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Showing posts with label Katy Perry. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 02, 2010
We on Award Tour: 2011 Grammy Nominations
The 00’s is when the music industry went in the tank, yet as sales go lower and lower, it seems like every year there is yet another new music awards show (there is another new one airing in a couple months), but there still remains only one award show that matters: The Grammy’s. Okay, the awards themselves are not that credible (Hilary Clinton has more Grammy’s than Bob Marley, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix combined) but you know they will put on a great show. No acts announced yet (hopefully they will be better than Katy Perry and Justin Beiber), but they did announce some nominees last night (head over to Grammy.com for the full rundown):
Song of the Year
Beg Steal or Borrow – Ray LaMontange and the Pariah Dogs
(Expletive Delete) You – Cee Lo Green
The House That Built Me – Miranda Lambert
Love the Way You Lie – Eminem featuring Rihanna
Need You Now – Lady Antebellum
Who Will Win: Ray LaMontange and the Pariah Dogs
Who Should Win: Cee-Lo Green
Wait, they actually nominated for a songwriting award a song they cannot even say on network television? Also nominated a song that includes the lyrics, “It’ three AM and I’m drunk again.” You cannot call the Grammy’s stuffy anymore. It is such a weird group it is hard to pick a favorite, but Ray LaMontange is the most “traditional” song, but Mirada Lambert may get the sentimental vote.
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence + The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Who Will Win: Drake
Who Should Win: Mumford and Sons
Best New Artist is always a tossup, but I have been playing out Mumford and Sons for most of the year. But I can see them or Drake or Florence and the Machine also taking it. Since there is no one in the academy under sixteen to stuff the ballot like the AMA’s, Beiber doesn’t have a chance. And for those wondering, Esperanza Spalding is a jazz artist, and as Herbie Hancock’s win recently, do not count her out.
Album of the Year
The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
Recovery – Eninem
Need You Now – Lady Antibellum
The Fame Monster – Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream – Katy Perry
Who Will Win: Eminem
Who Should Win: I do not care
Wasn’t Lady Gaga nominated for the same album last year? How does this happen? Even more puzzling, Kate Perry gets nominated? Ugg, I could care less for this category.
Record of the Year
Nothin' On You – B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars
Love the Way You Live – Eminem featuring Rihanna
(Expletive Delete) You - Cee-Lo Green
Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
Who Will Win: Jay-Z
Who Should Win: Cee Lo
A strong category (though I would have exchanged Airplanes for B.o.B.’s song here) but there was no song more infectious this year than the one that Cee-Lo gave us. Here is hoping that they let Cee-Lo perform the real version on the telecast.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The 100 Worst Songs of the 00's
1. London Bridge - Fergie
2. Lollipop - Lil' Wayne and Static Major
3. If U Seek Amy - Britney Spears
4. Stars Are Blind - Paris Hilton
5. Jenny from the Block - Jennifer Lopez featuring Styles P and Jadakiss
6. The Anthem - Good Charlotte
7. Cameltoe - Fannypack
8. I'm in Luv with a Stripper - T-Pain featuring Mike Jones
9. When I Grow Up - Pussycat Dolls
10. Gimme More - Britney Spears
11. A Bay Bay - Hurricane Chris
12. My Humps - Black Eyed Peas
13. This Is Why I’m Hot - Mims
14. Axel F - Crazy Frog
15. Fergalicious - Fergie
16. Liquid Dreams - O-Town
17. Crank That (Soulja Boy) - Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em
18. Laffy Taffy - D4L
19. Chain Hang Low - Jibbs
20. My Neck, My Back (Lick It) - Khia
21. Put it On Me - Ja Rule featuring Lil' Mo and Vita
22. Lip Gloss - Lil’ Mama
23. Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father) - Lindsay Lohan
24. Get Low - Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz and Ying Yang Twins
25. I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull
26. Salt Shaker - Ying Yang Twins and Lil' John and the Eastside Boyz
27. Stanky Legg - GS Boyz
28. Blue (Da Be Dee) - Eiffel 65
29. Shots - LMFAO and Lil' John
30. Poker Face - Lady Gaga
31. You're a Jerk - New Boyz
32. Low - Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
33. She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd
34. Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
35. It’s Not Over - Daughtry
36. Just Dance - Lady Gaga and Colby O'Donis
37. Grills - Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp
38. Right Round - Flo Rida featuring Ke$ha
39. Grace Kelly - Mika
40. Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
41. It's Goin' Down - Yung Joc featuring Nitti
42. Pop - N*SYNC
43. Eat You Alive - Limp Bizkit
44. Home - Daughtry
45. Do I Make You Proud - Taylor Hicks
46. Word Up! - Korn
47. Clothes Off!!! - Gym Class Heroes featuring Patrick Stump
48. All the Above - Maino featuring T-Pain
49. I’m Not OK (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance
50. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - Good Charlotte
51. She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy - Kenny Chesney
52. LoveGame - Lady Gaga
53. Party Like a Rock Star - Shop Boyz
54. I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! at the Disco
55. 3 - Britney Spears
56. Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal) - Fergie
57. My Way - Limp Bizkit
58. Kiss Me Thru the Phone - Soulja Boy Tell 'em and Sammy
59. American Life - Madonna
60. Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit
61. Ur So Gay - Katy Perry
62. Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit
63. 24's - T.I.
