Mom’s Madonna
Front Porch
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Karen Rivera
Most of the houses in my neighborhood have a backyard Madonna keeping watch. This one, graceful and simple, is perfectly placed on a pale stucco front porch. Freshly painted and draped with a rosary made form silver roses and small birds, this front porch Madonna adds color and spirituality.
My friend Steven Christopher Wallace texted me today to tell me he had finally watched one of my favorite movies, “To Live and Die in L.A.” which he had never seen before due to extreme procrastination. The conversation brought on one of my childhood flashbacks. I remember in perhaps 1986, as a wide eyed, jean jacket wearing, mirror tinted sunglasses sporting, prepubescent 80’s kid, that one of the only times I ever bonded with my stepdad was one afternoon we sat on the couch and watched “To Live and Die in LA” in its entirety followed by a basketball game(the Chicago Bulls vs. someone.) It is one of the few memories I have of being a child where there was not some sort of anxiety or childhood trauma involved. And I use the word “trauma” loosely as in from the perspective of a child. Getting grounded no TV for a week for sneaking your football back from the 3rd grade teacher who unjustly took it from you…or having to sleep with the lights out with a talking Pee Wee Herman doll visible in your room is traumatic to a kid.
Speaking of the 80’s, whenever I hear popular 80’s songs I am reminded of how I comically misheard the lyrics to many of them:
Take for example the chorus of Madonna’s “Material Girl” which I heard many times being dragged shopping with my Dynasty era, diet pepsi drinking 80’s mom. Waiting hours and hours while my mother spent ungodly amounts of time browsing and trying on shoulder padded clothing and pantyhose at fashionation (a hip 80’s clothing store not to be confused with the porno boutique chain “fascinations”)
“everybody’s living in a material world, and i am a material girl”
is how it went, but I mistook the lyrics for:
“cause everybody’s living in a cereal world, and I am in a cereal bowl”
And I REALLY thought those were the words to the song.
another fine example was how I thought the song “The Heat is On” was really “Peter’s Uncle” (I had a friend named Peter, though why someone would be writing a song about his uncle and it subsequently playing on nationally syndicated radio was outside the bb gun scope of my logic at the time)
I still remember the disappointment while riding in a truck when I told my own uncle how “I really like that song that just played, “Peter’s Uncle” only to have him get briefly confused, laugh and then tell me “that’s not Peter’s Uncle” it’s “The Heat is on.”
And so it is. In the real world of material girls, here I am a serial boy, in a cereal bowl, living in a cereal world…kind of explains a lot. I’ve often wondered if I was perhaps the ONLY person out of the millions who heard these songs to interpret the lyrics in this fashion.
I recently came across a website for creating fantasy music festival lineups. Needless to say, I got excited about it!
I’ve been such a terrible poster lately, but hopefully me sharing this awesome website will make you like me again. Sooo, here’s my music festival choices. Do you agree with me? How much could I charge for tickets?
My overall eargasmic concert experience with an indie rock emphasis:
If you can’t read the picture, the bands are: Tegan and Sara, Death Cab for Cutie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fiona Apple, Guster, The National, Phantom Planet, The xx, Uh Huh Her, Phoenix, St. Vincent, Ra Ra Riot, Florence + the Machine, Wintersleep, Metric.
If I started a dance party music festival…
Shiny Toy Guns, Madonna, Prince, La Roux, Lady Gaga, Peaches, MGMT, Of Montreal, Freezepop, Amanda Blank, Shwayze, M.I.A, The Veronicas, Moby, 3OH!3
If it was 30-40 years ago…
The Doors, Steve Miller Band, Pink Floyd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jimi Hendrix, Styx, Queen, Rush, Jefferson Airplane, The Clash, XTC, Tom Petty, The Doobie Brothers, Steppenwolf, Carole King.
-mmbizz
Ok, so maybe I am only posting this so I had the opportunity to type out the above title.
Digital Spy is reporting that Madonna is hell bent on fostering her Latin lover, Jesus Luz’s recording…career.
