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Good girl gone bad – "Lady Love" is getting the Parental Advisory sticker!

by on Aug.05, 2009, under NEWS

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YAAAAY! It’s officially official. Us/”bad uneducated people” will be able to enjoy “Lady Love” with the “FUCKINGS”, “SHITS”, “HOES”, “BITCHES”, “NIGGAS”, “ASSES’, “PUSSIES AND DICKS” over and over again! Whohooooo! LONG LIVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH!! AND FUCK THE POLITICALLY CORRECT! We live in a free country as far as I know. By the way I was kidding for the last five words. I don’t think she’s using them lol.

Note to my “Responsible parents”: Don’t worry, a clean version without all these “bad” words will also be available since you believe your kids don’t know them and shouldn’t be aware of their existence. So naive… Isn’t this world hypocrite as hell?

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Is Capitol Records sleeping on LeToya?

by on Aug.02, 2009, under LETOYANEWS FEATURES

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Fans have been worrying about Capitol lately and they are right! Capitol is known for being one of the worse label ever. “Capitol” is basically the American name for EMI Music which is a respected British based company in Europe. They have a very strong European roster like Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue. (She’s Australian but signed in England).

In America it’s a different story. The same way you can consider signing with Puff Daddy a suicide for your carreer you can consider signing with Capitol the beginning of the end for you as well. LeToya signed with them because she thought that being the only female R&B artist of the label would’ve benefitted of their focus. Could’ve been a good move but in Capitol’s case it is….WRONG. The fact that they didn’t have a strong and established urban department should’ve gave her the hint. Their publicists don’t have good relationships with major radios (at least in the urban world)- which is the reason why your song might be boycotted if you’re an artist on that label. Miss Jones formely of Hot 97 admitted it was the reason why “Torn” didn’t get airplay on Hate 97. LeToya still managed to go platinum without the help of Hot 97. They are a lot of politics involved when it comes to a radio playing your songs with often blackmail negociations happening.

If you go to Capitol’s website LeToya is definitely not a priority to them. You can browse on the site and find that she’s only mentioned once. They were still very happy to release a worlwide press release in 2006 to announce that she topped the Billboard chart.

So why aren’t they supporting her? Simple. Capitol don’t support their urban artists. Capitol’s artists flop one after the other. Even if they have a great album and are not any less talented than Def Jam artists. The victims: Cherish, Avant, MIMS, Chingy, J Holyday, etc. All these names sounds familiar but were you aware they even had an album out? Probably not because Capitol didn’t bother promoting them. Do you think they’re treating LeToya any different? The answer is NO. Most of what LeToya is booking she books it on her own without help whatsoever from Capitol. They should all be fired. ACTUALLY THEY WERE ALL fired. But it seems like the new team is even worse!

I’m wondering why they still keep the urban department if they don’t feel like working on that seriously. ALL urban releases flopped in the past three years. (besides LeToya thanks to her own hard-work) and still they stopped supporting LeToya’s project when they had to merge Capitol records with Virgin Records fucking it up for her and thus an album with a lot more potential go to waste. LeToya’s wasn’t successfull thanks to Capitol but thanks to her fanbase. She has a huge following. I can’t name any other R&B chick who has such a dedicated fanbase. “Why does she have so many fans?” you gone tell me. Well, after she was kicked out of Destiny’s Child and sold 9 million album, these buyers people took sides. Some fans took Beyonce’s side and the others took LeToya’s. Others like me just kept following both with bitterness against Beyonce since she never apologised to LeToya publicly and acts like she doesn’t exist.

Capitol isn’t a professional company. It goes from simple details as not having a single cover for “Not Anymore” to not having a working official site. (It is just one page with a picture and a music player playing the album sampler) Also they are making major mistakes. Like putting the single on itunes even before the song is being played by  radios and therefore spreading out sales. (making it impossible for the song to chart on Billboard).

The promo from the last album was somewhat on point. She had all the ingredients to make her album go #1. LeToya had visibility everywhere. She was on TV, magazines, radio, booked the Mary J Blige Tour and her singles were doing really good.