64. The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars
65. Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
66. My Prerogative - Britney Spears
67. Lean Back - Terror Squad
68. I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
69. I Don’t Want to Be in Love (Dance Floor Anthem) - Good Charlotte
70. Not too Young, Not too Old - Aaron Carter featuring Nick Carter
71. Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’) - T-Pain featuring Yung Joc
72. Wait (The Whisper Song) - Ying Yang Twins
73. Don’t Trust Me - 3OH!3
74. Ms. New Booty - Bubba Sparxxx featuring Mr. ColliPark and the Ying Yang Twins
75. Hotel Room Service - Pitbull
76. With Arms Wide Open - Creed
77. Bartender - T-Pain featuring Akon
78. Handlebars - Flobots
79. Something in Your Mouth - Nickelback
80. Right Now (Na Na Na) - Akon
81. Goodies - Ciara featuring Petey Pablo
82. I’m Real - Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule
83. One Minute Man - Missy Elliot featuring Ludacris and Trina
84. Bodies - Downing Pool
85. My Sacrifice - Creed
86. U & Ur Hand - P!nk
87. My Love - Justin Timberlake featuring T.I.
88. Prom Queen - Lil' Wayne and Shanell
89. Ready, Set, Don't Go - Billy Ray Cyrus featuring Miley Cyrus
90. Turn My Swag On - Soulja Boy Tell ‘em
91. Love Don't Cost a Thing - Jennifer Lopez
92. L.O.V.E. - Ashlee Simpson
93. 1, 2 Step - Ciara featuring Missy Elliot
94. Shoulder Lean - Young Dro featuring T.I.
95. Get the Party Started - P!nk
96. Pimp Juice - Nelly
97. Right Thurr - Chingy
98. Womanizer - Britney Spears
99. Show Stopper - Danity Kane featuring Yung Joc
100. Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) - Big and Rich
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Keep Your Hand on My Head, Your Heart on Your Sleeve
Listening to All I Ever Wanted I feel I may have been a little to harsh when reviewing Kelly Clarkson’s last disk My December (see: You're Going Crazy, Running on Empty). My big complaint was that she tried to do too much herself, even if she had no ability to create a memorable melody, almost defiantly resulting in a bland cumbersome album. But on her new disk, the best tracks are actually the one with her hands on it.
The album starts off with handing the reigns over to other writers an d producers almost saying, if you want another Since U Been Gone, here you go” with first single My Life Would Suck Without You even opening up with the exact same guitar riff. Sadly the truly excellent riff from Gone, the ripped off one from The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Maps, is nowhere to be found. But in the end the song doesn’t even sound like Clarkson, instead sounds like Katy Perry trying to imitate her.
Perry actually shows up twice co-writing two of the weakest tracks on the album I Do Not Hook Up (co-written by Kara DioGuardi) and Long Shot (co-written with Glen Ballard). Both songs are dumbed down and riddled with over reaching clichĂ©s, pretty much your token Katy Perry song. And Since U Been Gone isn’t the only song that gets recreated as Don’t Let Me Stop You starts up with the same noted as Behind These Hazel Eyes.
Things don’t get much listenable until the Clarkson written Already Gone. But keep in mind the song was co-written and produced by the dude from One Republic, so it is about as adventurous as your typical Musak track. Actually, Save You sounds like Stop and Stare in the beginning and features the “I wish we were Coldplay” riffs in it too. Two of the songs Kelly didn’t write with Ryan Tedder are a bit poppier, and better. In fact I Want You may be the best late nineties teen pop songs never written and even harkens back to the girl groups of the sixties.
