New Glee

I'm extremely excited about the new season Glee coming up this week. Unfortunately, I have SAT class on the days that Glee shows, but I will definitely keep up with it. There will be a Britney Spears episode, a Rocky Horror Picture Show episode, Kurt's getting a boyfriend, there are four new characters. I'm extremely excited.

As a little sneak peak, here's a video of one of the songs they sing in the first episode. Let's hear it for Empire State of Mind as performed by Glee!

Carrie Underwood Snubbed and Justin Bieber a Snob

So, this came to my attention as I was browsing one of the music news sites I follow. The nominations for the CMA's have come out, and again, Carrie didn't get nominated for Entertainer of the Year. There are a great many people who are upset about that. She hasn't gotten nominated for it ever, and definitely deserves it, whereas new acts like Lady Antebellum and more-pop-than-country acts like Taylor Swift do get nominated. In fact, Taylor Swift won last year. And Carrie Underwood has hosted them countless times and never gotten nominated.

I don't know, what do you think? The author in the article poses some possibilities for reasons, but most of them seem pretty flimsy. Then he comes to the conclusion that the CMA nominators can only have too many female nominations. And Miranda Lambert tops it off. According to this article, the last time the CMA's had more than one female nomination was in 1979, and neither of them one. So because Miranda Lambert got nominated, the more-deserving Underwood couldn't be.

If this is the true reason, the the South isn't as accepting and tolerant of women as we thought it was. This disgusts me.

In other news, Justin Bieber came to my hometown this week for a concert at our county fair. Weezer also came, and I will review that concert tomorrow or the next day, along with Mockingjay (a book). But this dirt cannot wait.

You see, apparently, Justin Bieber visited the movie theater I work at and was extremely rude. He kept trying to pay people (especially the MANAGER, who has better things to do) to carry his food to the theater for him because he didn't want to and he threw a hissy fit when we wouldn't give him special service. He told one of the employees to shut up when she told him that just because he was famous doesn't mean he could pay his way through everything.

Apparently, he also got kicked out of IHOP and Hannafords because he was rude and Walmart for throwing shit around. This gives me so much fuel for hating him. I'm so sick of hearing about bitchy celebrities. Because Katy Perry is too. She insults Tokio Hotel every time she performs "Ur So Gay" live by dedicating it them and she wrote a really insulting song about Travie McCoy in which she says "you fall asleep during foreplay / cuz the pills you take are more your forte."

Seriously, you celebrities are going to lose all of your fans if you don't treat people who are "beneath" you with respect. And that includes your peers. God!

Haters Gonna Hate

Yup, they are. Obviously, I knew this. But I came across this article today that listed a bunch of bands that had supposedly terrible hair. Some of them were pretty terrible, but most of them weren't that bad! And some of my favorite bands were on there. Like The Maine and Tokio Hotel. They don't have terrible hair. What really gets to me is that the author of the article also claims that they lack talent as well. And this, in my opinion, is woefully untrue. Then again, I'm biased because I adore Tokio Hotel, but whatever. That's not the point. I get so tired of people making fun of bands like this. I know it's ridiculous, and they don't even notice, but still. There are people who like them, whether or not they are teenagers. Who are you to judge whether or not they have talent. Musical talent is in the eye of the beholder. Your screamo Metal music (for that is what they were fans of, sad to say) is disgusting and talentless to a lot of people, and not just

over made up tween girls at the shows wearing concert safe studded belts and wristbands.

AMA Performance

I'm a bit late to be blogging on this (considering the performance was at the 2009 AMA's), but to be fair, I just found out about it a few days ago and just got around to looking up tonight. Super late at night, to be exact. Or early. Either way, I should be sleeping. But that's besides the point.

To anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about (which is probably all of you), Adam Lambert performed at the American Music Awards (AMA's), which aired on ABC. He was performing For Your Entertainment, as it was (I believe) a day or two before the release of his album, and he hadn't released any other singles. But again, so far off topic. It was the content of the performance that mattered.

You see, the performance was incredibly controversial, considering it aired on ABC, a family television network. The theme was obviously S&M, with the start of the choreography involving Adam holding two men on a leash and shoving one of their faces into his crotch in an act of fake fellatio. And while that did get a few raised eyebrows, it was something else entirely that got the outcry. You see, somewhere towards the end of his performance, Adam shares one scorching kiss with his keyboardist, Tommy Ratcliff. On live television.

