The first trailer for Chappie is here – the next movie from District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp. Prepare yourself for the most loveable robot since Wall-E, starring Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver and South African rap-rave duo Die Antwood (Yo-Landi Visser, Ninja). It’s the story of an intelligent robot child who is gifted and special and whose life will change the way the world looks at robots and humans forever. Meredith Woener of IGN described the movie as “very heartstring-pulling, musical-swelling, robot-eccentric film.”
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This science fiction spectacle is chocker block full of emotion. It’s a coming of age tale, with a robot instead of a child. And Chappie is raised just like a child, forming a bond with his carers that is like nothing we have ever seen on screen before. Chappie is told “anything you wanna do in your life you can do – write poetry, have original ideas…” (which in this instance include watching Masters of the Universe cartoons, acting very “cool and tough” and stroking dogs). Problem is, people are always fearful of things they don’t understand.
Hugh Jackman plays the evil villain Vincent, a raging anti-robot fanatic who is hell-bent on turning Chappie into scrap metal. “The problem with Artificial Intelligence is it’s way too unpredictable,” Jackman says in the trailer.
“I am conscious. I am alive. I am Chappie.”
The movie is scheduled for release on March 6, 2015, by Columbia Pictures.
Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have released the highly anticipated trailer for the Minions movie and it looks awesome! See Stuart, Kevin, and Bob embarking on an epic journey 42 years before they met Gru. The trailer itself teaches us a few things about Minions: they were around thousands of years ago and came out of the sea, their first master was a dinosaur, they built pyramids, fought in Napolionic wars and killed vampires (not on purpose). After accidentally killing off so many of their masters Stuart, Kevin, and Bob venture out into the world to find a new evil boss.
Their journey eventually leads them to their evil master – Scarlet Overkill – played by Sandra Bullock, the first female villain to have ever been served by tribal minions. After a time in New york, the crew eventually end up in England where they try to fulfil their purpose and save their race from extinction.
Minions is co-directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin (both Despicable Me 1 & 2 previously). Bullock is followed by Steve Carell as Gru, Jon Hamm (Herb Overkill), Katy Mixon (Tina), Hiroyuki Sanada (Sumo Villain), Jennifer Saunders (Queen Elizabeth), Pierre Coffin as the aforementioned three heroes, and Chris Renaud as the giggle-worthy voices of the Minions.
The film hits theaters in 3D starting July 10, 2015.
American Rapper Hoodie Allen and British pop superstar Ed Sheeran are silly superheroes in their new music video for All About It. You get to see Ed rapping and Hoodie singing the hook! “The All About It video was definitely one of my favorite videos to shoot,” Hoodie told BuzzFeed News recently, “because I got to hang out with my friend, and act silly and outrageous in costumes.”
In this fantastic collaboration the pair trade off verses while name-dropping Drake, Yeezus and a lot more! It’s a great change to see Ed Sheeran stepping away from his romantic, confessional songs. Both of the artists wanted this collaboration to be fun. Hoodie told BuzzFeed: “We decided early on we didn’t want there to be a normal set storyline,” he said. “It was way more fun to show the fans a different side of our personalities, and I knew if they saw us having fun then the result on the screen would match the energy of the song!”
Last month, Hoodie released his debut album People Keep Talking. Taking on all the marketing himself he has so far done an excellent job of promoting his independent record. The majority of tracks on the album have a pro music video or a high quality audio stream. This latest single from the outstanding new album is definitely our favourite – with Hoodie’s incredible vocals and Ed Sheeran rapping – it will be on repeat for ages!
Yesterday (November 3) Hoodie and Ed got together to release the clip – below is Ed’s tweet:
They’re back! Watch the epic trailer for Furious 7 starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and of course the late and great Paul Walker. The next installment in Universal Pictures’ Fast & Furious high-speed franchise now has a full length trailer. And it’s completely epic – you’ll be breathless after watching it!
The film picks up where the last one left off with Ian Shaw (Statham) looking for revenge against Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his team for the death of his brother.
