Male ego dominates much of IHeartRadio
Let’s just get it out of the way right up front: yes, Miley Cyrus slapped a twerking little person’s butt as she sang into a banana-shaped microphone while wearing a see-through white top and what looked like black masking tape pasties as diminutive dancers dressed as mushrooms, flowers and rainbows gyrated woozily like drunk Super Mario Brothers characters in a display of knowing kitsch or winking satire or unintentional career self-immolation that was simultaneously child-like and carnal, like an episode of “Sesame Street” directed by Paul Verhoeven.
You were having the time of your life and you were lucky just to be there.
When Hanson came to fame at the tail end of the grunge era in 1997, context made them seem especially precious: Seeing their video for breakout hit “MMMBop” next to clips from hall-of-fame brooders like Soundgarden and Pearl Jam was a welcome ray of sunshine poking through all those cloud-covered skies.
R&B singer John Legend returns to The Pearl at the Palms on Nov. 30. Tickets start at $49 and go on sale at noon Monday at The Pearl box office, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
Are you the type who roots for the zombies as they gobble guts in all those end-of-the-world splatter-a-thons?
Tony Orlando once rightly predicted that rock stars such as Elton John — who once scorned Las Vegas and its tuxedoed showmen — would end up on the Strip themselves.
