Day in Pop Report for 10/16/2014
"Yes, you can expect a little something-something sooner or later," Sean said when he was asked if the two Detroit stars would ever collaborate on a track. "That was just an honor," he told Huffington Post last summer about time spent in the recording studio with Slim Shady. "Coming from the D � that was the person that showed us that it was real, that showed us you could be the biggest in the world from where we from." He also discussed his new album release plans. Read about that here.
Now, Dr. Luke (real name Lukasz Gottwald) is firing back with his own defamation lawsuit against the pop star, claiming she (along with her mother, Pebe) is extorting him to get out of her long-standing contract with the producer. "As part of the effort to get out of the Gottwald Recording Agreement," the claim read (via Billboard), "Kesha and Pebe have also orchestrated a campaign of publishing false and shocking accusations against Gottwald to extort Plaintiffs into letting Kesha out of the Gottwald Recording Agreement." Dr. Luke has worked with a number of high profile stars, including Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, and recently, French dance-pop outfit Yelle, but his relationship with Kesha differs from these in that he worked with her from when she was an unknown, the time from which her allegations stem. Read more here.
What's he apologizing for? Well, he doesn't actually say in the video, but you can be sure it has to do with his back-and-forth between Iggy Azalea this week following an unflattering Instagram dissing her and a war of words that followed. "Boys and girls, I just got off the phone with my homeboy Tip," he said. "And it's officially over. No more bad talk." He smiled, and added: "I apologize. Yeah, I apologize. I'm sorry. I won't do it again." Read more here.
Last month, Brooks set the record for his Chicago stand with 183,535 tickets sold, with an estimated gross of more than $12 million from 13 shows, in which he played two shows on four separate days (via Billboard). Now, Brooks has topped it, in what would seem like a less likely candidate: Minneapolis, Minn. But, the perception just goes to show how perfect the storm is. It is not only Brooks' long absence from touring that feeds into this record, but the city itself, which held Brooks' previous personal best ticket sales prior to this new tour, when he moved 163,791 tickets and grossed 3.5 million smackers in October of 1998. Read more here.
The magic number was $45,100, which has already been surpassed with 12 days to spare. But El-P, who along with Killer Mike makes up the rap duo, is not happy there, since some of the proceeds are going directly to charity. Specifically, to the families of Mike Brown and Eric Garner, both of whom were killed by police over the summer. El-P sent out a stream of victory tweets, including some directed at musicians who have already spoken of donating a cat or a hand in the production of the remix album. After a tweet that read "We did it, you crazy m----s," El-P linked out to this Instagram post showing that the pledge goal had been met. Read more here.
Every girl's dream? Maybe every guy's? Perhaps. Eventually, Swift slowly sinks into a suffocating pile of kittens as an advertisement for new album 1989 while her cat Olivia Benson is displayed onscreen. In the background, a new song from that album - reportedly "How You Get the Girl" - plays. The song is rooted in acoustic guitar with a bright, poppy melody. 1989 is out Oct. 27. It'll also include the singles "Shake It Off" and the newly released "Out of the Woods." Watch the ad here.
Clearly this has made an impact on Badu. The neo-soul legend recently set up on the corner in Midtown Manhattan and started singing, seemingly coming up with lyrics on the spot. "I ain't sold an album in two years," she belted. "Give me some money! I don't want to get no job." Passersby seem mostly uninterested in a video posted of the occasion; her 10-gallon hat stays empty, for the most part. By the end of the seven-minute clip she's only made $3.60. Read more here.
The song has been teased fairly often over the past few weeks, with a teaser surfacing late last month. "40 Mill," released now on iTunes, is notably missing something: the label listed is Last Kings Music and not Cash Money Records. Last week, Complex reported that Tyga took to Twitter and threatened to release his album himself, saying his label is holding him "hostage" and saying he might "leak it for [his] fans." Listen here.
The 11-track release was co-written by Ware herself alongside a bevy of familiar writers and producers like Benny Blanco, Miguel, Ed Sheeran and Dev Hynes. The album was produced by BenZel, the production duo Benny Blanco and Two Inch Punch. In an interview with the 405, Ware opened up about her sophomore release, which the majority of was written while on the road. "I'm quite an impatient person, to be honest, so I really needed to write on the road; I definitely didn't like the idea of having to wait until I could set aside a certain block of time to work on another album," she told the publication. "Plus, you know, it really broke up the monotony of touring, and because I was doing things so far in advance, there was no real pressure; it was a really nice way to begin the process, I think. I didn't know that I'd end up using these songs for anything, but writing was just a way of helping me get through all these long flights and drives, and the fact that I was doing the same thing every night." Read more here.
