It’s “Elvis Week,” and since this year marks the 30th anniversary of the King’s demise, there’s a good chance we’ll be inundated with mawkish/contentious/revisionist TV specials/news reports/blog posts by Friday. More »
From the “when selecting music for your ad campaign goes horribly, horribly awry” file: Some genius decided to sell the rights to “Viva Las Vegas” to an ad for Viagra. What’s next, “Hound Dog” for Cialis? More »
– James Blunt’s new album is coming out in September; on release day, expect your mom to cue it up and take a longer-than-usual bath. [NME] – Kudos to the New York Daily News for incorporating the phrase “The Gloved One even fingered a man” into a story about Michael Jackson’s dwindling finances. More »
Perhaps you were too traumatized by the loss of Sanjaya to remember the moment on last Wednesday’s American Idol when Ryan Seacrest teased a duet between two “musical legends” on this Wednesday night’s telethon extravaganza (which we’ll be liveblogging). We didn’t; hey, we even made a stupid joke about the duet turning out to be Celine Dion singing alongside the lead singer of Hinder. Well, as it turns out, we were half-right about the duet’s participants; Dion is, in fact, involved. The other half? Let’s just say that the choice of performer is almost in worse taste than selecting the Hinder guy. From TMZ:
“American Idol” will raise the dead on Wednesday and feature a performance with Celine Dion and …
