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  • Avril and The Dinosaur

    What an inspired choice from the producers of the movie Eragon to use an Avril Lavigne power pop ballad, Keep Holding On, as its theme.

    Speaking of the Sk8r Grrl, she announced on MySpace Saturday that her new album will be called The Best Damn Thing with a lead single, Girlfriend, out in February, hot on the heels of Keep Holding On, which has Academy Award nominee written all over it.

    Lavigne said she hoped to finish her work on the album today to wrap for the Christmas holidays.

    Spinning in the CD Today:
    Fergie. I still don’t get her. Didn’t like her in the Peas. Don’t like her now, and I’m one of the few apparently, so I’m trying to figure out why. I hear someone like Gwen Stefani or Madonna and think, “Ah, original.” I hear the Fergster and say, “Don’t see it, sorry.” But I’m still trying because I’m apparently missing something.

  • Blige and Underwood Make Unlikely Duo

    If the Billboard Music Awards are any indication, Mary J. Blige should sail through the Grammys in February. These are not the popularity awards, but the actual tallies — you know, sales and money and airplay and the things that really matter.

    Blige won NINE Billboard Awards yesterday in Vegas, but somehow Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts won Album of the Year. I’m simply trying to figure out how you win every award but the big one.

    As far as critics go, neither would typically be hailed for producing the best album of the year, but it was a strange, singles-oriented 2006 that let the ladies slip past the soft alt-rock bands and puppy Chris Brown, who is one day going to walk away from one of those shows with nine of his own awards.

  • Snoop Redux – Chronic You Don’t Need

    Reports out of Cali are that Snoop has been busted…again.

    The charges? Weapons and narcotics…again.

    This time, Mr. Broadus allegedly had coke, pot and a gun.

    Burbank has been bad for the rapper. He was arrested there in October on weapon and narcotics charges. Filling out his trifecta was an arrest in the OC for attempting to bring a telescoping baton (yes, a weapon) on a plane at John Wayne Airport.

    There’s street cred, and then there’s just dumb cred. If Snoop doesn’t believe yet that every cop in SoCal has his picture on their dash, he’s in dreamland. In his case, we should refer back to the original meaning of the word “chronic” — as in “repeated”.