Hey Everyone!
How’s it going?? So… I just wanted to fill you guys in…I’m done with my 4th record!!! Well, actually I have been done for a year… and now my record company have finally decided to release it. OMG..How nice! Thanks guys.
I have been dying to get back out on the road and do what I love the most… PLAY MUSIC. I know you guys have been waiting for a long time…..and so have I, but not by choice. I have been sitting with this record for a year now. It’s really special to me. I have produced a couple tracks alone for the first time, written solo, with friends, I have pushed myself and I feel proud.
In saying all that, this has been a really difficult record for me to create and to release. Not only is this the most meaningful and special record I have written, it is sincere, honest and close to my heart. But for the first time I experienced a bunch of bureaucratic BS. People do their best work when they are doing what they want, love and is natural for them, not when you are forcing them to be something that they are not.
From the beginning of my career my message has always been to be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Follow your heart.
My first single off this record is called: “What The Hell”. This song is the least personal song to me off this album. It’s a fun and funny anthem. It has a broad message about personal freedom. It is the most pop track on the record.
I am shooting the video in 2 weeks and it will be out in January. I have been extremely busy designing Abbey Dawn and taking the line internationally for the first time, establishing “The Avril Lavigne Foundation” and focusing on my personal happiness and health. Balance!
Love you guys!
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Taylor Swift was named country songwriter of the year at the BMI Awards on Tuesday night, becoming the youngest person to win the award at age 20.
The pop sensation also won country song of the year with co-writer Liz Rose for "You Belong To Me." She's the first songwriter to win that award three years in a row.
"It's been a really emotional week for me," Swift told the crowd.
Her new album, "Speak Now," had the biggest opening of any record since 2005. But she also attended the funeral of a close friend on Monday.
"He was 21, and I used to play my songs for him first," Swift said.
Bill Anderson previously was the youngest winner of songwriter of the year, taking the honor in 1960 at 23. Johnny Cash was next with a win in 1956 at 24. Earlier this year, Swift became the youngest winner of the performing rights organization's pop song of the year award.
Swift won the songwriter award based on her own recordings of "Fifteen," "White Horse," "You Belong To Me" and "Best Days Of Your Life," recorded by Kellie Pickler.
Country songwriter of the year is one of the few awards the pop star had yet to win. She's the Country Music Association's reigning entertainer of the year and could win female vocalist of the year for the second straight time during the awards show Wednesday night.
BMI honored dozens of songwriters, including Miranda Lambert, Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum, Zac Brown, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Kristian Bush of Sugarland, Toby Keith and Keith Urban.
In one of the night's most poignant moments, Ronnie Dunn, George Strait, Martina McBride and Faith Hill serenaded Billy Sherill, who was named a BMI icon. Hill became emotional during her rendition of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man."
Sherill was named BMI's country songwriter of the 20th century in 1999 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this year.
The producer and songwriter is widely credited as the founder of the so-called "countrypolitan" movement that opened the doors for pop-leaning singers like Swift, Carrie Underwood and many of the night's other award winners.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Sherill was typically dismissive about his pivotal role in country music history.
"I don't think I changed anything," Sherill said. "I think I jumped on the bandwagon."
The 74-year-old Sherill said even now after all the awards, he still has trouble with the attention. He said he would rather be at home watching "The Twilight Zone" than the center of attention Tuesday night.
"It's very humbling," Sherill said. "It's kind of scary. It's so wonderful, it's unreal. It's really hard to talk about. It's easy to do, it's hard to talk about."
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Cher was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards last night.
The singer-and-actress was delighted to be presented with the accolade - which recognised her work with Kenyan orphans - at New York's Carnegie Hall, but insisted she is not glamorous at all when she is away from the spotlight.
She said: "You have no idea how non-glamorous I am when I wake up. I walk around in sweatpants and Ugg boots. I don't care."
Also honoured at the event was Black Eyed Peas star Fergie, who was watched by husband Josh Duhamel as she picked up a gong for her work with breast cancer research and AIDS awareness charities.
In a red Zac Posen gown, she admitted: "I feel like the prom queen tonight."
Julia Roberts was honoured for her work promoting renewable energy, raising awareness for Rett syndrome and supporting Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camps.
The actress took the opportunity to praise the late actor's work with the organisation, saying: "Paul would come and sit down with the kids and have lunch and participate. He was fully present."
Fashion designer Donatella Versace was presented with an award for her support of a children's charity in China and mentoring of aspiring designers.
She told the audience - which included Hilary Swank, Kelly Osbourne and Janet Jackson - never to give up on their ambitions.
She said: "Believe in yourself and work hard to achieve your dreams. You can do it."
Fool's Gold actress Kate Hudson presented the ceremony, which is in its 20th year.
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- Enrique Iglesias
- Michael Bublé
- Tim McGraw
- Usher
- Carrie Underwood
- Katy Perry
- Lady Gaga
- P!nk
- Taylor Swift
- Airplanes by B.O.B featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore
- California Gurls by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg
- Love The Way You Lie by Eminem featuring Rihanna
- OMG by Usher featuring Will.I.Am
- Telephone by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé
- Daughtry
- Linkin Park
- Maroon 5
- Nickelback
- Paramore
- B.o.B.
