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Post by Brandon on Jun 19, 2014 13:51:05 GMT -5
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Post by Brandon on Jun 25, 2014 12:51:26 GMT -5
- Lana Del Rey Snatches #1 Crown on Billboard 200Alluring enchantress Lana Del Rey enjoys her best sales week yet with her latest Ultraviolence project. Moving 182,000 copies, the set swiftly takes over the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200, an all-genre albums chart tallying the Nielsen SoundScan-reported movers and shakers. This total usurps her previous best with Born To Die, her Interscope debut, which moved 77,000 units and has since gone platinum, according to Billboard.
Ultraviolence's opening week is the best sales figure for a solo female act since Beyoncé's self-titled release moved 310,000 copies in its third week and closing chart track last year.
And believe it or not, the singer has not performed on American TV since 2012, when she took the stage on American Idol. Despite low visibility, she's kept the world in the palm of her hand, releasing visually stunning videos to accompany the record, including the lead-in "West Coast" and "Shades Of Cool." As they say, less is most certainly more these days!
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Post by Burke on Jun 25, 2014 12:55:39 GMT -5
She's going to be performing at Glastonbury this weekend too. I've already set my TV to record her, Arcade Fire's and Metallica's sets.
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Post by Burke on Jun 28, 2014 21:16:27 GMT -5
LDR stole the show @ Glastonbury today: EDIT: Spoilered since that pic is huge. |
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Post by Brandon on Jun 30, 2014 6:26:26 GMT -5
Nicki Minaj Disses Iggy Azalea in Her BET Award Acceptance Speech Nicki Minaj took time out of her acceptance speech for best female hip-hop artist at Sunday night's BET Awards to throw a little (okay, a really big) dis at Iggy Azalea.
Minaj, who looked very classy in a a form-fitting little black dress, talked about representing women in "a culture that is so male driven." But then added, "My point is, what I want the world to know about is when you hear Nicki Minaj spit, Nicki Minaj wrote it." And then, she brought her fingers up to her lips and made a little "my lips are sealed" motion. Watch for yourself at that 1:10 mark. She then took a moment and posed at the microphone, while some in the audiences practically gasped at the audacity of her remaks.
She then added, "No, no, no... no shade." Oh, c'mon Nicki. This came after she'd mugged for the camera throughout Azalea's performance (first with T.I. on "No Mediocre" and then "Fancy").
Though she didn't mention Azalea by name, Minaj's remark would appear to be a commentary on the fact that Azalea doesn't write her own material: she is credited as a co-writer on her first single, "Work" and on Ariana Grande's "Problem," but not on "Fancy," "Change Your Life," or "No Mediocre."
So is Minaj feeling Azalea, who has had the No. 1 and No. 2 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 for several weeks running now, nipping at her heels? Why else would she remind us that she's won best female hip-hop artist five consecutive years? Or is she just pissed that Azalea came after her Barbies. As you may recall, earlier this month, after Minaj's fans accused Azalea of copying Minaj's style, she clawed back on Twitter by saying "...Most of you have done NOTHING. NOTHING! With your lives...So many of you internet kids quote the feats of others as if they were your own."
Or she could feel that Azalea hasn't given her enough props: In a radio interview only last month, Minaj praised Azalea’s success, saying, "I think that congratulations is in order. Her single is doing really, really well and I think that's a good thing," she said of "Fancy."
She continued: "One thing I'm not is a hater. If somebody is doing something and they did it well, and their song is charting well, then congratulations. I just want female rappers to understand that I've kicked in a lot of doors for them and I just would appreciate if they would acknowledge that." Oh, Nicki. Not to take anything away from your phenomenal success and supreme talent, but there were quite a few women, including Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Salt N Pepa, Eve, Da Brat, Lil Kim and MC Lyte who walked through that door first. (Salt N Pepa's Pepa tweeted supportive tweets to both Minaj and Azalea after their performances Sunday night).
Google "Nicki Minaj and feud" and her beefs with Mariah Carey, Lil Kim and Rihanna all come up. As amusing as they all have been, maybe it's time for her to focus on her music instead of tearing down other women.
I ugly laughed @ Iggy putting the Barbz in check. |
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Post by Burke on Jun 30, 2014 7:25:30 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to the songs that will come from this, even though most of them will be terrible.
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Post by Burke on Jun 30, 2014 13:16:26 GMT -5
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Post by Brandon on Jul 15, 2014 16:33:17 GMT -5
Paris Hilton's "Come Alive" Video is a Stunning, Colorful Dreamscape of Flowers, Unicorns and Rainbows (Duh) Ever since Queen Paris Hilton brought us to life again with her otherworldly trance opus "Come Alive" last week, life doesn't feel so grim. Maybe love is real. Maybe dreams really do come true, after all.
She didn't stop there, though: To bring the space-pop anthem to life in front of our eyes, the multihyphenate, massively underrated pop phenom called upon Hannah Lux Davis, who also directed the video for "Good Time," to bring her wonderful, whimsical world to life.
The video has arrived today, and it's just like...
Take the lush, scenic landscape shots of Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World)" and Selena Gomez's "Come And Get It," the cotton candy-filled fluff of Katy Perry's "California Gurls," a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper, Taylor Swift's most fanciful wishes and dreams and bundle it all into an extra glamorous package with a certain je ne sais sanasa — that's "Come Alive" in an expensive nutshell.
The blonde beauty flaunts a variety of glittery and dazzling lewks, making herself our very own pop dream girl Barbie: Forest Nymph. Coachella Flower Crown Queen. Moon Gazer. Angel. LGBT-Friendly Enchanted Unicorn Guardian. Pink Cloud Puff Princess.
This is the very definition a Proper Pop Video. It's AMAZING. Who is even worthy of all this, honestly? Paris just elegantly sent your faves running scared and wigless.
It's endlessly gorgeous. It's obscenely glamorous. It's a Hilton utopia, and I never want to leave.
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Post by Brandon on Jul 15, 2014 21:58:02 GMT -5
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Post by Brandon on Jul 16, 2014 23:13:23 GMT -5
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Post by Mutant Couch on Jul 16, 2014 23:33:50 GMT -5
The only part of that I find shocking is that he went down on her.
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Post by Brandon on Jul 24, 2014 10:51:50 GMT -5
 Straight men (Burke), let's gather around for some kitchen table talk. Do you still find Nicki Minaj attractive now that quite a biT of her heat has worn off? The ass implants are just too much. I wish she would get a reduction. Her legs are so skinny and then they lead up to those hot air balloons.  |
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Post by Burke on Jul 24, 2014 12:35:16 GMT -5
I actually think she's hotter now than she was a few years ago. She's way prettier with normal hair and make-up rather than all the crazy wigs and stuff she used to wear. And I have no problem with her big ass.  Her music is mostly garbage these days though. |
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Post by Brandon on Jul 24, 2014 12:44:55 GMT -5
I actually think she's hotter now than she was a few years ago. And I have no problem with her big ass.  |
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Post by Burke on Jul 24, 2014 12:55:21 GMT -5
We need to rank all the current pop stars by hotness to see where we all stand on this issue in 2014.
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