pop culture served up for your delight…
By ph. diddy on Oct 21, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
Love her or hate her, Beyonce is a worldwide force to be reckoned with:
Some 5,000 adoring fans in Ethiopia — a country normally unimpressed by Western music — turned out to see Beyonce. In this country, even teens tend to be loyal to music in the national language, Amharic. But Beyonce got a hysterical welcome […]
By ph. diddy on Oct 12, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
“Blackout,” Britney Spear’s first album in more than four years, will come out in the United States on October 30 via Jive Records, and a day earlier internationally. I wonder how many albums she will sell. Hmmm…
By ph. diddy on Oct 10, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
Wow, I really didn’t think that Jive would actually release Britney’s new CD. But not only are they going ahead with plans to release the new CD, they are moving the release date up by two weeks.
Britney Spears’ “Blackout” is coming sooner than expected.
The pop star’s eagerly anticipated new album will be released Oct. […]
By ph. diddy on Oct 1, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
Radiohead said its seventh studio album “In Rainbows” would be available from Radiohead.com from October 10 in MP3 format, meaning it can be played on all digital devices. In the latest twist in the move to digital music, fans can choose how much to pay, or can pay nothing if they prefer. source
By ph. diddy on Sep 26, 2007 in Music | 1 Comment
After nearly a decade away without releasing an album, Chaka Khan is poised to make a return to the music scene:
Khan teamed up with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to make “Funk This,” which is being released by the Sony-distributed Burgundy Records imprint.
The album mixes originals and covers, the latter including Prince’s “Sign O’ […]
By ph. diddy on Sep 21, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
A lot of divas and others have decided that November is the month to release an album:
Rumored releases:
Mariah Carey
Mary J. Blige
Britney Spears
Madonna
Jay Z
Locked in dates:
November 13th
Celine Dion “Taking Chances”
November 26th
Kylie Minogue “X”
By ph. diddy on Sep 10, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
So the Britney Spears backlash is in full effect.
As in most train wrecks, it was hard to focus on just one thing as the Britney Spears disaster unfolded. There was just so much that went wrong.
An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked about performance of the MTV Video […]
By ph. diddy on Aug 26, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
Rank
Movie Title
Estimated Weekend Gross
Cumulative
Gross
1
Superbad
$18,000,000
$68,572,000
2
The Bourne Ultimatum
$12,361,000
$185,143,000
3
Rush Hour 3
$12,250,000
$109,013,000
4
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
$10,121,000
$10,121,000
5
War
$10,000,000
$10,000,000
6
The Nanny Diaries
$7,811,000
$7,811,000
7
The Simpsons Movie
$4,400,000
$173,437,000
8
Stardust
$3,954,000
$26,455,000
9
Hairspray
$3,450,000
$107,456,000
10
The Invasion
$3,140,000
$11,515,000
11
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
$2,480,000
$283,309,000
12
Underdog
$2,243,000
$36,637,000
By ph. diddy on Aug 21, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
This may be the beginning of a beautiful relationship:
Wal-Mart’s online music store started selling songs free of copy-protection technology today for 94 cents per tune.
The songs from the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Maroon 5, among others, will play on most portable media devices, including Apple Inc.’s iPod.
Anyway, after taking a closer look at Walmart’s music […]
By ph. diddy on Aug 6, 2007 in Music | 0 Comments
Taking from a line from the Maury Povich show, “Chris: You are not the father”.
A lawyer for Chris Rock said Monday that a court-ordered DNA test proved Rock is not the father of a 13-year-old boy whose mother tried to sue the comedian for support earlier this year.
Rock’s attorney, John Mayoue of Atlanta, said a […]
