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As if the Kidz Bop albums weren't ridiculous enough, they have no taken it to the next level...by covering Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' featuring Beyonce.
What could the parents of these kids, along with the producers and everyone over at the Kidz Bop company possibly be thinking with this one?! I mean it's very clear that over the years Kidz Bop has been kind of played out and unnecessary by itself, but do we really need to hear little children singing about going to clubs, sipping on bubb, and breaking hearts? The whole Kidz Bop vol 18 is ridiculous!
Ke$ha always has something to say, and although it's usually stupid and irrelevant to anything that anyone would be concerned about, this time it's about her experience while touring with Rihanna.
Although the tour itself has been said to be struggling, Ke$ha only had good things to say about opening on Rihanna's Last Girl on Earth Tour. It is surprising though that the tour is struggling with Travie McCoy as an opener as well, but with ticket prices over $90, it shows that people would probably much rather buy the tour DVD watch it on YouTube for free instead. When MTV asked about how the tour was going, Ke$ha had this to say: " [some gibberish]...We have slumber parties and pillow fights and we braid each other's hair a lot. ...[more gibberish]...We talk about boys, naked. [even more gibberish] Touring with Rihanna is incredible, you should come see it. It's really fun. I've been out with her for about two weeks now, and I just learn so much from her as a performer. She has one of the best voices of anyone I've ever seen live, and I kind of just take it as my opportunity to hype up thousands of people. It's epic. She's amazing live and her voice is just so good. I'm kind of just, like, her hype girl. I take the stage and hype it up for 40 minutes." and finally she stops ranting...
Lady Gaga obviously does not have a monopoly on weird and surrealistic music videos, as Gogol Boredello’s video release for “Pala Tute” showcases the band’s incredible ability to use their artistic license to do whatever the hell they want.
Those not familiar with the music of this Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City — who according to their Web site was “banned from the CB/GB, Mercury Lounge, Fez and Bowery Ballroom immediately after first performances for being too over the motherfucking top” — will quickly learn what this energetic band is all about within the first 30-seconds of the video.
Most of the band members are from the Eastern Bloc of Europe and emigrated to the U.S. with an artistic mission to “provoke [the] audience out of post-modern aesthetic swamp onto a neo-optimistic communal movement towards new sources of authentic energy. With acts of music, theatre, chaos and sorcery, Gogol Bordello confronts the jaded and irony-deceased.”
Makes perfect sense.
The song is fun and upbeat, but the lyrics — which are half in English and half in Gibberish — are just nonsense.
“Caravan is leavin’
And her breast is heaving
Lord this kind of love
Cannot be untrue
I’m a little chavo
But I learned one thing
Girls they like kissing
As much as we do.
Lela, lela, lela
Lela pala tute
I’m dying, dying
Dying after you”
The video itself opens with the band performing inside of some kind of old-timey, but futuristic, train with television cameras and satellite dishes everywhere. It sort of looks like Doc Brown’s time traveling locomotive from the end of Back to the Future 3. This particular train may in fact be able to time travel because the video takes us back to the time of Adam and Eve — but in clay — with lead singer Eugene Hutz in the role of Adam and backing vocalist Elizabeth Chi-Wei Sun as a noseless Eve.
After Adam stops Eve from eating the forbidden Apple, the scene transforms back to the train — which is now a boat and then becomes a blimp. Two more claymation scenes play out as homage’s to King Kong and Dracula.
The band finishes playing and the video stops. It’s at this point that you realize that while watching the video, you had your wallet stolen from little Gypsy children who have now disappeared.
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Music video by Gogol Bordello performing Pala Tute. (C) 2010 AR LLC and Gogol Bordello LLC
Once again, U2 is named the highest earning band on the Forbes Top Earning Musicians of 2010 List, even with their postponed tour in the US due to Bono's back injury.
Between June of 2009 up until June of this year, U2 earned a total amount of about $130 million, which was mainly made from their monstrous tour so far. It's kind of ridiculous that even with the delay in touring that they can still lead the way, but it's definitely good for them if they can maintain and gain more fans over all this time they've been around. But due to the lack of new material being released by the band, Forbes predicts that their annual income will steadily decrease, as fans will be getting sick of spending such large amounts of money to hear and see the same things over and over again. Gary Bongiovanni, editor of Pollstar, had this to say to Forbes:
With downloading being more popular than ever, and people getting their music in any free ways possible, it's obvious that this would be true. And with the economy still pretty down, it's an amazement how people are still even willing to pay some of these crazy prices just for a concert.
The rest of the top 10 top earning musicians list was pretty predictable. Coming in at number 2, earning $114 million a year, was AC/DC, who have been another prominent band through the decades.
Beyonce Knowles took the number 3 spot earning about $82 million, which is a considerable margin from AC/DC's amount.
At number 4 was Bruce Springsteen, who earned roughly $68.7 million this past year, followed by Britney Spears at number 5 with $64 million earned this past year. Jay-Z came in at number 6, earning $62 million, which obviously doesn't include the other amounts of money he has made in the other forms of business he participates in, and the businesses he owns.