The album ends on a high note with the Keri Noble scribed If No One Will Listen which Clarkson could have written herself after the debacle surrounding her last record. And is a much better balled than the overdramatic and over dramatic Cry which will probably polluting the airwaves for the year and a half. But it will be If No One Will Listen that American Karaokers will be butchering for years to come.
Song to Download – I Want You
All I Ever Wanted gets a on my Terror Alert Scale.
Monday, February 09, 2009
We on Award Tour: 2009 Grammy Awards
A fairly low key event this year at the Grammy’s missing the usual goosebumps moments the show is known for instead there were too many head scratching moments. Really, the big surprise of the night was Stevie Wonder performing with the Jonas Brothers. And if I am not mistaken, this was the first year they didn’t run the “Awards previously handed out earlier” segment instead opting for a “go to gammy.com” to see those. Granted I am too lazy to do so. Here are some other thoughts from the night:
- Even though they were not up for any award, U2 opens up the show. Hopefully Get on Your Boots isn’t a preview of what is to come on their new album as it is just a Vertigo retread. Then we get our first awkward moment of the night with Bono throwing to Whitney Houston.
- I know they were engaged, but it is hard not to start laughing seeing I Love New York castoff Punk next to Jennifer Hudson, who takes home worst dressed award (M.I.A. gets a pass on account that she is nine months pregnant).
- The biggest showdown in the night didn’t actually take place in any announced category, but between The Rock and Jay Mohr between for most uncomfortable dialogues.
- The Rock throws to the next awkward moment of the evening with Justin Timberlake rambling on about stalking Al Green or something. Granted this performance was rushed together after Rihanna canceled her performance early Sunday after she may or may not have been assaulted by Chris Brown.
- I was a little disappointed that Coldplay didn’t get served during their performance. I actually thought that was Jay-Z was doing before I recognized him. And is Coldplay winning a Grammy for Viva la Vida the musical equivalent of Barry Bonds being the home run king?
- Was that Lita Ford playing guitar for Carrie Underwood?
- Miley Cyrus should go back to lip-syncing Hanna Montana songs for ten year olds. Singing live just isn’t her strong suit.
- A little part of my soul died watching Stevie Wonder slumming it with the Jonas Brothers. And isn’t Superstition a little too heavy for the teens. Will they be performing Walk on the Wild Side with Lou Reed next year?
- Do we really need a Blink-182 reunion? Certainly their sophomoric rock was fine when you’re twenty-three, but not when you are thirty-three.
- Did I miss the point of My Grammy Moment? Wasn’t it to perform with someone on stage at the Grammy’s, not having your video played on a screen behind someone for about twenty seconds? And one of the Jonas Brothers looked a little too excited during the Katy Perry performance.
- And here is why CBS is the number one network and NBC will be battling The CW soon. During their big event last week, NBC only promoted one night of television, while CBS actually spread out all their shows including upcoming ones. Although if I am Vegas, I setting the Over/Under on Harper’s Island at 5 episodes. That just looks cheesy. And can I go ahead and predict the Bride does it.
- It may be time for a Kanye West intervention. It is never a good sign when you are starting to look and dress like Michael Jackson circa Off the Wall.
- Well at least the Adele / Sugarland wasn’t as bad as when the country band joined BeyoncĂ© onstage for Irreplaceable.
- Why is USC the go to marching band? Certainly being in Los Angeles has something to do with it. But can’t someone give UCLA a little love?
- Shouldn’t T.I. be in jail by now? Since when do we let felons just wonder the country for a couple months before repaying their debt to society? To make maters worse, I have to sit through that horrible Justin Timberlake collaboration. That should add a couple more months to his sentence.
- Holy Neil Diamond sighting. But how do not get an all-star chorus to sing a drunken backup like has happen in every bar for the past thirty years? That could have been the highlight of the show.
- I would like to make it known I am completely against doubling and tripling up the tribute portion of the program.
- And the least surprising part of the night was the Robert Plant & Alison Krauss sweep. And that is your 2009 Grammy’s. Yay.
Monday, December 22, 2008
40 Worst Songs of 2008
A strange thing happened while compiling this year’s worst songs list: I actually had a hard time coming up with forty songs. Usually I can easily come up with a list off the top of my head. I am not sure if it was because there actually didn’t release as many bad songs as usual this year or if I was able to avoid them better this year. But in the end I was actually able to come up with the usual forty to signify the death of Top 40 radio. Here are the songs that made my ears bleed the last three hundred and sixty-five days. Wait, sixty-six, it was leap year. And don’t forget the extra second they are tacking onto the end of this year.