Apparently Madonna has floated all of the recording session expenses and set Jesus up with remixer Victor Calderone (‘Frozen’). Reportedly, Jesus was granted a two-single deal, after the refusal by Warner, Madonna’s former record label, of an entire album.
If true, this is almost as bad as when Britney was paying the bill for KFed’s budding rap career. As one member of a pop forum community so astutely put it: ‘Madonna can’t even earn a #1 these days, what hope does she possible have for Jesus?’
I think Madonna should nix this idea straight away and go back to recording a Confessions part II album.
What are your thoughts? Are you ready for international pop star Jesus? Sound off in the comments or @popboi on twitter.
It’s an age-old tale.
Boys in heavy metal band on the verge of rocking the planet meet 13-year-old girl. Girl hates boys in band. Boys in band batter a smurf. The private yacht they are all on sinks. Boys in band are marooned on a desert island with only a pink Hello Kitty ghetto blaster, a case of batteries, the 13-year-old’s 1980s pop music CD collection and 158 cases of schnapps for company.
Ah… how often have we seen that sad story play out?
Such is the legend of Rock Sugar (full legend here). However, for the band, and fans of great music, there is a happy ending.
Twenty years later, the band were rescued by tuna fishermen and now they are back and ready to rock on from where they left off. With a twist.
Two decades of listening to 80s teenybopper music has left a mark – Popholm syndrome, as the band amusingly describe it – and now Rock Sugar is a musical nexus where the heaviest of metal collides with the lightest, catchiest and, um, cheesiest of bubblegum pop.
Okay, so, in other words, stripping away the wonderfully silly back story, we’re essentially in mash-up territory here. Or should that be mosh-up..?
I can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of the mash-up – they never improve on the original component parts and if they involves a song I like, it just annoys me to hear it ruined by some idiot playing about with mixing software on his computer.
But Rock Sugar bring something new to the mix. For a start, they are performing the songs, rather than just cutting and pasting other people’s recordings together.
But more importantly, they bring a sense of fun that transforms the mash-up from the dry, soulless technical exercise it essentially is into something… wonderful.
The 13 tracks on Rock Sugar’s debut album, Reimaginator, are an astonishing fusion of no fewer than 34 songs by rock heavyweights such as Metallica, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue and Judas Priest with catchy pop-rock anthems from the likes of Journey, Eurythmics, Rick Springfield, Bon Jovi, Madonna and Queen.
The album opener, which is generating massive internet buzz at the moment, is Don’t Stop The Sandman, which blends Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing and Metallica’s Enter Sandman to simply stunning effect.
I know, I know… the Journey song has been hugely over-exposed in the last year or so, from its memorable use in the final scene of The Sopranos, through being massacred in last year’s The X Factor (in the UK) and, most recently, the surprisingly decent version performed by the cast of TV smash hit (and, the Choob must admit, one of my guilty TV pleasures) Glee.
But Rock Sugar’s version will make you look at the song in a whole new light. In a good way.
The official video has only been up on YouTube for about six weeks and already, through only word of mouth, has just smashed through the 200,000 views mark. Here it is, see what you think:
Great though it is, Don’t Stop The Sandman is really just the curtain-raiser to the album. You can stream all the tracks on the band’s official site, and most are also up on YouTube too, so I won’t go through them all.
However, here are a few that I think are particularly awesome (I’ll leave you to work out what’s been mashed together).
First up we have Prayin’ For A Sweet Weekend:
Next, Shook Me Like A Prayer:
And finally, Dreaming Of A Whole Lotta Breakfast:
There are countless ways this could have all gone horribly wrong and been an embarrassing mess – but it’s hard to imagine how it could possibly have turned out better.
And that is surely a testament to the fact that the band have genuine musical talent to back up their high-concept idea. Yes, there is a gimmick inherent in their music – but there’s nothing gimmicky about their inspired choices of songs to combine, the technical genius of their arrangements or the quality of their recorded performance.
