Alicia Keys bids you SIT DOWN!

[Escuchame]

NOTE: OK... this thread wasn't started with the purpose of belittling or defaming anybody's favorite pop queen. Please refrain from that.

A recent comment by the ever-so-splendid Alicia Keys in the pages of Newsweek actually prompted me to start this:

Q: Don't you have to play the game sometimes, though?--the see-and-be-seen kind of thing?

A: I step back from all of that. I like to have mystery. Keep people guessing about you and what you are doing. I see some of my peers and how they are always in the news, out at parties, and i go to myself, "Please, just go somewhere and sit down. Let us miss you."

In keeping with Ms. Keys comment... What artists do you think need to go away and be MISSED due to their epidemic overexposure/media saturation? Offer your reasons, please! Saying, "I hate him/her" doesn't cut it!

My candidates:

Beyoncé: It's a fact of life that your album cover was Photoshopped so your under-endowed boobies wouldn't offend your teenybopper fans, but please. Enough of your excessive "I'm a Christian with dignity" media interviews while the one thing you do best is shake off your ass while Sean Paul and Hovy spit their semi-inspired pop rhymes. Oh, and please stop the gratuitous, self-empowerment anthems a la "Me, Myself and I." Jill Scott gives you a run for your money on those. Make us miss you.

Missy Elliott: OK... so Timbo makes your songs marketable and you lost enough weight to show off your legs in public. So what. Go away... We love you, but we don't have to fall prey to your incessant "guest appearances" and cute Gospel "cameos." Take a break. Hit the health-club circuit more. Get to the point where your "I keep it realer than the t**** on my chest" mantra is something we actually get to witness. Oh, and fire your promotional team at Elektra. When it comes to promoting your album, they "work it" horribly.

Justin Timberlake: Goodness gracious. Not only does America's favorite tour-de-force music publication put you on its cover once, but TWICE for crying out loud. Four singles, two publicized romances (one of which is somewhat similar to trucker-hat-donning Ashton Kutcher's Oedipal complex), and a media blitz that is just about to make me wanna puke. Yes, we KNOW you're the next MJ while your ex-flame will soon inherit Lady Madge's throne. No need to rub it in our faces. Cut back on the limelight and take a rest. Then get back together with your *NSYNC buds and bond with them some. Maybe start writing for another album with them. Their money is running out.

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Your turn now.

Peace out,
Andree

[Edf85]

This topic 'gon get UGLY.

[Escuchame]

Well.

If people think out their responses and objectify their reasons why they think particular artists should evaporate off the face of this planet, I don't see why this topic should get ugly.

It's the childish, "my favorite singer is prettier than yours" type stuff which elicits childish responses.

Justify your answers, y'all.

[Edf85]

Destiny's Child: First off, this isn't even a group anymore. It's like a bad family divorce where new step-kids keep coming into the family. (Although En Vogue takes the reign here.) The repetitious chorus lines of their songs are enough to make my grandmother with short-term memory remember the songs for years to come. Destiny's Child is an example of a money-making-scheme... too bad it's the lead singer's own father who is at the head of it.

[allow that]

50 Cent! Give us a friggin break already!

J. Lo released 8 singles in a row (10 if you count her "remixes" for "IR" and "AIF" ) without giving us a break in between. That's November 2000 til summer of 2003 without a break from J. Lo on the radio. Thank the Lord we now have some J.Lo-less radio for a little while.

[Crushcrushchris]

I will agree with Jersey Boy:

J-Lo-Please get out of the public eye immediately or you're career will flop as fast as Gigli. No one wants to hear about what you bought for Mr. J-Lo. For goodness sakes, please stick to one form of entertainment. You're quite annoying in both of them so make more room for one.

Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey-Hey guess what? Your self-pitying skits of acting foolish on the air stopped being funny about 3 months ago. Stop acting dumb or face the reality that you really are dumb.

