Word: divas
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...21st century, the Internet has opened up the world to itself. In the distant past--say, three years ago--global-music fans had to wait for a record label to decide whether to distribute a foreign artist in their country. South African diva Brenda Fassie's last three CDs weren't picked up by American distributors, despite the fact that they were best sellers in Africa. Today, Internet file-sharing services allow users to listen to whatever they want, anywhere they choose, anytime they please. (And Fassie's Stateside appeal is recognized by some: Banana Republic plays her song Vuli...
...yourself as a diva...
...most recent victim of this summer’s new trend of celebrity freak-outs is everyone’s favorite scantily clad diva of age, Mariah Carey. After a bizarre strip show on TRL and numerous accounts of getting silenced by her publicist, the rumored paramour of Eminem left the ramblings of a crazy on her fan site before checking into a rehab center. Her publicist has since assured fans that she was merely suffering from “extreme exhaustion” and those bandages were simply the result of “accidentally” cutting herself...
...Young, up-and-coming soul diva Alicia Keys was holding it down for real talent at the ceremony - she wailed, she tinkled the ivories, she looked stylish, she pretty much did it all. Still, the instrumental mix on her performance was somewhat overdone; the drums and keyboards were cranked up so high they nearly drowned out all the soul. Keys' performance would have been more striking had it been just her and a piano up on stage. She had more than 20 backup singers, which is about 20 more than any real vocalist really needs. U2 gave a steady...
...most part don't get along. That's what makes it so interesting," says third-ranked Davenport, 25, the 1998 Open winner. And she's right. Try to get the women to pose for a magazine cover en masse and you wonder how VH1 pulls off that diva show every year. "Serena is a lot more friendly than Venus, but Martina [Hingis] is not talking to either of them," said Davenport in May, before Hingis and the Williamses reached a detente. "Anna and Martina were both going for the same market, and that didn't work. They...