At first glance, you might not recognize John Legend in those tight bell bottoms and suede vest, but the 70s soul attire is integral to the superstar’s new music video, featuring The Roots, Melanie Fiona, and Common. The bass-heavy “Wake Up Everybody” is the kickoff for Wake Up!” a new collection of jams by Legend and the Late Night house band. Inspired by the socially conscious soul of the 60s and 70s, the album is due Sept. 21.
The video was recently shot in Brooklyn by director Gil Green and the video’s ’70s vibe (with a little Do The Right Thing kick) fits perfectly with this cover of the Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes classic. Check out this exclusive behind the scenes look at “Wake Up Everybody” in the making. Just how will this throwback clip all tie together? We’ll just have to wait till the music video’s released on iTunes tomorrow to see. And for even more on set pics click here and here. More »
Our look at the closing lines of reviews of the week’s biggest new music continues with a look at reactions to Common’s Universal Mind Control, which arrives in stores today:
A leather-clad Common, Pharrell (or probably just… More »
Kanye West, Method Man, Redman, Common, Universal Music Group, Island Def Jam, and Interscope Geffen A & M were all hit with a copyright-infringement suit by the daughter of musician Joe Farrell, thanks to their sampling his 1974 song “Upon This Rock” without Farrell’s estate’s OK. More »
Kanye West, Method Man, Redman, Common, Universal Music Group, Island Def Jam, and Interscope Geffen A & M were all hit with a copyright-infringement suit by the daughter of musician Joe Farrell, thanks to their sampling his 1974 song “Upon This Rock” without Farrell’s estate’s OK. More »
ARTIST: Common
SONG TITLE: “Universal Mind Control (feat. Pharrell)”
WEB DEBUT: May 22, 2008
The homophobia of his early albums, as well as recent singles (I’m pretty sure “stay in your lane, Brokeback ain’t the way of the game” is meant as a gaybait in 2007’s “The Game”) would imply that Common is seriously bothered by alternate lifestyles. More »
Welcome back to our Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament, which has already provided us with a few tight races, a few blowouts, and many, many amazing comments from the ballot-casting public. Today we close out the first round of voting in the Bad Photoshop Bracket with two covers that look like they were inspired by the same Trapper Keeper–or at the very least, the same batch of bad hallucinogens.
Well, some 20 hours after the video for Common and Lily Allen’s new single hit the Internet, no less than 900,000 copies have appeared on the various video sites, perhaps not so surprising for a guy who recently had a No. More »