If the live experience matches the studio effort – and early live reviews suggest that they are even better live than on disc, then this band may just be THE next big thing.
In the title of this post I jokingly compared Rock Sugar to the ever-entertaining Spinal Tap. But that’s perhaps unfair, because Tap are all about spoofing the self-important pomposity and excess of heavy metal. Rock Sugar is no spoof.
If Rock Sugar share any characteristics with Spinal Tap, it’s that their tongue is firmly in cheek and they are making rock music fun again.
The album is currently only available from the band’s website for $17. Adding international shipping of $8 makes it a slightly pricy proposition for those outwith the US – $25 or £16 – but well worth it, for my money, to get in at the ground floor because they deserve to be huge.
Rock Sugar might just be my new favourite band. Because pop rocks!
Incidentally, lead singer Jess Harnell has apparently had a colourful career. In addition to being in a few bands, including Loud & Clear, he’s a somewhat prolific voice-over artist. He has lent his voice to many animated TV shows and videogames.
Most notably, he starred as Wakko Warner in the fondly remembered 1990s Animaniacs cartoon series and also voiced two of the Transformers in the two recent live action movies. Oh, and he’s been the announcer for America’s Funniest Home Videos for over a decade.
At first sight of Michelle Obama, I noticed her arms. Her arms are so sculpted but not masculine or not like a body builder’s. Ever since then, I’ve always wanted to have arms like hers.
I’ve been researching about how to make my arms something like the First Lady’s. I particularly like Tracy Anderson’s program because it doesn’t look too hard. Besides that, she has trained with Madonna, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Hers should be effective. I plan to do these 6 kinds of arm exercises that she does and hopefully see some results. She prescribes using the threadmill, however that costs thousands. I will just substitute. I will just incorporate my yoga in my arm workout. I have to. I have been practicing yoga for 10 years now. It is very important to me. It is like a ceremony for me. I wonder if this is a good substitute. Doing yoga affects “cardio”, studies have shown.
I’ve practiced different kinds of yoga. Yoga from the books, yoga at the gym. Recently, I’ve been doing yoga from videos. I am currently doing “twisting” yoga. It was from this website called yogatoday.com. You could download different kinds of yoga for different uses from this website. It costs around $4 per download.
And so this morning, I bought a pair of 3 pound dumbbells as adviced by Tracy Anderson. She says a woman should not exceed 3 pounds otherwise it wouldn’t look sexy or feminine.
Today is my first day to do this workout. I took a picture of my arms today as a “before” picture. The “after” picture to follow. I wonder how long this will take? Hopefully this is effective. 
Madonna to go into apparel?
The rumour goes that Madonna is negotiating for an apparel-line. Her relations with the fashion industry grew tightly over the years, and a lot of people admire Madges chameleon style.
Parties said to be involved in the project, like Iconix brand Inc (a brand management firm that owns and licenses 21 brands), and Madonna’s publicist Liz Rosenberg nor admit or decline the possibility of this apparel-line. Sources say even the label names are in serious consideration. These would be Material Girl for the apparel, and Truth or Dare for lingerie and underwear. The line would be exclusively sold to Macy’s.We think it’s a project that suits Madonna’s ambitions outside the music industry. It’s not like she hasn’t done it before. She co-branded a line with H&M in the Spring of 2007, under the M by Madonna label. H&M’s head of design, Margaretha van den Bosch was impressed by the popstar’s feel for fashion and trends: ”She was extraordinarily style conscious, passionate and was involved in even the smallest details of every design.”
We’ll keep you posted if anything on this issue will be confirmed.
(Source: WWD)
I have an affinity for all of the seasons but quiet frankly I am over the frigid temperature and the snow.
It’s fashion week in New York City . All the major designers are debuting their Fall 2010 collections.
I understand the reasons why designers show their collections a season ahead but I love the warm weather and I can only think about Spring frocks.
I am so ready for the last traces of the snow to melt from the corners of the concrete so I can welcome Spring with arms wide open.
