Hollywood’s recent penchant for interspecies teen romance is one of modern cinema’s most worrying trends. Twilight paired human with vampire, then human with werewolf (and if you haven’t read all the books, the next one is where it gets properly batshit). Now, I Am Number Four (which is blatantly pitched at the aforementioned films’ audience) unites human with alien. It’s an area of filmmaking that’s long been catered for – normally within seedy, unspoken of circles. Rarely – as is the case with Four - by Disney....
Here are a bunch of album reviews for Lykke Li's new album, which is due to be released tomorrow! According to the reviews it must be pretty good, so buy it!
Spin.com (8/10):
When the Swedish pop ingenue Lykke Li first arrived in 2007 at all of 21, she was an adorable little thing, singing and shimmying with gumption. Her debut album, 2008's Youth Novels, was as resolute and irrepressible as the best of her compatriots -- Robyn, Nina Persson, Jens Lekman, even ABBA. And she enchanted a few notables along the way, including the rapper Drake, who sampled her "Little Bit" for an arresting mixtape deep cut. But there was a chill in the music -- sax skronks, woozy keyboards, Kewpie-ish voice lurching to the brink of sadness -- that her co-conspirator Bjorn Yttling helped install to keep things from ever getting too cute....
Former Paramore guitarist Josh Farro made what is sure to be one of the stupider utterances of the year when he declared yesterday that he didn’t want to make his and his brother’s departure from the band into “this huge drama thing.”
It’s a bit late for that really isn’t it? If he’d wanted to leave discreetly without any fuss, then he wouldn’t have posted a multi thousand word blog post which fired off accusations like a machine gun. Farro’s targets included the band’s manager, singer (and his former girlfriend) Hayley Williams’ diva like status, their record label and Williams' blasphemous lyrics. ...
Kanye West's new album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' is out today (22 November). What better excuse to look back at the arch egotist's funniest ever quotes?
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Kanye has been talking up '...Dark Twisted Fantasy' for a while. Back in August he promised it would be his "masterwork. That Avatar-level [work]. I try to compete against the past... Michelangelo, Picasso, the pyramids.” So modest.
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EDIT: TOUR WAS CANCELLED DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS!
Marina And The Diamonds have announced details of an upcoming 2011 tour of North America.
The singer and her band will begin the 13-date gig-run in Englewood, Colorado on January 21.
Marina And The Diamonds will play the following:
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