I've been reading the archived Music Weeks (a UK chart industry/trade publication) on https://t.co/iHbGHFwmu6 and in recent days they've been uploading 1997 issues. It's pretty interesting to follow the story of how Princess Di's death derailed a Kylie album.
20 years ago today Nelly Furtado released her album ‘Loose’, a defining era of the second half of the 00s.
The album was a major departure from her previous work, both sonically and visually; a move that worked out well for her commercially and critically. Some detractors did voice that they felt her more overt sexual image was just a ploy to sell records.
The album features the global hits “Promiscuous”, “Maneater”, “Say It Right” and “All Good Things (Come To An End)”.
The era won Nelly her first Brit Award (International Female Solo Artist, 2007) and two Grammy nominations.
In the years since its release, many have remarked how ‘Loose’ still sounds as fresh in the present day as it did in 2006. The Guardian reflected on Timbaland and Nelly’s work on ‘Loose’ saying, “Loose is a celebration of the inspired looseness of pop” and that it “created a blueprint for modern pop.”
Dubai (UAE)
Mitchell: “You hate Muslims, so why are you in this country?”
Tommy Robinson: “I'm here on an invite.”
Mitchell: “You little rat.”
Tommy Robinson: “Let me finish my interview.”
Ty Mitchell: “He's a f*cking idiot He hates Muslims but he's in a Muslim country.”
Almost exactly 20 years ago Rupert Lowe was forced out of Southampton FC by fans utterly pissed off at his underachievements. Three years later his company that owned the club went into administration.
This only worked if you knew who Drew Barrymore was - 1996 me had never heard of her.
Also I genuinely think the Scream franchise is for people who don’t like characters dying… in a slasher film.
No D-Day post from our deranged President.
But his deeply sick brain decided this was a better and more important post today. His bitterness and jealousy consumes him. He is a pathetic, empty shell of a human being. Obama’s nail clippings have more class and honor than he does.
Was a queer teen under Section 28. I am not going back again, and i refuse to accept a world where a whole new generation of queer & trans kids go through what i did at their age.
We are not fucking doing this again.
A white man named Chas Chorrigan has just been jailed for life for murdering a Saudi student, Mohammed Algasim, in Cambridge.
There will be no political circus around this. No strong words from Farage. This selective outrage is what causes further division.
I think we need to remember that before the social media/online era artists regularly went supernova then disappeared when people moved on. But they had the luxury of dropping off in quiet, modern artists don’t get that. Katy Perry is same.
lizzo's downfall is truly wild to watch. the only analog I can think of in recent history is iggy azalea: two artists who essentially caught perilously short-lived zeitgeists and, in both instances, were essentially vanquished from culture overnight.