Spring-time is the chance to shed the bulky sweaters and walk out the door with a cute dress and a trench coat.
Bows are one of the hottest accessory trends for Spring 2010.
Bows will allow the opportunity to dress up your hair, neck, or shoes in a new and vivacious way.
Bows are a trademark vintage look. Hair stylist Guido who was responsible for the hair bow masterpieces on the runway for Marc by Marc Jacobs (Spring 2010) told Allure Magazine that Bows are a mix of ’50s and ’80s. “It’s a ’50s look, but we based it on Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan. “She really had a Marc sensibility in that movie, so we took it from that.”
Hair Bows Spring 2010: Marc by Marc Jacobs
Bows for the hair, Bow Ties for (men and women) and Bow Tie necklaces will be all the rage once the first signs of Spring appear.
One of the fascinating aspects about Bows is that they come in an assortment of textures, fabrics and colors. Designers like Marc by Marc Jacobs, and Milly created their own unique interpretation of the Hair Bow using gorgeous silks that would make any Flashdance enthusiast tickled pink. Forever 21.com has a variety of headbands affixed with dazzling bows that can turn a casual Spring outfit into something you can wear for a night on the town.
Bows made out of unique fabrics are also in high demand this Spring. Garment Colors has fantastic unisex bow-ties available on Etsy.com.
These handmade crocheted bows that are Cashmere, Silk, and Merino wool
Bows are the must-have purchase for Spring because it doesn’t matter what size or shape you are; anyone can find one that fits their style.
“Madonna herself released a statement to Access Hollywood in memory of the designer, calling the loss “a tragedy.”
“Lee McQueen was a truly unique visionary in the world of fashion,” the fashion-forward star said in the statement. “A creator of beauty. What a tragedy.”” – Madgetribe
One of the things I try to emphasize when speaking to people about choosing a volunteer vacation, is the importance of 
knowing who assessed the need for the project in the first place. If you are working on community building and helping with social issues, it is hugely important that the community members being served are the ones who decided they need help, and what kind of help they need. Well meaning but misdirected volunteers and organizations can undo some of their good will and best intentions by forcing a foreign perspective onto a culture where it is not a very good fit.
Madonna ran into a situation like this quite recently. I am not one to disparage Madonna or any celebrity involved in generous causes around the world–I kind of think they are superstars, not for their fame, but for bringing attention to important issues in ways only their fame allows. They are able to open doors as well as unite fans and followers in ways many of the rest of us cannot. We certainly would if we could. The fact that celebrities are willing to lend their names, their wallets, and quite often their hands-on work, gets more people involved, and that can only be a good thing.
IF–the projects and organizations with which they align themselves are in step with the community served. In Malawi, a nation Madonna holds dear to her heart and family, the national government has told a group of villagers that they will lose their homes and be forced to move away to make room for a girl’s school the pop star is having built. Residents, according to an Associated Press story from yesterday, have refused to leave the site just outside of capital city Lilongwe. 200 villagers are being displaced, and I have to wonder if there isn’t perhaps a better, less intrusive location for the new school. The government has offered the residents other government land–and I don’t know the details of why THAT land is not a good site for the school, but it truly underlines the point about being sure the goals of the charities with whom we work are the SAME goals as the people we choose to help. I’m sure they will find a solution that benefits the village children AND keeps the village united…but what a tough first step motivated by love and philanthropy, but perhaps, unknowingly, off target.
It is important due diligence research you need to do before signing up for your volunteer work. Who determines the need? And who decides what is a successful outcome of our work?
MADONNA with the governor of Sao Paulo.
Booyeah! You’ve made it a year now. A year since you said goodbye to college. A year since you showed Lake Shasta how a real houseboat party goes down. A year since you got your last “Party Pics” with your Lil’ Sis (complete with some creepy Asher Roth photo-bomber giving “The Shocker”) at the spring formal.
And yet here we now are. Me writing, you reading. Me giving advice, you ignoring it.
