Day in Pop Report for 10/14/2014
Antonoff's influence is starkly felt, particularly via his Bleachers project. The song features underlying '80s-esque synths and pounding drums, altogether a track that absolutely wouldn't feel out of place on the band's Strange Desire album from earlier the year. Where "Shake It Off" might have procured a country remix as a stretch, "Out of the Woods" is more like Red's "I Knew You Were Trouble" - an embodiment of the singer's new direction. "Are we out of the woods?" Swift repeats on the chorus. "Are we in the clear?" Hear the song here.
Iggy has not taken too kindly to the punch, and used Twitter to air her grievance with Snoop Dogg. She has since deleted the tweets. "Why would you post such a mean pic on insta when you send your body guards to ask me for pictures every time we are at shows together?" she asked. "My bodyguard stopped the fire truck that saved your friends life in Canada when he almost burnt down the hotel, and every time I've ever spoken to you you've always been nice as h-, I'm disappointed you'd be such an a- for no reason." (via Rap-Up). Read more here.
Chris Brown's seen the headlines - and he has quite the commentary on them. The R&B singer logged onto his Twitter account early Monday morning (Oct. 13) to dispense his thoughts on the disease, wondering aloud if its transmission is all part of some larger conspiracy. "I don't know," the controversial performer posted on his Twitter account. "But I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control. S**t is getting crazy bruh." But the story doesn't stop there. Read more here.
While they've performed it live before, video footage doesn't really do justice to the busy instrumentals in their rendition. The song is one psych freakout with Miley leading off the song, her voice buried beneath jangle. Toward the end, it morphs into a free-for-all, layer upon layer of noise. Listen to it here. Their rendition along with Moby, who's on the track, is the first recording shared from the Lips' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band tribute album, With a Little Help From My Fwends. Read more here.
In addition to discussing pertinent issues such as her curation of the upcoming Hunger Games soundtrack, the teenage singer referenced South Park by singing part of the song that show character Randy Marsh, who portrays her on the episodes, uses as his cover as he attempts to fool others into thinking he's the New Zealand pop and rock artist. It's just two seconds long, but it includes Lorde getting done the chief aspects of South Park's caricature: "Ya ya ya, I'm Lorde, ya ya ya," she sings, laughing. According to Consequence of Sound, she touched a little further on the South Park parody. "I was thinking, 'Yeah he has a moustache� I mean I have a moustache, but is it that prominent?'" she said. "But it was someone's dad pretending to be me. We actually, in my hotel room, went 'Ya ya ya ya ya I'm Lorde! Ya ya ya!' for like an hour, because that's why they do on the episode, so�." Watch it here.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night (Oct. 9), the rapper described a sensual encounter with a furniture object that would make any antiques dealer blush. "I was in Georgia� basically I got arrested for humping a couch," explained the rapper. "I was singing a song I made called 'I Need Love,' I was on the couch, and I actually wasn't simulating making love with the couch, I was simulating making love to a girl." Read more here.
35 MPH Town will be Keith's 18th record release and his first since Drinks After Work, which came out a year ago. The album will be preceded by the single "Drunk Americans." Keith described the single CMT as what would happen if past hits "I Love This Bar" and "American Ride" "had a child," explaining that he wanted to go retro with it. Read more here.
"I always felt like we would be back together and doing music. That was the most important part to me," Lloyd Banks told MTV recently. "All the other things that helped break s**t up, I didn't participate in." "And I look around and I said, if they're is a time to do it, it would be now," 50 Cent added. Now the group has unleashed a new track, "All About the Drug Money," a freestyle over Troy Ave's "All About The Money." The minimal, piano-driven beat leaves plenty of room for tough talk and drug boasts, which 50, Lloyd Banks, and the rest are more than happy to supply. Check out the new track here.
