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menomena · Post by **menomena** » 6/10/2006, 9:40 am

It's generic. Honestly, it really is. It sounds like something the Pussycat Dolls would do, except with less people. I heard it and seriously refused to believe it was Nelly Furtado, but whatever. If you like it, that's your own thing.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 6/10/2006, 12:16 pm

ditto - I thought it sounded very Pussycat Dolls. I recognized her voice and it hurt me inside.

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 6/10/2006, 9:20 pm

i hate..whatshisface nowadays...Timbaland.

it's like some hiking boot.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 6/11/2006, 7:11 am

clumsychild_ · Post by **clumsychild_** » 6/12/2006, 10:24 am

Cursive's new album Happy Hollow is out August 22nd. It leaked.

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 6/12/2006, 11:00 am

I don't know how much I like or dislike Nelly Furtado because I disliked her second album and for me it was because of the same reason, it was a different taste. But as far as the Pussycat dolls thing goes, it might be the same style of music but I wouldn't really call them all that similar. The Pussycat Dolls are promoting the idea that this is their only statement. They are intentionally one-dimentional, whereas Nelly is clearly showing a lot of diversity that some musicians wouldn't even attempt.

Dread · Post by **Dread** » 6/12/2006, 1:36 pm

It's not like I can call myself a fan of her music, but from what I've heard of the second album, at least it seemed more original than this garbage. I'd rather have an artist be boring and mundane and stay original than to sell out, and that's what this new stuff sounds like to me.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 6/12/2006, 7:23 pm

I dont necessarily agree that her second album was more original than this new material, or even original at all... songs like "try" was certainly mundane pop radio tunes. plus, i don't really think staying boring/mundane in the name of "not selling out" [as Dread has said] is a good thing at all.

also about the selling out thing - what IS it with people who automatically assume that because she has a song about sexual promiscuity, that she has "sold out"? normal people can relate to sex too, you know. i find her new song actually quite upbeat and catchy without being complete garbage (like the pussycat dolls). i see a clear line between the two music - the pussycat dolls', and nelly furtado's. like sarah said, it's pretty clear that the pussycat dolls do not have any musical or songwriting talent. even just comparing a pussycat dolls song with the new nelly furtado single, i see much more promise in the latter.

and apparently im the only person on earth who has some respect for Timbaland.

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 6/12/2006, 10:31 pm

clumsychild_ wrote:Cursive's new album Happy Hollow is out August 22nd. It leaked.

good stuff too. But really really bold, maybe too much so.

And for the record, Nelly's new song is garbage in my books. Not necessarily because it's about sex, but because she might as well be a backup singer for the sake of looking pretty in some rando's video. The rest of the album might have a chance if it's mostly her.

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 6/14/2006, 11:42 am

Random Name wrote:Brent left (was kicked out??) of Panic! At the Disco.

It would be sad, but no one cares about the bassist.

Unless they are sexy. And pose naked for magazine covers.

Oh! I knew there was going to be a fight!!
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/06/1322.cfm

""I was kicked out of the band," he said in contrast to the message put out by his former mates that it was partially his decision. "It was 100 per cent a surprise to me."
Not a surprise that this came out but entertaining none the less.

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 7/12/2006, 2:46 pm

Weezer split shock
Band on hiatus, singer reveals

Weezer could never make a record again, according to singer Rivers Cuomo.

The band's last album was 2005's 'Make Believe'.

"For the moment we are done. And I'm not certain we'll ever make a record again, unless it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one," he said.

Cuomo said that he had been writing lots of songs, but not for the band.

He revealed: "All this year, I've been feeling pretty creative and excited, so I've been writing a lot. I don't know what'll happen with these songs - if anything - I just sort of write them and I can't stop. I certainly don't see them becoming Weezer songs, and I don't really see the point of a solo career. So we'll just have to wait and see."

Titles of two of the new tracks are 'Heart Songs' and 'Our Time Will Come'.

Although the end of the band is in sight, Cuomo does not want to release a 'Greatest Hits'.

"I'm not convinced that we have a greatest hits album that is worth putting out at this point. I'd like to include two more amazing songs on there. And anything else would just seem lazy to me. We'll see, though. I don't really feel comfortable with it now," he told MTV.

http://www.nme.com/news/weezer/23579

Dread · Post by **Dread** » 7/12/2006, 4:40 pm

I'm just going to get it all out of the way so nobody else has to:

Weezer sucks now though. Good riddance.

They've slowly gone downhill since Green. Hooray!

They ceased being Weezer when Matt Sharp left the band.

Etc. etc. etc., blah blah blah. The best thing that will come out of this will that I won't have to read people bitching how the band went downhill anymore. For that, I'm truly grateful.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 7/12/2006, 5:23 pm

yeah, the last bit of what you said is true. im sick of people talking about that over and over.

menomena · Post by **menomena** » 7/12/2006, 5:59 pm

Well, is it not true? Have they not made anything beyond inane pop drivel since Pinkerton? Haven't they taken the exact career path that Our Lady Peace has, only with the mainstream success OLP strives for and completely misses after each release?

Yeah.

And honestly, Rivers killing Weezer is about as relevant as Robert Pollard killing the Guided By Voices name. The solo music is going to sound exactly the same as the previous band, except with new people that get paid less to play instruments.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 7/13/2006, 2:18 pm

Dread wrote:It's not like I can call myself a fan of her music, but from what I've heard of the second album, at least it seemed more original than this garbage. I'd rather have an artist be boring and mundane and stay original than to sell out, and that's what this new stuff sounds like to me.

All the reviews I've read agree with you.

Chart, for example....

Nelly Furtado's "loose" now, like every dime-a-dozen hip-pop princess. She's picked up some skimpy new club wear (to show off her midriff, and not the photoshopped one she was furious at FHM for putting on their cover four years ago), some "My Humps" dance moves and even a Justin Timberlake cameo for her new video ("Promiscuous").

...

Still, it sounds as though Furtado's swapped her personality for some cliched sex appeal. She became a star during her scrubbed-clean "I'm Like A Bird" days because nobody sounded like this girl from Victoria, BC. On Loose, her voice resembles "Lucky Star"-era Madonna ("Glow") and Gwen Stefani ("In God's Hands"), and it's hard to dig the real Furtado out from under the dance beats, however fun they are

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 7/13/2006, 3:01 pm

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/07 ... index.html

"A European court annulled the European Union's approval of a 2004 merger between Sony Music and BMG in a surprise decision that could force a break-up of the world's second-biggest music company."

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 7/13/2006, 8:37 pm

New stuff from The Killers:
http://www.islandrecords.com/thekillers/

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 7/13/2006, 8:38 pm

eww... they had their chance and waited too long. I have no interest in them anymore.

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 7/13/2006, 8:41 pm

I thought it sounded pretty good.
One of the very very very few few few mainstream bands out there that put out a gem of a record.

Time will tell but the new single doesn't make me think the upcomming album will be any different.

tasha · Post by **tasha** » 7/19/2006, 7:55 pm

avril & deryck got married on saturday.. neither chantal nor raine were at the wedding