BEYONCE – ‘GROWN WOMAN (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)

Love Beyonce‘s visual for Afro-centric jam ‘Grown Woman’?

If so, you’ll be pleased to learn that today has brought with it an alternative version of the clip, released days after the singer pulled the plug on her ‘Mrs.Carter Show’ world tour!

Breathing new life into the song, the revised video sees the star explore the beauty of colour, and rearrange a number of its scenes to offer fans something both familiar and refreshing!

Rock out with the Queen Bey below!

RITA ORA – ‘I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN’

Hurricane Rita is here!

That’s right, with a move that’s set to see her blow many a Pop princess out of chart waters this year, Rita Ora has unleashed the beast that is her new single ‘I Will Never Let You Down.’

Lifted from her second studio album, the cut made its debut on the UK’s ‘Capital Breakfast Show‘, and silenced any- TGJ included- who judged the entire number using its snippet to do so.

VIDEO: LADY GAGA TALKS INFLATED NUMBERS, ‘ARTPOP’ TOUR

As Rihanna continues work on her forthcoming studio set, Lady GaGa continued to promote her own this week when she stopped by KTU 103.5 FM to push the Pop piece, ‘ARTPOP.’

While there, the Beyonce collaborator found herself quizzed on a number of hot topics currently surrounding her brand.

Put to her tactfully, the show’s hosts “went there” by asking her about her ‘Born this Way Foundation’, currently under fire for its alleged mishandling of funds, as well asking her to explain the meaning behind her brand new single ‘G.U.Y.’

How inflated numbers, her forthcoming tour and ‘power bottoms’ came into the equation?

MUSIC RELEASES THIS WEEK

This week's new single releases
Agnes Obel - Aventine
Aloe Blacc - The Man
Cher Lloyd - Dirty Love
Dave Aude FTAndy Bell - Aftermath (Here We Go)
Freemasons FT Joel Edwards - U Drive Me Crazy
Gotsome FT The Get Along Gang - Bassline
J Cole FT Amber Coffman & Cults - She Knows
Javeon - Intoxicated
John Martin - Anywhere For You
Klaxons - There Is No Other Time / Children Of The Sun
Nerina Pallot - When The Morning Stars Sang Together
Paolo Nutini - Scream (Funk My Life Up)
Paul McCartney - Save Us
Paul Woolford - Untitled (Call Out Your Name)
Peter Aristone FT Melanie C - Cool As You
The Pierces - Believe In Me
Ray LaMontagne - Lavender
Russell Watson - The Homeground Anthem
Show N Prove FT Shakka - If Only
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Runaway Daydreamer
The Weeknd - Wanderlust

This week's new album releases
Anette Olzon - Shine
Band of Skulls - Himalayan
Band of Skulls - Himalayan
Barry Manilow - Night Songs
Brian May & Kerry Ellis - The Candlelight Concerts: Live At Montreux 2013
Christina Perri - Head Or Heart
Circa Zero - Circus Hero
Clint Mansell - Noah (Music From The Motion Picture)
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
Coves - Soft Friday
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual: A 30th Anniversary Celebration
Dillon - The Unknown
Dynazty - Renatus
English Frank - Frankenstein
FM - Futurama
Fred V and Grafix - Recognise
Gamma Ray - Empire of the Undead
Gamma Ray - Empire of the Undead
Geriant Watkins - Moustique
Hellion - To Hellion And Back
John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension - The Boston Record
John Wesley - Disconnect
Johnny Cash - Out Among The Stars
Kaiser Chiefs - Education, Education, Education & War
Killing Joke - In Dub (Box Set)
Kiss - Animalize
Kiss - Asylum
Kiss - Destroyer
Kiss - Dressed To Kill
Kiss - Dynasty
Kiss - Hotter Than Hell
Kiss - Kiss
Kiss - Lick It Up
Kiss - Love Gun
Kiss - MTV Unplugged
Kiss - Psycho Circus
Kiss - Revenge
Kiss - Unmasked
Lacuna Coil - Broken Crown Halo
Lynyrd Skynyrd - LIVE CARDIFF 1975
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Manchester Orchestra - Cope
Memphis May Fire - Unconditional
Messenger - Illusory Blues
Mitch Laddie Band - Live In Concert
Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line
Robert Cray - In My Soul
Runrig - Party On The Moor (40th Anniversary Concert)
Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
Shakin' Street - Psychic
Sonata Arctica - Pariah's Child
Steel Panther - All You Can Eat
Steve Miller Band - LIVE 1973 - 1976
The Used - Imaginary Enemy
The Wildhearts - Mad,Bad & Dangerous To Know
Therapy? - Troublegum (20th Anniversary Concert)
Various Artists - Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life
Various Artists - Anthems '90s 2
Various Artists - Come Spy With Us: The Secret Agent Songbook
Various Artists - Island Presents: Dub
Various Artists - Let The Music Play: Black America Sings Bacharach & David
Various Artists - Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne
Various Artists - Punk Goes '90s Volume 2
Various Artists - Swamp Pop By The Bayou
Various Artists - The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1: 1964-67
Various Artists - The Rebel Kind: Girls With Guitars 3

NEW MICHAEL JACKSON'S ALBUM "XSCAPE" IN MAY

Epic Records have teamed up with the late King Of Pop’s estate to compile an album of previously unheard new tracks.

Epic Records have revealed that they have teamed up with the estate of the late King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, to release a new album, featuring previously unheard recordings by the US star.

The album, which is titled XScape, will be Michael Jackson’s first new studio album since Michael in 2010. The standard edition will contain eight new tracks, never before heard by the public, while a deluxe edition of the will include all of the original demo recordings of the tracks.

XScape will feature the work of producers such as Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins, Stargate, Jroc and John McClain, while L.A. Reid – founder of LaFace Records and current chairman of Epic – will serve as executive producer.

“Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the ground-breaking contributionsMichael Jackson gifted to the world,” said Reid in an official press release. “We are extremely proud and honoured to present this music to the world.”

The album’s title is thought to reflect Michael’s naming process, which, according to Epic Records, revolves around using “edgy, one word titles”.

XScape’s global release date is set to be May 13, with pre-orders expected to be taken as early as tomorrow (Tuesday, April 1).

LADY GAGA’S “G.U.Y.” VIDEO: REVIEW REVUE

Monsters, Lady Gaga has given you all a lot to look at with the visual for her third ARTPOP single “G.U.Y.” Can your eyes handle all the spectacular spectacle and fashionable flash and overall Vanderpump of this music video?

Several online critics had their say on the Gaga-directed extravaganza, which incorporates four tracks from her latest album, several personalities from the Bravo network and has a run time of nearly 12 minutes. (The credits at the end take up four of those.) Head below to see our roundup of “G.U.Y.” reviews, then let us know your own thoughts on LG’s latest video.



