Thursday, March 8, 2012
Hell Yeah ....GANG BANG
Bitch out of order
Bat out of hell
Fish out of water
I'm scared, can't you tell?
Bang bang, shoot you dead
Bang bang, shot you dead
This song is so fuckin wicked, I mean hell yeah the Queen is definitely back.....
These reminds me of Erotica Era and as one reviewer said this is Girls gone Wild on female Viagra! The bass is so fierce and I am so loving the really sick back beats.
BEST BET....
In the past American Idol, A handful of Fil Ams made it to the Top 12 and knowing just how talented Filipinos are at singing, one would think that we would have produced an American Idol in the last ten season run.
Unfortunately most Fil-Ams were generally waylaid and lost . The highest finish would be Jasmine Trias whom I personally think does not deserve to be a third runner up, I mean for cryin out loud Jennifer Hudson was eliminated early on in that season.I would have preferred the other pinay Camille Velasco but sadly she didnt show much charisma and overly self conscious so she got eliminated. Then there's Ramiel Malubay who had a nice voice but sadly is kinda boring and lacks personality.
And of course last year's Thia Megia who had that perfect soulful Adele like voice, but lacks the showmanship that is needed to survive and win the top prize.
So now were on the 11th Season of American Idol,I am oh so seriously hoping and betting on Pinay Mexican Fil Am or whatever she's called as the new hope for us. The girl oozes with self confidence and a really great voice. Though she does kinda reminds me of Ella Mae Sayson both in looks and voice which is a good thing I think. But what the heck this girl is very good. Initially I was not impressed when I watched her home made videos but when she performed "I Love You I do" last week I became a believer.
This girl can sing which she proves again this week by belting out Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You".
I just wish that she be really consistent and that the American voting public so to speak votes for her.....
Unfortunately most Fil-Ams were generally waylaid and lost . The highest finish would be Jasmine Trias whom I personally think does not deserve to be a third runner up, I mean for cryin out loud Jennifer Hudson was eliminated early on in that season.I would have preferred the other pinay Camille Velasco but sadly she didnt show much charisma and overly self conscious so she got eliminated. Then there's Ramiel Malubay who had a nice voice but sadly is kinda boring and lacks personality.
And of course last year's Thia Megia who had that perfect soulful Adele like voice, but lacks the showmanship that is needed to survive and win the top prize.
So now were on the 11th Season of American Idol,I am oh so seriously hoping and betting on Pinay Mexican Fil Am or whatever she's called as the new hope for us. The girl oozes with self confidence and a really great voice. Though she does kinda reminds me of Ella Mae Sayson both in looks and voice which is a good thing I think. But what the heck this girl is very good. Initially I was not impressed when I watched her home made videos but when she performed "I Love You I do" last week I became a believer.
This girl can sing which she proves again this week by belting out Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You".
I just wish that she be really consistent and that the American voting public so to speak votes for her.....
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
MDNA Sampler...
It's 19 days before the actual release of Madonna's 12th studio Album MDNA and so far the reviews from the Albums listening parties had been quite positive. Both major media outfits such as UK's The Guardian, Attitude Magazine etc. and a sprinkling of noted bloggers had been favorable. I for one is so looking forward to the eventual physical release of MDNA. Anyways to appease meself I contented myself by listening over and over to the snippets that had been leaked thru the internet, Namely I'm Addicted and Love spent. Judging from these two I think the album would be fabulous. C'mon and take a listen.
Labels:
I'm Addicted,
leak,
Love Spent,
Madonna,
MDNA,
new album,
sampler
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
This Gay And Age....
PBS online documentary on Teen Gays in Middle America....Eye opener really especially to stereo typing son of a bitches...
In a way I do cherish the fact that I am in the Philippines, May not be perfect but we had it so good compared to this kids in the US.
In a way I do cherish the fact that I am in the Philippines, May not be perfect but we had it so good compared to this kids in the US.
Monday, March 5, 2012
SEX.....20 YEARS AFTER
Celebrating 20th anniversary of one of the most controversial coffee table book in history - SEX by Madonna.
It's been 20 years and the book had been dubbed by BookFinder.com as the most sought after out of circulation publication.
And I have two copies the American and the Japanese Edition. Well technically the Jap version is my sister's....
Happy Anniversary , May just be one of the most important Madonna Memorabilia aside from her music...
Labels:
1992,
Erotica Era,
Madonna,
Madonna Backlash,
SEX Book
Saturday, March 3, 2012
We still LUV M
It makes me really happy that although Madonna's first single from MDNA "Give Me All Your Luvin" is dropping out in most iTunes charts, In the Philippines MyMusic Store (the countries only legal Music download site), M is still up there at number 2.
