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Bigwigs in the hip-hop community have dismissed Kevin Federline's piss poor attempt to break into the rap industry by getting his former pop star wife to bolster his lack of talent. Magazine editors say he's not really notable, and if he is, it's only for a brief laugh:
“I just think we ignore him,” Wilson told The Associated Press on Monday. “He’s a joke, basically. ... I just don’t think he gets it. He doesn’t get that he’s Britney’s man and it’s hard to take him seriously.”
Jermaine Hall, executive editor of King magazine, echoes that sentiment.
“The thing that really hurts him is the fact that he’s perceived as Britney’s husband,” Hall, who had yet to see the performance, told the AP. “You know, kinda like Britney’s second — I don’t even want to say second in command, but — he’s like the Britney Boy. He’s like Mrs. Spears, and it’s kinda hard to get over that perception.”
That last guy was pretty generous in his quotes. If K-Fed had any talent it wouldn't really matter that he's Britney's husband. I would like to see him get his ass handed to him in a freestyle rap competition with any halfway decent street rapper. Did you see "8 Mile?" K-Fed writes his rhymes ahead of time and they're awful. There's no way he has enough skill or brains to diss someone on the fly - he would get laughed off the stage.
Here is K-Fed in mercifully few shots of his god-awful performance at the Teen Choice Awards, along with some of Britney. Thanks to BreatheHeavy.com for the pics.
The Beastie Boys, Eminem and 3rd Bass all prove that white guys can rap. Vanilla Ice was ahead of his time. K-Fed embodies the stereotype that white guys are idiot posers with no talent. His performance at the Teen Choice Awards yesterday just set white rappers back 15 years.
Britney threw some more seaweed over her beached whale of a career by coming on stage in one of her trademark boob-baring maternity dresses and introducing her husband through a mouthful of gum.
During the performance teen boys try to distract from the real K-Fed by performing karaoke to his rapping, and a wingman raps the intro to the song, but nothing can save this hot mess. All the boys do is remind us that K-Fed's insane ambition to rap is best abandoned in the Junior High years.
This video links out to YouTube:
Thanks to We Love Celebs for the header image and video link.
Posted to Arrogant | Awards | Kevin Federline | Music
Britney shows that maternity wear is hard to shop for by wearing the same red striped shorts out again in a visit to the studio with Sean Preston and cute manny Perry in tow yesterday. You think she could mail order if she doesn't want to go through the trouble of trying stuff on.
She said recently that her second child wasn't planned, but considering how K-Fed gets paid extra in the prenup for every kid he fathers you know that at least one of them was planning on getting her pregnant again:
She adds, laughing: "I'm going to wait a while for the next (one)!"
At eight months pregnant, Spears is mom to 11-month old son Sean Preston, the couple's first child. "I feel like I've been pregnant for 10 years!" she says.
Having back-to-back babies can be stressful, she says, but she adhere's to her mom's advice to take it "one day at a time."
"It is now starting to get a little tiring, holding (Sean Preston), but the whole pregnancy I've done it a lot because he's very attached," she tells the magazine. "It makes me feel needed and wanted, so I like it too."
Spears says she and Federline, 28, don't know the gender of their baby-to-be. The little one and its big brother "are going to be so close together, it's going to be weird. But I love it," she says.
She also said in the interview that she has a lot of pregnancy cravings and that she'll melt an entire big Hershey's bar in the microwave and eat it in the middle of the night. When I was pregnant I still tried to eat right. I mean ice cream once in a while is ok, but if you're using the microwave in order to inject more calories that's really dangerous. Jared Leto gained all that weight to play Lennon's killer by melting down Haagen Das ice cream and drinking it. Yuck.
K-Fed said that once the baby is born Britney is someone going to change her terrible habits and get skinny so that he can release his album featuring her famous vocals. He also said that Britney played "games" with him when they first started going out to see if he was just in it for the money.
As for the couple’s future plans, well K-Fed is sure that once their second child is born, and Spears regains her slim figure, the two were going to set the music industry on fire with the duet they have recorded.
"After she has the baby and gets skinny, we're gonna hit 'em with this s**t!" he added.
That's smart of K-Fed to take advantage of Britney for her talent as well as her money. He might not be talented at music, but he sure has healthy sperm.
Pictures from Breatheheavy.com and probably taken by x17, as they like to remind me. (And I do appreciate being able to use their pictures without fear of litigation.)
Hey, does Christina Aguilera have a new album out? She seems to be everywhere lately. The NY Times says that "Back to Basics," Aguilera's new double album, is half-good half-bad. The lyrics reveal XTina's fight to stay at the top and are an attempt explain to the world why she looks like a blowup doll and is such a pain in the ass:
This demand is the main theme of “Back to Basics,” a double CD that contains a roughly even number of great songs and lousy ones. The first disc is full of rationales, ranging from the self-referential (“I’m going back to basics,” she sings, in the introduction) to the paradoxical (“I pay no mind/To the negative kind,” she claims). Perhaps this is the weird but (in hindsight) predictable result of our hyper-tabloid culture. In print, online, on television, celebrities are constantly being asked to explain themselves. So we shouldn’t be surprised when they comply.
The second disc, largely written with Linda Perry, ends with a couple of songs clearly meant as odes to Ms. Aguilera’s husband, Jordan Bratman. But even these literal-minded love songs seem like explanations: having told us how much she has changed, the singer now wants to tell us why. “Never felt like I needed any man,” she wails, in the beyond-bombastic finale, “The Right Man.” But she’s not really addressing her husband; she’s addressing listeners who are confused about all the mushy stuff. Even when she’s singing a love song, Ms. Aguilera sounds a bit defensive.
In this interview on Good Morning America yesterday, XTina tells the same old childhood abuse story as if she's practiced it for ages. She seems genuinely excited about her new album and how she craftily copped it off the jazz greats of the 30s and 40s, though. Somewhere underneath all that arrogance and makeup she really does love music.
She also reveals that she gave Britney a basket of gender neutral baby gifts when she heard she was pregnant, and that Britney sent her a crystal vase and a crystal drink bucket as a wedding present.
Thanks to ONTD for the video link. Also thanks to readers Karen and Jess for letting me know that I fell for Aguilera's sob story in an earlier article I posted about it.
Here is Aguilera leaving the Koko club on an unknown date in a see-through dress. I think I've seen these before, but maybe that was a different sheer black dress. Even totally wasted, Aguilera manages to keep her lipstick and makeup perfectly applied. Maybe one of her minions helps her with that. [via]
Madonna knows what she's good at, and now she plans to stick to it. The super-fit geriatric Jewish queen of pop can't act for shit and she's finally admitted it:
By saying it's already "dead in the water," she may have been making a sneaky reference to that terrible film that doomed her husband's career, "Swept Away." People say her films suck not because she's in them, but because they've actually seen them and she can't act. Her acting is wooden and forced, and that's smart of her to stick with what she knows - writhing around on stage and pissing off the Christians.
Here's Madonna in concert in Rome on August 6th. Looks like the pope missed a fabulous show. [via]
Diddy seems to think that he owns the common adjective "sexy" and that he alone holds the rights. He said he is the true "King of Sexy" and that he let Justin Timberlake "borrow" the term for his latest CD:
Victoria's Secret must have called up Diddy before the launch of their Very Sexy bras to make sure he approved of their use of the word. Or maybe they're paying him royalties.
Oh wait - I dated a patent attorney a while ago, and I think the way it works is that you only have rights to a trademark within a certain industry. In that case Diddy is the sole "sexy" singer and Timberlake indeed needs to bow to him in order to call himself sexy. All other professions and industries can be sexy without Diddy's approval.
Timberlake album cover found at Cake and Ice Cream. Diddy pictures from yeeeah. The last few photos of Justin Timberlake are high resolution from an Observer photo shoot found at TimberlakeNow.net.
Joe Pesci made an hilarious rap video as his "Wise Guy" character back in 1998. His rapping is so bad it's good, and it's set to a looping sample from Blondie's "Rapture." The video features slap-happy Naomi Campbell and a blonde model who looks familiar.
This song comes from the album "Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just For You." The album also features songs capitalizing on his role in "My Cousin Vinny." Amazon.com has samples.
"Two supermodels, one on each arm. One chick's brunette, the other one's blonde. I heard their fathers had stocks and bonds, so I f'ed 'em up and left them floating in a pond."
From Flabber.nl via Fark.
Posted to Joe Pesci | Music | Video
In this clip for an upcoming MTV special, Paris Hilton talks about her love of singing, how she worked harder for it than anything in her life, and how she's wanted to sing since she was a little girl. She delivers these lines while sitting back on a couch and never changing the tone of her voice. She looks completely bored, like it doesn't really interest her to discuss her newfound music career, and she's doing it because she has to.
Paris Hilton is less excited making her crappy bubblegum music than the average secretary doing her daily job. Can you imagine if you called an office and the person answering the phone was as devoid of emotion as Paris? If it was a high-powered executive's office, you would wonder why they put up with such a bad assistant.
In Paris Hilton's case, you wonder why she bothers to get up in the morning. Is she really depressed or just bored with life?
Media analysts have called Paris Hilton a "palette cleanser" and said that she's the perfect brand advertisement because she can be anything you want her to be. With no real passions or obvious interests beyond shopping and showing up for stuff, it's obvious why. She just doesn't give a shit what you do with her.
Look, she blends in with the background perfectly. She's like a pillow that coordinates with everything.
Someone please stop Madonna before she's damned to hell. She's using the same old tired "offend all the Christians" gimmick to generate controversy over her geriatric tour. She refused to take the hanging on a cross bit out of her show for the televised version of her concert, and she also declined to take it out when she plays Rome right near the Vatican. Now she's upped the ante a bit by inviting the creepy Pope himself to her show:
Ersilio Cardinal Tonino, speaking on behalf of The Pope, said yesterday, "This concert is a blasphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the cross. She should be ex-communicated. To crucify herself during the concert in the city of Popes and martyrs is an act of open hostility."
Madonna's spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg tells the New York Daily News, "I think the Pope would enjoy the show and would applaud her performance. He has an open invitation to see for himself the eloquence and beauty that Madonna expresses for humanity while performing her poignant song 'Live To Tell.'"
That's so fucking stupid! Madonna can't stand being out of the spotlight for five minutes, and she has to offend everyone who isn't a member of her crazy cult religion.