:: MTV rightly notes, “It’s gonna be really hard for Gaga to out-Gaga this one.”

:: Entertainment Weekly calls the video “11 minutes and 46 seconds of unfettered camp-pop delirium that falls somewhere between a Cocteau movie and an episode of Watch What Happens Live, complete with (we couldn’t make this up if we tried) Andy Cohen as Zeus and the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as a Greek chorus.”

:: Metro quips, “Even by Gaga standards it’s pretty crazy but at least no one throws up on her.”

:: HitFix brands the video a “a ridiculous, ‘Real Housewives’-assisted spectacle,” and notes that “Lady Gaga has been working to reclaim her queen of pop throne after a rough 2013 and her new video for ‘G.U.Y.”…draws from real-life themes of feeling betrayed by her inner circle — plus a heavy dose of camp and pop culture.”

:: Sugarscape calls Gaga “pop’s most cray cray of critters” then asks, “What d’ya reckon? Worth the twelve minutes of your life you’re never gonna get back? Probably.”

:: MuuMuse feels that “Gaga’s found her way back on top…by being on the bottom,” and deems “G.U.Y.” to be “Gaga’s most grand visual smorgasbord since the days of ‘Bad Romance’ and ‘Telephone’. and certainly the most creative Summer By Bravo commercial to date.”

:: Finally, The Frisky has this to say: “Gaga, I think you need to take a step back, recuperate some of the dough you blew on ArtPop, make sweet love to your hot boyfriend, Taylor Kinney, reevaluate your relationships with predatory assholes like R. Kelly and Terry Richardson, ditch that vomit artist, and come back when you’re interesting again.”

So what are your own thoughts on the “G.U.Y.” video? Let us know below!

NERVO CONFIRMED DEBUT ALBUM WITH PROMISING COLLABORATIONS!

Miriam Nervo and Olivia Nervo, the world famous musicians, songwriters and deejays better known as NERVO confirmed the release of their highly-awaited debut studio album during an interview with ET Online.

The Australian twins are currently working in the studio making new songs from their first album, scheduled to be released later this year via Virgin and EMI Music. They said:

We’re just working on our album, the album is done. We are now just shopping it, trying to finding out who is going to release it; it’s really in the hands of our management now and all those guys. Hopefully we can sit down and work on a release plan so we can get the music out there.

They also confirmed great collaborations in the album like Azealia Banks, Jake Shears and Kylie Minogue.

We’ve got some amazing features, we’ve got Azealia Banks on the record, and we’ve got Jake Shears and Kylie Minogue doing a duet, which is really fun. We love Kylie, she’s amazing, she’s a sweetheart, when we worked with he we really bonded because we are both from Melbourne, we both live in London, and it’s a real thrill to work with her.

USHER IS WORKING WITH DR. LUKE ON HIS NEW ALBUM

Usher is ready to bring back his music in our lives.

The American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor is currently in the recording studio shaping his upcoming eighth studio album, scheduled to be released later this year via RCA Records.

This new project will come two years after the launch of ‘Looking 4 Myself‘.

 Usher has been working in the studio with American producers and hitmakers Dr. Luke, Cirkut and the rapper Juicy J in one of the new tracks from the album.

His ‘Dark Horse’ is coming… Katy Perry and her impact!

SHAKIRA “EMPIRE” (VIDEO PREMIERE)

Shakira is ready to move on after the low success achieved with the highly-anticipated collaboration with Barbadian pop star Rihanna in her new single ‘Can’t Remember to Forget You‘, lead single taken from the upcoming eponymous tenth studio album ‘Shakira.‘, released on digital retailers on March 25, 2014 via RCA Records.

The second official single taken from the album is the song ‘Empire‘. Confirmed by iHeartRadio, the track was premiered on Monday February 24 alongside its release on iTunes and the pre-order of the album.

Shakira filmed the music video of the new single on March 8, 2014. It was directed by Darren Craig, Jonathan Craven and Jeff Nicholas. The full video was premiered on VEVO on March 25, 2014 at 9AM EST.

KESHA IS WORKING ON NEW ALBUM WITH ZEDD

Stop the world right now! Kesha (now without $) has decided to invest the money of her lost letter “$” in one of the coolest producers and deejays. Yes. You’re right. Maybe he’s not so cool, at least after working with Lady Gaga.

Now he’s totally mainstream. We are talking about the Russian / German producer and deejay Anton Zaslavski, better known as ZEDD.

After leaving rehab and reborn again as phoenix bird like the beginning of the video for ‘G.U.Y.‘ by Lady Gaga, song produced by ZEDD casually. Kesha moves on and started to work in the recording studio. She has forgotten the bad times with Dr. Luke, now the singer of ‘Timber‘ ever want to succeed. She wants to create new hits, generate her own ‘ARTPOP‘. According Billboard Brazil:

Ke$ha (Kesha or, as she prefers after leaving rehab) would not hear of vacation. The star, who recently left a treatment to combat eating disorders, is already in full swing, working with Zedd, responsible for the worldwide hit “Clarity”, and that, too, subscribes to produce some tracks on the disc artpop by Lady Gaga.

VIDEO PREMIERE: KELIS – “RUMBLE”

CHRISSIE HYNDE ANNOUNCES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM, STREAM NEW SONG

Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of The Pretenders, will release her debut solo album, Stockholm, on June 9th. If you pre-order the album on iTunes, you’ll get an instant download of the new song “Dark Sunglasses,” which you can listen to below.  

Stockholm was recorded at Ingrid Studios in Stockholm with Peter Bjorn and John’s Björn Yttling. It will feature contributions from Neil Young and tennis legend John McEnroe.

The Pretenders released their last studio album, Break Up the Concrete, in 2008. The record, which peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard 200, was met with generally favorable reviews. Listen to the new song “Dark Sunglasses” below.

STREAM UNRELEASED CYNDI LAUPER “SHE’S SO UNUSUAL” ERA OUTTAKE, “RULES & REGULATIONS”

Rolling Stone has premiered an unreleased Cyndi Lauper ballad titled “Rules & Regulations” that was meant for her 1983 debut solo album, She’s So Unusual.

Speaking about the song, Lauper tells RS:  
The recording we have from the rehearsal was done using an old Sony Walkman.”
Adding: “In the end, the song didn’t make the record. You have to remember back in the Eighties, the main format for albums was vinyl. Each side of the album had to be under 30 minutes, so you had to decide what the best 60 minutes of music was. This song didn’t make the list, even though I thought it was a good song.”

