's funny, I got a bunch of calls over the weekend and I would say, 'It's exciting to know people are excited.' "Even if they're reporting it wrong, and that people would take their time to go and create a fake one-sheet - right down to using a Columbia logo on it. I would love to know who did it. They clearly knew what a line sheet used to look like - they don't look like that anymore." Whoever did it was dedicated enough to do their research, and then some. The tracks listed on it "Donk" and "Cherry" were registered with ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) in recent weeks. Plus, even though they were completely made up, "KO," "Good In Good Bye," "Sensation of Pain," and "Renouncement (Featuring Justin Timberlake)" don't seem that far off for Beyonc� song titles. Read more here.
"I don't even know what to say. I just can't believe I'm standing here," Lambert said. "I can't believe this is my life, that this is my job. Thank you, fans, for that." She also gave a shout out to female singers and songwriters who haven't received the same kind of acclaim: "I'm trying to represent for you girls." Luke Bryan picked up the night's top honor, winning his first-ever CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year at "The 48th Annual CMA Awards." See a photo of her accepting a CMA Award here.
The song has already become a radio hit, setting a new record for most adds from a female artist in Mediabase history and the No. 1 added song on the Alternative Radio chart, according to Republic Records. Watch the video here. Lorde was called on to curate the soundtrack which features contributions from Ariana Grande, Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon, Pusha T, Q-Tip, Haim, CHVRCHES and more. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is set to hit theaters across the globe on November 21, 2014 and the Lorde curated soundtrack will be released on November 17th. Check out the album's tracklisting here.
Fast forward 10 months and you can now own a pair of Miley's hillbilly teeth. The singer has teamed up with Billy Bob on "her favorite styles of redneck Billy-Bob Teeth," as the website says. If you buy the Miley-approved dentures, you'll also score a special Miley-Bob insert card that depicts a pasties-clad Miley wearing them. This wouldn't be her first fashion collaboration this year. Just this past fashion week, Miley showed her handmade art and jewelry at designer Jeremy Scott's show. Read more here.
Over stripped-down flutes and keys T-Pain describes the trials and tribulations of his decade in the industry-"The same n-a that told me I had a hit/ Charged me 300 to put it off in his mix," he recalls, yelling his heart out sans Autotune. "Now suicide lookin' better than hittin' a lick/'Cause the whole time he knew that I was livin' out my whip." "Stoicville is where everybody is stoic-where nobody has emotions," explained T-Pain in an interview with The New Yorker earlier this year. "You don't get sh*t from anybody in Stoicville. That's the town for me. That's where I want to live. T-Pain released a Greatest Hits album on November 4th, and told The Fader he's "127 songs" deep into Stoicville. Check out the new track here.
The video begins with an emotional Gomez talking on the phone in tears. It sounds as if it was taken from her own journal entry and while we're not sure who exactly she's talking to one thing is clear: that boy is no good. "When I was onstage and I was thinking, I felt like I know him though and I know his heart and I know what he wouldn't do to hurt me," she said. "But I didn't realize that I'm feeling so confident and so great about myself and then it would just be completely shattered by one thing. By something so stupid. But then you make me feel crazy. You make me feel like it's my fault. I was in pain." The black and white clip then cuts to Gomez alone in her dressing room after a show with flashbacks with the boy in question. "Hand over heart I'm praying that I'm going to make it out alive," she sings with a tear-stained face. "There are a million reasons why I should give you up but the heart wants what it wants," she continues. Watch the video for "The Heart Wants What It Wants" here.
"This right here is crazy, man" exclaims Drizzy, appraising the view. The scene's incomplete though- "I gotta keep it real with you," notes P Reign, "the only thing that would have made this better is if we flew out some tings." Drake has a solution, a rumor he heard in town of local ladies who are not only attractive, but fabulously wealthy. "Lottery ticket winners?" asks Reign, intrigued. Cut to the inevitable mansion scene. Hammocks are lounged in, skewered fruit is placed between lips, the boys get the girls, and a good time is had by all. And then P Reign wakes up. "All that dreaming�" scolds Drake, bouncing away down the beach. "Bring your dream-chaser ass over here." Watch the video here.
