It seems the singer’s performing plans have once again become trapped by the incessant ramblings of religious men. Beyonce apparently wants to embark upon a noble quest: performing in Egypt. She’s never been there before, but it doesn’t look like she’s going to be welcomed with open arms. Some Islamic conservatives think that Beyonce’s concert is a godless procession of carnal pleasures… actually, there are quite a few of them. But Byonce, brave soul that she is, will go through with her concert. Let’s see just how conservative these people are, if the show sells out, then there might just be a few extra fireworks.
Well, the singer didn’t actually come up with the idea for the law, per say, but she really did give the Australians something to think about. It seems there is a new project of a law in Australia that will require all performers to declare beforehand if they are going to be lip-synching on a concert or not. This new idea comes after Britney Spears is asking for 1500 dollars for a ticket and everybody knows dear Britney Spears can’t be bothered to really sing live anymore. So, it seems Australia is taking the arts one step further… good for them! No pop artist is ever going to go to Australia anymore under these circumstances… aces!
Singer LeAnn Rimes’s boyfriend Eddie Cibrian is said to be two-timing her, just weeks after the pair went public with their secret liaison.
According to an insider, Cibrian is already tired of Rimes, 27.
Both were married when they met up secretly and they have begun divorce proceedings – apparently so they could be together. After each split with their spouse, they were seen enjoying each other’s company.
Now Cibrian, a 36-year-old actor, is being linked to a woman named Scheana Marie Jancan, who reportedly claimed a few months ago to be John Mayer’s girlfriend.
“Eddie has recently started seeing Scheana again,” an insider said, claiming they were together in the early hours of October 21.
The insider added: “He told her he’s only with LeAnn for the publicity and that he plans to end things with her soon.”
Posted by Sam on 5th November 2009 in Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell’s mum Julie has said she would love to see her son reunite with ex-girlfriend Terri Seymour.
Julie, 84, admitted she was a fan of Terri, 35, whom Simon, 50, split with last year after dating for six years.
Julie admitted that Terri is her favourite out of her son’s ex-girlfriends: “Top of the class is Terri. She is down-to-earth and a lovely person.
“Terri loved Simon purely for the person he is, unlike some of the others. She and Simon still speak every day and Terri calls me every 10 days to say hello.”
Asked if she would like to see them get back together, she said: “Yes! I wasn’t well a few weeks ago and Simon told Terri, who immediately called to see if there was anything she could do.
“She was my favourite, but sadly, Simon is married to his work!”
A lot of celebrities had pretty good costumes for their Halloween gigs or whatnot but my favorite has to be Kelly Clarkson when she dressed up as ‘Family Guy’ character Stewie Griffin during the singer’s Halloween Concert at the Family Arena last weekend in St. Charles, Missouri. The 27-year old original American Idol champ performed a few of her songs dressed up as the cartoon and danced around on stage, shaking her Stewie butt. It’s a complete riot to watch! Kelly even danced to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ at one point. Kelly and ‘Family Guy’ ruled my Halloween world that’s for sure!
After being hyped to the extreme, the Michael Jackson documentary ‘This is It’ has shaped up to be a disappointment. The late singer’s film made $20.7 million over the Halloween weekend, which was much less than Sony had expected. Execs apparently thought that the initial talk of sold-out screenings during the pre-sale has kept fans from turning out to see the movie. I guess they were way off the mark when they calculated the public interest. Perhaps all the hype surrounding the King of Pop is dying down. It should serve as a lesson to all those money-hungry people who want to get a free ride off it.
In an unlikely pairing, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles will be presenting a special performance from the Bolshoi Ballet and Lady Gaga on November 14th. The production is called ‘Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again)’. It’s being overseen by renowned Italian performance artist Francesco Vezzoli and finds the dancers choreographed to the pop singer’s inventive music. The performance is also reportedly going to feature the debut of Lady Gaga’s ‘Speechless’ single off of her ‘Fame Monster’ album. That sounds like an epic! And I think that the title of the show suits it. I doubt we ever will see that type of thing again.
