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Sound and Vision: Pop's Singles Scene — the Scores and Strikes of 2012 (So Far)
posted: March 23, 2012
During the early weeks of the year, 2012 sounded a lot like 2011, as Adele continued to rule Billboard’s Top 200 album and Hot 100 singles charts with 21, one year into the album’s life…
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Can Mariah Carey Rise Again?
posted: March 16, 2012
Since the turn of the century, Mariah Carey’s once-seemingly indestructible career has twisted and turned, going up and down and back around like that roller-coaster ride in the video for “Fantasy,” one of her biggest…
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Sound and Vision: Why Lana Del Rey Might Be the Most Important Thing to Happen in Pop Since Adele
posted: March 9, 2012
On the subject of short-lived stardom, Andy Warhol said it best: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.” Surely in 1968, when Warhol uttered that soon-to-be immortal prediction, he couldn’t have foreseen the…
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Sound & Vision: Life After Whitney: Why We Should Appreciate the Greats While They're Still with Us
posted: March 2, 2012
There’s a scene”actually, several of them”in the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn in which an insecure Marilyn Monroe (exactingly detailed by Oscar nominee Michelle Williams) gets an ego boost from Susan Strasberg, her acting…
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Sound and Vision: Jessie J, Tyga and M.I.A.: The Making (and Re-Making) of a Top 10 Pop Star
posted: February 24, 2012
If at first (or second, or third) you don’t succeed… maybe it’s time to tweak your approach. That’s not to take anything away from good old-fashioned talent and tenacity. But sometimes success”or, say, getting into…
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Sound and Vision: Is Chris Brown's Comeback and GRAMMY Honors Another Slap in the Face to Women?
posted: February 17, 2012
With Whitney Houston’s tragic, untimely death and Adele’s big sweep grabbing our near-undivided attention, the 2012 GRAMMY Awards were, in some ways, a two-woman show. But if any guy came close to upstaging them, it…
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