Lady Gaga got us to the other side of life, even before ‘Chromatica’ - Stephenville Empire-Tribune
Lady Gaga got us to the other side of life, even before ‘Chromatica’ - Stephenville Empire-Tribune |
- Lady Gaga got us to the other side of life, even before ‘Chromatica’ - Stephenville Empire-Tribune
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| Lady Gaga got us to the other side of life, even before ‘Chromatica’ - Stephenville Empire-Tribune Posted: 29 May 2020 09:48 AM PDT We screamed "rah rah" and "ooh la la" from the bottom of our chests at, of all places, a Christian fraternity party. This is the power of Lady Gaga, whose new album, "Chromatica," came out May 29. Her songs, like "Bad Romance," reliably provide a portal from one side of your life to another. For a lot of people like me in 2009, that meant a safety valve of queerness. I could huddle around other sweaty college guys, flick my wrists, coil my fingers into a claw and sing "I'm a free bitch, baby" to a Top 40 hit on Friday night. I could meet those same fraternity brothers for prayer group and clove cigarettes after church on Sunday night. (My friend Daniel actually remembers listening to "Bad Romance" on the way to get the smokes.) I recently got a little emotional realizing how Gaga's music has punctuated so many parts of my life. Not trying to engage in hero worship; it's just that portal thing again. We want to move forward — I hope we do — and few things can turn us inward like a song. At the least, our favorite tunes are a passive soundtrack to the big moments, perhaps influencing us in subtle ways. Some people have Madonna, some people have Beyonce. But my pop star prism is 5-foot-2 and once wore a charcuterie board to an awards show. » FROM THE VAULT: She said/he said: Lady Gaga, pop's superhero, saves Austin's day "Just Dance," Gaga's debut 2008 single, came on the radio on a cold, rainy day the first time I heard it, while I was driving down North Lamar Boulevard in college. With my roommate Warren, I soon became hooked on this new singer and her stunts. Might be easy to forget in these hallucinatory times, but everything Gaga did back then was such an event, and the theater came at just the right time for young things plotting their futures in a recession. Warren and I inhaled new Gaga videos, watching the visuals for "Paparazzi" and "LoveGame" in our very first apartment. Just two boys who'd known each other since kindergarten, fixated on the meaning of the words "disco stick." The "LoveGame" video bent gender a little, in an admittedly titillating way. I watched, fascinated, in the same apartment that hosted my countless late-night pleas to God for thoughts of men to stop entering my head. Science will never explain why we all liked "Bad Romance" so much in 2009. People were looking for accessible entry points into weirdness, I guess. Gaga's "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" ended up at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, on Billboard's year-end chart, bested only by the Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow." Say what you will about the ubiquity of the Peas, but my friend, you cannot deny the inherent strangeness of a group that coaxed moms across America to sing the words "lovely lady lumps" at wedding receptions for a decade to come. frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen> Even Beyonce was grabbing the steering wheel to veer left in those days; see the infinity-looped beat of "Single Ladies" and the cybernetic austerity of its music video. On the other hand, Taylor Swift and Jason Mraz also had two of the top songs in 2009. A place for everything, and everything in its place. But "Bad Romance" was bigger, a macabre and euphoric thing. Those previous Gaga creations only winked at the oddity of the woman who once wore a dress made from the pelts of a small family of Kermit dolls. "Bad Romance" didn't even let you catch your breath from the "rah rah" and "ooh la la," gleefully spinning your head around with an inexplicable line of French and droning, Germanic verses. And that video has not gotten less alarming with age, thank goodness. » FROM THE VAULT: Lady Gaga talks individuality, passion and vomit at SXSW keynote When the video for "Alejandro" came out, my coworkers and I left work at Amy's Ice Creams soon as all the Mexican vanilla was counted to rush to my friend Brock's house to watch the music video at midnight. The Tom of Finland-meets-"Cabaret"-meets-"Like a Prayer" visuals surely were wasted on us at the time. And then "Born This Way" came out right as I was moving to Virginia. A friend helped me make the drive to Lynchburg, the city Jerry Falwell put on the map and where I'd taken my first journalism job. I downloaded the album on my phone slowly as I caught a phone signal driving down quiet highways. I don't pretend to recall what I thought of the title track's telling me that God would love me even if I was gay. I do know that those long, lonely Lynchburg days led me to stop running away from feelings I'd had since middle school, or at least slow my run down enough to catch my breath. I moved back to Austin; I came out. One of my first memories at a gay bar is seeing the lyric video for Gaga's "Aura" come on at Rain. (That one's a collab with Austin's own Robert Rodriguez, not for nothin'.) Life moving forward with, of all things, Lady Gaga songs as signposts. In 2020, we