Sunday, January 23, 2011
Justin Bieber is working with Sean Garrett to create more mature sound
Now that he’s made a couple million off of feeding the dreams of high school girls the world over, Justin Bieber is ready to switch his style up. According to Sean Garrett, Bieber is ready to revamp his sound and become the next White Chocolate, a la Timberlake and Thicke.
“What we’re trying to do with Justin is to segue him into young adulthood,” says Garrett. “The one great thing about Justin Bieber is the fact that his fans are going to grow with him. So we want all the fans that started out with him to still be intrigued and excited about him, but we want to also stretch out a little bit and make the fans that are 22-23 years old love Justin as well. When Justin Timberlake went from the last album of *NSync to his first solo album — I want to say [we're aiming for] that level. That’s the bar for the type of song, that level of ‘Cry Me a River,’ big records.”
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Lady Gaga Taps Downtown Fashion House to Design 'Beautiful Hate Crime' Dress
The avant-garde fashion label House of Diehl received an e-mail late Monday from one of Lady Gaga's stylists.
"Are you guys around? We need seven dresses for a video shoot by this Friday," the note read, according to Roman Milisic, one half of House of Diehl.
Mary Jo Diehl, the creative force and namesake behind House of Diehl and Milisic's wife, said, "No problem, we don't do ready-to-wear, we do ready-to-rumble!"
Turning around seven dresses in three days is a daunting, if not impossible, task. But for a small New York label like House of Diehl, getting your clothes in a Lady Gaga video is a huge break.
"Gaga can choose a dress by anybody in the whole world, and who else wears avant garde fashion?" said Milisic on Tuesday, from House of Diehl's live-work space on West 26th Street. "All of her clothes in her last video were from Alexander McQueen, so this is great!"
Milisic and Diehl don't have any details about the video, nor any guarantees that their outfits will be chosen for it. They know, though, that their garments will be among the options for a video from a song off Gaga's upcoming album, "Born This Way," which reportedly begins shooting next week.
Diehl said that some designers will pay $50,000 to $100,000 or more to have a star like Lady Gaga wear their clothes. The PR is priceless, so the duo have dropped everything to get the job done.
Two young fashion designers/garment makers, Buffi Jashanmal and Christine Brown, have been called in to lend a hand.
"Roman (Milisic) is like the MacGyver of fashion," said Diehl. "He can make a dress out of anything."
Milisic took photographs of his work so far and e-mailed them to Gaga's stylist for approval.
"If they say it's stupid, we've only wasted three hours," said Milisic.
Mid-afternoon Tuesday, confident in their concepts, it was time to gather materials. Brown, Jashanmal, an intern named Katerina, Milisic and Diehl gathered in something resembling a football huddle, with Milisic and Diehl acting as co-quarterbacks.
Brown and the intern were dispatched to local vintage clothing stores and H&M to look for acid-washed jeans; Jashanmal was sent downtown to look for old lamps in a used furniture store near Vandam and Sixth; and Diehl volunteered to scour what she called the chandelier district in Flatiron, for anything that would yield colored glass.
"It's like a scavenger hunt," said Milisic.
"It's like a military fashion mission," said Diehl
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Muse to Perform at Grammy Awards
Muse have been confirmed as one of the many acts that will perform at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. The British rockers will join previously announced performers Arcade Fire, Cee Lo Green, Eminem, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga.
Matt Bellamy and company are nominated for three awards this year, including Best Rock Album (The Resistance), Best Rock Song (“Resistance”) and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group (“Resistance”).
The Grammy telecast begins at 8 p.m. Sunday, February 13 on CBS. The awards ceremony will be broadcast live from The Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Gretchen Wilson Ends Up Jealous of Kanye West and Lady Gaga
Kanye West made headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2009, after his rude interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech during the MTV Video Music Awards. But another country star was the first to be subjected to the rapper's rants, before Taylor was even old enough to drive.
