Saturday, August 6, 2011
Talay Riley Talks New Christina Album
SUPERSTAR songbird Christina Aguilera is plotting a new album and wants a touch of British magic.
The 30-year-old, who has been focusing on her role as a judge on US talent show The Voice, is planning a comeback based on Adele’s record-breaking 21 collection.London singer-songwriter Talay Riley has penned Xtina a couple of tunes to fit the bill.
Talay told me: “Christina gave us a personal brief. It was like a letter saying what she wanted to achieve with her next album.
“She wants this album to be the one which touches people and reflects all the personal experiences she’s been through in the last few years, like motherhood and divorce. “Basically she wants songs that are as big as Beautiful.
“Christina wants to make another Stripped and sees Adele as her new inspiration."
“I’ve written one song for her which is a real track put to a four-by-four beat. It’s like a better version of Leona Lewis’s Collide.”
Talay, 21, is one of the hottest pop scribes on the scene. He’s co-written Jessie J’s next release Who’s Laughing Now and his own next single, the gorgeous Make You Mine, drops on August 29.
Plus Talay has recorded a duet with new X Factor judge Tulisa for his upcoming debut album after becoming mates with N-Dubz while touring with them.
He said: “Tulisa and I recorded a song called When I Go Home before she got The X Factor job.
“I really hope it can be a single but I’m not sure what will happen because of her TV commitments.
“The song sounds like Chris Brown and Jordan Sparks’s No Air and has a Kings Of Leon-style guitar breakdown.
“It’s something very different for Tulisa.”
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Joe Jonas to join Britney Spears on European Tour
Fantasy turns into reality: As a kid, Joe Jonas had a poster of Britney Spears hanging on his wall.
Now, the 21-year-old singer will be joining his childhood crush on her European tour starting Oct. 16, he tells PEOPLE.
"It's a dream come true," says Jonas, who will be opening for Spears and promoting his upcoming solo album Fastlife, to be released Oct. 11.
"She was the first girl I ever had a poster on my wall of, and her album was the first CD I ever bought," says Jonas. "It's so funny to think I had that on my wall and here I am about to perform with her."
Jonas first met Spears, 29, at an awards show a few years ago and says, "She's a very sweet lady."
He'll join Spears's Femme Fatale tour on Aug. 5 for one date in the U.S., then open her nine shows in Europe, with performances in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
"I'm really looking forward to being part of this," he says.
"I'll be playing more music than I have the past few times I've performed live so far," he adds. "It's going to be really fun to perform some of my music from the album."
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Adele to go country on her next album
Adele may be single-handedly propping up the British music industry, but the north London singer is looking across the pond for her third album. The follow-up to smash-hit 21 will be inspired by American roots music, she said this week. "I want to spend some time in Austin, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee, and learn about it."
Adele, 23, has already expressed plans to write, record, produce and master her next album on her own. "I want it to be quite acoustic and piano-led," she said in July. "It won't be a big production." Now the singer has revealed she is drifting away from her original R&B and girl-group influences, and exploring the country music she discovered during a US tour.
"I feel like a four-year-old in a candy shop who's discovering sweets again," Adele recently told the Sun. "The melodies and to-the-point lyrics I have found in a lot of American styles of music is definitely something I'm going be pursuing heavily from now on ... Every day is amazing when it comes to discovering new artists."
Adele is a huge success in America, topping the charts for 11 weeks. She was introduced to country music during the US tour for 19, thanks to a bus driver with good taste. "He would be rocking out to all this amazing country and blues and gospel and bluegrass, and I was constantly like, 'Who's this? Where's this from?'" she said earlier this year. "He used to radio all the other bus drivers, 'Can you pick your favourite country and blues songs and send them to me?' ... All sorts – Wanda Jackson, Garth Brooks, early Johnny Cash, early Dolly Parton, the Carter Family."
Released in January, 21 has sold almost 10m copies worldwide.
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