A paltry six (6) weeks until the spring equinox, the traditional time of year for hard-boiled eggs, pagan bunnies and the annual reviews at many workplaces. Generally, the annual review can be a meaningful reflection on all that you have accomplished or added to the organization over the past 365 days of employment. In some cases it can be the most emotionally painful thing you have ever had to endure.
Unfortunately, given the economic circumstances, most organizations will probably not be making major salary adjustments – especially for low-seniority employees who are still demonstrating that they should belong on the asset side of the T-account and not the liability column.
Either way, don’t sweat the inevitable performance review. Work hard, your loyalty should pay off eventually. Even if that loyalty doesn’t pay off this year, you are racking up professional experience on your resume like Madonna collects men (and then eats them in a midnight Kabbalah ceremony).
[Our Dean's mandatory note: Kaballah doesn't actually include cannibalism as part of the ritual]
In most organizations your manager will sit down with a Word template and proceed to fill in the appropriate areas as they see fit – in many cases without supporting documentation, often based on how they feel you are doing at that very moment, rather than the last year.
There will be a section for your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities or goals for the next year and areas to improve. Just a head’s up here: if under the weaknesses section it says, “Works well under constant supervision and when cornered like a beaten dog,” you might start to get your resume polished and your portfolio nice and tidy, because you won’t be working there much longer.
Generally there are two ways the review will go. In the first, you will be totally relaxed because you have the mental certitude that you crushed every goal established for you. You’ve arrived to work 15-minutes early every day and stayed 30-minutes late every night. The only sick-day you took was when you ran a 103-degree temperature, puked in your recycle bin and passed out, face-on-keyboard and your supervisor personally drove you home (with the semicolon-key sweat-glued to your forehead the entire ride home). Tossing caution and common sense to the wind, you continued to work from home and closed the deal for a huge new account that will put the company over its mark for annual revenue targeting.
The second way this will go is more akin to a root canal. If your supervisor says that they like to give feedback by the “couch” method you should be prepared for this format: Something nice about a very recent project you did, something really unpleasant about your underwhelming performance over the past year and then a really lame form of praise about you, your attire or your personality (on the hopes of making the bitter middle pill easier to swallow).
Try not to cry during the review. Crying, sobbing and sniffling are uncomfortable for your coworkers and make 
it difficult for your supervisor to continue criticizing you. Make their job easier, sack up and take the feedback.
After the review is over, you have two options: Use the feedback and become the employee your supervisor wants you to be (notice we didn’t say, “a better employee”) or start looking for a new employment opportunity where you can start over again with a clean slate.
Some organizations even give you the opportunity to criticize critique offer feedback to your supervisor vis-à-vis the 360-degree review process. Unfortunately most fields in allied communication do not participate in this format, so you’ll just have to suck up all the so-called constructive criticism in your head.
We recommend that you give your 360-degree feedback about your supervisor to a few good friends, over a couple of beers and then never bring it up again – mostly because that type of language is only appropriate when playing Donkey Kong and guzzling cold, cheap lager at 10:45P on a Thursday.
If you fall into the first group, you should be ready to hear about all of the new privileges, responsibilities and huge raise you are going to get.
Will you have new privileges? Probably not. You won’t get an expense account. You won’t get to come in late. And you probably won’t get a company car. You might get a decent parking spot.
Will you have new responsibilities? Hell yes. You’ve set the bar pretty high for yourself over the last year and now your employer will expect you to meet or exceed this bar from this point forward.
That bar will now become the baseline from which they will measure all future performance. You may have new accounts or just be expected to lead the ones you have been on, but let there be no mistake, there will be more responsibilities and expectations.
And now for the fresh cheddar you will be getting <*rubbing hands together like Scrooge McDuck and a gleeful fashion*>…
Realistically speaking, if you kicked total butt over the last year you can expect a raise. And that raise will be in the 5% range.
Aw haw haw haw! …wait, what?
