Michael Jackson‘s “Billie Jean” deeply impressed an important R&b musician. He said that the track could have been transformed into 12 different hit songs if Jackson had divided it up in a certain way. The R&b icon discussed how he tries to find songs similar to “Billie Jean” every day.
An R&b maetro explained why ‘Billie Jean’ is Michael Jackson’s masterpiece
Antonio “L.A.” Reid is a major pop/R&b producer. He has worked with stars like Boys II Men, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton. In a 2011 essay he wrote for Rolling Stone, he said the King of Pop was the best entertainer of all time, comparing him to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles. Reid recalled seeing The Jackson 5 at a state fair when he was young. Reid recalled Jackson’s voice resonating throughout the fairground.
“‘Billie Jean’ is the most important record he made,...
An R&b maetro explained why ‘Billie Jean’ is Michael Jackson’s masterpiece
Antonio “L.A.” Reid is a major pop/R&b producer. He has worked with stars like Boys II Men, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton. In a 2011 essay he wrote for Rolling Stone, he said the King of Pop was the best entertainer of all time, comparing him to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles. Reid recalled seeing The Jackson 5 at a state fair when he was young. Reid recalled Jackson’s voice resonating throughout the fairground.
“‘Billie Jean’ is the most important record he made,...
- 4/26/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Michael Jackson‘s “Billie Jean” is a song about a man who may or may not have fathered a child with a woman he doesn’t like. One of Jackson’s brothers explained the song’s connection to Motown founder Berry Gordy. Gordy is a musical legend, but his label’s music faced some criticism from one of The Beatles.
‘Billie Jean’ was 1 of several Michael Jackson songs inspired by Motown’s Berry Gordy
Jermaine Jackson was a member of The Jackson 5. In his 2011 book You Are Not Alone: Michael, Through a Brother’s Eyes, Jermaine discussed the Motown formula. “If Americans’ brains went to Harvard, America’s talent went to Motown — and artists graduated with a lifetime’s knowledge,” he said. “‘You’re entering the finest finishing school in the business,’ Mr. Gordy told us.
“Our education was fast-track: every song should be a three-minute story with a beginning,...
‘Billie Jean’ was 1 of several Michael Jackson songs inspired by Motown’s Berry Gordy
Jermaine Jackson was a member of The Jackson 5. In his 2011 book You Are Not Alone: Michael, Through a Brother’s Eyes, Jermaine discussed the Motown formula. “If Americans’ brains went to Harvard, America’s talent went to Motown — and artists graduated with a lifetime’s knowledge,” he said. “‘You’re entering the finest finishing school in the business,’ Mr. Gordy told us.
“Our education was fast-track: every song should be a three-minute story with a beginning,...
- 4/19/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Virginia Coombs appeared on Married at First Sight Season 12 in Atlanta. Pic credit: @meet_virg/Instagram
Virginia Coombs rocked head-turning looks for a festival weekend.
Virginia continues to prove she’s unafraid of standing out with colorful style.
Sharing photos and video from her weekend at Imagine Festival, Virginia rocked several different looks.
One look included purple from head to toe, while others saw the Mafs star baring skin in short ensembles.
Virginia’s loud outfits matched her outspoken personality that viewers got a glimpse of on Married at First Sight Season 12.
While Virginia ended up divorced from her Mafs spouse Erik Lake, she still has many fans on social media.
Virginia Coombs dances in all purple
Virginia took to TikTok to show off her purple festival fit.
The Mafs star used the popular song Billie Eilish by Armani White to transition from casual clothes to her shimmering purple look.
Virginia Coombs rocked head-turning looks for a festival weekend.
Virginia continues to prove she’s unafraid of standing out with colorful style.
Sharing photos and video from her weekend at Imagine Festival, Virginia rocked several different looks.
One look included purple from head to toe, while others saw the Mafs star baring skin in short ensembles.
Virginia’s loud outfits matched her outspoken personality that viewers got a glimpse of on Married at First Sight Season 12.
