Beat For the Holidays #4

I forgot to put the pictures on the video but here are some pictures of the final look.

FULL THROTTLE SHADE!!!!

Allright so it's time to throw some shade like rocket boosters towards the stars that are famous why? Exactly.

Nicki Minaj: Selling a bit over 370,000 copies of her first album is good for a female rap artist, but wait did she or did she not pretty much beef up and say that her mixtape sold well over a million copies? So if that's the case, why is your album looking dead compared to Kanye West's new album?
Your people may want to stop trying to beef you up and actually get you back in the studio with you ghost writers. Yeah you heard me. Paying critics to give an F album between 3-5 stars to sell a sellouts album. Plus can we get some people to write their own songs/lyrics please? Thankyou.

Katy Perry: Sitcho ass down. This singer has some great tunes but she is as about as relevant as my right foot. Keeping herself in the public eye for her 'fashion' and marrying a caveman on top of that. She tries to hard to be a A list star but her light is kind of dim if you know what I mean.

Ke$ha: Showers are to be taken everyday. Little advice. Now I like Ke$ha but if she could put the crackpipe down she may just stop to see that her albums Animal and Cannibal are pulling her out of Slowpokes Trailer Park and into mansions. Not to mention scoring a sweet ride on Rihanna's coat tails during her tour.

Rihanna: Thankyou for trading out that Wendy's girl hair for a much more subtle burgundy but is the grabbing of Nicki's 20,000 injected CC's of ass necessary? That's all cute and what-not but c'mon son if you're gonna be lezzy about it just do it. Then maybe Nicki can stop procrastinating about being bi like she implied in her songs... you too Rihanna (remember a little song and video called Te Amo?) yeah.

Mariah Carey and Beyonce: It's about time you two sat down. These two divas were close to hitting the spinster route when it was rumored that they were both pregnant. Beyonce of course confirmed hers, while Mariah sat back in the balcony waiting to announce it (not that we hadn't seen pics of you and the hubby walking out of a fertility clinic... yeah.) So with the news of Beyonce hit Mariah decided to blurt it out (after all that bullsh*t about being private and announcing it when they were ready. Ugh. Now Mariah is expecting twins and Beyonce is... somewhere doing something (FYI this isn't Beyonce's first baby mmhm). I wish them luck because the diva-tudes need to kick bricks once the baby's come popping out. Another question, are stars even having sex?!

Amber Rose: Now 2010 must have been the year of the jump offs and Amber must be the Queen of them. Being Kanye West's sex toy has paid off with a modeling contract (now null and void) from Ford Models, a sunglasses franchise and a reality show on VH1 Behind her Shades, which I'm sure will be cute but I'm not really interested in a hoe turned business woman that's just not a good message to young girls.

Keri Hilson: The little girl from Decatur, GA (where no one gives a damn about her lol) is trying her hardest to claw at fame but this good girl turned Ho-esha is slipping down the pole of relevancy. Her new album No Boys Allowed debuts tomorrow. Girl you better hope it sells lol.

Finally Ciara: Girl if there was a competition for doing that matrix shizz you would take home the Gold because your album sure isn't. BURN! Cici was a breath of fresh air in the hip hop era of snap music with her smooth voice and dance moves many compared her to Aaliyah... big mistake. But Ciara's album sales declined as her whole persona went from zero to hoe in 15 seconds. Her LP Basic Instinct sold 37,000 copies so it shows that the population of a small town likes Ciara more than the rest of us.
Shade fully thrown.

So with 2010 promptly ending what are your hopes for these stars. I see some success in this cluster f*ckery but tell me your thoughts.

Guy of the Month: Mikealis

This guy is just from another planet doing things that most guys wish they could do. When I first found Mikealis it was through a group named Frontside and Paid$cum on Myspace. Listened to their music and was instantly in love with these guys. Then Mikealis ventured out as a solo artist making his own set of Mixtapes and even a Music Video.




He even has friends and fans in Atlanta that tag Paid$cum where ever they can and they even take pics of Mercedes-Benz G-Class G500 SUV AWD's for him when they can spot one. (LOL like me in a Kroger Parking Lot at 7pm) From RVA to ATL to NYC to LA and beyond, this guy is making his mark on the world and I'm certain nothing is going to stop him in the city that goes by 'It's not what you know, it's who you know.' keep it up babes.

Here are a few Links:
Follow Mikealis on Twitter
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Mikealis the Mixtape
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Lady Gaga Get The Look

This is the look used on Lady Gaga for her second Viva Glam Promo I absolutely love this look and it had just caught my eye.

Here is the Face Chart

Here is the Look on the Mother Monster

I honestly think it looks gorgeous on her and who better to pull it off?
This is a great look and also very semi-dramatic for the holidays I totally LOVE IT!!!
Try this look out and see how you like it, careful though one wrong move and you might look like you have a black eye.
 