could use a little shimmer on days that feel like weeks. We're not supposed to go dancing, so we make do at home. Listen to the second "Chromatica" single "Rain on Me," which came out a week before the full album (with a video directed by Rodriguez, too). frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen> "I'd rather be dry, but at least I'm alive," Gaga sings over a gay bar house beat. The rain's a metaphor, of course, for tears or times of hardship. "Water like misery / It's coming down on me," as the lady says. "Rain on Me" feels like having a breakthrough with your therapist in the middle of a laser tag arena. It's definitely coming down on us right now. We're scared and sick and all points in between. Pop music can be a tonic, if only for the run time of a studio album, on our way to the other side.  |
| Terrell Hines Releases New Song/Visual “Promise” – Mixtape Coming August 7 - RESPECT. Posted: 29 May 2020 11:32 AM PDT   Image Credit: Photo Courtesy Of Artist Today Terrell Hines releases the song and video for "Promise." He will release 3 additional subsequent tracks in the next weeks, leading up to the August 7 Mixtape release Portal One. There will be a visual component for all tracks included on the mixtape. While in quarantine he's shooting his own videos via a green screen and ingenuity. Terrell Hines releases his debut mixtape on Capitol Records August 7. He's incredible, an artist's artist featured on the title track of Beck's latest "Hyperspace" and a songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer with influences as broad as Outkast, Joy Division, Four Tet, Migos, Kendrick and more. The Berklee College of Music gave Hines a full ride, and people's first exposure to his music was chosen to be used in the 2019 Apple keynote. Without releasing an album or touring in the U.S. yet, he's amassed more than 2 million streams. The concept that drives his music — an even split of postmodern and post-apocalyptic — is how he funnels all his obsessions into what he does best. He's a renaissance man who can be found devouring books on linguistics, synesthesia, or evolutionary psychology in his downtime. Or considering which metals one would want to gather following a catastrophe, then actually sampling those metals in the studio. "I'm trying to engineer the future," says Hines.  Image Credit: Cover Art  Image Credit: Cover Art  Image Credit: Cover Art Terrell Hines' music contains multitudes, and not just in the obvious way that it blurs all manner of genres into one big urgent, beautiful, hyper-dynamic ball of energy. Yes, the core of his sound is a living mix of eerie soul, alt-pop, hip-hop, post-punk, and southern funk, but Hines is a world-builder with a voracious mind. This Georgia-born, Los Angeles-based visionary has created an entire ecosystem for his songs, where sonic structures and lyrics are just as likely to be inspired by the socio-political as they are the personal, by functional architecture as abstract art, by the austere science of survivalism as the limitless potential of technology. The best part is, you don't have to know all that to feel the holistic magic of Hines' work. We hear immediacy, exuberance, freedom, and ingenuity — music as surprising as it is captivating — while he sees a burning question: "If shit popped off and society had to be rebuilt," asks Hines, "how would I do it?" Suggested Articles:
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| Pink Floyd Streaming Rare Songs for First Time - Loudwire Posted: 22 May 2020 07:52 AM PDT  Who's ready to make "Floyd Friday" a thing? Thanks to Pink Floyd's new playlist, longtime fans of the classic band will be highly anticipating the end of each week. Pink Floyd have just launched their "Syd, Roger, Richard, Nick and David - An Evolving Pink Floyd Playlist" online. The idea behind the playlist was to help fans rediscover the band and immerse themselves in digging into their history by bringing forth rare and unavailable versions of songs to check out. The playlist's first addition is the currently unavailable version of "Us & Them" that was recorded live at the Empire Pool at Wembley in London back in 1974. It was previously part of the 2011 Immersion box set of Dark Side of the Moon. There will be specially curated album tracks added daily and appearing at the top of the playlist, but each Friday has been reserved for the rarities that were initially available on the Immersion box sets. The next four Fridays will features an alternate version of "Have a Cigar" from the Wish You Were Here Immersion set on May 29, a live at Wembley version of "Any Colour You Like" recorded in 1974 from the Dark Side of the Moon Immersion set arriving on June 5, a "Run Like Hell" band demo from The Wall WIP Pt. 2 off The Wall Immersion set on June 12 and an early 1972 mix of "Money" from The Dark Side of the Moon Immersion set on June 19. Additional unavailable tracks will be scheduled and announced soon. The "Syd, Roger, Richard, Nick and David - An Evolving Pink Floyd Playlist" will be updated daily via Spotify and YouTube and you can select the platform of your choosing here. In addition, the currently unavailable tracks will be released for download and streaming purposes via Amazon, Apple Music and other digital retailers each Friday. Top 70 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the '70s  |
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