Happy Thanksgiving!

                                     Happy Thanksgiving (or Twerksgiving) to all of my readers!
While all of you guys are stuffing your faces with turkey, don't forget to enjoy some HAM as well, courtesy of Colette Carr.

SISTAR's Hyolyn Released Her Debut Solo LP "Love and Hate" With Two Title Tracks

It was inevitable that Hyolyn (or Hyorin) would release a solo project sooner or later. And I'm glad it was sooner. "Love & Hate, Vol. 1" sees Starship Entertainment pull out all the stops for Korea's Beyonce in terms of both production credits and aesthetic. And I'm guessing they want this cycle of promotions to last a while because they released two title tracks. The first title track, "Lonely" is a midtempo ballad that reminiscent of Brown Eyed Girls "Cleasing Cream" (and I mean that in a good way) and is a lot more heartfelt and genuine than most ballads that come out of the K-Pop realm this day. And the video! Whoever shot this deserves all the awards. It's literally perfect and captures the essence of the song.
The second title track, "One Way Love" is a bit more upbeat and utilizes more of Hyolyn's killer higher register. I'm kinda of disappointed though as I expected it to be edgier and be on the rock side, much like the teaser made it out to be, but I'm ok with the more straightforward approach. I mean, it is a Brave Brothers production.

Britney Spears "Pefume" Lyric Video

The lyric video for Britney Spears's "Perfume" promo second single has arrived. The single has be floundering on the charts, though it should be slaying because its Britney...Bitch. Well, there's always Vegas. To be honest they should have just used the background during the chorus for the entire song and saved RCA a lot of money than filming some girl wandering around a cheap motel picking up even cheaper bottles of bargain brand perfume. "Britney Jean" is set to drop December 3rd, but it will probably leak before then.

Richard Osborne "Wherever I Fall" (feat. Torch of Triple Cs)

Someone's horny! UK R&B artist Richard Osborne already released a strong EP earlier this year with "Late Night Thoughts" and is already working towards releasing his third. To be honest, I'm ready for a full-length project but I guess you can't rush perfection. His latest output is ditty called "Wherever I Fall" and features Maybach Music Group's Torch. I assumed the title was about getting back up again after failure, but nope! It's about making wherever you fall a bed...so you can do the nasty!!! The production is a more straight-forward affair, with Osborne reaching for falsetto in the middle part of the song (and pulling off quite nicely). Vocals are consistent, but maybe Torch's part could have been done without, as it really doesn't add much to it as a whole. Side note: you know you're about to hit it big when you have a Parental Advisory sticker on your single cover. I'm just saying.

VIXX Releases a Darker Version of SHINee's "Dream Girl" With "Voodoo Doll"

VIXX has been doing the damn thing all year with their concepts, but this has to be their darkest and most disturbing yet. The K-Pop boyband will release their first full-length LP on the 25th of this month after a string of successful singles, EPs and repacks (which includes the glorious "G.R.8.U"). The title track, "Voodoo Doll" is the dark electropop banger that I've always wanted them to do, but instead we got "Hyde", a song I didn't particularly enjoy. It reminds me of SHINee's "Dream Girl" but shrouded in a dark throbbing shroud of mystery and Miley Cyrus's failed coming-of-age single "Can't Be Tamed." The music video is NSFW (in my opinion) and if you are squirmish, I don't recommend watching this at all. A lot of people are desensitized to these things now (I blame "American Horror Story" tbh), but I cringed through about 85% of the video as the boys we're poked, prodded and stabbed within an inch of their lives. I mean I'm all for artistic expression through any means necessary, but...yeah. Enjoy the M/V.

Lily Allen "Hard Out Here"

Lily Allen. Oh Lily Rose Cooper, how I missed you so! First she teases us by releasing her John Lewis advert song, a cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" then she drops the second best song of her career ("Who'd Have Known" stiil reigns surpeme in my book) "Hard Out Here" or as I like to call it: The "Blurred Lines" Antithesis.
It's the Lily Allen we know in love: cynical, critical, honest, conversation starting and still catchy as fuck. She's one of the few artists who are putting Miley's new contrived image on blast and highlighting Robin Thicke's rapey "Blurred Lines" song (no matter how catchy the tune is, rape is still rape).
1.The large amount of Auto-Tune in the chorus
2.The objectification of women in the music industry (and as a whole)
3.Double Standards
Lily Allen leaves no stoned unturned!
Of course there are people who miss the entire message of the song and video and jump to silly and untrue conclusions, like how she's using the black women in the video to propel herself as some type of white saviour or how she's perpetuating all the messages she's against in the song with the video.

Lily can't help the way that she looks: she was born a Caucasian woman. Also, I don't think she had any stereotype in her mind when the concept of the video was brought up, like what another pop singer did earlier this year with her comeback single. The fact that Lily has to make a song like this is sad because we haven't moved past women being looked as pieces of meat rather than talented strong, intelligent equals. She wasn't lying when she said it was hard out here for a bitch...

A Snippet of Pixie Lott's Next Single Has Surfaced...

British singer Pixie Lott is coming...and she wants you to be N-A-S-T-Y. Her last LP, "Young Foolish Happy" as a whole was considered a flop after peaking at #18 on the charts, though it spawned three top ten singles ("What Do You Take Me For, Kiss The Stars, and All About Tonight). Now a 16 second snippet of Pixie filming the music video for her single, "Nasty" has surfaced and I'm loving every minute  second of it. Apparently the original was recorded by Christina Aguilera and Cee-Lo Green for the "Burlesque" soundtrack, but clearance issues got in the way. Oh well. I feel like this is more Pixie's style any way. Christina's version does nothing for me, while Pixie's short clip has me fiending for the full song as soon as yesterday. Let this leak soon before I have to download the Xtina version...