Some pretty rad sounds in the airwaves today…
Lady Gaga is criticized by the Ann Coulter of the pop/music industry:
“Gaga [is] not just unsexy, but also “stripped of genuine eroticism”; [her] embrace of freaks is insincere because she herself has a privileged background. [She is] a corporate shill; Paglia also trashes [Gaga's] fans as emotionally impoverished, and (diehard baby boomer that she is) expresses longing for fleshy 1960s heroines such as Tina Turner and Janis Joplin.
Ann Powers breaks it down for the LA Times.
Haven’t read Paglia’s ‘attack’, but Powers’ editorial links to a lot of interesting sights around popland.
Sacha Baron Cohen will be playing Freddie Mercury in a new Queen biopic.
Sounds pretty rad to me.
More at Yahoo News.
eMusic, a subscription digital music service 12 years into their venture, looks to be making bonds with major labels.
Whether this will provide them the needed library and push to get a grip in the online music industry, who knows.
“Unlike iTunes, where users usually buy songs for around 99 cents each, eMusic members pay a subscription fee of around $12 a month through which they can buy 24 songs.
The company would also like to launch a digital ‘locker service’ that would allow subscribers to listen to songs they have bought wherever they are and through whatever device they use.”
Google Music is going to rip iTunes a new one. Couldn’t come too soon.
“An online music store not unlike iTunes, but run entirely through the web browser (and perhaps an app on Android devices). But users would have the choice of downloading some content to their mobile devices to take on the go, or immediately putting it in a cloud storage locker, which users would pay around $25 a year for. From this locker, all music bought could be streamed to any web browser at no additional charge. And again, music could be downloaded to a mobile app for when you’re not going to be online.
Every song on their service could be played once in its entirety once for free by any user. Currently, services like iTunes only allow you to hear 30-second snippets of songs before you have to buy them.
Users might be able to share music playlists with friends — which, when combined with the one free play rule, could be very powerful. Undoubtedly, Google’s upcoming new social service/layer/whatever will be a part of this Google Music experience as well.”
And if you haven’t heard it yet, you should really check out Math Rosen’s latest Mix Tape.
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