Madonna being sued for "Vogue"
Yesterday, a news story broke that Madonna is being sued for sampling another song, without giving credit, for her 1990 hit "Vogue." Delaware based company VMG began the proceedings on Wednesday, saying the Madge sampled the 1977 song "Love Break," for which it apparently owns the rights. Also named in the suit is deejay/producer Shep Pettibone, who worked on both "Vogue" and the earlier song (Hmmm!!), and the complaint says that Pettibone "intentionally disguised the sampling he did for "Vogue," according to MTV.
The suit claims that the samples are deliberately hidden throughout the song and it was only through modern technology that they were finally able to uncover the sampling twenty years after the fact. The company, who tried this suit twice before, in 2011 and in February of this year, is seeking compensatory damages to the hugely popular song. Stay tuned...
(*Note - I tried to find "Love Break" somewhere on the Internet, but cannot. I'd love to hear it!)
"Turn Up the Radio" video to debut on Monday
Just about a month ago, I told you that Madge was filming the video to her song, Turn Up the Radio, in Florence, Italy, and this coming Monday it will debut all over the place. From news clips and previews, we can see that Madonna is seen in a convertible driving around with her dancers and fans chasing after her. I'm sure I won't have access to it on here, but I will post a link to it when I get the chance.
"Radio" will be the 3rd single off of MDNA and I would hope that this one will fair better than Gimme All Your Luvin and Girl Gone Wild. If it doesn't, I'll have to believe that there are definitely some forces out there who don't want Ms. M to succeed with anything, as this song is true pop bliss and very radio friendly. We shall see... In the meantime take another listen:
Gaga launches "Little Monsters"
For a long time now, Lady Gaga has been talking about her new social network where members can comment on everything Gaga, and the network, dubbed Little Monsters debuted earlier this week. Joining the site is as easy as 1-2-3 with a Facebook or Twitter account, or an email address, and there's no doubt that lots of devoted "little monsters" are already on that bandwagon. As for me, I think I'll pass.
Christina new song, album coming soon!
I've mentioned here before that Christina Aguilera has been working on her follow-up to 2010's disappointing Bionic album, and we're now closer than ever to getting a taste of what's to come. The first single, tentatively entitled "Jealousy," is due out in early August and the album will not be too far behind. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the song centers around the line, "all I want to do is what you wanted." Definitely looking forward to that!
Well that's all I've got for this edition of Music News Bytes. As always, thanks for reading and stay tuned for more...
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