Britney-You really need to go away. For a long time. 4 albums in the past 5 years no wonder you're so over-exposed. And overrated, overplayed, over annoying and overpaid and over....

[Sean]

LOL @ Alicia... RESPECT for that comment as she is so right!

Who needs to go somewhere and sit down:

Beyonce (PLEASE!!!!)

J. Lo (seems to have improved over the past 2 months though??)

Missy Elliott (love her but you're so right, she hasn't taken a break for a long time and she seems to pop up on every 2nd R&B single or album these days. Take a rest and work it in private for awhile)

Eminem (I don't follow him but a new single seems to be released consistently every few months over here)

Sean Paul (it's bad enough his own singles suck without popping up on every 2nd single these days as well!)

Robbie Williams (releases a new CD and 3 DVD's every year it seems!?)

Nelly & Ja Rule (both need to have a sizeable break and make people miss them, not that I personally will!)

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Mariah Carey- It's not necessary to release an album every year if it stinks worse than a cow's bowel movement. Shut up about your private life. Everyone is sick of the self-pity garbage.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I think the only one right now is J-Lo. She's doing movies constantly and pushing CDs and singles at every corner.

Although I'm sick of Justin Timberlake, he only did one CD and he only released singles from it so that's not really overdoing it. Although the whole McDonald's thing is fairly annoying. As long as he doesn't do another CD within the next 6 months...

Beyounce is overdoing it too. I'm glad the plans for her new CD have been delayed a year.

[RRMusicGuy]

Here are mine:

1. Chad Kroeger - jeex dude you are turing into the Ja Rule of Rock. Give it a rest.

2. Kelly Osbourne - face it, you WILL never have a music career, you're not cute and you get on everyone's nerves.

3. Jay Z. - He has put out 5 albums (yes 5 albums) in three years that has to be a record. Let's not forget about all the guest apperance he has made during that time.

[af18c]

RR said:

2. Kelly Osbourne - face it, you WILL never have a music career, you're not cute and you get on everyone's nerves.

Her voice when she sings makes me curl up in my fetal postion in a corner and cover my ears and scream. I cant believe a label actually signed her! Ozzy's daughter or not!

[radiorules]

J.lo is currently on a break, she has nothing out now and we won't get a movie from her for a couple of months. And there are no new plans for a new album yet, so she finally doing the right thing. J.lo can recover from the Gigli/Baby I Love U/I'm Glad mess.

Beyonce is always overexposed, it's something that i have gotten used to.

I don't mind Justin but i do think sometimes he does get more credit than he deserves.

50 Cent needs to dissapear in 2004 and then come back in the beginning of 05 with a huge bang.

Although Britney has been overexposed since the VMA stunt, things have calmed down since December. If she goes into 2004 without making that many headlines and stops lip synching, her true fans will stick by her.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

In Beyonce's defense she doesn't have her personal life out in the open which is what I think Alicia's point was in the first place. I'm not even going to go into detail about what I think of some of the overexposed artists because I think people claim artists are overexposed if the artist has a few sucessful ventures and they don't like particularly like the artist which is rediculous if you logically think about it.

[Crushcrushchris]

I forgot to add Fred Durst.

Fred, stop picking on DJ's. Shut up and make your music or fail miserably. Your mouth has gotten you in trouble far too many times.

[strong4PMB!]

50 Cent/G-Unit
Doesn't need an explanation.

Beyoncé
Doesn't need an explanation either.

Irv Gotti/The Inc.
I appreciate that he likes to hype up the crowd at Ashanti's performances, but he needs to take a break, along with the rest of Murder Inc. And he needs to stop making Ashanti pop out albums whenever The Inc. is in debt. Let her take a break too.

[BFMR]

i heard that Justin was taking 2004 off... but, knowing celebs, that may not be true...

i'd like for Jello, Hilary Duff, Clay Aiken, Beyonce and Ja Rule the most to just shut up for the next few years