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This Sunday, in the midst of the war of attrition that will be Super Bowl XLVI, Madonna will roll her ridiculously ornate stage onto the field at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and try to blow some minds for eight or 9 minutes.

Madonna can definitely do it she has the requisite deep catalog of hits, a theatrical approach to carrying out, and enough bold-faced numbers in her iPhone to unleash some surprises. “Give Me All Your Luvin’” most likely will not get the task carried out on its personal, although luckily she has “Vogue,” “Holiday,” “Ray of Light,” and “Like a Prayer” in her pocket.

So who will she have to eclipse to get described in the greatest Super Bowl halftime performances of all time? The modern era of Super Bowl halftime reveals began in 1991 with New Children on the Block, although outside of Michael Jackson’s absurdly massive overall performance in 1993, the early many years were considerably lacking in spectacle.

Factors get far better at the end of the ’90s, but the actual entry into the modern era came in 2001, when producers brought collectively Aerosmith, Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Mary J. Blige, and Nelly for a jam-packed more than-the-top rated run via the present pop chart.

After the notorious Janet Jackson incident in 2004, concentrate shifted once again, largely to traditional rockers going more than their biggest hits. Some of those were terrible (Tom Petty &amp the Heartbreakers), while others have been just underwhelming (the Who).

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Justin Vernon of Bon Iver had a rather remarkable 2011, what with the focus for his self-titled album, his work with Kanye West, and his sudden demand as a collaborator and producer. He’s up for a handful of Grammys following Sunday, February 12, and may just walk away with some gold, but you will not see him onstage with a guitar.

The conversation surely occurred, however it broke down in apparently magnificent fashion. Billboard  spoke to Vernon final evening (he’s in New York for a overall performance on Saturday Evening Dwell this weekend), and he laid out the story in instead verbose terms.

“We wished to perform our music, but had been advised that we couldn’t perform. We had to do a collaboration with a person else,” Vernon advised the magazine. “And we just felt like it was such a huge stage — we’re finding nominated for this record that we created. Me and Brian [Joseph] and a bunch of our f—ing friends and we have been offered accolades for it, and all of a sudden we have been being asked to perform music that had nothing to do with that. We kind of said ‘f— you’ a minor bit, and they type of acted like they needed us to play, but I do not assume they wanted us to play.”

Vernon didn’t divulge who the Grammy producers wanted him to collaborate with, but he did not that they had been “awesome folks.” “But you know what? F—in’ rock n’ roll must not be made the decision by men and women that have that job,” Vernon additional. “Rock n’ roll must be the f—ing people with guitars close to their backs.”

So even though Vernon will not be joining the likes of Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Bruce Springsteen, Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, and Nicki Minaj on the Grammys stage, who are the “awesome people” the producers wished Vernon to tag-group with for a song or two? Leave your guesses, conspiracy theories, and wild accusations in the comments.

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Two weeks from right now, Nickelodeon boy band Massive Time Rush will launch its Much better With U tour in Las Vegas, and commencing a single week immediately after that (in Chicago on February 24), they will be joined by some quite unique visitors: A single Direction.

EW has obtained an unique photo of the two bands collectively and ready to tour the nation. (Wishing all nine gents could be on your desktop? Click Here for a full-dimension picture.)

Are you by chance unfamiliar with A single Route? That is probable to change. The British fivesome, constructed by Simon Cowell in the course of The X-Factor UK‘s 2010 season, has previously taken the motherland by storm — their first single “What Helps make You Beautiful” became the most pre-ordered single in Sony Music’s historical past — but now they are teaming up with Large Time Rush to launch a Stateside career.

To appease the masses of eager young females, “What Make You Beautiful” (under) will be created obtainable on digital retailers on Valentine’s Day (a stroke of marketing genius if I’ve ever heard one), and Columbia Records says in a statement that “due to overwhelming fan demand,” their debut album Up All Night will be released one week early on March 13.

On top of that, One particular Route is set to seem in an upcoming episode of Nickelodeon’s leading-rated present iCarly, and their music video for “What Tends to make You Stunning,” which has currently racked up 47 million VEVO views, will premiere on the kids network on February 11.

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What goes into the generating of a excellent Drake song? Plenty of items. Confessional lyrics, for illustration, a good beat, and possibly an ample supply of cardigan sweaters.

Oh, and in the case of “Marvin’s Area,” an ex-girlfriend’s voicemail message.

That ex is now revealing herself to be Ericka Lee, and she’s suing the rapper to a bid to get partial songwriting credit (go through: royalties).

According to the suit, Drizzy and Lee had been innovative partners, typically co-writing songs and poems. “Plaintiff’s contribution is extremely important to the total operate,” the official complaint, filed in California, reads. A single contribution they view as important is her voice the suit alleges that Drake in truth gave Lee vocal credit in the type of “Syren Lyric Muse.” The audio is now registered by the events in the U.S. Copyright Workplace.

The suit also claims that Drake sent Lee texts saying factors like ”U fundamentally created that song” and “It’s s–t without you.” And in yet another a single of these messages, Drake apparently stated he’d give the ex 2% of the publishing royalties? Which sounds like a quite weird issue to examine by way of text, but Drake’s a weird dude, so who understands.

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What goes into the making of a good Drake song? Lots of things. Confessional lyrics, for example, a good beat, and probably an ample supply of cardigan sweaters.

Oh, and in the case of “Marvin’s Room,” an ex-girlfriend’s voicemail message.

That ex is now revealing herself to be Ericka Lee, and she’s suing the rapper to a bid to get partial songwriting credit (read: royalties).

According to the suit, Drizzy and Lee were creative partners, often co-writing songs and poems. “Plaintiff’s contribution is highly significant to the overall work,” the official complaint, filed in California, reads. One contribution they view as significant is her voice; the suit alleges that Drake in fact gave Lee vocal credit in the form of “Syren Lyric Muse.” The audio is now registered by the parties in the U.S. Copyright Office.

The suit also claims that Drake sent Lee texts saying things like ”U basically made that song” and “It’s s–t without you.” And in another one of these messages, Drake apparently said he’d give the ex 2% of the publishing royalties? Which sounds like a pretty weird thing to discuss via text, but Drake’s a weird dude, so who knows.

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