Originally released in October of 1983, She’s So Unusual launched Lauper’s career to unprecedented heights. The album solidified Lauper’s spot in pop music history by becoming the first LP from a female singer to have four top five singles chart on the Hot 100 from one album. The record, which remains Lauper’s biggest selling album to date, spawned several hit singles, including: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, “Time After Time”, “She Bop”, “All Through the Night”, and “Money Changes Everything”.

Produced by Rick Chertoff, William Wittman and Lauper, She’s So Unusual won two of the six Grammy Awards it was nominated for. “Cyndi Lauper sounds like no other singer on the current scene,” Kurt Loder writes in his original Rolling Stone She’s So Unusual album review. “Lauper’s extraordinary pipes connect with the right material, the results sound like the beginning of a whole new golden age.”

The 30th anniversary edition of She’s So Unusual will be released April 1, 2014.

WATCH: KYLIE MINOGUE WOWS WITH ‘INTO THE BLUE’ ON BBC SPORTS RELIEF

With Kylie Minogue on the cusp of finding out whether her new album ‘Kiss Me Once’ has hit #1, the Roc Nation diva boosted her chances with a performance on BBC Sports Relief last night.

The superstar stunner rocked the house with a slick rendition of the LP’s lead single ‘Into The Blue’.

SKRILLEX COVERS ROLLING STONE; DETAILS NEW ALBUM, FUTURE DIPLO COLLABORATIONS

Coinciding the release of his debut album Recess, Skrillex sat down with Rolling Stone for his first ever cover story for the forthcoming March 2014 issue (on stands this Friday).

The “sub-bass scientist and superstar dubstep-importer” opened up about the album’s Easter Egg unveiling, stating the Alien Ride app was inspired by the release of Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero which involved clues scattered online and thumb-drives left in public spaces.

He also spoke to the numerous collaborations on the LP, which include Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos, Ragga Twins, Diplo, K-pop phenom G-Dragon, and Chicago’s Chance The Rapper.

 “I call my songs vibescapes. There’s always a foundation under the tracks that you can feel and pick up on. An emotion. There’s a lot of organic samples: wind, breaths, clocks cut into tiny pieces. I wanted to make a crazy record, but I wanted to stay true to who Skrillex is.” 

In a separate interview with NME, he elaborated even further.

On the opening song:
I didn’t think so many people would take [the title, 'All Is Fair In Love And Brostep'] so literally and not get that it’s totally tongue-in-cheek. It’s more of a statement that I don’t care – you can take it any way you want. Haters will use that [song] name and do what they want with it. But other people will get the humour. The idea was just to open the record with something super in-your-face. It’s a wake-up call.

On selling records:
I guess what it comes down to is crowd size. A couple of my tracks, like the Chance the Rapper song [which was recorded at a Skrillex show on a mobile phone], got like 80,000 hits in a week. By the next day, kids were already singing along. So that’s the measure of my success, if everyone is singing along and having a good time, that’s dope. The record sales are trivial.”

On nostalgia:
“It is about innocence and fun. I do try to achieve that. Maybe that’s why there is cheesiness in my music; I love that feeling you get when you feel like a kid. And that’s why people tend to hate me because [my music] makes you feel something no matter what.”

On collaborating with Diplo:
“We probably have like five other tracks that we haven’t released that we’re going to release together on each other’s record labels or as collaborations. We bring the best out in each other, I think. We’re not releasing anything under a name. I’ll probably have a collaboration on the Major Lazer album. And we might release a single together as Diplo and Skrillex.”

CHER IS BACK WITH HER NEW "DRESSED TO KILL" TOUR

If you've noticed a shortage of wigs in Phoenix, there's good reason: Judging from Cher's Facebook page, the diva arrived in town last week, apparently to get ready for the launch of her latest tour Saturday, March 22. Of course, it comes nine years after her farewell tour ended, but we won't quibble. After all, a Cher tour is usually a spectacular, over-the-top affair that blends kitsch, glamour and movie-star charisma. It doesn't even matter which album she's promoting.

The "Dressed to Kill" tour comes on the heel's of last year's "Closer to the Truth" disc, which is one of her lesser affairs. Still, who cares? She has one heck of a back catalog from which to draw. That brings us to this list of 11 of Cher's greatest singles. Why 11? Well, it's hard to narrow them down further, and we're already leaving out such gems as "You Better Sit Down Kids," "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" and the roller-disco fave "Hell on Wheels." We also eliminated Sonny and Cher offerings, which is why you won't find "I Got You Babe" or "The Beat Goes On" in here. The songs are presented chronologically, so you can follow her progress from a folkie '60s babe with ironed hair to the 67-year-old arena-filling goddess.

'All I Really Want To Do' This jangly cover of a Bob Dylan tune became Cher's debut hit in 1965. It actually reached the chart a couple of weeks before "I Got You Babe," meaning it marks the first time Cher's name appears on a national music chart. Oddly enough, the record sounds like a duet, with Cher doing an uncanny imitation of Sonny's ragged vocals on the verses. "Now I ain't looking to compete with you" Cher sings in her natural voice, before morphing into Sonny for "Beat or cheat or mistreat you." The song continues in that schizophrenic manner for 2½ minutes of AM radio heaven. (1965; No. 15 in Billboard).
'Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)' Say what you will about Sonny Bono, but the man could come up with some amazing records. He wrote and produced this beauty, which features great lyrical imagery — "We rode on horses made of sticks" — and an arrangement that makes it sound vaguely Greek. There is also a sudden tempo change in the middle while Cher shouts "Hey!" repeatedly; you can imagine her spinning around while men smash plates on the floor in front of her. Another sign of Sonny's greatness: Cher's metalish remake from her 1987 comeback album is dreadful. (1966; No. 2).

'Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves' Misspelled title and all, Cher came up with a tune that signaled one of the most successful periods of her recording career. She scored three No. 1 hits from 1971-1974 with a collection of story songs that all had sad endings. In this tune, she winds up unwed and pregnant, but the chorus chugs along brightly, with almost a calliope feel. Side note: Check out the way Cher works her vibrato on the line "But every night all the men would come around/And lay their money down." She's a more skillful vocalist than people give her credit for. (1971; No. 1).

'Half-Breed' A tom-tom beats out an infectious rhythm as Cher wails about being torn between two worlds: "Both sides were against me since the day I was born!" she declares. The record builds to a feverish pitch when it hits the chorus, as bells and Native American chanting back the leading lady's vocals. It's kitschy, irresistible and overheated, words that can describe a lot of Cher's best works. (1973; No. 1).

'Dark Lady' The final entry in Cher's trashy trilogy of great story songs, this one could be the most tragic. The song finishes with Cher murdering the title character after discovering the woman in bed with her cheating spouse. Also, more gypsy references in the lyrics, for those who keep track of such things. An animated video accompanied the tune on an episode of "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour," which is probably buried in the memory of every kid who watched the show. (1974; No. 1).

