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Thursday, August 9, 2012
Tom Waits' Big Reveal: New Clip for 'Hell Broke Luce'
What a build-up: Tom Waits has spent the past week dropping hints about an announcement he had planned for today, and the Web was thick with speculation: Could it be a tour? New music? A concert cruise? Nope. Turns out it was the release of a new video for "Hell Broke Luce," a scabrous, blackly comic anti-war song from last year's Bad As Me. The clip was the source of various surreal images posted on Waits' website last week, depicting the singer sporting an eyepatch and a scimitar, underwater flanked by boxy sharks (that turn out to be submarines) and poking an oversized spoon at a roaring fire.
Directed by Matt Mahurin, the video is as gritty as the song, as Waits pulls a small house through an arid, blasted landscape; over the ocean while surrounded by warring flotillas; and under water, trailed by boxy shark submarines.
Waits addressed the speculation over his clues in a statement: "As most of you guessed, it’s a tour . . . a tour de force!" The singer said he and Kathleen Brennan, his wife and songwriting partner, envisioned the song as "an enlightened drill sergeant yelling the hard truths of war to a brand new batch of recruits. The video grew from the gnawing image of a soldier pulling his home, through a battlefield, at the end of a rope. I think you will agree, it's uplifting and fun."
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Pusha T Reveals What He Can't Reveal About Kanye's G.O.O.D. Music Project
Pusha T has spent a significant amount of time over the past year working on Cruel Summer, the forthcoming album Kanye West is putting together with the stable of artists signed to his G.O.O.D.
Music label. The Clipse MC describes the tracks he's rhymed on as "emotional hip-hop mixed with trap music," but he admits that despite all the work he's done on the album, he can only guess what it will ultimately sound like.
"I've done about 20 verses, but the album's still a mystery to me because I don't know what's made it and what hasn't," he tells Rolling Stone. G.O.O.D. artists Kid Cudi, Big Sean, CyHi, Common, Q-Tip, John Legend and 2 Chainz have all contributed vocals, as have a few artists not signed to the label, but the only one who knows what the final product will include is West, who has sworn off interviews ever since a tense Today Show tete-a-tete with Matt Lauer in 2010.
"It wouldn't be right if the element of surprise wasn't there for everybody involved except Kanye," says Pusha. "That's his magic, man."
The album originated as a companion piece to a surreal, grandiose 30-minute film that West debuted as a seven-screen experience at the Cannes Film Festival in May. So far two singles ("Mercy" and "New God Flow") have been released, and West previewed a few other songs, including "Way Too Cold" and another, possibly titled "Perfect Bitch," during an unannounced visit to a New York City club at about 1:30 a.m. on August 5th. Rumors have swirled about various producers on the project.
"There is some guest production," confirms Pusha. "But I've never heard anyone say in an interview who else is up there production-wise, so I don't want to be the one to spoil it."
All the secrecy is nothing new for West. Pusha first noticed it during the sessions for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
"In the studio there would be sheets of paper that said, 'No tweeting, no talking, no emailing, no anything. Do not talk to anybody outside of this studio room.' Then there happened to be a leak, and I remember Kanye ranting and raving, like, 'Fuck this! We're not going to ever work there again! We're going to work in hotel rooms!'"
West was true to his word. Pusha says Cruel Summer was recorded entirely in hotels. West also refused to email files to his collaborators.
"'Ye would call me and be like, 'Yo, I've got this ill beat,'" explains Pusha. "I'd be like, 'All right, send it to me.' And he'd say, 'No, I'm not emailing it.'" Instead Pusha's manager would have to fly out to pick it up.
If such behavior seems a tad paranoid, it may not be entirely unwarranted. According to Pusha, the email addresses of West and most of his G.O.O.D. Music family have been hacked repeatedly.
"We get bogus emails from each other, from hackers," he says. "I don't even open my emails. If [West's tour manager] Don C. emails me something, before I touch it, I call Don and say, 'Don, did you email me?' So with that being said, I understand keeping things quiet."
Cruel Summer is due out September 4th.
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Quentin Tarantino and Cast Reveal 'Django' Details at Comic-Con
The cast of Django Unchained talked about the new Quentin Tarantino film during a Comic-Con International panel on Saturday afternoon.
The film – which opens in theaters on Christmas Day 2012 – stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave in the Deep South who teams up with a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz (played by Christoph Waltz), to save his wife Broomhilda von Shaft (Kerry Washington), from plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).
In a discussion moderated by Entertainment Weekly film writer Anthony Breznican, Tarantino said that his goal for the film was to put a new twist on the classic Spaghetti Western genre.
"To me, one of the fun things about telling the story was to take the Western genre we know so well and place it in the Antebellum South and place a black character in it," he said, according to Sports Mole.
Tarantino, who was joined on the panel by five cast members, has long been attracted to the intense violence, cool music and surreal elements of the Italian-made Spaghetti Westerns, which emerged in the mid-Sixties. He’d been thinking about doing a Western for 13 years, and said the scenes in Django Unchained aren’t nearly as bad as what life was actually like during America’s pre-Civil War years.
"You can’t be more surrealistic than it was in real life," he said. "It's unimaginable to think of the pain and the suffering that went on in this country."
When Django is introduced in the film, he’s on a chain gang being led from Mississippi to Texas. To get into character, Foxx said he drew on his experiences growing up in racially charged Texas.
"Being called a n***er as a kid by grown people was something I had to deal with," he said. "By having that done to me, I was able to grasp what was being said in the script."
As the Huffington Post reports, Waltz's Dr. King Schultz plays a Yoda-like role for Django, teaching him to be a fighter. But Waltz noted that the relationship is more reciprocal. "Dr. Schultz needs Django," he said. "This is a different relationship than someone picking up a slave and rescuing him."
The film has one week left of shooting. Last week, they finished a scene with actor Jonah Hill, who plays a member of the Regulators, a pre-KKK posse that terrorizes slaves. Tarantino said it’s one of the funniest scenes he’s ever written, comparing it to the color-coded nicknames the bandits use in Reservoir Dogs.
He also said that Django and Broomhilda are related to a well-known character in blaxploitation film: John Shaft. "[They] will have a baby, then that baby will have a baby and so on and so on," he said, "and then John Shaft will be born."
Before the panel, fans had lined up outside for hours, and one had come all the way from Malaysia, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Tarantino did not disappoint, screening an eight-minute sizzle reel that included a clip of Django getting in a shootout with a snowman, among other tidbits. Tarantino originally made the reel for industry professionals.
@Stephanietely tweeted the director's pronouncement on the selection: "If it’s good enough for the industry, it’s good enough for the fans!"
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