Yep, 5% is a realistic raise. In fact some organizations only give out 3% which is about the same as Social Security gives as a cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA). On top of which, that raise will be distributed across your total pay-periods and, of course, will be taxed by The Man.
Here is how it will break down…
Let’s say, as an entry-level employee, you earn: $28,500
The 5% salary increase (~$1,500) will now put you at: roughly $30,000, or about $125 more per month (pre-tax). After taxes, that raise will give you about $80 more per month, or close to $20 more per week. Awesome!
Try not to blow it all at once by seeing Avatar and going for a late night Taco Bell run with your significant other.
Even if you got a $5,000 raise (+ 17.5%), after taxes ($3,000) that is approximately $250 per month. Sure, a nice bit of Parmigiano-Reggiano to add to the old bank account, but will probably not alter much in terms of your lifestyle.
So what should you do? When you hear about the “raise” you will be getting. Smile and say thank you. Tell them you appreciate all the opportunities you have had with the organization and their unwavering dedication to helping you grow. And then make your ask.
For some of our less astute readers, you are going to ask for a titular <*snicker*> promotion.
If you are an account coordinator (generally the lowest titular rank), see if your supervisor is open to changing your title to assistant account executive. If you are an editorial assistant, see if you can get that title altered to senior editorial assistant. If you are an administrative assistant, see if you can get that upgraded to executive assistant. Whatever it is, try and get a better (or better sounding) title.
You see, this is why a titular change is more valuable than cash-in-hand.
You make your money on the hire, not the raise.
The next position you get hired for is where you will make a substantial salary increase. That is, if you can demonstrate a strong track record of increasing responsibilities (usually indicated by titular increases) you will have a good shot of pulling down some serious cake in the future.
And why shouldn’t you? Why would you leave an organization where you clearly kick butt, earn better titles, more responsibilities and are highly valued? Another organization would have to pull a crazy dump truck full of cash to your house to woo you away.
And they will. It will happen. But not for a while, so relax. In eight (8) to ten (10) years, after you have earned all those titles, that dump truck will come rolling in and will leave a steaming pile of Benjamins right at your doorstep.
So you see, rarely is the money in the raise itself, it’s the title and the experience you’ve earned that will pay off later. It will pay off in the salary negotiations you drive when a new organization offers you a job.
So forget the little annual raises. They’re nice and they make you feel good and appreciated, but don’t think you are going to get rich on them.
Set yourself up for future financial success by kicking butt now, earning better titles and establishing a Roth IRA so you can sock away all that upcoming cheddar for a tax-free retirement.
Oh, and if you were counting, we just got away with saying “tit” four (4) times in a seemingly professional advice blog. BAM!
TTFN!
The awards which like to honour the worst films of the year! Yes its all just a bit of fun and to laugh at really. But the Razzie nominations were released last night, yes the day before the Oscar nominations are due out. Interesting as Sandra Bullock could end up as the best and worst actress of the year . . . you see what they have done there.
They even have worst movie, actor and actress of the decade awards to give out.
What do you make of the Razzies?
Check out the nominations
Worst Picture
All About Steve
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Land of The Lost
Old Dogs
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
Worst Actor
All Three Jonas Brothers, Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience
Will Ferrell, Land Of The Lost
Steve Martin, Pink Panther 2
Eddie Murphy, Imagine That
John Travolta. Old Dogs
Worst Actress
Beyonce. Obsessed
Sandra Bullock. All About Steve
Mylie Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
Megan Fox, Jennifer’s Body And Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Sarah Jessica Parker, Did You Hear About The Morgans?