The singer recently came up and admitted that she is terribly excited about hosting the famous Saturday Night Live show. Taylor Swift wrote the following on her twitter: : “Starting the SNL process I kinda feel like I might have a heart attack or pass out in the pitch meeting. I’m that excited.” Taylor Swift probably has nothing to worry about… if she does pass out, Taylor Lautner will most likely be there to catch her. Or, to make matters more amusing, Kanye West will play the part of the human trampoline, after all, it is supposed to be a comedy show.
This Is It director Kenny Ortega has revealed what Michael Jackson last said to the crew as he told them “this is the dream”.
The 59-year-old director was working with Jacko on his 50 London shows when he passed away in June and he has since created the movie This Is It out of 80 hours of footage from working on the shows.
Talking about their last meeting, he said to MTV News: “Michael stood out in front of the stage that night with me and looked up at the rehearsal and said: ‘This is the dream. We did it good, Kenny, We did it. Very good’.
“There was this anticipation of tomorrow, this anticipation of London and this great feeling about what we’d accomplished over the past couple of nights.
“He told me he was happy. He had nothing creatively or critically to say to anyone other than: ‘I love you, thank you, everyone’s doing a great job and I’ll see you tomorrow’.”
The very first ever star to be a product of the Pop Idol industry… which is to say, the first prototype, Will Young recently admitted that he had started having some problems with being famous, problems which he solved by going to a therapist. Will Young related the experience: “I had thought I was coping well with my job and being famous but I became scared of going out and meeting people. I was going into loony, reclusive-pop-star mode, which is very easy to do because you’re always busy and people tend to do what you want. I went on the course and stood up and said, ‘Hi, I’m Will, I’m a pop star and I’m not very confident.’ It was like being in a comedy. But it was extremely valuable. I’m going on another one soon. I’m looking forward to it.” So, it looks like therapy is one big joke for Will Young. He shouldn’t take it so lightly, there are serious people there doing some serious things screwing with everyone’s brains.
Robbie Williams has decided to pull out of his performance at the MTV European Music Awards, citing scheduling conflicts. Well there goes his comeback. What? Is the singer too busy relapsing? I doubt he has much else going on anyway. Not only is he nominated for an award but he needs to do something to counteract his insane X Factor performance. Snap out of it man! Or was he too embarrassed to go back on stage because of that? And I thought that he was serious about getting his music career back on track. The only thing that could probably save him now is a Take That reunion and that’s saying a lot.
Michael Jackson’s final This Is It tour encompassed much more than 50 concerts in London.
Choreographer Kenny Ortega said Jackson had plans to take the O2 Arena tour of the UK around the world over a period of three years.
Ortega’s documentary of the same name has brought high acclaim in just 24 hours since opening, earning more than US$2.2 million on its first day in the US.
Ortega said Jackson talked a lot about a world tour that would have included Australia.
“We would just be hanging out on a rest break and sitting in the dressing room and he would say ‘Kenny, have you ever been to India?’ I would say, ‘No, I really want to go to India so badly. I haven’t been.’ He’d say, ‘You must. You must. When I take the show to India whatever you are doing you have to stop and come back and join the tour.’ He’d say, ‘What about Japan?’ I’d say, ‘Yes of course. I love Japan. I want to go to Japan.’ He’d say, ‘What about Africa?’ I’d say, ‘Yes, Africa’.”
Ortega said: “I realised he wanted the world. He wanted to take this all over the world.”
Benji and Joel Madden are on a Sydney party bender to rival anything in Hollywood.
The pair started off with the launch of the Blackberry Curve just hours after they landed in Australia.
The tattooed twins from Good Charlotte arrived by boat at Simmer On The Bay in Sydney’s Dawes Point. Joel, who is travelling without his partner Nicole Richie and their two children, wore sunglasses and leather while Benji wore his signature fedora. The pair DJ’d for a reported substantial appearance fee.
They were later seen at hot Kings Cross nightspot theclub. According to witnesses, they stuck to Red Bull and cigarettes before leaving at about 2am. The late nighter did not stop them arriving five minutes early for a 7.30am radio interview the next day, likely the result of the time zone swap.
The next night they moved on to the State Theatre for Absolut Vodka’s Rock edition party, where they kept the company of local bright young things.
