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Tournament: Create a Label 5 | Thank You Retro & Miles.
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Miles, if I pre-promote a single this week, can I use as promotion to help build hype & increase sales next week?
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“ON THE RADIO” MUSIC VIDEO
“Music is self-expressive,” Miley's voice comes in through. You can see Miley and Macklemore in the distance walking towards the sunset on a narrow road in the desert. The camera shows them up-close, showing the front of their bodies from a different angle. Macklemore holds a megaphone as Miley is holding a boom box, and they keep on walking down the road. “Music is love, music is art, music is anything and everything.” The shot then shows them sitting on a hood of the car on a canyon, overlooking the desert in a beautiful midnight scene. As they gaze into the stars, the narrative by Miley continues. “Music helps us through the highs and lows. It’s always there, it’s everywhere. Music is a movement, there’s no stopping it.” Then a scene of them driving in the car the next morning appears, as Macklemore drives on the desert road and Miley looks out the window. She cranks through the radio stations, leaves one and looks back out the window. “So you might as well turn it up, and enjoy.”
The music kicks in and Miley begins to lip-sync to the song as Macklemore continues to drive. Then a scene shows Miley in an underground tunnel, with several dancers as they do some basic choreography. She looks extremely hot on set, wearing tight and ripped clothing, with leather, denim and vintage plastered all over her body. She had excellent, discreet make up on that made her look totally fresh out the water. She turned the volume of the car radio down during the pre-chorus of the song as the choreography scene Miley winked at the camera and turned her back strutting away from the camera, with the rest of the dancers following. A desert construction building came up where Miley and many more dancers jumped as she lip-synced the chorus. They clapped their hands, pumped their fists to the beat, all looking amazing.
The second verse hit in, where Macklemore began lip-syncing his rap in the car effortlessly wearing black sunglasses. A new scene of Macklemore and Miley stood in front of an American flag backdrop, where Macklemore rapped his lines even more and Miley twerked. That scene was in black and white except for the American flag in the back and all the American attire the pair had. Macklemore glowed of radiance and confidence during the shots, but looking humble and fun as well, wearing a denim jacket over a white shirt and American-styled jeans. There was new scene where he was in a huge desert field alone with lots of boom boxes near him, as the angle was shot from afar.
Both then walked into a freeway with a huge army of music lovers and self-expressive people, as they headed for an exit towards Los Angeles. The chorus kept playing as everyone brought torches, pitchforks, stereos, Beats and more. As all of them cluttered the lit-up night streets the bridge kicked in. Miley from across a huge bridge had a cannon and loaded it with rainbow colored balls. She launched the cannons and many various colors of fireworks bursted into air. You were able to see the fireworks from the reflection of her sunglasses she wore. Macklemore handed her another match and she kept lighting up the place, as the scene of them driving in the desert came back so they could lip-sync some lyrics.
The final chorus hit and they all took over the streets of Los Angeles. Jumping around, performing amazing choreography together, and lighting the place up - everyone had extreme fun in front of the camera. A few scenes transitioned here and there. Everyone fell to the ground as the song came to a close. All the scenes then rewinded to the very beginning where Miley and Macklemore were walking on the road of the desert. The angle shot from very far behind, as they kept walking towards the horizon where the sun set. A small sigh came along, as Miley’s voice laughed a bit over the scenery. Her narrative took over for a final line: “I could stay like this forever. I love it."
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Ariana Grande on Watch What Happens Live
Ariana Grande appeared on the Bravo TV late show "Watch What Happens Live" on which she discussed some information about the album and joked around with the host.
About the Album:
It's not really this much different from my debut album but it does sound new and fresher although I am planning some matured up changes in the future. I worked on the album with Baby Face, Har;mony, The Rascals and a few other producers such as myself. It's a small project between us i'm really excited to working myself on the content, a lot more then in my debut album's production. It's coming a lot sooner than you guys think though.