He's working in the realm of soft-focus R&B with a widescreen '80s pop feel, a lane paved by Drake's "Hold On We're Going Home." The beat slips easily between genres, ending up somewhere cozy, warm and radio-ready. Trey Songz lives up to his Mr. Steal Yo Girl nickname on the hook. "I'm you're type, if you got the wrong impression," he croons. "But not for long." B.O.B riffs on the same theme, describing his lovelorn affection for another's girl. You just on a n***a d**k / 'Cause he sold a brick," he raps. "Has he ever wrote a hi on some poet s**t? / That's who you chillin' on the sofa with? / I ain't trippin' in a minute, it'll be over with." Listen here.
Three years, to be exact, since the release of their self-titled debut. But, the project is back in action and will be offering their sophomore album, Chasing Yesterday, on March 2 in 2015. Yeah, 2015. Seems so far away, right? Well, at least Gallagher isn't going to keep us waiting that long for a first taste from the new effort, as the news of the new album comes with lead single, "In the Heat of the Moment." The song's "nah nah nah" backing and big, hooky chorus is straight grab at the heartstrings for fans of his best work, which means just about everybody. Gallagher has this to say about the new record in a statement: "It was a major pain in the a-. It's not that I've ever had people telling me what to write or what direction to go in, but managing sessions from one end of the week to the other proved extremely difficult. "I had all these people looking at me and saying: 'right, what are we doing today?' I was making the whole thing up as I went along." Listen to the new song here.
"The guy treated us like gold, his whole crew from top to bottom," Moore told Taste of Country recently. "That kind of stuff means a lot to me, because now I'm running my own tour and you watch some guys like that and how you're supposed to run a tour, how you're supposed to be a pro and he still cares." So what else did McGraw teach Moore from the stage? "How to be a master of the dramatics, that's what I learned from Timmy," Moore added. "The guy can turn a nothing moment into something huge. He has a way about bringing the crowd to him without forcing them to come to him. The guy has the magic touch." Read more here.
Wiz Khalifa has teamed up with the most famous wrestler in America, John Cena, for two tracks called "All Day" and "Breaks." The former is a thunderous, EDM-tinged anthem, with both Khalifa and Cena attacking the haters. "All I need is four fingers, I'm giving you the middle one," growls Cena. "Breaks" sets a more contemplative tone, as Wiz goes into full inspirational quotes mode: "We join up, up, up, brakes off/First place in the race, either you first or you last." Listen here.
Melody Road, Diamond's new album, is now available via NPR's First Listen program prior to its full release next week. The album, his 32nd, marks Diamond's first as a Capitol Records artist and his first album of new material since 2008's Home Before Dark. It marks an idea that finally came to fruition: Diamond's collaboration with producer Don Was, who called the singer 25 years ago to talk making a record. The result is a return to the 73-year-old's fuller-sounding, instrumentation-rich releases following stripped-down affairs in the 2000s produced by Rick Rubin. More including a link to the stream here.
This 12-inch white vinyl, out October 21, will feature a gatefold inspired by that 100-foot marshmallow sailor and will smell just like him. We repeat, this vinyl edition will smell like marshmallows, just like the ones Ray roasted at Camp Waconda. As Consequence of Sound points out, the single was released this past April for Record Store Day in glow in the dark vinyl. But c'mon this one seems worth crossing the streams for. It smells like marshmallows and features Run-DMC's "Ghostbusters Rap" as a bonus! And that's not all, the vinyl also includes a puffy gatefold jacket which mimics the feel and texture of a marshmallow and an inner gatefold that includes a photo collage of Mr. Stay Puft marching through NYC. Read more here.
Per NYU, as part of the program, Stipe has established a fully functioning studio in the school's gallery at 80 Washington Square East, where he is working "for the duration of the exhibition on a series of new projects, across a wide range of media, during the hours that the gallery is closed to the public. While the gallery is open, visitors will be able to see the state in which the studio has been left after each of Stipe's work sessions, making processes that are normally private public and offering a window into his "remarkably prolific, varied and non-hierarchical way of seeing, thinking and making." Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m. through 6 p.m. Read more here.