I'm not religious at all, but I just think that's ridiculous. Madonna can put all the sexy bits in that she wants, but why does she have to mess with religious symbolism so blatantly?
Yeah sure, Madonna, the Pope's going to be impressed by your tribute to "humanity." Give me a break.
Posted to Arrogant | Cults | Madonna | Music
Kevin Federline's new single is a mess. He uses other talent for most of the rapping, which makes it more mature than Papazoa and that other shitty song he had out. (Which isn't saying much.) It's too fast, though, and not catchy at all.
I don't know much about rap, but I know what sounds good and this is just repetitive without being memorable. They mix in way too many samples and it's pretty awful.
Thanks to BreatheHeavy.com.
Posted to Kevin Federline | Music
Jessica Simpson's hair is a mess, she needs a dye job, and she's wearing orange lipstick that emphasizes her trout pout, but who's looking at her face anyway? She's wearing a completely see through dress. A short chubby woman with overplucked eyebrows and equally bad lipstick tries to look important by shielding Simpson, but she can't hide those exposed boobs, even though she's the right height.
Ken Paves is seen in the background, so Jessica has no excuse for that hair, unless Ken advised her to go for the JBF hair look. She may as well look like she's getting laid even if she has to resort to transparent dresses to look sexy. Ken probably scratched her arm with a hairbrush to make it look like she's having rough sex.
Jessica Simpson has admitted that Madonna "influenced" her latest crappy single, "Holiday," I mean "Public Affair." It's a wonder Madonna hasn't filed suit yet because the song is nearly indistinguishable from Madonna's hit.
That's like that "Opal Mehta" author saying she was "influenced" by the books she lifted passages from.
Here is Simpson outside the Ivy on 7/31. [via]
Barbra Streisand must have seen those terrible pictures of herself that came out recently, or maybe she just wants to spruce up for her latest concert comeback. Regardless she's seen outside a plastic surgeon's office clutching a juice box while covered in a black veil.
It will take more than surgery to fix Babs. Maybe she should call Madonna and get some tips on how to slim down while cashing in on tired old gimmicks to sell out concerts. Barbra desperately needs the help, her high-priced concert tickets aren't selling well and her longterm fans are pissed at paying big bucks for her last tour, which she claimed was her final one.
Pictures from Celebrity Mania and DListed.
When I reported on the scathing letter Lohan received from the production studio head of her latest film, I said, "Lohan has become a parody of herself and will have a steady career of increasingly more embarassing endorsements if she doesn't slow down and focus on her acting. Oh wait - she can sing too, right?"
She can sing, but her music career has fallen prey to her partying ways, too. The British arm of her record label has given her the boot because her single tanked in the UK. Lindsay's blamed for the failure since she couldn't be bothered to go to England for promotion:
The single she did release was appropriately named Over, which is what will happen to Lindsay’s career if she doesn’t clean up her act soon.
Oops Lindsay, better concentrate on your career instead of how good you look to the paparrazi.
Here is Lindsay kick-boxing on the beach this weekend. Her trainer looks perplexed and a bit scared. That little firecracker might just hurt him if he's not careful.
Pictures [via]
James Blunt was voted fourth most annoying in a British list. He fell behind telemarketers, camping caravans, and people who cut in line. He was more annoying than everything else according to poller sentiment. Paper cuts, loud neighbors, and farts can't hold a candle to Blunt's treacle:
Other people who made the list include Celebrity Big Brother couple Chantelle and Preston (9th), Carol Vorderman (11th) and Abi Titmuss (18th).
The singer did not finish top though, Blunt's three saving graces being cold callers, caravans and queue jumpers.
The Top 20 Most Annoying Things:
1. Cold callers
2. Caravans
3. Queue jumpers
4. James Blunt
5. Traffic wardens
6. Tailgaters
7. Brown nosers
8. Chantelle and Preston
9. Ex-smokers
10. Noisy neighbours
11. Hangovers
12. Carol Vorderman
13. Loud mobile users
14. Men in flip-flops
15. Paper cuts
16. Bad hair days
17. Breaking wind
18. Abi Titmuss
19. Off milk
20. Being put on hold
I'd rather drink a glass of sour milk any day than have to endure "You're Beautiful" again.
Of course Blunt is ten times more annoying for having landed Petra Nemcova. He's rumored to have a wee willy winky, so Nemcova must just go for the vacant sensitive type.
Here are Blunt and Nemcova in Prague on 7/18 and 7/20. [via]
A very pregnant and much classier-looking Britney Spears made an appearance at Pure nightclub at Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas to support her husband Kevin Federline's video shoot. She looked quite presentable in a horizontal-striped top and her black hair.
Britney was also photographed in Vegas with a guy rumored to be her new "manager," or maybe just her agent, Wililam Morris agent Jason Trawick.
Both times she looked rather good. That may be some kind of record for her.
Britney had a supposed pregnancy scare on July 15th, when it is said that she went into false labor and had to be rushed to the hospital. A "friend" is quoted as blaming the incident on Britney's poor nutrition, saying she wasn't eating enough vegetables. If you take a look in Kevin's cart in these pictures of him shopping, you can see why a gossip magazine writer could come to that conclusion. Celebrity Baby Blog mentions that it sounds like a completely bogus reason for false labor.
Pictures from Breathe Heavy.
The video for Jessica Simpson's new single, "A Public Affair," contains enough T&A to make up for the lousy music. Eva Longoria, Christina Applegate and Christina Milian skate around, and Maria Menounos plays the role of Jessica's ex-husband's new girlfried, Vanessa Minnillo, in a fantasy catfight.
Oh, and Jessica Simpson deep throats an ice cream cone in a brief clip that seems to reveal what she plans to do with the dessert afterwards in order to keep her figure. The thumbnail links to a larger version. [via]
Here's the video which you've probably already seen.
And here's Jessica Simpson at TRL and outside the studios. MTV made sure Vanessa Minnillo wasn't hosting that day. [via]
Britain's The Sun is not a very reliable source, but I couldn't pass this up: Kevin Federline is planning to hammer yet another nail into the coffin of Britney's dormant career by asking her to sing over his "rapping" on his latest album:
Pals say rapper Kev, 28, is “very nervous” and desperate that Playing With Fire is a hit.
So he has delayed next month’s launch to add the track with pregnant pop babe Britney, 24.
A source close to Kev said: “He will be rapping over her singing.
“But people are warning it could be a bad career move for Britney.”
I won't believe this is true until I read it in another more reputable source, because K-Fed hasn't been around Britney and he doesn't seem humble enough to ask for her help yet.
Kevin was said to have passed up Britney's offer to work with her talented producers on his album a few months ago, and if the crap he's released on his myspace is any indication, it was a dumb move. He now seems to be working with Britney's producers, though, and wants to beat Justin Timberlake on the charts.
Kevin is said to be totally obsessed with being better than his wife's famous ex:
Whatever, K-Fed. Timberlake is a mediocre talent, but he can still rap and sing much better than you ever will, even with the best help in the business. You really suck and you're dragging your stupid tiger-loving wife down with you. Given the fact that she still hasn't dumped your ass, she kind of deserves it.
Posted to Britney Spears | Kevin Federline | Music
If someone told me Madonna was going to pull the tired hanging on the cross routine for her latest tour, I wouldn't have believed them. So while it may seem really stupid of Madonna to try to tie her fading star to two hot young singers at the MTV music awards again, it sounds like something she would do. She's persistent in her blind/blonde ambition, and she tends to beat dead horses and expect people to pay to watch, which they do.
She's said to now want to "pass her energy" onto Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson in an S&M number that probably borrows from her stupid "Confessions" tour. I bet it will have an equestrian theme, too:
Now the Queen Of Pop is planning to do a bondage scene with the two rising stars at this year’s awards in New York next month.
A source told me: “Madonna’s people contacted Jessica’s representatives a few weeks ago and the talks are progressing well.
“With both Jessica and Lindsay’s stock rocketing Madonna thinks they would be perfect to perform with.
“She’s planning something even more sexy than a lesbian kiss. The whispers are all about a bondage- inspired show.
“Madonna will keep the details hushed up until the night.”
The source is The Sun, which makes it seem like fake news, but you never know with Madonna. It could be true now that Madonna is converting Lohan to Kabbalah.
Please, Madonna, retire already. You look more like a cartoon character than a pop star, and you were right at home on stage at the Grammys with Gorillaz. You should devote your life to converting people to your sham cult and quit performing. Maybe you'll hook gullible Jessica Simpson into Kabbalah too. She's surely in need of some spiritual guidance.
Here is Madonna with her daughter Lourdes outside of the NY Kabbalah center on 6/30. Lindsay Lohan is shown shopping at Tower Records on 7/7 and in Malibu on 7/6. [via]. There are also some low-res candids of Jessica Simpson arriving at LA airport with her bodyguard. [via]
Jay-Z performed his whole first album, "Reasonable Doubt," at Radio City Music Hall last night to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its release. Other artists joining him on stage included Sauce Money, Foxy Brown and Memphis Bleek. The Roots' Amir Questlove, The Illadelphonics, and The Hustler's Symphony Orchestra made up his band.
Jay-Z's girlfriend, Beyonce, joined him for the last song, "Can't Knock The Hustle," which was originally a duet with Mary J. Blige.
Jay-Z announced his international tour, which will kick off this fall. He also hasn't ruled out another album after declaring his retirement in 2003:
"There's a lot of places I haven't been," explained Jay-Z. "They've heard my music but they've never really seen me perform live. ... This really makes me wanna go out and perform. I'm looking forward to going overseas."
While fans stateside won't likely see another Jay-Z performance for a while, they may get a chance to her some new music in the future. Though Jay-Z vowed 2003's "The Black Album" would be his goodbye to the recorded rap game, his recent concert appearances (he staged a major show last year and has made cameos with performers like The Roots) and his guest appearances on tracks like girlfriend Beyonce's new song have industry insiders rumbling that a new Hova album may be on the horizon.
Jay-Z does have a new album coming out. Starch blabbed that he's working with Jigga on a new release:
According to the Rolling Stone the rap legend has returned to the studio even though he announced his retirement three years ago.
The new album will feature appearances from Kanye West, Scott Starch and Dr Dre who’ve all been recording tracks with him.