About Ariana's new tour "The Love Potion Tour":
Well This one really is a big step up from my previous tour "The Listening Session", It's bigger, better and has a much bigger stage and effects. It looks like a real Pop girl concert. My manager told me just a few minutes ago that the first half of the american leg is already sold out! I'm really happy I'm coming to see you guys in just a few days!
About collaborations:
Well I worked with Big Sean on my first album on the song "Right There", i really liked i so i asked him to work with me again. He is featured on this amazing party song called "You Wanna Party". I'm also working with Nicki Minaj on a small something but it isn't exactly for the album.
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Ariana Grande reveals album title, Release date, tracklist and Cover
Ariana Grande surprised her fans this morning by posting on Instagram the album cover of her brand new album. The picture can be seen above and she added the hashtags: #ThroughTheNight #NextWeek #April6 #ArianaNight
Revealing this way the release date of the album to be called "Through The Night". She then posted on facebook the tracklist of The album. It contains a total of 12 tracks just as much as her debut album "Yours Truly".
Through The Night
Ariana Grande
Released on April 6th 2014
Pop/RNB
Ariana Grande - Executive Producer
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, The Rascals, Harmony Samuel, Greg Wells, Antonio Dixon, Jo Blaq, Mo-Keyz, Ariana Grande - Producers
The album talks about a story of a relationship, in which Ariana meets a guy who she falls for, and who then falls for her. They have some fun and their relationship grow but they realize that even though they love each other they aren't the "Ones" for each other. Both of them decide to break up but they still love each other and remain friends before parting ways.
1. Lovers (Get Ready)
Produced by Babyface & The Rascals
Written by Ariana Grande & Babyface
2. Fallin' To me
Produced by Babyface, The Rascals, Harmony Samuel
Written by Babyface & Harmony Samuel
3. You Wanna Party (Feat. Big Sean)
Produced by The Rascals, Greg Wells & Mo-Keyz
Written by Babyface, Antonio Dixon
4. Hands Up
Produced and Written by Ariana Grande & The Rascals
5. Through The Night
Produced by Babyface & Mo-Keyz
Written by Ariana Grande & Babyface
6. Midnight Kisses
Produced by The Rascals
Written by Ariana Grande
7. In Your Heart
Produced by Jo Blaq
Written by Jo Blaq & Harmony Samuel
8. End of The Fun
Produced by Ariana Grande & Harmony Samuel
Written by Harmony Samuel
9. Tiny Tears
Produced by Antonio Dixon
Written by Antonio Dixon
10. What We Could Have Been
Produced and Written by The Rascals & Babyface
11. I Still Love You
Produced by The Rascals
Written by Ariana Grande
12. Nothing Left To say
Produced by BabyFace
Written by Babyface & The Rascals
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Ariana Grande Opens for Nicki Minaj Night 2 - Pheonix
Ariana Grande opened for the second night Nicki Minaj's tour in Pheonix. For tonight's performance, Ariana wore a white dress covered with light pink flower patterns with light pink gloves and pink heels. She debuted her set with a performance of "Through The Night" a song featured on her new album to be released next week on April 6th. Then, one of the dancers brought her a mic holder and she started singing the acoustic version of "Tattooed Heart" and then she performed for the first time "Midnight Kisses" also on her next album. She then got up and performed "Right There" with a choreography similar to the one in the music video. "Honeymoon Avenue", "Daydreamin'" and "You'll Never Know" followed all three from her debut album and she ended her set with a performance of her current single "Fallin' To Me" during which she danced around and had an amazing time performing it.
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Miles, if I pre-promote a single this week, can I use as promotion to help build hype & increase sales next week?
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Sure
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Great. Thank you.
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wait so if i hype Ariana's album this week it will increase it's sales next week?
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wait so if i hype Ariana's album this week it will increase it's sales next week?
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Yes.
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wait so if i hype Ariana's album this week it will increase it's sales next week?
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Nnnnn.
