PHOTOS: Pop Stars At The 2010 Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscar Viewing Party
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Selena Gomez Gets Inappropriately Sexy On Disney Track “Trust In Me”
Selena Gomez is quickly turning into a Kelly Clarkson-esque cover queen. The pint-sized TV star has tackled everyone from the likes of Katy Perry to well, Selena, and now she’s returning to her Disney roots by recording a track on Disneymania 7 (out tomorrow). On the compilation of tunes where singers put a fresh, contemporary spin on songs from past Disney classics, Selena lends some mature vocals for a cover of “Trust In Me,” from the 1967 animated movie The Jungle Book. Who did it better, Selena Gomez or an animated snake? Listen to it below.
Selena Gomez – “Trust In Me”
Selena and her producers were given a lot of creative room for reinterpretation—the original song was barely a song at all, but a few verses of talk-singing by a male voiceover artist. Although we think Selena’s seductive cooing is a bit too sensual for a 17-year old (and a Disney album aimed at pre-teens), we’re really digging the seductive arrangement, and Selena pulls off a creamy vocal performance better than she does mimicking Ke$ha’s dance moves. We’d feel better making this song our new sex jam if only Selena was a year older.
“Trust In Me” sounds like it could be the theme to a James Bond Jr. film, but it actually reminds us of Suzanne Vega’s slow, dreamy tune “Caramel” (which was featured in the trailer for the Mike Nichols film Closer). Listen to it below and see if you can spot the similarities between both tracks.
Lil Wayne Receives One-Year Prison Sentence
After several delays over the past month, Lil Wayne was finally sentenced to a year in prison today at New York’s Manhattan Criminal Court Building, reports MTV. The rapper was first expected to be sentenced on February 9, but gained one more month of freedom after his lawyer announced he needed to undergo emergency dental surgery. MTV notes that Wayne was handcuffed and escorted out of the courtroom following the sentencing by Judge Charles H. Solomon.
Lil Wayne (real name: Dwayne Carter), 27, was arrested in 2007 for attempted gun possession, but cut a deal with prosecutors and is expected to be out of prison as early as October. At least we’ll have plenty of music videos featuring the Young Money founder to watch till then.
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Lil Wayne begins year jail term in NYC gun case (AP)
AP – After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.
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Review: Gorillaz return with island-themed CD (AP)
AP – Gorillaz, “Plastic Beach,” (Virgin)
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Album review: Frightened Rabbit’s ‘The Winter of Mixed Drinks’
The breakup album remains a rock 'n' roll rite of passage of sorts, and Frightened Rabbit had a killer one in 2008 with "The Midnight Organ Fight." The Glasgow-based act boasts an impassioned wailer in Scott Hutchison, and the band's drink-filled tales of empty hook-ups, religious doubts and lonely compromises were given anthemic, rootsy arrangements, where keyboards burned in the quiet moments, and guitar bursts were used only for an emotional release.
The centerpiece of the band's follow-up is a song entitled "Not Miserable." With a redemptive backing choir and church-worthy keyboards at his ready, Hutchison declares, "I am free from disease, no grays, no liver spots." Happiness? Not quite, but as it builds to a grand finale of weather-alarm guitars and rhythmic waves, it becomes the song as a sigh of relief.
Survival is a theme throughout "The Winter of Mixed Drinks," where more careful arrangements replace the cathartic scruffiness of the band's prior effort. "Nothing Like You" is all melodic exuberance, where kickin' cancer brings some perspective to love, and "The Wrestle" is shaded with echoing textures and grand harmonies.
At times, a more professional Frightened Rabbit comes off as a less passionate one, but then the band drops a cut like "Skip the Youth." Guitars move in like icebergs crashing into the dock, and Hutchison pleads for a fast-forward button on the whole growing-up process. "Its aging me too much," he sings, and it shows there's still plenty of drama to be gleaned from maturity.
–Todd Martens
The xx – “Islands (CHLLNGR remiXX)”
As suggested by last week’s the Very Best/Florence collision and Nosaj Thing before that, etc., the xx’s spacious hush makes them an easy remix target: Their sound leaves a ton of room for folks to squeeze in their own interpretations, so a ton of folks have … That said, CHLLNGR, aka California-to-Copenhagen multi-instrumental producer Steve [...]
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