Either way, TNT and whoever’s responsible for promoting Amerie’s Because I Love It in the U.S. are making me wonder if the album–or at least a song or two from it–might get at least a weak, half-hearted push in the States. More »
As a sort of companion piece to the news that Taylor Hicks and Ruben Studdard had been dropped from J, Entertainment Weekly‘s Hollywood Insider blog ran a list of acts that had been dropped by/defected from major labels in 2007 last week. Frankly, I’m surprised that it isn’t about a mile longer, even though it does run the gamut from on-to-better-things artists (the White Stripes, Radiohead) to bands that seem to have hard luck follow them wherever they go (Mooney Suzuki, Blood Brothers). Full list after the jump.
THE GOOD: This is a pretty depressing list overall, but perhaps Liz Phair getting dropped by her label will make her think twice before recording her next ode to getting down with the Kotaku set, “Mii And You (Pushin’ My Trigger Button).”
THE BAD: After all that will-it-or-won’t-it-come-out? drama, it looks like Amerie has been dropped from Sony, thus leaving the status of Because I Love It‘s US release date more unknown than ever. Here’s hoping she’ll make a second mix tape.
THE WHAAA? It’s not about the list per se, but the comment section of the EW post has turned into a kinda crazy-ass pissing match between JC Chasez fans and Bo Bice diehards. I mean I loved “Until Yesterday” probably more than anyone else, but really?
Tonight, Late Show With David Letterman and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno return to the air, and it would appear that the writer-less Leno drew the short straw as far as musical guests go. While Letterman will have both writers and Lupe Fiasco in tow, Leno’s comeback show will feature… Chingy. More »
Tonight, Late Show With David Letterman and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno return to the air, and it would appear that the writer-less Leno drew the short straw as far as musical guests go. While Letterman will have both writers and Lupe Fiasco in tow, Leno’s comeback show will feature… Chingy. More »
And while the track at No. 22 may not motivate you to adopt an eternally positive outlook, it will get your hands waving and your butt shaking in time.
It’s not a secret (or at least, not a well-kept one) that Amerie’s stateside release date issues are a sensitive subject around the Idolator offices, but in order to show the fine people at Sony Urban/Columbia Records that there are still some people on this side of the pond who are eagerly awaiting the release of Because I Love It, we offer an Amerie news rundown after the cut:
Hello, everyone. Maura here. It’s my first day in the editor’s seat, and what better way to introduce my tenure than with the video for Amerie’s summer-single-in-waiting “Gotta Work”–even if I have serious misgivings about all the Pussycat Dolls biting, a.k.a. the obvious attempt to get her record noticed on these shores? (Here’s hoping there’s an alternate “headbanging in front of bucket-drum-players” version of the clip floating around somewhere.)
Last night, we checked up on the release date of Amerie’s Because I Love It, the R & B singer’s third album. Despite a) her attempts to pump up its pre-release cred with a mixtape and b) the fact that it’s one of the better R & B albums we’ve heard this year, its path toward store shelves in the U.S. has been fraught with delays. Sometime over the past few weeks, another one was introduced; the album, which was most recently scheduled for a July US release (it’s already out in the UK and Japan), is now coming out in the States on Aug. 21. Sure, it’s not Chinese Democracy, but this album’s been plagued with delays since we first heard “Take Control,” the album’s lead single, back in October 2006. After the jump, a timeline of our prolonged wait for Because I Love It‘s Stateside arrival:
Amerie’s long-anticipated Because I Love It leaked over the weekend, just a few days before its release in everywhere but the U.S. (As one of our commenters pointed out, the Stateside release date at this point is sometime in mid-July–apparently, major labels haven’t yet received the “staggered… More »
We were delighted to find the latest track from Amerie, whose mix tape from last year still gets a lot of airplay around the flophouse. The brassed-out “Gotta Work” is apparently going to be on Because I Love It, Amerie’s forthcoming album that has a screwy release-date schedule. More »
