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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

New Video: M.I.A. executes 100% swagger on "Bad Girls" video


Besides spending most of the time between Madgina's legs, M.I.A. actually found  time to release her new  Danja produced single called "Bad Girls".  She dropped this swag-tastic song before the Super Bowl and damn, did she cash in on that move.

I really went in with low expectations. I have to admit, I'm not the biggest M.I.A. fan here, but what she served up here left me bald. This song is friggin' addicting, starting with the amazing drums in the beginning, continuing with the oriental synths, and finally the beats dropping and the swaggerific rap that M.I.A. delivers, leading to that catchy line: "Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well."

The video is simply refreshing; filmed on location in Morocco with "Born Free" director Romain Gavras. They gave the whole Fast & Furious franchise a run for their money. It is fun to watch, and don't miss M.I.A. occasionally doing her nails while two-wheel drifting.

Lady Gaga unveils tackiest cover ever for the "BORN THIS WAY BALL"

Lady Gaga simply won't sit the fuck down, that's why she went and released the poster "Born This Way Ball" last night on twitter. She wrote:

"You know I work on so many art projects all the time when I see you guys online. I feel like we're all doing homework together."

Will puh-lease, some art teacher slap a hoe, and give her already an "F"?! This shit don't look guud. I gotta give her credit for consistency though, because the entire "Born This Way"-era was a hot mess including her ragged album cover, but that's about it. Seriously, it feels like someone gave her the newest Photoshop edition, she went on to pop some pills and started screwing with  some promo pictures and a random castle that she found on Google.

I neither get why she's wants to go ahead with 450 tour dates. I am so over this era, I simply want her to sit down, record a new album and wow me for once. Instead she's not willing to let go or keep it to a minimum, no she was born to annoy us with over saturating everything. This is in my opinion simply a random act, to prove to herself that she's able to go head to head with Madonna.

Check out the stage after the jump.

Friday, February 3, 2012

New Video: Madonna - Give Me All Your Luvin'


I L-U-V THIS!

It's here, the official video in its entire glory for Madonna's "Give Me All Your Luvin' (feat. M.I.A. & Nicki Minaj)". I loved it, it reminded me of a lot of video's mixed all together. From Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl", to Kylie Minogue's "Come Into My World" and "All the Lovers".  Plus, we received some old school 1993 Madonna, I loved that style on her. But in general, Madge looked nice, was youthful and classy, and I loved M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj being on Madonna's side, showing the deserved respect to the queen and embracing their irrelevancy. 


HEY EVEN LADY GAGA MADE A CAMEO!



BUT LUCKILY SOMEBODY SAVED THE QUEEN.

As to the song, it's definitely a grower but not an instant smash as for example "Hung up" was, it reminds me a lot to early 2000-era Madonna. It's nice and everything, but we'll see how the rest of the album sounds like. I'm really looking forward to William Orbit's contributions. Martin Solveig left me kinda cold with this one, the breakdown was the most irrelevant piece of shit I've heard in a long time. The only thing that redeemed that mess, was Madonna's throw-back style and Nicki & M.I.A.'s rap. But who know, I might be over this song like a fly over a piece of shit. 

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Listen to the iTunes preview of Madonna's "Give Me All Your Luvin' (Feat. M.I.A.and Nicki Minaj)


ARE Y-O-U READY TO L-U-V MADONNA'S NEW SINGLE?

Well, it's not out yet, but as you all might know Japan has already February 3, which means that they're able to buy it. So far I wasn't able to find a copy of the full song, but what I could find was the official iTunes preview for "Give Me All Your Luvin'".

I can't really tell a huge difference from the demo, aside form the fact that the whole recording sounds obviously cleaner and the chants (L-U-V Madonna!) seem to be stronger. Oh, and let's not forget Nicki's rap during the end of the snippet, where she's doing her usual roars as her alter ego "Roman".


Well, I wasn't a huge fan of the demo when it leaked, but I really have to say that I'm starting to like the song. It simply sounds different, I just really hope that Madonna comes correct with the album.



WHO'S READY FOR SOME MDNA? Y-O-U, YOU WANNA?
YASSS!!!


