It looks like Nelly Furtado had a “Hot N’ Fun” time at the 2010 Orange Warsaw Festival in Warsaw, Poland this weekend. The Canadian songbird showed off her gorgeous curves in a black and bedazzled catsuit for her set which included the new electro-pop single, “Free” and “Girlfriend In This City”. Check out how this sultry “Maneater” got her groove on in Eastern Europe this past Sunday. More »
Timbaland is sticking to the promo trail for his upcoming album, Shock Value II. Sunday he performed new single “Morning After Dark” with SoShy and Nelly Furtado at the American Music Awards, and last night the trio hit up The Tonight Show to belt out the tune for Conan O’Brien.
Although, “belt” might not exactly be the proper term. It sounded like Timbaland was sing-rapping over a guide track (or three), but you could still hear his live voice despite all the advanced technology. As for Nelly Furtado—well, you be the judge. More »
Yes, yes—vampires are very now, very chic. But with all the goofy faces Timbaland is sporting in the video for “Morning After Dark”—which also features singer SoShy—the menacing bloodsuckers aren’t the creepiest thing in the clip. More »
Over at Eric Beall’s Berkleemusic.com blog, there’s some discussion of Hall and Oates’ suit against their publishing company, Warner/Chappell Music, which they claim has failed to protect “Maneater” from emulation and copying by other artists. If that sounds like a strange charge to you, well, it is, and it’s presumably directed at Nelly Furtado, whose song “Maneater” (hmmm) bears some similarities to a certain Hall and Oates track. What makes the whole thing interesting is why Daryl and John are getting litigious:
Warner Chappell failed and refused to take action based upon a conflict of interest of its own making,” says the Hall and Oates suit. “Warner Chappell publishes and/or administers the copyright interests of two of the infringers.
You see, Warner/Chappell also represents Timbaland and Nate “Danja” Hills, the composers of the Furtado track. So, basically, H&O are suing Warner/Chappell for failing to protect Warner/Chappell artists from other Warner/Chappell artists. As Beall notes, these kinds of relationships are convoluted, of questionable ethics, and par for the course. Who is protecting whose interests in this situation?
As it turns out, songwriters get kinda screwed.
Today I ran across a neat page on Last.fm outlining the songs and artists that are most likely to be deleted from users’ musical histories on the site, which charts its users’ listening habits to come up with a bunch of charts that constitute a musical profile that’s then shared with the world. While the No. 1 artist who’s been deleted from peoples’ listening habits isn’t all that surprising–“[unknown],” who comes up when people don’t fill out their ID3 tags properly before giving songs a spin–and I’m wholly unsurprised by snobbier music types out there being loath to not want to share how many times they’ve listened to “Piece Of Me” and “Girlfriend” with the world, there were some eyebrow-raising inclusions on both lists. Top five on each chart after the jump.
