Monday, October 18, 2010
Willow Smith Eyes Lady Gaga Collaboration
Pop’s newest star is going gaga for pop’s reigning queen. It may come as no surprise that Willow Smith would like to collaborate with Lady Gaga.
“[Somebody] I would really want to work with on a song would be Lady Gaga,” Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter told DJ Envy during a visit to his Power 105.1 radio show earlier today. “She is amazing! She’s just so amazing, she’s a free person. She’s a free girl, baby.”
The nine-year-old fashionista, who burst onto the scene with her single “Whip My Hair,” explained where she gets her style inspiration. “Sometimes I put my own stuff in it. I mix up the outfits too,” she said. “My mom puts together outfits and I can pick which one I want to wear.”
As for getting her Roc Nation boss Jay-Z on a track, she says it’ll happen “if he has time.” But in the meantime, she’s enjoying being a Roc star. “It’s amazing being on that label because it’s all about having fun and being creative and doing what you want to do inside.”
Willow has been receiving rave reviews for her debut music video “Whip My Hair.” Watch it here.
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Inaugural American Country Music Awards Nominees Announced
Need more country in your life? If you love Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Lady Antebellum, you'll be thrilled to know there's a new country music award show and all these wonderful artists are going to get another chance to shine.
The Inaugural American Country Music Awards is set to kick off this year and they already have the biggest names in Country on their nominees list.
So what makes the ACAs different that the CMAs and the CMTs? The fans, not some "academy," choose the winners.
Check out the list of nominees below and you tell us, who are you rooting for?
Artist of the Year
Lady Antebellum
Miranda Lambert
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Zac Brown Band
ARTISTS
Artist of the Year: Male
Jason Aldean
Luke Bryan
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Keith Urban
Artist of the Year: Female
Jewel
Miranda Lambert
Reba McEntire
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Artist of the Year: Duo or Group
Lady Antebellum
Rascal Flatts
Sugarland
The Band Perry
Zac Brown Band
Artist of the Year: Breakthrough Artist
Easton Corbin
Danny Gokey
Jaron and The Long Road To Love
Jerrod Niemann
The Band Perry
ALBUMS
Album of the Year
“Doin’ My Thing,” Luke Bryan
“Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
“Revolution,” Miranda Lambert
“Haywire,” Josh Turner
“Play On,” Carrie Underwood
SINGLES
Single of the Year
“Do I,” Luke Bryan
“A Little More Country Than That,” Easton Corbin
“Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
“Gimme That Girl,” Joe Nichols
“Why Don’t We Just Dance,” Josh Turner
Single of the Year: Male
“Do I,” Luke Bryan
“Little More Country Than That,” Easton Corbin
“That’s How Country Boys Roll,” Billy Currington
“Gimme That Girl,” Joe Nichols
“Why Don’t We Just Dance,” Josh Turner
Single of the Year: Female
“White Liar,” Miranda Lambert
“Wrong Baby Wrong,” Martina McBride
“Consider Me Gone,” Reba McEntire
“Didn’t Know How Much I Loved You,” Kellie Pickler
“Cowboy Casanova,” Carrie Underwood
Single of the Year: Duo or Group
“Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
“Little White Church,” Little Big Town
“Unstoppable,” Rascal Flatts
“Keep On Lovin’ You,” Steel Magnolia
“Toes,” Zac Brown Band
Single of the Year: Breakthrough Artist
“Little More Country Than That,” Easton Corbin
“Pray for You,” Jaron and The Long Road To Love
“Lover, Lover,” Jerrod Niemann
“Keep on Lovin’ You,” Steel Magnolia
“Beer on the Table,” Josh Thompson
TOURING
Touring Headline Package of the Year
Brooks & Dunn
Toby Keith
Martina McBride & Trace Adkins
