I wonder why there in't any one talking about music artists in here? Let me post these pictures of Tommi,they are really new gals with cool attitudes from the block in UK. Check them out and tell me what you think. Has any one seen 'Like what'? Ps to mods:sorry to bother you finding out for me if there are some subjects about this already. You can move it if you like. I want to be in another place. I hate when you say you don't understand. Được Shtp sửa chữa / chuyển vào 01:07 ngày 27/06/2003
INDIVIDUALITY Their nicknames are as interesting as themselves! I want to be in another place. I hate when you say you don't understand.
GROUP ANTICS I want to be in another place. I hate when you say you don't understand. Được Shtp sửa chữa / chuyển vào 00:05 ngày 27/06/2003
MY STYLE:She's the DJ in the crew. (Who thinks DJ is only for males?). Life b4 Tommi for her wasn't easy, but she's strong and stands up by herself, incredible that she was just a homeless girl, got thrown out of her flat, and totally broke. 'First of all, keep it rugged. Keep it real to who you are, even if you?Tre going through hardness. As long as you remember who you are and just keep your spirit fresh, then you?Tll make it.'. You're damn cool Stylus! Mum always tells me to dressed like a girl that may help me looking prettier ( as a girlie way) , but now, have a look mum, and you'll see the impression of tomboys haha. Tommi, keep it up! I want to be in another place. I hate when you say you don't understand. Được Shtp sửa chữa / chuyển vào 00:20 ngày 27/06/2003
Take five vibrant up-for it-it tomboys, add a ton of attitude, killer dance routines and fresh tunes and you?Tve got Tommi! They?Tre a cool, fun-lovin?T, rugged, out-there girl group who aren?Tt about to compromise who they are. None of the Tommi girls were looking to get into a group (though they?Td all dreamed about it), but thanks to chance meetings with their producer BJ (the fella behind Big Brovaz and Beverley Knight) they all came together. ?oI was the first to be found,? begins Stylus, the bands resident scratch DJ. ?oI got introduced to BJ at a club because my friend had told him I was a DJ. I was homeless and I think it intrigued him. He called me up a few days later and we went from there.? Scottish rapper Peekaboo came next. ?oI was getting off a train when I saw Big Ben, who used to be in Phats and Small. I started chatting to him and he told me about the group. I met BJ and sang and rapped for him. Then Stylus and I met and we just kinda clicked.? Then laid back Mi$ Thang?Ts arrived on the scene. ?oI was at a dance school and some friends of BJ?Ts came down to look for girls for the group. A couple of days later I met BJ and joined up. I loved that he just wanted us to be who we are.? Lil Chill was the next on board. ?oI was working on a fruit ?~n?T veg stall down Queen?Ts Road Market and one day I sang a Stevie Wonder-style Happy Birthday to a mate and this girl came over to me. She said her mate was putting together a group, so I met BJ and he didn?Tt have a chance to say no!? Bambi completed the line up. ?oThis bloke stopped me on the way to work and asked me if I could dance and sing ?" it turned out to be BJ! Tommi is perfect for me because it?Ts all about being yourself.? Peekaboo, Mi$ Thang and Stylus moved in together with Mi$ Thang?Ts parents in Elephant and Castle, while Bambi and Lil Chill stayed in their native Hackney and Canning Town. After spending practically every day together, they discovered the perfect Tommi sound. ?oOur style came really naturally to us,? says Bambi. ?oLuckily we were found by someone who wanted us to be real, and that shows in our music.? Tommi were so determined to be different they pooled what money they had together with their producer BJ and made their own video for a track they?Td written called ?oWhat Part Of Nô?. They then mailed literally everyone in the music biz with it! Stylus says: ?oWe took a big risk, but the video was played on MTV Base a lot and gained us a lot of recognition.? ?oWe also printed up white labels and sent them to radio stations,? adds Peekaboo. ?oWê?Tve built up a good fan base from going around and doing gigs. We financed it all ourselves.? As well as gigging, the fivesome have put together their debut album. Produced mainly by BJ, and Bloodshy (whô?Ts worked with Ms Dynamite, Jennifer Lopez and TLC), Tommi have co-written all of the tracks bar one. ?oA lot of songs on the album are about what wê?Tve been through. It?Ts an introduction to Tommi and hopefully people will be able to relate to it,? says Lil Chill. Peekaboo says: ?oThe album has loads of different sounds on it and there are loads of issues which wê?Tve dealt with like homelessness and safe ***.? ?oTherê?Ts a real mixed sound. You get hip-hop and r?Tn?Tb with a twist of pop,? says Mi$ Thang. ?oWê?Tre mainly influenced by people like Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, TLC, Nas, and DMX. We like people who try to do something different and original.? Just like the girls themselves. ?oIt?Ts funny because a lot of people ask us who wê?Tre like,? says Bambi, ?obut once you hear our music you realise that wê?Tre not actually like anyone. Wê?Tve created our very own sound.? I want to be in another place. I hate when you say you don't understand.
