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Britney Spears Femme Fatale Album Snippets

Mar 2nd, 2011
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For those who like listening to their albums 30-seconds at a time, below are all the officially-released snippets from Femme Fatale. The Britney Spears Sound Cloud account lists all those songs released and the unit below should play them, one after another, in order. The songs in snippets-of-seconds are as follows: Criminal, which was released hours ago and sounds like a reject Nelly Furtado or Shakira track; Seal It With A Kiss, which sounds better suited to her Baby One More Time album; The Big Fat Bass, with Will.I.Am of The Black Eyed Peas, which I skim-read as ‘The Big Fat Ass,’ I’m not kidding, is the only stand-out; How I Roll is interesting, and is probably going to be pretty good; I Wanna Go sounds like European pop music from 1992 (something better placed losing Eurovision); Inside Out, the shortest at only 15 seconds is pretty good though.

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Jessie J Will Make US Television Debut on SNL

Mar 1st, 2011
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I wouldn’t usually cover this. However, there’s so little going on with my native British music scene that I’m into right now and Jessie J’s Do It Like A Dude was one of the very few tracks of the last 12 months that I liked enough to play on repeat. The only real exception to the ‘Wow, the scene’s gotten really lazy since I last paid attention,’ being a handful of rappers including Tinie Tempah (whose track, Pass Out, was one of the only British singles to get my blood pumping in about five years); pretty much the entire group of people I’m talking about are featured on one track, Game Over, the video for which is here. The 22-year-old Essex girl will be the musical guest on the March 12 episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Zach Galifianakis as SNL resigns itself to not trying at all to find interesting presenters. The singer, who released her album in the UK today, will perform Price Tag and Casualty of Love, rather than Do It Like A Dude, one month before the American release of her album, Who You Are, on April 12. DILAD is below and you can check out some more of her music on her YouTube.

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Did Kanye West Rip-Off All Of The Lights Video?

Feb 21st, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Watch Kanye West All Of The Lights music video featuring Rihanna and Kid Cudi.

Kanye West released his All Of The Lights music video at the end of last week, but I was entirely too distracted by the Britney Spears Hold It Against Me video to notice. Along with potential legal news about this video from the weekend, I’m posting this now rather than overlooking it altogether. It’s being alleged by some, who noticed the similarities, that sections of the above video rip-off the opening sequence of the 2010 film Enter the Void, directed by Gaspar Noe. That intro is below for comparison. All Of The Lights is one song on West’s album I kept skipping initially because its introduction is annoying. Then, once it got going, the vocal from Rihanna grated my nerves. Only recently did I hear it all the way through, and the beat was pretty good, if nothing else. The video features Rihanna and Kid Cudi (I’m not ashamed to admit I have no idea who Cudi is). There are stills from the video below, because there are some interesting visuals in the opening section before we move on to the seconds and seconds of gratuitous cuts and shots of Rihanna’s almost bare breasts. Seriously, as a straight girl I couldn’t look at her face, she was showing that much front/ side/ under-boob. She covered her areola with inches-wide material and called it a day. It’s even less covered than the neckerchief-as-a-shirt I wear to buy groceries. It’s obscene. OBSCENE, I tell you. It’s so obscene I capped the heck out of it.


Watch opening title sequence to 2010′s Enter the Void, directed by Gaspar Noe.

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Nicole Kidman Grammys Red Carpet Pictures

Feb 14th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Nicole Kidman walked the red carpet at this Sunday’s Grammy Awards 2011. The actress arrived at the awards with husband Keith Urban who’s a country singer. Apparently. Kidman is one of the two women during the weekend who decided to dress as a mermaid from the Ocean Of Glitter And Lies. Katy Perry wore her mermaid dress to some event before the awards (and dressed like a deformed Victoria’s secret angel for the night itself). Kidman’s attempting to smile. And, with some kind of Morse code one can blink using only the corners of one’s eyes, she’s telling you she’s happy to be there. The mother-of-two, who has a newborn baby at home after welcoming another child using a surrogate, has been making great strides in her attempts to emote now that she’s peeing away all that botox.

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Eva Longoria Grammys 2011 Red Carpet Photos

Feb 14th, 2011
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Eva Longoria’s red carpet arrival at the 2011 Grammys is above. The Desperate Housewives actress has to ensure the cameras stay on her and she remains newsworthy now that the divorce from her ex-husband is out of the way. Which is why the 36-year-old (who I typod twice as 26… yes, really) is wearing two halves of what were probably very nice prom dresses. I’m kidding. In equal measure, I want to eat/ wear her Ashi dress, Sergio Rossi clutch, and Brian Atwood shoes.

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Kim Kardashian Grammys Red Carpet Pictures

Feb 14th, 2011
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Kim Kardashian got lost and wandered towards the lights of the weekend’s Grammys. Kardashian is one of the people I was hoping to be able to mock for turning up to the Grammys on a whim, despite only having the most tenuous of links to the music industry (in this case, being on the Internet with a musician’s penis in her mouth has scored her tickets… or perhaps she used Ray J’s penis as a pen and forged her own tickets at home). Kardashian is dressed as the Ying to Jennifer Lopez’s Yang since she’s morphing into Lopez’s waxwork circa 2001.

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