'I Paralyze' Released during one of Cher's cold spells, this slinky little number came and went with little fanfare. Still, it's a great record, with a synth-driven, pseudo new-wave production from John Farrar, best-known as the mastermind behind most of Olivia Newton-John's hits. Farrar wrote the song with Steve Kipner; the two also wrote Newton-John's sexually charged "Physical." This song would have been playful in Livvy's hands, but Cher's dark-hued intensity lends a slightly dangerous edge to the kinky lyrics (i.e., "Earth is gonna shake/Watch me elevate your expectations)." (1982; failed to chart).

'I Found Someone' In 1986, this Michael Bolton ballad flopped for Laura Branigan. One year later, Cher took the tune and polished it up with an arena-rock production courtesy of Bolton. The result is a big, emotive weeper that heralded a comeback for Cher as a commercially viable singer. In a neat bit of serendipity, the song was released in November 1987. A month later, "Moonstruck" opened in theaters, giving the goddess one of her highest periods of visibility. Trivia: That's then-boyfriend Rob Camilletti — aka "Bagel Boy" — in the video. (1987; No. 10).

'If I Could Turn Back Time' This ringing single (written and produced by Diane Warren) was impossible to miss in its heyday. And why not? The production boasts a twinkly '80s keyboard and the kind of musical hook that stays in your head for days. Adding to the song's luster is a memorable video that features a scantily clad Cher performing on the USS Missouri for a group of horndog sailors. The video is both strangely phallic (Cher's on top of a gun barrel!?) and sweetly patriotic: Would Kate Smith have done as much for our troops? I think not. (1989; No. 3).

'Save Up All Your Tears' The singer powers her way through a throbbing kiss-off that should have inspired fist-pumping in arenas around the world. Instead, it was a minor hit, coming just as bombastic pop-rock retreated from Top 40 radio. Bonnie Tyler also recorded the song, but she can't rival Cher's ability to mine genuine emotion out of such lyrics as "The need burns, a knife turns/Your heart bleeds like mine." The Wilson sisters would have killed for a song like this at the time. (1991; No. 37).

'Not Enough Love in the World' Even Cher's biggest fans have to admit that subtlety is not the diva's strong point. Then again, who wants it to be? That being said, her version of Don Henley's 1985 hit featured one of her most mature, nuanced vocals. The song moves at a slightly quicker clip than the original, but stays firmly in adult-contemporary territory. Taken from her consistently strong "It's a Man's World" disc (1995), the song charted in England but wasn't issued as a single in the States. (1995; No. 31 in the United Kingdom).

'Believe' For people of a certain age, this is the song that defines Cher as a singer: A big, swirling, twirly piece of electronic disco that features an insanely catchy chorus and some then-new autotune effects that make Cher's voice sound temporarily robotic. When the song reached the top of the chart, 52-year-old Cher became the oldest woman to have a No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100. It later earned a Grammy for best dance recording, marking the first — and so far, only — time Cher has been honored by the recording academy. (1999; No. 1).


Source : AzCentral

LADY GAGA'S "G.U.Y" SHORT FILM REVIEW

onths ago, after it became clear that the music video for "Do What U Want," the second single from Lady Gaga's latest album, Artpop, was unlikely to ever see the light of day, the singer took to her fan forum to explain: "[The video] is late because, just like with the Applause video unfortunately, I was given a week to plan and execute it. It is very devastating for someone like me, I devote every moment of my life to creating fantasies for you. All my my [sic] most successful videos were planned over a period of time when I was rested and my creativity was honored. Those who have betrayed me gravely mismanaged my time and health and left me on my own to damage control any problems that ensued as a result."
 Mother Martyr continued: "The next few months of ARTPOP will truly be its beginning. Because those who did not care about ARTPOP's success are now gone, and the dreams I have been planning can now come to fruition...Let me be for you the Goddess that I know I truly am, let me show you the visions that have been in my mind for two years."

 More than four months after the album's release, it seems Gaga is finally getting around to keeping that promise. Except it feels less like a beginning and more like a last gasp (Artpop currently sits at #156 on the Billboard album chart). Directed by Nicole Ehrlich and Andrew Listermann, "G.U.Y." is a receptacle—a veritable dumping ground, really—for all of the visual ideas Gaga had hoped to explore throughout the life of the album, including those for erstwhile second single "Venus." Following the comparatively brief clip for "Applause," "G.U.Y." returns Gaga to her previous visual excesses.

Shot over six days last month at the San Simeon, California estate of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst, the seven-minute "short film" recalls the pop star's first epic production, the superior "Paparazzi," and not just because the location's European architecture is similar to that of the Bel Air manse where the previous video was shot. "G.U.Y." likewise revisits Gaga's perennial theme of fame, with cameos by the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and YouTuber SkyDoesMinecraft ostensibly intended as a comment on reality stardom, though it's not entirely clear. It begins promisingly and strikingly, with a winged Gaga lying in a barren field littered with money.

She's been shot out of the sky by men in suits, no doubt an allegory for the artist's fall from grace by what she perceives to be the business interests of the industry and media. She crawls to the doorstep of Hearst Castle, where she's taken to the pool and reborn as...apparently Donatella Versace.
From there, things take a turn for the muddled, with the seashells-by-the-seashore motif of "Venus" represented by synchronized swimmers paying homage to the 1952 Esther Williams movie Million Dollar Mermaid, and some kind of cloning operation using the DNA of Michael Jackson, Jesus Christ, and Gandhi. Oh, and Bravo's Andy Cohen is Eros, "God of sexual desire." A throwback to the singer's early hit "LoveGame" that she describes as "new-wave feminism," "G.U.Y." purports to teach us "new and exciting positions," but it's ultimately just the same old missionary style. For a song about sex, the video is tragically unsexy.

TRACK PREMIERE - THE ACID - CREEPER

By himself, Ry X makes lush folk-tinged gems. With DJ Adam Freeland and producer Steve Nalepa, though, the Australian singer-songwriter’s tracks are transformed into electronic-driven experiments. ‘Creeper’, a new cut from the trio's debut album 'Liminal' (due out June 2), casts shadows around Ry’s haunting vocals as he mutters sometimes nonsensical (“I wanna touch you in a painted stone”), sometimes predatory (“I wanna love you like a creeper knows”) lines over stuttering bass and sporadic rattling beats that shock new life into the dark track. Listen below and get the track completely free when you pre-order the album on iTunes.