While Virginia ended up divorced from her Mafs spouse Erik Lake, she still has many fans on social media.
Virginia Coombs dances in all purple
Virginia took to TikTok to show off her purple festival fit.
The Mafs star used the popular song Billie Eilish by Armani White to transition from casual clothes to her shimmering purple look.
- 9/20/2022
- by Tyler Shepherd
- Monsters and Critics
The highest compliment one can pay Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s viciously delectable “Do Revenge” is that it should stand alongside the many iconic teen flicks it both cribs from and pays homage to. The premise, which follows two teenage girls opting to seek revenge on one another’s rivals sounds, upon first inspection, like “Strangers on a Train” at a posh private school. But that’s too simplistic a take. After all, Robinson’s project owes less to Hitchock’s infamous classic than to the likes of “Heathers,” “Mean Girls” and “Cruel Intentions” — influences the film wears proudly on its stylish and appropriately throwbacky Y2K-era sleeves.
You can see why Robinson (“Someone Great”) and co-writer Celeste Ballard (“Space Jam: A New Legacy”) would want to take up Patricia Highsmith-via-Hitchcock’s narrative and ensnare it in the world of petty high school politics. The intrigue of two strangers,...
You can see why Robinson (“Someone Great”) and co-writer Celeste Ballard (“Space Jam: A New Legacy”) would want to take up Patricia Highsmith-via-Hitchcock’s narrative and ensnare it in the world of petty high school politics. The intrigue of two strangers,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
WWE SmackDown sensation Maxxine Dupri poses for a selfie on social media. Pic credit: @maxxinedupri/Instagram
Maxxine Dupri continues to captivate fans as she makes regular appearances on WWE’s blue brand, ever since leaving behind her Sofia Cromwell persona on Nxt.
Maxxine, real name Sydney Zmrzel, was back again with the Maximum Male Models on SmackDown, this time even getting involved in some of the action from ringside.
She rocked tight beige pants with a unique butterfly cutout in the front center for her latest outfit. That cutout featured what appeared to be shiny gold trim to accentuate the intricate design further.
Maxxine wore a matching beige long-sleeved crop top with a plunging neckline and the same butterfly cutout on the side.
For accessories, the SmackDown star wore several gorgeous necklaces, including two gold chain necklaces on display.
As with her previous appearances, the Director of Talent for Mmm...
Maxxine Dupri continues to captivate fans as she makes regular appearances on WWE’s blue brand, ever since leaving behind her Sofia Cromwell persona on Nxt.
Maxxine, real name Sydney Zmrzel, was back again with the Maximum Male Models on SmackDown, this time even getting involved in some of the action from ringside.
She rocked tight beige pants with a unique butterfly cutout in the front center for her latest outfit. That cutout featured what appeared to be shiny gold trim to accentuate the intricate design further.
Maxxine wore a matching beige long-sleeved crop top with a plunging neckline and the same butterfly cutout on the side.
For accessories, the SmackDown star wore several gorgeous necklaces, including two gold chain necklaces on display.
As with her previous appearances, the Director of Talent for Mmm...
- 9/12/2022
- by Matt Couden
- Monsters and Critics
Taylor Sheridan is creating quite the little cinematic empire over at Paramount+. In addition to Yellowstone and its various spinoffs, Sheridan also has Mayor of Kingstown and the upcoming Tulsa King, a crime drama starring Sylvester Stallone as a New York mafia capo who establishes a new criminal empire after his release from prison. The latest teaser trailer for Tulsa King has been released by Paramount+, and you can check it out above.
Related Tulsa King: Sylvester Stallone mob series wraps production
Sylvester Stallone stars in Tulsa King as Dwight “The General” Manfredi, a New York mafia capo. After he’s released from prison, Dwight is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal...
Related Tulsa King: Sylvester Stallone mob series wraps production
Sylvester Stallone stars in Tulsa King as Dwight “The General” Manfredi, a New York mafia capo. After he’s released from prison, Dwight is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal...
- 9/7/2022
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Maitland Ward has claimed Boy Meets World producers “asked” her to “try on lingerie” for them, in her new book.
