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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: 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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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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Sound And Vision: Strange Bedfellows — The Best of Music's Unlikely Collaborations
posted: December 16, 2011
“I get high with a little help from my friends,” Ringo Starr sang on the Beatles‘ 1967 classic. These days, so do many of music’s top stars. Two’s company, and so is three and sometimes…
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Sound And Vision: Foster the People's Chart Challenge — Is There Life After "Pumped Up Kicks"?
posted: December 2, 2011
Foster the People just might be the pop anomaly of 2011. The trio of Los Angeles-based twentysomethings led by founder and namesake Mark Foster looks like a boy band (only cuter), plays instruments like rockers…
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Sound And Vision: Why Bieber Fever Can't Touch Beatlemania?
posted: November 11, 2011
Don’t believe everything you read. No matter what the media say”and for more than a year now, they’ve been declaring Justin Bieber as big as, if not bigger than, the Beatles”Bieber Fever is no match…
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