Beyonce Music

One sassy chorus made Katy Perry the most talked-about new artist of 2008 — and fresh off the heels of her second hit, "Hot N Cold," announce the world premiere of her third video, "Thinking of You." Grab the video this week for just $0.99. And if you're one of the seven people on earth who still doesn't have Perry's album One of the Boys grab it on this week for just $7.99 and save even more with the Complete My Album feature. Find what is album available for this week below:

Beyoncé

Catch a double world premiere event, as both of Beyoncé's new videos — "Diva" and "Halo" — are now available exclusively.
Countdown to Incredibad

Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg and his counterparts from the Lonely Island are finally releasing their hilarious parodies, including "D**k In a Box" with Justin Timberlake. Our Countdown to Incredibad begins today with the audio for "J**z In My Pants" and the video for "We Like Sportz."
Slumdog Millionaire

A.R. Rahman's soundtrack, an iTunes-exclusive podcast, celebrity playlists, and more are just part of what's included in our Slumdog Millionaire offering, which highlights everything you need to know about the new film from director Danny Boyle.
Single of the Week

Earlier this month, Stephen Colbert challenged his viewers to help his holiday album trump Kanye West's on the Top Albums charts, and his audience delivered. This week, Colbert's "Another Christmas Song" is available for free as our latest Single of the Week.

Soul Music

A successful popular music style, soul music is derived from black gospel music, with its highly decorated, emotional singing style, fervent backup choruses, and rhythmic instrumental backing. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, blues singers such as Bobby Bland, and vocal groups like the Ravens, used a gospeltinged sound. Church singers bagen to record popular music in 1950s, among them The Dominoes, led by Clyde McPhatter, and Sam Cooke, who was well known as a gospel singer before he “crossed over.” The most important names in 1950s “Please, Please, Please” had all the raw urgency of black preaching, and Ray Charles, whose 1959 “What’d I Say?” took the new sound to a wide audience.

The soul style was greatly popularized in the 1960s by the success of the Marrown group of record labels, and by Aretha Franklin, the doughter of a well known Detroit preacher, many of whose recordings became national hits. Other important soul singer of the 1960s included Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, who were practitioners of the so-called Memphis sound. Throughout the 1960s the soul style was smoothed and softened to make it more acceptable to mass audiences. This tendency continued during the 1970s and 80s, when “soul music” became an accepted element of American popular music, growing increasingly sophisticated by retaining its basic church elements: decoration, drive and verve.

Rihanna Music and Lyric

There are plenty of factors that have made Barbados-born singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty a star. She's a fine singer whose talent turned the head of producer Evan Rogers, who discovered her while on vacation. She's a stunning beauty, an arresting presence in videos and on magazine covers. And her songs feature enough of a cool Caribbean breeze to make them stand out amid the hot competition of the domestic dance music scene. She's is becoming an enduring presence on the charts because she sounds great the first time you hear her --and, once again -- pon de replay.

Lyrically, Rihanna employs words mostly to service to the slammin' tracks her producers create. "Pon de Replay," the hit from her debut album, "Music of the Sun," is simply a request for "Mr. DJ" to "turn that music up." "S.O.S.," the signature smash from the follow-up, "A Girl Like Me" boasts words about a woman begging for rescue from an unhealthy obsession with a boy, but it's the classic sample from Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" that secured the song's place on the charts. And again, on her Jay-Z featuring hit "Umbrella," it's the track itself that keeps the rain from falling.

Rihanna does have a hand in writing the words to some of her songs, but most often they're written by others. Songs with lyrics about physical attraction, love and nasty breakups dominate her records, although there are some interesting twists. On "Unfaithful," for example, it's the girl who strays and is wracked with guilt -- but not so severely that she'll stop.

Rihanna established her dance-pop credentials in summer 2005 with her debut smash hit, "Pon de Replay," and continued to demonstrate such hit potential in subsequent years (e.g., "S.O.S." in 2006; "Umbrella" in 2007; "Disturbia" in 2008). However, it was the singer's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad, that made her a full-fledged international pop star with a regular presence atop the charts. Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados, she exhibited a certain star quality as a young child, often winning beauty and talent contests. Because she lived on the fairly remote island of Barbados in the West Indies, however, she never foresaw the sort of stardom that would later befall her.

Unfaithful – Lyric

Story of my life, searching for the right

But it keeps avoiding me

Sorrow in my soul? Cause it seems that wrong

Really loves my company


He’s more than a man and this is more than love

The reason that the sky is blue

But clouds are rolling in because I’m gone again

And to him I just can’t be true


And I know that he knows I’m unfaithful

And it kills him inside

To know that I am happy with some other guy

I can see him dying


I don’t wanna do this anymore

I don’t wanna be the reason why

Every time I walk out the door

I see him die a little more inside


I don’t wanna hurt him anymore

I don’t wanna take away his life

I don’t wanna be murderer


I feel it in the air as I’m doing my hair

Preparing for another date

A kiss up on my cheek, he’s here reluctantly

As if I’m gonna be out late


I say I won’t be long just hanging with the girls

A lie I didn’t have to tell

Because we both know where I’m about to go

And we know it very well


Cause I know that he knows I’m unfaithful

And it kills him inside

To know that I am happy with some other guy

I can see him dying


I don’t wanna hurt him anymore

I don’t wanna be the reason why

Every time I walk out the door

I see him die a little more inside


I don’t wanna hurt him anymore

I don’t wanna take away his life

I don’t wanna be murderer


Our love, his trust

I might as well take a gun

And put it to his head

Get it over with

I don’t wanna do this

Anymore, anymore


And I don’t wanna hurt him anymore

I don’t wanna be the reason why

Every time I walk out the door

I see him die a little more inside



And I don’t wanna hurt him anymore

I don’t wanna take away his life

I don’t wanna be amurderer

A murderer, no no no

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