Starch said of the new material: “I’m working with Jay-Z on his new album. (It’s) the first time we ever really worked together. We got some fire.”
It looks like Jay-Z is recording an album after all. It also seems like he's still going strong with Beyonce despite the breakup rumors. They had a public fight at a basketball game as reported by Page Six and Beyonce was said to be jealous of Jay-Z's relationship with singer Rhianna. A story last week had the two breaking up due to hectic schedules and Jay-Z's inability to commit.
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The new Jessica Simpson song, "A Public Affair" is so strikingly similar to Madonna's "Holiday" that it's surprising it's not a remake. TMZ has both songs available for a comparison:
From the synth-pop beat to the jangly guitars in the beginning, to the eight-note motifs in the verses to the choruses that begin on an A and the use of the same key (B-minor), the two songs are so similar that, in a highly unscientific poll, every person to whom TMZ played "A Public Affair" identified it as "Holiday." Will Jellybean Benitez (who produced the original) be getting royalties for this?
TMZ called a rep for Madonna, but as of yet our calls have not been returned. As for Jessica, her rep tells TMZ "It is a fun summer single and comparing to retro Madonna is flattering!"
My husband thought it was "Holiday" when he heard the Jessica Simpson song, and it's amazing that someone thought they could get away with such a blatant rip off. I'm not blaming Jessica because she probably just does what people tell her to do.
Maybe Simpson's producers will pull the song or choose another to use as the first single off her new album.
She is in dire need of advice and has been letting her best friend and hairdresser Ken spend too much time on Eva Longoria's hair. The poor girl has major roots in these pictures at the launch of the Sidekick 3 on 6/20. She's also wearing an unflattering dress, and if she was still married someone (probably us) would be calling her pregnant.
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Britney released a clip of a new song on her website called "Rebellion." It looks like it was up briefly and was removed, because BreatheHeavy.com says it was the second update and was under her poem, but it's no longer available.
The lyrics reveal the fact that she's pissed off at the paparrazi and press and thinks that she can make a noun into a verb by repeating it a lot. On her site before the download link she wrote "This is for everyone who thinks they know me... I forgive you."
Download a 50 second clip of Rebellion (mp3)
It's got a wannabe hip-hop vibe and it's pretty good.
Be wary of others
The ones closest to you (oh)
The poison they feed you
And the voodoo that they do
But in rebellion
There's a sparkle of truth
Don't just stand there
Do what you got to do
You'll find it in rebellion
You'll finally start breathing
They're not believing what they're seeing
'Cause you're rebellion
You'll find it so compelling
With everyone yelling
'Cause your soul, you're not selling
'Cause you're rebellion
You're not selling your soul, Britney, just some crappy pictures that no one wants. It's also clear that you're pissed off at Kevin, because he's slowly poisoning you. We get it.
You think you're rebellion by dyeing your hair black, don't you?
Lyrics and Britney mp3 from BreatheHeavy.com.
Posted to Britney Spears | Kevin Federline | Music | Relationship trouble
Joining the list of snaggle-tooth stars who love their drink (which only includes Kirsten Dunst as far as I know, but that sounded funny) is Jewel, who praises the merits of alcohol in a recent quote:
Maybe Jewel is drinking high quality vodka or taking that active charcoal stuff that prevents hangovers, because drinking a lot is really counter productive in our extensive experience.
Also, it's weird that The Post says Jewel drinks Robitussin because all she said was that she enjoys alcohol. She was probably joking and so is The Post, but she must be drinking a lot or why would she joke like that?
Here is Jewel shooting her new video "Good Day" [via] She is shown with her boyfriend of 7 years, Ty Murray, called the "king of the cowboys."
Here's Christina performing her new single "Ain't No Other Man" at the MTV Movie Awards, which aired last night.
The song is incredible and XTina just gives it her all. You can download the single and see pictures from the performance.
Thanks to Faded Youth for posting this first.
Posted to Awards | Christina Aguilera | Music | Video
We are bleeding heart liberals, and even we think this is dumb. Barbra Streisand says she's going to tour for the first time in 12 years to bring awareness to the causes she's interested in. And, get this, she will give "designated proceeds" to charity - her own charity. She doesn't give an exact percentage or amount of course:
The tour follows the release of her latest album, "Guilty Pleasures," last September. In 2004, Streisand marked her return to the big screen, co-starring in the Ben Stiller comedy, "Meet the Fockers."
If you're going to give money to charity, you should say exactly how much. It's going to Babs' own damn foundation, so you think she could commit to an amount if she's going to put out a press release about it. She could earn up to $2 million a night for this tour, so it's not like she can't afford it.
Just like Heather Mills, Barbara Streisand has a snotty "Myth vs. Truth" section on her official website. Of course she should dispute inaccurate reports, but she does it in such an over-the-top self-satisfied way that it makes her seem reactionary.
On her website Streisand doesn't address a NY Daily News report that she didn't pay for tickets at a Malibu Movie theater with her husband, James Brolin. Stresiand sucked up to the young guy at the counter to avoid having to pay less than $20 to get in. Her publicist defended the cheapskate move, saying comping celebrities is a "professional courtesy that many theaters extend to film stars."
Streisand will play 20 concerts in the US in October and November of this year.
Update: I actually read through several of the "Myth vs. Truth" sections of Babs' website, and they're not that over-the-top. The problem I have is with the name of the section coupled with the riduculous design of her website. It features a pink content area on a black background and has a dumb picture of Streisand holding roses while sitting on a pink silk chair as the header image. She should shell out the money to hire a more modern designer. Oh wait - she's too cheap. Been there. Worked for those people. (Oh, I have this lovely picture I'd like to put on the top of every page. Could you blow it up too and make it the background?)
Posted to Barbra Streisand | Good Causes | Music
There's been a lot of talk about a Spice Girls reunion. Last we heard it wasn't happening because the most successful former Spice Girl, Melanie C aka "Sporty," was holding out since she actually has a music career and this could harm it. Now they're said to be releasing a new single and planning a tour:
The former girl group - Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell, Sporty Spice Mel C, Scary Spice Mel B and Baby Spice Emma Bunton - have already recorded the track, named ‘Woman’.
They are reportedly releasing the song in July, to mark ten years since their debut, ‘Wannabe’, reached the number one spot in the UK.
The girls are also said to be planning a reunion tour - and may even release more new material if ‘Woman’ is a hit.
A source told Britain’s News of the World newspaper: "They are planning their tour but wanted a new song to mark their return. If it goes well they’ll look to release more material."
If that's true it's good news for new mom Geri Halliwell. She's been begging her friends for a place to stay in the countryside with her newborn, Bluebell Madonna. She says she can't afford her own house, but Hello! magazine reportedly paid her six figures for the first photoshoot with her newborn.
Update:: Reader Margarita points out that the single "Woman" is from 2000, meaning this news is old and not true. They were said to be talks for a reunion tour, but it was a no-go due to Sporty's reluctance to join the project.
Posted to Music | Reconciliations | Spice Girls | Victoria Beckham
Paris Hilton's record company is trying to keep up with the Internet leak of her music, and made an announcement to the music industry that they would begin shipping her first single, "Stars are Blind," on Monday, June 5th.
This song is catchy bubblegum pop and I can actually stand it. It doesn't get stuck in your head for too long, and it's enjoyable. The rest of her music that's been leaked is pretty bad, though:
Here's the "Stars are Blind" Video:
And here are samples of more of Paris' music. We've posted these before, but you may want another chance to wince:
Maybe they'll be significantly reworked before they're released. Producers should hurry - now that the first single is out they don't have much time.
Posted to Music | Paris Hilton | Video
Highlighting the fact that she's happily married and hot as ever with a thriving career while Britney Spears, well - isn't, Christina Aguilera said that she's oh so broken up by the fact that Britney couldn't make it to the MTV movie awards this year:
In case you want to give Aguilera the benefit of the doubt and don't think this is a dig at Britney, read what she said about Britney's wedding with K-Fed two years ago:
They may have served chicken wings and hamburgers, but the wedding wasn't all that trashy. A rare hand-beaded invitation to the Spears-Federline wedding along with an initialed party favor candle is for sale on eBay for nearly $1,000. The favors were classy even if the relationship never will be. The eBay seller should have waited until the divorce announcement in order to drive up the price.
Here's trash-talking Christina Aguilera at The Ivy with her husband on June 2nd. She looks pretty tipsy, and it's not the first time.
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Christina Aguilera performed her new single "Ain't No Other Man" at the MTV Movie Awards on Saturday. It looks like she removed her skirt onstage and stripped down to a pinup-worthy one piece bathing suit. That's about as far as she'll go now - she recently was convinced by her husband, Jordan Bratman, not to take her top off for a magazine. She wanted to go topless to prove that her breasts were real, but her husband was said to be "horrified" by the idea.
Aguilera's new album is inspired by the jazz era and includes gritty elements that add authenticity to her pop sound. You can download the first single, "Aint No Other Man," in mp3 format.
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The first single off Christina Aguilera's new album is incredible. It's catchy with a great beat, some carefully added retro elements, and Xtina's strong vocals. Christina's new retro-influenced album, "Back to Basics" will be released on August 15th. She will sing the single you can download below, "Ain't No Other Man," on the MTV movie awards on June 8th.
Thanks to Oh No They Didn't
A British radio station has blanned James Blunt's trite repetitive music from the air - saying that listeners don't like it and they need a break.
However, now Essex FM has gone one better by banishing him from the airwaves. The radio station's listeners say they are sick of hearing Blunt's hits You're Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover everywhere they go.
"We don't have anything against James Blunt and we're pleased he has been so successful, but we really need a break," said programme controller Chris Cotton. "While his songs have been very popular, there is a tremendous amount of industry pressure to play certain artists frequently.
"Often this can be out of step with the audience's tastes. We're happy to stand up to this pressure and follow the strong message listeners have given us. We encourage other radio stations to take the same step."
People hate Blunt enough to demand that a radio station stops playing him, and even the station manager admits that Blunt's popularity does not reflect popular taste.
James Blunt's boring Hallmark card music used to suck even worse - he's being sued by a producer who claims that he reworked six songs on Blunt's album "Back to Bedlam." The producer has a good reputation in the industry, having worked with Dido in the past. He says that Blunt lacks musical skill and needed a lot of his assistance on the album but screwed him out of any royalties once he hit it big.
