Teaching Lyrics in Grade School

There is an interesting article in USA Today about an elementary school teacher who helps kids learn lyrics. Because it’s an election year, the teacher Linda White is educating kids through lyrics about suffrage and voting. In fact, she composed the suffrage songs herself, so there’s no confusion about where or not she is indeed [...]

Lavigne, Underwood Over the Top in Earnings This Year

According to the Forbes 20 Under 25 list of top earning young superstars, Avril Lavigne and Carrie Underwood were two of the 20, who are under 25-years-old to make the list. Yes, the list was littered with Hollywood actors and sports superstars, but Lavigne and Underwood were no underdogs as they both pulled in respectable [...]

Rappers Rapping with Capitol Hill

You can’t stop hip-hop is the message being spoken by rappers on Capitol Hill. In a House Committee hearing reminiscent of the days of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, rapper David Banner is defiant about cleaning up the lyrics in rap music. Apparently, Banner thinks the government should clean up the neighborhoods where drugs and [...]

McDonald’s Starts Tornado Dropping Twista for Lyrics

McDonald’s Corporation has caused a tornado of controversy by dropping rapper Twista from a 10-city concert tour because of what they are calling “derogatory lyrics”. The fast food giant has decided to drop the potty mouth rapper because of explicit language and references to drugs in the lyrics. Twista is known for his hits “Slow [...]

The Day the Music Died

I’m not going to get all Don McLean on you and pretend I’m on a cruise ship singing drunken phrases of “American Pie,” but to some who listen to music and radio on the Internet, this is indeed the day the music died. Many Internet radio stations are observing a day of silence in protest [...]