The film was in production when Paul Walker tragically died in a high speed car crash back in November 2013, he was only 40 years old. The majority of the filming was complete and the producers had to use digital effects helped by Paul’s brothers stepping in as body doubles, to finish the movie off.
Vin Diesel spoke about what it was like continuing with the film after Paul’s death: “I grew up in the bouncer world, and we lost people while we were bouncing. But the brotherhood in Paul Walker was something completely different. We grew up in the business together, and we became famous together, and we represented the biggest franchise together. He was my partner, and it’s a strange thing to … I’ve been acting all my life and they don’t teach you in acting, how to mourn someone and simultaneously pretend they’re in a scene with you.”
The trailer ends with Diesel saying “I don’t have friends. I got family,” before it cuts back to a scene starring Walker. The film will be in cinemas from April 2015. In the US it’s called Furious 7 and in the UK and Europe it’s called Fast & Furious 7.
She was a country singer, she was a cross-genre singer but now Taylor Swift is an icon and she is going full-throttle pop. We review global sensation Taylor Swift’s new album 1989, a follow up from her last album Red which went quadruple platinum, earned her four Grammy Awards and serious critical acclaim. 1989’s lead single Shake It Off rapidly became Swift’s second Nº 1 single in the US and 22nd track to debut in peak position in Billboard history. She’s on a massive, world dominating roll.
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Taylor Swift – four-time multiplatinum-album-maker, seven-time Grammy winner and billion-time gossip-blog subject – released her fifth studio album only last week (27th October), through her label Big Machine Records. Taylor has ditched her country roots, moved out of Nashville and flown straight into the Big Apple music scene. Her new album has a young-girl-in-the-big-city feel but utilizes the idea of New York (her new home) metaphorically to pass on her messages of growing, making more mistakes but loving your choices and making the most of learning from it all. She seems so happy to be maturing musically she has given her year of birth as the album title. Having only been with us for a mere twenty five years, Miss Swift has not only proven her worth as a country singer/songwriter but has now transcended and conquered a new genre and level to her career. It seems her indie following have never abandoned her since day one giving her an edge over your regular pop princesses, in that she reaches out to more than just your average teeny-bopping audience.
1989 is a very determined album, which fiercely delivers a strong state of mind and sense of empowerment. We hear a lot less lamenting and a great deal more acceptance, appreciation for one’s self and some power-on-through-the-storm type lyrics. Swift took two years out to write this album and is extremely proud of the results. Rolling Stone reviewed the album as “deeply weird, feverishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic, 1989 sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even when it sounds like nothing she’s ever tried before” and that “when it comes to Taylor Swift and super catchy Eighties pop-gloss, too much is never enough”.
She delivers her songs with a tongue-in-cheek attitude alongside some serious undertones. She wants to be taken seriously but does not take herself too seriously. Her seemingly chit chatty words are actually pinpoint accurate if you get her drift. She metaphorically comments on her transgression into pop, her constant media coverage, not selling out and collaborating with a big named rapper to sell records- to name but a few examples of her discrete ‘disses’ on the madness that is being a global phenomenon in the music industry. Taylor works very, very hard; she has used the decade she has been attacking the business to achieve her goal; to get out there and show us all exactly what she can do, and win. Like her or not, the go-getter in her is admirable; she had it in her like a volcano waiting to erupt from day one.
Taylor has paranoia issues and doesn’t “trust technology” with a constant fear of being exploited or recorded unwittingly, she is wary and always has her guard up. For a long time the only place 1989 existed was on her iPhone. The first person to hear the completed album was one of her best friends Ed Sheeran. She was on tour with him at the time of writing and would knock on his stage room door and discuss lyrics, melodies and beats. She returned the musical ear to his album-in-progress and so it seemed only right that he be the one to give it a final nod.
She also knows that you need to be liked to succeed, and so her fans get a little something in return from time to time…Taylor dreamt up, organized and baked for the secret sessions at her homes in London, Rhode Island, Nashville, New York and LA; a preview of the full album for 89 of her closest fans at each location, about a month prior to the release date. She played the album for these fans, which she had stringently scoured and selected from the internet, in her own living room to show her appreciation for her followers and give a little back.
