Thursday, December 17, 2015

Michael Jackson, Death Becomes Him


MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER IS THE FIRST ALBUM CERTIFIED RIAA 30X MULTI-PLATINUM, THE KING OF POPMAKES HISTORY (AGAIN)!


THRILLER REMAINS THE BIGGEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME, TOPPING 100 MILLION SALES WORLDWIDE

I'm sure Michael Jackson is Moon Walking in his grave right now.

 The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Estate of Michael Jackson, Epic Records and Legacy Recordings announced today that Michael Jackson’s THRILLER is the first album in RIAA Gold & Platinum Program history to be certified 30X multi-Platinum for U.S. sales, continuing The King of Pop’s reign as the biggest selling artist of all time with worldwide sales of over 100 million for Thriller and 1 billion overall.   


“RIAA has awarded Gold & Platinum records on behalf of the music business for nearly 60 years, but this is the first time an artist has crossed the 30X multi-Platinum plateau,” said Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO, RIAA. “We are honored to celebrate the unique status ofThriller in Gold & Platinum history. What an exceptional achievement and testament toThriller’s enduring spot in our hearts and musical history.”


Michael Jackson’s masterpiece Thriller, produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson, won a record setting 8 Grammys, more than any album ever, and has been earning awards and setting new standards of success since its release on November 30, 1982. Thriller spent nearly 2 ½ years on the Billboard album chart and holds a modern day record of 37 weeks at No. 1.  It was the first album in history to spend each of its first 80 weeks in the album chart’s Top 10, a feat only reached by one other album in the more than three decades since. During its 112th week on Billboard’s album chart, it became the first title ever to be certified RIAA 20X multi-Platinum (October 30, 1984). Worldwide, Thriller went to #1 in practically every country in the world, including the UK, France, Italy, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, South Africa, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and apartheid South Africa.  


The album was acclaimed for its range and depth. Rolling Stone referred to the album as a “watershed” moment for Michael, and Newsweek prophetically wrote that “Michael’s voice haunts these songs, gives them heart…It is what will make this music endure.” Seven tracks from the album became Top 10 singles, and three, “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” and “Thriller,” went No. 1. ALL nine assumed a permanent place in hearts and memories of everyone on the planet.

                                                                   Thriller

More than just an album, Thriller has remained a global cultural multi-media phenomenon for both the 20th and the 21st centuries, smashing musical barriers and changing the frontiers of pop forever. The music on Thriller is so dynamic and singular that it defied any definition of rock, pop or soul that had gone before. “Beat It” was a new kind of pop-rock hybrid and demolished the longstanding segregation between black and white music with Eddie Van Halen’s incendiary guitar. On “The Girl Is Mine,” a black man and a white man bantered about the same girl. On the same album were songs like the African-rooted “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” and the rhythm and blues-based “Billie Jean.” No one had ever released an album with such a vast range of material.


“Perhaps Michael’s most significant racial trailblazing came with music videos,” wrote Joe Vogel in Man in the Music. Fascinated with the fledgling art form, Michael wanted to tell a story and entertain on a grand scale. Despite the luscious cinematography, dramatic narrative and spectacular choreography of “Billie Jean,” a fledgling MTV, which was programming white rock artists almost exclusively, refused to play it. Epic persisted. Once the wall came crashing down, MTV’s ratings soared and a door was opened for a generation of African American artists. “He was MTV’s Jackie Robinson,” said cultural critic TourĂ©. Next, came the unforgettable short film for “Beat It,” which featured Michael bringing two gangs together through the power of music and dance. And then there was “Thriller.” Premiered at the AVCO Theatre in Los Angeles in 1983, it sold out every night for three weeks. No other video before or since has generated such excitement and has such a hold on our attention, such that more than 30 years later we all share it as a collective memory and it remains the only music video to be inducted into the elite National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.


The importance of Thriller was recognized by Michael Jackson’s industry peers at the Grammys.  Thriller was nominated in a record-breaking 12 categories, and won a history making eight, which stands as the record for most Grammy Awards to be won by any album. Seven of those Grammys that year were awarded to Michael for: Album of the Year; Record of the Year ("Beat It"); Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Thriller"); Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical (Thriller); Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("Beat It"); Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ("Billie Jean"); Best R&B Song ("Billie Jean"). (Michael's eighth Grammy that year was in the Best Recording for Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken category for "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"). That same year, Michael Jackson took home eight American Music Awards and three MTV Video Music Awards. The following year, "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller" took home the Best Video Album trophy at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards.

  
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Oh Beyonce' Tree, Oh Beyonce' Tree...


How lovely are your lashes? 

This year your children can put their presents under the new shade of Christmas Tree, Beyonce'!

She is the gift that keeps on giving. With plenty of room to put your gifts behind her, to admire all the flash in front. Beyonce' Tree also can sing many different carols on command and in many different styles.

Complete with a top ornament of a Santa hat, and rosy red lipstick. Your Yuletide is all here in one bad ass piece of decor, that will be the envy of all your friends and family.

Oh, and let's not forget, those boots. They're made for walkin' in a Winter Wonderland!

So break open the champagne and Celebrate Christmas with Beyonce' Tree

For the low Holiday friendly price of $59.99 at:

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Ho Ho Ho! "It's Xmas (and Everyone is Miserable)"

 
What would Christmas be without some Bah Humbug thrown in for good measure?