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So you're saying that if i'm simply promoting Ariana, I'm copying you? If that's the case you're the thief here since i've been in the game and promoting longer then you did
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Lord Jesus nn Y'all have
fun hyping
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Originally posted by HausOfCarlos
So you're saying that if i'm simply promoting Ariana, I'm copying you? If that's the case you're the thief here since i've been in the game and promoting longer then you did
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Not for the fact that you're promoting, but you asked about hyping & pre-release promoting right after I asked it. You obviously got the idea from me. I was tempted to ask Miles via PM since I thought it was a good idea, but decided to take a chance. It's not the biggest deal, but you asked right after I did, obviously using my idea. But cute. I mean, you know this is true. If you think I thought you were copying simply for promoting at all, you're dumb, but I know you know better.
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MØ performs on Britain‘s Got Talent
MØ stopped by yet another place to promote her single Bikini Daze - this time, the Danish singer stopped by UK's hit talent show Britain's Got Talent. She appeared on the stage with her live band, which always comer with her to her shows and live gigs to play her songs live. The set was super simple, and everything went right as she danced and sang her song on the stage. It was a show that was full of energy, like any other MØ's show, and audience in the hall seemed to be hyped up by MØ's perfectly simple performance. For the performance, Karen chose to wear two piece outfit, which consisted of a crop top and a skirt that was meant for energetic performances, because as MØ danced and jumped on the stage, it didn't lift to her private parts, because that would be just embarassing. The outfit looked really good on her as it matched her pale face with it's green tropical pattern. Her hair was lifted into a super high ponytail, and the ponytail was braided as well. Overall, MØ looked really beautiful and cute with this outfit, that definately showed off her body, which she doesn't show that much.
MØ performs at Sony Radio Academy Awards
The annual Sony Music Radio Awards were held yesterday at Royal Albert Hall in London. Surprisingly, Sony Music, who were responsible for this event, managed to gather a lot of exciting artists in this place, and one of them was the Danish singer and songwriter Karen Ørsted, who is simply known for her stage name MØ. Also, MØ was nominated for one award as well - best UK radio single, and she won it! MØ seemed to be super surprised about this, depending on the face she pulled when she was walking to collect her first non-Danish award. On the stage, MØ thanked her label Indigo, as well as her friends, her fans, who have been supporting her, and Bikini Daze producer as well, for creating her music and her first hit single. Later during this event, MØ appeared once again on the stage with her live band mates to perform her current single Bikini Daze, which was named as best British radio single earlier during that event and which sold around 800,000 copies in US during these past two weeks. MØ once again showed a lot of energy during this performance, and the performance overall was impressive just because of the energy in it - MØ created a huge hype with her shout-y voice, and everyone in the hall stood up and started clapping for her. It was unusual, because throughout the whole event, everyone were sitting seriously and didn't clap or dance, until MØ came on the stage.
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March 30th, 2014 (Sunday)
Taylor Swift on Daybreak
Taylor Swift was live on the United Kingdom morning talk show Daybreak where she sat down for a pre-recorded interview and performance. After announcing the official second single after days of rumors saying that songs like 'Lose Me In The Dark' or 'Taylamour' were going to be the second single, Swift swiftly shut them down saying she chose 'Born Into Sin' for special reasons Following the promototional #1 'Loving The Wrong Way' and Swift's biggest solo single to date 'Swarovski' which snatched Swift a large amount of records this week, it seems like she has plans to replicate the success of the song with the new single 'Born Into Sin', which discusses the topic of gay marriage and religion. Swift sat down to talk with us about the song before she sat down in front of a grand piano to perform the song for us in a black dress. In the interview with Swift, she talked about the single, what it meant to her and more.
Taylor Swift on Kiss FM UK
Taylor Swift was live from Dallas Texas with one of the UK's biggest pop stations Kiss FM, where the American singer-songwriter had a lot to talk about. This including the singer breaking records this week as she managed to do the rare feat of being able to top the singles and albums charts at the same time. Swift also scored a few more records including the first artist to top the singles charts four weeks, or a month, in a row, aswell as breaking the record of a song spending the most weeks at number one. Swift talked about her success with us and even was nice enough to perform her brand new single 'Born Into Sin' for us acoustically.