1989 could be described as a risk, but Taylor Swift is hardly the gambling type. She is, however, calculated and driven and knows what is required to succeed, as she has proven time and time again. Just look at the triumph of her 2010 country-crossover album Speak Now and the 2012 Red album for reference. The opening track on the 1989 album, Welcome to New York could easily be taken for a simple, “I’ve moved to New York, its great”, type message, however it goes way deeper. You can take Taylor however you like but there’s always an ulterior motive to her light-hearted sounding tracks. She’s telling us via the synth-pop, “sick” beats and eighties sounds, that she has moved on. She is no longer a Country singer, she is now exclusively a profound pop star; so there. “Took our broken hearts and put them in a drawer, welcome to New York”, equals- she’s grown out of kissing, telling and bitching about it and moved on. No more boys, no more country songs.
Her self-aware wit is apparent in Blank Space as she sarcastically studies and uses her reportedly disastrous dating record to make a play at the media; “Saw you there and I thought, Oh my God, look at that face, You look like my next mistake, Love’s a game, want to play?” She’s being cute, she’s being sly. She’s being the jaded Miss Taylor Swift. Her irony is delivered over a hip-hop drum machine beat (courtesy of Max Martin and Shellback) with a strong eighties influence and modern electro pop twist to it. Similar in sound, Style, which initially reflects her love of timeless fashion, develops into a rocky relationship story with a feeling like you might be in an episode of a funked-up Miami Vice.
Taylor has been critically attacked aplenty for her repetitive lyrics and this album proves that she just can’t help but reiterate her lines over and over and over and over again. Breaking out of a downward spiraling relationship in Out of the Woods and Shake it off, as in shaking off the negative media attention she receives, are both heavy on the repetition, but seriously catchy tunes which obviously makes learning the lyrics a piece of cake! After Swift comes Out of the Woods from THAT (?) unhappy relationship she follows up with All You Had to do Was Stay, where that boy comes crawling back but she blows him off with attitude and a bit of “It’s just too late”.
There are many other relationship references within the album, most pertaining to her synth-pop backdrop. I Wish You Would finds Swift wishing a lover would come back to her amidst a sampling from the Fine Young Cannibals (courtesy of Jack Antonoff) and a focus on guitar. There’s yet another doomed affair in the sultry Wildest Dreams and How You Get the Girl is an upbeat, acoustic guitar backed shout out to the guys on matters of the heart. This Love is a grab-a-girl-at-the-disco-for-a-slow-dance tune with synthesized waves in motion providing a metaphor, sort of, for the idea that love will come back, as does the tide. With I Know Places Miss Swift combines both her central topics in one as she carried on a love affair while attempting to avoid any media attention. The lovers are being hunted down but Swift claims to “know places we won’t be found” in this almost eerie sounding track. Clean, which was written and recorded alongside Imogen Heap, delivers another water-based metaphor and of course another break up after which she shakes herself off, again, and discovers she is clean and ready to move on, also a metaphor for her new found music genre perhaps. Then there is the seriously angry tirade that is Bad Blood in which she seemingly attacks another artist who tried to sabotage her tour, which may or may not be about Katy Perry; however the hard-hitting lyrics comply with the beat which hits all the right places.
Swift cleverly added a few bonus tracks in order to separately release the DLX (deluxe) edition of the album. So make sure your copy has the DLX stamp on it so you’re not duped into missing out or having to buy both versions! The album and progression of Swift’s work on 1989 has already been reviewed and highly acclaimed. The New York Times printed that “by making pop with almost no contemporary references, Ms. Swift is aiming somewhere even higher, a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars — aside from, say, Adele, who has a vocal gift that demands such an approach — even bother aspiring to”. It is a statement which outlines how she has set herself apart and above her peers in many ways. That she isn’t asking for this; she is making and taking it to another level. Any other stars trying to reach her would have to go above and beyond to somewhere totally new, just as she has.
Ultimately the album is a success story in that she has delivered exactly what she intended; a punchy, alternative, extreme, eighties inspired, powerful, and game changing pop album. Check.
