Westsidewill – Wild Off The Air

Here is a quick note on the voting process for the top 10 show:

- The voting for the current week CLOSES AT 11:59 PM Central Time Thursday Night.

- While votes after may seem like they are being “added” to the total they are being counted separately and the votes from the previous week will be deleted by Monday.

It may be a little bit tricky but it’s the system we have right now.

So MediaTakeOut or…Mediafakeout in this case, was reporting on their website yesterday that R. Kelly was being investigated for the statutory rape of a 17 year old girl in Illinois.

Aside from poor reporting the #1 hole in their story is that the age of consent in Illinois is 17, living in Illinois I knew this all along. So I think what happened here is the R. Kelly is the victim of his own behavior and some website decided to run with a baloney story on him.

It seems like http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212241196.shtml agrees with me. MediaTakeOut turned into a MediaFakeOut on this one.

On the subject of R. Kelly I was checking out some music videos from our artists and Jana G actually has a video of her covering Bump n’ Grind! It looks like it’s a one take in studio acoustic set so it’s a little more raw than a lot of tracks but I think it’s a pretty cool cover so check it out:

R Kelly, victim of internet rumors, I guess that's what you get for peeing on someone...on camera

Welcome to the future of WestSideWill Radio. If you haven’t had a chance to pop by the main site, why don’t you do it now, I’ll wait.

Link to Main Site…and the future:
WestSideWill 2.0

We have a lot of great new features for WestSideWill Radio, but the big one I want to talk about today is “WillIT“. WillIT is basically our voting featured turned up a notch. What you can do now is track how your music is doing amongst our fans. The beauty of it all is that you can now follow your votes in real time, you can do this by either logging in using the username and password we emailed you OR if you don’t have a log in (for example if you are a listener) you can just visit our WillIT Standings.

These standings should be a zero as we just reset them, so any votes that are counted came in literally within the past few minutes. But the nice thing about being able to track how a song/artist is doing in real time is that as a fan you can see who everyone seems to think has a good track and then click on their name to learn a little bit more about them. On their artist directory page you may notice that one thing has changed about your favorite band, they have been given the ability to upload an image of themselves if they like. So you can SEE what your new favorite musician looks like without leaving the comforts of WestSideWill 2.0

The voting process HAS NOT CHANGED. All you have to do is visit the Artist Directory find your favorite musician, click on their name, then click on the button that says “Vote For This Song”. You still get 1 vote per day so use it wisely, but now at least you can see how many votes your favorite band needs to make it to the Top 10 Show. Remember, only the #1 unsigned musicians receiving votes is promised a spot on the Top 10 Show. (Voting for that week’s Top 10 Show CLOSES at 11:59 PM on Thursday Night.)

I’ll have more blogs coming up about the future of WestSideWill but for right now I just wanted to point that feature out.

First Joe Budden throws his own career in the trash with that garbage he calls amagalalmamalma digital…or something…Now he is trying to take young Brandon Jennings with him.

In what can only be described as one of the worst interviews that I have ever seen, and we’ve done some terrible interviews.

What was I able to take away from the interview? Here are some of my highlights:

- Joe Budden has bitches in Milwaukee
- Joe Budden is impressed by Brandon Jennings having a 3 story townhouse…
- Joe Budden thinks Scott Skiles is an ‘A**hole’ … yeah like taping a conversation you are having and then putting it online for everyone to see when you “don’t know” that you are being taped according to the ESPN story…yeah like that kind of A**hole.
- “If you’re trying to be like Joe Budden you’re doing the right thing.”
- Brandon Jennings thinks Rubio is garbage…Ok I guess he’s right here.
- Brandon Jennings feels about the Knicks that Budden feels about Jay Z…

So let’s be clear about what is happening here. Joe Budden, rapper who had some good tracks then got banished to who knows where, is interviewing a guy who instead of going to college went to play ball in Europe for a year and then get drafted. Now neither of these guys is going to win the “Most Well Liked Dude In Amercia” award…but still.

Joe Budden is kind of a jerk for putting that video out there.

Michael Jackson Tribute Song #1

“Better on the Other Side”
The Game, Chris Brown, P.Diddy, Polow Da Don, Mario Winans, Usher & Boyz II Men.

Not a bad song, some weird things I noticed.

- Michael Jackson and puff tried to stop the beef between Game and 50? What?
- Chris Brown on this track is kind of weird, I mean if there was a guy who I would say is Michael Jackson like in his actions, I mean look at how he was in his videos, it’s just he beats women…Mike didn’t do that stuff.