 

FORTY YEARS OF BLONDIE

Photography by Ruven Afanador

Interview by OUT

In a photo studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Debbie Harry is sitting on a couch, looking fantastic — as she does; that’s her thing — talking about Beth Ditto of the Gossip, with whom she duets on the new Blondie album, Ghosts of Download. “She is a terrific girl. I love the fact that she’s crazy — an independent spirit.” She smiles wryly. “And, you know, I like tough girls.” “She’s a fabric of her own imagination, not somebody else’s,” she continues. “Which is really important.” And just like that, the pop legend with a silvery soprano, who was labeled the Marilyn Monroe and Garbo of punk, draws a direct line from herself to a zaftig mascara fetishist with a Mack-truck yelp.

But it makes complete sense: Harry is a pop legend because she was also a fabric of her own imagination, and her group, Blondie, is one of the all-time great pop bands — the strands of their craft and experimentation are woven into so many other bands it’s impossible to count.

 Blondie formed on New York City’s Lower East Side in 1974, a foursome led by Harry and her boyfriend, guitarist Chris Stein, after Harry did time as a secretary and Playboy Bunny. Their first album, Blondie, was a brilliant straddle of pop and parody, a tough, ironic update of ’60s girl groups, featuring Harry singing from the perspective of a street hooker trying to seduce the cop who busted her (on “X Offender”), telling a lover “I could give you some head / And shoulders to lie on” (on “Look Good in Blue”), and celebrating kung fu and monster movies. It all was arch, uncommonly smart, and incredibly catchy. The band was aware that they had a significant gay audience “from the very beginning,” says Harry proudly, recalling how they played one of the early Gay Pride events in New York City.

The first Blondie album one tends to think of is 1978’s Parallel Lines, the band’s third, which broke them worldwide courtesy of the number 1 hit “Heart of Glass,” a slinky disco anthem with a twist: Instead of the lamentations of an overheated, lovelorn diva, the song is one long shimmering, syncopated shrug, with Harry dismissing a lover by calling him “a pain in the ass”; you can hear the epic eye-roll in the band’s “da da da” refrain. When she hears the album’s songs today, “I think that it was, like, the quintessential Blondie,” she says. “We had been working for about five years at that point, and we’d had some success on the first two albums in Europe, but nothing in the States. The producer on those first two albums was Richard Gottehrer, and he had a looser approach. And then we went in with Mike Chapman, who was a guy dedicated to making songs that can be heard on radio and really heard well.”

One of the specific contributions of Parallel Lines was its reversal of gender roles. “Hanging on the Telephone” sees a female narrator trying to coax a boyfriend out of his mother’s house (“Did she go to work or just to the store? / All those things she said I told you to ignore”), and “One Way or Another” is all stalkerish sexual aggression, with Harry notifying her target that she was gonna “getcha getcha GITCHA!” — then dump him. “That was a very specific agenda of mine,” she says. “I did not want to portray myself, or girls, as victims. I was so sick of it. Every song you hear was all, ‘Oh, I’ve been hurt. I’m so wounded.’ I’d just had my fill of that. I mean, everybody gets hurt, and I have definitely written stuff about being hurt, but I definitely wanted to present an attitude. I think it was perfect for me, because when I was growing up, I had a lot of things to fight through, so I had this aggression thing going, I had some anger. I came through it at the perfect time for that to happen.”

As Blondie progressed through six albums, the band soon proved it had no patience for nostalgia, pushing the pop charts forward into rap (“Rapture”) and calypso (“The Tide Is High”), and then achieving radio ubiquity with “Call Me,” the driving theme song to American Gigolo, which topped the charts for six weeks in 1980, becoming the No. 1 song of the year. But they were too restless to stay together — drug use and lawsuits by two members of the band didn’t help — and after one listless final album, they split in 1982. After some years in the wilderness (partly an Emersonian self-inducement, by Harry’s own admission), she and Stein got the band back together in 1997 and scored a U.K. No. 1 with “Maria” two years later. To celebrate the anniversary of their founding, the band is embarking on a massive world tour and releasing a double album: one disc, Deluxe Redux, is rerecorded versions of their biggest hits, “Heart of Glass,” “Dreaming,” and “Call Me” among them; the other, Ghosts of Download, is all original material. It’s the best album they’ve made since they re-formed (the others had their moments but were mixed bags of the jumble-sale variety).

It has a sleek electronic sound not like classic Blondie. Harry agrees. “It’s a composite,” she says, assembled with a number of contributors, with Harry and Stein sending MP3s back and forth to writers and the producer. “It wasn’t like [early] Blondie, where you were physically in the studio laying down tracks and overdubs,” she says. “It’s freeing — the digital kind of mind, it works more like the human mind,” she says. “You can jump between things, and you don’t have to physically do something to make it happen. You think it, and it’s done. That’s what the digital thing is. I used to sit in the studio for hours thinking, Oh my God. How do they do it? It’s so dull, it’s so boring. Over and over again. So I was totally down for digital.”
In addition to the duet with Ditto, Ghosts features a cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax” reinvented as a ballad. “We were doing it live, and it was so much fun to do. Everybody just got right off on it,” says Harry unironically.

PLAYLIST: A BLONDIE'S DOZEN She sounds terrific, and Deluxe Redux’s remakes of the band’s classics sound uncannily similar to the originals. How does she feel about her voice these days? “I sometimes wonder,” she says a little wistfully. “I’ve practiced, you know, and had some training since the beginning, gotten some good advice. You live and you learn,” she says.

Today, she’s more of a humble tradeswoman than pop icon. “I’m happy to be working. Working’s always been important to me. I don’t know that I’d be very healthy, mentally, if I wasn’t working all the time. It might force me into other creative avenues, which could be interesting. But I like to make money.” “There are a lot of really good reasons for me to not stop,” she continues. “But one reason for me to stop would be that I sometimes feel it’s age-inappropriate. The way I grew up, it was a cultural medium that really was only for the youth. Now it’s really changed; it’s for everyone. But it lingers in the back of my mind: Am I making a fool of myself, jumping around on stage, singing these songs from 40 years ago that have nothing to do with my emotional life or anything to do with my social life as they once did? Some of them, however, do have a certain amount of truth in them, so I can live with that. I enjoy making a fool of myself, basically.”

Back in the day, the band had no concept of an existence 40 years in the future. “It was sort of a day-to-day thing,” Harry says. “I think the only objective that we had at the very beginning was to be able to make a record. And you know, become stars,” she says with a laugh. “It was pretty much a roll of the dice. It gave us a lot of freedom in some ways, and it made us deal with the industry as artists being creative, and not specifically following the rules. But I can’t say that I thought more than a few months in the future.” But things turned out all right. Is she happy with where the band is now? “Well, yes and no,” she says. “I’m very happy with the music that we’re making and the shows that we’re doing. I think they’re terrific. But I wish that more people would hear our new music. We’re sort of at a level in the industry where we play large festivals, but our own gigs are in theaters of not usually more than 5,000 and 10,000. When we do festivals with, like, 50,000 to 80,000 people, and they’re singing our songs, it’s great. So then when a promoter says to us, ‘Well, we can’t book you there because, uh, you’re not going to draw enough people,’ it’s very difficult to accept that.”

