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  • I Get Money Wrestlemania Style

    According to many news sites (including MTV news), 50 Cent is scheduled to second Floyd “Money May” Mayweather in his match against the Big Show at Wrestlemania 24 on March 30 in Orlando, Florida. 50 Cent rapped Mayweather’s intro music last year for his fight with Oscar De La Hoya and was seen on HBO’s 24/7 documentary series hanging out with Mayweather. Mayweather has even used 50’s I Get Money as his WWE theme music during his TV appearances.

    Wrestlemania is WWE’s Super Bowl and all of their attention and focus goes toward the event. Just last year, partly because of Donald Trump’s involvement, Wrestlemania 23 was the highest grossing event in company history. From the outside looking in, 50 Cent’s involvement with WWE looks harmless. But based on an article that came out earlier this year by the Albany Times Union, 50 Cent may have more in common with WWE superstars than just appearing at Wrestlemania. He was on a list of entertainers who reportedly purchased steroids and human growth hormone in the past. Aligning himself with the WWE is an interesting choice, but the buzz around the report has died down to where it’s out of the public eye already. But I wouldn’t be surprised to hear about it again as Wrestlemania comes closer.

    John Legend is scheduled to sing America The Beautiful to start the show and Snoop Dogg is pegged to appear on the show as the MC of the Playboy Bunnymania match. Maybe 50 can teach Snoop how to pump some iron and they can become a tag team.

  • In Memoriam

    The music world has suffered the loss of two artists in the past week.
    Mike Smith, the lead singer of 60s pop band Dave Clark Five, passed away from pnuemonia on Thursday. Smith’s passing came less than two weeks before he and the remainder of the Dave Clark Five were scheduled to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
    For a time, the DC5’s popularity rivalled even The Beatles, as the band scored 17 Top 40 hits on the U.S. charts.
    I was also saddened (and a bit surprised) to learn of the passing of Canadian blues/rock guitarist Jeff Healey at only 41 years of age (I was also stunned that he was so young). As the leader of the Jeff Healey Band, he scored a Top 10 pop hit in 1988 with the bluesy ballad “Angel Eyes”.
    Of course, most people remember Jeff because he was blind, and because of that ailment (caused by the cancer that would eventually kill him), had a very unorthodox way of playing guitar, strumming the instrument on his lap.
    Healey’s final CD, “Mess of Blues”, will be released later this month.
    Rest in peace to both men.

  • Vital Idol: The Cut Down Gets Rough

    I must admit that I don’t usually get into American Idol until the final twelve. This means that I don’t really care who leaves the show until the show really starts. Ok, maybe I’m lying just a little bit. When Sabrina Sloan was kicked off before last year’s final twelve, my heart skipped a beat.

    But tonight? Wow. It’s not like I thought Alaina Whitaker was going to win the entire competition, but she definitely deserved a spot in the top twelve. She is young, has a great look and can sing, yet sadly, she’s gone. Usually, for the most part, America does a pretty good job, but for two weeks in a row Amanda Overmyer played and lost big. Her entire get up, with that big hair and all, was terrible as well. I didn’t think Alexandrea Lushington would necessarily leave either, but she was eventually going to get lost in the shuffle. That’s the problem with this year though. Other than Big Dave Archuleta, no one stands out.

    On the side of the guys, does it matter who leaves at this point, except for Big Dave Archuleta? All I hear are voices. I don’t even really see faces. Big Dave is great at being gracious and egging the crowd on to continue their applause. He’s the definition of “aw shucks” and the audience will eat it up, especially when he can bring it to the table like he did this week.

    Here are some other thoughts thus far:

    • Danny “Danjaya” Noriega needs to stop pretending he’s Sanjaya. His hair isn’t pretty enough.
    • Carly Smithson might be my favorite “voice” in the competition.
    • Kristy Lee Cook was made to wear tight dresses.
    • If Ruben Studdard lost 150 pounds, he’d be Chikezie.
    • Jason Castro’s hair looks ridiculous on that wiry frame, but at least he stands out.
    • While David Hernandez can sing, I never thought his papa could ever be a rolling stone.
    • I think David Cook, Luke “Perry” Menard, and Michael Johns should become one singer named Luke Cook Johns and we can just fast forward one week for the guys.
    • Ramiele Malubay is really growing on me. Where does that voice come from?

    Until next week …