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Trendspotting: Carrying a Torch

The late Amy Winehouse started the movement in 2006, but Adele, and now Lana Del Rey, confirmed it: The torch song is back. You know the torch song; it’s a love song that smolders with things too long left unsaid, unruly and messy around the edges. For Winehouse, it came in the form of “Back [...]

May 17, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: Adele, Alzheimer's disease, Amy Winehouse, Ane Brun, blue-eyed soul, Celine Dion, Duffy, Eliza Doolittle, Ellie Goulding, Florence Welch, Jeff Buckley, Joss Stone, Kurt Cobain, Lana Del Ray, Laura Marling, Lisa Hannigan, Lykke Li, music therapy, music trends, My Heart Will Go On, Paloma Faith, Soap & Skin, torch singers | Leave A Comment »

Trendspotting: Video Games

Mere months after Lana Del Rey nonchalantly uploaded her self-made music video onto YouTube, her album reached No. 1 on iTunes in 11 countries. Even as she earns mixed reviews (one journalist writes that Del Rey “single-handedly killed the appeal of DIY”), the video for “Video Games,” with its moving collage of grainy YouTube clips [...]

Apr 09, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Kony 2012, Lana Del Ray, marketing trends, MTV, music industry trends, music video, Rebecca Black, VEVO, VH1, video marketing, video trends, viral video, Warner Music Group, YouTube | Leave A Comment »