Unfortunately this time around this is a different story. There is MUCH MUCH LESS. Fans are still hoping “something will happen” around the release date. But if you look at the comparison graphic below you’ll see that the first time around all the promo was done way before the album ‘LeToya” (Torn Era) was released. The buzz created in 2006 was enormous. With the proper promo timing respected to make everything pick up like it should. We’re about 20 days left to the release date and still…. nothing. So 2 factors come into the equation: less promo + bad economy ≠ success . Since you can’t deal with the bad economy factor you have to double what you have control of. Meaning more and more media coverage… we are far from it. In 2009 she didn’t make any magazine cover at all (besides S2S) and her features are very limited. (1 page or so when she actually gets one). In 2006 she got an major endorsement with Cingular. This time…none. This doesn’t smell like success to me. Too many ingredients are missing. In my opinion I think they should push back the album until one song picks up and is a real hit. She would “benefit” of the Keri Hilson syndrome. This seem to be the new standard as singles after singles people must notice you at some point.

I am a little worry for the future of this album. All we can hope now is that the fans are doing their part and request her since we can’t count on the label to do their job. They are pushing wack ass artists that I never heard of. It pisses me of that they don’t see the potential in her. They have a star right there who can sell platinum and who went #1. I thought that since they lost Janet Jackson they would’ve put that money and energy into LeToya since she’s their only R&B female artist with crossover appeal left.

Labels like Interscope and Jive are totally different and push their artists to the limit until it works for them. (Look at Keshia Cole and Ciara). If “Lady Love” don’t succeed like it should I will advise LeToya to move away from Capitol and go with a label that diserves her and that can expand her horizons. Hell if Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson left them there must be a reason to that! She might even consider going independent. Why EMI Music should keep most of the royalties money when LeToya is doing everything on her own?

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MediaTakeOut says “LETOYA SWAGGA JACKS BEYONCE FOR HER NEW ALBUM COVER!!”

by on Aug.02, 2009, under GOSSIP, LETOYANEWS FEATURES

WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE …!!! LETOYA LUCKETT SWAGGA JACKS BEYONCE FOR HER NEW ALBUM COVER!!

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MediaTakeOut and their bullshit again. PPPPPPuh-lease! Donatello (Ninja Turtle, picture above) from MTO needs to sit the fuck down!

If you gonna hate, at least do it in a timely manner. This was a controversy already when the cover was unveiled about a month ago. I remember they were already late on the BET awards drama. Loosers!

Anyway everybody know already Beyonce is a copycat herself. I personally don’t see the resemblance between her PROMO PICTURE and LeToya’s ALBUM COVER. And even if they did, they are used for two different purposes. So fuck this!

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MediaTakeOut says "LETOYA SWAGGA JACKS BEYONCE FOR HER NEW ALBUM COVER!!"

by on Aug.02, 2009, under GOSSIP, LETOYANEWS FEATURES

WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE …!!! LETOYA LUCKETT SWAGGA JACKS BEYONCE FOR HER NEW ALBUM COVER!!

mtodude

MediaTakeOut and their bullshit again. PPPPPPuh-lease! Donatello (Ninja Turtle, picture above) from MTO needs to sit the fuck down!

If you gonna hate, at least do it in a timely manner. This was a controversy already when the cover was unveiled about a month ago. I remember they were already late on the BET awards drama. Loosers!

Anyway everybody know already Beyonce is a copycat herself. I personally don’t see the resemblance between her PROMO PICTURE and LeToya’s ALBUM COVER. And even if they did, they are used for two different purposes. So fuck this!

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Dumb ass niggas working at Amazon.com

by on Jul.31, 2009, under LETOYANEWS FEATURES, NEWS

We’ve had dumb ass people these last couple days. Amazon made a mistake and put the snippets of the entire “Lady Love” album online. WTF. They were not suppose to do this. In my opinion it is worth a lawsuit. How can you be so stupid? Some other dumb ass nigga made an even worse mistake but I won’t talk about this right now. I’ll come back to it eventually and I’ll tell you “Remember that story I wanted to talk to you about on July 31st”.