Born Into Sin was a very odd choice for a single. What is the reason you chose it to be the second single?
I know the song is a little risky to release but it's to the point where I don't really care. It's a song that I wrote, it means a lot to me and people that are important to me, that's why I want to release it. I've had amazing commercial success but it's not really always about that, you know? I feel like if you're making music you and your fans are proud of that it is a success.
This is the song Brendon wanted to be released right? Did he have any influence on your decision?
The song relates to him really well and he did pester me a bit to release it but that's not really why I released it. I met a guy in LA last week at the meet and greet who told me this heartbreaking story about how he was so afraid to come out to his parents The reaction from his parents were really.... cruel. He told me how much he loved the song. I just felt like after I would release the song for him.
Speaking of success, we want to congratulate you on your #1 album? How's it feel?
Thank you. I'm feeling really good about the fact it did so well. I kind of expected it but I didn't really expect to come ontop both charts. It's amazing and I'm really glad that everyone is loving the music.
What's next for the record?
I'm definitely going to be promoting and releasing more singles from it. While touring.
Taylor on This Morning
Taylor Swift was on This Morning today in the United Kingdom. Swift has been booked to make a second appearance since last week and she was finally with us, live from Dallas where the singer is currently stopped on her Witching Hour Tour which has already become one of the most successful tours of the year, selling out over 87 dates out of the 134, all of them being stadiums as well. With two consecutive number ones and brand new number one album on her belt, she seems pretty much unstoppable. Taylor talked about her brand new single 'Born Into Sin', saying "The song is one of the most powerful songs I've ever written. I didn't write it or make it sound like most empowering songs do. It actually explains the tragic tale of a person who was afraid to be themselves. I don't want people to do the same. I want them to be comfortable with who they are. I never really got to express my feelings on this stuff until now. That's why I feel like it's important for me to release this single sooner than later." Swift then later performed the song for us on her guitar, serving amazing vocals, nailing the belts and falsetto the song called for.
Taylor Swift on Surprise Surprise
On Surprise Surprise tonight was none other than America's Sweetheart, Taylor Swift to debut her official second single from her newly sixth studio album, 'Coven 13' which debuted at #1 this week, becoming the singer's fifth number one consecutive album after following her last number one album 'All At Once'. Following the lead single featuring Paige Elliot who is dealing with a lot things like alcohol problems and legal problems (including her label going bankrupt 'Swarovski' the singer has made her mark. 'Born Into Sin' was an odd choice to perform on the show that mostly caters to young kids and teens. Because of this Swift received a bit of backlash for the performance that despite it's dark message, showcased Swift's vocals and stage presence. Commenting on the criticism, Swift shrugged and continued to take pictures with fans.
Taylor Swift on The Voice UK
Taylor Swift was the guest performer tonight on The Voice UK. Swift, the reigning female in the music industry at the moment, performed her brand new single 'Born Into Sin' which has caused much buzz for the singer, both positive and negative. The song expressing a tragic tale of a man who fails to come to terms with himself about being gay, Swift promotes gay marriage to many's praise and criticism. Well aware of that, Swift says it was her "goal" and that releasing a song that was more meaningful than generic was what she wanted for the song. Introduced to the stage, a light shined over Swift who sat at a Yamaha grand piano win beige dress as she played the song on her own. Her vocals were on par with the studio version and she even stopped during the bridge for a dramatic pause. At the end, she received a standing ovation from the judges, especially Kylie Minogue who went up on stage to hug the star.
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NICKI MINAJ SPOTTED WITH CL AT SEOUL FASHION WEEK
Nicki Minaj was chilling with CL from 2NE1 at Jeremy Scott's show as a part of Seoul Fashion Week last night. The femcee and K-Pop rapper have FINALLY met - and with a new Nicki album AND CL's first solo album on the way, we can only hope for a collaboration right?
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FAITH LEE @CL2NE1
Back in NYC now putting the finishing touches
on #FAITHLEE with my producer X-D
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Death at the mod's title change. Don't want to overwhelm the users of Disneytrl.
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