What would she have told herself four decades ago? “Buy stock in Google!” she says. “And get good legal advice. There wasn’t very good legal advice then. I wish I had been more tutored or informed in business. That probably would have helped a little bit.” Always refreshingly no-bullshit about plastic surgery and Botox — “I’ve done everything and will continue to do everything,” she has said — Harry now works out regularly with a personal trainer: “You have to be consistent,” she says. “And then you can just — go!” she makes a takeoff motion with her forearm. Her rock ’n’ roll indulgences are few; booze is basically verboten. “I’m not a successful drinker,” she says. “I don’t have any capacity for alcohol. I enjoy a cocktail or a glass of wine, but I’m happy with just one. Occasionally I smoke, which is probably a really big no-no. But I’ll have a glass of wine at the after-show, a few puffs of a cigarette. It’s sort of my calm-down ritual.”

This year, the band will begin a tour that will take them around the world. As for any other plans: “I think a world tour is enough, don’t you?” she says with a laugh. Harry then dispatches some falsehoods swirling around the band: Blondie’s end is not imminent, and this is not, contrary to reports, their farewell tour. “I think Clem [Burke, the drummer] said something to a paper and it went on from there,” she says. A long-rumored Blondie movie is still just a rumor, although she’s keen for it to happen — “We’d better get on with making it, before we forget what the fuck we did,” she says, laughing again — and she is supposed to write her autobiography as well, but she’s putting it off. She comes across as someone who is hellbent on pushing forward, just like Blondie did at their commercial peak, and as she gets up to shake my hand goodbye, Harry flashes a very “Heart of Glass”–video smile. Just like that, 40 years seems a very short span indeed.

KYLIE MINOGUE "SEXERCISE" OFFICIAL VIDEO

GEORGE MICHAEL'S "SYMPHONICA" - THE NEW ALBUM

Singer George Michael is back. Again. After surviving a near-death battle with pneumonia in 2011, and a car crash on the M1 last May, Michael is due to release his sixth studio album, Symphonica, on 17 March 2014. Michael recorded the album during his 2011 to 2012 tour, also entitled Symphonica, which hit cities around Europe over a 14-month run. Michael performed with an orchestra, as he ran through sets of material from his back catalogue and covers of tracks made famous by the likes of Nina Simone, David Bowie and Elton John. The album will be released via Virgin EMI/Universal Music Group as a deluxe 17-track CD, standard 14-track album (CD or digital) and as a "pure audio" Blu-ray disc. It will contain a mix of original compositions and covers, similar to sets Michael performed on the Symphonica tour. Symphonica was the last album that producer Phil Ramone, whose past credits include production for Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and others, worked on before he died in March 2013, aged 79. The 14-time Grammy award-winner had previously worked with Michael on his 1999 album, Songs from the Last Century. Fans of Michael's Facebook page will be able to download a free orchestral version of track Praying for Time, from Monday 20 January. The album's official lead single, Let Her Down Easy, is due to come out digitally on 17 March, accompanied by a video made by director Vaughan Arnell. Symphonica will be Michael's first full-length release since 2004's Patience.

It’s not really a ‘new’ new album as such Billed as his sixth studio album and the follow-up to 2004’s Patience, Symphonica is basically a slightly confused live album. On the one hand we learn that the string arrangements were recorded in a studio, and there are photos of Michael in a studio environment working on the album with the legendary producer Phil Ramone, but on the other we’re told that live vocals from each of the shows on the tour were sent over to Ramone who then selected the best ones and arranged the songs from there. Plus, the album opens with crowd noise and cheers and whoops pepper some of the songs, which is oddly distracting and superfluous. You get the feeling that the whole album is a way of reminding people of Michael’s talent as a vocalist, which is obviously fine, but this part-live, part-recorded, sort-of live version of his 1999 covers album Songs from the Last Century, makes it all feel slightly disingenuous.

The choice of tracklisting is interesting As I’ve just hinted at, five of the covers on Symphonica – Roxanne, Brother Can You Spare a Dime, You’ve Changed, My Baby Just Cares for Me and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – also appeared on Songs from the Last Century and, Roxanne aside, don’t really offer up anything particularly new (although his version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is undeniably lovely). The choices feel safe, and despite the lush arrangements, there are moments where it all gets a bit X Factor during Big Band week. Where it gets interesting is when the selections take on a slightly new meaning in the context of his own turbulent personal life and status in pop music in 2014: opener Through, an album track from 2004’s Patience, takes on a new pang of regret as he sings about his mistakes being “of my making, no one else to blame for where I stand”, the exquisite Praying for Time hinges on the line “hanging on to hope, when there is no hope to speak of” and a gospel-esque version of Faith’s One More Try features a mournful, “looking out for angels, just trying to find some peace”. For good measure he then throws in a version of Elton John’s Idol, which is basically all about growing up in the public eye and shifting from teen idol into grown-up star, and how difficult that can be when the public don’t want you to change.

The less obvious covers stand out Feeling Good is a nice song, we all know that, but do we really need another version of it once we’ve had era-defining attempts by the likes of Michelle McManus, Pussycat Dolls and John Barrowman? The answer is no. But where Symphonica truly works and stretches itself is with the less obvious covers such as the delicate re-working of Terence Trent D’Arby’s Let Her Down Easy, which fits perfectly with the album’s feel of nostalgia tinged with regret, and, on the deluxe version only, a fairly faithful but perfectly conceived version of Rufus Wainwright’s Going to a Town.

His voice still sounds amazing Live albums are usually quite a good way of a) reminding people that someone exists, b) showing off a back catalogue or c) acting as a stop gap between albums (apparently there is a new Michael studio album proper being worked on as we speak). What they don’t always do, somewhat ironically, is showcase the artist’s voice in amongst the screaming, session-musician backing bands and authentic audio quality. That’s not a criticism you could level at Symphonica however, given that it all has a rich, multi-layered and expensive quality to it. Centre stage for it all is Michael’s voice, which still sounds incredible throughout, gliding through the sweeping notes of A Different Corner and remaining admirably understated during the lovely lilt of You Have Been Loved.

