Vinyl Notes

Looks like Diddy is dancing to the bank with reports rolling in that Danity Kane’s sophomore LP Welcome to the Dollhouse at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. The first single of the new album “Damaged,” is an infectious track guaranteed to get you to the dance floor.

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Aside from the filler of the personal drama between Aubrey and Donnie, this weeks episode of Making the Band 4 was all about Ditty trying to pull emotion out of the boys. They are not going back into the studio until they make him feel it.

The thing is that Diddy already picked them based on their talent; he knows they can sing but he doesn’t want them to get too comfortable resting on their talent. One of the coaches tells them that if Diddy doesn’t feel the emotion he feels like he’s not making any money. Another tells them they are too focused on the perfection of the voice but they need to let go and give in to the emotion of the moment.

As a demonstration of what he wants, he has the Danity Kane girls each sing a short solo. “None of that whispery stuff.” Diddy tells them. “Unlike a lot of other girls out there y’all can really sing.”

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I have something to admit…a music lover’s guilty pleasure of sorts. I have been sucked into the MTV reality television show, Making the Band 4 (Season 2). I’ll give you a second to boo me and discuss how tired of reality TV you are…go ahead…

Okay now that you’ve got that out of your system, I’m going to explain why I like the show and why Making the Band is back for a fourth season. Diddy has a huge ego but he does not play when it comes to quality. It has always been my opinion that he has a great eye and ear for talent. Whether or not you like pop music, when watching Making the Band you begin to understand that Diddy is serious about putting out the best pop music possible. He will not except anything less than a hit, every time his artists go into the studio.

This season, Diddy has set a goal for the most recent winners of Making the Band to make and release albums at the same time, harkening back to the Bad Boy hay day, when Biggie, Total, Mase, and 112 all had simultaneous hit records. So the cast is Donnie, a singer who impressed Diddy so much that he was awarded a solo recording contract; Day 26, an “all male super group” picked on the first season of Making the Band 4; and Danity Kane the girl group from Making the Band 3, who made a platinum record after being shaped and molded by Diddy.

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