Diva Dish for the Merry Month of May

According to Us magazine, Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence puked on the carpet at Madonna's Oscar night after-party. The American Hustle Best Supporting Actress nominee was so drunk by the time of that event, she retched right in public, the Oscar-winning song of the night, "Let It Go," perhaps influencing her. Miley Cyrus was passing by and snarked, "Pull it together, girl!" Hell, when Miley Cyrus tells you to pull it together, you know you're a hot mess.

No mention of who cleaned up the upchuck but it most probably was not Jennifer, Madge or Miley.

Disco diva France Joli, meanwhile, is now on Off-Broadway in the show, My Big Gay Italian Funeral. Last year, the singer debuted in My Big Gay Italian Wedding. She performs her timeless hit "Come To Me" in the show. I had the pleasure of interviewing France Joli last November:
http://blabittobeaverhausen.blogspot.com/2013/11/dj-buddy-beaverhausen-comes-to-france.html

'60s diva Lesley Gore just celebrated her 68th birthday... and she still hasn't gotten over that damned party when Judy fooled around with Johnny. The girl-group era songbird still performs and enthralls with songs old and new. I saw her a few years back at Joe's Pub, where none other than iconic radio jockey Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow) was in the audience. Happy Birthday, Lesley Sue Goldstein!
http://djbuddybeaverhausen.blogspot.com/2013/05/lesley-gore-its-her-birthday-and-shell.html

And rumor has it that silver screen divas Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange were attached to make a cable tv-movie about the making of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Sarandon as Bette Davis (because she has Bette Davis eyes) and Lange as co-star/rival Joan Crawford. The idea was pitched to HBO but was rejected. Hard to believe since both actresses were notably in previous HBO films, with Lange winning an Emmy for Grey Gardens.

Gray LeBlanc now has a Facebook petition page you can go to. 

Welcome to my petition page for Jessica Lange & Susan Sarandon to star in Ryan Murphy's ''The Making of...What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.'' This was brought to HBO by Murphy and turned down. I have written a lengthy email to the head of HBO programming, Michael Lombardo (Michael.lombardo@hbo.com) on the matter. Lange has contributed GREATLY to HBO with ''Grey Gardens.'' Sarandon has also contributed w/both ''Bernard and Doris'' and "You Don't Know Jack.'' It's a travesty for HBO to pass on this script, with these ladies, at this point in perspective their careers. They have both paved the way for fantastic HBO movies past and future, and that's why this makes me sick!, writes LeBlanc on his Page.

You can visit it and be part of the grass-roots protest. I'm certain there'd be much interest in this project. I say, shop it around! After all, HBO isn't the only fish in the sea.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/269238183246016/

I'll be back next week with more divas' dirty linen. Meanwhile, I wish all you diva worshippers a month of May as fabulous as the goddess of your choice!

Eye on This Week's Billboard

Here what's new and interesting to me on the Billboard dance music hit parade this week.

At the top of the Top 25 Dance Club Songs list, Britney Spears' refreshing hip-hopper, "Work Bitch" is at number 2, likely to supplant Rihanna's "What Now" in the top spot next week. What now? You're about to get booted from ruling the roost. You better work, bitch.

Katy Perry's "Roar," which peaked at #1, holds on to the 7th spot in a slow descent, having held strong on the chart for 9 weeks now. At #9, we find the downwardly mobile "Lose Yourself to Dance," a great retro-disco/funk number from Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams and the legendary Nile Rodgers. It's been aboard the chart for a robust 10 weeks and also peaked at #1.

Icona Pop's "All Night" climbs to #21 this week. Sports the awesome Wayne G/Leo Frappier remix and we can thank Sobel Promotions (https://www.facebook.com/groups/SobelPromotions/) for aiding and abetting this refreshingly snappy girl duo's U.S. dance-chart rise. Just interviewed Leo and we discussed, among other topics, this song. http://blabittobeaverhausen.blogspot.com/2013/11/exclusive-q-with-leo-frappier.html

"Wrecking Ball," twerks it into the #15 spot this week, coming up fast with dancefloor mixes galore that buoy the Miley Cyrus tune on the Bangerz label upward. Expect this "Ball" to rise.

A shout out to readers: Thank you, North America, the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Brazil, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Australia, China, Russia and Ukraine, especially. Dance music is a great uniter. Support your clubs and dance for peace, love and ~ most of all ~ happiness! Spread it around.

Nothing Compares to Dueling Divas

It is Dj Buddy Beaverhausen's humble opinion that Sinead O'Connor was offering Miley Cyrus maternal advice when she told the upstart not to let herself "be pimped" by the music business' industrial machine. The 19-year-old diva of the moment invited this as she cited O'Connor as an influence, after all. However, even her famously mullet-haired dad is an enabler right now, suggesting no publicity is bad publicity. In the long run, that might not turn out to be true.

Miley, however, basically blew her so-called idol off, telling her to fuck off, in essence, dismissively replying to O'Connor that she was too busy to respond further, and taking to Twitter to compare Sinead to troubled starlet Amanda Bynes, including a screen-grab of O’Connor’s public 2012 meltdown.