Girls' Generation enter the charts in Spain (reported by channel "La Sexta")


Yesterday's performance of "The Boy" on Live with Kelly! and The Late Show with David Letterman  didn't remain unnoticed. In fact, a Spanish channel called La Sexta made a short report about the girls actually entering as the first Asian group in the Spanish charts. I'm half Spanish, I totally get it that they are breaking English speaking markets, but Spanish people listening to Korean music sounds somewhat surreal. Which, actually is a stupid thing, cause my buddy @sukowegalrevo lives in Spain, is Spanish and would sell his first born child to get to meet Koda Kumi and fellow Asian stars.

This girls are taking over the world by storm with the least amount of effort. I mean they are not even really promoting in the US. They're just doing it for fun, because they just felt like performing there and to make their fans a happy. 

Deep down I always wished that K-Pop and J-Pop would cross over eventually, but now that's starting to happen I'm quite overwhelmed with it. I mean if they take over Europe and they would, if the plans for a Europe debut are true, this means that people know them and my friends would eventually stop shaking there heads at me, because I listen to this sound. I would no longer be the unicorn in my area. That's fucked up.

Dead and buried. 
(Due to a mental instability, please ignore above paragraph and continue reading this blog without further ado)

Lana Del Rey covers VOGUE & storms the charts

Lana Del Rey will be featured on the March cover of the UK Vogue. Let me tell you she looks absolutely stunning, and her eyes are simply mesmerizing. The cover was photographed by Mario Testino, and the magazine will be available on Monday, February 6.
Make sure to get your copy.

Nobody has had so much haters and lovers a the same time as Lana, but it seems like all the bad press she had, is not really affecting her. In fact she's busy slaying the charts around the world. Being on number #1 on 11 different countries already, and entering next week the Billboard Hot 100 on the #2 spot, only held back by Adele's never ending reign.

The UK singer is set to earn her 19th consecutive week at #1 having reportedly pushed another 116'000 copies oh 21. Cuh-razay!

Non-the-less, Lana remains un-bothered, occupying the iTunes charts in the US, and only within an hour of it's release it was already #1. Haters, take a seat.

Rihanna to release full version "Birthday Cake" on her B'day!


WHO WANTS SOME CAKE?

I still remember the aftertaste that "Birthday Cake" left behind after it stopped all of a sudden. I really felt the need to take a baseball bat and go Breezy-style on Rihanna. How dare she cut that shit to 1 minute and 18 seconds. I was in complete disbelief, when I realized that this was it! One of the hottest tracks on that record - a filthy hip-hop cut, fusion-ed with a dirty bass synth and a combination of hand-claps and chants, that would transform any catholic nun, into a professional pussy-popper - simply cut short.

Take a listen:


Well the good news is, the sex anthem became such a fan favorite, that Riri has finally decided to give their starving Navy-sluts exactly what they want. She will allegedly release the full length version of "Birthday Cake" on her Birthday, February 20. In fact the producer of the song "The Internz", reconfirmed that statement.

This are some good news, now my next question is? Will there be a video? Who knows? The fact is, this are great news. 



#CAKECAKECAKECAKECAKECAKECAKE!!!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Girls Generation continue the slayage with "The Boys" on Live with Kelly!


After basically shutting that shit down on the Late Show with David Letterman, the girls returned this morning with another performance of "The Boys"on the Live with Kelly! show. The whole performance was kept shorter, there was no remix, but non-the-less, these hoes went all in and came out with wigs. The audience; bald!

I was impressed at how secure they seemed. No more nerves in sight, definitely an improvement over the Letterman performance. The choreography was on point, the singing was also good, besides Sunny fucking up her part, but I'm gonna let it slide.

After performing the shit out of "The Boys", and leaving Kelly Ripa with the wish to join SNSD, they went on to speak about how they became Girls Generation and went on about the auditioning process. Soon after that, they started showing Kelly and Howie Mandel some moves. Very entertaining, indeed.

I'm really proud of this girls, to be the first act to perform on late night television. A huge step for K-Pop and in general the Asian music scene. Congratulations!!

P.S.: They so need to get a performance on Ellen.

New Album: Capsule - Stereo Worxxx & New Single: Step on the floor


Capsule are finally back with a new album and I simply can't believe it's been almost a year since they released World of Fantasy. Toshiko Koshijma and Yasutaka Nakata are back on that grind. I see that Toshiko went for the longer hair this year, probably because MEG's hair is getting shorter by the minute.