1989 – Tracklist
1. Welcome to New York
2. Blank Space
3. Style
4. Out of the Woods
5. All You Had to Do Was Stay
6. Shake It Off
7. I Wish You Would
8. Bad Blood
9. Wildest Dreams
10. How You Get the Girl
11. This Love
12. I Know Places
13. Clean
Deluxe Edition – bonus tracks
14. Wonderland
15. You Are in Love
16. New Romantics
17. I Know Places (Voice memo)
18. I Wish You Would (Voice memo)
19. Blank Space (Voice Memo)
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Ariana Grande gets wet and dirty with The Weeknd in her new music video for Love Me Harder. Over the top sexiness, a leather bustier and plenty of sultry, moody looks, but not much else…“Our visuals are really about this tug of war of just loving harder,” director Hannah Lux Davis said. “And the compromise of giving in and needing more and wanting more.”
Grande is certainly attempting to shed her girl-next-door image, even though she retains the signature cat ears. Scenes of the 21-year old writhing around in the sand and touching herself are edited with explosive, sexually suggestive nature scenes, like golden grains of sand falling through fingers and orgasmic explosions in the sky. Yes, the Weekend is in it but its difficult to focus on him with Grande gyrating around and batting her huge eyelashes all the time.
For most of the video she takes on her all-too-familiar lying down position “I’m laying down in every music video ever” commented Grande. The official video was released today (November 3) after weeks of teasing fans with behind-the-scenes clips uploaded to Instagram.
The single is taken from Grande’s second solo album My Everything – the third single, after Problem and Break Free. The album was released in August this year by Republic Records and went straight to the top of the Billboard 200 selling an incredible 169.000 copies in the first week.
Take That prove that 3 really is a special number with their new video for These Days. The video presents a surreal version of a ‘normal’ day with a nod to the sound that defined their early years. Watch Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald explore life as a trio, even sleeping together – platonic of course, you know, Morecambe and Wise style, tongue-in-cheek.
These Days, the first single from their upcoming album III, will be released on November 23 and is described as “an out-and-out feel good pop smash that isn’t like anything they’ve produced since the 2006 reunion.”
The album is slated for a December 1st release, and will be their 7th studio album. The name of the album, III, is of course referring to the fact that Jason Orange left the band in September, leaving just the three of them. Jason made a statement on September 24 saying that after almost 25 years he was leaving the band. There were no hard feelings though, he said the group had “full support and encouragement to continue on with what is to be another chapter for the band”.
Their last album, Progress, was released in 2010 when they were a 5-piece band and it became the fastest selling album of the century, and the second fastest selling album of all time, moving more than 235,000 in just one day.
Take That do have quite a legacy: 8 number one albums, 15 number one singles, sales of over 30 million albums, 6 Ivor Novello awards, 8 BRIT Awards and sales of over 7 million concert tickets!
Kiesza strips off during her new music video for No Enemiesz and as she sheds her clothes they morph into dancers. There’s a reason this girl was a VMA nominee for best choreography, boy, can she move! The video was directed by Syndrome and shows Kiesza dancing alone in her super hipster New York loft apartment, with some imaginary backing dancers. As the song progresses she takes off more items of clothing…
Kiesza, Candaian experimental pop singer-and-dancer, has been turning heads ever since she released the acclaimed Hideaway video earlier this year. Her sophomore album Sound Of A Woman was released on October 21 and she followed the release with this new video for No Enemiesz. The song will be released in the UK on November 10 by Lokal Legend Records as the third single from the new album.
Kiesza co-wrote the song with the track’s producer Rami Samir Afuni and it’s a deep house Endurance tune with retro house beats and a bouncy, grinding groove. Critics have praised the tracks euphoric chorus and ’90s-inspired production. Kiesza has already performed the track live in the UK, the US and Germany and the performance incorporated a dance routine very similar to Madonna’s Vogue (1990).
The new album nods at everything from UK garage to folk, breakbeat to grunge. Keisza herself explains: “I think people will be surprised to hear some of the songs on this album. Because of the success of my first two singles, I’m seen perhaps as a House or Dance artist but I’ve been in to grunge, rock, folk groups in the past. All of those experiences and influences have led me to create this album.”