Just goes to show that the Philippines is not ageist at all and that we love us some Grand mama's and papa's after all.
Personally I think this is not M's best work but comparing it to the crap that is being churned out by other artists, it actually is a fairly decent song although as I have mentioned not up to the Queens standard but rather a fun catchy forgettable song, but as Madonna's team says it’s a buzz single made primarily to announce that she's back and was used for the Super Bowls performance purposes.
I'm just so glad that the Philippines is showing and giving M some Luvin....
First Review: MDNA Attitude Magazine
Wanting Waiting Needing Cant wait for the 26th of March.....So so Excited
Madonna: MDNA (Interscope)
Review by Matthew Todd, Attitude Magazine April 2012
There’s a fun moment at the end of the video to the first single Give Me All Your Luvin’, when Madonna flings a baby doll off camera and away from her breast. It isn’t a subtle marker of starting anew with her loyal audience of gays and good-time girls, but it is comically satisfying nonetheless. Party Madonna is back and she wants us to know it.
Teaming up with producers Martin Solveig, Benny Benassi, The Demolition Crew and old hand William Orbit, MDNA is a dose of what she does best. While that may seem like just dance music, there is more to Madonna’s oeuvre than that.
Girls Gone Wild, the biggest pop stomper on the album, kicks off with a reference to Act of Contrition from Like a Prayer. The production might sound like she’s been listening to a fair bit of Rihanna, but who’s counting. Madonna brings her own authority, creating the kind of anthemic party song that she does best, the kind where everyone from your three-year-old niece to your 60-year-old mother gets up on the dancefloor. Much of MDNA is about having fun, but despite that, this is a dark album. If Like a Prayer was her divorce record and Hard Candy suffered, one senses, from being put together as her relationship with Guy Ritchie was falling apart, then MDNA is a fuck you to her marriage, the life that came with it, and partly to herself for losing her identity in a partnership. She’s out to recapture who she is, and she has demons to slay.
The strangely titled Gang Bang sees her singing in a weird theatrical drawl about taking revenge on a lover who ruined her life. ‘Shot you dead, shot my lover in the head…I’m going straight to hell…I’ve got a lot of friends there’, she deadpans before yelling, ‘Drive bitch, die bitch!’. It’s kind of stupid, kind of amazing, kind of funny and kind of fucked up but gives the album one vital ingredient to Madonna’s success that all contenders, apart from Lady Gaga, have never clued up on: drama.
The Solveig-produced I Don’t Give A…, is one of the album’s tour-de-force moments. Beginning by recounting a typical day, it becomes intensely honest, and is, as is her way, a telling-off of her critics. Love her or loathe her, Madonna has made her name by raising a middle finger to, well, just about everyone. ‘Wake up, this is your life, children on your own, gotta plan on the phone, meet the press, buy a dress, do all this to impress…do ten things at once and if you don’t like it I don’t give a….’ It’s here that she makes specific reference to her ex-husband. ‘I tried to be the perfect wife…I diminished myself…it swallowed me…if I was a failure then I don’t give a…’. The track builds to a genius, choral, almost Tim Burton-esque conclusion.
This strongest, most immediate section of MDNA continues with Turn Up the Radio, which begins like a delicate ballad as she pleads with the listener to stop for a moment, to get away from the world through music. It may sound trite but there’s urgency in its simplicity. It transforms into the album’s most pounding moment, reaching a climax that threatens to blow the speakers. Some might find it unusually generic, but she makes it her own and fans will be happy to have a dancefloor filler that will shake the clubs and would happily find a slot on the next series of Glee.
One of the later highlights is Superstar, surely the sweetest song Madonna has released since Cherish. It twirls along, an open-top summer anthem, serenading a new lover with a hypnotic chorus. It’s simple and pretty and a perfect song to sing on her summer concerts and should definitely be a single.
MDNA ends, as recent Madonna albums do, with deep melancholia, from the Orbit-produced Falling Free, one of the saddest songs she’s ever written, through to the confessional I Fucked Up on the Deluxe Edition, accompanied by Beautiful Killer, a fun, 80s-sounding, strings-laced tribute to French actor Alain Delon.
Overall, this might not have the serious pop intensity of Confessions, it’s not as drastically new or experimental as music critics might like, but it’s fun, fucked up, dancey and full of drama. It’s what her fans have been waiting for: a wallop enough of an album to put her back up there, at checkmate against Lady Gaga, who, despite her brilliance, doesn’t quite give you songs that are as easy to disco dance to as some of these are. Is Madonna still ‘the Queen’ as Nicki Minaj gabs at one point? On the strength of MDNA, it’s hard to argue against.
