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Celine Dion performed in Texas a couple weeks ago and I must tell you it was a complete rip off. She was more than an hour late and had so many wardrobe changes that it was completely ridiculous and distracting. The concert lasted maybe an hour of actual singing. The wardrobe changes lasted a separate hour. In comparison to a major superstar such as Tina Turner who also took a lot of wardrobe changes during her concert, there was entertainment in the midst of her changes. There was never a dull moment during Tina’s concert, but Celine didn’t know what the hell she was doing. She is apparently allowing her ego get the best of her. You don’t pay to come see a singer change clothes so often that it delays the concert 10 to 15 minutes in between each couple songs. How boring is that? I don’t care what the hell she is wearing. I came to see her perform and sing and if you can’t do that without changing your clothes then you are not a real performer.

Don’t get me wrong. Celine Dion can sing. She just can’t put on a good show. She is so full of herself and her clothes that she loses contact with her audience. I wouldn’t be surprised if people got up and left and she wouldn’t even notice. She likes herself and I guess that’s all that matters. She shouldn’t waste people’s time then. She should perform for herself in the mirror and leave it at that. Make records but don’t do concerts. No one cares how skinny you really are. No one cares how hot you think you are. And no one cares how badly you can dance. We do care if you can sing though so please Celine, do that in the future. Try just singing. A real entertainer will be able to capture an audience’s attention by singing and connecting to those who are listening through their heart and not their clothes or stage production.

The Golden Globes aired last night and were actually rather entertaining. There were some surprises and some moments to laugh about. I guess by now everyone must have heard about how Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt ignored Ryan Seacrest. As he worked his way down to the red carpet the power couple were passing by. Ryan even stood next to Angelina and said her name twice and called out Brad’s name. Neither one turned to him to acknowledge him. He was standing right next to them. Ryan said they had to get inside to the ceremony. On his radio show he said he felt they snubbed him because they didn’t know who he was. Who wouldn’t know who Ryan is since he hosts some of the most popular programs such as American Idol and E news.

Kate Winslet was the surprise of the evening winning two awards in each category of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Her role in Revolutionary Road earned her the Best Actress and her role in The Reader earned her a Best Supporting Actress award.

I have to say one award that I was surprised over was the one given to Mickey Rourke for Best Actor in a Drama in The Wrestler. The guy has been gone for quite a while and he has had his problems with drugs and alcohol. No doubt the man is a great actor and always has been, but his addictions has destroyed his ability to get roles. So, to see him back in the lime light is amazing. Hopefully, Mickey will remain clean and cut his hair since that long hair doesn’t work for his appearance.

In television 30Rock won a number of awards including Best Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy. This gave one of the most unusual acceptance speeches when Tina Fey handed over the acceptance honor to Tracy Morgan who decided to yell out that he was going to do the acceptance speeches for now on since Barack Obama won the presidency. The audience didn’t know how to really react and I wasn’t sure if he was serious or joking since Tina never interrupted. When Tina won her own award she told all of the bloggers that have been bad mouthing her to “suck it” and she named out the blogs by name. Great stuff for an award show.

On the 2008 Critic’s Choice Awards winners were announced and even a tie. Best Actor went to Sean Penn for Milk. Penn is a great actor but the film is rather odd. Heath Ledger won for Best Supporting Actor for Dark Knight. This was no surprise since so many had predicted he would win. Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep tied for Best Actress. They teamed up in The Devil Wear’s Prada and once again they are both winners but in two different films. Anne’s role in Rachel Getting Married got her the win and Meryl won for Doubt.

Somehow a film named Slumdog Millionare won best picture and best director categories. I never heard of this film so it must be a low budget movie that was recently released. Apparently the critics like it. Tropic Thunder (which is one of the worst movies I have ever seen) won best comedy movie. I don’t understand what was thought to be so funny about this weird film but I couldn’t even watch it all the way through.

