Posts Tagged ‘QUOTE OF THE DAY’
SWEET QUOTE/SONG, KELLY ROWLAND
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
–Kelly Rowland / The Scotsman
I’ve always been rooting for Kelly Rowland. The girl seems like a total sweetheart if ya ask me. The former Destiny’s Child starlet recently revealed her new single from her forthcoming third studio album (which is currently untitled), and I’m really diggin’ it (which I’m excited about because I wasn’t too crazy about Commander)!
Rose Colored Glasses was produced by Dr. Luke and written by Ester Dean. Rowland spews love torn lyrics on the track, laced over an infectious beat.
Rowland has yet to set a release date for the new project, but is expecting a September release.
Listen to Rose Colored Glasses below.
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THEY’RE YOUNG! THEY’RE CHRISTIANS!
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
-Hayley Williams / Spin
Paramore’s the cover story for the July 2010 issue of Spin (on newsstands now).
Writer Josh Eells, who followed Paramore for the feature, wrote that Hayley and her bandmates are not living the typical rock star lifestyle. Instead of partying, he states that the group spent their time to “watch Spaceballs and play Yahtzee.”
“They sing Hanson songs, and not even ‘MMMBop’ — we’re talking deep cuts,” Eells continued to say in the piece. “Their bus smells like popcorn and Twizzlers, and their chief entertainment is a book of hypothetical questions they take turns shouting out answers to.”
And after reading the article, Hayley responded, not very pleased with the overall vibe of the feature:
“It seems that in most cases writers simply enjoy looking at us and exclaiming – like they’ve discovered something huge – ‘THEY’RE YOUNG!’ or of course there’s always, ‘THEY’RE CHRISTIANS,’ or ‘THEY DON’T SHOOT UP IN THE BACK OF THE BUS!’ What is this, the ’80s? Is it really that sensational that we aren’t the second coming of Motley Crue?”
Hayley later wrote: “It’s my opinion that anyone who is coming onto our band looking for controversy is completely missing the point. The point isn’t in the intent of controversy, the point is that there is no way around it. As people, aren’t we all bursting at the seams with conflict and controversy? The point of our music is that there are human hearts in it.”
You can check out a behind-the-scenes look at the shoot in the clip below.
JAY-Z HEARTS REBELLIOUS INDIE ROCK
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
-Jay-Z / Rolling Stone [June 2010]
TRUE BLOOD’S ROCK N’ ROLL MIXTAPE
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
[photo cred: details mag]
//True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten on his favorite music
KNAPP, CRACKLE, POP: CHRISTIAN SINGER COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
-Jennifer Knapp via Christianity Today
After 20 years in the industry, in 2008, Christian singer/songwriter Ray Boltz came out as a homosexual man. In 2009, gospel star Tonex followed suit. And now, in 2010, Grammy nominated Christian folk-rock singer Jennifer Knapp has decided to come clean, breaking the chains and walking out of the closet.
After taking a break from music nearly 7 years ago, fans along with the Christian music scene took note and rumors began to run rampant. One rumor that surfaced that many didn’t want to digest was a gasping moment of revelation: OMG she’s gay!
Now at 36, Knapp has finally walked onto the stage without any concealer to hide her “struggle”, owning up to the truth behind that rumor.
Recently when Ricky Martin decided to come out, I jokingly thought “yeah, so?” — but as a gay person who has constantly wrestled with my sexuality and my faith, when I found out the news of Knapp’s coming out, I personally felt incredibly unthawed. It may sound absurd, but when it happened (although I know other gay individuals who are Christian), I didn’t feel so alone.
To the thousands and thousands of individuals wrestling: God loves you, God cherishes you, and God will always stand by you. The world’s hatred may break you into shards, the world’s hatred may make you want to kill yourself, but know that God’s love will always pick up the pieces and will never pull the trigger.
Click here for a free (2 tracks!) digital download from Knapp’s upcoming album, Letting Go.
M.I.A. BITCH-SLAPS LADY GAGA
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
Finally someone who speaks the damn truth!
In a new interview with NME, M.I.A. had some very colorful words to say about the Lady.
Do we still need record labels?
