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Sound and Vision: Can Taylor Swift Do Joni Mitchell Justice?
posted: May 4, 2012
Taylor Swift has yet to top Billboard’s Hot 100, but who needs a No. 1 pop single when you’ve sold more than 20 million albums (as of March of 2011), been named Entertainer of the…
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Sound and Vision: The Fall of R&B: How Pop Is Selling Its Soul for a Dance Beat
posted: April 13, 2012
Remember the days when R&B and hip hop was the sound of pop? From the ˜90s to the mid ˜00s, music’s most dependable hitmakers”Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Boyz II Men, R. Kelly, Usher,…
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Sound and Vision: One Direction and The Wanted — the Return of the Boy Band?
posted: April 6, 2012
The British are coming”again! It’s been more than a hot minute since multi-platinum boy bands like *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys roamed the earth and ruled the charts. Now, after a decade-long dormancy, cute, heavily-styled guys…
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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 & 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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