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Luckily, Burton got a second chance to make an impression on the world's ears. Damon Albarn, the singer-songwriter behind the acclaimed British band Blur and the multiplatinum rap-rock concoction Gorillaz, heard The Grey Album and liked it. "But I loved the metaphor," says Albarn, "the mixing of genres and the idea that you can take past and present and make something futuristic." Albarn summoned Burton to London and quickly hired him to produce Gorillaz's second album, Demon Days, out this week. Albarn says he and Burton had "loads of music" in common. They are also both...
NELLY: The multiplatinum hip-hop star wants to party all the time...
SOME PEOPLE CARRY THE WEIGHT OF the world. Others carry rolling papers and a bowling ball with an airbrushed painting of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Mo. Nelly, the multiplatinum hip-hop star whose songbook can be fairly divided into two categories--songs about parties and songs about parties in which people get naked--is a bowling-ball kind of guy. Actually, he's a two-bowling-ball kind of guy. On a recent stay in New Mexico, where he was shooting scenes for an Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard, Nelly took along a strike ball, a spare...
...already has two No. 1 singles from his multiplatinum album Confessions, and as Evan Harrison, the general manager of AOL Music, says, "You'll have to leave the country if you want to get away from Usher this summer." Usher's third single is about what happened when his "chick on the side said she got one on the way." The chick on the entree plate was Chilli from TLC, so gossip alone will help keep this on playlists through September. It's also a perfectly acceptable bit of I'm-so-sorry-baby R. and B. It'll have...
...there's really no qualitative reason it shouldn't. And yet it's almost impossible to imagine a scenario in which Jones can repeat the cultural dominance her first album achieved. For one thing, she won't be filling her days with phone interviews and photo shoots. For another, multiplatinum-sales phenomena like Come Away with Me have a logic all their own. Buying the first album by a beautiful, jazz-inflected underdog was an act of self-definition. Buying the second album by a charming, known commodity shows nothing more than an interest in pleasant songs expertly sung. Feels...