The 45-year-old former Hollywood actor – who starred as Rachel McGuire in the sixth and seventh seasons of the 1993 sitcom – made the allegations in her recently released debut memoir, Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood.
“I was asked to try on lingerie for [Boy Meets World] producers in the office. This happened more than once, as Rachel was the only character to consistently take off her clothes,” an excerpt from Ward’s book, obtained by New York Post, reads.
“An assistant would gather me from my dressing room and take me upstairs where I’d be provided with a series of options, some playful and girlish, some so provocative I knew that Disney would never approve them, but still I would try them on.”
The seven-season series originally aired in full on ABC.
The 45-year-old former Hollywood actor – who starred as Rachel McGuire in the sixth and seventh seasons of the 1993 sitcom – made the allegations in her recently released debut memoir, Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood.
“I was asked to try on lingerie for [Boy Meets World] producers in the office. This happened more than once, as Rachel was the only character to consistently take off her clothes,” an excerpt from Ward’s book, obtained by New York Post, reads.
“An assistant would gather me from my dressing room and take me upstairs where I’d be provided with a series of options, some playful and girlish, some so provocative I knew that Disney would never approve them, but still I would try them on.”
The seven-season series originally aired in full on ABC.
- 9/6/2022
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
Exclusive: Heartstopper breakout Yasmin Finney is leading Mars, the upcoming short film based on a song by Yungblud.
Finney, who is also featuring in Russell T Davies’ regenerated Doctor Who, will play Charlie Acaster, a teenager who has only ever wanted to live a normal existence but an extraordinary night makes her reassess what truly matters.
Universal Music Group-backed My Life as a Rolling Stone producer Mercury Studios is producing alongside Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry indie Interscope Films, while Mercury is also distributing as the project prepares for premiere at a major film festival later this year. Award-winning playwright Chris Bush is writer and Abel Rubinstein is director.
Set in the North of England and shot in Blackpool, Mars is based on the Yungblud song, which is inspired by a young fan the British singer met on tour. Yungblud, whose real name is Dominic Harrison,...
Finney, who is also featuring in Russell T Davies’ regenerated Doctor Who, will play Charlie Acaster, a teenager who has only ever wanted to live a normal existence but an extraordinary night makes her reassess what truly matters.
Universal Music Group-backed My Life as a Rolling Stone producer Mercury Studios is producing alongside Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry indie Interscope Films, while Mercury is also distributing as the project prepares for premiere at a major film festival later this year. Award-winning playwright Chris Bush is writer and Abel Rubinstein is director.
Set in the North of England and shot in Blackpool, Mars is based on the Yungblud song, which is inspired by a young fan the British singer met on tour. Yungblud, whose real name is Dominic Harrison,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Artists’ influences are never nearly as interesting as what they do with them. Chris Cornell always thrived at taking well-known songs and making them his own. One of Soundgarden’s earliest recordings was a rendition of Howlin’ Wolf’s steady-grooving, broken-hearted blues “Smokestack Lightnin’,” on which Cornell seemed to find his own anguish in the vocal, hollering, screeching, and howlin’ like he was on his own personal torture rack. And later, when he approached others’ tunes, the song itself wasn’t always the most apparent influence. He variously replaced the...
- 12/11/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
If you were to look at the members-only screening room where films in contention for the Academy Award for Best Picture stream for voters, you might think that documentaries are going to do very well in the Oscars top category this year.
As of Dec. 7, there were 104 films in the Academy Screening Room for the Best Picture category, 26 of which were documentaries. That’s a full 25% of the field, which seems to suggest that nonfiction filmmakers and the companies that release them are optimistic that Oscar voters will recognize docs when they vote this year. After all, it costs $12,500 to put a film in that screening room — and all 26 docs that paid the cost to be there are also in the separate screening room available to the Academy’s Documentary Branch. Spots in that screening room are free for any film that qualifies in the Best Documentary Feature category.
Common sense,...
