The music video for Fantasia’s “Superpower (I)” from “The Color Purple” is here.
“Superpower (I),” written and produced by The-Dream, is performed by Fantasia during the musical film’s end credits. The track is shortlisted for the best original song Oscar, as is the film’s “Keep It Movin.’”
Directed by Taylor Fauntleroy, the video features Fantasia singing the powerful track with her younger self, made possible with the use of AI technology. Fantasia, dressed in a sparkly silver and black gown, sings with her 19-year-old self in the red dress she wore for her 2004 “American Idol” performance of “Summertime.” The soaring ballad is an anthem that comes to symbolize Fantasia’s 20-year career from reality competition star to the award-winning lead of “The Color Purple.”
“Not only is this a song that is so meaningful to the story of ‘The Color Purple,’ it’s also a song that...
“Superpower (I),” written and produced by The-Dream, is performed by Fantasia during the musical film’s end credits. The track is shortlisted for the best original song Oscar, as is the film’s “Keep It Movin.’”
Directed by Taylor Fauntleroy, the video features Fantasia singing the powerful track with her younger self, made possible with the use of AI technology. Fantasia, dressed in a sparkly silver and black gown, sings with her 19-year-old self in the red dress she wore for her 2004 “American Idol” performance of “Summertime.” The soaring ballad is an anthem that comes to symbolize Fantasia’s 20-year career from reality competition star to the award-winning lead of “The Color Purple.”
“Not only is this a song that is so meaningful to the story of ‘The Color Purple,’ it’s also a song that...
- 1/12/2024
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
When hitmaking producer The-Dream got the call to write an original song for the remake of The Color Purple, he almost couldn’t do it. He was busy — busy with Beyoncé.
“We were working on the Renaissance film, and I got a call from [music executive] Larry Jackson. He was like, ‘Yo, man, I need a record and I don’t know if you could do this,’” The-Dream tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And I was like, ‘Ah, man, I’m in the middle of this Renaissance thing and I’m doing more.’ I think people have an idea of what they think I do and it just kind of stops there. Like, ‘Oh, he writes a song and he goes home.’ It’s like, ‘Nah, that’s not quite what I do.’”
But much like Queen Bey, The-Dream is a skilled multitasker, and he recorded a song so compelling it’s landed...
“We were working on the Renaissance film, and I got a call from [music executive] Larry Jackson. He was like, ‘Yo, man, I need a record and I don’t know if you could do this,’” The-Dream tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And I was like, ‘Ah, man, I’m in the middle of this Renaissance thing and I’m doing more.’ I think people have an idea of what they think I do and it just kind of stops there. Like, ‘Oh, he writes a song and he goes home.’ It’s like, ‘Nah, that’s not quite what I do.’”
But much like Queen Bey, The-Dream is a skilled multitasker, and he recorded a song so compelling it’s landed...
- 1/9/2024
- by Mesfin Fekadu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fresh off the release of Rick Ross and Meek Mill’s new album Too Good to Be True, the duo performed a pair of tracks on Friday’s The Tonight Show.
For the performance, Ross and Mill first delivered the hit “Shaq & Kobe” from their joint LP before segueing into “Ima Boss,” the decade-old collaboration that brought the rappers together back in 2011.
As the rappers previously revealed, Too Good to Be True was recorded and released in just a two-month span.
“We won already. We playing with what? The house’s money,...
For the performance, Ross and Mill first delivered the hit “Shaq & Kobe” from their joint LP before segueing into “Ima Boss,” the decade-old collaboration that brought the rappers together back in 2011.
As the rappers previously revealed, Too Good to Be True was recorded and released in just a two-month span.
“We won already. We playing with what? The house’s money,...
- 11/11/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
St. Louis native Sexyy Red does it with her foot on the gas. The 25-year-old rapper’s music is unabashed fun. She’s a classic Southern rapper with a sticky and viscous flow and an anachronistic approach to music. She abstains from traditional lyricism or liquid singing for one-sentence phrases or personal and sexual anecdotes that are meant for fans to call back to her onstage. Her hooks are her greatest talent, allowing the listener to sing along with her. You insert your rambunctious fun along with her; you sing...
- 7/12/2023
- by Jayson Buford
- Rollingstone.com
Snoop Dogg is standing in solidarity with Hollywood writers who are demanding better pay and contracts for their work.
