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Queen bee here a this week i will be addin' a discussion forum. i will post the topic of the week then you comment how you feel about it.
Topic
How do you feel about Kylie Jenner, 17, dating Tyga, 25?
Queen B Says
Queen B says : Go Buy Mariah Carey's New Album "#1 to Infinity". If you love all of her greatest hits, this album is for you. So make sure you go get it, and it also includes the controversial song she wrote about her Husband, Infinity.
Queen B says : Go Buy Zedd's new album "True Colors" It is absolutely amazing, and if you loved the song he did with Selena Gomez, "I Want You to Know', you are going to love this album.
Queen Bee says : Check Out Alesso's New Album Forever. If you like the song Heroes feat Tove Lo, this album is going to blow your mind.
Queen Bee says : Go buy Jamie Foxx's New Album, Hollywood: A Story of A Dozen Roses. The album debuted at number ten on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. So make sure you guy buy it.
Albums To Come
Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin (June 9th)
Adam Lambert - The Original High( June 12th)
Hilary Duff - Breathe in, Breathe Out (June 16th)
Tori Kelly - Unbreakable Smile (June 23rd)
Carly Rae Jepsen - E·MO·TION (June 24th)
Queen Bee's Theater
Show to watch : Jane the Virgin
Jane is a religious young Latina who is a waitress in a hotel in Miami. Her life takes a big turn for the unexpected when her doctor (Dr. Luisa Alver) mistakenly artificially inseminates her during her checkup. The biological father is a married man named Rafeal Solao, who is a cancer survivor and a former playboy. He is the new owner of the hotel where Jane works. Petra, Rafael's amoral and scheming wife, learns of the mistake and plots her own agenda. Can Jane go pass the drama, and do whats right for her?
Movie to watch : Hot Pursuit
An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
Reality show to watch: Dance Moms
This Season of Dance Moms is absolutely Hot mostly because its set it sunny LA. But whats even more sizzling is all of the drama.
Queen B's Spotlight: Ciara - "Jackie"
Motherhood has often brought out the best in your fave pop stars. Mariah, M.I.A., Madonna, Kelis, Beyoncé: all have stellar postpartum releases to their names, with some explicitly riffing on the theme, and others signaling a shift—sometimes patronizingly referred to as more 'mature'—in sound. These albums all sound very different, but they form a sort of collective statement that motherhood isn't some aesthetic, thematic or musical purgatory for women. We are not content, these working women say, on being aged out, or matron-ized, by the youth-oriented trajectory of the industry.
"Man, I just delivered a nine-pound, 10-ounce baby. I'm a bad motherfucker," Ciara drawls on "Jackie (B.M.F.)", the explosive intro track on her sixth album, Jackie. Named after her own mother, Jackie doesn't necessarily shift Ciara's sound so much as a frame it with a faint redemption narrative, centered around the birth of her baby and her breakup with rapper and erstwhile ex Future. "You actin' like you upgrading me, I upgraded you/ You and me at Fashion Week in Paris, I put you onto that new," goes the album's first single, the breakup ballad "I Bet". But Ciara's never been much for album-length statements. Instead the ATL-reared R&B pop star, best known for her sensuous, studious approach to choreography, has created a career by rewiring the city's full throttle hip-hop motifs into club-friendly pop.
Jackie doesn't do much to allay the feeling, which has followed her for her whole career, that there's better R&B pop out there. But instead of positioning herself against Rihanna—who is only just starting to really find her vocal strength, and who is decidedly not a dancer—or Beyoncé (ha ha), Ciara is content to be a reliable mainstay, a translator of Atlanta's ever-shifting avant-garde and the constant bringer of high-energy dance anthems. She's innovative within her own framework: Before Beyoncé started dabbling with bars, Ciara was already rapping on 2013's "Super Turnt Up" and the album-less Mike WiLL Made It single, "Wake Up, No Make-Up".
The problems with Jackie, a serviceable record that gets better with multiple listens, is that unlike her previous releases it's more heavily focused on paint-by-numbers Dr. Luke electro. And, an even bigger problem—and this is where Ciara has always faltered—is that it hints at a storyline, but doesn't go deeper. Moms totally care about more than just being moms, but consider that Ciara's records are also too often about nothing at all, and it's hard not to wish she'd gone into more depth. It's an opportunity and, again, on Jackie, she doesn't take it. There's a song called "Lullaby" that's not about a baby but tucking a lover in for the evening. The actual lullaby comes toward the very end, with "I Got You"; she sings "Hush, Little Baby" while Future Zahir gurgles the outro.
There are interesting moments: the hesitant merging of post-ratchet trap and drum and bass on "B.M.F.", the Niles Rodgers-esque retro-soul bounce of "Kiss & Tell", and her beatific, waxy vocal performance on "That's How I'm Feelin'" and "Fly". Both are pillowy Polow Da Don electro-lite bangers—the former featuring Pitbull and Missy Elliott—referencing early Ciara, like the jock-jam energy of "1, 2 Step". For Jackie's deluxe edition, Ciara calls upon Joe Jonas to switch up the dewy, gloriously shady "I Bet", featuring imitation-Future yelps and adlibs. And second single "Dance Like We're Making Love", is a gorgeous, sleek midtempo track, similar to Frank Ocean's "Novocane" but with a bigger, airier hook.
