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Whitney Houston is set to appear on the concert stage once again. Eight years after her death, a holographic Houston will go on a European tour that starts in England on Feb. 25 and runs through early April, with additional stops in Europe, Mexico, and North America to be announced at a later date, according to Billboard.
The tour will be brought to the fans by the late singer’s estate and BASE Hologram. The concert set includes a majority of her biggest hits: “How Will I Know,” “Saving All My Love For You,” “I Will Always Love You,” along with some unexpected songs, including a cover of Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” that Houston first recorded three decades prior. The show, which was first conceived five years ago, used a body double along with hundreds of hours of Houston performances and extensive CGI synthesizing.
“We created the hologram the same way they did Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars movie Rogue One,” said Marty Tudor, CEO of BASE Hologram, which has previously revived performing versions of dead singers including Roy Orbison and Maria Callas. “It’s lengthy, it’s tedious, it’s a big, complicated process, but I think it worked.”
The concept of the performance is the brainchild of Houston herself, in at least one aspect. While on her final European tour, she had an “unplugged” section of her show, with a stripped-down band and minimal fanfare. Houston liked that so much that shortly before her death at age 48 on the eve of the 2012 Grammy Awards, she expressed a desire to one day do an entire tour that way, according to CNN.
Houston joins a list of music artists whose estates still earn money even after death. Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, and John Lennon (just to name a few) are all musicians who have earned big bucks posthumously. According to Forbes, Jackson, the King of Pop, earned an estimated $287 million from the sale of his estate’s stake in EMI Music Publishing to Sony in 2018, more than nine years after his untimely demise. Lennon, between his solo work and his Beatles oeuvre, still sells nearly 2 million albums annually.
Whitney Houston is set to appear on the concert stage once again. Eight years after her death, a holographic Houston will go on a European tour that starts in England on Feb. 25 and runs through early April, with additional stops in Europe, Mexico, and North America to be announced at a later date, according to Billboard.
The tour will be brought to the fans by the late singer’s estate and BASE Hologram. The concert set includes a majority of her biggest hits: “How Will I Know,” “Saving All My Love For You,” “I Will Always Love You,” along with some unexpected songs, including a cover of Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” that Houston first recorded three decades prior. The show, which was first conceived five years ago, used a body double along with hundreds of hours of Houston performances and extensive CGI synthesizing.
“We created the hologram the same way they did Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars movie Rogue One,” said Marty Tudor, CEO of BASE Hologram, which has previously revived performing versions of dead singers including Roy Orbison and Maria Callas. “It’s lengthy, it’s tedious, it’s a big, complicated process, but I think it worked.”
The concept of the performance is the brainchild of Houston herself, in at least one aspect. While on her final European tour, she had an “unplugged” section of her show, with a stripped-down band and minimal fanfare. Houston liked that so much that shortly before her death at age 48 on the eve of the 2012 Grammy Awards, she expressed a desire to one day do an entire tour that way, according to CNN.
Houston joins a list of music artists whose estates still earn money even after death. Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, and John Lennon (just to name a few) are all musicians who have earned big bucks posthumously. According to Forbes, Jackson, the King of Pop, earned an estimated $287 million from the sale of his estate’s stake in EMI Music Publishing to Sony in 2018, more than nine years after his untimely demise. Lennon, between his solo work and his Beatles oeuvre, still sells nearly 2 million albums annually.
The National Museum of African American Music is on track to open in Nashville later this year. When it does, it will be the only institution dedicated to showcasing music genres created and inspired by black Americans.
In 2015, Karl Dean, who was the mayor of Nashville at the time, announced that plans would move forward to redevelop the old convention center on Fifth and Broadway into a brand-new space. In 2017, demolition started to make way for the construction of apartments, offices, retail, and the NMAAM. Nearly three years from the start of the project, the museum is nearly finished and it is expected to be completed by this summer, WRKN reports.
“The perception nationally, I think, is that Nashville is just country music. And while we love country music, I think it’s important to touch base on all the other musical genres African Americans have helped to influence,” Tamar Smithers, director of Education and Public Programs, said, adding it’s a story that needs to be told.
The museum will consist of more than 1,400 artifacts, seven galleries, a theater, and live music. NMAAM will educate and celebrate the influence African Americans have made on America’s music. R&B, hip-hop, soul, funk, Jazz, and Gospel are just a few of more than 50 genres and sub-genres of music that will be showcased and highlighted in the museum, integrating history and interactive technology to bring musicians of the past into the present.
