Music
Neil Diamond Performs at Red Sox Game
A crowd of 35,000 people were serenaded by Neil Diamond during a Red Sox game in Boston this weekend. The crowd were ecstatic to see the legendary singer perform one of his all-time hits, “Sweet Caroline.”
Coachella 2013
Rihanna Concerts Cancelled
During her “Diamonds” tour concert, Rihanna has cancelled a concert that was supposed to take place on April 15 in Houston due to illness. Prior to this, she has canceled two concerts in the previous month due to laryngitis. Rihanna issued an apology via Twitter thereafter.
Picnic Proposal Park
Successful Relationship?
Chris Brown, J.Lo are back in a musical hit!
By GalaTView Staff
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Chris Brown, J.Lo and producer Cory Rooney are together in the studio. Details surrounding their collaboration have not been released, but her hash tags “Studio life”, “Album10″ and”Making history” suggest the duo are working on new material for J.Lo’s 10th album. Her hash tag “SAMEGIRL” may be an indication of said album’s title, especially considering it falls in line with J.Lo’s history of claiming she’s kept true to her Bronx roots.
Let’s celebrate the 40th Anniversary of "Dark Side of the Moon"
By GalaTView Staff
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Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Rick Wright of Pink Floyd will stream LP online in honor of its 40th anniversary. The actual US live debut would be in Tampa, Florida, on April 14, 1972, in a tour that came before the album’s release. This album has always been one of the biggest influences of Pink Floyd and the members who are still with them, is one of the strongest, and most powerful on Earth.
Shakira is back in an American Program
By GalaTView staff
For new coaches Usher and Shakira, NBC screened the first two hours of The Voice today for journalists before the fourth season premieres on March 25. For third time’s the charm for Blake like he did with the previous two (Jermaine Paul and Cassadee Pope) and Shakira & Usher are both going to do a fine job filling the void by Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera. So the new season will be for next Monday 25th as does the long awaited return of revolution.
Shawn “Jay Z” Carter Teams Up with Baz Luhrman on “The Great Gatsby”
By GalaTView Staff
Grammy Award-winning musical artist Shawn “JAY Z” Carter has collaborated with writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann on “The Great Gatsby”—in the capacity of Executive Producer—to bring the modern “Jazz Age” energy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original text to the big screen, procuring, performing, producing and arranging for a soundtrack featuring some of the world’s top musical artists.
JAY Z’s contributions, woven amongst a score by long-time Luhrmann collaborator, composer Craig Armstrong, drive Gatsby’s champagne-infused dance floors, rumble in New York’s illegal speakeasies, and foreshadow the tragedy behind Gatsby’s “extraordinary gift for hope.” To articulate the film’s “1920s-Meets-Now” sound, JAY Z also comes to “The Great Gatsby” soundtrack as a performer and contributor of original music.
Luhrmann and JAY Z were introduced by Leonardo DiCaprio (Jay Gatsby), and this led to a two-year collaborative effort. During this time, JAY Z worked with Luhrmann and his team to capture, translate and contrast the feelings of Fitzgerald’s decadent era with that of our own, using hip-hop and jazz, music contemporary and period, to bring two distinct American moments to simultaneous life. They sculpted the film’s musical landscape alongside Armstrong, who worked with the director on “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet.” The film’s music supervisor is Anton Monsted.
Luhrmann calls the collaboration with JAY Z “a credible and natural fit. Fitzgerald was a pioneer, famed and controversial for using the then-new and explosive sound called jazz in his novels and short stories—not just as decoration, but to actively tell story using the immediacy of pop culture. He coined the phrase ‘the Jazz Age.’ So, the question for me in approaching Gatsby was how to elicit from our audience the same level of excitement and pop-cultural immediacy toward the world that Fitzgerald did for his audience? And in our age, the energy of jazz is caught in the energy of hip-hop. Not only is JAY Z a great artist, full stop, but I had heard that he was a great collaborator. Leonardo and I were lucky enough to be present in a recording session over two years ago as JAY Z was recording ‘No Church in the Wild,’ and the collaboration grew from there.”
JAY Z said, “As soon as I spoke with Baz and Leonardo, I knew this was the right project. The Great Gatsby is that classic American story of one’s introduction to extravagance, decadence and illusion. It’s ripe for experimentation and ready to be interpreted with a modern twist. The imagination Baz brought to ‘Moulin Rouge’ made it a masterpiece, and ‘Romeo + Juliet’s’ score wasn’t just in the background; the music became a character. This film’s vision and direction has all the makings of an epic experience.”
Paris Jackson is back and stronger
By GalaTView staff
Philadelphia Eagles cheerleading director Barbara Zaun said she’s been scouting the 14-year-old high school student as a cheerleader on her squad. Now Parish bights with her own shine.
