Daily Archives: 18/09/2013

DEAN BRODY unveils new single ‘Bounty’

Last week Dean Brody won Male Artist of the Year at the 2013 Canadian Country Music Awards for the second consecutive year.
He also launched and performed his new single ‘Bounty’ at the awards and announced the release of his new album ‘Crop Circles’, which is released in Australia on November 8, 2013.
Brody has won seven CCMA Awards including back-to-back wins for Album of the Year (‘Trail In Life’ and ‘Dirt’) and now, Male Artist of the Year (2012 and 2013). His third album ‘ Dirt’ reached Gold sales in Canada and he has charted 11 Top #10 singles.
In 2011 and 2012, Dean Brody was named the #1 Most Played Canadian Country Artist at radio and earned two JUNO Award nominations for Album of the Year. Among his accolades, he was named one of HELLO! Canada’s Most Beautiful Canadians in May and wrapped his first headlining tour to sold-out crowds and rave reviews this past winter.
Dean Brody visited Australia to play main-stage at CMC Rocks The Hunter in March, with his single ‘It’s Friday’ one of the most downloaded country tracks in the Australian music market in 2013.

Dancing: The Vertical Expression of a Horizontal Desire…

It’s no surprise that nightclubs are dark places, they foster feelings of lust, sex and love and sometimes, when we dance there, we can go through the stages of fancying, loving, fumbling foreplay, intercourse, climax and post-coital bliss just by making eye contact, and holding it, with someone on the other side of the dance floor. Dancing is, according to George Bernard Shaw, “The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music”.

There is tons of evidence for this, from the anecdotal to the scientific. Lets start with the science and work our way down. Darwin thought that dance was part of the mate selection process and more recently two groups of researchers (Brown et al., 2005 and Fink et al., 2007) suggest that the way we dance might be influenced by our hormonal and genetic make up, such that we use dance to communicate the quality of our genes to potential mates.

In my own lab I have observed similar findings. I filmed people dancing naturally in a real nightclub and I found that men with high levels of the sex hormone testosterone dance differently to men with low levels of testosterone and, most importantly, women prefer the dancing of high testosterone men. Now, if we couple this with the finding that the female sexual partners of high testosterone men report having more orgasms during sex than the sexual partners of low testosterone men we can see how dancing style is well worth looking at when we are looking for a mate.

What about women? When women are at the more fertile stage of their menstrual cycle they dance differently to when they are at the less fertile stage of their cycle. I have found that men rate the dancing of women who are at the fertile stage of their cycle to be more attractive than the dancing of women who are at the less fertile stage of their menstrual cycle. So what’s so different about the dancing of fertile and less fertile women? It’s all in the hips. At the more fertile stage of their cycle women move their hips more when they are dancing compared with when they are at the less fertile stage. I have used eye tracking devises to see where men look on a woman’s body when she dances and I have found that men spend more time looking at the hips of women who are more fertile than they spend looking at the hips of women who are less fertile. So, the more time men spend looking at a woman’s hips the more attractive they find her!

by Dr Peter Lovatt

 

ALICIA KEYS AND JOHN LEGEND TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE AT ALLPHONES ARENA!

Allphones Arena is set to become the R ‘n B heart of New South Wales when Grammy Award winning artists, Alicia Keys and John Legend bring their full bands to the venue on their Set the World On Fire tour on Wednesday, 11 December, 2013.

 Alicia Keys has been performing on a global stage since the international spotlight locked onto the then 20-year-old with the 2001 release of her debut album Songs In A Minor. Lead by the massive No. 1 hit single Fallin’, the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts going on to sell in excess of ten millions copies worldwide and garner five Grammy Awards.

 Keys’ success was further cemented by subsequent album releases The Diary of Alicia Keys, As I Am, The Element of Freedom, Girl on Fire and the hit singles No One, If I Ain’t Got You, You Don’t Know My Name, Empire State of Mind and many more selling more than 1.7 million units in Australia and in excess of 30 million albums worldwide.

Special guest on the tour will be the soulful and sensual, nine-time Grammy Award winner, John Legend.

Since releasing his 2004 debut album, the critically acclaimed Billboard No. 1 Get Lifted, which featured the hit single Ordinary People, singer-songwriter Legend has sold more than 7 million albums worldwide, won 3 Soul Train Awards, the BET Award for Best New Artist and the special Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, in addition to his multiple Grammy wins.  Legend’s highly anticipated fourth studio album, Love In The Future, was released at the end of August and debuted in the Top 5 on the iTunes chart.

Allphones Arena’s General Manager, Guy Ngata, said today “The multi-talented R ‘n B sensation Alicia Keys will make her eagerly awaited return to Allphones Arena in December. The talents of Alicia Keys along with John Legend will make this an R ‘n B masterclass for all true music fans. Don’t miss out!

Be quick to grab your tickets as this spectacular show is sure to sell out fast when tickets go on sale FRIDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER, 2013 at 9.00am.