Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases.
This is it: the Christmas moneygrab officially starts here. The record companies have been softening us up recently, with small-arms fire from the likes of Sting and Ronan Keating. But this week, they pull the camouflage netting away from their yuletide Howitzers and begin pounding us into bloodied submission.
The SuBo: Boom! The Glambert: Bang! The fat DJ who can’t shave his corpulent, slobbering face properly: well, let’s wait and see about that one…
Okay, here’s your Mango. Three reviews, three thoughts. Let’s do it.
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The artwork for Adam Lambert’s new album For Your Entertainment has already kicked up one hell of a fuss.
Why? It’s simple. It looks like one of those awful transfer-print T-shirts that people who like wolves buy from tatty market stalls. It looks like something that the redneck wife of a professional wrestling fan would airbrush onto the back of her leather jacket. It looks like a poster that someone you hate would buy. It’s bizarre.
But it’s OK, because Adam Lambert says it’s all deliberate. Unfortunately it means that Kris Allen‘s new album artwork will now probably show him covered in glitter and bumming a unicorn, but we’ll deal with that when we have to.
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A warning: if you don’t like fat teenage girls with silly emo haircuts and black nail polish, stay inside during November.
They’ll be out in force. Not only is New Moon coming out – which, let’s face it, would be bad enough by itself – but it’s also when For Your Entertainment, the first album from stupid-haired screeching emo vampire American Idol loser Adam Lambert, is being released.
And Adam Lambert’s first single has just been leaked onto the internet. It’s called Time For Miracles. So long as that miracle involves the entire internet being deleted just to stop us from hearing it, we couldn’t agree more.
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