It seems that every week someone is claiming to have found the "next Susan Boyle" and it never turns out that way. But Cindy Chang is this week's Susan, according to reports all over the web.
Cindy, a 42-year-old housewife, auditioned for America's Got Talent in Houston, Texas this week, knocking 'em dead with a rendition of O Mio Babbino Caro (but not before drinking olive oil. Ew.).
She's not as awkward as Boyle was on her first day. But she does snort when she laughs. And I can't believe this but I actually got a wee bit verklempt watching her. Just a bit.
This is cute. It's Weird Al's parody to the tune of Taylor Swift's You Belong With Me, called TMZ, mocking the paparazzi.
The song, off his album Alpocalypse, which dropped June 21, begins, “You’re sorta famous, a minor celebrity, and so it only makes sense the world would be obsessed with every single thing you do,” but the best line is, "I tell you it's getting to the point where a famous person can't even get a DUI or go on a racist rant," Ha. So true. What's the world coming to?
The song itself has little to do with Taylor Swift herself. After all, she's not one of the more serious paparazzi targets, like Britney Spears or Jennifer Aniston. But Michael Jackson isn't fat and Chamillionaire isn't white and/or nerdy. That last, by the way, is my hands down favourite Weird Al songs in the history of Weird Al songs.
Let's look at the top five (and, no, Perform This Way is not among them).
The Voice has chosen its winner. Javier Colon, who was mentored by Maroon 5's Adam Levine took home the inaugural title Wednesday night, beating Dia Frampton, Beverly McClellan and Vicci Martinez.
The father of two - who is also apparently quite a golfer - shed a few tears, natch.
"My oldest, who's 3½, said, 'Daddy! Daddy! We saw you win on TV!'" Colon told reporters, according to PEOPLE.com. "They were in a holding area and she said, 'We saw you win on TV, Daddy!' 'Yeah, baby, Daddy won.' "
Colon landed a recording contract with Universal Republic Records, $100,000 and a starring spot on the first Voice tour.
He's been slogging his way through the music biz for a while and getting nowhere.
He told PEOPLE on the eve of the finale, "I've been at this a long time, and it wears on you when you keep getting doors shut in your face, and you keep getting told you are not good enough to get another record deal and they decide not to, quote-unquote, waste their time on you. So this [opportunity] is amazing."
So, let's watch him win, shall we? Did the right singer win?
Admittedly, it won’t have massive mainstream appeal but for fans, it’s a gift from the gods. Pitchfork reports that Seattle grunge grandaddies the Screaming Trees will release a “lost” album that happens to feature REM guitarist Peter Buck and Queens of the Stone Age honcho Josh Homme.
I guess we could headline the piece “Nearly Lost You,” nyuck nyuck. That’s an in-joke for the kids at the back.
The three-finger devil salute is set to come to living rooms worldwide as Judas Priest screamer Rob Halford readies to release a concert DVD capturing a performance at Japan’s 20,000-plus capacity Saitama Super Arena.
What’s being reported as an all-star triple album for charity and featuring a grocery list of American musicians - Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, The Strokes, James Mercer of The Shins, Wilco, Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney, Chris Funk and John Moen of The Decemberists, The Dandy Warhols, Spoon, Ryan Adams, John Doe of X and Joshua Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures among them – is set for release July 16.
Less than a month after two men were arrested over an alleged robbery-and-murder plot against Joss Stone, the British soul singer is back-in-action and making cautious jokes about the whole twisted thing.
In an interview with Billboard to promote her forthcoming Dave Stewart-produced album LP1 – out July 26 on the singer’s boutique imprint, Stone'd Records – Stone says of the plot, “Now I have a perfect excuse to get three really cute little puppies that are going to grow up to be really big, cuddly dogs who will protect me, so I'm actually excited and I have to send (the accused) a thank-you letter."
Lady Gaga has launched a fashion blog on microblogging site Tumblr.
Amen Fashion - the name of the blog as well as the title of a Lady Gaga song - essentially a collection of pictures - that what Tumblr blogs are - with wee blurbs and she's already posted seven entries, most of which are, of course, pictures of herself.
I guess this makes sense since each of Gaga's outfits is essentially a creation of its own. I think you probably have to be a huge Gaga fan to appreciate it - and there are kajillions of those - but anyone can nod at the creativity of the manga eyes she wore in Japan over the weekend, posted above and on the site.
Still, one might wish she'd stop spreading herself so thin and start concentrating on quality over quantity. Gaga is cranking out garbage lately, and she was once brilliant, no matter what any would-be critic might say. Compare the two videos below if you need an illustration. The first is Bad Romance, released in 2009. The second is Edge of Glory, released just a year or so later.
They always were a contentious bunch of lads… Mike Joyce, former drummer with classic 80s-era Brit rockers the Smiths lashed out at his onetime bandmate, singer Morrissey, for including Smiths songs in the latter’s solo performance last weekend at the sprawling Glastonbury Festival.
May 2011
