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Sound And Vision: Why I'm Seriously Considering Boycotting Music Award Shows
posted: November 18, 2011
On November 9, Nashville celebrated itself (again!) with the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. For the fourth consecutive year, the event was hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, but the masters of ceremonies weren’t…
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Sound And Vision: Celebrity Feuds — Pop Is a Battlefield, World War II
posted: September 9, 2011
“Take back Vanessa Redgrave Take back Joe Piscopo Take back Eddie Murphy Give ’em all some place to go” ” Tom Petty, “Jammin’ Me” (1987) “Fuck Tom Petty!””Eddie Murphy Oh, those crazy stars! What will…
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Sound And Vision: Pop Goes the Previews — The Best and Worst of Fall Movie-Trailer Music
posted: September 2, 2011
Whoever invented the movie preview must be some kind of genius. Because of them, half the fun of seeing a movie on the big screen is getting there”to the main attraction, that is. It always…
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Music Stars Who Need A Lesson In Technology
posted: August 22, 2011
OK, so I think we can all agree that getting a closer look into the lives of our favorite celebrities is pretty awesome. Whether or not we choose to admit it, most of us have…
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Hip Hop Artists Get A Bad Rap
posted: April 18, 2011
Misogynistic, homophobic, hateful, racist and an all-around bad influence on our children”the list of grievances against hip hop is a long one. Perhaps that’s why so many celebrities have an issue with the genre. In…
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End of the Revolution: Has Pop Lost Its Social Conscience?
posted: January 14, 2011
“You say you want a revolution,” The Beatles taunted in 1968. Seventeen years later, the Cult declared, “There’s a revolution.” When Tracy Chapman started “talkin’ ’bout a revolution” in 1988, she left the battlefield with…
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