But this is the first of many I’m sure. So I’m making a new category for these things.

So the old look of WestSideWill.com is in its final 38 or so hours (July 1st is the launch of the new look site with some cool features) I find it right to post some feelings that I have about the old site.

Sure she was ugly, but damint she was always there for you, you know kind of like your first car. My first car was an 89′ bonneville, which if you are good at math you know was old as heck when I was 16 and driving it, but it never died on me and made me the best darn pizza boy this side of the Mississippi. Sure my next car was much better, and the one after that was even better, but you always remember your first.

So old WestSideWill.com sure you were ugly, but you always got us from point A to Point B. Anyway, here is a little song that I’m dedicating to you:

Europe, the final countdown...older than my '89 bonneville

Europe…awesome…just awesome!

Billy Mays, pitchman, and all around awesome dude was found dead today at his Tampa Area Home.

Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/mays.death/index.html

What is going on here? Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays?

Billy Mays was involved in a “hard landing” on a plane on Saturday where he was hit on the head. Cause of death is yet to be determined.

It’s not a good time to be a celebrity.

Billy Mays, dead at 50.

So TMZ is saying today that President Barack Obama wrote a letter of condolence to the family of Michael Jackson.

Maybe it’s just me, but if that wasn’t president Barack Obama who wrote a letter to an accused child molester…(remember he made a case go away for $20 million…maybe it’s just me, but I don’t pay someone $20 million if I didn’t molest them. I mean he didn’t molest me, do I get $20 million?) Seriously, if president Bush did this how quick do you think it would have been for the most annoying man on TV, Keith Olberman (who…should never have left sports center…but then once he did he should never have joined NBC’s Sunday Night Football…) to say something crazy about this?

But that all brings up one HUGE point, that I think I made on the Top 10 Unsigned Artist Countdown, Michael Jackson was the last of his kind. He is the last super star who when he died had the world stop. You seriously can’t name anyone like that now, maybe it has something to do with the lack of creativity in mainstream music today, or maybe it just has something to do with cynic nature of people today but the fact is that this is the last time in our lifetimes that we’ll see a star like that.

Michael Jackson WAS in fact able to stop the world, anyone who can get MTV to start playing music videos again is a powerful guy, and he was. The most amazing thing about his music is that you would be hard pressed to find someone who didn’t like it! Like I mentioned earlier even the most annoying dude on TV seemed to actually have a tone in his voice like he was going to miss MJ, again he did something that not a lot of people who ever lived would be able to do, and something no one alive today was going to be able to do.

Who are the big stars in the world today? Seriously, list 5, then ask your friend to list 5, and you know what you’ll find? You probably have 8 or 9 names between the 2 of you. When you would ask about the greatest musicians alive when MJ was alive you may have had a list of 8 or 9, but MJ would be on every single list regardless of what genre of music you preferred.

That’s what makes Michael dying so sad, that’s what made the President write a letter to his family (even though it’s clear MJ had some issues during his life) he was the last of his kind. So while it would be easy to say, “Yeah he’s dead, but what’s the big deal?” you just can’t say it. You know what the big deal is no matter how big of a hater you are of his. You know he changed music and for one day was actually able to make the world stop.

According to TMZ Michael Jackson has died.

He was 50 years old, and I know some people may be hating on him because maybe he was a little bit “strange”, to say the least, but I choose to remember him as the dude who made some pretty rad music and music videos.

Like Billie Jean

Whulp…the King is dead.

Michael Jackson Dead at age 50

EDIT June 26: According to TMZ the cops are looking for a doctor who lived with Jackson and gave him a shot before he died. A demerol shot to be exact, which is a morphene generic.

Here are some quick announcements from the big wigs here at WestSideWill.com:

- WestSideWill 2.0 will be launching (finished or not darn it) on July 1st. Everyone here is super excited about the new site, it gives us a nice clean updated look and should reflect our popularity on the web.

- We are still accepting radio bumps! Remember if you want to be on the new Top 10 Unsigned Artist Countdown intro there is still time! We are going to have the new intro for the July 3rd Top 10 Unsigned Artist Countdown.

- Hot Joel took over for Dave on the “Nasty Hour” that airs today. Give it a listen and see how our intern did.

And…that’s about all we got for today. Remember to visit www.WestSideWill.com every day – and certainly on July 1st for the launch!