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  • Billie Eilish hits: Sexual exploitation of minors

    Billie Eilish hits: Sexual exploitation of minors

    Billie Eilish appearing in the newest issue of British VOGUE, commenting on society and sexual exploitation of minors..

    “[The song is] really not about one person. You might think, ‘it’s because she’s in the music industry’, no dude. It’s everywhere,” she says. “I don’t know one girl or woman who hasn’t had a weird experience or a really bad experience. And men too – young boys are taken advantage of constantly.”

    Eilish looked different than normal.. minus the baggy clothes, minus the sweats. This time, she sports a custom Gucci corset and skirt with an Agent Provocateur bra, accessorised with latex gloves. The magazine says it was Eilish’s idea..

    “Showing your body and showing your skin – or not – should not take away any respect from you,” she said. “It’s all about what makes you feel good. If you want to get surgery, go get surgery. If you want to wear a dress that somebody thinks that you look too big wearing, fuck it. If you feel like you look good, you look good.”

    x x x

    Meanwhile SHOWBIZ reports that sales of YOU POWER has turned into a thud of a dud..

  • K-Pop takes over YouTube in Friday morning song debut

    K-Pop takes over YouTube in Friday morning song debut

    K-pop group BTS just released their highly-anticipated music video for their newest track, ‘Dynamite’.

    It has overpassed 10 million views and 1 million likes in just 20 minutes of its debut…

    BTS obliterated the YouTube Premiere record, previously held by BLACKPINK‘s ‘How You Like That’ music video which drew 1.65 million concurrent viewers.

  • REVENGE OF THE 90S!Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World Set Joint Summer Tour

    REVENGE OF THE 90S!Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World Set Joint Summer Tour

    Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World will hit the road together for what the Nineties rock acts have dubbed the Summer Gods Tour.

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    OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:

    “The most scintillating, inspiring collective moments of my life have been outdoors in the summer exploding with music,” Third Eye Blind singer Stephan Jenkins said in a statement. “Those sensations travel from when I was a little kid and rock music was brand new to our last Summer Gods tour, when everything is magically new again. I seek to create that exact blissed-out state of aliveness on tour this summer.”

    Ra Ra Riot will serve as the supporting act on the Summer Gods trek, which kicks off June 14th in Los Angeles and circles the U.S. before concluding August 3rd in Irvine, California.

    “We couldn’t be more excited to spend our 25th summer as a band touring the country of our birth to play music for our American fan,” Jimmy Eat World said in a statement. “Thanks to Third Eye Blind for inviting us to be a part of this amazing tour. We can’t wait to hang out with our fans as well as making some new friends!”

    Tickets for the Summer Gods Tour go on sale February 1st. A portion of each sale is donated to offset the trek’s carbon dioxide footprint.

    Third Eye Blind / Jimmy Eat World Tour

    June 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
    June 15 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
    June 18 – Portland, OR @ Theater of The Clouds at Moda Center
    June 19 – Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater
    June 21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
    June 22 – Denver, CO @ Levitt Pavilion
    June 23 – Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
    June 25 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
    June 27 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion
    June 28 – Detroit, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre
    June 30 – Indianapolis, IN @ Farmer’s Bureau Insurance Lawn
    July 2 – Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion
    July 3 – Lewiston, NY @ Artpark
    July 5 – Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC
    July 6 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
    July 8 – Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
    July 9 – Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale Theatre
    July 11 – Wantagh, NY @ Jones Beach Theater
    July 12 – Scranton, PA @ The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
    July 13 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Pavilion
    July 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ BB&T Pavilion
    July 16 – Columbus, OH @ Express Live! Pavilion
    July 17 – Cincinnati, OH @ PNC Pavilion
    July 19 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
    July 20 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE Outdoors
    July 21 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
    July 22 – Atlanta, GA @ State Bank Amphitheatre
    July 24 – Nashville, IN @ Ascend Amphitheatre
    July 25 – Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
    July 26 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion
    July 27 – Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
    July 31 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
    August 1 – San Diego, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
    August 2 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl Concert Theater
    August 3 – Irvine, CA @ FivePoint Amphitheatre

  • Sad songs.. sad songs: Music has gotten increasingly sad and angry

    Sad songs.. sad songs: Music has gotten increasingly sad and angry

    This according to a new study..

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    The US study team looked at lyrics of more than 6,000 songs from Billboard Hot 100 in each year.

    Researchers analysed lyrics in best-selling songs from the 1950s to 2016 to find expressions of anger and sadness had increased, while words about joy had dropped.