You want to see it? So did I. Here's the link. That is the link to the entire performance. Pay attention if you want to see the make-out. I missed it the first time I watched it. And the bleeped out words are ABC censoring him.

Anyway, the outcry. I think this is where Adam Lambert is building his niche, and it's believable, whether there is feeling behind that kiss or not. He's not the first musician to give a fan-service like that and make-out with a member of his band on stage. In fact, the band Cinema Bizarre did it on many occasions. And because of the nature of the song, you have to expect a risque performance. If Lady Gaga grabbed on of her band members and gave them a kiss like that, people probably wouldn't blink. They didn't blink when she had faux-sex in her Alejandro video. Because it's expected.

It's expected from Adam too. Or at least it should be. He is just as wild, just as risque, and just as into the theatrical performances as she is. He has a strong background in theater (as can be seen from his clips on youtube as Fiyero from Wicked), and anyone who expects him to perform has to expect a bad ass stage presence. I genuinely believe that thousands of teenage girls (possibly including me) cream their pants when they watch any performance from Adam Lambert, but that's besides the point. From his first music video (For Your Entertainment) he did the leather, glam, glitter, and whips type of performances, and that's just who he is. If you want a subdued performer, someone with a gentler stage presence, hire Taylor Swift. But don't expect Adam Lambert, or Glambert as people like to call him, to tone it down.

MTV VMA Nomination Outrage

By this point, I know for a fact that any award show hosted by MTV is a complete joke. Just look at their move awards? We all know that MTV loves a sweep, as can be seen from the way the Twilight Saga movies always take all of the MTV Movie Awards they are nominated for, even when they most definitely don't deserve it. But the nominations for the MTV VMA awards are ridiculous. Folks, get ready for the Lady Gaga Awards!

Here are the list of nominees.

Now, call me biased, as I am a fan of Adam Lambert, but I've never even heard of Nicki Minaj or the Broken Bells, and Adam Lambert had more than one top 10 hit video this year. Doesn't at least one of them deserve a nomination for Best New Artist? And Owl City as well gets no nod at all in favor of artists like Justin Bieber who so clearly deserve nothing? No Mike Posner? No Taio Cruz? No Travie McCoy (who isn't a new artist, but deserved something somewhere.) Miley Cyrus gets nothing the year she finally breaks away from Disney, and yet Taylor Swift gets nominated for Best Female Video for Fifteen, which is probably the worst of her videos?

Eminem gets nominated for eight nominations for Not Afraid, which is, admittedly, a good video. Apparently, MTV also loves a comeback kid. I liked this song, and it deserved most of the recognition it got. No complaints.

But the nominations for Best Choreography are what really get to me. Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce, Beyonce ft. Lady Gaga and only then does anyone else get any recognition? It's official, these things are a joke.

Pot

Seriously? Apparently (http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/07/23/bret-michaels-drugs/ Bret Michaels from Poison was found with pot on BOTH of his tourbuses. How terrible?

I know plenty of people who smoke pot. Some of them, admittedly, do suffer from amotivational syndrome, but for the most part, pot is harmless. And I have no idea why people make such a big deal when a rock star and infamous partier is caught with it. Have you seen his shows on VH1?

Besides, there are other things that should be paid more attention to. Even in the music industry. Instead of whining about drugs, why don't we instead talk about how separated all of them are from reality. Or how so few of them use their social standing to actually do something meaningful. Or how love has been rendered obsolete in today's music. We have such bigger issues.

Christmas Albums

I could talk about how furious I am with my dog and my family and how I don't think the two fit together all that well, but I think I'm going to talk about something a little more cheerful today. Christmas.

It was just released that Susan Boyle may be working on a Christmas album, and I was thinking. Here is the link to the article: http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/07/22/susan-boyle-christmas-album/ She's probably one of the few people I would actually consider buying a Christmas album from, because her's would be traditionally sung. I can't stand those Christmas songs that rocked up or popped up or something equally horrible. Susan Boyle would sing traditional Christmas songs the way they should be sung. Traditionally.

To me, it compares to the national anthem. So many people sing it or play it much flashier than it is written, and it's not right. I'm all for redoing songs and making remakes, but some things are simply sacred.