Are they even interested in making money from music anymore? Lady Gaga plugs 15 things in her new video. Dude, she even plugs a burger! That’s probably how they’re making money right now – buying up the burger joint, putting the burger in a music video and making loads of burger money.
Do you think those programmes and the internet have destroyed the mythology around popstars?
I don’t know. Again, there’s Lady Gaga – people say we’re similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same! None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know? She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do! That’s a talent and she’s got a great team behind her, but she’s the industry’s last stab at making itself important – saying, ‘You need our money behind you, the endorsements, the stadiums’ Respect to her, she’s keeping a hundred thousand people in work, but my belief is: Do It Yourself.
How important are image and visuals to your music?
Very. But it’s not like “Haus of Gaga” (laughs). Me blindfolded with naked men feeding me apples and shit.
Would you ever make a record for a Twilight soundtrack?
They asked me. Luckily Jimmy [Iovine, chairmen of M.I.A.’s US label Interscope] had beef with the Twilight people, so he stepped in and told them to fuck off.
NO STARVATION STATION FOR TINA FEY
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
Not music-related but I like the message behind this.
-tina fey
TAYLOR SWIFT’S VIEW OF HEARTBREAK
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
-t. swift, in the upcoming issue of elle
KE$HA: PEACE OUT LA!
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
-Ke$ha tells Rolling Stone
Photograph by Dan Monick
J.D. SALINGER, YOU WILL BE MISSED
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
MONIQUE’S BEAUTIFUL ACCEPTANCE
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
JESUS CHRIST & JESUS LUZ
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
Hey Jesus, your pubic hair is hanging out. Just thought you might wanna know. Oh, you know? Oh, ok.
Holy smoke!
-Jesus Luz
Read the full interview of Jesus Luz in Interview Magazine here.
KEEP THE CHANGE, YOU FILTHY ANIMAL
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
Yo yo yo, who dat be? It’s R-O-B on the M-I-C. Ok, I’m done. So basically, it’s almost Christmas, and I don’t know about y’all but I’m pretty stoked! Yes, among the challenges of the holiday, comes the ever-changing flight chaos, or train/traffic chaos, or the chaos of punching your way through tweens at the local mall (ok, so punching wasn’t the best word, but you get the point). Either way, I am sure you are feeling the excitement of the holiday season.
But I’ve got to ask–are you feeling the love? I remember being a kid (ok, I still do this, I admit) and loving Christmas because it meant:
A. I was getting new CDs
B. I was getting books/toys
C. I could watch Home Alone and pig out on homemade fudge & peanut butter balls (Welcome to the South!) all damn day
Yes, these are all wonderful things but as I’ve gotten older/grown up, I’ve come to realize that the beauty of giving, really has nothing to do with the gift but more to do with the push behind why we choose to give in the first place.
Christmas, to me, first and foremost, is a time of God, not gifts. Yes, gifts are a part of this, but more than anything, I’ve come to take Christmas as a time to truly cherish the blessings God weaves into the tracks of our head (yes, weaves/tracks/head was a bad description also, unless you’re Britney Spears, but you know what I’m sayin’). Basically, I guess, in my own silly way, I want to say to each and every one of you: Cherish what you do have and DO NOT WASTE ANOTHER SECOND of your time worrying about what you don’t have. Things are things. Diamonds & flat-screen TVs are meaningless compared to the love that I know is floating around you. Take a good look and drench yourself in that. Oh, and while you’re at it, cock your hat!
Merry Christmas everyone! Y’all have fun now, ya hear?!
–Frank Sinatra
MERRY WASTE MANAGEMENT
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
A gift only Jason Mraz can give.
To the average person, Christmas means giving gifts wrapped in paper with snowflakes or snowmen or Hannah Montana (whatever pokes your fancy), but for Mraz, it has more to do with waste management.
Check out his weird/charming/always green ramblings on the holiday season below (as taken from his blog).
-JM
Good advice, kids. Good advice.
FROM MEAN GIRL TO HUMANITARIAN?
By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com
-LL
Lohan is currently in India to film a documentary with the BBC about the trafficking of women and children in the country.
Lohan tweeted: Focusing on celebrities and lies is so disconcerting, when we can be changing the world one child at a time…hope everyone can see that.
I’m rooting for you, Lindsay.
