The title of this post is taken from Phil Collins’ I Wish It Would Rain Down. It was released at the beginning of the 90s, six years before he left the band Genesis, and it features Eric Clapton on the guitar. This track is one of Phil Collins’ well known singles from his fifth solo album …But Seriosly. Another great single from this album is Another Day in Paradise.
I Wish It Would Rain was influenced by the problems he faced during the creation of the album; from society, his father, and his second wife.
Phil Collins Trivia
Originally, Phil began his music career as a drummer not as a lead vocalist
He married and divorced 3 times and has 5 children (4 own, 1 adopted).
Phil terminated his solo career in 2003, and reunited and toured with Genesis in 2007.
The track I chose for these two weeks is Katherine McPhee’s single I Know What Boys Like, a cover produced for The House Bunny(also referred to as I Know What Boys Like) movie.
This movie was released in August produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions.
Anna Faris stars as Shelley, an orphan who becomes and lives her perfect life as a Playboy Bunny, until she turns twenty seven. The day after her twenty seventh birthday, Shelley received a letter which is believed to be from Hugh Hefner, asking her to leave the mansion with her belongings in two hours. Later on the film shows you that the letter wasn’t really written by Hugh Hefner but by a jealous Playboy Bunny. The film continues by showing how Shelley manages to live and how she deals with, a hard life outside her perfect life at the Playboy Mansion…
Some celebrities that star in this move are Hugh Hefner, Hefner’s Playboy Bunnies, Anna Faris (from My Super Ex-Girlfriend) and Katherine McPhee (American Idol), Colin Hanks (son of the actor Tom Hanks) and Rumor Willis (daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore).
An official soundtrack wasn’t planned to be realesed. Katherine McPhee’s track, was released on iTunes this July, and it was covered from the 1980s I Know What Boys Like track, released by The Waitresses in 1982.
Today, on the news i heard that Miriam Makeba, who is also known as Mama Afrika, died yesterday at the age of 76. She died of a heart attack, after performing in a concert in Italy. Although i know about many music and artists of the past, i did not know who is Mama Afrika until i found a song which i and most probably you too heard many times. The song is called “Pata Pata“ and as i was planning to begin a weekly or monthly post about past and present music tracks, I will begin with this song as a tribute to Mama Afrika…
Finally, it happened! About a month ago, DjToby and Kristina Casolani released their new track called “Traces“, and every week it climbed a place in Malta’s Top 10 charts. Yesterday, it got to No.1 on the Malta’s Top 10 charts and today it got No.10 on Bay’s Top 40 charts.
Traces was composed and produced by DjToby & Kristina Casolani, taken from Sandro Vella’s concept for the forthcoming Maltese TV drama TRACESLAND, which is produced by rollDdice and will be shown on OneTV in January 2009.
The track can be downloaded for FREE either from the drama series’ website (TRACESLAND.com with lyrics) or from Kristina Casolani’s website (KristinaCasolani.com).
About TRACESLAND:
“A new drama series, with a twist, that will be aired from January 2009 on local television.The script is original and is written by Sandro Vella, while the artistic direction is in the good hands of Lawrence Buontempo…
Carefully hand-picked a good balance of established actors while also giving the opportunity to new local talent…
TRACESLAND is targeted towards a particular crowd… it’s a psychological thriller, with a good dose of reality, and sometimes, to a certain extent, it evolves into a documentary, with real life stories, that happen around us all the time, even on this tiny rock, while at the same time, the plot is intertwined into the realms of fiction.” (rollDdice)
What you think about Traces? Do you think it will remain No.1 on the Maltese Charts?
Today, Britney Spears released on radio her new single Womanizer from her forthcoming studio album Circus. Before Womanizer’s release, a 40 seconds clip was leaked in a Nashville radio station. The DJ who played the leaked track was fined a sum of $250,000 (approx. Euro 172,000) by Jive Records and was also suspended from his work. The track wasn’t final when it was leaked as it still needed some improvements before release.
The official video has still to be released, and the track will be released for downloading or buying from October 7th.
For now you can listen to Womanizer through this blog or by requesting it on radio stations, and when the official video gets released, it will be embedded in this post.
Update 11.10.2008:
The video was premiered yesterday on ABC, and is featured below. It is directed by the same director of Stronger and Toxic videos. In my opinion, the video is similar to the Toxic video. Same as in Toxic, we see 3 types of Britney (a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead), also as in Toxic, she is seen nearly completely nude. One also can see the same Toxic fat guy (the one she spills the drink on) in Womanizer (the one seen in the photocopier room). Through this video Britney is showing her viewers that she really got back in shape now!
The title of this post is taken from Phil Collins’ I Wish It Would Rain Down. It was released at the beginning of the 90s, six years before he left the band Genesis, and it features Eric Clapton on the guitar. This track is one of Phil Collins’ well known singles from his fifth solo album …But Seriosly. Another great single from this album is Another Day in Paradise.
Today, Britney Spears released on radio her new single 
The official video has still to be released, and the track will be released for downloading or buying from October 7th.
