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Pop princess Rihanna is still intent on releasing a new album every year so why should 2012 be any different?

The song is called Diamonds, and to be honest it is pure tripe. This is NOT a single, this is album filler that belongs on Talk That Talk with the rest of the fodder on that album.

No doubt the "Navy" will get behind this song and I am sure it will chart well, but to be honest I miss the Rated R Rihanna who was rough and edgy, instead of this snore of a track! Oh well! Give it a listen below

http://soundcloud.com/rihanna/diamonds

I've been a fan of Muse for a long time. During high school it was "cool" for our little alternative group to like Muse, so I started listening without even questioning why listening to this band called Muse was cool. It was like our own little exclusive club, and as a bonus, everything I heard from Muse was awesome. Muse finally hit the mainstream back in 2006 with their album "Blackholes & Revelations", and became firmly entrenched in pop culture after the Twi-hards first heard "Super Massive Blackhole" as the backing music to that famous Cullen baseball scene. Yeah my exclusive club was no longer exclusive, but secretly isn't that what we all wanted? For Muse to get the recognition they deserve?

Pop trash tartlet Ke$ha has just dropped her new summer track "Die Young", the first single off her upcoming album. The track was  was co-written with Nate Reuss and produced by Dr. Luke, Benny Blanco, and Cirkut.

Check out the hotness summer anthem below

Missy Elliot’s new rap song Ninth inning Missy Elliot reunited with her musical muse super producer Timbaland
on USStream to announce the iTunes release of her new single “9th Inning”. fans on social media sites, Elliot
explained excitedly that her new tracks will be featured on her new album that is due sometime this year.

“I like to call it theatrical Hip-Hop,” says Elliot. “It’s not the Da Real World all over again, but just the dramatics
of the real world is the feeling that I get from this album.”

Even though this will be Elliot’s first release of an entire body of new material in seven years, Timbaland says
that their timing couldn’t be better. “I think what’s going on right now is the same ol same ol,” “The timing is
right for what we doing right now. We didn’t pick it. It just happened this way.

Social media sites are full of mixed reviews, some say about time we miss you Miss Elliot to others quoting”
the new songs are just like Nicki Minaj” either way, if you’re a fan of Missy Elliot, she won’t disappoint with her latest rap single.

Review by Tracey

A little while ago I said that I felt like Pink had kind of stuck to close to what she knows and needed
to try something new and change it up a little bit, and she finally has done that with this new album.

And now I wish I had never said that at all!

The newest release from Pink really does showcase a wide variety of sub genres that Pink would be
able to step into if she choose to, but it just seems that she is trying to have to many ideas on one
album and as such the overall product is subpar.

You can almost go through the whole album naming the artist that each different song sounds like,
whether it be the Kesha sounding ‘Slut like you’ or the Destiny’s child like ‘where did the beat go’
and for the few songs that don’t fall into the “sounds like someone else” category, well they can get
filed under “sounds so much like one of her old songs its not funny”.

It really just feels like Pink didn’t even try on this album at all, it’s just another album that the label
said she had to do right now and it feels like there is none of the usual energy that, even if you don’t
like her music, you have to admit was at least an always present feature of her songs.

And really the overall lack of energy was the biggest problem I had with the album, there were a few
moments where it picked up a little but no enough. This album is the musical equal to the Lord of
the rings films, some really good moments but a lot of boring go nowhere parts that aren’t worth
waiting through.

The lyrical content on the album doesn’t break any new ground either, choosing to stick to the
things she knows best and taking up being in love, how that can hurt, oh and who could forget,
songs about parties, this is all well and good but I was hoping for some new deeper songs about
being a mother now and maybe even how being a mother and, let’s face it, a pop icon, is a very hard
thing to deal with at the same time, but fingers crossed we get that soon.

There are a few songs that we can only hope get released as singles, because they are the stand outs
as the best songs on the album, the opening track ‘Are we all we are’ is a killer opening track and
I’ll admit did get my hopes up for the rest of the album, ‘the truth about love’ is a fun track with an
old school rockabilly feel that will have people dancing away and while it does have a little bit of
a “stolen from Kesha feel” that isn’t a bad thing and ‘slut like you’ is still a stand out track here.

Review by Trucker

Fresh from YouTube is the video for Nelly Furtado's new single "Parking Lot"

So far the singer has struggled to get a hit from her latest album, hopefully this video will change things but unfortunately all it does it show the weakness in her vocals.

Once again Pink and Eminem are reunited after their first work together “Won’t Back Down” off Eminem’s Recovery album in 2010. Now in 2012, Eminem is adding a twist of his own to Pink’s newest album, The Truth About Love.

Can you guess what the song is about? Get your weekend started! Throughout the track, Pink shows her darker side of Pop Rock with Eminem adding an unusually unenergetic verse in the last half of the song. Still Without a doubt he holds to his gift for a flowing verse, and if you need a song to jumpstart a wild Friday night this is the one to do so.

With this song debuting Pink’s new album, she is definitely keeping her music career alive by sticking to the mainstream adolescence Pop Rock audience. But while she states in her song “If you know what’s better for you” does she in fact know what’s best for her? Well of course she does. From the audience to producers, it
would most certainly seem like she knows what she is doing. On the contrary, I feel as though that the old die-hards of classic Pink, myself included, are loosing their faith and her originality continues to slowly seep through the cracks of the music industry.

Nonetheless we all still love Pink and congratulations to her on her newest album The Truth About Love.

The Black Keys have been around since 2001, but recently hit fame with the release of ‘Lonely Boy’. The music clip, which featured an average man dancing and lip-syncing to the track, ensured popularity and boosted success. 

This effort was followed with ‘Gold on the Ceiling’, an enjoyable song that didn’t quite reach the heights of ‘Lonely Boy’ but demonstrated a different edge. Now seen as having established themselves as an alternative rock band, The Black Keys are set to release ‘Little Black Submarines’. 

On the first listen it is clear to see where the influences lie; the slow beginning sounds similar to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and the more upbeat follow-up appears to have a ‘Red Hot Chili Peppers’ feel. A great aspect of this track is how ‘live’ it comes across, as though you are watching a band in a garage with the roots of rock at the core. The guitar strumming in the intro is very raw, adding to the pondering lyrics which focus on the message ‘a broken heart is blind’. Heavy instrumental blocks break up the singing well, no doubt an attempt to recreate the 70’s and appeal to an older generation while regenerating the vibe for youth.    



Review by Chris Sutton 

Review by Trucker.