    The analysis showed the expression of anger in popular music lyrics has increased gradually over time.
    Study co-author Lior Shamir, of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, said: ‘The change in lyrics sentiments does not necessarily reflect what the musicians and songwriters wanted to express, but is more related to what music consumers wanted to listen to in each year.’ Songs released during the mid 1950s were the least angry and the anger expressed in lyrics has increased gradually until peaking in 2015.
    The analysis also revealed some variations with songs released between 1982 and 984 being less angry compared to any other period, except for the 1950s.
    In the mid 1990s, songs became angrier and the increase in anger was sharper during that time in comparison to previous years.
    The expression of sadness, disgust and fear also increased over time, although the increase was milder compared to the increase in the expression of anger.
    Disgust increased gradually, but was lower in the early 1980s and higher in the mid and late 1990s.
    Popular music lyrics expressed more fear during the mid 1980s and the fear decreased sharply in 1988.

    MORE..

    Kathleen Napier LTU research songs
    Kathleen Napier and Lior Shamir conducted research on the emotions in songs since the 1950s. Napier, a graduate student and Shamir, a professor at Lawrence Technological University, concluded that songs have gotten angrier over the years….
    Napier and Shamir’s analysis was accepted for publication in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, an academic journal published by the University of California. It is included in the December 2018 issue at http://jpms.ucpress.edu/content/30/4/161.

    DO we consume what we are…? Do we create the reality that we live in?
    Fear and loathing is not confined to LA.. it’s earthly at this point.

    And sadly sine 1988–back when Communism was busy falling and a new tech age was emerging, we seemingly got fearful .. got sad.. got angry?

    NIRVANA summed that up for us best in the 90s when Kurt Cobain killed the 80s before he killed himself..

    Image result for kurt cobain NEWSWEEK magazine

    And since then?
    9/11… disease…hate.. division.. sowing the seeds for future music that will only get angrier than the music of our age!

    The only hope may be A I making songs for us..
    …..but will AI be happy?

    Perhaps going back to the 1930s and changing the MEGAHERTZ that the Nazis created would be a good place to start.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDK6GLUsg5k]

  • Toto’s “Africa” plays on repeat in the middle of the Namib Desert… for as long as it can play

    Toto’s “Africa” plays on repeat in the middle of the Namib Desert… for as long as it can play

    Namibian artist Max Siedentopf has set up a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert to play on loop..

    MORE..

    The 1982 track is quadruple platinum, and was the most streamed song in 2017, with over 440m views on YouTube.

    Mr Siedentopf tells the BBC it is set to play forever, with solar batteries “to keep Toto going for all eternity”.

    Or as long as eternity lasts…

    So cool!

    If you recall, there are some YOUTUBE videos where TOTO is playing in vacant malls and other portions of 1980s settings where the song was born.
    Amazing video in VIMEO!

    [vimeo 310407253 w=440 h=320]

  • The KILLERS return with a strike against President Donald Trump

    The KILLERS return with a strike against President Donald Trump

    The KILLERS have returned with music that has social and political commentary about President Donald Trump and his push to build a wall… My home region of the coals mines of PA are mentioned.

    My advice: All comment threads are toxic.. just listen to the music and absorb the feeling..

    .. the KILLERS are back.    🙂

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIT0ucf_gys]

  • NIGHT SWIMMING DESERVES A QUIET NIGHT

    NIGHT SWIMMING DESERVES A QUIET NIGHT

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mbhHx7eMog]

  • BILLY JOEL DUETS WITH MILEY CYRUS AND PAUL SIMON

    BILLY JOEL DUETS WITH MILEY CYRUS AND PAUL SIMON

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  • MARILYN MANSON PROP DISASTER: INJURED AFTER STAGE PIECE FALLS AT THE HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM

    MARILYN MANSON PROP DISASTER: INJURED AFTER STAGE PIECE FALLS AT THE HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM

    Marilyn Manson cut his Saturday night show at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom short after a stage prop collapsed atop the shock rocker. The severity of Manson’s injuries was unclear at press time, but the concert was canceled after a brief delay.

    “Manson suffered an injury towards the end of his incredible NYC show. He is being treated at a local hospital,” a rep for the singer told Rolling Stone.

    Here is a video:

    The incident occurred roughly an hour into Manson’s concert, the third date on the North American leg of Manson’s Heaven Upside Down tour. During “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These),” Manson made his way toward the back of the stage, where a prop featuring two giant pistols suddenly fell forward onto Manson. Video from the concert shows Manson grappling the prop before it comes crashing down to the stage.

    After the stage crew lifted the prop back up, Manson lay on the ground for several minutes. EMT workers also rushed to the backstage area as venue workers yelled “Ice! Ice!” repeatedly.

    And not the first time..

    On Friday in Pittsburgh, Manson tumbled off of the stage.. he told the crowd he broke his ankle calling his tour manager a fascist..

  • A graphic for those unclear as to who we are and where we came…

    A graphic for those unclear as to who we are and where we came…

    A graphic for those unclear as to who we are and where we came from…

    Today’s revelations concerning early life on earth–for some reason–remind me of the REM song HOW THE WEST WAS WON AND WHERE IT GOT US..

    A somber song for reflection on how, but yet how little, we have come.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BC07l2_zKU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=540&h=405]