Here's Blunt with his trademark dumb ass look on the Today Show yesterday morning. He is also shown at the Ivor Novello Awards on 5/29. He looks really high. That must be how he copes with his lack of talent.
Prince made a surprise performance in the finale of American Idol last night, despite passing up a guest judge opportunity by refusing to meet with contestants. He is also said to hate the show and to have never watched it. That didn't stop him from cashing in on the show's astronomical ratings though.
Music stars were paired with past Idol contestants for the other performances:
Other pairings of contestants and stars included Paris Bennett and Al Jarreau; McPhee and Meat Loaf; Chris Daughtry and Live; Elliott Yamin and Blige; Hicks and Toni Braxton, and the dozen finalists with Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick.
Prince was a surprise final performer, taking the stage for two songs, including "Satisfied" -- and without an "Idol" contestant alongside.
29 year-old Alabama soul singer Taylor Hicks was crowned the Idol on the fifth season of the show. His win was not surprising, as he was expected to beat polished Katharine McPhee, 22.
Idol continues to pull in impressive ratings.This year's season was the highest rated ever, with an average viewing audience of 30 million each week.
Here's a video of the announcement and part of Taylor's performance afterwards:
And here is Clay Aiken performing along with his impersonator:
The Dixie Chicks have refused to appear on the dumb women's roundtable talk show, "The View," saying they have to be selective about the shows they choose. They mentioned "The View" specifically in an interview with Time Magazine, saying that they use Bruce Springsteen as their model for publicity choices, and that he would never appear on the show:
This pissed off "View" cohost Joy Behar so much that she ripped up the article on the air:
"It's one thing to diss the (GEORGE W) BUSH administration, it's treason to diss The View."
What a idiot Joy Behar is. She may be the token liberal on the show before Rosie joins, but she's not acting like it. The Dixie Chicks are ahead of their time. They criticized George Bush back when it was taboo, but now everyone hates the murdering son of a bitch. We think their refusal to do "The View" is a harbinger of the shows demise, and that most of the cohosts will go on to fabulous careers as spokespeople on infomercials.
The Dixie Chicks aren't too good for XM Satellite Radio. They are shown performing on May 23rd on "Artist Confidential" in the pictures below. They are also seen at Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People event on May 8th.
Jennifer Lopez, who may be pregnant finally depending on how much evidence you need, is going to get her own reality show on MTV in which she auditions dancers for an excuse to make a show about their hard knock life:
The 'Jenny From The Block' singer - who originally found fame on US comedy series, 'In Living Colour' - will select and audition dancers to star in a show which follows their constant struggle to get their big break.
She said: "I started out as a dancer, and I know what that world is. These dancers have dedicated their lives to this. It's something they do only out of love.
"It's a tough life, and I want to show that struggle."
I don't know about Lopez's "dancing out of love" comment. Dancers must enjoy it or they wouldn't make it their career, but J.Lo's dancing career was easily abandoned for singing and acting, and it seems like she does it out of pure ambition.
Lopez has somehow avoided a lawsuit for pulling out of her strange handful of tour dates in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. She promised to reimburse concert promoters for costs incurred in preparing for the shows she pulled out of, and they have agreed not to sue her.
She is also quoted as saying that thinking about her ex, Ben Affleck, and his new family makes her depressed.
Jennifer told Britain's Star magazine: "Just raising the subject depresses me."
The Latin beauty - who has made no secret of her desire to have children with husband Marc Anthony - is reportedly pregnant. Lopez is due to give birth around Christmas, a source told America's In Touch magazine.
So far the only source for J.Lo's supposed pregnancy seems to be In Touch magazine. We'll believe it when and if she looks further along.
Header image is of Lopez on May 19th at her husband Marc Anthony's concert in Columbia. Picture from Go-JLo.com.
Posted to J.Lo | Jennifer Lopez | Music | Television
Kate Moss was so pissed off about Pete Doherty's blood squirting stunt that she asked him to come over to her place. When he arrived she promptly kicked his ass!
At least Doherty didn't fight back, but we doubt the junkie would have had the strength even if he wanted to. Moss shouldn't have even bothered with Doherty, though. Why doesn't she just ignore him? She's supposed to be dating comic Russell Brand now anyway.
Meanwhile Doherty's antics have lead his record label, Rough Trade, to drop his group Babyshambles. An source is quoted as saying: "Rough Trade were in the process of renegotiating a deal, but the talks broke down because it just proved to be so difficult to deal with Pete and the people he surrounds himself with."
Maybe losing his record label will help Pete follow-through on kicking heroin as he's been planning. It won't be easy, but he needs it desperately.
Here's Kate in a Primal Scream video:
As is typical for Madonna, she did a bunch of crazy shit at the kick off for her Confessions Tour yesterday in Inglewood, California.
Let's see, there was the whole hanging on a cross, wearing a crown of thorns thing. The riding the rhinestone-studded, black leather carousel like she's the main attraction at the erotic shop across town thing. And, of course, that nasty George Bush comment thing, which she brought back from her Coachella show last month.
The show started off nice and sweet with images of horses on the screens and Madonna in full equestrian attire descending from the ceiling in a one-ton disco ball. A closer look at that outfit, however, revealed she's going for the dominatrix look and that whip wasn't meant for a horse.
As Madonna sang "Future Lovers," mixing in a little of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" for good measure, her leather-strapped male dancers slithered around her like a lost scene from "Eyes Wide Shut." "Get Together" offered more of the same, but nothing could have prepared the capacity crowd for what would follow — and we're not talking about her own X-rays on the screens.
Bringing "Like a Virgin" out of the vaults, Madonna introduced the song by asking the audience if they wanted to go for ride. She then saddled up on a carousel-like set piece and rode it like no carousel should be ridden.
The moves sent the room into a frenzy and caused one of the only sing-a-longs of the set, which featured 10 Confessions on a Dancefloor tracks and, unlike the Re-Invention Tour that launched in the same venue almost two years ago (see "Madonna Twirls Rifle, Lifts Up Her Kilt At Tour Opener"), only a few old favorites.
For her next tune, Madonna made one of her seven costume changes and returned to the center of the stage a la Jesus Christ on the cross (if that cross were built in 2006 ... by Marilyn Manson), singing "Live to Tell." Like Kanye West on the cover of Rolling Stone, it was a fascinating image, whether or not you think it's immoral.
Madonna can't top her younger, hotter self, and she obviously can't stand the thought of retiring and enjoying her vast wealth out of the spotlight. She's still in top form, but this smacks of desperation. She could do a great performance without gyrating on a horse's saddle, pretending to be a dominatrix and deliberately provoking Christians. We don't go to church and have little respect for organized religion, but why is Madonna still trying to get headlines this way? This is a tired ploy that she wore out in 1989 with the "Like a Prayer" video.
Here she is writhing on the saddle:
And here are pictures of her performance. Thanks to MadonnaOnline.com.br for the disco crucifix pictures.
Britney Spears' record label says she didn't break the law by having her son in a forward-facing childseat:
It added rear-facing car seats were compulsory neither in California nor many other parts of the US.
"In fact, there are only 10 [states] that require a child to be in a rear-facing car seat, and in two of those states it is not required if the infant is more than 20 lbs. Britney's son Sean weighs over 20 lbs."
It looks like she got off on a technicality. This wasn't as much as a snafu as driving with Sean in her lap, but it still makes her seem like a neglectful mother.
Britney is working on a new album and has hired R&B producer Jonathan 'JR' Rotem, who produced Rhianna's hit "SOS." Rotem has said that Britney will have a song about the paparrazi on her new album, and he reveals how difficult it is for Britney and K-Fed to deal with:
Just as an innocent bystander, Rotem says the media frenzy that follows Spears "is annoying.
Their life is crazy. I'm also working with K-Fed, her husband, quite a bit on some hip hop stuff, and literally every time he comes over, he's followed by like five to eight paparazzi trucks. They just camp out in front of my place while we work and try to take pictures of anything. They cannot go anywhere without being followed. It's amazing and very aggravating."
Being followed everywhere seems to be the price of extreme fame and wealth. If Britney and K-Fed would lay low for a little while, they might get some peace.
Posted to Babies | Britney Spears | Music
Mandy Moore has called Wilmer Valderrama's tell-all interview on Howard Stern, in which he suggested he took her virginity, "tacky" and "untrue":
She says his chat is "utterly tacky, not even true".
She went on to say: "It hurt my feelings because I like him."
But it seems she's not the only one a little miffed by Wilmer's loose tongue.
During the interview, he also claimed to have slept with Lindsay Lohan, Ashlee Simpson and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Jennifer Love Hewitt denied Valderrama's claims earlier, saying she "would have loved to have been there!"
Mandy Moore is in the finishing stages of her latest album, and says on her official website that "Things are really heating up and I'm so anxious to get out there and share this music with you all." She also has harsh words for whoever started a rumor that she was in rehab, saying " If you're gonna spread trash and gossip, there should be a line drawn on issues that you just don't go near!"
Considering that we never heard that Moore was in rehab, she shouldn't have justified the rumor with a response.
Here she is the June, 2006 issue of Elle magazine.
Photos from [mooreofmandy.com]
Australian singer Kylie Minogue will be playing a series of comeback concerts in her hometown of Melbourne. Minogue has headed back to the studio and plans to play live after having battled breast cancer last year:
A source is quoted in Britain's The People newspaper as saying: "She insists on Melbourne for her family, friends and home town supporters.
"And her people have already pencilled in the dates in November - the height of summer Down Under - to guarantee a booking."
The singer - who was forced to cancel several dates of her sell-out 'Showgirl' world tour after she was diagnosed with the disease last May - is already practicing for the concerts.
Manager Terry Blamey said Kylie, who got the all-clear from cancer four months ago, is "going to come back better than ever".
Meanwhile, the star is also back in the recording studio.
The 37-year-old said: "I'm feeling much better but I'm taking things slowly. It's just good to be back. I've had a great week in the studio here and things couldn't be better.
"I'm not sure when my next single is coming out. I'm just working as fast as I can and getting it all done."
That's great news for Minogue and her new album is sure to be a hit.