It’s the perfect album to listen to with a sherry and some slippers Back in 2002 Michael released a Human League-sampling, tongue-in-cheek political diatribe called Shoot the Dog, a song which joined the likes of 1998’s Outside and 1987’s I Want Your Sex as examples of Michael playfully deciding to rub Daily Mail readers up the wrong way. And while obviously not everything he does needs to come with a side of controversy, Symphonica feels like an incredibly safe and at times slightly dull album – perfect for a night in on a Sunday, or for when you’ve got friends round who are Michael Bublé fans but are willing to try something a bit different. It feels like a similar makeover-style album used by the likes of Tony Bennett and Rod Stewart, but George Michael is only 50. Perhaps this will cement his status as one of Britain’s greatest pop stars? Or perhaps it’s another fan-only collector’s item released to hide the fact that his last album of new material is now almost exactly a decade old.


Tracklist:

1. Through
2. My Baby Just Cares For Me
3. A Different Corner
4. Praying For Time
5. Let Her Down Easy
6. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
7. Feeling Good
8. John And Elvis Are Dead
9. Roxanne (deluxe)
10. One More Try
11. Going To A Town (deluxe)
12. Cowboys and Angels
13. Idol
14. Brother Can You Spare A Dime
15. You Have Been Loved (deluxe)
16. Wild Is The Wind
17. You’ve Changed

Source: Guardian

LADY GAGA'S STAGE FOR HER ARTRAVE: THE ARTPOP BALL TOUR

KYLIE MINOGUE'S "SEXERCISE" SHORT CLIP PREVIEW

A few close-up shots of Minogue can be seen in the short clip, as well as a sweaty, hunky male (who we can only presume is a model).

Sexercise is the second cut to be taken from Kylie's new album Kiss Me Once, and has been written by Sia. The 45-year old previously spoke about the tune during her recent Facebook live event, joking that she has "a couple of sexercise moves", before describing the song as "a little saucy".

Kylie also hit the headlines this week after announcing a string of UK and Ireland dates in support of her Kiss Me Once LP, with her shows due to kick off in Liverpool on September 24.

ALIZEE NEW SINGLE : BLONDE

NEW VIDEO : NENEH CHERRY feat. ROBYN

Here the new Neneh Cherry's feat. Robyn

 

RITA ORA ANNOUNCES ‘I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN’ RELEASE DATE

In following in the footsteps of many British chart staples, Ora gives herself six weeks before ‘I Will Never Let You Down’s arrival to push its pre-order sales, locking in a May 11th 2014 release date today.


Arming both she and her label with enough time to win over the general public’s hearts and pockets, ‘Down’s May debut will also come armed with a music video directed by Beyonce collaborator Francesco Carrozzini.


On her second er, Rita explained:

I’m so excited for this year, the journey has just begun let’s make it never stop!

BEYONCE WOWS COLOGNE WITH UNFORGETTABLE ‘XO’ PERFORMANCE

Euphoric might be one word to describe the performance below, put on by none other than R&B diamond Beyonce during the German leg of her ‘Mrs.Carter Show.’

There, as sales of her self-titled new album skates towards sales of 3.5 million units worldwide, the star wowed her audience with an unforgettable rendition of her budding Pop hit ‘XO.’

Why unforgettable? Love, joy and vocals below…

MARIAH CAREY – ‘YOU’RE MINE (CHUS AND CEBALLOS MAIN MIX)

Ever eager to cater to many as formats as possible, Mariah Carey whips up fresh momentum for new single ‘You’re Mine (Eternal)’ with the welcome release of a brand new Dance remix!

Following the release of its first EDM reworking, this remix comes just weeks before her new LP’s May 5th release date, as the cut’s original version struggles to find a commendable chart position on the iTunes singles.

BILLY PORTER Feat. CYNDI LAUPER - "HAPPY DAYS / GET HAPPY"

It's been almost a decade since the Pittsburgh-born Billy Porter released a solo album, and since then much has changed for the award-winning artist, who grew up singing in the Pentecostal church. Perhaps best known for his Tony Award-winning role as 'Lola' in the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, Porter's musical background is based in gospel, soul and R&B.

He released his first solo album, Untitled, on A&M Records, and a second album, At The Corner of Broadway + Soul, on Sh-K-Boom Records. On April 15, 2014, Porter releases his debut on Concord Records, Billy's Back on Broadway. Featuring ten classics made famous on the Great White Way that focus on inspiration, empowerment and hope, the album's title is a nod to Sammy Davis, Jr.'s recording Sammy's Back on Broadway.

Cyndi Lauper, the Grammy, Emmy & Tony Award-winning rock icon who penned the score for Kinky Boots, makes a special guest appearance on Billy's Back on Broadway, dueting with Porter on "Happy Days/Get Happy," a tune made famous by Streisand and Judy Garland.

 
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Cyndi is one of the godmothers of individuality,” Porter says of Lauper. “She forged a path for so many of us that didn’t fit into the status quo. I learned so much and have felt so inspired by her journey as an artist and human being before I even knew her. She’s a blessing and a gift, and I’m so thrilled she said ‘yes’ when I asked her to sing on this album.”

KYLIE MINOGUE CONFIRMS THE "KISS ME ONCE" EUROPEAN DATES TOUR

Following the release of Kiss Me Once, her 12th studio album, which was released on Monday, Kylie Minogue has confirmed details of a European tour. Including a dozen gigs in the UK and Ireland, the tour will comprise 31 shows in 15 countries. It begins on 24 September at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, visiting Manchester and London’s O2 arena before concluding in Paris in November. Tickets for the Kiss Me Once tour go on sale at 9am on 21 March. Earlier this year, in the prelude to the release of her new album, Kylie, 45, performed some low-key shows. She played Surry Hills pub in Australia, alongside Sydney dance maestros the Presets and Stereogamous, as well as a showcase at a London pub, the Old Blue Last.

24/09 – Echo Arena, Liverpool 
26/09 – Phones 4u Arena, Manchester 
29/09 – The O2, London 
30/09 – The O2 ,London 
03/10 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff 
05/10 – Capital FM Arena, Nottingham 
07/10 – NIA, Birmingham 
08/11 – The O2, Dublin 
09/11 – Odyssey Arena, Belfast 
11/11 – Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle 
12/11 – SSE Hydro, Glasgow

KYLIE MINOGUE TEASES "SEXERCISE" VIDEO

Kylie Minogue has promised fans her famous hotpants will be making an appearance and teased how the video for track Sexercise will “have some good visuals”.

"I've been having way too much fun shooting new videos - and hotpants will be making an appearance at some stage,” she told The Sun.

"There are new songs that will have some good visuals - like Sexercise, you know that is going to be fun,” she said, probably with a wink wink nudge nudge.

The pop princess has signed to Jay Z’s label Roc Nation and has taken the hip-hop guru’s influence onto her new material.

She said: "The past year has been a transitional one, a hard year of working. We experimented with different sounds but what we ended up with was Into The Blue.

"It is my music but it's got a freshness to it.