- Bruno Mars
- Justin Bieber
- Ke$ha
- Selena Gomez and the Scene
- Beyoncé
- Katy Perry
- Lady Gaga
- P!nk
- Rihanna
- Carrie Underwood
- Keith Urban
- Lady Antebellum
- Rascal Flatts
- Taylor Swift
- Alicia Keys
- Beyoncé
- Mary J. Blige
- Ne-Yo
- Usher
- Drake
- Eminem
- Jay-Z
- Ludacris
- Snoop Dogg
- Baby by Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris
- Love The Way You Lie by Eminem featuring Rihanna
- Teenage Dream by Katy Perry
- Telephone by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé
- Waka Waka by Shakira featuring Frshlyground
As announced exclusively on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, NKOTB and BSB are making it official. NKOTBSB on ONE STAGE will begin in the summer of 2011. Tickets to this historic event go on sale beginning November 19th at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com.
The NKOTBSB tour, produced by Live Nation includes confirmed dates in Toronto, New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Los Angeles with additional dates to be announced soon.
The public will get their first sneak peak of what’s to come on November 21, 2010 as all nine men perform LIVE at the American Music Awards in their first joint televised appearance.
With over 200 million albums sold between both bands, and smash hit after smash hit, these two pop sensations have dominated the music scene for over three decades.
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Thu, June 9, 2011
Toronto, CAN
Air Canada Center
ON-SALE 10am ET FRIDAY, NOV 19
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Sat, June 11, 2011
Uniondale, NY
Nassau Coliseum
ON-SALE 10am ET FRIDAY, NOV 19
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Sun, June 12, 2011
East Rutherford, NJ
Izod Center
ON-SALE 10am ET FRIDAY, NOV 19
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Fri, June 17, 2011
Chicago, IL
United Center
ON-SALE 10am CT SATURDAY, NOV 20
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Fri, July 1, 2011
Los Angeles, CA
Staples Center
ON- SALE 10am PT MONDAY, NOV 22
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When Kanye West sings about "jerk-offs that’ll never take work off," you’d best believe he means himself. Being crazy is this guy’s job, and judging from the sound of his music, business is booming. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus. Yeezy goes for the grandeur of stadium rock, the all-devouring sonics of hip-hop, the erotic gloss of disco, and he goes for all of it, all the time. Nobody halfway sane could have made this album.
Last time, Kanye went minimal for the electro melancholia of 808s & Heartbreak. But on Fantasy, he gets ridiculously maximal, blowing past all the rules of hip-hop and pop, even though, for the past half-decade, he’s been the one inventing the rules. There are hip-hop epics, R&B ballads, alien electronics, prog-rock samples, surprise guests from Bon Iver to Fergie to Chris Rock, even a freaking Elton John piano solo. It’s his best album, but it’s more than that — it’s also a rock-star manifesto for a downsizing world. At a time when we all get hectored about lowering our expectations, surrendering our attention spans, settling for less, West wants us to demand more.
Nobody else is making music this daring and weird, from the spooky space funk of "Gorgeous" to the King Crimson-biting "Power" to the paranoid staccato strings of "Monster." Nearly six minutes into "Runaway," long after the song has already sealed itself in your brain, the sound cuts out and you think it’s over. Then there’s a plinking piano, the feedback of an electric guitar plugging in, some "Strawberry Fields"-style cellos and Yeezy himself singing a poignant Robert Fripp-style solo through his vocoder. There’s no way it should work, but it keeps rolling for three more minutes without breaking the spell.
Coming off a string of much-publicized emotional meltdowns, Yeezy is taking a deeper look inside the dark corners of his twisted psyche. He has sex and romance on his mind, but he comes clean about his male angst like never before. In confessions like "Runaway" and "Blame Game," he honestly struggles to figure out why he has to be such a douchebag. Yet the songs are also his funniest ever, with Kanye showing off lethal wit on the mic: In "Dark Fantasy," he rhymes "mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago" with "diablo," "bravado" and "My chick in that new Phoebe Philo/So much head, I woke up in Sleepy Hollow."
There’s a famous story about Queen making "Bohemian Rhapsody": Whenever the band thought the song was finished, Freddie Mercury would say, "I’ve added a few more ‘Galileos’ here, dear." But nobody can out-Galileo Kanye. With Fantasy, he makes everybody else on the radio sound laughably meek, but he’s also throwing down a challenge to the audience. Kanye West thinks you’re a moron if you settle for artists who don’t push as hard as he does. And that means pretty much everybody.
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Get your glitter, body paint and Indian headdresses ready – Ke$ha is going on tour!!! Everyone’s favorite electro-pop party girl is set to hit the road in February and tickets go on sale Friday, November 19th! Can’t wait that long? Live Nation is offering you a chance to get tix starting on November 10th is you pre-order her new album Cannibal before Nov 22nd. Pre-order and get the code at www.keshasparty.com! Check out the 14 tour dates below and find out if she’s coming to a city near you!
Saturday, February 19, 2011 | Denver, CO | The Fillmore
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 | St. Louis, MO | The Pageant
Thursday, February 24, 2011 | Chicago, IL | House of Blues
Saturday, February 26, 2011 | Detroit, MI | The Fillmore
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | Toronto, ON | Kool Haus
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 | Boston, MA | House of Blues
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | New York, NY | Roseland Ballroom
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | Charlotte, NC | The Fillmore
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | Atlanta, GA | Tabernacle
Friday, April 22, 2011 | Orlando, FL | House of Blues
Saturday, april 23, 2011 | Orlando, FL | House of Blues
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | Dallas, TX | House of Blues
Friday, April 29, 2011 | Houston, TX | Verizon Wireless
Friday, May 6, 2011 | Los Angeles, CA | The Wiltern
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