Here she is outside a recording studio on May 11th. She looks so happy! [via]
Britney Spears has been getting deep beyond her ability to comprehend. She made a couple statements recently that reveal that she's trying to come to terms with the spiritual side of life, and is failing miserably.
She made a strange brief statement on her website, her first in over a year, saying she's given up Kabbalah.
She is also quoted as saying that she considers herself a sort of prophet:
Britney, you may not have realized it consciously at the time, but when you have sex without protection you can get pregnant. So you had more of a biology revelation when writing that song than a spiritual awakening.
It's a good thing Britney has given up the Kabbalah cult, though. She doesn't need any more complications in her life.
Britney is pregnant with her second child, which is rumored to be a girl.
Here she is with an unknown male outside a studio in Hollywood on 5/12. Kevin Federline is shown on the same day outside another studio.
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Jennifer Lopez is being sued by concert promoters for pulling out of her tour of select European and Middle-Eastern cities. They cite the massive costs of promoting her cancelled appearances, along with the cost and effort of catering to her every anticipated whim:
Apart from the star's fee, the organizers of her Bulgarian gig admitted that they had spent about EUR 203,000 on commercials and to satisfy Lopez' many whims. The promoters said they has spent a little over EUR 3,000 on sunflower seeds, chili, aroma candles and mineral water, and then had to double the sum to transport all the supplies from the states.
Now J Lo is facing a trial and all the angry promoters are determined to get their money back. The most disappointing fact, Pick and More admitted, was that the diva didn't give any reason for the cancellation. The short note announcing that the rest of the tour was not to be did not bear any explanation, and many find this unethical...
The Latin star was supposed to hold her concert in Sofia on May 2, as part of the tour promoting her latest album "Rebirth", but she delayed the gig for May 23. Afterwards she cancelled the tour, leaving thousands of disillusioned fans in Mocow, Dubai, Mumbai, Athens, Baku and Thessaloniki.
People are speculating that J.Lo is pregnant since she looked slightly thick around the middle at the Time magazine awards and was sporting grey hair. It doesn't seem likely to us since she's been trying to get pregnant forever. If she is knocked up, she surely had some medical assistance and it seems like someone would have spilled the beans that she was getting fertility treatment.
Also, if she is pregnant it seems early enough in the pregnancy for her to be able to tour without a risk to her health. Her tour in Bulgaria was set to start May 23rd, a little over a week before she cancelled it.
We hope something else is up, because we can't stand J.Lo and don't want to have to report about her pregnancy and birth.
Posted to Babies | J.Lo | Jennifer Lopez | Lawsuits | Music
Pete Doherty may have been right when he declared that he's the new John Lennon. A little over a month ago he was quoted as saying:
“Honestly, I am the most important rock star now.
“And you will hear lots of great songs from me in the near future.”
The drug-addled Jaguar-loving Babyshambles lead singer was voted second in an NME poll of the greatest rock stars of all time. He was only bested by late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain:
Speaking about Doherty's place on the list a NME spokesman said: "Surely he's just a worn-out drug addict who needs help if he's ever going to make decent music again?"
"Yes, there was a time when Pete Doherty lived his life with an unrivalled romantic zest, when he represented a truly anti-establishment voice. But is he really still your hero? Now that his second home seems to be the courtroom?"
Morrissey came third in the poll and Liam Gallagher fourth.
Getting a lot of press, however exceptionally negative, seems to have worked in Doherty's favor.
Pete's not doing that well despite the high regard of the music-loving public. He recently sold his cell phone to a stranger for some quick cash, presumably for drugs. He neglected to clear the memory on the phone, and there were SMS messages from his on-again off-again girlfriend, Supermodel Kate Moss, on it. Moss reportedly urged him to give up heroin and join her for a summer vacation.
Here he is in concert in Amsterdam on May 2nd.
Nick Lachey's new album "What's Left of Me" is a clear and heartbreaking exploration of his very public breakup from fellow singer Jessica Simpson. Critics are saying the music is decent pop, if a bit melodramatic and depressing:
If so, then Nick Lachey's new solo album, "What's Left of Me," could prove cathartic; If not, it might leave you a bit depressed...
The disc - a somber, soulful, angsty collection of 12 ballads - is a slickly produced, raw-nerved confessional of his heartbreak and an open letter to Simpson.
In "Shades of Blue," one of the album's best tracks, Lachey pines for a lost love, foolishly awaiting her return. He asks, "Why did you have to leave? Why did you have to set me free? Why did you have to go?" But he takes an angrier tone in "I Do it For You," expressing his wish to see her "bleed and see how it feels..."
Realizing that he must move on ("I don't want to waste another day stuck in the shadow of my mistakes"), the title track has Lachey telling a potential lover to make him "whole once again."
His brooding songs, sung in a clear tenor, span different stages of grief, sometimes within the same track - there's resentment, regret and acceptance in "I Can't Hate You Anymore" - until he reaches his "Resolution," pledging his commitment to let go. Finally.
Set to a pop soundtrack, his pain becomes palpable, raw, universal. His pain becomes ours.
Here's the video for "What's Left of Me." It's pretty good.
The NY Daily News is reporting that Nick decided not to respond to former miss Kentucky Lizzie Arnold, who he was supposedly dating in January. She was said to have sent him several voice and text messages in a vain attempt to get in touch with him before the Kentucky Derby. He was busy with Petra Nemcova the next day, so why would he bother with a past hookup?
Stars attending the CDs release party at Mood in Las Vegas last night include Sophia Bush, Drew Lachey, Wilmer Valderrama, Ryan McPartlin, Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Ryan McPartlin, Sophie Monk, Stacey Keibler, Lance Bass, Traci Swain, Casey Swain and Bonnie Somerville.
Tracks from Paris Hilton's upcoming album have been leaked online. They're pretty insipid and not that catchy. Personally I don't hate them because they don't stick in your head and are easily ignored. The lyrics and music are quite terrible though. Hopefully they'll be significantly altered before they're released to the public.
Update: All files have been moved to a server with unlimited downloads. Sorry if you were denied access earlier.
Paris said in her interview with Out magazine that she wants a "gay boyfriend":
The star told Out magazine in America: "Gay guys are more fun and they dress better and they're usually hotter.
"All the hot guys are gay."
Here she is outside of Bridge restaurant on May 6th [via]
We obviously dislike James Blunt and zealously report negative news about him. The latest is that the woman he cheated on his hapless now-ex girlfriend with says he has an itty bitty peter:
Tara, 34, who now calls the Brit winner James c*** after he reportedly slept with her behind the back of girlfriend Camilla Boler Tara stormed: "Let's just say the whole experience was small in every sense of the word."
Blunt broke up with his girlfriend over the phone after lying to her and saying he didn't cheat with Tomkinson.
Tomkinson also says Blunt has been trying to contact her, but that she's not going there again. Maybe Jessica Simpson will get word of this and let go of her foolish crush on the untalented singer.
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Everyone was waiting with baited breath to see what Britney Spears would announce in her press conference yesterday. I even got up early to catch the news and was suprised that it wasn't listed in the Google Entertainment News section yet.
It turns out that now our week of bullshit gossip news is complete, because the entire press conference was a hoax:
"Since I wasn't invited - I would hope so."
Sony executive Karen Phillips was quoted by wire service WENN on Wednesday as saying, "Britney hasn't held a press conference in so long that we know it's something big - pregnancy, a split, we're not sure."
But alas - Brit is silent.
The hard working folks at Jossip note that even Matt Lauer spent his morning wondering what in the heck Britney Spears' big announcement of the day will be.
While pregnancy rumors swirl, along with the "it's a girl!" slugs sparked by a pretty pink shopping spree, Brit hasn't actually told anybody (not even her gang of publicists and managers) what the announcement will be.
The presser is a no-go however and that's a shame. This could have been really interesting.
I googled "Karen Phillips" combined with either "Sony Music" or "Sony BMG" and logical variations like "Karyn," "Caryn," and "Philips" and got nothing about her - except for this supposed quote about the Britney press conference. There is a musician named Karen Phillips, but no "executive." She is also not included on the Sony BMG site among the "executives" listing, although there are only four old white guys there, so there are probably plenty more executives there.
The bottom line is, this Karen Phillips person who was quoted about the press conference probably doesn't exist.
Earlier in the week we found completely fabricated quotes about Katie Holmes' fitness routine from someone we actually know.
It's hard to determine where this press conference story originated, but clearly someone is making up quotes and it's just spreading.
This is gossip, innuendo and rumor, so it's not like it has to be held to a high standard of journalistic integrity. Still, there's a huge difference between saying it's your opinion that someone is pregnant or screwing so and so, and making up shit entirely and acting like it's true. Too many of these stories are totally bogus.
Oh, and Britney fan site BreathHeavy.com reports that Britney and Kevin are going to renew their vows after Kevin promised Britney that he would change. They don't have a source listed, though, and this doesn't sound true to us. Not much does lately.
Posted to Britney Spears | Fake News | Kevin Federline | Music
News reports are taking this out of context. Kevin Federline was being interviewed on Power 106 radio station in California and the DJs asked him to answer "questions out of the forbidden hat." They told him he could "tap out" at any time, and that he didn't have to answer a question if he didn't want to. He said he wanted a threesome with Jessica Alba in response to a question, but that's a no-brainer, and he didn't even know her name.
We actually listed to this crap, and here's what he said:
KFed: Oh girl in Sin City, what was her name?
DJ: Jessica Alba
KFed: There you go...
DJ: if you were on a raft, out in the middle of the ocean, and both Britney and Sean Preston were in the water, who would you save? You could only choose one.
KFed: [no pause] Sean P, baby, my kids. I love you, I love you baby, but I have to say that one.
When questioned, he says that Britney is a better lover than Shar Jackson although he hesitates, and he also says Britney is a better dancer than him.
While it's rather damning that Kevin would immediately admit that he'd pick his son over his wife and wouldn't say it's a hard decision, it's not that unusual to want to save your helpless child over an adult.
Kevin says in a different interview that Britney supports his music career, and that he would probably give it up if she didn't.
Britney's big press conference for music industry executives is today. People are buzzing that she'll announce a pregnancy, and that she's having a baby girl, due in October.
You can listen to Kevin's interview online. Here is the mp3. [via]
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Madonna performed at Coachella in Indio, California this weekend, which drew a record 60,000 people. This music festival also featured performances by Kanye West, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, and Tool. It was Madonna's first appearance at the festival.
