NEW DANCE MUSIC AWARDS SHOW BEING PLANNED IN THE USA
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With a collection of GRAMMYs to Skrillex’s name and the dance music bubble never being stronger, old mate Dick Clark Productions (DCP) has had a light bulb moment and decided it would be a wise idea to start an EDM/dance music only music awards show.
For those who don’t know who Dick Clark productions are, these guys are the ones behind the Golden Globes, American Music Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards.
A big part of this push is because of the effectiveness of live programming. In the money focused side of EDM and it’s festy looking commercial glaze, it would be considered a more lucrative investment for advertisers, especially with their flourishing viewership legally and illegally streamed. Our question is can DCP get the right people in the industry behind the idea to make it successful?
Beside the point above, it all just sounds like a good time for DJ’s and DJ’s managers to start beefs, kind of like Diploand DJ Bl3nds. Hilarity!
'Shameless' Star Emmy Rossum on Avoiding Skrillex's Mosh Pit, Making Out to 'Wonderwall'
Emmy Rossum / Photo by Sam Jones
The actress-singer shares the soundtrack to her life.
The multi-talented Emmy Rossum could use a breather. It's a good thing then, that the Showtime network's Shameless,
on which she plays a dutiful sister holding a family of miscreants
together in Chicago, just tied a bow on its third season. Earlier this
very busy year the New York City native dropped her second full-length
album, the standards collection Sentimental Journey. While back in her hometown, the singer-actress cleared some space in her schedule to chat about her life in music. What's your favorite song?Probably "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid
because that was the first song I loved as a kid. When I hear it, I try
to take it out of the Disney context and just think of the sentiment of
the song. It's a very sweet one. When you were growing up did your parents object to anything you were listening to?Spice Girls. What was wrong with the Spice Girls?My
mom thought it was crap. I was singing in a classical children's chorus
when I was seven so I was exposed to so much classical music at a young
age; that's what I would hear when I came home. My mom was playing
these standards from the '20s to the '60s and that influenced my
listening. So she didn't like Spice Girls What song do you associate with your first kiss?"Wonderwall" by Oasis. The guy I was kissing told me, "I think this song is about drugs" and then we made out. What was the last concert you went to?I was at Jay-Z's Made In America
festival last year. I saw Skrillex and he was so awesome. It was so
fun, though I thought I was going to be killed by the moshing! So you got down in there in the madness?I stayed away mostly. Skrillex had a whole light show going — it was pretty amazing. Who on the set of Shameless has a musical taste that's similar to yours?[Shameless co-star] Justin Chatwin and I both like stuff like Passion Pit and M83. William H. Macy also plays the ukulele on set. Often?He
has it with him every day, always picking a cute tune over in the
corner. The guys who play the drunks in our bar on-set are all musicians
too and sometimes they'll break out guitars and have a jam session with
Macy. Who's music has helped you over a breakup or through a dark time?I
could be corny and say Celine Dion but it's really more like David
Gray. I used to really like his earlier stuff and its very nostalgic and
comforting. I also think food and music can also go hand in hand when
nursing a broken heart so, like, grilled cheese and some ice cream, too.
Lots of dairy and David Gray. Do you have a go-to karaoke song?"Girls
Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. I really can't mess up the
words if I'm drunk. You just sing the chorus and then kind of blah, blah, blah your way through it and you're golden.
