Well this time not on Friday, not on Saturday or the day afterwards but on Monday. On July 18th Rebecca Black is debuting her next single "My Moment" and will be released shortly afterwards on iTunes and other sites the next day.
This time round she has ditched the Ark Music Factory and has been working with Brandon Hamilton (previously working with the Bieber-nator) and producer Charlton Pettus.
Lets hope RB sticks to her Ark roots however and provides something FUN FUN FUN.
Amanda Warner better known by her stage name of MNDR (also comprising of Peter Wade, production partner) first graced mainstream music media attention with her contribution to Mark Ronson's hit track "Bang Bang Bang". With one listen to MNDR's whimsical and alluring vocals it is instantly obvious why Ronson chose the relatively unknown musician to feature on the track.
Checking out the duo's myspace and listening to four tracks found on their E.P. such as Fade to Black and C.L.U.B show that aside from the success with "Bang Bang Bang" they are bound to make their own solo assault on the charts in time to come with their euphoric electo-synthpop gems.
My personal favourite track of theirs; Cut Me Out keeps align with their other offerings and this moody elctro pop track and the video doesn't fail to disappoint either.
Oh and in case it's bugging you, her glasses are prescription ones.
JLS, the four piece boy-band from the UK premièred today their new video for the single, "She Makes Me Wanna" ft. Dev. There's nothing pop revolutionary about it, it keeps up with the current trend of up tempo/trance/dance along to in a club music that listeners are eager to consume and musicians equally eager to churn out of the pop factory.
The lyrics are somewhat similar to J Lo's smash, multimillion selling track "On the Floor" ft Pitbull. Take a listen to the two and you might catch that both songs contain the lyric "L.A. to Africa" the coincidences between the two songs carry on as they were both produced by industry favourite RedOne and of course the presence of the two rappers.
So do I think JLS' single will give the group that "international break" they are hoping for? No. Without sounding pessimistic I can see the single being taken to the top of the charts in the UK however it's lacking the WOW factor I feel is needed to propel them into the international spotlight.
Sorry lads.
Oh and Blogger couldn't find the official video so what you gonna do? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FuwTgZOKcf8
I found this recent interview with Natalia Kills to be rather amusing.
Skip to 5 minutes in where the topic of the conversation resolves around what many interviewers have asked Natalia before, whether she see essentially sees herself as a Lady Gaga clone.
Natalia to me at first seems taken back by the interviewers question and I somewhat sympathize with her. After all Natalia is trying to be a credible artist in her own right and constantly being asked whether she is trying to be someone she clearly isn't (minus the whole same label/Akon/RedOne thing going on) must be tedious.
What I find funny is what she states when the interviewer suggests they have the same hair, her reply whilst pointing out her towering top knot is that Lady Gaga "doesn't have this hair"...
Ohh erm she had it two years ago...
Ohhh snap, a similar top knot/beehive style worn by Lady Gaga yesterday at a press conference in Singapore just a couple of days after the interview posted above...awkward.
Mika recently premiered his new single, entitled "Elle me dit" taken from his upcoming third album, "The Origin of Love", the infectious little pop number sang solely in French is sure to be a hit in the home of the Eiffel Tower.
It leaves me wondering that with the news of his French song writing, bundled with the fact that French DJ Martin Sloveig has given his hand to production of the album which is to take a Daft Punk inspired route, is all a move to focus in on the market which Mika may have recognised to be his most accessible. After all it's where his first two albums have both sold consistently well, when he recent offerings of "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" failed to sell as well as his debut "A Life In Cartoon Motion".
However what's important is that "Elle me dit" sounds very promising, the simple piano beat and the upbeat sounding nature of the song just shows that Mika is a true deliverer of power pop tunes.
"You can't stop looking me, staring at me. Be what I be, you can't stop looking at me"
Cher, the once favourite to win X Factor contestant who plagued the show with her rap/sing style recently premiered her bizarrely named debut single, "Swagger Jagger". The term "Swagger Jagger" is one that instantly isolates me, a brief Google later and the term refers to;
"A person who always cramps your style. A form of hating"
Wait here. "A person who always cramps your style." I think we know who's good at that.
Overall I feel that releasing a single about your haters and claiming that people can't stop talking/tweeting/whatever the fuck over you is a bad move, or a bold move by her PR team. She didn't exactly leave the X Factor on a high note, with numerous insider reports highlighting her diva persona and I doubt this song is going to transform her into a "British Sweetheart" anytime soon.
I'm sure it will go down a treat with clubbers as its trance inspired beats sets in on full volume, which I will pleasantly enjoyed but like most "post X Factor music" these days it will get its air play before fading into obscurity.
Quite why she wants us on the floor baffles me as well.