The show wasn’t bad. It was filled with many appearances from a variety of celebrities. Everyone was dressed to their best and professional. There wasn’t anyone who tried to stand out with a gaudy dress or outlandish outfit. The time lasted its proper time without going over and into other shows such as the news. For the most part, the Critic’s Choice Awards were alright. Celebrities were nominated and received their awards. No real entertainment during the process, but good enough to make you wonder who would get the award. It is always best to record these type of shows so you can fast forwards through parts you don’t care to see.

The People’s Choice Awards will air tonight on cbs with Queen Latifah hosting. There are a number of nominations in various kinds of catagories. This award show differs from others since the viewers get to select their winners. Viewers of movies and television shows were able to go online and vote their picks.

Favorite TV Drama included CSI, Greys Anatomy, and House as the nominees. For Favorite Cast includes Mamma Mia, Dark Knight, and Sex in the City. Mamma Mia is also nominated for Favorite Comedy Movie alongside Get Smart and 27 Dresses. Favorite Movie Drama include Eagle Eye, 21, and Secret Lives of Bees (also nominated for Favorite Independent Movie).

Favorite Female TV Star nominees are Christina Applegate, Sally Field, and Mariska Hargitay. For Favorite Male TV Star there are Charlie Sheen, Hugh Laurie, and Patrick Dempsey. The nominees continue, but I have to make my comments on how dull these nominees are. There’s no real choices here. For female tv stars I must ask about the Desperate Housewives women or the Ugly Betty girls. What happened to them? I can see Christina or Sally but why Mariska? For the men, there must be something better out there. Patrick maybe, but honestly we missed the men from Desperate Housewives and CSI. Lets talk about the movies selected. 27 Dresses and Get Smart as favorite comedy? Huh? Sex in the City could have been nominated here. Momma Mia should be in a musical category. Drama category could have included I Legend or Dark Knight among many, many, many other choices out there.

Anyway, People’s Choice Awards always seem to fall short in nominating the right people and acknowledging those that deserve it.

“It’s Not My Time” is the first single off the band’s fourth album. The song holds a great resemblance to the band’s 2003 hit “I’m Not Gone.” The single was released in February almost a year ago. The song reached as high as 17 on Billboards Top 100 and number one on the Adult Top 40. “It’s Not My Time” is considered one of the top watched videos of the year as well.

The video was shot in Cincinnati. The beginning of the video captures your attention immediately as it shows a mother and daughter in a car with a truck coming towards them then it skips to a man running and jumping through and on top of buildings and on cars and so on. Eventually the man gets to the woman’s car and stops her before she gets hit by the truck, hence the song “It’s Not My Time”. Very cool video and decent song for 3 Doors Down.

Kid Rock seems to be coming to terms with his age in the recently released single “Roll On” off his album Rock n Roll Jesus. He tends to be more laid back in this song than his past work. For fans of Kid Rock they may be disappointed since he isn’t screaming around too much lately. This may be because he is getting older and is realizing there is much more to life than how many women you can have sex with.

The video focuses on the area of Detroit. Kid Rock pays tribute along with capturing the heart and soul of the city by showing various landmarks including Tiger Stadium and Comerica Park.

Alongside “All Summer Long” which is also on the same album as “Roll On” shows a softer side of Kid Rock. He actually sings on this album and turns to a more bluesy sound. He can gain more fans by playing this kind of music and will probably convince the fans of the harder kid rock that this choice of music is just as good. Kid Rock is still grungy and dirty looking and needs a desperate hair cut along with a tattoo remover, but I think he really is growing up and so is his music.

“Piece of Me” is the second single from the album Blackout by Britney Spears. It earned three MTV Music Awards and was loved by most critics. The funny thing is I never heard of the song. I got it confused with “Gimme More” which was her first release from the album. It was also the song she sang on the MTV awards in 2007. Oh well. They are pretty much the same as far as the way the songs drown her voice in synthesizers and altering the vocals. For someone who can’t sing very well anyway will probably have to do that on the albums. I wonder what they do when they perform the song live though. Oh, that’s right. They don’t. Lip syncing comes in handy here. It is rather ridiculous to try to sing a heavily dubbed synthesized song live anyway.

