The Living Legend, The Sensual Seductress, The Enchanting Mistress Miss Britney Spears opened up to V Magazine for their 2012 Music Issue to discuss 20112s Femme Fatale Tour , including her pre-show rituals (she prays!), backstage goodies (hummus and pita bread!) and her thoughts on the tour as a whole. Plus, check out the brand new photo above of Spears and a part of her Femme Fatale Tour team...looking GORGEOUS! An excerpt from V Magazine (courtesy of BreatheHeavy ): [...]
Before, you may have thought you really knew Adam Lambert — and it turns out your were right! The honorable American Idol alum 's new single "Better Than I Know Myself" arrives on iTunes tomorrow, and ahead of that, fans got to hear the track late last week. If the critics' opinions on the first taste of Adam's upcoming album Trespassing (due out March 20) are anything to go by, the Glam One may just have a smash hit on his hands. Hop below to catch our roundup of [...]
Ring the bells, Glam Nation — Adam Lambert's second post- Idol album Trespassing now officially has a release date, and it's March 20. As mentioned yesterday, the LP's lead single "Better Than I Know Myself" will be an early holiday treat for fans of the vocal powerhouse, as it hits iTunes this coming Tuesday, December 20. We already knew that Adam was once again working with his "For Your Entertainment" producer Dr. Luke and songwriter Claude Kelly on material for Trespassing , but [...]
Joe writes: My tracks of the year are: 5. Price Tag - Jessie J (the album came out last year but the single was this year) 4. Jar Of Hearts - Christina Perri 3. Video Games - Lana Del Ray 2. We Found Love - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris 1. Someone Like You - Adele My personal favourites are Video Games, Jar Of Hearts, and You Don't Know How Lucky You [...]
Casually sipping water backstage, Anton Zaslavski stands around idly, surveying the mass of neon-clad bodies. He is eerily zenlike - a soft-spoken, humble 22-year-old from Kaiserslautern, Germany. Based on his unassuming demeanor and casual attitude, the average bystander would have no idea he or she was standing in the presence of one of the most impressive electro producers in EDM today. He smirks and takes another sip from his relabeled Poland Spring bottle, then ascends the steps onto the Euphoric Kingdom stage at Fall Massive at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. As if suddenly transformed by the roaring cheers of [...]
In 2010 , Katy Perry's Teenage Dream — an unashamedly-bubblegum album executive-produced by pop maestros Dr. Luke and Max Martin — scored the California gurl an Album Of The Year Grammy nomination, not to mention nods for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for the LP's title song). And this year, pop veteran Britney Spears and her latest album Femme Fatale — another hit-laden bubblegum offering (though not nearly as hit-laden as Perry's ) helmed by Luke and Martin — got zero Grammy love [...]
After being caught "Flexin'" in his hometown, T.I. has unleashed the sizzling "Pyro", the third single from his eighth studio album, Trouble Man . "'Pyro' is a straight party record," Tip told Billboard of his new single. "It's nostalgic of those crazy nights, early mornings [but] just turned up." Listen to the track, produced by Two Band Geeks, below. T.I. - "Pyro" "I'm on fire, and ice cold / a black Benz / A [...]
Does any other pop star's album art talk the talk quite like Rihanna 's? Two years ago, the black and gray sheen and jagged metal "R" logo perfectly exemplified the grim, post-apocalyptic noir of Rihanna's 2009 masterpice Rated R , as the singer menacingly peered out from behind her hand while suited in futuristic space gear, looking like Grace Jones beamed in from the year 3000. Just a year later in 2010, Rihanna smoldered on the cover of LOUD with her fire engine red coif; her eyes closed and lips [...]
Rihanna is the musical version of the Lernaean Hydra : "an ancient nameless serpent-like chthonic water beast that possessed many heads and poisonous breath so virulent even her tracks were deadly." Throw away the "ancient nameless" part of that Wikipedia excerpt and I dare you to come up with a more accurate description. "Serpent-like?" Check the tongue on the album cover. "Chthonic" can roughly be interpreted as "Earth deity." Self-explanatory. "Many heads" is obviously a reference to her many hair colors. And tweak "breath" to "voice" to get a pretty accurate description of what [...]
