Thursday 12 March 2015

[Music Video] Bjork - "Lionsong"



Bjork isn't real, right? Like, I know she's real - I'm not nuts! But she's not human, is she?

The visuals for her latest track, Lionsong, does nothing but continue to build on my mythos that this Diva is an Icelandic sprite of some sort, woken from a slumber to spread her magical music to the creatively starved masses.

[Discuss] Mariah Carey Returns To Sony, But How Can They Resuscitate her Stalled Career?



Mariah Carey has had a trying few years on the music front. Ever since the triumphant comeback of 2005's the The Emancipation Of Mimi, the Diva has suffered from dwindling sales and diminishing relevancy with the wider public.

Wednesday 11 March 2015

[Music Video] Ciara - "I Bet"



Some of you have already seen (and shaded) Ciara's take on ballerina badass in the visuals for new single, I Bet. Produced by Harmony Samuels, this screw-you boo anthem finds the Diva on a tamer tip.

Now, I do usually like subdued Ciara (Promise is a fav), but this track is all kinds of yawn. A frustrating fact since I want Cici to succeed. However I don't think I Bet is going to be the track that brings the Diva into the eyeline of anyone bar the folks already checking for her. (I hope I'm wrong!)

Monday 9 March 2015

[Duelling Divas] Which Diva Sang "Resentment" Best?


I sorta feel like I've written about Resentment somewhere before. How else would it be that I was vaguely aware that it had been recorded by three Divas- Beyonce, Jazmine Sullivan and Victoria Beckham- before today?

[Music Video] Grimes - "REALiTi" (Also: Why Some of Her Fans Suck!!!)



Alt-Diva Grimes faced a Mogo-sized backlash from fans when last track, Go, aired on YouTube in 2014.

Even though the track was initially created for Rihanna, the knowledge of this didn't help salve the butt-hurt fans who felt betrayed by the drastic change in style. (Seriously, I have never seen a fandom go off on an artist like that.) This wasn't something that went unnoticed by the Diva, who, instead of sticking a middle finger up at the crybabies and affirming her own artistry, encouraged their bull**** sympathised with them by saying: "It upsets a lot of my fans, and I get why it upsets them...Everybody was like, ‘Oh, Grimes is pandering to the radio."

Sunday 8 March 2015

[ New Music ] M.I.A. - "Can See Can Do"


I have missed you, Ms. M.I.A. No one quite sells out of tune singing to me like your good self!

And if your twitter is anything to go by, the surprise release of Can See Can Do is a supposed to hold a body over until summer- when you've hinted new material is coming. However, it's only made me thirstier for the follow-up to 2013's Matangi, darn it!

Guess I'll go play in your back catalogue for a while. Maybe that'll quench my thirst.

Thursday 5 March 2015

[Music Video] Tinashe - "Bated Breath"



I had the pleasure of seeing up-and-coming Diva, Tinashe live in London on Monday. In truth I wasn't expecting much, having seen a few of her live performances on the Tube which is You. However in person, this woman not only sounds better, but exudes a stage presence that doesn't, unfortunately for her, imprint on to digital celluloid very well.

Wednesday 4 March 2015

[Music Video] Marina And The Diamonds - "Forget"



Look who has a new music video : Marina And The Diamonds!

Though her third LP FROOT only has the title track listed as an official single on its Wiki page, Forget marks the fifth video to be created from the as yet unreleased album. Melodically, parts of it remind me of another ditty by the Diva, but for the life of me I can't put my finger on which one that  is!

But whatever, it's not important. You guys just check out the stripped back visuals to Forget.

Friday 27 February 2015

[Free For All Friday]



Boy oh boy, do I need a drink.....

Thursday 26 February 2015

[Watch] All 2015 Brit Award Performances



Rather than review (and watch) each 2015 Brit Award performance, I'm going to post them all here for your immediate consumption. I did consider waiting till I had the time to watch them, but I think by the time I do that, the effort wouldn't have been worth the delay!

And since the organisers have done the greatest thing ever by uploading each performance to their YouTube page, I'm embedding ALL of them- not just those by our Divas. Seriously, you don't understand how much easier it makes a blogger's life when you don't have to search for bootleg uploads to embed.