From The New York Times:
Kate Bush Has Permission to Use Words of James Joyce
More than twenty years after being denied the rights to use Molly Bloom’s famed soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses in a song, Kate Bush has finally received permission from his estate and intends to rework the title song from her 1989 album The Sensual World for the release of her first album in six years, Director’s Cut (listen to the first single). This isn’t the first time Bush has incorporated classic literature into her music. Check out her interpretive dance-athon music video for “Wuthering Heights” below.
From The Bay Citizen:
Heklina Goes Backstage with Britney
As you probably already know, Britney Spears paid San Francisco a visit to use the gays…I mean, to perform for her fans at a Good Morning America taping. Thankfully for us, San Francisco’s most fabulous drag queen, Heklina, got the behind the scenes scoop and spills the goods, such as when a producer from ABC said “We don’t want the drag queens in the shot.” Speaking of Ms. Spears, Slate has shockingly called her new album “an avant-garde pop masterpiece.” Apparently shaving off all your hair works wonders.