Anyway so far I really like the cover, but I'm not feeling the hair. I preferred the wig she was sporting on World of Fantasy, but as long as the album slays my life I'm cool with it. The album is set to be released on March 7, a good month from now. The first single "Step On The Floor" was released today at midnight on the Japanese iTunes-store. They just have released the new track list:

Standard Edition
1. Feelin' Alright
2. Never Let Me Go
3. In The Rain
4. Dee J
5. Step On The Floor
6. Tapping Beats
7. All The Way
8. Motor Force
9. Transparent
Limited Bonus Disc
1. Feelin' Alright ( Extended-Mix )
2. Never Let Me Go ( Extended-Mix )
3. In The Rain ( Extended-Mix )
4. Dee J ( Extended-Mix )
5. All The Way ( Extended-Mix )
6. Motor Force ( Extended-Mix )
The tracklist's length is pretty much what we get every year from Capsule, not to long and not to short. I guess they rather have less songs than having a filler in there that ruins the whole thing. As to the single "Step On The Floor", is quite nice I won't go all in on a review, because I only listened to it once. What I could make out, is that there's a lot of vocals and the production stinks of Perfume's latest album JPN. Yes, I get it Nakata had his fingers on both projects, but I would have wished that he went with something well...how to put this, more "original". Don't get me wrong I like the song, but it didn't slay my life as much as the single "World of Fantasy" did or the album track "PRIME TIME". Yes, I am a fan since last year, and I know that they're sound used to sound different and less mainstream, but still before you roast a bitch let me tell you that I also enjoy they're older work.

Give "Step On The Floor" a listen here.

I guess, at this point I'll just shut up and give the new single another listen, don't be shocked if I comeback an edit my opinion on this one.

Ciara enlists Bangladesh & LMFAO producers for 5th album


It seems like C-Error is trying everything to make that hit record happen, that's why she's back in the studio working on her 5th studio album, like the rent was due yesterday. It has been confirmed that she's been working with popular producer Bangladesh and the producers behind LMFAO's success "Party Rock Anthem" (Goon Rock, Josh Stephens and Dre Koon).

Koon mentioned that the song they produced for CiCi, would be a song that would reach mainstream radios. Will this grant Cici, that global smash hit? That is still to be seen. On the other hand Bangladesh would provide her definitely the urban songs, since his latest work to date is "Cockiness". The aggressive , sexual hard hitting anthem that he served up for Rihanna's newest album Talk that Talk.

Ciara really needs to come hard with this album, and I really hope that the label change plus a more mainstream appeal will get her at least some shine. Her last two albums have been complete flops, I already thought it would be curtains after Basic Instinct, but she's still on that grind trying to get again on top of those charts. She's already had her second chance and she failed. She needs that hit, her 17 fans that are left, will definitely not get her on top again of the charts.

Watch Girls Generation slay America with "The Boys" on Letterman!


First, Wondergirls, then BoA and later on Utada Hikaru. Now it's Girls Generation's turn to debut on US television. The nine girls, made The Late Show with David Letterman  their first stop on their short US-promotion for The Boys.

I really have to say, they did an amazing job with this performance. There were of course some nerves in the beginning, but after the first verses they were able to shake them off. I was kind of disappointed with the camera work, those guys had no idea how to frame this girls. I guess they were completely overwhelmed by the amount of girls that where dancing, grinding and two-stepping. But they sure as hell, must have liked Sooyoung, she was all the time in the picture.

To the vocals, well it was 60% miming and the rest well Taeyeon. What also did piss me off: couldn't they have cleared the stage completely? Poor Sunny, almost crashed against the keyboard. But over all, they really  managed to deliver a good performance, leaving David Letterman in awe and the audience with a WTF face: "Whut? There's a choreography and they're not dressed like prostitutes or trannies?" YES, that's right.
Sorry, I had to throw some shade at Rihanna, Britney and Lady Gaga.

And might I add: #DEAD at the fanboys singing "GG". That just made my day. 

Girls Generation represent. Good job ladies, now all you need to do is slay Live with Kelly and book a performance on the Ellen Degeneres Show. To bad they're album The Boys sucks so much, they would have slayed with an English version of their Japanese debut album.



ANYWAY THEY SLAYED!
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