Lady Gaga Still Dead.... from Twitter Anyway

Wearing all black as if in mourning, Lady Gaga was spotted in Milan shopping at Chanel, and apparently still dead on Twitter. Well, she doesn't have to be on twitter anyway because she never updates her twitter but for months at a time I mean would we even really notice?

I love Gaga as much as the next queen, but even I'm annoyed by this Dead on Twitter thing. Yes I know you're saying, Excelle it's for a good cause, but I say can't they throw some money in too? Millionaires with no money woes telling you to donate money or they won't come back to twitter instead of just putting on a charity concert or another telethon like they did for Haiti. I don't know I'm on the fence about it all.

 

Now hopefully being dead on twitter doesn't mean that it will postpone her third studio album born this way. Then yes I would die.

Movies and More! The Last AirBender Ass-tacular FailBending!

 

2010 was supposed to be an epic summer of movie premiers and also ringing in the inevitable end of other film franchises. But somehow in the years before, an Indian-American movie director watched a show called Avatar the Last Air Bender and decided to make a film out of all three books. Ugh.

 ***SPOILER***

-The movie opens with Katara and Sokka (SOh-kah) treading the ice looking for food when they come across a glow in the ice below, the ice splits and Aang (ONG) appears.

-Katara talks to Aang and at first he is pretty happy not yet  knowing what became of his people.

-Zuko invades the small village mixed with 3 white people and eskimos and Iroh (Eeh-roh) takes him aboard the ship for a test.

-Aang escapes and they head to the Southern Air Temple where Aang discovers the plight of his people.

-They visit Earth Kingdom towns captured by the Fire Nation and free the people, even coming to a prison where a little boy was hurling rocks at the soldiers.

-Aang talks about how he ran during a ceremony where he was supposed to bow, acknowledging the fact that he is the Avatar ( Ah-vah-tar)

-Aang meets the blue spirit

-Admiral Zhao is a douchebag

-They make it to the North Pole

-Princess Yue sacrifices herself the moon spirit

-Zhao is killed by the waterbenders

-Aang masters waterbending and shows everyone the power of water without hurting anyone.

-He bows to the Water and Fire Benders

-The Fire Lord is shown and Azula is revealed.

Now we have to play the What's Missing from this Movie game. Obviously the Kiyoshi Warriors were missing. M. Night stated that they had put alot of work into the Kiyoshi women but he thought they weren't a big part of the story.... uhm is he serious?! This was a perfect chance to introduce Suki (just a side bar Yue- means moon in Chinese, Tsuki- means moon in Japanese coincidence?), who basically plays an important role in Sokka's life as his new love interest.
She also plays a role in Book 2 in finding Appa, and being captured by Azula , which led into her role in Book 3 when she was a prisoner in the Boiling Rock. So wtf is he talking about?!
Haru was missing, Jet and the freedom fighters were missing(they had an important role in Book 2), King Bumi (Aang's childhood friends) was missing even the Scientist whose people inhabited an Air Temple and so was Avatar Roku.... WTF?!
So how are they going to find out about the comet? When the fuck do we see Suki? Will the following characters be seen in Book 2 (Bosco, the Earth King, Mei, Tai Li, The Drill, The Dai Li, Long Feng, Toph(she better be there) and the lost story of Appa.

***FINAL***

This movie was a flop and could have been easily been two hours, enough time to introduce the characters and their roles in the story. I was horrified by this movie from beginning to end. The acting was bad the cast was white washed and it just disappointed alot of kids. There was no laughing moments but there was a funny moment that made me and my bf laugh:



Exactly!
M. Night made this movie his own image and like always did not care what the fans thought. He simply did not deliver. Plus this guy has got to be the most arrogant pretentious jack ass we've ever encountered (he tops Kanye West), and I'm quite sure he lied about watching the show with his kids.  But this movie gets an D. Maybe in the DVD they had some deleted scenes, either way they're doing some serious ass bending.

American Idol.... Do We Even Care?

Okay, I am fully aware that this season of American Idol is being pumped up and overhyped. Joining the only original judge, Randy Jackson, will be industry success Steven Tyler and industry water log Jennifer Lopez. Without the zany antics of Simon and Paula this might be a snore..... wait Jennifer Lopez is on a singing competition show? I bet if she was trying out for the show she wouldn't make it past the audition! Maybe she'll get around to taking Paula's job on her new dancing show. But there will be no special guests at all this season, I guess they have to make it not seem like the past 9 seasons lol. Of course Georgia (not Atlanta) native and industry douche Ryan Seacrest will be hosting so no changes in that.

Is American Idol heading for a shark jump? Or are they just beating a dead horse with a sledgehammer? But it all pretty much goes full circle on the show you have your top 25 they do this boys vs. girls thing and there is always a theme and it takes Ryan 30 minutes to announce it ugh. It's getting kind of old really. Also, Idol has been churning out some hit and misses as far as the show is concerned.

Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkston, Carrie Underwood, Fantasia Barrino and Adam Lambert seem to be the only winners of the show. You barely hear about anyone else. The males have been the ones truly losing from Idol with Rueben being the first... so is there an Idol curse? If you are a runner up do you get more shine than the season winners?

