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“Mr. know it all/Well ya think you know it all/But ya don't know a thing at all.”
“The times they are a–changin',” sang Bob Dylan. But when times did change, protest songs such as that one went out of fashion quickly. Dylan distanced himself from what he called his “finger-pointing songs” and so long as the economy and mood of the country seemed relatively fine, there didn’t seem to be much need for protest music.
It was one of the most influential rock albums of all time and arguably the last rock album to drastically change the course of popular music. And come Sept. 24, the album in question, Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” will mark its 20th anniversary with as much fanfare as you’d expect from such a significant piece of pop culture history.
Here’s some pop music news. Guess the year it takes place.
Turning 30 usually signifies that a person has hit a certain maturity level and has reached full adulthood. But that doesn’t really apply to MTV, which celebrates its 30th birthday on Aug. 1. The first-ever 24-hour music channel has made it a point not to grow up and to instead align itself with the kids of each succeeding generation.
Bob Dylan can agitate people — much like the way he used to when he was in his 20s and being branded as “Judas” for daring to play loud rock music to folk-loving audiences.
You might have expected rocker Bret Michaels to hang up his rock ’n’ roll shoes for a while after weathering an emergency appendectomy, a brain hemorrhage and heart surgery all in the past 13 months. But the Poison frontman-turned-reality-TV-star isn’t about to slow down. A year after nearly losing his life, Michaels is back on the road playing solo dates and seemingly in better spirits than ever.
When Demi Lovato announced she was leaving her tour with the Jonas Brothers to seek medical treatment for “emotional and physical issues,” the news was simultaneously surprising and not surprising.
Maybe wearing those gaudy, sparkly shirts paid off after all for Neil Diamond.
The success of Taylor Swift flies in the face of seemingly every element it takes to be a female mega-star in today’s pop world. The singer-songwriter doesn’t have a sexualized image, she doesn’t make transparent bids for media attention, and her songs are introspective and confessional, not gimmicky and exhibitionist.
Lady Gaga definitely tried. But despite her lobbying, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, the United States Senate didn’t advance a defense bill that would have included a qualified repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian service members.
The first Arianah Brown ever heard of Justin Bieber was when the 12-year-old daughter of one of her friends posted a link of the teen singer performing an acoustic song on Facebook. It didn’t surprise Brown when she learned a few years later that Bieber had become a pop sensation, since he’d already become an online one.
A nude image of Katy Perry graces the cover of her latest album, “Teenage Dream,” which was released on Aug. 24. What’s shocking is that this is not so shocking. In the era of Lady Gaga’s nearly nude crowd surfing at Lollapalooza and Miley Cyrus’ underage stripper-pole dancing, Perry’s CD cover seems just another in a long line of attention-grabbing tactics by a mainstream pop artist.
Forget vanilla. Fifteen years after Jerry Garcia died on August 9, 1995, his namesake ice cream, Cherry Garcia, continues to be the best-selling flavor for the Ben & Jerry’s brand, according to spokesperson Liz Stewart.
When Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, paid tribute to her late father at his memorial service, we glimpsed a side of the pop icon we’d rarely seen: the father. As Paris Jackson choked back tears and said, “Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine,” the star’s weirdness and personal troubles became a lot less relevant than the fact that his kids were now without a dad.
Justin Bieber is 16, looks and sounds much younger, and is now getting more attention than almost anyone else in the pop music world. As of , Billboard has announced he holds both the No. 1 and No. 8 spots on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with his “My World 2.0” album and “My World” EP, respectively. Both releases have also spawned multiple hit singles.
Richard Heene was more than the alleged perpetuator of a hoax when he paraded his son Falcon on television after claiming the boy had floated off in a helium balloon. By pushing his child into the national spotlight, allegedly to benefit himself, the former reality television contestant joins a long line of “stage parents” so prevalent in the media lately.
I never cared much for Pink Floyd until a friend persuaded me to go with him to a late-night screening of “Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii” when we were sophomores in high school. Actually, let me put that another way: I hated Pink Floyd. They were a ’70s band known for drawn-out songs and elaborate concept albums, and I was an ’80s kid who liked loud, fast punk rock.
These hyped-up tunes will spark either school spirit or very bad memories of school days.
Pop critics were surprised by the fervor of those who condemned West. Did his comments really deserve that vehement a response?
The “Jennifer’s Body” star gets compared to Angelina Jolie but hasn't yet proved that she has Jolie’s level of talent.
Passion between older women and younger men heated up screens in “The Graduate,” “Risky Business” and other films.
Fans of the Fab Four are clamoring for copies of remastered versions of two box sets of the legendary band's albums, one in stereo and one in mono, as well as the release of “The Beatles: Rock Band.”
Do you have the back-to-school blues? Well, artists like Taylor Swift, the Deftones and Graham Parker feel your pain.
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