[Note to Monsters: Lady Gaga is frikkin’ amazing, too. Don't kill us.]
4 STARS ****
Madonna: MDNA (Interscope)
Review by Matthew Todd, Attitude Magazine April 2012
There’s a fun moment at the end of the video to the first single Give Me All Your Luvin’, when Madonna flings a baby doll off camera and away from her breast. It isn’t a subtle marker of starting anew with her loyal audience of gays and good-time girls, but it is comically satisfying nonetheless. Party Madonna is back and she wants us to know it.
Teaming up with producers Martin Solveig, Benny Benassi, The Demolition Crew and old hand William Orbit, MDNA is a dose of what she does best. While that may seem like just dance music, there is more to Madonna’s oeuvre than that.
Girls Gone Wild, the biggest pop stomper on the album, kicks off with a reference to Act of Contrition from Like a Prayer. The production might sound like she’s been listening to a fair bit of Rihanna, but who’s counting. Madonna brings her own authority, creating the kind of anthemic party song that she does best, the kind where everyone from your three-year-old niece to your 60-year-old mother gets up on the dancefloor. Much of MDNA is about having fun, but despite that, this is a dark album. If Like a Prayer was her divorce record and Hard Candy suffered, one senses, from being put together as her relationship with Guy Ritchie was falling apart, then MDNA is a fuck you to her marriage, the life that came with it, and partly to herself for losing her identity in a partnership. She’s out to recapture who she is, and she has demons to slay.
The strangely titled Gang Bang sees her singing in a weird theatrical drawl about taking revenge on a lover who ruined her life. ‘Shot you dead, shot my lover in the head…I’m going straight to hell…I’ve got a lot of friends there’, she deadpans before yelling, ‘Drive bitch, die bitch!’. It’s kind of stupid, kind of amazing, kind of funny and kind of fucked up but gives the album one vital ingredient to Madonna’s success that all contenders, apart from Lady Gaga, have never clued up on: drama.
The Solveig-produced I Don’t Give A…, is one of the album’s tour-de-force moments. Beginning by recounting a typical day, it becomes intensely honest, and is, as is her way, a telling-off of her critics. Love her or loathe her, Madonna has made her name by raising a middle finger to, well, just about everyone. ‘Wake up, this is your life, children on your own, gotta plan on the phone, meet the press, buy a dress, do all this to impress…do ten things at once and if you don’t like it I don’t give a….’ It’s here that she makes specific reference to her ex-husband. ‘I tried to be the perfect wife…I diminished myself…it swallowed me…if I was a failure then I don’t give a…’. The track builds to a genius, choral, almost Tim Burton-esque conclusion.
This strongest, most immediate section of MDNA continues with Turn Up the Radio, which begins like a delicate ballad as she pleads with the listener to stop for a moment, to get away from the world through music. It may sound trite but there’s urgency in its simplicity. It transforms into the album’s most pounding moment, reaching a climax that threatens to blow the speakers. Some might find it unusually generic, but she makes it her own and fans will be happy to have a dancefloor filler that will shake the clubs and would happily find a slot on the next series of Glee.
One of the later highlights is Superstar, surely the sweetest song Madonna has released since Cherish. It twirls along, an open-top summer anthem, serenading a new lover with a hypnotic chorus. It’s simple and pretty and a perfect song to sing on her summer concerts and should definitely be a single.
MDNA ends, as recent Madonna albums do, with deep melancholia, from the Orbit-produced Falling Free, one of the saddest songs she’s ever written, through to the confessional I Fucked Up on the Deluxe Edition, accompanied by Beautiful Killer, a fun, 80s-sounding, strings-laced tribute to French actor Alain Delon.
Overall, this might not have the serious pop intensity of Confessions, it’s not as drastically new or experimental as music critics might like, but it’s fun, fucked up, dancey and full of drama. It’s what her fans have been waiting for: a wallop enough of an album to put her back up there, at checkmate against Lady Gaga, who, despite her brilliance, doesn’t quite give you songs that are as easy to disco dance to as some of these are. Is Madonna still ‘the Queen’ as Nicki Minaj gabs at one point? On the strength of MDNA, it’s hard to argue against.
[Note to Monsters: Lady Gaga is frikkin’ amazing, too. Don't kill us.]
4 STARS ****
Labels:
ATTITUDE Magazine,
Madonna,
MDNA,
review
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