The Game’s R.E.D. Album has had it’s release date shuffled around like a well-worn deck of cards with no clear reason why. The L.A. rapper’s fourth album now looks to have it’s clearest push to release yet with the unveiling of “Ain’t No Doubt About It”, a single and video that features Pharrell Williams and Justin Timberlake. The video is pretty much the stereotypical hot chicks on a yacht scenario, with a fair amount of product placement. Pretty much par […]
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Hear Here!: “The Moon & the Sky (remix)” by Sade feat. Jay-Z
(an imagining) Location: Somewhere in England. The phone rings. “Hello, this is Sade”. “Sade, this is Jay-Z” Sade: “Who? Who’s crazy?” Jay-Z “No…Jay-Z. The rapper? Beyonce’s husband? I wanted to talk to you and see if we can make a record together.” Sade: “What are you , mad? I have a long memory, man!” Jay-Z: “What? I don’t understand. What are you talking about?” Sade: (plays a snippet of Timbaland featuring Jay-Z’s “Lobster & Scrimp”, which features the lyrics “Now […]
Blerd’s Notes: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of Duran Duran (Part 3)
1993’s self-titled opus marked the first phoenix-like rise from the ashes for Duran Duran. However, 1995’s Thank You firmly brought them back down to Earth. Despite it not being as bad as most people remember it being (at least in my opinion), it completely torpedoed Duran’s career. The fact that the band’s cast (which seemed to be firmly locked in for a time) was in flux once again also contributed to Duran’s freefall during the late Nineties and the early […]
Nelly Furtado’s “Night is Young”: Swing & a Miss
Some people are more talented than they’re given credit for. I dug Nelly Furtado when she first came out because she went against the grain a little bit. She had some hippie-chick in her, but she added a little bit of flavor to that hippie vibe. “I’m Like a Bird” was quirky and cool, but she sounded equally at home on the “Get Ur Freak On” remix with Missy Elliott. After a relatively unsuccessful second album, “Folklore” (which is actually […]
All You Need to Know About the Music of…Madonna! (Part Three)
Madonna came into the Nineties like a lion, and exited the decade like a lamb. Her final effort of the decade, “Ray of Light”, found Madge in a contemplative, serene mood completely unlike her public persona for the previous decade and a half. By the turn of the decade, she was a mother once, about to become a mother for the second time, and had even finally gotten some love from the establishment, winning a handful of Grammy Awards to […]
Christina Aguilera Falls in Line: "Not Myself Tonight"
Christina Aguilera’s website has been teasing new music for about a week now, and I’ve been somewhat curious to know what she’d come back sounding like. Christina is quite fond of reinvention. Yesterday, her new single “Not Myself Tonight” premiered. I’ve linked to an audio stream on Ryan Seacrest’s website below. I can’t help but remember an interview Christina did a few years back where she said that she didn’t want to work with any of today’s big-name producers, so I had to […]
Timberlake and Bieber: Revenge of the Justins
I was listening to “Innervisions” by Stevie Wonder yesterday. Stevie was 23 when that album was released. Thinking back on all my life experience, it’s pretty impressive that someone was able to put out such a work of genius at such a relatively young age. Then I thought more, and realized that maybe that was not so unusual: after all, the Beatles were all still in their twenties when they broke up in 1970. George Michael’s “Listen Without Prejudice” came […]