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Sources: U.S. News & World Report (2); USA Today (2); Billboard (2); Pew Internet and American Life Project...
...Pain: “Buy You a Drank”—May have the most unusual chord progression ever to hit the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Also has beautiful, Brian-Wilson-Pet-Sounds- style background vocals. (T Pain and Akon have brought a spiritual sound to pop music these past couple of years. Interesting that they’re both Muslims...
...through? Where are the lakes, the coasts, the mountains and gorges that we identify with specific places? Does he omit these looming elements of the landscape purposefully, in order to prove his point? In any case, Brouws certainly does not limit himself to the criticism of urban geography. A billboard advertising “Leave No Child Behind” comprises part of a “discarded landscape.” Photographer and social critic, Brouws ambitiously raises questions far beyond the scope of a generic tea-table photo book, leaving them upended and unanswered, as is the privilege...
...down if you don’t let them. But what would an Alicia Keys album be without the topic of still-true love? In the album’s first single, “No One,” which has already claimed the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, Keys sings, “You and me together / Through the days and nights / I don’t worry ‘cause everything’s gonna be alright / …No one, no one, no one can get in the way of what...
...Quiet Riot, was a key force in popularizing the genre. His frequent diatribes against other musicians--and his own record company--could grate. But his gravelly vocals on songs like Cum on Feel the Noize helped propel Riot's 1983 album, Metal Health, to No.1 on Billboard's pop charts, a first for a metal band. Dubrow had just finished a U.S. tour to promote Riot's 2006 album, Rehab. He was 52 and died of unknown causes...