Over the past week, new music from pop heavyweights Madonna and Rihanna materialized, while it was announced that, because of an exclusive new production deal with Sony, Dr. Luke would no longer be working with his muse Katy Perry. We also premiered a new video series called At Your Request , and Adam Lambert's lead single from his upcoming album got delayed. Naturally, our readers had plenty to say about this flurry of pop activity. Read on! :: Mark Graham was tuned in to [...]
Warning, if you're lonely and get lost in fantasy worlds, Rihanna's "You Da One" might have butterflies swirling around your stomach. For the second single from Talk That Talk, the [...]
Yesterday we all heard snippets of all the tracks on the standard edition of Rihanna's forthcoming LP Talk That Talk (out November 21), and today the album's second single "You Da One" has arrived. It's a bombastic reggae/dubstep hybrid produced by Dr. Luke that's miles away from the sound of previous single "We Found Love" . Listen below. VH1 noted that Talk That Talk is the dirtiest pop album since Madonna's 1992 LP Erotica . If [...]
NO, BUT ACTUALLY HOLD THE PHONE AND DROP YOUR BABY RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THIS IS NOT A DRILL. FIRST OF ALL: Rihanna JUST announced on Twitter this evening that she'll be Ri-leasing the Dr. Luke -produced "You Da One" on Friday, which will then hit on iTunes on Sunday night. Um, fuck YES! Flawless single cover is flawless. Now then-let's get down to bidness . Beginning this week, Team RiRi has begun the listening sessions for Ri's upcoming sixth studio album, Talk [...]
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Katy Perry's long and fruitful relationship with hitmaking producer Dr. Luke appears to be over, thanks to a hot new deal in the producer's favor. According to a piece in The New York Times , Luke will be given his own label under the Sony umbrella, Kemosabe Records, which is expected to become operational in January. The catch? He can only write and produce with Sony artists. And as Perry is part of EMI, it looks like Dr. Luke may be the one that got away . [...]
the DR. LUKE , aka that foxxxy he-producer whose mp3s you heart (see the K PERRY, the KE$HA, the BRIT etc et c ..), has joined the KEMOSABE team, aka Sony's fourth label division. the label is expected to become operational in January, and the DR. LUKE will have free rein to hire staff members (including me as his personanl ..) and sign artists. this however means that the producer can no longer work with the KATY PERRY (see TEENAGE DREAM LP) as she records for EMI. on the upside, the SUSAN [...]
We already know Rihanna's work with Calvin Harris yielded a terrific lead single and a gritty, artistically-inspired video in "We Found Love," both of which are more successful than her last few offerings from LOUD (to our eyes and ears, anyway). So we're pumped to see what the David LaChappelle plagiarist has in store on the rest of T a lk That Talk — and delighted to learn that RiRi may have enlisted the help of ASCAP [...]
We finally get to see the cause for Taio Cruz's alcohol-induced "Hangover" , thanks to a sneak peek at the song's music video. As you might imagine, given lines like "I can go until I blow up and I can drink until I throw up," there's a wild party involved. Head below to watch a short clip from the head-splitting visual for Taio's new single. "Hangover", which also features hit-making rapper Flo Rida, serves as the lead single from Cruz's upcoming album TY.O , and once again, the UK singer-songwriter has [...]
"Good Feeling" is performed by Flo Rida (Atlantic Records) and was Co-produced by Tim Berg (Avicii) and Dr. Luke. The remix package will be available soon on all major retail platforms, and will include the 8barz & David A Remix. Here's the banging dance-electronic remix that is a must-play for the party/club scene. Flo Rida -Good [...]
Taio Cruz's new album TY.0 drops out December 6, but the "Dynamite" crooner's new single has already arrived: the fist-pumping, Flo Rida-featuring party anthem "Hangover", which sounds like a good song to throw between Ke$ha's " TiK ToK" and Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (TGIF)" in your next debauchery-highlighting iTunes playlist. And — what a coincidence! — all three tunes were produced by hitmaker Dr. Luke, who apparently has a PhD in partying. Track below. Taio Cruz feat. Flo Rida - Hangover [...]
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