As of Dec. 7, there were 104 films in the Academy Screening Room for the Best Picture category, 26 of which were documentaries. That’s a full 25% of the field, which seems to suggest that nonfiction filmmakers and the companies that release them are optimistic that Oscar voters will recognize docs when they vote this year. After all, it costs $12,500 to put a film in that screening room — and all 26 docs that paid the cost to be there are also in the separate screening room available to the Academy’s Documentary Branch. Spots in that screening room are free for any film that qualifies in the Best Documentary Feature category.
Common sense,...
- 12/8/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Cinemas — the ones that are open — are hurting for new content. With only one wide release this week — that would be Focus Features’ “Half Brothers” opening on approximately 1,200 screens — film fans will likely be staying home and sifting through new releases via streaming instead.
For example, audiences have their choice between Disney fairy-tale sendup “Godmothered” and Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of “The Godfather Part III.” The former (which stars Isla Fisher and Jillian Bell) is available to Disney Plus subscribers, while the latter is getting a very limited theatrical run.
Who knows how audiences will react to a story about a romance cut short by medical tragedy in the era of Covid-19, but Universal serves up a well-made version of just that kind of love story with “All My Life,” featuring Jessica Rothe and Harry Shum Jr.
Steve McQueen’s five-film Small Axe series continues on Amazon Prime, while David Fincher’s buzzy,...
For example, audiences have their choice between Disney fairy-tale sendup “Godmothered” and Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of “The Godfather Part III.” The former (which stars Isla Fisher and Jillian Bell) is available to Disney Plus subscribers, while the latter is getting a very limited theatrical run.
Who knows how audiences will react to a story about a romance cut short by medical tragedy in the era of Covid-19, but Universal serves up a well-made version of just that kind of love story with “All My Life,” featuring Jessica Rothe and Harry Shum Jr.
Steve McQueen’s five-film Small Axe series continues on Amazon Prime, while David Fincher’s buzzy,...
- 12/5/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
IFC Midnight has an excellent track record with their horror acquisitions, so you'll want to add A Banquet to the list of movies to keep on your radar. Due out in 2021, the movie is the feature debut from Ruth Paxton and stars Sienna Guillory. Here's the official press release from IFC:
"IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to A Banquet, the feature debut from Ruth Paxton, whose award-winning short films have been exhibited and nominated in competition at numerous prominent film festivals worldwide. A Banquet is a visually arresting, slow-burning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family in the midst of a breakdown, exploiting the complicated bond between three generations of mothers and daughters.
The film stars Sienna Guillory, British rising stars Jessica Alexander (Get Even) and Ruby Stokes, and award-winning actress Lindsay Duncan Cbe. A Banquet will...
"IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to A Banquet, the feature debut from Ruth Paxton, whose award-winning short films have been exhibited and nominated in competition at numerous prominent film festivals worldwide. A Banquet is a visually arresting, slow-burning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family in the midst of a breakdown, exploiting the complicated bond between three generations of mothers and daughters.
The film stars Sienna Guillory, British rising stars Jessica Alexander (Get Even) and Ruby Stokes, and award-winning actress Lindsay Duncan Cbe. A Banquet will...
- 12/3/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
SiriusXM’s Alt Nation channel has announced that it will be airing an exclusive live session from Billie Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas on Thursday, December 3rd.
The session will include performances of Eilish’s tracks “Therefore I Am,” “Everything I Wanted,” and “Ocean Eyes,” as well as a cover of the Beatles’ “Something.” The session will also include an interview with Eilish and Finneas, hosted by Alt Nation’s Jeff Regan, about upcoming music projects that were recorded in quarantine.
.@billieeilish performs new music, talks new album,...
The session will include performances of Eilish’s tracks “Therefore I Am,” “Everything I Wanted,” and “Ocean Eyes,” as well as a cover of the Beatles’ “Something.” The session will also include an interview with Eilish and Finneas, hosted by Alt Nation’s Jeff Regan, about upcoming music projects that were recorded in quarantine.
.@billieeilish performs new music, talks new album,...
- 12/3/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
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