Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” gets a theatrical treatment I remember a TV presenter in the fifties getting lots of laughs by reading out the words to Gene Vincent’s “Be Bop A Lula” like a poem. Morgan Freeman went for the same effect recently, when the American magazine Vanity Fair asked him to recite the lyrics […]
What makes us think “Hello” is a love song? Adele has made a sensational return to the charts with the single “Hello”. It has all the hallmarks of her best music: a restrained backing track, an orchestral feel at the right moment, her voice that goes from cool and controlled in the verse to […]
I have to say I love this. Someone compiled all the various language versions of the Disney song “Frozen” into one track. It’s a fun idea, and it also shows up something very interesting. If you close your eyes, it’s sometimes impossible to tell when you go from one language to another. The vocal casting […]
The new self-titled Beyoncé album continues to make waves. In a behind-the-scenes video released recently, Justin Timberlake was so blown away by her vocal performance on the song “Rockets” that he blurted out, “Wow. There’s something wrong with you. That is… There’s something wrong with you”. He meant it as a compliment, of course. Timberlake […]
Beyoncé has a new album called, um, “Beyoncé”. Out of the blue, interesting, varied and backed up by a bunch of videos. I think it’s pretty good and you can find it on iTunes, but I recommend that you enjoy the full experience on her swish website. Inevitably, there are also negative reviews. One of […]
Jay Z lyrics slip his memory – but so what? It can happen to anyone. During the opening show of his Magna Carta World Tour in Manchester, England, Jay Z forgot his lyrics for a second on “No Church in the Wild”, from the album “Watch the Throne track”. Twitter has been alive with […]