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SNIPPET:  Rihanna / R8

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While it’s only 15 seconds, this snippet of what is probably called ‘Nothing’s Promised’ and a possible single off her next album, R8, is bound to be another banger.  Produced by the talented Mike Will Made-It, the Ear Drummer Records producer posted this snippet on his Instagram.  The audio below is from his Twitter page.

Check it – like what you hear so far?

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Serge’s Selections 7.20.15

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While these two selections aren’t songs, they are two events coming up this week/weekend that I’d love to attend.

1.  Kanye West’s ‘All Day’ video gets Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) premiere.  Starting this Saturday, July 25 at a gallery in LACMA, the Steve McQueen directed video will be playing for four days during museum hours.

Kanye first streamed the visuals during Paris Fashion Week at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in March.  Yeezy and McQueen have been friends for years, but this is their first collaboration.

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“[He’s] an artist I’m proud to call my friend and someone I have great respect for,” said West. “I’ve always admired Steve’s work.”

While I wish I could say that Kanye will be present for one of the viewings, I haven’t been able to find anything about that yet.  I do know he will be in Toronto on the 26th headlining the closing ceremony of the Pan American Games.

Anth, maybe we can go see it when you’re here next week! 🙂

2.  Future to put on four free shows to thank his fans for support of his recent album Dirty Sprite 2.  He took to Instagram to annouce his ‘Salute the Fans’ series, which kicked off tonight in Atlanta at The Masquerade.  Each morning of the show the Freebandz rapper will Tweet the time and venue in that specific city.  I will definitely be setting the Twitter alert for his Tweets.image

 Thanks for reading!

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Weekly Wrap-Up 7.17.15

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Apologies for completely blowing it lately with regards to posting!  It’s easier said than done to maintain a blog while also holding a full-time job.  But that’s no excuse!  Anyways.

Many of you may have already seen what went down on Wednesday, July 15 from my social media posts.  But if you haven’t, I was fortunate enough to attend the ESPY Awards!  Never thought I’d be attending an award show dedicated to sports.  Many thanks to my roommate Kylie for taking me as her plus one and an even bigger thank you to her friend who hooked us up with not only tickets to the show but also to walk down the red carpet and to the official after party!  So many things crossed off my bucket list.  Let me break it down by tickets:

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Picture 1 below:  Of course the whirlwind that is Tell Nation was present.  We only meet up at award shows.  #duh

Picture 2:  The beautiful Caitlyn Jenner accepting the Arhur Ashe Courage Award.

Picture 3:  The glitter explosion at the conclusion of the event!  cc:  Telly

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And my personal favorite of the evening…

ESPYS after party ticket

I think the video says it all.  You must watch it all the way through – the last seven seconds are by far the best.  I was truly completely 100% in my element.  I think it’s safe to say Kylie and I had one of the best nights!

Who knows, maybe my next award show will be the CMAs!  False.  The chances of that happening are slim to none.  And the featured image for this post, the ESPYS spelled out in donuts, yes, those are donuts.  Mom, it looks like they were inspired by your 6/6/15 party.

Thanks for reading, yinz!  Have a wonderful weekend.

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RELEASE DATE: The Weeknd – ‘Beauty Behind the Madness’

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It is about dang time!  We officially have a release date for The Weeknd’s sophomore LP…

Friday, August 28!

Details were revealed when the album went for pre-order internationally on iTunes before being taken down.  I was able to grab a screen shot for ya though 🙂  Pretty vague, but it’s official!

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Beauty Behind the Madness will include 14 tracks, featuring already hit songs ‘Often,’ ‘The Hills,’ and ‘Can’t Feel My Face.’

He also took to Twitter to confirm that the album will be available for pre-order soon.  The album marks the follow up to Kiss Land which debuted at No. 2 and was released in 2013.  This is one album I am TRULY excited to listen to this year!  I’m hoping there’s another Drake collab.

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Miguel or Frank Ocean?

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I’m torn!  Miguel was very recently interviewed by the U.K.’s Sunday Times where he stated he believes he makes better music than Frank Ocean, who he actually ran into at a hotel bar in London during the interview (Kylie, he’s alive!).