African American music has a very rich history and originated from slaves during the 1600s who used songs to communicate amongst each other. In its basic form, the music was a simple rhythm, beaten out on rudimentary drums and percussion instruments fashioned from materials gathered by slaves. Back in Africa, rhythm was part of daily life and was incorporated into labor, rituals, and celebrations within the community, according to questia.com.
“We thought it was very important for us to establish having robust educational programs and initiatives well in place for the community to engage them and increase that investment well before we open,” Smithers said. “We’re still committed to ensuring we’re engaging the community and making sure we’re taking our programs outside of the museum to Nashville, middle Tennessee, and across the nation.”
The Westworld Season 3 Trailer just dropped and I’m just–
I want–
Whew, chile–these white folks done made a mess. Let’s walk through this clusterf*ck together, shall we?
What Is Even Happening??
Thanks to HBO’s marketing team, we know that Incite–a new megacorporation–is slipping into the gap in the market left by Delos’ sudden demise. And no one has learned anything from any of the crap that went down over the past two seasons.
I’m guessing this is all Vincent “never trust me or my French accent” Cassel’s operation and from its website seems like an evil Facebook meets Monster.com. Well, a MORE evil Facebook.
No Kinda Job Security
Somebody is still building hosts or something like them and ain’t that just the best thing for us spectators and the worst thing for folks trapped in this world. Who is still running the Build-a-Murderbot factory at Delos, Inc. because last we saw, everybody on payroll got the most permanent of pink slips from Dolores, Maeve, and crew.
And by pink slips, I mean brain splatter all over the walls of the control center.
Sorry if that was too graphic but we ALL watched the same messed up show. Pour one out to the Black dude who got blown up when Dolores and friends used the train as a battering ram. Rest in Peace, homie, hate it had to be you.
Choose Your Fighter
Now, a new season means new teams of familiar and not so familiar faces but with what’s looking like crossed objectives. So let’s see who we got.
Team F*ck You & The Horse You Rode In On
Dolores & Host!Charlotte
These two are roaming the world outside the park and both seem ready to cause some high-level damage. They spent the last season basically in a DBZ fusion so they’re a lot closer to each other than we’re used to. Now while Charlotte ain’t been the same since she got shot by herself, Dolores is still the same trigger-happy murderer we know and love. And it even looks like she’s hopping back in her blue homesteader fit. Don’t think that’s gonna work out too well for anybody else though–
Team I Ain’t E’en DO Nuthin
Bernard/Arnold & Ashley “the last living security guard” Stubbs
Bernard is still just as lost as he’s been since this dude found out he was a robot. We know there’s a G somewhere in his programming–hopefully, he’ll find it. Hopefully. Ashley? I don’t know, man, just keep doing what you do.
Team N**** Y’ALL GOT BEAST MODE?????
Aaron Paul, Lena Waithe, and Marshawn Lynch
Alright, these are all newcomers and, as far as we know, all humans. Honestly, it’s a toss-up on how Black people fare on this dang gone show (see aforementioned train sacrifice), so this team’s chances might not be too good. But still, THEY BETTA NOT KILL MARSHAWN LYNCH ON THIS SEASON, AND THAT’S ON PERIOD.
Team Back in Black
William
Bruh, just do your thing. This whole thing jumped out of your hands as soon as you took over Delos and started sampling your own product. This time, maybe listen to Biggie’s advice about your own supply. But yeah, we all know you ain’t taking out Dolores OR Maeve so…good luck.
Team I Got This (You Ain’t Got This)
Vincent Cassel & the Employees of Incite, Inc.
Maaan. Y’all just Delos part two. Be ready for those “pink slips”.
Team Can’t Keep A Bad B*tch Down
Maeve
The Queen byke and as ready to chop folks as ever. Hopefully, this means Hector, Armistice, Hanaryo (Armistice’s Shogun World doppelganger), and Felix are back too. We get a brief glimpse of what looks like Hector and Maeve escaping some Nazis but we don’t know how real that moment was. Now, Maeve did everything that Dolores did but without the clues and headstart and now she got that katana back so… it’s on.
The park might be more busted than Six Flags New Orleans but we’re heading back to Westworld March 15th.
Who y’all putting your money on?
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