I mean look at Adam Lambert the queen who hid his sexuality on the show (or tried to...) and how he had a music video, album and his own performance on an awards show... so where was Kris Allen?
When Rueben Studdard came through with the win, Clay Aiken was the center of attention. Even Taylor Hicks had a stint singing in a CM for Ford, but it was Daughtry who scored big with his band and a smash CD.

So what do you think? Should the show hit the bricks or continue on until Seacrest loses his teeth?

Pink Friday Album/My Time Now Doc = FAIL

Sorry Barbies, but this album get's a D-.
Now I am not a Nicki fan but I am a fan of music and it wasn't the fact that she is a female that threw me off I mean, more power to her. The thing about this album was the fact that it leaked early giving people the chance to determine whether or not to continue on with the pre order. Reading the reviews on iTunes and from my own personal listening session, the album fell flat. The songs were repetitive and seemed to just be a continuation of the last song. Her style was the same throughout, if it wasn't the crazy voices it was the overly narcissistic raps, the over use of punchlines(much like Drake and Lil' Wayne. FYI this style was started in 2001-2005 and is a driving force to sound clever on an album), the fact that the rapping was barely on this rap album, the ABC basic rap form she was using and the fact that this album was over hyped.

I found it funny how you can rap and 'destroy' on other artists work, yet when it came to her own the rapping was weak. This album felt more like a mixtape more than anything else. The songs seemed randomly put together and did not compliment each other. I liked Dear Old Nicki and some said Did It On' Em was good but the tracks have nothing memorable to them. The music in itself was basic and corny. Like did someone get these beats off of soundclick.com? I don't know what the budget was on this album but they could have at least put more money into some epic tracks.

With the My Time Now documentary on MTV, that was the worse plug for an album ever. Almost as if she knew her album would sorely need a boost. The televised journey that takes place after her lip singing to backtracks on BET and during the 2010 VMA's where her performance still fell flat. Cameras followed her through her short journey even her coming home to Trinidad and buying her family tens of thousands of dollars worth of stuff. It also included interviews with her. Oh and let's not forget her off the back random and some would say tasteless plug of her album's debut before the announcement that Rihanna won her award on the AMA's. Shameless much?


Surpassing gold status by 171,000 a 1 hour spot on MTV, and with what seems to be dishonest reviews on music review magazines (look at the reviews compared to album sales and actual customer reviews) this album isn't much to be remember but the only thing we will remember is that this Lil' Kim carbon copy clone with a personality disorder, was here.

The Year 2010 We Hardly Knew Ya!

2010 was a year of wtf? and fun times as well. But I have to wonder in these microwave times, what does 2011 have to hold? Is it the beginning of our inevitable doom? Or, will it be a time for enlightenment? Will people carry on like it's another day? Or will there be fanatics preparing for the worst?

In music 2010 is ending with a bang! Justin Beiber is proving to be a formidable opponent for any other teen idol who is even thinking of coming into the lime light.
While rappers like Kanye is raking in big numbers with his newest album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy pushing 500,000 units sold. Even after the Taylor Swift fiasco the year prior, Kanye wasn't seen for a good while on TV, but after the announcement of a new album and a memorable closing performance at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards he has officially pulled through.

Lady Gaga led this year in award wins and she is set to take home more at the 2011 Grammy Awards with 'The Fame Monster'. Also, 2011 will be a big year for the Mother Monster as her 3rd album Born This Way will make it's debut. I'm hoping she and Kanye finally do a concert together.

But 2010 did have pretty bad and unlady like times. Nicki Minaj who in one week sold a little over 371,000 units with her album Pink Friday, had a huge year being a feature girl on other artist's singles and winning the hearts of girls and some women alike. But with this came 'the hate'. Nicki has awoken the wrath of many other female rappers mainstream and underground alike, but none like the wrath Lil' Kim has unleashed on the Bronx-Trini native with her single 'Black Friday' sparking a heated debate on whether or not 21st century followers should remember a sleeping rap Queen or sing the praises of a basic rapper.

In 2011 will we see a rise in Female rappers capable of contending with (Who Billboard Mag dubbed Queen of Hip Hop) #BOISTOP!!! or will we have to suffer through another year of wack raps?

But other than that we have lost some stars this year with the most recent being Leslie Nielsen.
-Alexander McQueen
-Jill Clayburgh
-Gary Coleman
-Shannon Taverez
-Teddy Pendergrass
-Greg Giraldo
-James MacArthur
-Tom Bosley
-Corey Haim
-Rue McClanahan
-Dennis Hopper
-Lena Horne
-Gang Starr's Guru
-John Forsythe
-Zelda Rubinstein
.... there are more, unfortunately.

Hopefully 2011 will offer us some firsts, and hopefully we won't be led into a cultural wasteland. Will the shows on TV get better? Will Music Get Better? Will the Economy Recover? Let's see how it goes.