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Alanis Morissette And Five Other Singers Who Should Act More
2:40AM Richard Lawson | Alanis Morissette—angry/thoughtful lady-pop voice of the 90s—sometimes acts. She showed up as God in Dogma and a bisexual on Sex and the City. And now she’s appearing on Weeds for seven episodes. And we’re pretty happy about it. More »
Jack White/Alicia Keys ‘007′ Theme May Leave You Shaken, Not Stirred
8:50AM Kyle Buchanan | Though a brief, instrumental version of the new James Bond theme was released alongside a Coca-Cola commercial last week, it’s only now that we can hear the full, yowling power of the Jack White/Alicia Keys duet entitled “Another Way to Die.” Equal parts hair metal, Bondian bombast, and just plain weirdness (with a healthy helping of White’s own “Seven Nation Army”), it’s definitely… different. Does it fit into the 007 oeuvre, or will it start Quantum of Solace off on a dissonant note? Enjoy the song (and the additional eye candy) in the video above. [Stereogum] More »
Pepsi Man Jack White Lashes Out at ‘Quantum’ Theme in Coke Commercial
9:03AM STV | There are no quantums of solace to be found today in the Jack White household, where the recent unveiling of his and Alicia Keys’s theme song to Quantum of Solace via a Coke commercial has the songwriter lashing out at his Sony patrons. “Jack White was commissioned by Sony Pictures to write a theme song for the James Bond film Quantum Of Solace, not for Coca Cola,” read a statement obtained over the weekend by NME. “Any other use of the song is based on decisions made by others, not by Jack White. We are disappointed that you first heard the song in a co-promotion for Coke Zero, rather than in its entirety.” Ah ah ah — make that Coke Zero Zero Seven, rebranded exclusively for the occasion of Quantum’s release this November. We’ll withhold judgment of the song itself until we can hear it in its entirety, but the sample available after the jump certainly sounds low-calorie. More »
