Festival Fatigue, Clive on Cloud 9, Top Current Albums, and New Music..
Posted April 2, 2008 — in Music News
Festival Fatigue: Organizers are claiming that several festivals this year are likely to flop. The festivals have become extremely redundant with similar line-ups and there are a few big name acts spread to thinly over too many stages. Some critics claim that a backlash has been observed against corporate branding.
“We did a lot of research and it became clear that people are a little bit pissed off with festivals says Vince Powers. The whole thing has just become more and more about marketing and branding and I just felt people were getting short-changed. We want to get back to basics and do it for the music. We want to make it inclusive rather than exclusive.” He said at his event there would be none of the backstage or corporate hospitality areas that had proliferated elsewhere.
Google Geek to Join EMI: Douglas Merrill, one of Google top engineers will head over to EMI to help them figure out how to turn around its struggling business. He is the the third executive to depart from Google this month. Facebook hired Google executive Sheryl Sandberg to be its operating chief and also hired Google’s director of social media, Ethan Beard.
Top Current Albums:
Panic At The Disco - Pretty Odd - (TW) 139,000
Counting Crows - Saturday Nights - (TW) 107,000
Alicia Keys - As I Am - (TW) 23,000 (Total) 3,340,000
Jordin Sparks - Jordin Sparks - (TW) 17,000 (Total) 612,000
Paramore - Riot! - (TW) 12,000 (Total) 821,000
Sheryl Crow - Detours - (TW) 12,800 (Total) 270,000
Clive on Cloud 9: Music mogul Clive Davis is bragging to Page Six about his latest hit artist, Leona Lewis. Davis said of the music sensation, who is the first Brit girl to top the Billboard 100 in 21 years, “Leona is a true original. This album might be the biggest new album of the year.”
Clive gets to rub his new pet project in all of our faces. That’s fine. Congratulations!
New Music: Really digging the new Katy Perry track I Kissed a Girl. It definitely has an 80’s vibe and it’s much stronger than Ashlee Simpson debut track. My gosh, it wasn’t produced by Timbaland. Her debut record will be released this Spring through Capitol Records.
Clive gets to rub his new pet project in all of our faces. That’s fine. yea…i heard of that, i think they make it out of “pig” guts, kinda feel sorry for that Leona……
Comment by larry anderson — April 2, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
Hmm… I don’t know about that Katy Perry song. The lyrics were cliche and didn’t seem genuine.
Comment by Keith — April 3, 2008 @ 2:48 am
You know Jill Sobule’s I Kissed A Girl is a pretty shitty song (partially rescued by the gnarly lead guitar), but at least it’s believable & at least it’s got a genuine hook. It is what it is, & that’s why it’s a little bit shocking. (Or at least it was at the time.)
Contrarily, it’s incredibly obvious that the intent to shock was (as usual) the very basis for Katy Perry’s song. It’s framed as though it’s “in the moment,” but in reality it couldn’t be more premeditated. What a vapid little attention whore. Cheap, insincere, & totally forgettable.
Comment by Jon Cole — April 4, 2008 @ 12:27 am
This is good Stuff, But I want to boast about a great act coming out of Atlanta Name SUPREME. He was one of that underground group The Hogtyeboyz who’s first Album WE BEEN HERE Was Way ahead of its time, But what Blows me away is his Flow and how he verbally rides a track.
not rapping over or under it He ride the top wave very hard to do, Thats Talent. I am sure we all will hear from this young man in a big way very soon
Comment by Kevin King — June 30, 2008 @ 8:17 pm