On Saturday, the rapper showed his support by sharing footage from a protest that took place in Los Angeles on Friday, uploading photos and videos from the rally.
“Got 2 support !!” Snoop captioned a post, which included images of Death Row Records pioneer, K Dubb, and Los Angeles based hip-hop radio host, Big Boy. While it’s unclear whether or not Snoop was in attendance, it appears he and fellow rapper Dr. Dre contributed to the protest by sponsoring food like wings, waffles and bagels for protesters, as seen below in photos of signage from the event.
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On Saturday, the rapper showed his support by sharing footage from a protest that took place in Los Angeles on Friday, uploading photos and videos from the rally.
“Got 2 support !!” Snoop captioned a post, which included images of Death Row Records pioneer, K Dubb, and Los Angeles based hip-hop radio host, Big Boy. While it’s unclear whether or not Snoop was in attendance, it appears he and fellow rapper Dr. Dre contributed to the protest by sponsoring food like wings, waffles and bagels for protesters, as seen below in photos of signage from the event.
Read More: Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts’ Production Halted As Writers Strike Continues
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- 6/3/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Los Angeles, June 3 (Ians) Rapper Snoop Dogg’s summer concerts celebrating the 30th anniversary of his debut studio album, ‘Doggystyle’ have been postponed.
Originally scheduled for June 27 and June 28 at the Hollywood Bowl, the shows have now been pushed back to October 20 and 21, reports Variety.
The rapper made the announcement via Instagram, informing fans and followers in a video.
“Hollywood Bowl! June 26 and 27, we gotta move that date! Me and Dr Dre, we stand in solidarity with the writers, so what we’re gonna do, we gonna push it back to October 20 and Oct. 21.”
The post was accompanied by the caption: “Due to the ongoing WGA strike and the DGA and SAG/AFTRA negotiations, we have decided to postpone the shows scheduled for June 27 and June 28 at the Hollywood Bowl.”
Snoop Dogg concluded the caption by sharing his support with those on strike: “We stand in solidarity with the unions...
Originally scheduled for June 27 and June 28 at the Hollywood Bowl, the shows have now been pushed back to October 20 and 21, reports Variety.
The rapper made the announcement via Instagram, informing fans and followers in a video.
“Hollywood Bowl! June 26 and 27, we gotta move that date! Me and Dr Dre, we stand in solidarity with the writers, so what we’re gonna do, we gonna push it back to October 20 and Oct. 21.”
The post was accompanied by the caption: “Due to the ongoing WGA strike and the DGA and SAG/AFTRA negotiations, we have decided to postpone the shows scheduled for June 27 and June 28 at the Hollywood Bowl.”
Snoop Dogg concluded the caption by sharing his support with those on strike: “We stand in solidarity with the unions...
- 6/3/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Snoop Dogg may not be bringing pizza to the picket line, but he showed his support for the Writers Guild of America strike while offering a sharp critique of the streaming economy during a recent conversation at the Milken Institute Global Conference.
In conversation with former Apple Music Creative Director Larry Jackson, Snoop started off by talking about the streaming model in music, putting it bluntly from the start: “Streaming gotta get its shit together, cause I don’t understand how the fuck you get paid off of that shit.
In conversation with former Apple Music Creative Director Larry Jackson, Snoop started off by talking about the streaming model in music, putting it bluntly from the start: “Streaming gotta get its shit together, cause I don’t understand how the fuck you get paid off of that shit.
- 5/9/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Albany, New York, will host the Capital Cinema Cultural Exchange’s first public forum from March 14-17.
The forum will concentrate on welcoming directors, writers, producers and casting directors who are working on character-driven films and stories of social consequence now in development.
“For every big budget, blockbuster film you see in multiplex theaters, there are perhaps thousands of independent films in various stages of completion searching to one day reach an audience,” says Michael Camoin [pictured], a filmmaker in upstate New York who formed Ccce with other industry professionals and organisations. “Some of these break out into Oscar nominees, but the vast majority fails to ever see the inside of a theater or even online distribution.”
Industry panelists at the event will include Us producer Larry Jackson, Moscow-based executive producer Dmitry Pirkulov, Canadian co-production specialist Sam Coppola, Helen Rousse of Total Casting, line producer Norman Berns and attorney Christopher Schiller.
