Beyonce, “4,” (Columbia) “Run the World (Girls),” the first single from Beyonce’s fourth solo album, “4,” has all the hallmarks of a signature No. 1 Beyonce smash — a bombastic, larger-than-life sound, a call-and-response hook, a heavy dose of girl power and a fierce drumbeat. Surprisingly, though, it landed with a thud on radio, and the buzz around “4″ hasn’t been encouraging — there&#…
NEW YORK – With 16 Grammys, millions of records sold, several defining hits and a superstar husband among her accomplishments, Beyonce has nothing to prove. But sometimes, even queens need to show what it means to be royalty. And on Sunday night, Beyonce arrived at the Roseland Ballroom to give fans and critics alike a reminder that despite chatter that might try to suggest otherwise, she remains the head diva in the music world, and she made he…
LOS ANGELES – Beyonce Knowles, Russell Brand, David Duchovny and “King’s Speech” director Tom Hooper have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The film academy said Friday it has invited 178 film-industry workers to join its ranks this year. Documentarian Tim Hetherington, who was nominated for an Oscar this year and then killed in Libya two months after the ceremony, was invited posthumously to…
Listen up, Little Monsters: It’s Mother Monster’s 26th birthday! And in that entertain of a century (plus one year!), Lady Gaga has managed to reinvent a cocktail circle with her individualist persona and pumping, politically charged dance music. When asked how she designed to applaud another year, she simply told a Monster on Twitter, “Quinceanera.” While we’ll be Quinceañera-ing in spirit, we will applaud her colorful life and career by…
Much has been finished about who a theme of Katy Perry‘s latest hit, “Part of Me,” competence be. Is it her ex-husband, Russell Brand, or, given that she wrote it a while back, her other famous ex, Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy? Does it even matter? The strain is an romantic dissection anthem that only about anyone can describe to; set to a 130-beat-per-minute residence beat, it’s certain to have bar kids a universe over dancing …
LONDON (Reuters) – In an astonishing response to a scandal engulfing his media empire, Rupert Murdoch shut down the News of the World on Thursday, Britain’s biggest selling Sunday newspaper. As allegations multiplied that its journalists hacked the voicemails of thousands of people, from child murder victims to the families of Britain’s war dead, the tabloid hemorrhaged advertising, alienated millions of readers and posed a growing …