News Roundup: 11/23/2009
November 23rd, 2009 | 1:38 pm est |
More proof that it’s a Taylor Swift world and we just live in it came with Sunday night’s American Music Awards show, where Swift won five prizes. These included artist of the year, which had been expected to go to Michael Jackson. Swift also won favorite female artist in the pop/rock and country categories and favorite adult contemporary artist; her album Fearless was named favorite country album. While Jackson lost artist of the year to Swift, the King of Pop did win favorite male artist in the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories, and his 2003 greatest hits album Number Ones took the favorite album award for pop/rock and soul/R&B. Other winners included the Black Eyed Peas, who scored the favorite group award in pop/rock and soul/R&B, and Green Day, who were named favorite alternative artist. Jay-Z won favorite male artist and favorite album in the rap/hip-hop categories, and Beyonce was named favorite soul/R&B female artist. Multiple nominees Kings of Leon, Eminem, and Lady Gaga all went home empty-handed. [Billboard.com]
The AMA show’s live performances were also newsworthy, especially Adam Lambert’s controversial rendition of “For Your Entertainment.” Lambert closed the night with a performance that included kissing his male keyboardist and simulated oral sex from a male backup dancer. Rihanna, Whitney Houston, Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Eminem were among the night’s other performers. [RollingStone.com]
Dr. Dre confirmed that 50 Cent and the Game will appear on his upcoming album Detox. Dre made the announcement during a press conference for his Beats by Dre headphone line; however, he still doesn’t have a firm release date set for the the album: “The minute it’s done and it feels right to me, that’s when it’ll come out. Hopefully in the beginning of the year.” [AllHipHop.com]
Planning for the 2010 summer festival season is already in full swing, and next year’s Glastonbury Festival will feature U2 as headliners. The band will close Friday, June 27’s performances with what will be their Glastonbury debut; the 2010 show also marks the festival’s 40th anniversary. [NME.com]
NPR presents their list of the decade’s 50 most important recordings. [NPR.org]
R.I.P. Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, who passed in her native city of Stockholm on Friday at age 82. Her expressive singing and wide repertory were influential on generations of opera singers. [NYTimes.com]
Check out Major Lazer’s truly bizarre video for “Keep it Going Louder.” [MySpace.com]
Hey guys. Your site’s, like, broken. Seems that some discographies are incomplete (I noticed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera), a lot of reviews missing (Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker and Green Day’s Nimrod, but nearly everything I’ve looked at in the past couple days). And you’re missing out on this week’s new releases, but I guess the other things I mentioned are more important.
And, hey, we don’t mind if you’re doing some major overhaul protection thingie - just keep us informed!
And how ’bout that Taylor Swift!
Indeed: many reviews have disappeared, and many discographies have gotten messed up (regular albums ending up under ‘Compilations’ or even ‘Other’). Would it be possible for any member of the staff to comment on this, so we know they are aware of the problems and working to solve them?
I’m sorry to post this off-topic, but then there’s no place to do so on-topic.
Use the CONTACT link at the bottom of the main page. Don’t expect a reply.
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I’m so thirsty for reviews but they’re all gone. Mostly reviews for older albums that don’t get much coverage.
Also, Detox is never going to be released. Ever.
Taylor should have given respect and said thanks to all my fans.. but this belongs to Michael Jackson..there are dozens of artist that come before Taylor swift. she sing cute preteen country/pop music for god sake!! Michael Jackson’s fans alone out number the number of people who listen to this genre.
I know about the contact link and it’s useless. How difficult can it be to give us a blogpost or even a banner to explain what’s going on and how long this mess is gonna last?
I also know this is no place, but please, give us a hint about what happened to the reviews.
Miss Swift’s success: mediocrity just doesn’t get any better
than that !!
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one having problems with the albums reviews. It’ all gone! Of course, I’m not glad at all. My God, if AMG starts getting rid of it’s reviews, it’s gonna feel like a damn desert island! I mean, there are no more reviews for all U2, The Rolling Stones and the Beatles records. Would it be possible to at least know what is going on?
I hope they fix the site soon, we can’t loose reviews! Allmusic is the most complete website of all. The rest are too pop or too indie. Allmusic reviews album from many countries, besides reviewing albums of different decades! They not only review the big pop act of the moment, but they also review the underground rock band of the early 60’s, from Iemen!! I love to read reviews before byuy an album, i read a lot of them, but the ones i trust more are the allmusic ones, i don’t know. I know, sometimes they mess up and overrate, or underrate something, but unlike others, at least they give to us some great points, they justify their opinion, and that’s enough for me. I hope they fix everything! This week things are better, some new albums are already reviewed, but normally the reviews are delivered at sunday/monday, and i just saw them now, so i don’t know how many hours or days since they were posted, i just hope the fix it, and i already said that three times!
I Don’t know if it was because of the bug or not, but suddenly Lady GaGa’s The Fame was changed. It is now a 4.5 stars record, it was 3.5. The review is also a new one. WTH happened to AMG ? It would be awesome if someone explained to us what is happening. I the rating was really upgraded than at least explain cause i’ve been complaining about some timeless recordings that are not rated 5 stars, and suddenly Lady GaGa gets a 4.5 ?! It’s not as good or consistent as Robyn’s Robyn or Roisin Murphy’s Overpowered, just cause Lady GaGa is big now, and everyone says she’s original and everything AMG upgrades her rating, so you guys dismiss her first, now that she’s the IT girl, she’s Superb ? If you guys rated her album a 4.5 back in the day, i would never complain, but why now ? Why the same songs which were dismiss as silly (eh, eh nothing else i can say), and not always good, are now close to be a pop masterpiece ? WTF is going on ?
“Очень познавательно. Спасибо.”
очень красиво, вот бы у нас так сделали
Красота, особенно первая фотка
“Мало кто может похвастаться такой смекалкой, как у автора”
А будет продолжение?
“Мне нравятся Ваши посты” Пишите побольше!
Ваш пост навел меня на думки *ушел много думать* …
Lovely
Эээ, а объясните, плиз, а то я че-то не совсем въехал, это как?
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