But Beyonce is right on his heels. She has six nominations, for Song of the Year - "Drunk In Love - and Album of the Year.Pharrell is right behind her with five nominations. The two of them will compete for album of the year, a category which also includes Drake's Nothing Was the Same, Janelle Mona�'s The Electric Lady, John Legend's Love in the Future and Michael Jackson's Xscape. Wendy Williams will host the ceremony, which will take place at the Orleans Arena on Nov. 7 in Las Vegas. Check out a full list of nominees here.
Instead, the track plays homage to life itself. In an interview with Billboard, the country singer explains just this. "It has nothing to do with that," Church tells Billboard.biz of the song and its relation to auto racing. "That is nothing more than the avenue through which the commentary took place. It's really about life. What you see on TV there has nothing to do really with racing. It's about that experience, whatever that is: the experience with the person next to you, and knowing that that's probably a finite time in your life. It's not gonna last forever." Church wrote the song with Luke Laird, who shared his sentiments about the song and explained why some might confuse the meaning of the song before they hear it. "You hear the title and you think it's gonna be this joke song or something like Talladega Nights," Laird said. "Then, I think, they realize that yes, that's the title, but it's so much bigger than that." Read more here.
Schoolboy Q shows up-bucket hat and all-to rap his verse while Tinashe shows off her moves. Tinashe even politely thanks Schoolboy for showing up. What manners this girl has. But, while she let Jennifer Lopez have the song "I Luh Ya Papi," there was no way Tinashe was giving "2 On" up. With "2 On" Tinashe wanted to soundtrack a night out at the club where people are doing what they do at clubs: double-fisting drinks and smoking weed. More importantly she wanted the song to be a call for independence. "I'm 21. I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary," Tinashe told Radio.com. "And you can't tell me what to do." Watch Tinashe perform "2 On" here.
Now, the mouse-headed "Strobe" producer (AKA Joel Zimmerman) has ponied up some serious coin in the amount of $5 million for a sprawling 118-acre estate located in rural Ontario, Canada, in the city of Campbellville. While the price tag on Deadmau5's new home might pale in comparison to the $15 and $16 million spent by Calvin Harris (Beverly Hills) and Avicii (Hollywood Hills), respectively, for their lavish new digs in Southern California, Zimmerman's relatively frugal purchase just goes to show how much further a dollar can be stretched in rural Ontario compared to Los Angeles. More including a photo here.
That's all about to change. On Johnson's website, a huge banner that reads "New Music Coming Soon." Last Thursday (Oct. 9), his Facebook page announced similar news. "Please visit www.jameyjohnson.com to sign up for our newsletter. We will be announcing some very exciting things soon and don't want you to miss them!" the Facebook page states. Read more here.
I guess I lived the life of an average teenager. I hated school, felt rebellious in my own ways, and did my best at impressing the beauties walking down the halls of Martinsburg High. I thought it was ridiculous that from 5 years old to 17, your schooling defined you, and doing what you were told was what you'd have to live by. I just had to play the game. It wasn't until I got my license when things started to take a turn. I discovered the beauty of leaving and going wherever I pleased, and though I was only 16, I felt so liberated. When I entered my final year of high school, I was exposed to the one thing that would change me forever. The one thing that literally hypnotize me and have complete control over my body and mind: a girl. With these two things combined, my license to drive and that curly haired beauty in the passenger seat, I felt unstoppable. My academic career moved to the back seat, and what I has suspected was buried deep inside of me began to show. Mischievousness took over my senior year, and the two of us would skip classes to go and discover each other. With ma and pa working their nine to five, we had the run of the house. With many close calls from both sets of parents, we embraced our youthful, energetic romance, and we look back at those days with half a grin and jokes that only make sense to us. We still recall the secret codes and precautions we took, and the pride of being successful rule breakers. And I'm sure that when she reads this, she'll be thinking the same thing I am: no regrets. And yes, she is still around. 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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