It has been 40 years since that night when Madonna took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards wearing the iconic wedding dress for her performance of “Like a Virgin.”
From the early 1980s, many rappers have tried their hand at acting, playing themselves or characters designed to leave an indelible impression in the memory, often contributing to the very success of the film.
The live at Circo Massimo of Rome was a surreal experience and will remain in memory for a long time, like all live shows involving Travis Scott, for better or worse.
The whole record goes into a deep, dark spiral inhabited in the rapper’s mind, which brings dormant emotions to the surface with clarity and lucidity. Utopia is a record of the present, with few hints of the past or future, without the proverbial dark nostalgia of Astroworld, but just as sharp.
There was a brief shift from the almost exclusively sporty style of the rappers, who wore famous brands such as adidas and Puma, to the search for something more adherent to hip hop culture, which had to explicate, with the immediacy of an outfit, being moved from rags to riches. And, from this point of view, the Preppy was perfectly corresponding to the American dream of wealth and affluence.
On 21 April 2016, the world lost one of the most original and influential artists in the history of Pop music: in this editorial we look back at some of his revolutions that in some way changed the course of events, in the music world and beyond.
Ryūichi Sakamoto was a gentle Samurai who contaminated two worlds – Eastern and Western – with his music, while maintaining a proverbial discretion and humility, typical of the Japanese people.
The animated film is considered one of the best feature-length manga films of the past 20 years: a work that manages to lightly blend sublime music, animation, pathos, caledoscopic colors and emotions.
Through vinyl covers, musicians are able to distill the ethos and sounds inherent in the album, triggering the curiosity of those who must purchase it, into a physical and visual representation.
Although Hip Hop is stereotypically about sexual attraction, money, and drugs, artists often create songs that are also about the feeling of love: and those are among the most beautiful of all.
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