That must be released to hear
Missy Elliott has once again made an EP. “Iconology” is called, and the rapper and singer is calling in these five Tracks in memory, the pivotal pop cultural figure, she still is. She does “Throw It Back” also quickly clear who she is: “What you doin’ now, I did for a while,” says Missy Elliott, to the address of the younger musicians. And it has also enough self-references, which are reminiscent of their revolutionary productions and Hits “Get Ur Freak On,” “Work It” or “Sock It 2 Me” and thus at a time when you have seen music videos on MTV and then in the CD-Load of confidence, a pilgrimage is.
Exactly those channel Missy Elliott – “the innovator of all innovators”, as it is called at the beginning of the clip to “Throw It Back” – now honored. In the night on today, Tuesday, she was awarded the “Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award,” of the Culture, even in times of Cancel still means that. They celebrated with a fantastic seven-minute Show and a speech, in which Missy has first of all to God, and finally many others to thank (among them Cardi B, who held the laudation, or Janet Jackson).
The Award is a lifetime prize for one who knows no Yesterday, and after your Team-Single “pace,” with Lizzo (which would have been without Missy Elliott, of course, never possible) the desire for new publications. Welcome back!
talked About
How does America sound like? Currently, especially after Taylor Swift, clear, but even after Barack Obama’s summer Playlist. The former U.S. President has released, and in addition to Lizzo, and classics of the “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X, those Single, which has levered in this year, all the rules of Pop. This is not surprising, of course, almost too tasteful, the list is compiled. But is a smooth Overview of how the United States self-blades, in times of Trump.
The Swiss window
The glaciers are melting, and the Band in One Sentence. Supervisor makes the drone over the ice fly, the turn not only in the Video to the Barrens. The Baden play a Song that remains nowhere to plug in, but the horizon on the catastrophic situation of the planet is expanding. A Thing Of Beauty.
What is bloom
The new Album of Lana Del Rey. This is called “Norman Fucking Rockwell” and appears on Friday. And all of the released Songs, the sound is very wordy and also quite classic, suggest a potential “Album of the year”. The Greatest? Could be Lana Del Rey.
The piece
when you have dug the last in a record box? Now, the New York anti-Folker Jeffrey Lewis makes this again and again, and he made the rather, as the Vinyl was not yet become a means of status symbol. In his new Song “LPs” sings of this “disease”, not nostalgic, but rapidly.
The soundtrack
This week we start very gently with an old work of the composer Joanna in addition to designing, which was just released again. But it is then quickly harsh, with Kim Gordon and Zonal. Pure Pop, there’s also, of course.
Created: 27.08.2019, 10:59 PM