Tim McGraw
Brad Paisley
Rascal Flatts
George Strait & Reba McEntire
Sugarland
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
VIDEOS
Music Video of the Year
“A Little More Country Than That,” Easton Corbin
“Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
“Hillbilly Bone,” Blake Shelton with Trace Adkins
“Why Don’t We Just Dance,” Josh Turner
“The Man I Want To Be,” Chris Young
Music Video: Male
“A Little More Country Than That,” Easton Corbin
“Southern Voice,” Tim McGraw
“Hillbilly Bone,” Blake Shelton with Trace Adkins
“Why Don’t We Just Dance,” Josh Turner
“The Man I Want To Be,” Chris Young
Music Video: Female
“White Liar,” Miranda Lambert
“Consider Me Gone,” Reba McEntire
“Didn’t Know How Much I Loved You,” Kellie Pickler
“Cowboy Casanova,” Carrie Underwood
“Work Hard, Play Harder,” Gretchen Wilson
Music Video: Duo or Group
“Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
“Little White Church,” Little Big Town
“Unstoppable,” Rascal Flatts
“Keep on Lovin’ You,” Steel Magnolia
“Highway 20 Ride,” Zac Brown Band
Music Video: Breakthrough Artist
“Giddy On Up,” Laura Bell Bundy
“A Little More Country Than That,” Easton Corbin
“Lover, Lover,” Jerrod Niemann
“Keep on Lovin’ You,” Steel Magnolia
“If I Die Young,” The Band Perry
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Rihanna explains promotional video clip
Rihanna has explained the details behind a music video that recently leaked on to the web.
A clip for the song 'Who's That Chick?' surfaced online last month, and was described by the singer's label as a "promotional single" only.
The 'Rude Boy' star has since revealed that two versions of the promo exist - a day and a night one - which fans can view via a unique barcode on packets of Doritos crisps.
"There's this new pop-up video technology called augmented reality," she told Just Jared.
"There will be a barcode on the Doritos chip bags, you go home and hold it up to your computer and a video will pop up. We shot the exact video twice - one in day, one in night.
"So the night version has everything different - it has everything that is in the day version, it's just black and grey. It's darker and grittier. You'll be able to click at any time and make it night and the same shot will show up just in the night version. It's cool."
Asked which of the two clips she prefers, she said: "More of the day version. Only because I've started to incorporate a lot of different colors into my wardrobe now.
"I'm loving that direction. Right now, it feels good and right. It was a cool concept too because it was kind of one side of me and now, it's evolving into the new colourful stuff that we've been doing."
It is not yet clear whether the track will be included on her forthcoming album Loud.
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Jesse McCartney’s 4th album title and tracklist
Pop singer Jesse McCartney will follow 2008′s “Departure” with “Have It All,” his fourth full-length set for a January 2011 release on Hollywood Records. The singer worked with “Departure” producer Sean Garrett, Kevin Rudolf and Young Money rapper Tyga on the album, which was previewed with the release of first single “Shake” last month.
“It’s full of sexy, four-on-the-floor beats with big pop melodies… but yet again, some rhythmic, R&B stuff that’s pushing the envelope a little bit more for me as an artist,” McCartney tells Billboard.com. “I wanted to make sure that there were no boundaries. I’m 23, and I wanted to make sure there was nothing boxing me in musically or content-wise.”
McCartney spent a year working on the 11-track album with a variety of writers and producers, including Garrett, Rudolf and “a bunch of new guys from Dr. Luke’s camp” like Ammo and J. Cash. The singer will perform the Ammo-produced “Shake” on “Live! with Regis and Kelly” on Tuesday (Oct. 19).