“Piece of Me” is written by Bloodshy and Avant (swedish) along with Klas Ahlund. The lyrics are rather good in this song, but the music itself sucks. Here are some of the lyrics from the song.

“I’m Mrs. Lifestyles of the rich and famous
(You want a piece of me)
I’m Mrs. Oh my God that Britney’s Shameless
(You want a piece of me)
I’m Mrs. Extra! Extra! this just in
(You want a piece of me)
I’m Mrs. she’s too big now she’s too thin
(You want a piece of me)
I’m Miss American Dream since I was 17
Don’t matter if I step on the scene
Or sneak away to the Philippines
They’re still gonna take pictures of my derriere in the magazine
You want a piece of me?”

The video showed Britney going around fighting with the paparazzi and covering from pictures and trying to get through the media frenzy and then it shows her wearing a horrible outfit and trying to dance. She would have been better off to have about two or four dancers behind her and actually do a routine. But it seems this is when she was still putting the least amount of effort towards her work and the video is ruined by her lack of wanting to do better.

Kanye West’s appearance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend led some people to believe that he was lip syncing. What ended up happening was that there was a malfunction in the equipment of Kanye’s voice overs. Many artists use this. They will have their own voices in the background as back up. This will only enhance their voices when they sing live. Rather than singing completely on their own when singing live and making their music completely original every time they sing their songs they choose to wimp out and use back ups. Kanye also tried special effects in the back ground which didn’t help the performance either. You could hear his voice and then you hear part of it. You wouldn’t be able to hear him at all if he was lip syncing as the music went off and on. You could still hear Kanye but the quality wasn’t very good.

I am not a big fan of the egotistical rapper/singer. Yet, I do defend his performance on the live SNL show. I don’t believe he was lip syncing at all and even if he was, so what. No one paid to get into the show. These artists only make fools of themselves when they do lip sync and they lose respect of fellow artists. They will not be as respected as some artists as Mariah Carey who will never lip sync since she knows she’s got a great voice. Whitney Houston and Celine Dion will never lip sync either. There’s no need. And when a true artist appears on a show that is live and the stage isn’t very big then they shouldn’t treat it as though it is by having lights flashing and big screens with various forms of light. Sing your song and leave the stage. Kanye thinks he is great which is a much bigger problem than lip syncing or equipment malfunction.

Adele is a singer from England that has been around for several years and has released her first album “19″ during the summer of this year. Her single “Chasing Pavements” has been nominated for several Grammy awards. I never heard of it and decided to watch the video on you tube. Very interesting video. Love the original choreography, but very unusual at the same time.

Adele has a strong bluesy voice. Her type of music is not something that will be played over and over again on the radio since her songs are not enjoyable enough to listen to more than twice. Once you heard it you feel so sad that you don’t want to hear it again. If you are feeling sorry for yourself you may want to turn on “Chasing Pavements”. If all of her music resembles this song then be prepared to cry all day and by the end of the week you may become a hermit and not leave your home. You will become so depressed you will not want to talk or see anyone. Adele needs to cheer up. She describes her music as heartbroken soul, if that gives you any clue of what to expect.

Aside from Adele’s ability to depress her fans she is a good singer and maybe with the right cheery song she may be a commercial success. But that also may not be who she really is and will not sing a song that doesn’t tell a story in a sad way.

“Single Ladies” is a release from Beyonce’s latest solo effort. The song is uptempo and good to dance to. The only problem I have with it is Beyonce. I just watched the video and the only thing I like about it is how simple it is and the energy. I don’t like how hot Beyonce thinks she is and her attitude shows through and it takes away from the song itself. I don’t care to see her shaking herself all over the place. There’s no need for that either. Whoever choreographed the video should have come up with better dance moves. Beyonce can dance and doesn’t need to stoop so low that she shakes herself every few seconds.

“Single Ladies” is a good song, but a bad video. The song may resemble her relationship with Jay Z who remained her boyfriend for several years and finally married her.