Sinead then responded with a vengeance to the point of getting litigious:

Miley… Really? Who the f*k is advising you? Because taking me on is even more f*kin' stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism. You have posted today tweets of mine which are two years old... posted by me when I was unwell and seeking help so as to make them look like they are recent. In doing so you mock myself and Amanda Bynes for having suffered with mental health issues and for having sought help.... Remove your tweets immediately or you will hear from my lawyers. I am certain you will be hearing from all manner of mental health advocacy groups also. It is not acceptable to mock any person for having suffered. It is most unbecoming of you to respond in such a fashion to someone who expressed care for you.

Is Miley our next Lindsay Lohan?

My advice to Miley and from my own personal experience: Don't piss off the Irish! In the meanwhile, twirk the publicity, ladies!

On My Turntables Sept. 27, 2013

Kristine W's back with a new club number that has "HIT" written all over it. You'll drop your cosmos, dahlings, and head straight to the disco floor when Ms W belts out "SoClosetoMe." This is outstanding diva-driven club music the way it always should be. She has a slew of fab remixers, my faves being the Todd Terry Main Mix, especially, and the Tony Moran Destination Club Mix.

Another fab diva returns with a Whitney cover that's tops. Ms Barbara Tucker joins producers The Cube Guys for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody." Cube Guys' original version is pumpin' with poz energy, but you can't get better than David Morales' Pride Anthem Mix. Does the name of this mix tell you where he's going to take us? You won't be able to sit this one out, believe me.

Miley Cyrus, "Wrecking Ball." Holy Hannah Montana, did she get our attention at the MTV Video Music Awards with her performance! As I've said before, the Paul Ruiz remix was fantastic.  Many of the dance mixes out are not as successful; just a bunch of busy noise. The Edson Pride/Sweet Beatz Project remix isn't bad, but I'll stick with Ruiz if I really feel the need to spin this.

Gabry Ponte's Funk & Love do-over of "I Will Survive" is a great, respectful  remix of Gloria Gaynor's eternal classic. Probably not for peak hour but maintains the integrity of the song that will definitely draw people to the floor, plus full of both Funk and Love as promised by its remix title.

Disco most certainly is still in style if UK"s Irish Colleens, The Saturdays, have named their latest song "Disco Love," although the song is more HiNRG in style rather than disco. Fave mix: Starlab Disco Club Mix. Runner-up: Wideboys Extended Mix. In any event, a catchy tune from the dance-music girl group.

Buddy B thanks my blog's audience in the US, of course, but also in the Ukraine, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Romania, Russia, Italy, Poland, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Thailand, and welcome Bangladesh! Take to the dancefloors, share the music, let unity and love, peace and harmony take over our planet. We are one world! SoClose.

Attached below, the original mix of Kristine W's "SoClosetoMe." (And dig those back-up vocals!)

Twerkin' It on the Disco Round with Miley Cyrus

Twerk it, bitches!

Express from Barbara Sobel and Sobel Promotions:

"Love her or hate her.... we are all talking about her!
Here is Miley Cyrus' latest 'Wrecking Ball' remixed by Saul Ruiz.
Soon you will all be discussing Saul's remix as much as Miley!"

Seriously terrific remixing this Hot Mess around by the incredible Saul Ruiz. This mix will bring you to the dancefloor, bitches! So, twerk it!

https://soundcloud.com/sobelpromotionsmusic/miley-cyrus-wrecking-ball-saul/s-C1VzV 

 

Miley's Moment of Shock and Awe

Quel horreur! Miley Cyrus decided to go all-out, desperate, headline-grabbing skanky last night, like the lowliest of crack-hos, at the Video Music Awards. To think, this event was taking place only a few subway stops from where I live in Brooklyn (in Barclay's Center).  I thought I felt something slaggy in the night air! Zoot aleurs, me darlin's! I felt like I had to take a shower after watching the viral video (now deleted, it seems, from YouTube).

Well, if attention Miley wanted, attention she got. Question is: will this serve her well in the long run? She certainly stole the spotlight from Lady Gaga and Katy Perry for the night! Booty-bumping, grinding her ass into co-performer Robin Thicke's crotch after she stripped down to a bikini (as if to test his thickeness), her sleaze factor went off the filthometer! Miley's tongue lolled about from her leering ruby lips as if she were having a seizure. All in all, she almost made Ke$ha look Puritanical. Especially when she used the foam-hand, big pointing finger in a faux-masturbatory manner! Good Lord, is nothing off-bounds? Sacre bleu! Even Madonna must have been aghast, grinding her newly bejeweled teeth! (While taking notes.)

Reception was mostly negative to say the least. Cyndi Lauper decided there was a limit to girls just wanting to have fun! Reported E! online: "'That was girl gone wild. So sad, so sad....

"'She's in a song that literally says that the blurred lines allowed you to—when a woman says no, she means yes—and that's frightful because that's date rape,'" noted Lauper.

"The 'She Bop' singer wasn't done, however. 'And there she is, a young twentysomething trying to prove she can hang with the big boys and girls, you know, basically simulating a Girl Gone Wild video onstage. And I just felt like that was so beneath her and raunchy, really raunchy,' added Lauper. 'It wasn't even art.'"

Adam Lambert dissented, also according to E!: "Listen if it wasn't ur cup of tea—all good but why is everyone spazzing? Hey—she's doin something right. We all talking,"