Showing posts with label live performance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label live performance. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Ella Henderson Does The Damn Thing on "Good Morning America"

Ella Henderson has already snatched the charts in her native UK, Ireland and Australia with song of the year contender "Ghost" (penned by Ryan Tedder) and now the former "X Factor" contestant is setting her sights across the pond.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Gwen Stefani Joins Pharrell For "Hollaback Girl"

Pharrell's set at Coachella was chock full of special guests, but no one was expecting the "Happy" hitmaker to bring out Miss Gwen Stefani.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Performances from The 2014 Oscars


Last night's Oscars weren't just about "12 Years A Slave" or Ellen's Degeneres's star-studded selfie. Some of music's biggest stars took the stage to perform their nominated songs.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Grammys Recap:The Winners and Performances

Lorde wins her first of two Grammy Awards for Pop Solo Performance and Song of The Year
America's Biggest Night of Music, The Grammys was one for the books and we don't mean the mass wedding/publicity stunt that the Academy pulled to show the support all people.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Pixie Lott Performs Her Future #1 Smash "Nasty" For The First Time...

After footage of a comeback single surfaced in November and constant, merciless teasing for almost two pain-filled months, Miss Pixie Lott finally debuted "Nasty", the UK's fastest selling single of 2014* at the 2014 BRIT Awards Nomination Ceremony.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Lorde "Ribs/Hold My Liquor" (Live)

With her debut album "Pure Heroine" coming so soon, the 16-year old songstress known as Lorde has been doing live performances to reinforce the hype that she has acquired and with this live rendition of her song "Ribs" which is about "getting old and stuff," as she says she's definitely did it for me. But wait! Then, she goes on to cover Kanye West's "Hold My Liquor" afterwards. I don't think the word bitch has ever been sung so lovely. Check the HQ video of the performance below.

Monday, August 26, 2013

2013 MTV Video Music Awards: The Performances and Winners

Some people don't like watching all the unnecessary fluff that comes with awards shows, that's why you can watch all the performances from last night's Moonman ceremony, including Justin Timberlake's epic mini-concert and Robin Thicke's and Miley Cyrus's celebrity sex show act.  Also check out the list of winners afterwards.

Lady Gaga-Applause
Miley Cyrus-We Can't Stop|Robin Thicke-Blurred Lines/Give It 2 U (feat. 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar
Kanye West-Blood on The Leaves
Justin Timberlake-Highlight Medley W/N'Sync
Drake-Hold On,We're Going Home/Started From the Bottom
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis-Same Love w/Mary Lambert & Jennifer Hudson
Bruno Mars-Gorilla
Katy Perry-Roar
Video of The Year Justin Timberlake-Mirrors  
Best Male Video Bruno Mars-Locked Out of Heaven  
Best Female Video Taylor Swift-I Knew You Were Trouble
Artist to Watch Austin Mahone-What About Love  
Best Pop Video Selena Gomez-Come and Get It  
Best Rock Video 30 Seconds To Mars-Up In The Air  
Best Hip-Hop Video Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-Can't Hold Us (feat.Ray Dalton)  
Best Collaboration Pink-Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess of fun.)  
Best Direction Justin Timberlake-Suit and Tie (feat.Jay Z)  
Best Choreography Bruno Mars-Treasure  
Best Visual Effects Capital Cities-Safe and Sound  
Best Art Direction Janelle Monae-Q.U.E.E.N (feat.Erykah Badu)  
Best Editing Justin Timberlake-Mirrors  
Best Cinematography Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-Can't Hold Us (feat.Ray Dalton)
Best Video with a Social Message Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-Same Love (feat.Mary Lambert)  
Best Song of the Summer One Direction-Best Song Ever  
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award Justin Timberlake

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Graded Song:Wassup "Wassup"

When news of a twerking (rapid sexual ass shaking) K-Pop group was to debut soon, I was disgusted and excited. Disgusted because I already have to hear about people claiming Miley-has-no-cakes Cyrus being dubbed as the twerking queen without it interferring with my perect fantasy if K-Pop being pure and untainted (LOL yeah ok...)and excited because just maybe they could actually twerk and not shake their bones. The group debuted today on cable since their are banned from the three major stations and the video for "Wassup" premiered later.
Even if this was released from another K-Pop rookie girl group, I would not like it. It's very choppy and the Ha Ha ha ha ha ha part is sooooooo annoying! And I can't at Nada (the rapper) ripping of a line of Azealia Banks' "212". I expected the song to make up for the butchering of the twerking but, nope.
Final Grade:D
The music video...O-M-G. It was like watching the twerking section of Miley's "We Can't Stop" on loop. Member Nada is the only one who seems to have the ASSests to do the actual twerking choreography. Maybe she should go off and become a solo artist and the rest of the group debut as a typical K-Pop group. Their company dropped the ball on this. Their debut stage today on Show Champion was a lot more toned down, but their outfits were atrocious.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Graded Song:f(x) "Rum Pum Pum Pum"

Of all of SM's groups I think f(x) is my least favourite. Their songs have never really appealed to me from the poppy "Hot Summer" to the 2NE1 b-side "Electric Shock" released last summer. However, after the girls released that hipster teaser a few days ago for their "Pink Tape" album, I was genuinely interested in what was to come. The title track from the album "Rum Pum Pum Pum" sounds like it should be the follow-up to the Rihanna flop "Man Down". "Rum Pum Pum Pum" has this funky meets Middle Eastern thing going on. The structure is kinda of jarring, especially in the second verse when Amber raps and then Sulli raps and sounds like she's messes up, curses, and they cut it short. The chorus is the strongest point of the song, where the girls all sing in unison almost seductively claiming they will pierce their love interests heart and grow (sounds like a parasite/host thing to me). Final Grade:B- The music video is quite similar to "Electric Shock" with the very bright sets, basic choreography and bizarro fashion choices. I wish SM would give them some more intricate moves, especially during the breakdown where some twerking would have done some wonders. You can also watch the M! Countdown comeback stage below!

