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Sound and Vision: Lady Gaga's Album of the Year GRAMMY Nominee — Big Hit Or Major Miss?
posted: February 10, 2012
In pop music, you’re nobody until everybody loves you or hates you, and few recording artists polarize everybody the way Lady Gaga does. Mad genius or plain mad? A true original or hopelessly derivative? Hit…
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Is Adele "Black" Enough for the NAACP Image Awards?
posted: February 3, 2012
According to the Web site for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), its mission is a simple yet noble one: “to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of…
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Music and Movies — Pop-Song Placement in Hollywood Films
posted: January 27, 2012
Every day, somebody once told me, deserves its own soundtrack. So, according to Hollywood, does nearly every film. But unlike the old days when the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack became as popular as the movie,…
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Kelly Clarkson’s Ron Paul Twitter Endorsement — Should Pop Stars and Politics Mix?
posted: January 20, 2012
Affairs of the heart and affairs of state. The two have been intertwined in music”sometimes harmoniously , sometimes cacophonously”since around the time Bob Dylan declared that the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.…
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Mark Wahlberg's Celebrity Challenge: Making Justin Bieber a Movie Star
posted: January 13, 2012
If anyone can do it, it would be the pop artist formerly known as Marky Mark. The task at hand: transforming Justin Bieber from Canadian teen-pop idol into Hollywood matinee idol Mark Wahlberg already knows…
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Sound And Vision: What Will George Michael Do with His Second Chance at Life?
posted: January 6, 2012
It’s been nearly eight years since George Michael released an entire album of new music, and three since he put out a single that wasn’t a cover of New Order’s “True Faith.” But in 2011,…
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