Tag Archives: pop music

Forgettable song, but the clip stars Leonard Nimoy.

No word yet on the cause of death.

What was the first record you ever bought?

I’m unreasonably pleased by this. After a 10-year hiatus, VH1 is resurrecting Pop Up Video with co-creator Woody Thompson on board as executive producer. The network has ordered 60 half-hour episodes set to bow as a strip in the fall. The reboot will remain faithful to the original concept of bubbles of true “info nuggets” strategically deployed over music videos …

Boy meets pervy clown. Probably NSFW. (Tipped by JMG reader Reid)

With a strong 211 points, Azerbaijan’s schlocky pop duo Ell & Nicki were the surprise winners tonight at Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Dusseldorf. Italy’s Rafael Gualazzi and his retro 1940’s sound took second place with 189 points. Third place went to Sweden’s cheesetastic Eric Saade with 185 points. Ireland’s glitzy disco twins Jedward, the favorites of many gay fans, …

This Saturday at the Stonewall Inn, Flotilla DeBarge will host a screening party for gay fans of the Eurovision Song Contest, which airs live from Germany at 2pm. Go Serbia!

Bootleg copies of the clip are leaking onto YouTube, hence the lower quality of the video. Watch it now if you’re interested, this will likely get yanked. From their coming album Panic Of Girls.

Clip description: “Glee’s Darren Criss transforms Da Ya Think I’m Sexy in his tribute to ASCAP Founders Award honoree Rod Stewart at the 2011 ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles.”

I probably shouldn’t like this so much. You might remember her 2006 hit with Bodyrox, Yeah Yeah. Luciana also co-wrote Kylie Minogue’s Cupid Boy.

Sounds more like Katy Perry than Cascada.(Via – Pop In Stereo)

This is probably of interest to at least a few of you.

Victor Willis, the original “cop” in Village People, is suing the band for $1.5M in royalties. Willis left the band in 1980 and was later arrested several times for drug possession. The village person penned the band’s most infectious hits — including “Y.M.C.A.,” “Macho Man,” “In the Navy,” and “Go West” — and deserves his fair share of the funky …

Via Towleroad, how about something super-gay, super-silly, and filled with hotties to close out an otherwise crap week?

How would you classify this style?

Nice, but it could use some twirling.

Another 70’s pop icon has passed. Legendary vocalist Phoebe Snow died this morning of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 58 after several months in a coma. The 1975 best new artist Grammy nominee had famously dropped out of the music business at the peak of her fame in order to care for her severely handicapped daughter. Snow did …

More trivia: Exterior shots of Tom’s Diner, made famous by Suzanne Vega, were used for the diner on Seinfeld. (Source)

Poly Styrene, lead singer of the seminal 70’s British punk band X-Ray Specs, has died of breast cancer at the age of 53. The band was best known for their hit single Oh Bondage, Up Yours, but I always liked the below track, which I believe was one of the first import 45s I ever bought. Only two months ago …