After co-penning Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love” as well as songs for Jordin Sparks and Toni Braxton, McCartney says that he is spending “a lot of time in the studio writing for other artists” with Rudolf and J. Cash while preparing for the release of “Have It All.” Although McCartney did not confirm the rumor that he is writing songs for Justin Bieber’s next album, he says that “I’ve been writing for a lot of big artists in the last couple months, and it’s everything that you dream of as an artist… to be taken seriously as a writer, not just as a singer.” – Billboard.com
Here is the track listing for “Have It All”:
1. Shake
2. One Night
3. The Writer
4. Club Hop
5. I Think She Likes Me
6. Tonight Is Your Night
7. I Don’t Normally Do This (featuring Tyga)
8. Undo
9. Have It All
10. Mrs. Mistake
11. Seasons (My Love Will Never Change)
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Taylor Swift fans petition for national holiday
Taylor Swift’s most vocal fans (a.k.a. tween girls) quickly realized they wouldn’t be first in line to buy the singer’s new album on October 25 – they’d be in school. So they turned to their favorite medium to get the release date declared a national holiday.
A Twitter petition, or Twitition, was started last week for all Swifties. The website states their cause:
“Help persuade Swiftie's parents to let the true Swifties stay home from school, or at least half of the school day, on October 25th, 2009, in order to buy Taylor's 'Speak Now' album when store doors open. Please Sign!”
Of course, they got the year wrong. And only 158 people have joined the cause so far. But you can’t let tiny details like that stand in the way of true fandom.
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BET Top 10 Rappers of the 21st Century List includes Kanye West, Eminem and Lil' Wayne
The BET Top 10 rappers of the 21st Century list was recently unveiled after serious deliberation by a Hip Hop panel. The list was disclosed during an hour-long television special, and featured the hottest rappers of the past decade, from 1999 onward.
Rapper and actor Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent attends the premiere of the motion picture action comedy Red , at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on October 11, 2010. UPI/Jim Ruymen Photo via Newscom
The special just aired last night, Friday October 15th on BET. Let's kill the suspense. Coming in at #1 on the list is hip hop icon, Eminem, who has sold more records than anyone on the list. Second is Lil' Wayne, currently incarcerated but still making astounding music. In the third spot, Kanye West, the producer and rapper extraordinaire. Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent takes the fourth spot due to three platinum albums in the past decade and consistent hit making. Rounding out the Top 5 is rapper T.I. who is not only making hit records but also is saving people's lives.
Here's the complete BET Rappers Top 10:
1) Eminem
2) Lil' Wayne
3) Kanye West
4) 50 Cent
5) T.I.
6) Ludacris
7) Drake
8) Young Jeezy
9) Jadakiss
10) Rick Ross
Since there's ten names above, that means five of the original fifteen didn't make the cut. They are Eve, Fabolous, The Game, Gucci Mane and Nelly. Surprising that these amazing lyricists didn't make the list. To compile the list, BET put out a list of rappers for hip-hop fans to vote on. After 25,000 votes, a list of just fifteen rappers remained. That list was judged by a "Hip-Hop Supreme Court" which was headed by Justice Big Tigger.
According to BET's website the "Supreme Court" deciding panel consisted of: Jermaine Dupri (Producer - ATL); Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur (AllHipHop.com); Boy 1da (Producer);DJ Diamond Kuts (Power 99 FM - Philadelphia); DJ Greg Street (V103 - ATL); Tony Neal (CEO, Core DJs); DJ Timbuck2 (107.5 WGCI – Chicago); Chloe Hilliard (Managing Editor/Social Media Manager, Vibe Magazine - NYC); and DJ Vlad (VladTV.com - NYC).
Of course the list will draw its share of criticism and debates as most of these musical Top 10's do. Many will say that Fabolous and The Game are definite Top 10's. Also, there's no female reps on the list as Eve missed it. Some will refute the inclusion of Rick Ross, as he has put out some top notch hip-hop yet is criticized for his background as a Corrections Officer while he raps about street life. Many are also immediately asking "Where's Jay-Z or Nas?" but remember this is a list based on those who have blown up on the rap scene since 1999. Of the list, Drake's inclusion is perhaps the most telling. He's really exploded on the scene in just the past few years and now finds himself at the Lucky 7 spot on a who's who of rap for the past decade.
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