Madonna came on twenty minutes late, angering fans, and only played six songs, but the crowd is said to have loved it:
The set featured her latest hit single "Hung Up," "Get Together," "I Love New York," "Ray of Light," "Let It Will Be" and the vintage "Everybody." The show served as a warm-up for the May 21 kick-off of her Confessions tour in Los Angeles.
Here's a fan video from the show, in which Madonna asks the crowd if she should take her pants off during the intro to "Everybody."
And here are pictures of Madonna's brief show. It does look like she gave it her all.
Avril Lavigne wore horizontal stripes again in an attempt to foil the cameras from capturing her growing baby bump at the Hot Hollywood awards. She also wore a horizontally striped top to the earlier "Volvo for Life" awards ceremony on April 12th.
Life and Style speculated that Avril is pregnant over a month ago, and Avril's friends say she wants children right away. She plans to marry her live-in boyfriend, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, this summer in a traditional church wedding with a rocking reception.
Avril has lent her name to a list of media-savvy artists who are against the recording industry's strongarm tactics to try to "protect" recorded music. She and Deryk have joined the Canadian Music Creators Coalition to speak out against DRM locks on music files, and the practice of suing fans for music distribution.
Here is Avril at the Hot Hollywood Awards on Wednesday night. More pictures from the event are at alavigne.com.br.
The Sun has pictures of Pete Doherty injecting heroin into a passed-out woman on his kitchen floor. Kate Moss is shown in another photo sleeping on a bed at Doherty's house, but she wasn't there when he drugged the unconscious fan. The pictures were said to be taken in the "past five weeks":
Other pictures seen by The Sun show the rocker — who faces drugs charges — injecting himself and being helped to take drugs by a girl using her hands to form a makeshift tourniquet.
Yet another sees Doherty, 27, smoke a “crack bowl”, his tattooed and blood-stained arms betraying his addiction.
The disturbing scenes were captured by a pal at Doherty’s pad in Hackney, East London, within the last five weeks.
Kate, 32 — who has been secretly seeing the singer despite claims they had split — was NOT present when the drug photographs were taken.
The comatose girl is from a middle-class background and idolises Doherty, often visiting him at his flat. She was left on the floor while he and his pals prepared more class A drugs for themselves.
Doherty was placed on 2 years probation and received orders to attend 18 months of outpatient rehab in drugs posession case last week. He was arrested again on drugs charges on the same day he was sentenced, and was let out on bail.
We thought Doherty might be cleaning up slightly, as he was praised for his efforts by the judge at his sentencing and he bragged of his sobriety at a recent concert. He might be trying, but he won't escape his past without a great deal of effort.
The Sun website says that you have to buy the print version to get the pictures. Once they're online, we'll post them. In the meantime Here are pictures of Doherty at a Babyshambles gig on 4/26.
Britney Spears has a press conference scheduled for May 7th. She's supposed to be announcing her pregnancy and may admit that she's separated from Kevin: (please let the second part be true):
Jive Records and Britney's management were allegedly planning to release her 5th Album in November this year and a world tour was being drawn up for early 2007; Spears was also due to perform at numerous award shows this year but has since pulled out of the commitments due to an unexplained reason.
Now it really does sound like she's pregnant. She's probably not breaking up with K-Fed, though. The article says they haven't been seen together in "weeks," but that's not true. They were just together in Vegas for his show at Pure, even though Britney didn't attend.
Kevin has called Britney the inspiration for his terrible rap-like music and says that little Sean Preston just loves to listen to it:
"In some senses [sic] I feel I have to stick up for my family.
"I want my son and my daughter and my other son to sit up there and look at daddy on TV and say, 'Damn!'"...
It seems Sean Preston is daddy’s biggest (only) fan, Federline said of his son: "He is all smiles when he hears it.
"You can tell the musically inclined thing is already there with him."
Kevin is just so well-spoken, isn't he? He also revealed his painful past and said he was involved with gangs in Fresno:
"I'm not gonna sit here and say that I'm this grimy, gutter, gangsta. But I have been on the hustle."
OMG that is funny. When someone says they're not getting in details, they mean there are no details.
Here is Kevin walking to his car or something. When the photographer asked him if Britney is pregnant, he didn't respond. [via] TMZ has a video of it and of Kevin driving around. I wasted a minute of my life watching it, please don't make the same mistake.
TMZ reported that Britney Spears planned to attend the listening party for her husband Kevin Federline's excuse for a rap album at Pure nightclub in Las Vegas this past Friday.
But in an interesting turn of supportive wifeliness, Britney Spears is planning to attend and has even gone so far as to put 11 of her own friends on the guest lists for the party, sources say.
The pictures have come out from the event, and Britney is nowhere to be found. Is she fed up with K-Fed? We reported on Saturday that she was said to be enraged with Kevin when seven month-old Sean Preston fell off the couch when Kevin was supposed to be watching him. Sources say this may have been the fall that fractured the baby's skull, not the incident with the highchair.
Britney may have stayed away because Kevin asked her to. The couple was said to be fighting over the fact that Britney gets all the attention at events promoting Kevin. The last time they made a public appearance together was at a belated birthay party for Kevin on March 25th.
Britney is also said to feel threatened by reports that her ex-bodyguards plan to dish the dirt on her, which could include allegations of drug use and details of her sloppy lifestyle.
Here is K-Fed looking like a royal ass at his show on Friday. [via]
Update: Britney may have been pissed that Kevin asked Paris Hilton to come to the party. Paris didn't attend, and sent her parents instead. Another report has Britney and Kevin arguing in Vegas before the gig, with Britney crying before she went back to their suite.
Pink manages to keep herself in the news again this week. Let's review the highlights:
She revealed: "Everything to me is a visual. My favourite songwriters are those who can paint a picture with their words.
"Maybe I don't do it as dramatically or deeply or as poignantly. But I like to paint a picture. I just thought, why not?"
She explained: "They're trying to turn it into some circus pop contest - who's the 'it' girl who wants to play Janis? Janis was so much deeper than that."
You're not much deeper than that, Pink, so we doubt it had anything to do with that.
Here is Pink on an amusement park ride in LA after shooting the video for "Who Knew." [via] You can also download the mp3 of "Who Knew" from Faded Youth.
Mariah Carey appeared on MTV's Total Request Live yesterday to premiere her new video with Snoop Dogg and Pharrell, "Say Something." It's not that catchy of a song, and the background track is too repetitive. The video jumps around to different luxurious scenes in Paris and in high end shops, and although it's interesting it's not fabulous.
Here is Mariah at Total Request Live and outside the MTV studios yesterday. Sure she looks good now that she's lost weight, but why does she continue to dress like she's 14?
Pictures [via]
Here's the video for "Say Something"
Britney is being investigated by the Department of Children and Family Services. It was initially thought that the visit was due to the incident where she was photographed driving with Sean Preston in her lap, but it turns out that there's a potentially scarier situation with Sean Preston.
A source tells Us that the Sheriff’s visit was part of the ongoing investigation into allegations that Spears drove a car while her baby, Sean Preston, sat on her lap. “It was part of the child endangerment investigation,” says the source, who adds that Britney was told ahead of time by her lawyers that the DFCS would be paying a visit. “She knew they were coming. It was all standard.” Source says that Spears’ attorneys do not Britney to be prosecuted. “It’s all political. They have to do [the investigation].”
We assumed it was just a routine visit too, until we read that Star is reporting that poor Sean Preston has a fractured skull!
They had every right to fret. After rushing Sean to a nearby hospital, they discovered he had a minor skull fracture (sometimes called a "scalp fracture" in babies), and a blood clot. And the doctors weren't the only ones to take notice! The next day, the Department of Children and Family Services began looking into the incident.
That's scary and it's hopefully just due to the highchair fall. We learned on Law and Order that child abuse is usually committed by the father. We're just saying.
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Britney is getting all sorts of bad press this week. First she is supposedly stress-eating, and was told by her record company to shape up or risk her career:
A source said: "[Britney] went to the supermarket one day and loaded up on chips and all sorts of chocolate
bars. She brought it all home and has been chowing down like there's no tomorrow..."
"She's been so depressed over Kevin and the state of her marriage that all she wants to do is eat to stop the pain."
Poor Britney. It must be hard to be married to Federjerk, and hopefully she'll find a more constructive way to deal with her stress.
She also isn't even in the top 100 of FHM's sexiest women this year, and one of Kevin's exes (not Shar Jackson) has said that she better shape up or she'll lose Kevin. Maybe that's why she's taking her time about it.
Britney has a new single which you can partially hear online. You can download a 50 second mp3 of "Just Yesterday" from breatheheavy.com.
Here is Britney dancing to her new song. The video says it's called "Little Me," but it is credited as "Just Yesterday" on breatheheavy.com, and is supposed to be about her sister. She's still got the moves and the song is lovely.
Ashlee Simpson will host the MTV Australian Video Music Awards at the Sydney Superdome tomorrow night. Her sister, Jessica, will be on hand for assumed presenting duties:
"She is going to be back there, getting my back and giving me high fives."
The sisters will walk the red carpet at Sydney SuperDome tomorrow night, with a string of other international talent confirmed to attend, including James Blunt and Snoop Dogg.
"As far as inspiration for the show, I am just going to get out there and have a good time," said Ashlee, whose parents and managers Joe and Tina Simpson are also in Australia.
"You might see me shake my booty!"
As well as hosting duties, Ashlee will perform two songs, Boyfriend and Love.
"I just usually chill out and hang out with my band," she said of her pre-performance plans.
"I don't like to ever think too much about anything. I just like to go with it."
Ashlee held a press conference for the event with fellow performing act The Veronicas. Lisa Origliasso of The Veronicas is dating Simpson's ex boyfriend, Ryan Cabrera. Simpson and Cabrera split in the summer of 2004, citing their busy schedules as young artists and a lack of time together. Simpson's "Pieces of Me" is reportedly about Cabrera.
Here are Ashlee and The Veronicas and a couple of random ugly guys in underwear at the press conference. We also have the pictures of Jessica Simpson arriving in Sydney that you're probably already seen.
Update: pictures of Ashlee "and her current boyfriend (and guitarist) Braxton Olita on a cruiser in Sydney Harbour." [via]
15 pictures total.