I personally am very upset about all this. Six tracks (and now seven *sigh) outta 16 have been available to the public in full. I think those only would’ve been enough to sell the album. We don’t need the whole album to leak. I know we live in 2009 so leaks WILL happen. But these stupid mistakes can be avoided.

Marcus at LO said it best. “as a LeToya fan these last few days have been the worst…leaks…dumbass fans….dumbass label employees….dumb ass 106 and Park. I need a break. I have no word”

Anyway they heard the snippets so here are fans’s quotes:

bruno: HOT

jayofunity: OMG THIS ALBUM IS GON BE SO SICK!!!!

fai’belline: the album is absolutely AMAZING.

c_dub254: HANDS DOWN THE BEST FEMALE R&B ALBUM OF ’09

DisizValarie: THIS CD IS GONE BE THE SHEEEEEEEEIIIIT!

Qwz-Dawg: It sounds good to me

atlboy: a REAL R&B album. She upgraded and SANGING on every track.

Quinn: from what i hear…it sounds good….

Ja’Wuan: its gonna be a grower.

uneek boi: I am loving what I am hearing. I need this ish RIGHT NOW. I am like WOW!!!

Diddy: oooooweeee! I like what’ve heard

Jimmie Beachboyz: there are NO uptempo records . . ..I’m done! are u kiddin me

SEN: the snippets shits on 99.9% of the shit that’s out today.

Marcus: This a GREAT RnB album. Flows well together

I am glad that they the majority seem to love it. If they do, you probably will as well. So mark your calendar and get that copy of “Lady Love” on August 25th!

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[WATCH] LeToya performing at Power Live (+review)

by on Jul.30, 2009, under EXCLUSIVES, LIVE PERFORMANCES, REVIEWS

LeToya performed at BB Kings Blues in New York for Power Live. This event is organized by the urban radio Power 105.1.

She looked amazing and did a great job. I am loving her confidence. She also sang that infamous bridge of “Regret” so this will be your first time hearing it.

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[EXCLUSIVE] “Good to me” REVIEW

by on Jul.29, 2009, under EXCLUSIVES, REVIEWS

As the release date of the new album is approaching we’re giving you more and more infos on this masterpiece.

Maurice POV already gave you a quick sneak peak of “Good to me” on LeToya News TV. His version is horrible doesn’t really do any justice to the song. He did it so wrong lmao.

So here is my review of this wonderful song which is an album track for “Lady Love” – which should be released August 25 if the world don’t come to an end by then. Hopefully it will be a single.

So to give you an idea of how it sounds… It’s a mid-tempo. It’s got Tank written all over it. It would’ve been a perfect fit in his album Sex, Love & Pain. The fact that it is sung by a female gives it a totally new dimension though. I think it was one of the best thing that happen to LeToya to get the role in “Preacher’s Kid”.  Thanks to that she had the opportunity to meet Tank and be close to him.

As usual with this entire album LeToya is killing dem harmonies.

(continue reading…)

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[EXCLUSIVE] "Good to me" REVIEW

by on Jul.29, 2009, under EXCLUSIVES, REVIEWS

As the release date of the new album is approaching we’re giving you more and more infos on this masterpiece.

Maurice POV already gave you a quick sneak peak of “Good to me” on LeToya News TV. His version is horrible doesn’t really do any justice to the song. He did it so wrong lmao.

So here is my review of this wonderful song which is an album track for “Lady Love” – which should be released August 25 if the world don’t come to an end by then. Hopefully it will be a single.

So to give you an idea of how it sounds… It’s a mid-tempo. It’s got Tank written all over it. It would’ve been a perfect fit in his album Sex, Love & Pain. The fact that it is sung by a female gives it a totally new dimension though. I think it was one of the best thing that happen to LeToya to get the role in “Preacher’s Kid”.  Thanks to that she had the opportunity to meet Tank and be close to him.

As usual with this entire album LeToya is killing dem harmonies.

(continue reading…)

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