Gretchen Wilson beat out Kanye and Maroon 5 to take home the American Music Award in 2004 for Favorite Breakthrough Artist. It was a loss the rapper didn't take quietly. "I felt like I was definitely robbed," he declared after the ceremony. "I was the best new artist this year."
The incident may have happened over six years ago, but the 'Redneck Woman' singer still has strong feelings about it. "I think he's an ass for acting like that," Gretchen tells CMT. "He really is. He makes quite a spectacle. Grow up! Quit being such a baby! If somebody beats you, it's because they deserve to beat you. And I don't know if you remember all the way back to the first time -- I outsold you, bro! Do your homework."
The Grammy winner (and current nominee) says she wasn't intimidated by Kanye's pompous claims then, nor is she intimidated by him now. "It's kinda cool for me to know that I was the first," Gretchen admits. "Kanye, just remember, I was your first. And I'm not above kicking your ass."
She's also not above putting her music up against the material of other more mainstream artists. "I have learned over the last six years that the most important thing is the show itself, not all of the drama, not whether you can paint yourself up like Lady Gaga," Gretchen tells The Boot. "You need to kick their butts with the music and the energy and that's what we do with this group. You wouldn't call it an easy show with Gretchen Wilson; It's more like a Lynyrd Skynyrd show that leans toward southern rock energy. We play songs they are familiar with, new songs and really rock 'n' roll."
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Slash Refuses to Allow Guns N' Roses Music on 'Glee'
Slash has told Entertainment Weekly that he rejected a request from the producers of Glee to use Guns N' Roses music in an episode of the series. His reasoning was pretty simple: He thinks the hit show is horrible.
"Glee is worse than Grease and Grease is bad enough," he told EW. "I look at Grease now and think, 'Between High School Musical and Glee, Grease was a work of art.'" So Slash is definitely not a fan of squeaky-clean singing teens.
The guitarist does not have a hardline stance against licensing Guns N' Roses' hits, but prefers to lend his music and image to projects he endorses. For example, his distinctive image is used extensively in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
Slash also discussed the future of his band Velvet Revolver with EW, saying that the group is currently auditioning a new singer. He was mum on details, but admitted that among the possible candidates, "There’s one guy that’s definitely pretty well-known." Speculate away!
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Jennifer Lopez's 'On The Floor' Video To Be An 'Underground Party'
This weekend, Jennifer Lopez is set to film the music video for her club banger "On the Floor." MTV News was at auditions in L.A., where some of the area's most skilled and unique dancers showed up to see if they might make the final cut for the video.
On Thursday, the video's director, Taj, revealed what he was looking to capture in the clip: "Originality, being you. This song is about being who you want. It's about letting loose. There's no explanation. This is this underground video, this underground party."
Choreographer Frank Gatson Jr. gushed over the chance to work with the new "American Idol" judge on the clip. "I love working with J.Lo," he said. "She's a sweetheart. She understands the business."
Gatson also talked a bit about what the crew has in mind for the video's funky vibe. "I kind of get the feeling that she wants us to be in the club after 2 a.m. in L.A.," he revealed. "That's so amazing. [It's like] everybody had some watermelon and the watermelon made them high, it gave them a little buzz — but a good buzz, a real magical buzz, a dance buzz, a buzz that makes you feel like fried chicken, so she just wants everybody to have a good old time.
"The club must have this vibe, where you get on the floor and everybody's bringing it," he added. "We've seen so many club videos, but we want to see a club video with a vibe unique to Jennifer Lopez."
"On the Floor" producer RedOne recently talked to MTV News about the track. "Of course, she's global. She's a global artist," he said. "She's a global actress, and the music has to be global, and the rhythmic side of it or the Latin and this thing of a dancer [all has to be there].
"She said, 'I want to dance. I want to make people dance and be able to sing with me.' That's what we did, and it feels good. I think we're going to have a big one."
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