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Girls Aloud For Olympics Opening Ceremony In 2012

After the news that Girls Aloud will reform next year to mark their tenth anniversary, reports are suggesting that they will open the London 2012 Olympic Games.

According to insiders the five girls; Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh and Sarah Harding have been asked to open the ceremony and are currently in negotiations.

A source said: “With the girls already planning to reform next year Olympic Officials are keen for them to open the games.

“They are the biggest British girl group in recent years and what better way for them to celebrate their tenth anniversary?”

Girls Aloud formed in 2002 on ‘Popstars: The Rivals’ and have had twenty top 10 singles, five studio albums and a Greatest Hits compilation.

It has already been rumoured that the Spice Girls would open the games on July 27th with Melanie C claiming it would be a “brilliant idea”.

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Jessie J Wants To Duet With Rihanna

Jessie J has a special collaboration in mind - she wants to work with RiRi.

The singer-songwriter actually wrote her hit song Do It Like A Dude for the Bajan beauty but ended up recording it herself for her debut album Who You Are.

Now Jessie is hoping she can perform the track with Rihanna in the near future, as she revealed to Canada's New.Music.Live.

"I wanna ask her, I really wanna ask her if we can perform it together," explains the Price Tag singer. "Either on her tour or at V Festival or one of the big festivals. I definitely think that she would kill it.”

As for other dream collaborations, Jessie shared: "I'd definitely want to work with Aretha Franklin, Prince and Beyonce. I recently spoke with Jasmine Sullivan on the phone, I definitely want to get in the studio with her."

She continued: "I want to work with Willow Smith, I think she's incredible. It's a very humbling situation when an artist wants to work with you and you get the opportunity to work with them."

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Blake Shelton's New Album Due July 12

Blake Shelton will release a new album on July 12 on Warner Bros. Nashville. The project, which has not yet been titled, will include Shelton's current single, "Honey Bee." Scott Hendricks produced the album. In 2010, Shelton released two Six Pak albums (with six tracks each) as well as a greatest hits compilation, Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton. In related news, he will begin his role as a coach on NBC's The Voice on Tuesday (April 26) along with Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Maroon 5's Adam Levine. "There are so many things I'm excited to share with everyone this year," Shelton said. "I can't wait for people to hear the record. I have found some of the best songs of my career. I also think people will be surprised at all the talent they will see on The Voice. There were so many great vocalists who just blew me away, and it has been the coolest thing to be part of it all."

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It's Official: Girls Aloud To Return In 2012 With Cheryl

Girls Aloud will reunite in 2012 to mark their 10th anniversary, their manager has confirmed.

Hilary Shaw said to expect the five-piece to perform together to mark the milestone. “Everybody wants them to make a comeback and it will be next year. Well, it is their 10th anniversary so there will be something,” she said.

But she added that fans shouldn’t expect a new studio album just yet, as Cheryl Cole is busy with her solo career and her rumoured X Factor USA slot.

As for the other girls, Nicola Roberts is readying a solo LP, Sarah Harding is concentrating on acting and Kimberley Walsh on TV presenting. Nadine Coyle’s album flopped when it was released late last year.

The Girls Aloud boss also insisted that all five members are still good friends, despite rumours of infighting. “The girls are still getting on great, they speak all the time, and that includes Cheryl and Nadine with the other girls,” Hilary told The People. “Cheryl is keen to get back with the girls and is planning something which could be a one-off or some gigs.”

Girls Aloud haven’t recorded together since 2008’s Out Of Control.

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Nicki Minaj Sophmore Album Annoucement in September

Nicki Minaj has kept her guest features to a minimum since the release of her platinum debut Pink Friday, but she’s got a timeline in place for its follow-up. The Harajuku Barbie explained that her Barbz will get an announcement regarding the sophomore effort by September, with the album set to drop within the next 12 months.

“You’ll get another album within 12 months,” she told KIIS FM’s JoJo. “You’ll get the announcement for the next album in—and I’m saying the announcement—that you’ll get the announcement in September. That’s all.”

But for now she’ll stay busy promoting her new single “Super Bass” and its video, set to arrive in the next week. Videos for “Did It On’em” and “Fly,” her collaboration with Rihanna, have also been shot.

After her “I Am Still Music” tour with Lil Wayne winds down this month, fans can catch her opening for Britney Spears on the “Femme Fatale” tour, kicking off on June 17. Stay tuned to MyPinkFriday.com for more information.

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Anonymous singer The Weeknd drops stellar debut mixtape

The anonymous R&B singer The Weeknd recently released his 9-song debut, "House of Balloons" – a staggering mix of R&B, dubstep and indie/avant-garde samples. The mixtape sounds like Drake during his most wallowing moments, offering a dark and despairing insight into the world of drug consumption that, for all its sadness and futility, is also undeniably catchy, or perhaps addicting itself.

Opener "High for This" begins somewhat conventionally: hypnotic drum slugging and reverb-drowned vocals a la Drake. However, when The Weeknd implores, "Open your head," electronic fuzz and dubstep beats suddenly pulsate, awakening the song from its swoon. This weekend party has all the elements of contemporary mainstream rap—lots of drugs and girls—but even when The Weeknd sings the song's chorus, "Even though you don't roll / Trust me girl / You wanna be high for this," he is hardly glorifying this hedonism.

Rather, the song sounds chilling and desperate; being "High for This" is not just part of the party, it is a necessity.

"What You Need" follows, sounding most-appropriate for mainstream audiences; it is relatively short (around 3:30), has a lush, jangly beat and can be construed as a love-song: "He's what you want / I'm what you need." On an album focusing on drugs, however, the metaphor of addiction becomes quickly apparent, especially when The Weeknd sings, "I'm the drug in your veins."

Besides the shorter "What You Need," most of the songs on "House of Balloons" surpass the five-minute mark. The mixtape's highlight, "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls," nears 7 minutes, beginning with fuzzy waves of electronic noise and a psychedelic sample from Siouxsie and the Banshees, which revels in its drug-filled indulgence: "This is a happy house / We're happy here in the happy house / This is fun, fun, fun, fun..."

The song unwinds midway into the sludgy beat of "Glass Table Girls," capturing the dingy atmosphere of a cocaine-filled after-party: "We could test out the tables / We got some brand new tables / All glass and it's four feet wide / But it's enough to get us ten feet high." The Weeknd alters his normally echoing and despondent vocals with aggressive and confrontational near-whispering, evoking tension and a sense of looming danger.

"House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" captures the ethos of the perpetually high hip-hop and rap scene, and it is therefore not just one of the better songs released this year but also one of the most culturally and historically significant.

"The Morning" appropriately follows: the slowed down, reflective hangover, where the leftover "codeine cups paint a picture so vivid" of the night before. Other highlights include "The Party & The After Party," which artfully samples indie-darlings Beach House, and "Wicked Games," an achingly melancholic confessional of false-love and, you guessed it, drug use.

Much like Elliott Smith's posthumous "From a Basement on a Hill," a haunting collection of songs about drug-addiction and dying recorded when Smith essentially was a walking corpse, "House of Balloons" sounds frighteningly earnest—the harrowing words from a moribund singer. If true art is suffering, "House of Balloons" is a ghastly masterpiece.

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