1. When I Grow Up - The Pussycat Dolls
2. Womanizer - Britney Spears
3. I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
4. Lollipop - Lil’ Wayne and Static Major
5. Damaged - Danity Kane
6. Higher - Heidi Montag
7. So What - P!nk
8. Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya) - Ashlee Simpson
9. Official Girl - Cassie featuring Lil’ Wayne
10. Break the Ice - Britney Spears
11. 4 Minutes - Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
12. Can't Believe It - T-Pain featuring Lil’ Wayne
13. Like Me - Girlicious
14. I'm So Paid - Akon, Lil’ Wayne, and Young Zeezy
15. In the Ayer - Flo Rida featuring will.i.am
16. Ur So Gay - Katy Perry
17. Something In Your Mouth - Nickelback
18. Single - New Kids on the Block featuring Ne-Yo
19. Spotlight - Jennifer Hudson
20. Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
21. Chopped N Skrewed - T-Pain featuring Ludacris
22. Nine In the Afternoon - Panic at the Disco
23. Handlebars - Flowbots
24. Feels Like Tonight - Daughtry
25. Got Money - Lil’ Wayne featuring T-Pain
26. Dangerous - Kardinal Offishall featuring Akon
27. Elevator - Flo Rider
28. What About Now - Daughtry
29. Circus - Britney Spears
30. One Step At a Time - Jordin Sparks
31. Summertime - New Kids on the Block
32. Over You - Daughtry
33. Love In This Club - Usher featuring Young Jeezy
34. Fly On the Wall - Miley Cyrus
35. Sorry - Buckcherry
36. Put On - Young Jeezy featuring Kanye West
37. The Time of My Life - David Cook
38. Falling Down - Scarlett Johansson
39. Pocketful of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield
40. Crush - David Archuleta
Monday, September 08, 2008
We on Award Tour: 2008 Video Music Awards
What the frak happened to the Video Music Awards? Once the bastion of everything cool has turned into the most unwatchable thing on television. Even in the lean years, they were still able to line up legitimate stars. As much as I complained about last year’s show it still featured Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Linkin Park and Foo Fighters. This year is packed with groups that in past years would not have the resume to land them an opening show spot. Really only Kid Rock has actually sold multimillion albums. Seriously, who the frak is Tokyo Hotel? Danity Kane? Yeah, there was no blatant synergy there at all. MTV obviously knew the star power equaled that of your local public access begging to get Christina Aguilara and Kanye West to perform at the last minute pulling Kanye out of his MTV ban a year after promising never to go on the show again.
And it isn’t just the performers that were low star wattage because, the people handing out the moonmen were pretty sad too: Miley Cyrus, the cast of High School Music, the dude from Gossip Girl? You know what the VMA’s have turned into: the Teen Choice Awards. This may be my swan song for the VMA because they have decided that anyone older than fifteen and with male parts could possibly enjoy anything this crap. Here are other complaints with this year’s show:
- Instead of any music in the pre-show we get random people dancing. Um, yeah, okay. I guess that makes sense because all the pre-show quality artists were sadly invited to play on the big show. Yeah, that was the most worthless pre-show ever.
- Ooo, a new Survivor-style version of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Can’t wait. One thing I can wait for: another Paris Hilton reality show.
- Who invited Kobe Bryant? Aren’t there too many teenage white girls around for him to be invited to? If you invite Kobe Bryant, shouldn’t you invite Chris Hansen too?
- “Better luck next year T-Pain, if you’re still relevant,” I not sure who the dude who said that, but no truer words were spoken tonight. I bet less than half the people this year won’t warrant an invite next year.
- Britney Spears opening the VMA’s again. Yawn. Have we not learned from Crossroads that she cannot act.
- Wow, the place where the VMA’s took place looked about the size of the TRL set. This is really sad. The economy is really as bad as they say it is.
- I really dislike that Disturbia song, it is an obvious attempt at trying to recreate Thriller but it is no where near as catchy. But I did like the Seven Nation Army interlude. And can we keep the clippers away from Rihanna. It is like ever single she releases she cuts off even more hair.
- Congratulation Russell Brand, you went from hilarious to humongous tool even faster than Dane Cook. I guess I shouldn’t have expected much from a guy who dressed up like Osama bin Ladin the day after 9/11. If you can get on your knees to get Kanye West back, why can’t you do the same for Chris Rock?
- DJ AM and Travis Barker are the house band? Really? Since when is dating reality stars make you relevant?
