Buzzin Pop Music

Jay Z will release the latest single to be taken from the Platinum certified album The Blueprint 3, the track On To The Next One, is released through Atlantic Records on April 12th.

Hip Hop star Jay Z performed the track on his recent appearance on the BBC’s Jonathan Ross Show, in case you may not have seen it here is the video ;

Jay Z – On To The Next One

If you missed Jay Z chatting with Ross, the interview itself was quite amusing, here it is in two parts;

Rihanna’s latest hit single Rude Boy leaves little to the imagination, and its accompanying promo video left even less to its apparent fabric budget.

Less is more as they say, but in this case, the phrase can only be applied to the amount of clothing worn in the clip – everything else is excessive bordering on obscene.

The super-stylized, Warhol-esque video begins with a scantly-clad Rihanna playing air-drums on a less than responsive kit, while the background drum machine lets a dance-hall beat rip and shake. One of the next shots comprises multipe Rihannas, shaking in a bright kaleidoscope of African colors, stylized with comic book style Pop Art layering and animated lions, before moving onto the super-ripped object of her desire, whose pants she soon pulls back to check for sufficiency.

The style is impressive, and the overt sexuality of Rihanna herlyricsand video itselfhaveensured the song’smega-hit status. Speaking of which, the video has received over 8.4 million hits on Youtube as of March 4th.

In a kind of backwards victory for women’sequality, the lyrics of the song, both, advocate male teasing and mockery, and a love of rough sex – a wise and winning combination in anyone’sbooks, and a surefire way to win over millions of young, sexually-frustrated fans. Lyrics include:

“Come here rude boy, boy
Can you get it up
Come here rude boy, boy
Is your big enough
Take it, take it Baby, baby
Take it, take it Love me, love me.”

and:

“I like the way you touch me there
I like the way you pull my hair
Babe, if I don’t feel it, I ain’t faking
No, no.”

Whatever you think about the lyrics, or the apparent direction of today’s youth, the sound, technique and style are undeniable. Both, Rihanna and the object of her desire, are super-fit, clad in designer clothes, and edited at a super-stylized and perhaps seizure-inducing pace.

It seems that Rihanna’s superstardom will continue its upward trajectory at a seemingly unlimited velocity, or at least, as far as censorship is willing to allow

r kelly

One of the biggest names from the nineties onslaught of R&B music, R Kelly has continued to make music and is still mixing it with the current top names in the genre, writing, performing and producing the music that he loves and again topping the R&B charts last year with his album Untitled, which is generally being hailed as a classic.

Now among the host of R&B/Urban/Soulstars from those early days who are back out on the road, R Kelly is heading into Europe for a series of shows that will see him performing his own sultry style of music in Germany, Netherlands France and Brussels, before hitting the UK for four shows in April.

Twenty years on and R Kelly has sold a staggering 50 million albums around the world and in the UK he has chalked up an unbelievable 30 hit singles throughout his career. At the same time he has managed to write and produce for some of the most legendary names in the business, working with stars like Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Ciara and The Isley Brothers. He also wrote the international comeback song I Look To You, for Whitney Houston.

But it his fantastic personal back catalogue that fans will be eager to hear him perform at his 2010 concerts, songs like Bump & Grind, Shes Got That Vibe, I Believe I Can Fly and If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time, will have the fans moving in the aisles.

The full list of R Kelly European dates is;

Tuesday
23 March 2010
19:30
Palladium Köln
Köln Germany

Sunday
28 March 2010
19:30
Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt
Frankfurt/Main Germany

Monday
29 March 2010
19:30
Tempodrom
Berlin Germany

Tuesday
30 March 2010
20:00
Heineken Music Hall
Amsterdam Zuid-Oost Holland

Thursday
01 April 2010
20:00
Zenith de Paris
Paris France

Friday
02 April 2010
20:00
Galaxie
Amneville France

Saturday
03 April 2010
20:00
Messe Basel, Grosser Saal
Basel Switzerland

Monday
05 April 2010
19:00
Manchester Apollo
Manchester United Kingdom

Friday
09 April 2010
19:00
Hammersmith Apollo
London United Kingdom

Saturday
10 April 2010
19:00
Hammersmith Apollo
London United Kingdom

Sunday
11 April 2010
19:00
Civic Hall
Wolverhampton United Kingdom

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Scouting for Girls’ new single This Ain’t A Love Song is out on 29th March.

Scouting For Girls release new single This Ain’t A Love Song on 29 March. It precedes the release of sophomore album Everybody Wants To Be On TV on 12 April.

In 2008 Scouting For Girls became the biggest selling new British band of the year. Having toiled for ten years unsigned, the boys sold over 900,000 records of their eponymous number 1 debut album, and were nominated for three Brit Awards (British Breakthrough Act, British Single and British Live Act) to become the UK’s most successful new pop band.

Fronted by exuberant showman Roy Stride, Scouting For Girls quickly became renowned for their contagious piano-led pop songs (She’s So Lovely, Heartbeat, It’s Not About You), that connected with a huge audience and reaped multiple sell-out tours.

Those live shows grew as Scouting For Girls mania gripped, buoyed on by huge radio support, and venues were upsized across the country and sold out just as quickly. By the end of 2008, they had performed to hundreds of thousands of fans, and outsold bands twice their size in the live arena.

The initial recordings of their forthcoming second album Everybody Wants To Be On TV were ruthlessly scrapped after the Brit Awards in 2008, when the band decided it needed re-writing and re-shaping.

Whole tracks were dropped in Roy Stride’s mission for a collection of perfect pop songs. The resulting album, produced by Andy Green at Helioscentric Studios in East Sussex, is unshakeably bold and confident, a genuine step up in sound that loses none of the band’s early charm but builds and expands upon it as infectiously as only they know how to be.

This Ain’t A Love Song is a telling introduction to the new record. It is a hugely powerful, soaring song and a strong example of Scouting For Girls’ ambitious new sound, sculpted by Roy’s unflagging confidence and songwriting prowess.

It is a welcome return by this everyday trio, writing a bright new chapter of British pop for 2010.

For more information visit www.scoutingforgirls.co.uk

Here’s a ‘behind the scenes’ video of how the new promo video was made:

the dirty disco

Sista! is the latest single from The Dirty Disco, an electro pop band with a glam fetish, who are attracting plenty of attention from their live shows despite being currently unsigned and unpublished.

The single is released through the bands own label Stuck In My Head Records and was mixed by Dylan 3D Dresdow who has worked with Black Eyed Peas/ Will.i.am.

The digital release is already riding high in the iTunes Dance Chart and has peaked at number one on the Juno Records indie rock chart.

The Dirty Disco have attracted the attention of BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson amongst many others and have been described as ‘An unhealthy dose of Glam! Sleazy and above all irresistibly catchy pop.’

The Dirty Disco will be appearing in London at the Death Disco on March 31st, where entry is free.

Here is the video, The Dirty Disco – Sista!

For more information visit The Dirty Disco MySpace site.