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Pink visited a Toronto area private high school on Friday to spread her mixed message of sexy female rebellion. It's nice that she's trying to reach the youth, but she didn't say anything we haven't heard before, and her visit seemed more like another photo op to promote her album:
"Guys are going to like us anyway. We don't have to take our clothes off for them to like us and chase us around. It's gonna happen," she said.
Pink, there's a big difference between being 26 and being 16. There's a lot of pressure on young girls to look and act a certain way, and your comments seem simplistic and dismissive. Then again, maybe we're just sick of reading about everything you say.
Pink also performed at the Much Music studios that same day.
Here are pictures from Pink's high school talk and her arrival at Much Music. The Much Music pictures are after the jump.
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First Paris Hilton thinks she's on par with Charlize Theron when the biggest movie to her credit is "House of Wax" and the upcoming "Pledge This" and now she thinks she's an international pop star despite not having released an album:
"I'm an icon. You either have it or you don't. It's something you're born with."
Unfortunately her album might actually be a hit. With Three 6 Mafia on board, they will add beats and remaster her voice so that it sounds nothing like the original.
Posted to Arrogant | Music | Paris Hilton
Jessica Simpson needs to work on getting her own identity. First she admits that she apes Angelina Jolie in everything she does - and poorly, we might add - and now she's copying her estranged husband, Nick Lachey, by chronicling her breakup pain in her new album:
"I think that with my music, you can't help but tell people a story about your life," Simpson said. "I believe that every artist, that's their artistry — it comes out of them naturally, through lyrics, through music, through instrumentation. So with this next record, you will see and hear a lot of things I've been going through. And if that can offer any inspiration to anybody else going through the same situations, so be it. That's why I'm here."
It makes sense that she would want to sing about her pain, but it's more likely that she heard what Nick's new album was all about and thought it sounded like a good idea.
Here's Jessica Simpson on April 30th at a grocery store in Sana Fe, NM, where's she was filming "Employee of the Month." She seems to be back in NY at this point.
Pictures [via]
In a transparent kiss up to the British papers for printing every word out of her mouth this week, Pink says that she wants to move to Europe:
I would definitely move over there.
"I love the UK and France - Paris and the south of France especially. There's not a lot of culture or individuality in Hollywood."
Pink, don't you know that Europe is already passe? The Jolie-Pitts just moved to Africa.
Here's Pink performing in New York last night at Crobar. She's joined by her father onstage, and her husband, Carey Hart at the after party.
4 more pictures after the jump.
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Dolby blogs about Federline's theft of the sample:
Now, Mobb Deep did it the right way and had his label BMG come and ask for a license. They paid me a fee and a royalty on the sales of Mobb Deep’s record. However K-Fed, as his fans affectionately refer to him, did NOT ask permission, he just went ahead and did it. He is therefore blatantly violating the copyright law. And laws aside, he owed it to me as an artist to ask if I minded that he recorded a vitriolic rap over the top of my music. It starts off ‘This is for the HATERS…’ and goes on to blast the media, paparrazzi and all his other critics, sparing no expletives along the way.
BMG Records have also had their copyright violated, as they own the master to Mobb Deep’s record. But BMG don’t want to rock the Britney boat so they are turning a blind eye. It’s pathetic! Turns out K-Fed has no management, label or lawyer, so it’s going to be hard getting hold of him. So K-Fed, if you’re reading this, I’m asking you nicely to take the track down ASAP. Or maybe you’d prefer me to come after some of your wife’s ill-gotten gains?
Dolby is touring again as a single act after 15 years, and finds it amusing that press outlets are more interested in his feud with Federline than the fact that he's revitalizing his music career.
Here is Federline's wife, Britney Spears, rotting her child's teeth and accompanying her husband to a promotion gig for his album at Club X in Dallas.
Header image is from Thomas Dolby's upcoming tour.
Pictures [via]
Three more pictures after the jump.
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Tom Jones, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth last week, has said that his plastic surgeon has told him not to get any more work done.
"He advised me against having anything else done," reveals Sir Tom, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mirror...
"He told me: 'Your eyes will be bloody popping.' He said I should try to look as natural as I can."
He pulls down his bottom eyelids, revealing how he will look if he succumbs to the surgeon's steel again...
"I've had some nips and tucks," he admits, with a laugh. But now, even with the health warning of one of America's top cosmetic surgeons, he's not convinced he can resist another op or bout of Botox. "I don't know," he muses. "It depends on what I think needs doing."
Jones, 65, also admits to dyeing his jet-black hair and beard, and has a 48 year-old son with shock-white hair.
Jones does all his own moves on stage and works out on a cross trainer an hour a day to stay in shape. He says he loves performing, gets bored if he takes time off, and has no plans to stop.
People speculated that Jones' 49 year-marriage to Linda Woodward was in trouble when he showed up solo for his knighting ceremony. Jones said that his wife doesn't fly after 9/11 and seems to reveal that he has a non-traditional relationship: "Neither of us felt strong enough to walk away from the marriage... There's no need and it works for us and everything's cool."
Jones has a new album, Stoned in Love with DJ Chicane, that is quite catchy and will be out later this month. You can listen to the title track online. (Scroll 3/4 down the page.) It's sure to be a hit.
Posted to Music | Plastic Surgery | Tom Jones
Sharon Stone wants to record an album now that her lopsided boobs made their last appearance on screen in the campy Basic Instinct 2: Fame Addiction. She figures if she does something else right away it will help people forget how bad the film is.
Sharon may have some luck with her new album, as it's sure to be a favorite among gay men.
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Pink, trying desperately to make a comeback, is spouting a lot of crap to the press to try to drum up publicity for her album coming out this week, "I'm Not Dead." Britian's Mirror gossip rag, 3am, devotes its entire issue to Pink and has scads of dumb quotes from the singer, who uses a punk image to exploit teens who want to rebel but aren't cool enough to discover real music.
Pink speaks out on everything from webcam sex to feminism:
Pink is completely happy with a stripper's pole between her legs, so we don't know why she's bitching about it.
Pink obviously doesn't care how she comes off as long as she's quoted. Her single, "Stupid Girls," is only 31 on the Billboard chart and her last album didn't sell that well:
Pamela Anderson got booed by the audience while hosting Canada's Juno awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia last night. She brought up the controversial subject of the annual seal hunt, which is sponsored by the Canadian government. Hundreds of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed to death this year alone, and Anderson, a committed animal activist, is vehemently against the practice. Anderson tried to inject her opinion into the music award show:
"I have high heels and they dig in deep," Pamela Anderson added when audience booed her.
Even though we agree that it's barbaric to club baby seals, we have to point out that it was stupid of Anderson to threaten violence to a bunch of people who didn't want to hear about it.
The Junos looked like a good show, and featured performances by Coldplay and Nickelback.Michael Buble was the winner of the night, with four Junos for best singer, album, artist and pop album. Other winners included Nickelback for band of the year and Coldplay and The Black-eyed Peas in a joint win for best International album.
Here's Anderson, Chris Martin, Fergie, and the bands Hedley, Nickelback, and Theory of a Dead Man at last night's Juno awards. Hedley members drop trou to show their ass tattoos in a picture after the jump that is NSFW.
12 more pictures after the jump.
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Swigging from a bottle of port and smoking a cigarette in a non-smoking theatre, Russell Crowe took to the stage with his band, The Ordinary Fear Of God, in Auckland, New Zealand Friday night. Fans, especially women, loved his performance, and praised his ability as an entertainer and singer. Even critics said he has a decent voice, which "has an earthy, roots-rocker sound." At least one reviewer thinks his songs are amateurish, though, which is probably to be expected:
Crowe's songs are close to embarrassing – Mickey, about his mob-connected valet's zest for life; Raewyn about the suicide of his aunt – performed with passion sure, but ultimately dull.
The Ordinary Fear Of God is a band comprised of decent musicians, mariachi trumpet fills combined with stinging six-string solos and rock-steady rhythms. But too often I was reminded of the free concerts I attended at high school, a Youth Group or Christian-oriented band of perfectly decent musicians.
The songs were pedestrian and clearly an agenda, outside of music, was being pushed.
Ironically, Crowe – as an actor – portrays characters in his other job, but in this stage version of himself he seemed so self-conscious, so dedicated to wanting to be a down-to-earth musician, a hack just hamming it up (and drinking a lot while he was at it!), that I'm convinced I saw some of his greatest acting in delivering such hackneyed songs with a straight face.
Even if he's getting bashed for it, at least Crowe is pursuing his dream to be a singer and is trying to be humble about it.
Here he is at the show. There's also a picture of a blonde Lucy Lawless at the show with Allan Poppleton and Erica Takacs.
Three 6 Mafia just announced that they will be producing tracks for Paris Hilton's new album. The girl convinced them to work with her when they met up at the Winter Music Conference in Miami last weekend. It turns out all she had to do was ask:
"We're just getting in the studio and putting together some more tracks for her." "From there, we'll see, but it will be a blast working with Paris Hilton. I mean she is Paris Hilton."
Maybe Paris is clever after all.
We have two sets of recent pictures of Paris. In the black and white photos taken at Fashion Week in LA she is shown backstage at Louis Verdad and also preparing for the 2BFree show. She is on the set of The Simple Life on 3/23 in the color pictures. [via]
Three more of Paris filming The Simple Life after the jump.
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K-Fed, you give us so much to work while describing the title of your new album:
First of all, it's hysterical that you're explaining that it's supposed to be self-explanatory. That really brings home your point, thanks.
Next, did you get the fact that it can have more than one meaning? Because maybe then you wouldn't try and emphasize the title of the album, which may have beats that could, er, burn you and all of your listeners. (We are so sorry for pointing this out, and are nearly as bad as K-Fed in that respect.)
K-Fed does not yet have a record contract, but is said to be "weighing his options."
Federline characteristically rebuffed his infinitely more talented wife when she offered to hook him up with her magical producers several months ago.
You can hear a genius one-sample track off his new album on his 1997-era MySpace (launches automatic music).
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Madonna can't make up her mind what's cool anymore, so she's going to try to cram as much as possible into her new tour, including shit that only she considers interesting.
First off, Madonna is going to show off her new krump dancing moves. Krump is the urban dance made popular in the documentary "Rize." Madonna's new tour is also using Studio 54 as an inspiration for the set, which will feature fantasy scenes from the famous nightspot.