- For those lucky enough to avoid the Jonas Brother phenomenon, they are basically Hanson but without legitimately catchy songs. That in no insult to Hanson who actually play all the instruments themselves when they play live.
- Luckily we only have to put with ten seconds of Katy Perry singing.
- Yeah, the Michael Phelps hosted Saturday Night Live isn’t going to be any good.
- Why invite Lil’ Wayne to perform if you are just going to censor every third word out of his mouth? Then you have T-Pain who didn’t bother to lip-sync half his performance.
- Did Lindsay Lohan said she had a dance off with AC/DC. When did this happen? Was Angus wearing his kilt? And is it on YouTube? And wasn’t Fannie Pack the people that did that horrible Camel Toe song from a few years ago.
- Paramore: best made for the pre-show.
- Wow, Russell Brand just got put on blast by Jordin Sparks. You go girl.
- Was T.I. just rapping over his song playing on the CD player? That’s some eighth grade talent show stuff.
- Add to my who are these guys list: Josh and Drake.
- I guess it is apropos that Brittany would win three awards at the biggest train wreck of the year.
- Kanye, don’t sing ever again. Ever.
- So there is another VMA, no big surprises and we are stuck at the watercooler again for the forth year in a row with nothing to talk about except about how bad it was.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Voted Most Likely to End up on the Back of a Milk Box Drink
Certainly by now you have heard the not a Jill Sobule cover I Kissed a Girl or the ode to Ryan Seacrest You’re so Gay by Katy Perry (I featured the former in a battle of the not cover songs last week). Calling the reviews for her album One of the Boys mixed would be an understatement. Billboard said, “Not since Jagged Little Pill has a debut album been so packed with potential hits,” while Rolling Stone labeled it “boring.”
The Alanis Morissette comparison could come more from the appearance of Glen Ballard who co-wrote her debuted album and hasn’t been heard since help making the worst Dave Matthews Band album of their career. But a much better comparison would be Avril Lavigne if she let her keyboardist have too much control in her band. Not surprisingly, sometime Lavigne producer Dr. Luke also shows up on One of the Boys.
This is not to disrespect Lavigne who has been able to create a few catchy songs in her career and can actually carry a tune. Perry on the other hand has a voice that gets grating fast sounding like the leader of a bad new wave band from the eighties and as Rolling Stone were point on by calling the album boring; it is just one paint by number angst track after another. The only tracks that stand out are the two novelty tracks previously mention, but Perry’s novelty wears thin a lot sooner than even Who Let the Dogs Out as each got tiresome about the second listen.
It is funny that Perry makes fun of emo rockers in You’re So Gay, because if a dude sang any of her songs, he’d definitely wear guyliner and be signed to Pete Wentz’s label. Self Inflicted is so laughable as a song you have to wonder if it is supposed to be as tongue and cheek as her novelty songs. And her love for eighties new wave, a precursor to emo, almost goes over the edge on If You Can Afford Me which changes enough notes from The Cure’s Just Like Heaven to avoid a copyright suit.
Song to Download - I'm Still Breathing - One of the Boys
One of the Boys gets a on my Terror Alert Scale.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Toss Up: Katy Perry vs Charlotte Sometimes
Every couple days I troll the internet for new music video and usually I still to acts I already know unless there is a big buzz around a new artist or if a title just catches my eye. Videos by Katy Perry and Charlotte Sometimes basically caught my eye for the exact same reason, I thought that I Kissed a Girl and How I Could Kill a Man were covers of Jill Sobule and Cypress Hill respectively and was severely disappointed when it turned out neither were. So let’s break them down individually to their predecessors:
I Kissed a Girl - Jill Sobule
What a different a decade makes. The Jill Sobule version would have been shocking had it not have been so cheesy. Not we have Katy Perry presumably trying to be shocking with her Girls Gone Wild video with all the good parts taken out. But you can find more shocking things on ABC Family in primetime these days. They you replace upbeat pop with dirty techno. Even worse: no Fabio cameo.
How I Could Just Kill a Man - Cypress Hill
With MTV’s anti-violence stance it was shocking when Yo! MTV Raps started spinning the Cypress Hill song back in the early nineties. But ever since the Dixie Chicks said goodbye to Earl, it seems like every pop tart from Kelly Clarkson to that arsonist Taylor Swift want to do bodily harm to a jilted ex, so again, not so shocking over a decade later.
Okay, I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising that neither could stack up to the original. But as for the premise for the Toss Up between the two new songs, the clear winner is Charlotte Sometimes as her song is at least remotely catchy.
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