Robot Love: Music + technology

What's up with all the robot love, lately?
I mean, didn't Jay-Z, like, kill autotune last year? (Dont' tell this guy)
More pronounced recently is the marriage of robotic imagery and our fave women music stars:
The Beybot X1

Beyonce donned a whole cyborg thingy at an awards show a few years back. Was she ahead of her time? And who can forget the cyborg hand?

Going Gaga for Robots

Lady Gaga, who I'm convinced is the secret love child of "Sweet Dreams" singer Annie Lennox and Madonna,  turned the futuristic robotic thing way up with her interesting fashion sense.


Ciara-3PO?

And who can forget the most futuristic, sonically speaking, of them all, Ciara? Cici has devoted her whole music catalog to tech-friendly sounds and hasn't been afraid to venture out into bold territory. I guess that "Love, Sex and Magic" stuff is worth something, huh?



Rihanna: Bionic lady

Rihanna, an island chick to the core, has been stepping up her futuristic thing lately. Although being fondled by a robot may not qualify, the "Umbrella" star has realized the need to come of more technologically advanced.



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Lady Gaga invades Japan

Lady Gaga recently appeared on a Japanese TV show, and, well, she's bigger than Godzilla over there.
Well, almost.
The Poker-faced music star is riding high after the successful "Telephone" video that borrowed heavily from Tarantino, who borrows heavily from the Japanese.
Gaga was in rare form in the Asian country,even sporting a tattoo that literally read, "I love Litte Monster." No word if she was referring to a love child with a litigation-hurling ex.


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Beyonce Kicks Off House of Dereon Ad Push

With a killer album done, a monster tour finished, and a gaga video all wrapped up, Beyonce is turning her attention to her mother's first love: The House of Dereon.
If a big ad campaign is any indication, the Creole-flavored fashion house is coming out this summer with a vengeance, and Mathew and Tina's eldest daughter will be the face of it all.
Look for sister Solange to lend an assist, but it will be just cursory compared to the glam that Bey and Mrs. Tina have in store.
This is not the first time that Bey has pushed TeamFamily. But Mama Tina Knowles, who filed for divorce last year, has had time to put alot of thought into the House of Dereon's spring and summer offerings.
Don't expect to see anything you've seen before, if Beyonce's recent fashions are any clue.
But then again, she has been hanging out with the fashion equivalent of an electric chair lately.



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Beyonce, Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' rings loud

The sizzling hot phenomenom which is for henceforth called BeGaga has altered space and time as we know it with their 9-minute epic video for "Telephone".
Beyonce, at her Sasha'ing best, brings the muscle; Lady Gaga the wired brains as two of music's biggest females debuted their hit song to enormous results on the Web. Some music TV channels have banned the video due to suggestive and downright odd sensual scenes.
But not Youtube. The clip is on pace to become the most-watched video on the Internet. Ever.
Talk about girl power.
Watch.



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GooGoo over Baby GaGa?

Eight-year-old Lauren Fontana has got quite the Poker Face. She's got Brazilian TV in a tizzy over her over-the-top antics in a grown-up way. What do you think? Should little kids be paraded in front of hundreds of screaming adults, much less national television, and be seen as entertainment?





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Rise of the camera-phone photographer

Used to be when you wanted to "make a picture" (as they say down South) you had to send it in to be developed into a Space Station 13-type pod at the Kodak store or local pharmacy. That is, if you didn't have your own developing room, a pitch-black room illuminated with a scary red light and consumed with the smell of old bread and skunk pee.
But that's what it took to be a photographer, an art form that paid off big time in the form of magazines, posters and photo albums.
But with the rise of the do-it-all camera, photography is being set back a 100 years. Not only are people not interested in the "science" and "art" of photo-taking (quick, what does aperture mean?) but people are snapping photos with the phone in them.
It's become so common place that the art of photography as we know it is slowly dying. Curse you, Internet!

Ivana and Jess "Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" (Lady Gaga

Beyonce upstages Lady GaGa in 'Video Phone'

Well, Lady Gaga had her first real opportunity to shine next to a luminary, and she kinda fell back big time. In the "Video Phone" video, directed by Hype Williams, the woman known for the most outrageous outfits was upstaged by Beyonce in every clip. The homages to Hollywood were evident when the clip came on and you would have figured that it was just up Lady Gaga's alley right? Wrong.
She played it straight. This is a woman that had blood curdling out her chest at the VMAs and she's with a filmmaker who gets off on blatant color orgies, and she shoots her shot with a white dress on.

Other than that, the song is just okay, but the video really signals the return of Wiliams, who's been kinda low key lately. Check the video out in the right rail.

Lady GaGa: The Best Right Now?

A woman by the name of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has the music world in her palm right now. Yeah, I said it. Not Beyonce, not RiRi, but Miss Germanotta, better known as Lady GaGa.
Lady GaGa is the No. 1-selling female of digital music in 2009. She has brought together the electronica camps all across the globe, and most importantly, she puts on a show.
GaGa is a walking fashion billboard, with styles that could easily fit into a "Blade Runner" stage play.
I can hear the critics now, "Can she sing?" they say.
"Do you have to" these days? is my response.
She's got the crown, who's gonna take it?

Leela Hot "Wonderful" (Lady Gaga)

Is Beyonce Biting off Lady GaGa?

We don't want to get into swag-jackin' but alot of similar props and outfits on the recent Beyonce tour are looking mighty Lady GaGa-ish. Just sayin'.