Not content to just stick with the disco debauchery meets urban dance theme, Madonna will muddy the waters with on-stage homages to her favorite pasttimes, horseriding and kaballah. She's also throwing some urban running in there, in case none of the other shit sticks:
“Madge has ordered a unique spinning platform to be designed so she and her dancers can recreate Studio 54’s extravagant scenes.
“She has also ordered dozens of disco balls to decorate the stage with authentic Seventies lighting.”
The show will open with a Disco Queen section, featuring girls in sparkling suits, male dancers dressed as pimps and more dancers roller-skating.
Another section, American Land, will indulge Madonna’s obsession with horses, with video walls showing footage of her riding scantily clad in the pouring rain.
A third part, Oriental And Eastern, will see Madonna joined on stage by a Kabbalah singer to perform a remix of her brilliant album track Isaac.
One section will have a Parkour specialist — the wacky sport on the BBC promotional film with a bloke running across London rooftops. Madge will also showcase some new music, if her label Warner give the go-ahead.
Madonna, make up your mind. Just because your last tour was too Kaballah heavy doesn't mean you don't have to stick with a central theme. Your tour may look good and maybe you can even pull it off, but it sounds like a total mess to us.
Madonna's tour opens in LA this May, and may even hit Israel - surprise surprise.
Here's Madonna with little Lourdes. Lourdes' stylist seems to be going with the junior preppy look for the pre-'tween.
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"Singer" Ashlee Simpson, 21, admitted to having an eating disorder for a six month period while she was studying to be a dancer. She said that she's over that now, and thinks it's sad that people can't accept their bodies. She then admits to loving her body a little too much:
"It's sexy not to be a bone," Ashlee proclaims
At least the praise is coming from Ashlee herself, and not her creepy-ass father.
Ashlee and her great tits surfed on an MTV special "Kelly Slater Celebrity Surf Invitational," that aired on March 25.
Here are some pictures of Ashlee surfing and contorting her face at a concert in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday. Ashlee will play in Wisconsin tomorrow night, but it may be empty in the concert hall. As of last week less than 1,000 tickets were sold.
Seven more pictures after the jump.
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Christina Alguilera's latest album is a departure from the pop genre and will feature jazz-inspired songs with an authentic feel. Alguilera says her "Back to Basics" album, which is due out in June, has a "20s and 30s vibe." Called one of the most anticipated albums of the year, Aguilera's description suggests it won't dissapoint:
We detailed earlier how Christina chose rap producer DJ Premiere to produce five tracks for her album. It sounds like Christina's newest release will be a commercial and critical success.
Here she is outside of the Little Door restaurant in Hollywood last night. Pictures [via]
Five more after the jump.
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Now we know the reason why only Pharrell came to Paris to film his part in the Say Something video - Snoop would have been too expensive:
Mariah goes on to emphasize how over-the-top Snoop's requirements are, without getting into specifics. Maybe he just didn't feel like flying to Europe to work and decided it would be easier if the work came to him.
Mariah may be taking advantage of her 20 pound weight loss to become a spokesperson for a fashion house. She is said to have been noticed by Louis Vuitton higher-ups while filming "Say Something" in their Paris store. Her rep said that "she is in talks" with "quite a few fashion labels." [via]
Mariah, no matter what you say Snoop cannot out-diva you.
Here are pictures of the two filming "Say Something" in LA. [via]
Three more including Carey in a bikini among the LV suitcases after the jump.
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Pink is planning to surprise her husband of three months, motocross rider Carey Hart, with an erotic pole dance backstage tonight in London where she's performing. She has been learning the tricks of the stripping trade in a bid to liven up her act. Pink has also hired lap dancers from LA to perform in her show, and wants them to get in on the action backstage too:
"Pink plans to have a lot of fun with the lapdancers both on stage and off," adds our spy.
"By the end of the night, Carey will think all his Christmases have come at once."
No man would refuse that.
Pink also credits fighting with keeping her marriage and her creativity fresh:
It sounds like she has it at least half right.
Here she is in a spread for Blender magazine.
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She said, "I finished my US tour and went straight to Japan."
She explains, "I didn't go to a nice emergency room - I ended up in one with blood on the walls. Nasty."
"I was dehydrated. I had bronchitis."
She adds, "Who knows exactly what it was? I think it was just complete exhaustion."
Despite Ashlee's impression, Japan's health care system is much better than that of the United States. In a 2000 report by the World Health Organization, Japan ranked 10th overall in health care while the US came in at 37th - below most other industrialized nations. The US also has a higher infant mortality rate than Japan.
Here are pictures of Ashlee in April's Jane magazine.
Sheryl Crow made a public appearance yesterday at the Rock & Republic Fashion Show in LA. She looks to be recovering well from her breast cancer scare last month and we wish her all the best.
Crow has surprised her fans with an announcement that she will be touring this Summer:
"It is my favourite time to tour and I feel certain, for me, it will be a celebration every night of how lucky I feel with this life I have been given..."
Sheryl confirmed she would play her first gig on June 12 in Indianapolis, with her last show taking place on July 8 at Boston's Fenway Park.
Here she is at the Rock and Republic fashion show and with Patricia Arquette.
"It was kind of a shock because I was like, 'How the hell does she know about me?'" Premier told Billboard about his first conversation with RCA about Aguilera’s album. "I'm one of those guys that really doesn't expect pop artists to really be up on me. My first question was, 'What does she know about me?'"
As it turned out, Aguilera was quite a fan of his production style on classic Gang Starr material like "Jazz Thing".
Here's Aguilera looking well couiffed backstage at the Agent Provocateur fashion show in LA yesterday:
A producer who has worked with stars such as Dido and Samantha Mumbo claims that he helped Blunt create his signature simplistic music, and that Blunt screwed him once he got a music contract. What's more, Blunt's music was even worse before this guy reworked it for him:
Burton... wrote on a website: "A couple of people told me I shouldn't be working with him without a contract in place.
"But to be honest the love couldn't have been thicker in the air – lots of talk about how great the record was going to be and how cool the whole situation was."
The UK Performing Rights Society thinks the claims are legitimate enough to be considered, and has stopped royalty payments on 6 songs from Blunt's album "Back to Bedlam" until the case is resolved.
Also, Blunt's girlfriend, who is supposed to be the inspiration for that terrible song "You're Beautiful," wants to dump his ass. Supposedly he's not spending enough time with her, but we think she just came to her senses.
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A romance between two of the top four finalists skewed voting and screwed singer Nevio Passaro (linked site has automatic music) out of a chance at the top two. Passaro ocassionally sung in Italian and was more talented than clingly couple Mike Leon Grosch and Vanessa Jean Dedmon (linked site has automatic music). The producers played up Mike and Vanessa's relationship in the Valentine's episode and even had the two sing to each other when they were in the top three. Mike cried like a baby on stage after singing "You are so Beautiful" for Vanessa.
Nevio was voted out of the top four in an upset. Vanessa and Mike stayed on to keep singing boring 90s ballads, with Mike making it to the final. Mike was a wedding singer who favored Seal songs and had a gruff but strong voice. He was beaten by versatile rocker Tobias, who got 55% of the vote.
You can hear the song Tobias wrote and performed on the final on his website in English (linked site has automatic music) and there are more videos of cutie Tobias on YouTube.
Tobias is a talented, likable guy and we hope he makes it big around the world.
Tobias' performance of Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" two weeks ago is one of our favorites:
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Black Eyed Peas' plastic surgery punchline, Fergie, admits that she watched The Exorcist over and over again while she was a child:
That explains a lot. How anyone could even sit through that film once is beyond us - it's just too scary.
The Black Eyed Peas are set to tour England starting in June this summer.
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You know how I've been harping lately on what a loser James Blunt is? Well my point is made much more salient by these pictures of his March 15th appearance on the Fuse music network.
He's like one of those hot but slow guys in high school that you and your friends would mention in passing about once a month.
"James is so hot."
"Yeah, I know, but..."
"Yeah, I know."
Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, actually has a career and has put the kibosh on a Spice Girls' reunion. Victoria Beckham, the infamous insect wife of dumb ass soccer star David Beckham, is easily influenced and tried to make it seem as if she had the same idea as Melanie:
But Posh and Sporty, who has a fairly successful solo career in Europe, decided it could be a bit, well, embarrassing.
A source close to the girls said: “Melanie has never really been into the idea of performing with the girls again. She is proud of everything they did together but she has moved on.
We were really looking forward to making fun of this, and are sorry it's not going to happen.
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The NY Daily News reports that James Blunt is even more whiny and pitiable live than he comes off as in his simplistic music:
Blunt's limited scope as a performer became more glaringly clear. Since his ballad-drenched repertoire is sluggish in pace and "miserable" in mood (to use his word), Blunt's band tried to make things more "fun" by overplaying the backbeat. That threw the material out of kilter and forced Blunt to shout, coarsening his main selling point: his delicate falsetto.
We reported earlier that the former lead singer of Blur compared Blunt's shallow songs to greeting cards.
Now that the news is out that Blunt can't perform live, he will hopefully fade into the background. I don't want to endure any more of his lame songs running through my head for days.
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Petra Nemcova and Carrie Underwood attended the Badgley Mischka Spring 2006 launch party presented by Elle Magazine in NY on 3/15/06.
Underwood is set to tour with 40 performances this year. She will tour on her own as well as open for country star Kenny Chesney. Underwood's first album, "Some Hearts," has sold more than 2 million copies since it came out in November of last year.
Six more after the jump.
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Late last night (our time) we posted pictures from the dinner following the 21st annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Here are the pictures from the event and press room.
Presenters at event included Sting, Shirley Manson from Garbage, and Kid Rock.
Performers included Metallica, Blondie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Robbie Robertson, Herbie Hancock, Wallace Roney, Mike Stern, Solomon Burke, Clarence Clemons, Leela James, Marc Broussard, and Buckwheat Zydeco.
Ozzy Osbourne's band, Black Sabbath, was honored with induction after a long and difficult wait. Osboune most recently made the news with too much information about his sex life with wife Sharon. Osbourne is said to be impotent due to antidepressant drugs and cannot perform even after taking a handful of viagra.
Here's our earlier post with information about the inductees and the awards.
39 more pictures after the jump.
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