Much ado has been made over “Build Some Love,” a song by former ‘NSync member/current dance-based competitive television show JC Chasez that leaked online over the weekend; it’s a pleading piano-heavy ballad that Chasez apparently wrote for the debut effort by American Idol season-eight winner Kris Allen, whose new album, as of now, is still scheduled to drop Nov. 17. This song choice called some consternation among American Idol watchers like my MTV pal Jim Cantiello, who mocked Chasez for his 2004 dud “All Day Long I Think About Sex.” Which is kind of unfair, since his later output was a lot better! More »
Tinted Windows, the generation-spanning act that brought together members of Hanson, Fountains of Wayne, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Cheap Trick for cheery tunes and maximum bloggability, had their debut album come out yesterday. Eric “Professor” Harvey came up with a fun parlor game in honor of what he’s calling the self-titled record’s “astonishing competence”–namely, what would your dream version of such a powerpop Voltron look like? The formula, and my attempt to solve for “x,” after the jump. More »
I’ve mentioned the New England pop act Miss… More »
JC Chasez has been making the talk show rounds these past couple of days, because everyone wants to know who he is or isn’t sleeping with. 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?
JC Chasez, architect of last year’s best single that no one except me appreciated, has parted ways with his label. More »
We dropped by the MySpace page of ex-‘N Sync member JC Chasez just now–we wanted to see if he had any “so long, sucker” messages for ex-mentor Lou Pearlman–and what we saw concerned us. Those of you who have been reading Idolator for a while know that JC’s collaboration with ex-bandmate Justin Timberlake, “Until Yesterday,” topped one of our singles ballots for 2006; the album it’s supposed to appear on, tentatively called Kate, has been delayed so much, JC is starting to look like Kelly Rowland. And the future of that album is looking even more bleak, from the looks of some fresh comments on JC’s page; a typical one read like this:
Just in time for year-end lists to come due, this edition of the Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files looks at a song that will top at least one of your Idolators’ 2006 singles charts. More »
JC Chasez is pretty much absolved for his boy-band sins for two reasons: his idea to sample Pac-Man on N’Sync’s “The Game Is Over” and his over-the-top turn on the Basement Jaxx’s “Plug It In.” (We’ll even forgive him for his dalliance with Tara Reid.) More »