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Jennifer Lopez Perfoms "Live It Up" at Britain's Got Talent

Jennifer Lopez has been putting in some serious work promoting her newest single, "Live It Up". The song screams generic summer hit, but that's ok, J-Lo is one of the few people who can get away with it. She's also stepped up her live act game this time around. Her performances at this year's American Idol finale and the Billboard Music Awards have garnered praise for the energy, choreo and her live vocals. Now she's is giving Europe some love by performing on tonight's episode of "Britain's Got Talent". She recreated her Billboard Awards performance sans the Pitbull feature and the red leotard and gorilla arms (there are in black now) and easily gave it her all. She pretty much killed it and I feel like this was better without Mr.Worldwide's presence. Check the video below.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Beyonce "Grown Woman" (Live)

After trolling the world by teasing "Grown Woman" in her Pepsi commercial, Mrs.Carter (aka Beyonce) premiered the full track at her Mrs.Carter world tour stop in Paris. The quality of the video isn't the best, but the Timbaland-produced song sounds like a smash, now all we need is a studio version. Check the performance below! 

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Graded Performance: Beyonce-Super Bowl Halftime Show

Beyonce is back!!! King B has been out of the game (not really) taking care of Blue Ivy, fending off rumours of a surrogate and snapping sexy pho. 2013 saw her lip sync  perform at the inauguration and now the moment we have been waiting for...halftime at Super Bowl 47! A 12 minute set of nothing but the best from the singer, even if she negleted to perform anything from B'Day. Bey started off with an intro of her amazing-yet-underrated single, "Run The World (Girls)" which was then cut short to show caricatures of her face and a large flaming silhouette on the stage while she sang "Love on Top", showing off the vocals that we should have heard a week or so ago. After that a high energy, hair-whipping, hip thrusting orgy with her first solo #1 "Crazy In Love". Then we get some Michael Jackson realness for the single that should have been "End of Time", complete with a live horn and sax section, but where were the Les twins?  She then proceeded to duplicate her 2011 Billboard Music awards stage and Dutty wined to "Baby Boy". Then we got a major surprise when Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams came out to perform a small medley of hits (Independent Women, Bootylicious). They even got to sing a small bit of "Single Ladies" before Bey booted them off stage to do her own thing. She closed the show by singing one of her crowing achievements as an artist, "Halo", commanding the audience to put their hands to the stage so she could feel their audience ala Dragonball-Z Spirit Bomb style.
The performance was all kinds of amazing, but I was disappointed with some things. Kinda pissed off that Beyonce did not premiere a new single from her upcoming album like we assumed was going to happen and she only did two DC songs when they have such a large discography. I would have loved them to do "Say My Name" and "Survivor".
Overall Grade:B+

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Graded Performance: Rihanna and Emeli Sande on "The X Factor" UK Finale

Breakout star of 2012 Emeli Sande and pop staple Rihanna took to the stage to perform for the finale of The X Factor. Emeli performed her newest single, "Clown" while Rihanna gave the questionable "Diamonds" a rest to perform stand out ballad "Stay" and her biggest single to date, "We Found Love". How did each act stand out? Let's see...
Emeli Sande:
What I appreciate about Emeli is that she knows she has the voice, but she approaches her live performances with as much caution as possible. However this was not the case with "Clown". You can tell that the song is very personal to her so she allowed herself to be a bit more vunerable. I will say this, there were points in the performance where she didn't have to hold the notes. She looked very lovely by the way.  
Grade:A- Rihanna:
This may just be her best era (in terms of performances) to date. Rihanna decided to sing both of her songs sans back track and did very well, rarely missing a note. I would have liked a male (maybe one of the finalists) to do the male parts of the song to give it the effect the album version does, but I'm not complaining. Also there was that one instance near the end of "Stay" when she tried to hold the note and fell a bit flat but oh well. "We Found Love" was a different story, she got a bit too excited and sounded a bit off and that yelling at the end (no Rihanna,no) but I loved the energy. Grade:B

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Live Report Card: Ke$ha's Performs "C'Mon" on USA X Factor

Ke$ha's 2nd full-length album, "Warrior" just dropped earlier this week and despite favourable reviews from fans and critics alike, it's set to debut with not-so-stellar sales. Instead of promoting her first single "Good Feeling" "Die Young", she performed the 2nd single "C'Mon" on the top 4 results show on The X Factor. So how did she mark?
She sounded a bit winded the entire time she was singing, almost as if she was in concert and she was halfway through it. I do commended her for relying on her own voice rather than letting the back track doing all the work. She looked more presentable than a few of her live performances, opting for a leather and stocking ensemble. And what was going on with the rolling around on the stage? Overall, I would give the performance a C-.