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People's Choice Awards Winners: Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift
posted: January 10, 2014
The people have spoken. And they love Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry. After Timberlake scored awards for Favorite Album, Favorite Male Artist, and Favorite R&B Artist, he thanked Ellen DeGeneres “for all the personal inspiration and the…
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PSY’s K-Pop Invasion: The Continued Decline of Western Pop Courtesy of the East
posted: October 12, 2012
As if A-Pop wasn’t bad enough already. Just when one might have thought that American pop, with all its auto-tuned voices and fake plastic beats, couldn’t possibly make the eyes and ears bleed more, it’s…
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Sound and Vision: Pop's Greatest Gender Benders – Songs That Sound Better Sung By the Opposite Sex
posted: August 3, 2012
One of the best releases of 2012 to date is Boys Don’t Cry, an album of covers recorded by Anglo-Pakistani singer-songwriter Rumer (nee Sarah Joyce). As a vocalist, Rumer is soothing and smooth, strictly middle-of-the-road…
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Sound and Vision: An 'American Idol' Wish List– Who Should Replace Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler?
posted: July 27, 2012
You couldn’t pay me to be an American Idol bigwig right now. The show is about to face its greatest challenge since the 2008 battle of the Davids (Cook and Archuleta). The producers and the…
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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: Fake Pop Stars — The Rise and Continued Rise of Rebecca Black
posted: August 12, 2011
Paris Hilton. Kim Kardashian. Heidi Montag. Julianne Hough. In a world where making a record is as easy as starring on reality TV, and even easier when you have your own show, Rebecca Black was…
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