After making waves throughout the UK and the rest of Europe earlier this year with Life in Cartoon Motion, Beirut-Paris-London native Mika rides the recent crest of “next-big-thing” artists from the UK to splash onto U.S. shores. If you’ve heard Mika’s memorable first single, “Grace Kelly”, you already know he sounds a lot like Freddie Mercury and wears the influence like a badge of honor, even name-checking the late front man of Queen in the first verse. Mika vacillates between the affected theatricality of Mercury’s full-throttled voice and his own strong falsetto on “Grace Kelly” where he earnestly implores “Why don’t you like me?” no less than 12 times. So Mika wants to be liked and he’ll go “identity mad” until the object of his affection (audience? record company? love interest?) takes notice. Mika’s natural affinity for pop songwriting and impressive vocal talents ensures that he will be noticed even without the obvious influences that populate Life in Cartoon Motion...
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Critics of digital rights management have long insisted that record labels could boost sagging sales by offering music unencumbered by copy-protection schemes. Apple's iTunes and e-tailer Amazon.com are in position to test this hypothesis in the coming months. On Wednesday, Amazon announced that it plans to sell digital songs from record label EMI Group that will be DRM-free....
The Senator asks public for advice "in one of the most important questions" in her presidency campaign -- what song to choose... Attention Americans! In her bid to claim the Democratic nomination and vie for the presidency in 2008, Hillary Rodham Clinton has invited you the people, to exercise your right to democracy and free election, and cast your vote to select her campaign song. Clinton, who claims to have been "struggling with, debating, and agonizing" over the choice "for months," has gathered nine candidates for the election, and it appears someone has a crush on Bono.
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As previously reported, actor gone record label head Elijah Wood, aka Frodo Baggins, will play the part of Iggy Pop in a forthcoming biopic documenting the muscular, sinewy rock star and his debauchery ridden life. And now the project has been issued a fitting title, The Passenger, coined from Pop's 1977 album Lust for Life, and is tentatively slated for a mid-summer 2008 release...
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