I feel embarrassed to have loved Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as much as I did. It was brilliant, stupid and incisive—exactly the kind of thing we like here, in other words—and when I finally met the trio at a press junket, I was unexpectedly nervous, and my tongue felt both too big and too dry. The only thing…
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a movie-long clown on Justin Bieber and his ilk, which fans could surmise even without that Anne Frank joke in this trailer, the film’s second. Where we last saw Conner 4 Real enjoying being dope and testimonials from Usher and DJ Khaled as to his raw, raw talent, this trailer’s a…
Taylor Swift is more famous that Lady Gaga or Katy Perry or Miley Cyrus (note Beyoncé is not in that list). So argues New York magazine's Jody Rosen, in this week's cover story on the pop star that paints her particular brand of ommygoshsoblessedtobedoingthis, IneverthoughtIcouldbethislucky,…
The music industry has changed, but apparently people still buy albums. And Miley's "Bangerz" has officially had the year's biggest sales week for a woman.
There's no way to know what's going on at Bonnie McKee Becomes a Pop Star Headquarters, but it's probably fair to speculate that her plan to become a star this summer didn't go exactly the way she wanted. Despite her history of writing number one's for other performers, McKee's song "American Girl" never got higher…
Katy Perry has released the tracklist for her new album Prism: Through the Prism I Can See It All and It Is Good, also known as just Prism. Since Perry recently said that all her songs are "real-life moments" and that she can "only write autobiographically", these song titles are more than just songs. They are "the…
Earlier this week Bonnie McKee put out the video for her new single "American Girl." I can't remember how I saw it first because at this point, I've listened to the song so many times that any memories of anything I had before it came into my life have totally been erased. What I do remember is thinking, "Who the fuck…