Despite Nick Jonas having some solo ambition, the Jonas Brothers have no intention of breaking up. In a letter to their fans, the band of brothers said “We plan to make music together for as long as we can.” Nick also wrote “We’ve said from the beginning of our career as the Jonas Brothers that anything we do outside of the group is a side project because you can’t break up brothers. My brothers are my biggest supporters, and were on the phone with me everyday while I was in the studio asking how it was going, and telling me they couldn’t wait to hear the record.” Joe and Kevin replied to that, saying “We are so proud of our brother Nick. We know that we will be doing music together for the rest of our lives. But we are thrilled for you to hear these songs that were on his heart.” Aww.
As reported last month, even though U2 had been selling out concerts, the band has yet to make any profits due to the high cost of production. According to projections, U2 won’t break even until they’re done with the North American leg of their tour this month. The group is now trying to break even with the tour by adding more dates. They will make their return to North America when they perform at Anaheim’s Angel Stadium on June 6th net year. The band will end with their European tour next October, performing their final show in Portugal. Good luck getting tickets though because they are selling out fast!
Posted by Sam on 29th October 2009 in Book, Lady GaGa
I’m sure a lot of Lady Gaga fans are very excited for her newest release ‘The Fame Monster’ and I bet that excitement will grow exponentially once everyone finds out the details of the albums Deluxe Edition. On top of the 8 new studio recordings, it includes the original album ‘The Fame’ and ‘Book of Gaga’ – a highly stylized art book that comes in a custom slipcase documenting the singer’s rise into pop super stardom. It includes a lock of Lady Gaga’s hair, collectible puzzle, pictorials, a behind the scenes look at her creative process, pull out posters, themed fanzines, a paper doll collection, 3D glasses to view forthcoming visuals and personal notes from Lady Gaga. Wow!
I have some exciting new for all you Lady Gaga fans. Not only is the singer’s new single ‘Bad Romance’ already available on iTunes but a detailed track list for her album ‘The Fame Monster’ has been released. The list goes as ‘Bad Romance’, ‘Alejandro’, ‘Monster’, ‘Speechless’, ‘Dance in the Dark’, ‘Telephone’ featuring Beyonce’, ‘So Happy I Could Die’ and ‘Teeth’. Yes, Beyonce will be on one of the Princess of Pop’s tracks! Lady Gaga was recently filming a video for Beyonce’s ‘Video Phone’. I wonder if they filmed a video for ‘Telephone’ too. By the way, I’m having a slight chuckle at the titles of their songs.
Former Oasis star Liam Gallagher said he is planning to set up his own band.
The 37-year-old was a member of the Britpop band until band member and brother Noel, 42, walked out.
Talking about his future plans, he said: “I don’t want to do anything solo. I want to be in a band. But we can do things a lot differently these days. It’ll definitely be rock ‘n roll.
“I’m always going to miss Oasis. It was MY thing. It’s who I am. But it’s only a name. I’m still who I am and I can go and do something else. It might be **** but you don’t know until you try.
Liam’s fall-out with brother Noel is still going on and he said: “I gave Noel some of my Pretty Green clothes out of courtesy.
“And he took it, which ****** me off ‘cos he should have threw it back in my face ‘cos we weren’t talking. But he took it and he probably put it in the bin.
“Or he probably wears it round his house when his missus is out. Soon as she comes back in, he probably takes it off because he’s not allowed as he’s under the thumb.”
Jay-Z won 4 times
Winners List 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards:
Verizon People’s Champ Award – Fabulous Ft. The Dream – Throw it in the Bag
Best Hip Hop Collabo – T.I. FT Rihanna – Live Your Life
Lyricist of the Year – Jay-Z
Producer of the Year – Kanye West
CD of the Year – T.I. – Paper Trail
Best Hip Hop Video – T.I. FT Rihanna – Live Your Life
DJ of the Year – DJ AM
Made-You-Look Award – Kanye West
Best Live Performer – Jay-Z
Video Director – Hype Williams
Track of the Year – Young Money – Every Girl
Rookie of the Year – Drake
MVP of the Year – Jay-Z
Hustler of the Year – Jay-Z
Best Hip Hop Blog Site – All Hip Hop.com