Miguel is quoted saying, ‘To be completely honest—and no disrespect to anyone—I genuinely believe that I make better music, all the way around.”

I keep going back and forth in my head as to who I think makes better music.  Miguel incorporates funk, hip hop, and edgy styles into his jams, while Ocean’s music features unconventional melodies that hover between speech and song.

Both are considered to be in the new wave of R&B and tend to sing about the same topics – love and nostalgia to name a few.  And when they both hit that falsetto!  I just can’t decide, you guys.

What do yinz think?!

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Throwback Thursday: ‘Murica

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Please watch the video below to see what went down on Miss Mandy during last year’s 4th of July celebrations to Catalina with some of the most epic people I’ve met in CA thus far.

Droning and video editing credit:  Nick Trojan.  Unfortunately, he won’t be on the boat this year since he’s off doing kewl rowing things.

Thank you again to Mandy, Nick, The Don (our captain), and Jawnet (the hostess with the mostess) for taking us (I think I can speak for the crew) on their boat to experience one of the best weekends of the year!

Happy celebrating, everyone!  And in the words of Deb, ‘make smart choices.’

‘I looooove ‘Murica!’  -The Donald

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Video: Miguel – Vevo GO Shows: ‘Coffee’

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Remember that time my friend Mac and I attended a free Miguel concert in Venice Beach and took a selfie with him?  If you don’t remember, see below.

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Well, the official Vevo GO Show video is now available on YouTube, and you can spot Mac and I quite a few times throughout.  Hashtag blessed I have girlfriends like Mackenzie who are down to do anything at basically anytime!  Love ya, girl!  And be sure to listen to Miguel’s new album WILDHEART, out now.  Thank you again to Vevo for offering this very unique experience.

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Mondays: Meek Mill, Miguel, & Moments

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Although today started off pretty rough due to a very tiring and long (but epic!) mosh pit-filled day yesterday, there’s nothing like some new music to brighten up my day.  Meek Mill (album art left) and Miguel’s (album art right) new albums dropped today and are available on Spotify.

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I have yet to listen to each of the albums straight though, but here are some of my favorites thus far:

Dreams Worth More Than Money – Meek Mill
‘All Eyes On You’ ft. Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj – saw this performed live at the BET Awards!
‘R.I.C.O.’ ft. Drake (probably my favorite. shocker)
‘Pullin’ Up’ ft. The Weeknd
‘Bad For You’ ft. Nicki Minaj

Stream the album below:


WILDHEART – Miguel
‘coffee’
‘Hollywood Dreams’
‘face the sun’ ft. Lenny Kravitz

I can’t find the direct streaming of Wildheart, so you’ll just have to check it out for yourselves 🙂

Lots of listening to do!
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BET Awards | SO many epic moments at the BET Awards last night!  Seeing all of the celebrities behind the scenes before they go out into the spotlight, watching the stage crew transform new sets in minutes, and just being so so close to the actual performances – truly so incredible and fascinating to me!  If you were watching the awards, I was in the left mosh pit and in the back left corner, so I doubt that you could see me at all.  Oh well!

My top performances of the night were definitely Diddy’s reunion of Bad Boy Entertainment.  It was 10 minutes of pure 90s insanity, and I loved every minute of it.  He brought out French Montana, Janelle Monae, and Chris Brown for the dance break, plus many others.  If you want to be entertained, I suggest you watch it here.  And no, I was not near Diddy when he fell on the stage.  I actually didn’t even know that happened until I saw it online.

From Kendrick Lamar opening the show to The Weeknd and Alicia Keys performing Abel’s ‘Earned It’ together, it was all so so good.  Janet Jackson entered the stage by the mosh pit I was in – Janet. Jackson.  The sister of Michael Jackson.  I die.  Chris Brown, during one of the performances he was a part of, was standing so close to me, I could have reached out and grabbed his leg!  Big Sean did an incredible job too.  Even the Smokey Robinson tribute was wonderful!  I truly just love being in those environments, and I wish phones were allowed because I would have live streamed it all for you guys.  I just really want to help put on an event like the BET Awards or the GRAMMYs.  That would be ultimate.

So on that note, I hope your weekend was filled with lots of amazing moments, as well!  Happy Monday!

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