The White House had one of its stranger photo opportunities in December of 1970, when Elvis Presley showed up, unannounced, and asked to speak with the President. Richard Nixon obliged, and the two men had a conversation that history did not record, but has fascinated generations. What is known about the meeting is that Presley gave Nixon a Colt .45 revolver and asked for a job as an honorary federal agent, believing himself to be uniquely qualified to help keep teenagers off drugs (a feat he didn't manage for himself). The two seemingly vastly different men were united by their dislike of hippies, and a mutual feeling that the culture was passing them by. Now that strange, historic meeting will be dramatized in director Liza Johnson's upcoming film Elvis & Nixon, co-written by Cary Elwes (yes, that Cary Elwes), and starring Kevin Spacey as the President and Michael Shannon as the King. Spacey is no stranger to slimy politicians, given his current run on House Of Cards. Shannon is the more unorthodox choice, but playing an intense, isolated man who's starting to creep into paranoia and delusion sounds like it's right in Shannon's wheelhouse. Read more here.
Iovine and Dre recently parlayed their Beats headphone and music service into a $3 billion buyout from Apple. The award recognized their achievements in creating the hybrid wearable/streamable company and the subsequent formation of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young [Dre's given name] Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, now being funded with profits from their Apple sale. According to social media from the event, Eminem was on hand to give Dre the entrepreneurship award. Though it's unknown what all he said, one telling quote is clear on Dre and Iovine: "They saw my potential," he said. Read more here.
She said, "When I came off stage, Vince Gill grabbed me and said 'you just won the biggest award you can ever win. I know, I've won them all and this one means the most to me.' That about sums it up!" Clark co-wrote the winning song, "Follow Your Arrow", with Musgraves and Shane McAnally. The three were also nominated for the Song of the Year honor last year for Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart." Clark and Musgraves are now among the 14 women who have written a CMA Song of the Year. The songwriters are Jessi Alexander and Connie Harrington (2013 - "Drive Your Truck" along with Jimmy Yeary), Miranda Lambert (2012 - "Over You" along with Blake Shelton), Kimberly Perry (2011 - "If I Die Young"), Jennifer Nettles (2008 - "Stay"), Tia Sellers (2000 - "I Hope You Dance" along with Mark D. Sanders), Annie Roboff, Robin Lerner and Beth Nielsen Chapman (1999 - "This Kiss"), Matraca Berg (1997 - "Strawberry Wine" along with Gary Harrison), Gretchen Peters (1995 - "Independence Day"), and K.T. Oslin (1988 - "'80s Ladies").
The Life and Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration is scheduled to take place on Jan. 10 at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. Don Was and Buddy Miller will serve as co-musical directors of the event, which will be filmed and recorded for future release. Was has served as musical director for similar tribute concerts to Levon Helm and Gregg Allman (both of those events were produced by Keith Wortman, who is producing this one as well). Read more here.
After retweeting several outlets' and fans' comments on the track, K Camp sent his own message out: "Blessing remix was that las lil bit of in due time. You welcome." For now, the track benefits from Jeremih's presence, the singer popping up to help sing the hook and even contribute a verse of his own. K Camp made headlines earlier this year when his track "Cut Her Off" topped Billboard's Twitter chart after it became a meme, used to mock Clippers owner Donald Sterling in the height of the controversy surrounding his racist remarks. Meanwhile, Jeremih is awaiting the release of his Late Nights: The Album, which has been plagued by multiple delays. Listen to the remix here.
In an interview with Billboard, Wonder revealed that eight songs from When the World Began, a new set of orchestral arrangements of classic Wonder songs, are complete. the project is a collaboration with David Foster and will feature Andrea Bocelli guesting on a rendition of "Isn't She Lovely." "He had this idea of me doing a project with him and producing something with him where we'd take some of the songs I've done and give them a whole other interpretation by using a symphony orchestra," Wonder told Billboard. This project will not be the only new Stevie Wonder collection on the horizon. Through the Eyes of Wonder, Wonder's first album of completely new material since 2005, is also underway. Read more here.