The 12 projects...
The forum will concentrate on welcoming directors, writers, producers and casting directors who are working on character-driven films and stories of social consequence now in development.
“For every big budget, blockbuster film you see in multiplex theaters, there are perhaps thousands of independent films in various stages of completion searching to one day reach an audience,” says Michael Camoin [pictured], a filmmaker in upstate New York who formed Ccce with other industry professionals and organisations. “Some of these break out into Oscar nominees, but the vast majority fails to ever see the inside of a theater or even online distribution.”
Industry panelists at the event will include Us producer Larry Jackson, Moscow-based executive producer Dmitry Pirkulov, Canadian co-production specialist Sam Coppola, Helen Rousse of Total Casting, line producer Norman Berns and attorney Christopher Schiller.
The 12 projects...
- 2/24/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Universal Music Group laid off 60 employees on Friday, part of an overall restructuring at both ends of the world's largest record company. The affected jobs were characterized by a Universal spokesperson as low-level and administrative positions. Universal also announced on Friday that it had hired Larry Jackson, a former A&R executive at Sony Music, for its Interscope Geffen A&M group. The job cuts come less than a month after Lucian Grainge was propelled to the head of Universal Music Group with a mandate to cut “a lot of fat ... without...
- 1/21/2011
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
By Roger Friedman
HollywoodNews.com: Eons ago I broke the story that Beyonce’s hit song, “If I Were A Boy,” was written by a ghost writer.
BC Jean, now 21, wrote the song with a producer friend. Then the producer sold the song to Beyonce behind Jean’s back. There was a scuffle over credits. BC Jean wound up getting $250,000 and a recording contract with RCA/J Records. Beyonce got to pretend she had something to do with writing the song.
Now at last comes BC Jean’s first single and it’s a smash. The song is called “Just a Guy.” It’s full of hooks. Thanks to the good work of Clive Davis protege Larry Jackson. This guy knows what he’s doing.
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HollywoodNews.com: Eons ago I broke the story that Beyonce’s hit song, “If I Were A Boy,” was written by a ghost writer.
BC Jean, now 21, wrote the song with a producer friend. Then the producer sold the song to Beyonce behind Jean’s back. There was a scuffle over credits. BC Jean wound up getting $250,000 and a recording contract with RCA/J Records. Beyonce got to pretend she had something to do with writing the song.
Now at last comes BC Jean’s first single and it’s a smash. The song is called “Just a Guy.” It’s full of hooks. Thanks to the good work of Clive Davis protege Larry Jackson. This guy knows what he’s doing.
Award News, Breaking News, Entertainment News, Movie News, Music News, Hollywood News
To read more go to Showbiz411.com.
Image by PR Photos...
- 8/4/2010
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
'I was super happy,' Beatz says of the reaction his 'Million Dollar Bill' got at Houston's recent listening party.
By Shaheem Reid
Swizz Beatz and Whitney Houston in New York City on Tuesday
Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Sony Music
New York — Swizz Beatz's music is about to hit hard again with tracks on upcoming albums by Jay-z, Dmx, Eve and, of course, Whitney Houston. Swizz was at Lincoln Center on Tuesday (July 21) as one of the attendees at the listening party for Houston's upcoming I Look to You. Swizz and Alicia Keys crafted a track for the project called "Million Dollar Bill," which is just screaming to be a first single.
Swizz started the process on the song four months ago when he got a call from Clive Davis and record executive Larry Jackson. They told Swizzy, "We're working with Whitney. Let's see what you have. We...
By Shaheem Reid
Swizz Beatz and Whitney Houston in New York City on Tuesday
Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Sony Music
New York — Swizz Beatz's music is about to hit hard again with tracks on upcoming albums by Jay-z, Dmx, Eve and, of course, Whitney Houston. Swizz was at Lincoln Center on Tuesday (July 21) as one of the attendees at the listening party for Houston's upcoming I Look to You. Swizz and Alicia Keys crafted a track for the project called "Million Dollar Bill," which is just screaming to be a first single.
Swizz started the process on the song four months ago when he got a call from Clive Davis and record executive Larry Jackson. They told Swizzy, "We're working with Whitney. Let's see what you have. We...
- 7/22/2009
- MTV Music News
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