Get into the Holiday spirit with an original Christmas song from Seattle’s Dirty Sidewalks“It’s Xmas (and Everyone is Miserable)” is here, downloadable and available for streaming via this SoundCloud page:
 

 

Combining the mirth of Christmas jingle bells, twangy guitar licks, a thumpin’ drum machine, punchy production and dead cool vocals, Dirty Sidewalks have crafted a as fine a shoegaze holiday ‘classic’ as you have ever heard! Fans of ‘80’s college rock, ‘90’s Britpop and ‘60’s harmonies with a (not so) cheery Christmas message take note, the Dirty Sidewalks are a force to be reckoned with.

Brothers Erik Foster (lead vocals, guitar) and Evan Foster (lead guitar, vocals & also of The Boss Martians) are sharing this Christmas gift with you in anticipation of their first vinyl 7” single (coming in January 2016) followed shortly thereafter with their debut full-length (Spring) on their own No Count Records. So consider this holiday tune an introduction to the band that unabashedly takes sonic cues from both The Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis…and Santa. 

Monday, December 14, 2015

Melanie Griffith Unfiltered

Melanie Griffith
Can You Handle Her Unfiltered?!
Walking in a winter Instagram...

The Internet has not been kind to Melanie Griffith. Shit, is it actually kind to anyone? She has gotten more than her fair share of hater comments on it though. 

Revenge is a dish best served cold, with a glass of Cabernet I always say. That is exactly what Melanie did by posting a smug selfie on Instagram with this sassy quote:

“Here ya go. Unfiltered. I’m 58, and I’m in Hawaii Five O playing Scott Caan’s Mom. Go ahead… Say some more mean things. Merry Christmas.”

Now who's got the most cake? Suck on THAT trolls!

Melanie on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/melanie_griffith57/?hl=en   

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Dolly Parton Werk's It, To 13 Million!


"DOLLY PARTON'S COAT OF MANY COLORS" NUMBER ONE TELEVISION PROGRAM DURING TIME SLOT, WINS HEARTS OF 13 MILLION VIEWERS

Most-Watched Film on Broadcast Networks Since May 2012
 
Dolly Parton for the tugging at your heart strings win!!!

Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors” captivated the hearts of 13 million when the TV-movie aired on NBC Thursday night.

The heartwarming film about following your dreams, having faith and keeping love alive despite tough times attracted 13 million viewers and a 1.8 in adults 18-49. It was the most watched movie on broadcast TV in more than 3 years.

Reviewers across the country raved about the NBC TV-movie:

Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 2015
“‘Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors' manages to be clear- and misty-eyed at once”
“Like Parton's music, it manages to be somehow clear- and misty-eyed at once, a mix of the natural and the sentimental”
“…a handsome piece, with some sweet performances.”
- Robert Lloyd

Huffington Post, Dec. 10, 2015
“Lind has a winning screen presence. In fact, she dominates the film…”
“Dolly Parton offers to wrap you up for two hours in a world that's cozy, comforting and warm.”
- David Hinckley

Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2015
“Leave it to Dolly Parton to bring out an innocuously sweet, faith-based, prime-time Christmas movie right in the middle of a religious and political culture war …”
“… pure-hearted and credible…”
- Hank Stuever

The film is set in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955. It is neither a biopic nor musical about Parton’s whole life and performing career, but rather a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in her and her family’s life around the time she was 9 years old.

“Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors” will stream for 25 days from broadcast on NBC.com, NBC apps and Set-Top Box On Demand.

WATCH NOW:
www.nbc.com/coat-of-many-colors/video/dolly-partons-coat-of-many-colors/2948111
 


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Saturday, December 12, 2015

MIley Cyrus "Your Armpit Smells Weirdly F#@king Good!"

Miley Cyrus
Does This Diaper Make My Ass Look Huge?!

From the cradle to the bubble bath! That's the way Miley Cyrus rolls!

Wise beyond her years singer has released her third music video for songs from her latest album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz on MTV Friday night, BB Talk shows Miley posing and acting as a big baby while cursing and dishing about her different lovers, which is honestly, brilliant! 

The quote at the title of this post is from the song, paraphrased oh so slightly for space considerations. Miley Cyrus is one of the most honest artists of a generation. 

Trust me, you are all going to look back on her legacy one day and think: "Why isn't there anyone as great as Miley Cyrus anymore?!"

BB Talk after the jump! 



Goo Goo, Ga Ga With Miley at: 
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Friday, December 11, 2015

Congrats Lady Gaga!

The Countess Welcomes You
To Her Golden Globe Nomination
Kudos Lady Gaga on your Golden Globe nomination for American Horror Story: Hotel! It is much deserved! Now I know what you are all thinking, she's no Jessica Lange. No, she's not so stop the pissing contest idiots. She is herself and contributes something altogether different and unique to the show which was greatly in need of some new blood (pun intended.)

If you having been watching the best season since season ince, Murder House, her performance was controlled and icy cool on the outside. Only for that exterior to unravel as the show progressed. My thoughts on those who dismissed Gaga based on the first episode? Fuck Off!


Gaga kicked it on social media with this announcement about her nomination:


"My mom and my manager are so emotional about our Best Actress Golden Globe Nomination and so happy for Ryan Murphy and the whole gang for HOTEL's nomination for Best TV Series!"


Say her name, say her name: Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga. Now rinse and repeat. 


Go Gaga at: 

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