NEIL'S ARTIST OF THE WEEK
The first nominee for Artist of the Week is Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift was missing from the host of stars that attended this years MTV Video Music Awards.
The ‘Shake It Off’ singer was attending Jury Duty in her native Tennessee. The star was one of 30 potential jurors.
She was dismissed from jury duty because she could not be impartial in the case which reportedly involved aggravated rape and kidnapping.
Swift is embroiled in an ongoing legal battle since she accused a radio DJ of groping her backstage at a show in 2013.
Ken Whitehouse, a spokesman for the Davidson County district attorney general’s office, said:
"[Swift] asked to be left off out of concern for an upcoming trial in Denver where she was – she used the term – ‘groped’ by a fan at a meet-and-greet".
Here’s a video that Taylor recorded with a fellow potential juror:
The next nominee for Artist of the Week is Chris Brown
Chris Brown has largely been out of the limelight recently, until this week.
Brown was involved in a bizarre stand-off with LA police outside his home after he reportedly threatened a woman with a gun.
The woman said that she fled in terror from the singer’s property after Brown pointed a gun at her when she resisted signing a nondisclosure agreement.
LA police officers and reporters stood outside Brown’s home for hours as he refused to let them in. Throughout the stand-off, he posted various videos on social media, proclaiming his innocence. In the videos, he said that he was being unfairly demonised by the LAPD.
As the unusual incident came to an end, Brown was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He was released later that night after posting $250,000 bail, according to Los Angeles County jail records.
In the videos posted by Brown, he maintained that he was not guilty of the accusations.
He said:
“Good luck. When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, you’re going to walk right up in here and you’re going to see nothing, you idiots,” he said in one video, occasionally taking a drag of a cigarette. “I’m tired of ... dealing with y’all.”
The final nominee for Artist of the Week is Queen
Scientists have explained the elements that make a song addictive and they have named the 20 ultimate earworms.
The team of researchers at St. Andrew's University also developed a mathematical formula for explaining what makes an earworm.
An earworm needs five key components: surprise, predictability, rhythmic repetition, melodic potency and receptiveness (how the listener feels about the song).
Queen's ‘We Will Rock You’ was named as the most addictive song, with the band having three songs in the Top 20 alongside ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and ‘We Are The Champions’.
‘Jingle Bells’ was the oldest song on the list.
Some of the other songs that appear in the Top 20 are:
Pharrell Williams – ‘Happy’
Bon Jovi – ‘Livin’ On A Prayer'
Rick Astley – ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’
Michael Jackson – ‘Beat It’
Journey – ‘Don’t Stop Believin’
Culture Club – ‘Karma Chameleon’
Mark Ronson - 'Uptown Funk'
Who will be Neil's Artist of the Week? Tune in this Sunday at 11am - 1pm to find out.
