Music Soup

Virgin Media has recently published a selection (not a ranking) of the 20 most pretentious covers the history of music worldwide. Cover believe that if that is too vain, self celebratory, self-centered or simply excessive. A gallery you with your selection. As always, of the buckets are allowed no disadvantage of this choice.

Madonna: American Life (2003)
Oasis: Be Here Now (1997)
Prince: Lovesexy (1988)
Kula Shaker: K (1996)

Hard-Fi: Once Upon A Time In the West (2007)
Coldplay: Viva La Vida (2008)
Michael Jackson: HIStory (1995)
Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk (1996)

Love, music, love in music: how many music mp3 songs that talk about feelings and relationship come to mind pensandoci just 30 seconds? Surely a lot… history is full zeppa for each gender and any latitude on the planet, here in Italy then there is a flood of singers who think you’re unable to do without it and struggimenti and sighs amorous us a basa ‘ entire career.

Maybe it’s just so, it is unavoidable; love music song offers daily stimuli and ideas as few other things, and artists with their sensitivity can be translated into verses and notes.

Today news came on ennesimi two songs in the background romantic world of international pop: Nicole Scherzinger and Paris Hilton sforneranno tracks dedicated to their boyfriends (famous) Lewis Hamilton and Benji Madden.

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Paolo Meneguzzi is a lucky man. Ricky Martin and his manager looked Sanremo, have noted (for the song Great presented in 2008) and decided to produce it in English and almost there scappava also direct cooperation.

Result? The July 29 leaves his cd that will promote in Miami and New York. The debut single is Music. This is what states candidly on the pages of Vanity Fair this week:

“I basically feel I am not an artist, but a worker. I am not immediately geio who writes the great success: I inventarmi 40 songs for finding one that works. And honestly I do not have a voice exception, not the guitar sound fear. “

It seems the trailer for a film come directly from Bollywood. But this Carmencita, and has nothing to do with anything even with the coffee machine by Armando Testa, is a song of the album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon of American folk singer Devendra Banhart.

In the video, besides the bearded singer also what seems to be his last flame, actress Natalie Portman. Tolte these notes of color, the song is not a great deal as well as the entire album decidedly lower than the previous work of Devendra Banhart.

Summer is time for all gossip, even in the musical world. Voices of the corridor, reported by ‘NME, said that in the backstage of Summercase Festival in Madrid has unleashed a kind of brawl between the singer of Bloc Party Kele Okereke has been attacked by John Lydon and his entourage. Reason triggering the brawl a racist response that Lydon and his entourage have made the question about a possible meeting of the Public Image Ltd., the other group Lydon’s historic post-Sex Pistol.

In the brawl that seems to have entered into defending the singer of Bloc Party also Yannis Philippakis of Foals and some components of Kaiser Chiefs. The singer of Foals, according to the Guardian, had the worst ending to be arrested by Spanish police.

Lydon has denied all accusing Okereke of envy for his career and his musical history, smentendo racism as a reason for the brawl. A good think about it, envious of a man so I could not be sure…

On Sorrisi this week, praises are long intessute on the success of Giusy Ferreri: speaks Claudio Cecchetto, Michele Fischietti (his vocal coach X Factor), Ivan Cattaneo, Marinella Venegoni (music critic of La Stampa, Mario Lavezzi (producer ), Mietta, Adriano Aragozzini and Francesco Facchinetti. Mogol, the only voice outside the choir, request an opinion, replied:

And who is this? I do not know who is not know.

Possible? It ‘a provocation or one of the most important authors of Italian pop music has completely lost sight of this true (and who knows, maybe lasting) phenomenon of Italian music?

George Michael, 45anni, withdraw from the scene. This is the voice circulating on sites worldwide in these hours. The reasons are two: “a quieter life” and the fact that “pop music should always be linked to being young.” Said soldoni unless you are young and have always done pop music, to a certain age you you must withdraw. Andiamolo to say to Madonna and feel if you agree.

A BBC has clearly stated:

“(The career in music) should not be a test of durability.”