Music

November 28, 2012 by Hollywoodite

Earlier this week, The Empire State Building made use of the Color Kinetics LED lighting system recently used to display the 2012 election results in real time. The building was used Monday to display its first light show which involved a series of (rather rote) flashes in a display that could be seen for miles and Alicia […]

November 6, 2012 by Hollywoodite

Taylor Swift has been accused of plagerism over the lyrics to one of the songs on her number one album, Red, that sold VERY well. Specifically, Swift’s 2012 song, All Too Well, contains the lyrics “And I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to.” Whereas singer Matt Nathanson’s 2003 song, I Saw, contains […]

November 5, 2012 by Hollywoodite

No Doubt faced criticism this weekend over their newest music video, Looking Hot. Which apparently contained stereotypical, outdated, caricature, offensive depictions of Native Americans. The music video was released November 3, and quickly generated backlash from fans and the Native American community soon after which the video was pulled from YouTube. The band quickly apologised […]

October 15, 2012 by Hollywoodite

Last week there was a particularly telling interview with former lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger. For her VH1 Behind The Music special, Scherzinger was criticised for the way in which she explained her relationship with her former band mates Melody Thornton (who only left the revised line-up of girls in 2010 when Scherzinger quit […]

October 8, 2012 by Hollywoodite

Last weekend, Justin Bieber was caught lip syncing through his Glendale, Arizona concert during which he calmly walked to the front of the stage then did an about-face and puked right in front of his audience. Clearly without having enough warning that he was about to get sick, in order to run off-stage. He was literally puking at […]

October 5, 2012 by Hollywoodite

A preview of Skyfall by Adele was released earlier this week to favourable reviews. The full song was released last night to even better results when it shot to number one on iTunes and in the UK charts (knocking that ridiculous novelty song Psy’s Gangnam Style off the top spot) within only 10 hours of its […]