The constant center of attention, Lady Gaga, made the number 7 spot, earning $61 million, even with her seemingly never-ending tour, which probably should have bumped her up a few spots. Lady Gaga did however beat out her obvious idol, Madonna, who came in at number 8 earning $58 million this past year.
Kenny Chesney surprisingly took the number 9 spot, earning around $50 million, which may not be so out of the ordinary to fans of country music who follow the stars success. And tied at number 10 was Coldplay and the Black Eyed Peas, who equally earned about $47 million this past year.
The official video for Midi Mafia’s video release “PHamous” would normally gather chuckles and a clichéd-filled tongue-lashing from us due to so-called “rappers” acting out the fantasies of the actual rich and famous. But when analyzed fully, something remarkable is going on with the song and video for “PHamous,” and it truly represents the infinite power of YouTube, viral videos and guerilla marketing.
Please first take note before watching the video. The song is incredibly catchy. It’s the kind of song that you cannot get out of your head for at least a full day. You will subconsciously be singing,
“P-H-A-M-O-U-S!
I love being PHamous
That’s right PHamous
P-H-Vegas
You know it’s all good.”
If you did not pick up on the incorrect spelling of PHamous — and improper capitalization of the letter H — then you may be missing out on the true power of what this video represents. Yes, you and more than a million other people in less than two days just watched a nearly five-minute commercial for the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
Plenty of videos have been sponsored by big companies like OK Go’s State Farm-sponsored “This Too Shall Pass” and the Virgin Mobile ad-filled video for Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” but this video was not just sponsored by and filmed at Planet Hollywood. The song is the casino’s theme song and the video is a promotional tour of how sweet the Aladdin Casino — oops, Planet Hollywood Casino — has become.
It all started with a flash mob in the fall of 2009 at Planet Hollywood with the song “PHamous” being used as the soundtrack. The true definition of a flash mob is, “a large gathering of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then disperse. The term is generally not applied to events organized by public relations firms, protests, and publicity stunts.”
This flash mob, where hundreds of people suddenly started dancing in the casino of Planet Hollywood and has been viewed more than 2 million times, was definitely a publicity stunt for Planet Hollywood. It was organized with the help of several “YouTube Celebrities” like ShayCarl and KassemG — who all posted different angles of the video on their YouTube stations as well.
The five-minute flash mob would be impossible in a Las Vegas casino without permission — especially one that involved a dozen video cameras. That’s not the only hint to know that it was all set up with the help of Planet Hollywood. The video is featured on the resort’s homepage as well.
But who cares that it was “fake!” — as so many YouTube comments read. The people in the casino enjoyed it, and so have millions of viewers. Plus, it has gathered some incredible marketing for Planet Hollywood — a company that most people think died off in the late ‘90s. Sure, the company closed down more than 80 restaurants, but they bought the Aladdin Casino on the Vegas Strip in 2007 and have changed their image to correspond with the change in what it now means to be famous in 2010.
People used to go to Planet Hollywood because movie stars owned it and featured props used in horrible action flicks. The restaurant represented the idea of what a celebrity was before the advent of user-created online videos and Social Media. Now, anyone can be famous with the quick upload of a video. Planet Hollywood took this idea and ran with it.
The video, song, and casino theme play on the idea that anyone can be famous — or at least feel like they are rich and famous. “What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas” is known as one of the most successful advertisement campaigns in the history of marketing and promotions. But that slogan only gets people to visit Vegas, it doesn’t tell them where to stay. Planet Hollywood is taking it one step further and is stating, “What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas … and if you want some awesome stuff to happen to you as if you were a famous celebrity while in Vegas you should stay at our resort and casino.”
This by no means is the first company to take hold of viral videos and use them for marketing purposes, but Planet Hollywood is one of the first to market subliminally to such a large audience without having to pay big dollars to national magazines and cable stations to get their message across in such as subtle way. Expect more of this to come in the future.
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Anyone trying to deny the power of big-budget videos in a time of YouTube clips and online videos may have never heard of Snoop Dogg, who recently tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein in Western Europe for a video shoot. Yes, an entire country.Unless Snoop bought stock with Liechtenstein’s Tourism Department, there is no viable reason the pot-loving rapper needed the entire country. Please Snoop, explain to the world what you were going to do with Liechtenstein — a country that has no military, no radio stations and is the world’s largest producer of sausage casing.
Most artists who pass away are expected to make more money after they die then they did while they were alive. However, since recent evidence has been uncovered, it seems rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's widow slowed that from happening, and her greed took money from the rest of his family members, including his mother and kids.
ODB's final album, A Son Unique, was reported to have been sold by the rapper's widow, Icelene Jones, for a small price that was as little as $10,000, according to the New York Post. These claims were made by Jarred Weisfeld, ODB's former manager, where he told the Post: "She sold out for peanuts." Weisfeld then went onto saying that he believes the album could have brought in millions, which would have been more than enough to support the deceased rapper's mother, Cherry Jones, and the four mothers of his multiple children. Now, with all of these claims being made, ODB's family members and Weisfeld are fighting out over the earnings from his mostly successful music career. Icelene Jones herself had no comment on any of this and did not return any calls that were made to her.
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