Dance-rockers Franz Ferdinand have their catchy tune, “No You Girls,” stuck in a lot of heads right now, which is the case with any iPod touch commercial. Being advertised is the “funnest” iPod ever, which is kind of offensive to my very fun 30 gig iPod video, but I digress…
The Franz song is pretty darn good, and the commercial is too (like just about everything Apple puts out). Check it out:
Props to Stereogum for the story, and rocketgrande.com for the sweet pic.
She is. Here’s Billboard’s “Moneymakers” list of the musicians who took the biggest paycheck (more accurately, who made the highest revenue) in 2008. Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan.
1. Madonna: $242,176,466
2. Bon Jovi: $157,177,766
3. Bruce Springsteen: $156,327,964
4. The Police: $109,976,894
5. Celine Dion: $99,171,237
6. Kenny Chesney: $90,823,990
7. Neil Diamond: $82,174,000
8. Rascall Flatts: $63,522,160
9. Jonas Brothers: $62,638,814
10. Coldplay: $62,175,555
11. The Eagles: $61,132,213
12. Lil Wayne: $57,441,334
13. AC/DC: $56,505,296
14. Michael Buble: $50,257,364
15. Miley Cyrus: $48,920,806
16. Taylor Swift: $45,588,730
17. Journey: $44,787,328
18. Billy Joel: $44,581,010
19. Mary J. Blige: $43,472,850
20. Kanye West: $42,552,402
What do you think? Madonna made more than Bruce? The JoBros more than Weezy? Kenny Chensey more than DOUBLE Kanye? Comment away!
UPDATE: I think this list incorporates both album sales and ticket sales for tours. Read up at the original Billboard article.
Kanye West’ music is fantastic, I think we all agree on that — but I really don’t want to meet this guy. At least not when he’s unhappy.Â
PS: A site tricked me — this is from last years VMAs. I’m so behind! But still… he’s being completely immature.
I knew Kanye West had issues with having a large ego and being a sore loser… but wtf is this? Is he crying? I don’t really approve of people having bitch-fits.Â
Seriously Kanye, you have 10 damn GRAMMYs at home, who cares about the VMA’s? And stop hating on Britney, seriously. She only has 1 GRAMMY and she’s not crying about it.Â
This is quite the foil to the cool, smooth Kanye music we’ve been enjoying the last couple of days.Â
I wonder how many bitch-fits cameras don’t catch? It must really suck to be in his entourage when Ye loses. I thought he was slapping someone at one point.
I’m always happy when people email me new (at least to me) Justice tracks from the pre-Cross era. But I was definitely taken aback when I listened to “Sure You Will”. The first thing that came to mind when I heard it was that Arctic Monkeys and Coldplay “Justice remixes” that made brief rounds. And who can forget that somewhat brilliant fake “Hope”?
But before I render this atrocity fake, I performed a couple of Google surgeries and stumbled across this.
Justice initially formed for a French concept album.They
were asked by a friend at Poplane Records to contribute a song
to a compilation called Musclorvision: Hits Up ToYou! The
concept? The bands had to pretend they were taking part in the
Eurovision song contest.
Flashback? Definitely.
But I’d really like to believe this is a big ass fake.
Big ass Justice fakes in the past:
Justice – Hope
Arctic Monkeys – When The Sun Goes Down (Justice Remix)
Coldplay – Violet Hill (Justice’s Death and His Friends Remix)
Song I was listening to at time of post: Oasis – Falling Down (Chemical Brothers Remix)
So I just forced to got around to trying out this Hershey’s and Starbucks love child at work this morning… and they’re DAMN GOOD. It’s like dramatic good, almost over-dramatically good. You know that kind of good that’s sort of pretentious-bitchy, but you love it anyway? Yeah that kind. My personal favorite is the Mocha Dark Chocolate bar, but the Milk Chocolate Chai Truffle is also delicious. They also have chocolate covered coffee beans, stay away… they’re kinda weird. Just weird. It may be that I’m sort of a chocolate snob and I harp on milk chocolate a lot (unless its blended with chai, of course).
I strongly suggest you grab yourself a box of these goodies… oh and they’re also a great gift!
The reason I brought them up in the first place was that I love listening to music while devouring (yes, devouring) goodies. I kind of hand-picked the next few tracks (with help of the Hype Machine) to help savor my chocolate, and I was bored.
Beck – Orphans
Bloc Party – Mercury (hey, it’s a grower)
Black Kids – Partie Traumatic
CSS – Move
The Kooks – One Last Time