"And the fact it was my first album signed to Roc Nation meant everything in the studio was a new way of working."

The 45-year-old unveiled the official video for Into The Blue today, it's the first single from upcoming album Kiss Me Once.

Source: Mirror

FRANKMUSIK “BY NICOLE” (OFFICIAL ALBUM COVER + TRACKLIST)

‘By Nicole‘ is the upcoming fourth studio album by English synthpop musician and singer Frankmusik.

It’s scheduled to be released in April via VDI Records. It comes preceded by the promotional singles ‘Ephemeral Summer‘ and ‘Dear Nicole‘.

Only 1,000 physical copies of the album were manufactured. You can pre-order it here.







Tracklist:

1. ‘White Table’
2. ‘Fire’ (Album Version)
3. ‘Misdemeanor’
4. ‘Go (144 BPM)’
5. ‘Uh Oh’
6. ‘Crash and Burn’
7. ‘Stanilizher’
8. ‘Call to Arms’
9. ‘Fled’
10. ‘Teacups’
11. ‘Ephemeral Summer’
12. ‘Conclusion’
13. ‘We End’
14. ‘Dear Nicole’
15. ‘These Streets

TIM MCGRAW “LOOKIN’ FOR THAT GIRL” (VIDEO PREMIERE)

Just one year after the release of his twelfth studio album ‘Two Lanes of Freedom‘, American country star Tim McGraw is back starting the promotion of its follow-up, still untitled, scheduled for release this year via Big Machine Records.

The first official single is the song ‘Lookin’ for That Girl‘, co-written by James Slater, Chris Tompkins and Mark Irwin.

The song serves to promote his upcoming 2014 tour ‘Sundown Heaven Town‘, which will begin this summer.

McGraw filmed the music video in early-February and it was directed by Sophie Muller.
It was premiered on VEVO on March 14, 2014.

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS “BEAUTIFUL” (FEATURING KYLIE MINOGUE) [OFFICIAL SINGLE COVER]

‘Beautiful‘ is a song recorded by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias with the collaboration of Australian singer Kylie Minogue.

The track produced by Mark Taylor is included on Enrique’s tenth studio album ‘Sex and Love‘ as a bonus track on the deluxe edition and also included on Minogue’s twelfth album ‘Kiss Me Once‘.

There has been much controversy around this track. Both singers wanted the rights to promote it under their name.

Finally, although the song has attracted quite bad reviews, ‘Beautiful’ has been officially released as a Enrique’s single on iTunes Australia on March 14.

On the other hand, the song will be promoted in the American market as Kylie Minogue’s single. American dance music producer and deejay Cedric Gervais confirmed an upcoming remix for the track.

JENNIFER LOPEZ’S NEW ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED ON JUNE 17TH

American recording artist Jennifer Lopez is working hard promoting her highly-anticipated eighth studio album (although she keeps saying is the tenth) of her career that will be released on June 17, 2014 via Island Records.

The singer is back under the production of Swedish-Moroccan hitmaker RedOne, who was the architect of her resurgence and worldwide hit “On the Floor” (2011).

The producer said:

I’m the executive producer of [Lopez's] album, and we already have songs that are just incredible. It’s just amazing. It’s mixed [styles]. It’s everything about Jennifer Lopez. It’s not one thing; it’s everything you experience. It’s a very special album. It feels like this album, to us, has to have everything about her, not just one thing. You’re going to have all the sides, kind of urban/hip-hop and the commercial, like the way she did with Ja Rule. It’s everything you love about her [including] the dance, the rhythmic, the Latin

The album comes preceded by the buzz singles ‘Live It Up‘, ‘Same Girl‘ and ‘Girls‘ and the lead single ‘I Luh Ya Papi’, released on March 11, 2014. She confirmed the album’s release date during a backstage’s interview before American Idol on March 13, 2014. Still no confirmed tracklist.

CHER “I WALK ALONE” (OFFICIAL SINGLE COVER)

Cher continues promoting her twenty-fifth studio album ‘Closer to the Truth‘, released on digital retailers on September 20, 2013 via Warner Bros Records.

After promoting her latest single ‘Take It Like a Man‘, the American singer-actress has ready the next single from this era.

The song ‘I Walk Alone’, co-written by Alecia Moore (P!nk), Billy Mann, Niklas “Nikey” Olovson and Robin Lynch is confirmed as the fourth official single from the album and it was sended to American radios on March 14, 2014.

Among the official remixes, one is created by Tracy Young, premiered exclusively via Billboard.

CALVIN HARRIS – SUMMER

LADY GAGA TO DEBUT NEW VIDEO…NEXT WEEK / REVEALS TEASER

 

Having whipped up a whirlwind of controversy this week, Lady GaGa is seizing the moment to release the next visual from her critically acclaimed ‘ARTPOP’ LP.

After months of teasing and titillation, Mother Monster is gearing up to make good on her promise of more content from the project (which has thus far only spawned one video – last August’s ‘Applause’).

For, taking to Twitter, she announced that she will unwrap a new music video next week Saturday (March 22nd).

The revelation came paired with the pic below, which is widely presumed to be a shot from the clip.

LADY GAGA EXPLAINS ‘VOMITING’ ACT LIVE AT ‘SXSW’

Horrified by Lady GaGa‘s vomiting act at ‘SXSW‘?

If so, then we’d say its imperative that you watch the interview that followed the stomach-turning set, which brought with it the explanation so many have been searching for today.

Accused of glamourising bulimia by numerous media outlets, the ‘Born This Way’ philanthropist found herself quizzed on the world’s response to the act during her ‘Keynote‘ interview at the event, prompting the answer you’re set to receive, below…

LADY GAGA GETS COVERED IN PUKE DURING SXSW PERFORMANCE

Desperate.

Despite being able to boast of a God-given talent, live prowess and sales run the bulk of her rivals will never enjoy, the last year has seen Lady GaGa reveal- rather unfortunately- that she’s pretty desperate.

Yes, perhaps in feeling the heat from unfair criticism launched at her by those who refuse to acknowledge the positive impact she’s made on Pop culture, the star reached new lows hours ago in a fresh bid to push sales of new album ‘ARTPOP.’

Indeed, during her set at this year’s ‘South By South West‘, the Grammy-winning icon- no doubt hoping to dominate headlines the following morning- had a dancer stick her fingers down her throat and proceeded to regurgitate all over the star’s face and body.

It’s such a shame that GaGa has taken to shock tactics to make her performances pop, stooping to lows we’d say even Miley Cyrus would think twice before engaging in.

Indeed, while rising to fame on the merit of her talent, charisma and electric personality, GaGa’s desperate streak may ultimately be to blame for the stunts that overshadow all the things that once made her Pop’s leading lady.