She carried her last album cycle off a slow jam about a very public romance ("Body Party"), but "I Bet" just isn't as strong. Jackie's best moments come on those Polow power jams, when the music imitates the explosiveness of Ciara's movement. What would've made Jackie better than the last album—what would've given her the edge that her peers maintain—is some insight behind Ciara's redemption songs.
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"Man, I just delivered a nine-pound, 10-ounce baby. I'm a bad motherfucker," Ciara drawls on "Jackie (B.M.F.)", the explosive intro track on her sixth album, Jackie. Named after her own mother, Jackie doesn't necessarily shift Ciara's sound so much as a frame it with a faint redemption narrative, centered around the birth of her baby and her breakup with rapper and erstwhile ex Future. "You actin' like you upgrading me, I upgraded you/ You and me at Fashion Week in Paris, I put you onto that new," goes the album's first single, the breakup ballad "I Bet". But Ciara's never been much for album-length statements. Instead the ATL-reared R&B pop star, best known for her sensuous, studious approach to choreography, has created a career by rewiring the city's full throttle hip-hop motifs into club-friendly pop.
Jackie doesn't do much to allay the feeling, which has followed her for her whole career, that there's better R&B pop out there. But instead of positioning herself against Rihanna—who is only just starting to really find her vocal strength, and who is decidedly not a dancer—or Beyoncé (ha ha), Ciara is content to be a reliable mainstay, a translator of Atlanta's ever-shifting avant-garde and the constant bringer of high-energy dance anthems. She's innovative within her own framework: Before Beyoncé started dabbling with bars, Ciara was already rapping on 2013's "Super Turnt Up" and the album-less Mike WiLL Made It single, "Wake Up, No Make-Up".
The problems with Jackie, a serviceable record that gets better with multiple listens, is that unlike her previous releases it's more heavily focused on paint-by-numbers Dr. Luke electro. And, an even bigger problem—and this is where Ciara has always faltered—is that it hints at a storyline, but doesn't go deeper. Moms totally care about more than just being moms, but consider that Ciara's records are also too often about nothing at all, and it's hard not to wish she'd gone into more depth. It's an opportunity and, again, on Jackie, she doesn't take it. There's a song called "Lullaby" that's not about a baby but tucking a lover in for the evening. The actual lullaby comes toward the very end, with "I Got You"; she sings "Hush, Little Baby" while Future Zahir gurgles the outro.
There are interesting moments: the hesitant merging of post-ratchet trap and drum and bass on "B.M.F.", the Niles Rodgers-esque retro-soul bounce of "Kiss & Tell", and her beatific, waxy vocal performance on "That's How I'm Feelin'" and "Fly". Both are pillowy Polow Da Don electro-lite bangers—the former featuring Pitbull and Missy Elliott—referencing early Ciara, like the jock-jam energy of "1, 2 Step". For Jackie's deluxe edition, Ciara calls upon Joe Jonas to switch up the dewy, gloriously shady "I Bet", featuring imitation-Future yelps and adlibs. And second single "Dance Like We're Making Love", is a gorgeous, sleek midtempo track, similar to Frank Ocean's "Novocane" but with a bigger, airier hook.
She carried her last album cycle off a slow jam about a very public romance ("Body Party"), but "I Bet" just isn't as strong. Jackie's best moments come on those Polow power jams, when the music imitates the explosiveness of Ciara's movement. What would've made Jackie better than the last album—what would've given her the edge that her peers maintain—is some insight behind Ciara's redemption songs.
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Queen B's iTunes Favorites
Queen B's Top 5
1. Black Magic - Little Mix
Little Mix has been holding out on us for new songs, but when this song was released I realized that it was worth the wait. Its a perfect mix of funk and pop. Its super flirty, and its the perfect spell to cure your love. The song is about if you have a boyfriend that’s losing interest in you in favor of more popular girls and if you’re still looking for Mr. Right after a long time or think that “that boy” you’ve been laying eyes on for a while could be the one but he doesn’t pay you attention. Little Mix has the perfect cure for that, and that is Black Magic of course. I love this song. I think I replayed it about 17x. Girls we have to make “Black Magic” our #1 go-to anthem. right?
2. Bad Blood - Taylor Swift feat Kendrick Lamar
3. Pretty Girls - Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea
4. Sparks - Hilary Duff
Initially you would think the song is about physical attraction to the opposite sex, and you get that amazing feeling/connection and you just feel sparks. Well Hilary made that pretty obvious in this amazing songs, and even more than you would think. The song is a pop song like most her material, and it also written by Tove Lo so you know the lyrics are tight. The song is the theme song for her new show "Younger". "Sparks" has a more mature tone to Hilary than we haven seen before, and if her "Comeback" album is as good as this I think I have to pre-order it on iTunes.
5. Poison - Rita Ora
Rita Ora brings something different with her new song "Poison". Its dark, and edgy. Its very relatable to someone not necessarily in a toxic relationship, but a relationship thats just not right. Its just strong, and I love it. She recently released the video to go with the video, and it was also worth watching.
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