Posts for 'Music' Category

Carole Barnes, who wrote Sunday’s three-star letter, thinks that country music is dying or near death as Taylor Swift won Entertainer of the Year (“Country music’s obit is ready to be written”). She longs for the voices of Patsy Cline, Don Williams and George Jones. Well, I suggest she go and buy some old CDs and listen her heart out. Of course, country music has changed. So has pop and rock, as well as television, movies and magazines.

Many long for the good old days, but that won’t make them return. I enjoyed the CMAs more than usual this year. It was fun and full of talent. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are great hosts and deserve all the recognition they have received.  Taylor Swift entertained like crazy all year long, and writes her own music. It was/is her year.

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19-year-old becomes youngest person and first solo female act in a decade to win the Country Music Association's entertainer of the year award It's been Taylor Swift's year, and Wednesday was her night.

As she became the youngest person and the first solo female act in a decade to win the Country Music Association's entertainer of the year award.

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When the credits began to roll for 'This is It", the cinema audience around me broke into warm applause. I was surprised but not shocked.

If you hope 'This Is It' will be a full-length music video - it is not. If you expect a documentary - this is not it, as well.

‘This is It’ is simply, a tasteful look at the person who was Michael Jackson. While this movie will no doubt cement Jackson’s appeal to die-hard fans.

It also sets in motion some re-thinking on the part of those who only saw the late 50-year-old in the light of 'Wacko Jacko' with songs that were as memorable as his wardrobe and off-stage anctics.

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Lady Gaga isn't letting her ill-fated tour with Kanye West keep her from her fans. A day after her joint tour with the rapper was canceled, the pop star said she'll be hitting the road solo.

"We mutually decided to cancel the tour. He's going to take some time off, but I'm not," the 23-year-old said in an interview before accepting the "Rising Star" honor at Billboard's annual Women in Music event Friday.

"Kanye and I talked about it. We talked about it a lot, as well as with Live Nation," she added. West and Lady Gaga's tour, titled "Fame Kills," was supposed to kick off Nov. 10 in Phoenix.

Live Nation announced its cancellation on Thursday with no explanation, but West had said last month that he was considering taking time off to reassess his behavior.

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Many fans weren't too sure about the direction U2 was headed earlier this year and now the band seem to think they might have made a mistake with their latest release.

According to Spinner, Bono and his bandmates admitted they are disappointed by the success of their 2009 release No Line On The Horizon. Despite debuting number one in the UK in March and having sold 1 million copies, the record has been the group's biggest bust. Not only has it been their lowest-selling album in more than a decade, but the singles they have released haven't fared well on the charts either.

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Karen George, who lives above the singer, says her life is being made a misery and has filed a lawsuit. The 51-year-old Material Girl, who often preaches about world peace during her concerts, has been threatened with eviction.

The suit says Madonna and her guests repeatedly dance and train to unreasonably high- decibel, amplified music, causing “noise and vibration to pour through the walls, ceilings and radiators”.

It adds: “Ms George has been forced to endure blaring music, stomping and shaking walls for approximately one and a half to three hours each day.”

The suit, which was filed at Manhattan Supreme Court in New York, also says the building’s management board has threatened to evict the superstar if she does not quieten down. 

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Taylor Swift has reportedly hinted she might poke fun at the Kanye West controversy when she guest hosts a US comedy sketch show. The country music singer is to appear on Saturday Night Live just.

A couple of months after Kanye leapt on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards, as Taylor was accepting a gong, to say Beyonce's track was a more deserving winner.

And the 19-year-old has hinted she might get her own back by using the incident in a skit, saying: "There are definitely some hilarious things that have happened to me over the past couple of months that I think will be pretty substantial skits."

“This Is It,” the title track from the forthcoming Michael Jackson documentary of the same name, will makes its debut Sunday at midnight on michaeljackson.com, according to Sony Music.

The song, which reportedly was originally written for Jackson’s “Dangerous” album of 1991, plays during the closing sequence of “Michael Jackson’s.

This Is It,” and will be included on a companion two-disc CD set slated for release on October 27. The single features backup vocals by Jackson’s brothers.

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Madonna's last greatest-hits collection was released in 2001, and eight years later she releases " Celebration," a two-CD collection of 36 diverse pop songs from throughout her career and a sold-separately DVD collection of 47 videos.

The digitally remastered music and videos look great and remind you of how much sexy fun she shared with us as she revolutionized our world every bit as much as Michael Jackson.

But while the music CD includes songs such as "Who's That Boy" that were ignored in "The Immaculate Collection," it leaves off .

"Evita" tracks (one of which was released on her second greatest-hits CD) and other songs such as "I'll Remember," "The Power of Goodbye" and "This Used to Be My Playground," which would make this the ultimate set.

Kimberly Wyatt isn't friends with Nicole Scherzinger. The Pussycat Dolls star has admitted she isn't really close with the sexy group's main singer and says they only speak because they work together. She told Britain's Daily Star newspaper:

"I get on well with most of the band but not everyone. Look, at the end of the day it's a job - we all have our own lives to lead and our own projects going on. "I think of Nicole as just a business associate not as a friend. You cannot simply group girls together and just expect them to get on, can you? Life doesn't work like that."

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