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New Video: Rihanna & Justin Timberlake Go To Rehab
Well, you had to figure that a collaboration between the most ubiquitous male singer and female singer in pop music would have to happen sooner or later, right? Well, the video for Rehab, the amazing NINTH single from Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad album, sends Rih-Rih and JT out into the desert, where they…um…pose sexily? I mean, there doesn’t really seem to be any actual plot to the video. Not to say it’s not enjoyable, […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #12: Gimme Love & Death
CAT STEVENS “The Hurt” b/w “Silent Sunlight” (A&M Records 1418-S, 1973)
There’s a scene in the 1976 Bill Cosby/Harvey Keitel classic Mother, Jugs & Speed where Larry Hagman tries to seduce Raquel Welch with a pair of Cat Stevens tickets. She resists, of course, but only because that’s the way the script was written. In real life, no intelligent female of the 1970’s, no matter how liberated, would’ve passed up a chance to see one of the hottest singer-songwriters of the era. Even if it meant having to sit next to J. R. Ewing. For Stevens himself, however, matters were completely different.
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The New Music Files 11/18/08:
Beyonce, Nickelback, David Cook
There’s a handful of big-name records coming out today, but not a heck of a lot beyond that. Let’s take a look at what’s new and important in record stores and online today.
Beyonce I Am…Sasha Fierce:
Dumb title, dumb concept. Decent album? Maybe? Mrs. Carter’s third album is split into two discs (although it could very easily fit onto one) in order to display the two sides of Beyonce’s personality. Save me the hocus-pocus and just give me good music, OK? I actually like Beyonce a lot (although not as much as our own GG, who has not wiped up the drool yet), and hope that the decidedly average B-Day was an aberration. If I Were a Boy gives me a little hope, but Single Ladies takes it right back. So, basically a crapshoot. But it’ll sell like hotcakes anyway.
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