IN THE SPOTLIGHT
more signature Spears tune.
“You know your song, ‘Oops! ... I Did It Again’?” asked Corden, leading up to it. “What’s that about? What’s it really about?”
“I don’t know,” Spears replied innocently. “I think it’s just a song.”
“Because every time I order at Domino’s,” said Corden, “I think, ‘Oops! I did it again!’”
Between their front-seat vocalizing during the 10-minute segment, the carpool couple engaged in chitchat. Corden asked Spears if her kids had seen her Las Vegas show.
“What it’s like for them if you’re wearing a racy outfit?” he posed. “I saw my mum in her underwear once when I was like 11. I can’t shake the image from my brain.”
De La Soul returns with same wildly creative attitude
Twenty-five years after releasing the mercurial classic “De La Soul is Dead,” the Strong Island trio of Pos, Dave and Maseo return with “.and the Anonymous Nobody” — a modern treatise of anti-establishment hip-hop.
For their first full-length album in 11 years, they used hundreds of hours of live music played with session musicians as a sample bank.
The musical styles are all over the place. “Lord Intended” could be an early Rick Rubin production before The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins spirals into the abyss. It’s a long way from Pete Rock’s beat knock “Memory of.” and the slurred funk of “Sexy Bitch.”
At the same time, the ill flows are constantly in flux. Roc Marciano has a tongue that’s “forever under the weather.” On “Trainwreck,” Pos’ word association could go on for days.
The project was self-released and Kickstarter-funded, and even with all the guests (Damon Albarn, David Byrne, Snoop Dogg and Usher) this is really a De La thing. Late in the album Dave sings, “We’re still here now.”
De La Soul is alive. And well.