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Sound And Vision: Beyoncé's "Plagiarism" Controversies — Has She Been Caught Stealing, Or Is She Paying Homage (Again)?

posted: October 28, 2011

Beyoncé is having a rough 2011. I don’t know how she felt about turning thirty on September 4, but if she’s as career-obsessed as I suspect she is, it was probably the least of her…
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Sound And Vision: Justin Timberlake as Elton John and Six Other Wish-List Music Biopics

posted: October 14, 2011

Every great screen biography of a music superstar needs three key ingredients to really sing: 1) An icon with the greatest story never told. 2) A talented lead actor or actress gunning for an Oscar nomination”singing…
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Sound And Vision: Six Artists I Love Although I Know I'm Not Supposed To

posted: October 7, 2011

Most of us probably would be loathe to admit it out loud, but we all have them: Singers and bands we love in spite of everybody else. They create music to our ears, while to…
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Sound And Vision: Rihanna Promises a New Album "This Fall" — Too Soon?

posted: September 30, 2011

As Benjamin Franklin once said (and I’m about to paraphrase dramatically), only two things in life are certain: death and taxes. Now we can add to that party of two another certainty: a new Rihanna…
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Sound And Vision: Can Florence + the Machine End 2011 Where Adele Started It (on Top)?

posted: September 23, 2011

Florence Welch must be in a state of extreme suspense right about now. And if she is, no one would understand how she feels better than Adele. At the dawn of 2011, Adele was in…
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Sound And Vision: It's the Same Old Song for Thespians Who Sing — and Chances Are It's Not a Hit!

posted: September 16, 2011

Though Susan Boyle helped make music’s mainstream safer for the mature crowd, her chart-life-begins-at-nearly fifty success story remains a rarity. But perhaps in the case of Jeff Bridges, who won an Oscar for playing an…
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