Worst Supporting Actor
Billy Ray Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hugh Hefner (As Himself), Miss March
Robert Pattinson, Twilight Saga: New Moon
Jorma Taccone (As Cha-Ka), Land Of The Lost
Marlon Wayans, G.I. Joe
Worst Supporting Actress
Candice Bergen, Bride Wars
Ali Larter, Obsessed
Sienna Miller, G.I. Joe
Kelly Preston, Old Dogs
Julie White, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Worst Screen Couple
Any Two (Or More) Jonas Brothers, The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience
Sandra Bullock & Bradley Cooper, All About Steve
Will Ferrell & Any Co-Star, Creature Or “Comic Riff”, Land Of The Lost
Shia Labeouf & Either Megan Fox Or Any Transformer,
Kristen Stewart & Either Robert Pattinson Or Taylor Whatz-His-Fang
Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake Or Rip-Off
G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
Land Of The Lost
Pink Panther 2 (A Rip-Off Of A Sequel To A Remake)
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Worst Director
Michael Bay, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Walt Becker, Old Dogs
Brad Silberling, Land Of The Lost
Stephen Sommers, G.I. Joe
Phil Traill, All About Steve
Worst Screenplay
All About Steve
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Land of The Lost
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Worst Movie of the Decade
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Gigli (2003)
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Swept Away (2002)
Worst Actor of the Decade
Ben Affleck
Eddie Murphy
Mike Myers
Rob Schneider
John Travolta
Worst Actress of the Decade
Mariah Carey
Paris Hilton
Lindsay Lohan
Jennifer Lopez
Madonna
Newwwwww Heavy Rotation. Starting from now, I’ll try to post the link too so you can (illegaly) download the song. Just so you know, the download link provided is for evaluational purpose only. If you like the artist, please buy the original album/single (Yeah, like anyone would listen.)
1. Carrie Underwood – Temporary Home
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Set as a second single from Carrie’s latest album Play On, this one is a beautiful pop country ballad song. Rating : 3
2. Jedward – Under Pressure (Ice Ice baby) feat. Vanilla Ice
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Jedward are John and Edward, two identical twin from the sixth season of X Factor. “Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)” is their debut single. The single is a mashup of “Under Pressure”, originally recorded in 1981 by Queen and David Bowie, and “Ice Ice Baby”, recorded in 1989 by Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice himself is featured on the track. Rating : 2
3. Avril Lavigne – Alice (Underground)
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Finally, a single from Avril Lavigne. Coming from Alice in Wonderland upcoming movie soundtrack, it’s sounds really different from her previous work. It’s pretty dark to me, especially after the all fun in The Best Damn Thing. Rating : 2
4. 3Oh!3 – Follow Me Down (feat. Neon Hitch)
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Electronic, Dance and Synth Pop is in its height right now. And as long as it does, 3OH!3 will stay in chart as well. Another song from Alice in Wonderland Soundtrack, Almost Alice. This one actually sounds more familiar for my ears. Rating : 2,5
5. Leighton Meester – Your Love’s A Drug
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Our lovable Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl is trying her luck again after her first single, Somebody To Love did not doing really well on chart. This one sounds better actually. Love it. Rating : 3
6. Justin Bieber – Baby (feat. Ludacris)
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The YouTube artist has just sent out the first single from his 2nd album called My World 2.0 (Yawn… What a creative way to name your album). The song quite boring. Rating : 1,5
Not To Be Missed :
7. Craig David – One More Lie (Standing in The Shadows)
God, heavy dance track. Soo not Craig David. Rating : 1,5 Download
8. Madonna – Across The Sky (feat. Justin Timberlake)
Produced by Timbaland and featuring Justin Timberlake. Great Combination. Pretty enjoyable. Rating: 3 Download
9. Gorillaz – Stylo (feat. Moz Def and Bobby Womack)
Weird. I hate Gorillaz BTW, so you might wanna hear it first. Rating: 1 Download
10. Taylor Swift – Today Was a Fairytale
Typical Taylor Swift song. Pop country song with a catchy tune. Rating: 3 Download
11. Boyzone – Gave It All Away
Calm, boyband-ish song. Like it. Rating : 3 Download
12. The Fray – Syndicate
Typical The Fray song. Good unless you’re bored with such kind of song. Rating: 2,5 Download
13. Chipmunk – Look for Me
Having a little similiar composition with I Gotta Feeling. But sounds much better. Rating: 2,5 Download
