Rap star Ludacris joined the Dixie Chicks at the 2007 Grammy Awards in throwing out a little rebellion of his own. In a year that favored rebellion over convention, Ludacris decided to throw a little shout out to both conservative Fox talk show host Bill O’Reilly and talk show diva Oprah Winfrey. The Ludacris tongue-in-cheek [...]
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In last Tuesday’s blog entry I predicted that the Dixie Chicks would get their groove back in this year’s Grammy Awards Ceremony. Not only did the Dixie Chicks win for Song of the Year, but also for Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Country Album as well. A few years back [...]
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A story in the Gothamist talks about how a songwriter may have killed his girlfriend and left a trail of lyrics implicating him in the dastardly deed. According to the Gothamist, the personal trainer, who was also the lead singer in a group called Monolith, gave 50 pages of lyrics to prosecutors with violent and [...]
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The song “Grass Stains” has been voted the winner in VH1 “Your Music, Your Lyrics” contest. “Grass Stains” is a composition by Jacob Borshard of Portland Oregon. VH1, Warner Brothers, Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore voted the love song as top pick among all the hundreds of entries. The 28-year-old, Jacob Borshard shot the video [...]
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The long awaited movie, “Music and Lyrics” with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore has premiered in London. The movie “Music and Lyrics” offers an interesting juxtaposition with Grant playing the musician and Barrymore the lyricist confronting the stereotype that women are all emotion (music) and men are all about content (lyrics). Expect a sugary sweet [...]
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The nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards (being presented this coming Sunday) for Song of the Year include the songs, “Be Without You” from Mary J. Blige’s The Breakthrough, “Jesus Take the Wheel” from Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts, “Not Ready to Make Nice” from the Dixie Chicks’ Taking the Long Way, “Put Your Records On” [...]
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It may be Super Bowl Sunday, with Prince leading the halftime show as the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears battle for top honors in Miami, but Billy Joel has his own important task to do. “Don’t forget the words,” Joel is quoted as saying. Billy Joel will open up Super Bowl XLI (that’s 41 to [...]
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A reader named Nevik Alotnak sent some lyrics into me that self-admittedly aren’t of the highest quality, according to Mr. Alotnak. There are problems with the meter and rhyme and other “technical issues”. Be that as it may, I found them to be a bit humorous so I thought I would post them here. Congressional [...]
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The George Harrison handwritten lyrics to “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” from the Beatles White Album will go on sale in the U. S. on Monday. Apparently, the handwritten lyrics are expected to fetch in the neighborhood of $780,000. At the bottom of the page are the words, “The band leader said he ain’t playin”, [...]
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