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Tori Amos: Reclaiming the M-Word?

 05-02-2007

Pop musicians' outsize personalities can barely be contained in one identity. David Bowie had Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke. Eminem had Slim Shady. Hell, even Mariah Carey had Mimi. Tori Amos, never one for straightforward conceits, created no less than four alter egos for her new album, American Doll Posse: Santa, Pip, Isabel, and Clyde are based on female archetypes from the Greek pantheon. Each comes with her own distinct worldview — and wig. Last night, at the album-release party held at Spotlight Live in Times Square, each of the "girls," as Amos calls them, also had her own signature cocktail.

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Title, pride on line for 154-pounders

 05-02-2007

In 24/7, fans discover that Mayweather is good friends with rapper 50 Cent. But it's never explained how they met. Mayweather said it goes back nearly eight years, before 50 Cent got involved with rapper Eminem. Mayweather and 50 Cent were together at a music function in Puerto Rico, Mayweather said, and hit it off. Now, 50 Cent spends time at Mayweather's house, or they'll go out to eat together. "And we don't just club; what you've seen on 24/7 was me and 50 Cent at my birthday party," Mayweather said. "When me and Oscar was on tour, half the tour got cut short so I could come home and have a birthday party that 50 Cent was the main guest at. We had a big dinner, me, my mother, my whole family; we had a big dinner, and we had fun."

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Celebrity Colonialism: Buying Africa is the Latest Trend Among the ...

 05-02-2007

Main AlterNet RSS Feed Get AlterNet in your mailbox!   Advertisement var zflag_nid="600"; var zflag_cid="3/1"; var zflag_sid="1"; var zflag_width="300"; var zflag_height="250"; var zflag_sz="9"; Celebrities have always identified with underdogs. Playing a victim or otherwise disadvantaged character is a sure route to an Oscar, and everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Eminem has celebrated the underdog in song.It's not surprising that models, actors, and popular musicians have focused on impoverished Africa, raising money and awareness for debt relief and famine. However, these efforts have done relatively little to address the structural causes of African misery. There is also an uncomfortable element of colonialism that runs through celebrities' interactions with Africans and current interest in African culture.

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Celebrity Colonialism: Buying Africa is the Latest Trend Among the ...

 05-02-2007

Main AlterNet RSS Feed Get AlterNet in your mailbox!   Advertisement var zflag_nid="600"; var zflag_cid="3/1"; var zflag_sid="1"; var zflag_width="300"; var zflag_height="250"; var zflag_sz="9"; Celebrities have always identified with underdogs. Playing a victim or otherwise disadvantaged character is a sure route to an Oscar, and everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Eminem has celebrated the underdog in song.It's not surprising that models, actors, and popular musicians have focused on impoverished Africa, raising money and awareness for debt relief and famine. However, these efforts have done relatively little to address the structural causes of African misery. There is also an uncomfortable element of colonialism that runs through celebrities' interactions with Africans and current interest in African culture.

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Banning offensive words from music

 05-01-2007

Russell Simmons, co-founder of the hip-hop label Def Jam, is asking record companies and other broadcasters to willingly censor three offensive words from songs and the radio, according to The Associated Press. The key word in that sentence is “willingly.” Simmons isn’t asking for the government to intervene, and he isn’t asking performers to stop using those three derogatory terms. He is asking for large companies to voluntarily stop distributing versions of songs that contain them. This isn’t a First Amendment issue. If the recording industry as a whole wants to ban curse words, sexual explicit language and racial epithets, we say, more power to ’em. These companies aren’t obligated to spend their money to distribute material they find objectionable. And if just a few companies comply with the request to deliver songs that don’t contain those words and messages, that’s great. Of course that means the work of rap artists, such as Too $hort, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Insane Clown Posse, Eminem, Akon and Three 6 Mafia, likely wouldn’t reach your ears in the exact way that the artists intended. But is that really so bad? If recorded and mass distributed rap songs didn’t include offensive language, - more available

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Banning offensive words from music

 05-01-2007

Russell Simmons, co-founder of the hip-hop label Def Jam, is asking record companies and other broadcasters to willingly censor three offensive words from songs and the radio, according to The Associated Press. The key word in that sentence is “willingly.” Simmons isn’t asking for the government to intervene, and he isn’t asking performers to stop using those three derogatory terms. He is asking for large companies to voluntarily stop distributing versions of songs that contain them. This isn’t a First Amendment issue. If the recording industry as a whole wants to ban curse words, sexual explicit language and racial epithets, we say, more power to ’em. These companies aren’t obligated to spend their money to distribute material they find objectionable. And if just a few companies comply with the request to deliver songs that don’t contain those words and messages, that’s great. Of course that means the work of rap artists, such as Too $hort, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Insane Clown Posse, Eminem, Akon and Three 6 Mafia, likely wouldn’t reach your ears in the exact way that the artists intended. But is that really so bad? If recorded and mass distributed rap songs didn’t include offensive language, - more available

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Banning offensive words from music

 05-01-2007

Russell Simmons, co-founder of the hip-hop label Def Jam, is asking record companies and other broadcasters to willingly censor three offensive words from songs and the radio, according to The Associated Press. The key word in that sentence is “willingly.” Simmons isn’t asking for the government to intervene, and he isn’t asking performers to stop using those three derogatory terms. He is asking for large companies to voluntarily stop distributing versions of songs that contain them. This isn’t a First Amendment issue. If the recording industry as a whole wants to ban curse words, sexual explicit language and racial epithets, we say, more power to ’em. These companies aren’t obligated to spend their money to distribute material they find objectionable. And if just a few companies comply with the request to deliver songs that don’t contain those words and messages, that’s great. Of course that means the work of rap artists, such as Too $hort, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Insane Clown Posse, Eminem, Akon and Three 6 Mafia, likely wouldn’t reach your ears in the exact way that the artists intended. But is that really so bad? If recorded and mass distributed rap songs didn’t include offensive language, - more available

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