The Odd Future member tweeted out a YouTube of track that depicts a knight along with the caption "ALCHEMIST / SWAMPMAN," which would imply that Alchemist is responsible for the song's vintage-like strings-plucked melody. It's only a minute long, but within that length, Earl finds time to take down his opponents and shout out California's current drought and Los Angeles summers. Even though Earl started out while he was still in high school, the rapper takes a stance on the track that he's no child star. "N***a they keep an eye on me, I am not a child artist/ I raise the bar and hit a chin-up for a while on it," he raps, "Like a long ride, my n***as up for it/ My b***h is down for me cause I stay a buck-fifty/ Angel City drought time, why the f**k I'm up 50/ Playing like I'm down five, they can't really f**k with me." Listen here.
CMT's second annual Next Women of Country showcase was hosted on Nov. 4 and featured acoustic performances from nine of the Next Women in Country, including new inductees Maddie & Tae, Mickey Guyton, RaeLynn and Kelsea Ballerini. On hand was Jewel, who is a mentor for the new class of Next Women. She addressed the crowd and stressed the importance for more females to be played on the radio. "It's okay to play women back-to-back," she said. Gavin DeGraw, no stranger to working with the country community having recorded recently with Sara Evans and Martina McBride, introduced the evening's event before the performances began. Read more here.
Fans who heard his earlier work, like his single "X.O.X." with Common or Rihanna's "No Love Allowed," were perhaps surprised at the dark turn his latest material, which came out this fall on Def Jam Records, took. From the moody production reminiscent of the Weeknd and his confessional lyrics, Blake is a left of center star in the ever expanding hip-hop universe. In person, Blake is an upbeat, positive kind of person. A Gemini, who is in possession of a dual nature. Blake is quick to admit that his success was the source of the sadness and loneliness he tapped into for his latest release. His own demons showed him a glimpse of just how easily a person can push beyond darkness into suicidal thoughts. Though, he himself never got that far. "I was in a place where I felt so alone," Blake tells Radio.com of his first brushes with fame. "People on the outside [felt] less of a need to say, 'Hey, how are you doing? Are you okay on the inside?' People thought I had it all figured out�They just didn't know the battles I was fighting." Drift takes us, as Blake describes it, "behind the scenes" and delves into his psyche in a deep and honest way that is simply not customary in songwriting these days, no matter the genre. On "6," Blake recounts growing up with an abusive father: "Six years old and I lied about the school grades / I told my mama that my daddy already reprimanded me/ And when my father found out he beat me with a belt of leather/ Until my arms bled open and it caused my back to bleed." "I pray that my mother never watches the video," Blake says. "I know that she heard the song and she cried." The song is based on Blake's own childhood and says his father's ideas about discipline played a strong role in why his parents split up. But, even now, Blake doesn't characterize him as a bad father, rather, he calls his ideas about spanking culturally influenced and "unjust." "There's a fine line," Blake says. "Because I went through it, I know how it feels to be on the receiving end and how painful it is, feeling like you can't tell anybody. But at the same time, when a parent doesn't discipline their child they're a bad parent as well�I don't ever want to point fingers. I sympathize with the child more so, because I was the child in that situation." The darkness of Blake's music is amplified by the production work of No I.D., Blake's musical mentor. Blake goes as far to call him a "big brother."
In partnership with the campaign, Kidde will donate 2,000 Worry-Free sealed battery smoke alarms to fire departments throughout Young's 2015 A.M. World Tour. Additionally, Kidde will donate $25,000 to sponsor Phoenix Society's initiative to assist burned firefighters and their families. Meanwhile, Brooks will be the radio spokesman for Kidde. "It's an honor just to be able to visit some of the fireman in the different places along my tour and do these events with Kidde," Young told Country Weekly. Read more here.
Top bidder received a dream day with the New Jersey hero, including a one-hour guitar lesson, a ride in the side-car of his motorcycle, and a lasagna dinner at his house. And no, Garfield was not the top bidder. The lucky winner of the prize bid an absurd $300,000 for the experience, which probably makes it the most expensive Italian dinner of all time. It even costs more than those weird NFL hazing dinners. Read more here.
Can I be incredibly nerdy here and admit that this song was a little bit inspired by Game Of Thrones? The imagery was definitely sparked by it. Kings and queens of Bedlam� This song is about the spark dying- 'will the wild winds sing again, or will we stay just beneath the flames?' Where there was once hope for a future, the protagonists in the song- once brave and idealistic- have grown complacent and have found themselves questioning what they had thrown their entire beings into. Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album right here!
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