![]() ![]() Lunarcy is a movie about people on the fringes of society who just might have the right idea. But if, beforehand, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is a joke, now you’d be forgiven for wishing it were. SXSW Doc Review Recap: Snoop Lion In Reincarnated, Alex Winters Downloaded & More. Major Lazer’s production is, as usual, airtight and compelling, and Snoop has lined up an impressive roster of guests, making Reincarnated ultimately a perfectly enjoyable entry-level reggae album. This is a real, earnest, reggae record, albeit one that sticks resolutely to the surface of the genre and occasionally reeks of caricature and cultural appropriation - a record with plenty of messages of “love” and “peace” and altogether zero references to “bitches in the living room” a record that dives so deeply into its mission it manages to turn Drake into an improbable spokesman for pacifism and anti-materialism a record that contains both a song called “No Guns Allowed” (which samples, somewhat uncomfortably, news audio from Columbine and other disasters) as well as one whose chorus is, essentially, a near-endless singsong of smoke the weed, smoke the weed. With the release of Reincarnated, we now realize just how sincere Snoop was about all of this. ![]() It was like an April Fool’s joke in July, or the plot of an actual movie (remember I’m Still Here?), and throughout it all, Snoop maintained that he was completely serious. “It's lengthy, it's tedious, it's a big, complicated process, but I think it worked.”The ambitious performance is the modest brainchild of Whitney Houston herself, in at least one respect.You’d be forgiven for thinking this was all a big joke, you really would: Snoop Dogg - one of hip-hop’s oldest and more prolific standard-bearers (for better or for worse), notable both for helping define the genre in its early-Nineties youth and probably being one of the few rappers your grandma can name - announced last summer that he’d renounced hip-hop, begun studying the Rastafari religion, and decided to change his stage name to Snoop Lion. ![]() “In the spirit of Whitney, I know we're doing all the right things right now.”Last week, a few dozen members of the media were given a dress-rehearsal preview in Burbank, California of most of “An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour," which features a Houston projected onto a nearly invisible scrim on a stage with real dancers and a live backing band. “Now is just the right time," said Pat Houston, the singer's sister-in-law, former manager and the executor of her estate, which is producing the show in collaboration with BASE Hologram. 25 and runs through early April, with U.S. ![]() – Whitney Houston is about to appear on the concert stage again.Įight years after her death, a holographic Houston will embark on a European tour that starts in England on Feb. In the spirit of Whitney: Houston Hologram tour set to beginīURBANK, Calif. ![]()
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