Janet Jackson graced the Billboard Music Awards stage to receive the prestigious Icon Award on Sunday in Las Vegas. Not only was the moment her first television performance in nine years, but it was also the first time she has performed as a mom. Continue reading
Category Archives: Music
5/21/18 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: Andrea Bocelli – Besame Mucho – Live From Lake Las Vegas Resort, USA / 2006
Music video by Andrea Bocelli performing Besame Mucho live from Lake Las Vegas Resort (2006). Continue reading
5/21/18 O&A NYC DANCE: DrewDollaz X BonesTheMachine – dXb
Bonebreaking phenoms DrewDollaz and BonesTheMachine. Continue reading
5/21/18 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Childish Gambino’s Short Film Chicken and Futility
Chicken and Futility, the three-minute short film by Childish Gambino is a stoner version of every extended conversation Tarantino’s ever put to film. There’s philosophical waxing about rolling joints as a metaphor for meeting girls, the socio-political responsibility of eating at Chick-fil-A, and moths hovering around light bulbs as a representation of life’s futility. Continue reading
5/20/18 O&A NYC GOSPEL SUNDAY: Charlie Wilson- I’m Blessed ( Showtime At The Apollo)
Charlie Wilson performs his song “I’m Blessed” featuring T.I live at the Apollo Theater. Continue reading
5/17/18 O&A NYC THROWBACK THURSDAY: Sir Mix-a-Lot- Baby Got Back
“Baby Got Back“, also known as “I Like Big Butts“, the hit song written and recorded by rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot from his album Mack Daddy. The song samples the 1986 Detroit techno single “Technicolor” by Channel One. Continue reading
5/16/18 O&A NYC WALESTYLEZ HIP HOP WEDNESDAY: Drake – Nice For What
Nice For What is recorded by hip hop artist Drake. It was released by Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records on April 6, 2018, along with its music video. It serves as the lead single to Drake’s fifth studio album Scorpion. Continue reading
5/15/18 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY- DIVA ALERT! Lady Gaga- Telephone Featuring Beyonce
Telephone is a song recorded by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé for Gaga’s third EP, The Fame Monster (2009). The song was written by Gaga, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Lazonate Franklin and Beyoncé. Inspired by her fear of suffocation. The music video is a continuation of the video for her 2009 song, Paparazzi, and is also shot as a short film. Continue reading
5/14/18 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: SZA – Broken Clocks
Broken Clocks is by singer-songwriter SZA. It was released as a promotional single on June 2, 2017, from SZA’s debut studio album Ctrl.It was written by SZA and produced by Cody Fayne, as well as embodying portions of West, written by Thomas Paxton Beesley, Adam Feeney and Daniel Caeser. Continue reading
5/13/18 O&A NYC DANCE: Mother (Isadora Duncan c. 1923)
Loretta Thomas performs Mother featuring choreography by Isadora Duncan (c. 1923) with music by Alexander Scriabin. Duncan bore two children, both out of wedlock. The first, Deirdre Beatrice (born September 24, 1906), by theatre designer Gordon Craig and the second, Patrick Augustus (born May 1, 1910),by Paris Singer, one of the many sons of sewing machine magnate Isaac Singer. Both children drowned in the care of their nanny in 1913 when their runaway car went into the Seine River in Paris.
Mother (Isadora Duncan c. 1923)
In her autobiography, Duncan relates that she begged a young Italian stranger, the sculptor Romano Romanelli, to sleep with her because she was desperate for another baby. She became pregnant by him, and gave birth to a son on August 13, 1914; the infant died shortly after birth.