Metallica Thrashes Back to 80''s Angst By JON PARELESMetallica brought along a fan club for its Summer Sanitarium tour: the other four hard-rock bands on the bill at Giants Stadium tonight. One by one they gave testimonials to Metallica''s influence. Mudvayne''s lead singer, Chad Gray, wore a Metallica T-shirt. Chino Moreno of the Deftones raised a drink to Metallica. Linkin Park''s lead singer, Chester Bennington, called Metallica the greatest band on earth, and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit seemed so cowed by the prospect of performing for Metallica fans that he sang "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)," which Metallica would play much better in its own set. Metallica''s barreling momentum and the midrange bite of its guitar tones have been ingrained in hard rock for a decade; every band owes them something. But when other musicians start laying on the testimonials so thickly it can mean the object of their praise is over the hill and in need of their endorsement. Not Metallica. With the first power chords and drum barrages of a set that ran more than two hours, it simply obliterated the other bands on the bill. Metallica is acting rejuvenated these days, as if it had all but dropped the last decade from its career. That was when it slowed down its high-speed thrash, moving closer to mainstream rock and multiplying its record sales from a million or two per album to more than 13 million on its 1991 album "Metallica" (Elektra). It was also the decade in which Metallica lost its sure touch with its mid-decade albums "Load" and "Re-Load," although they continued to sell in the millions. But on Tuesday Metallica played only songs from before 1992 and two from its new album, "St. Anger" (Elektra): the title song and "Frantic." In the 1980''s Metallica''s songs grappled with death, psychotic violence and elemental fears. James Hetfield''s lyrics took the perspective of victims â?" a sanitarium inmate, a crippled soldier â?" or of the threats themselves. That was the Metallica that performed at Giants Stadium. The video screens often showed not the faces of the musicians but their hands and how they created the music''s adamantine clarity: tandem guitars from Mr. Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, wriggling and wailing leads from Mr. Hammett, meter shifts driven by Lars Ulrich and the band''s new bassist, Robert Trujillo. The music hurtled forward in a precise and brutal onslaught of Mr. Ulrich''s fibrillation-speed double bass drums combined with guitars strummed to match every drumstroke, pausing only to renew the attack from a different angle. They turned more personal in the 1990''s, showing the effects of psychotherapy, which linger in the new songs. But even psychobabble sounds better when it arrives in a doubletime rush, as it did in "Frantic," with Mr. Hetfield strumming fast chords and Mr. Hammett strumming just as fast on the offbeats for a dizzying, ratcheting mesh. Metallica could easily add more songs from "St. Anger" to the set of oldies; they can hold their own. The other bands raised the question of whether it''s such a good idea for men to express their feelings, at least in the form of rap-rock. Linkin Park has two vocalists â?" Mr. Bennington, who sings in a high, reedy, pubescent voice, and Mike Shinoda, who raps â?" trading off generic testimonials to how much people want to push them around and how miserable they are. Sometimes Mr. Shinoda raps the verses and Mr. Bennington takes over with melodic choruses as guitar chords kick in. Sometimes the raps answer vocal lines. The band has toughened its music, looking to the dark grandeur of Nine Inch Nails, and there''s something touching about hearing a full stadium sing along on lines like "I''m so insecure!" But Linkin Park''s endless self-pity grew wearing. Limp Bizkit, less than a decade into its career, already seemed played out in its set on Tuesday. Its songs are about feeling rejected and peevish, and Mr. Durst raps them with an aggrieved yelp that is only comical in small doses. Instead of material from its next album, due in the fall, Limp Bizkit played other bands'' songs, as if Mr. Durst expects a future in karaoke. Mudvayne played generic hard rock, whining and then growling as it ticked off the generic topics of current metal: feeling silenced, feeling betrayed, suffering low self-esteem. But the Deftones offered something better: dark, cryptic ruminations with melodies arising out of the hard-rock murk. They''re perfecting a new hard-rock variation â?" the power dirge. As we go on, we remember all the times we had together As our lives change, come whatever We will still be FRIENDS FOREVER