Days before his return to Madison Square Garden, the country singer announced the second leg of his The Outsiders World Tour, which continues through Feb. 5 in San Jose, Calif. In an interview with The New York Times earlier this year, Church asserted, "I always say that we don't make these songs for Music Row, we make them for the front row." Complete dates for the second leg of Church's The Outsiders World Tour here.
It also features seven original recordings by the cast. Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Lady Grantham, sings "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" and duets with Julian Ovenden, who plays one of Mary Crawley's suitors Charles Blake, on "The First Noel." "It was so exciting for me to have been given the opportunity to sing two songs in a totally different context to that which I'm accustomed: without my guitar, without my band," McGovern said in a press release about the albums, referencing her folk band, Sadie and the Hotheads. Ovenden, in addition to being an actor, is a professional singer and musician. He performs additional tracks for the album, taking on "O Holy Night," "Silent Night" and "Sussex Carol." "I'm a huge music fan and like Elizabeth I have a separate music career that runs alongside the acting," Ovenden said. "To do this album is therefore a massive honor and something I've really enjoyed doing." More including the full track and artist details here.
The pop singer will play one of the leads in the film, Laura, who is the love interest of main character Jake, a foosball player voiced by Glee's Matthew Morrison. Nicholas Hoult, Katie Holmes, Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan, John Leguizamo and Chazz Palminteri are among the other actors currently attached to the project. Read more here.
Music fans can expect additional artist announcements in the coming months. Additionally, a limited number of campsites are available for festivalgoers for $160. Four-day passes for the festival are also available for $160. For more information, visit wisconsin.countrythunder.com. This year's festival included Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert and Brantley Gilbert as headliners. Additional performers gracing the festival stage were Gary Allan, Sawyer Brown, Craig Morgan, Mark Chesnutt, Joe Diffie and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band as well as Charlie Worsham, Colt Ford, Will Hoge and Chad Brownlee. Read more here.
Among the big ones (which include a new label and a new manager) is Gomez buying her first home and living alone for the first time. Her new place is in L.A., though she admits buddy Taylor Swift is urging her to live in New York. "She wants to kidnap me," Gomez joked. "She's been begging me every time we get on the phone to move to New York, 'cause it's been a really good thing for her, you know? We've been friends for seven years and she really feels like she kind of stepped into her own and became a woman there, and she's like, 'All right, your turn, c'mon!'" Read more here.
Bieber has co-signed Meghan Trainor's smash "All About That Bass" and added his own touch to the Maejor Ali remix, out yesterday (Oct. 15). The remix is more like a duet, with Bieber opening up the song, singing along to Trainor's vocals. "I'm all about that bass, no treble / We gonna take it to a whole 'nother level," he declares over towering bass - Ali's remix really took the title and ran with it. With that, the track evolves into a whole new sound, swerving between a menacing trap beat and the sugary pop chorus Trainor laid down. "We know that s**t ain't real / We know it's Photoshopped!," Bieber says, without adding any explanation. Read more here.
It's a concept like The Purge, without the blood. Or like this 1979 Purdue University study on "wearing masks and deindividuation," without the academics. In short: people do not act the same when they don a mask. They lose their moral compass. The idea is explored graphically in "Slow Acid," where a female is spray painted silver, top to bottom. It erases her skin, her hair color, most of her defining features as an individual. She acts out, appearing to have mugged someone for their purse, from which she pulls items. Robbing an convenience store. Dancing naked outdoors. The spray paint obscures any signs of empathy, remorse, aggression, tension, whatever we expect to see. Her face is a blank slate through it all, making that possibly the most disturbing thing. It robs her of her humanity. By itself this is an interesting vignette and morality tale, albeit one that gets a little weird at the end when camera tricks distort her body and the viewer is left to imply that perhaps she was never human after all, but alien in origin. That obscures the meaning some, but is in the tradition of mid-century American and European sci-fi writing. Read more and watch the video here.
Azalea will appear on the Oct. 25 episode of SNL, the show revealed during the show Saturday night (Oct. 11). Azalea is the musical guest on the show hosted by Jim Carrey. It will mark the Australian rapper's first appearance on the NBC show. She rose to prominence on the national stage earlier this year after the release of her debut album The New Classic and her No. 1 hit "Fancy." More including the song she expects to play here.
It's the latest in the LudaVerses series that's included his takes on everything from "Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz" and "Hot N***a" to "Tuesday." This menacing instrumental gives him plenty of space for outrageous boasts: "I'm higher than a drone," he roars, topically. Some of his metaphors, meanwhile, use slightly less modern reference points. "I'mma boss, I could never be nothing less," he raps. "So gimme brain, gimme brain / Women call me nutty professor." Off he goes, throwing it back to his early-2000s heyday with a Nutty Professor reference. Listen here.
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