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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 ): [...]

E mentre Christina Aguilera festeggia il Natale con questa esibizione di "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", in rete inizia a girare uno snippet che si dice appartenga al suo nuovo singolo (dopo il salto il contributo). I ben informati sostengono che la canzone debba intitolarsi "Broken Soul" (altri ancora "F*uck Your Body" o "Love Your Body") e che sia stata prodotta dal re Mida Max Martin. Dall'anteprima, ammesso che sia attendibile, si possono intravedere delle schitarrate ed un sound alla "Moves Like Jagger", a dimostrazione del fatto che la cantante questa volta vuole giocare facile [...]

Yes! At least, that's according to KIIS FM program director Julie Pilmar . After an Aguilera stan badgered Pilmar to send a happy birthday tweet to Lady Xtina earlier today, Pilmar began to spill a few minor details about the upcoming release, tweeting back : "her new song is amazing!" Xtina fans soon swooped in with more questions: Yes, she believes the new song is radio friendly ("very much"). No, she can't reveal the song title, but it's been "stuck in my head ever since." No, she has [...]

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 [...]

In September of 2010, the world (well, the UK) watched as a jittery Worcestershire-born girl named Cher Lloyd strolled across the stage-suited in a a fitted black jacket and shredded white jeans-to audition for the X Factor . After a brief grilling by the judges regarding her name and age ("You look more!" Louis Walsh exclaimed after learning she was only 16 years old), Lloyd announced she'd be performing ( Keri Hilson 's cover of) Soulja Boy 's "Turn My Swag On." And then she opened her mouth to sing. [...]

Kelly Clarkson 's come a long way in just under a decade. After becoming the first (and let's be real, still easily the best) winner of American Idol in 2002, the singer first made her official mark with 20032s Thankful , a debut collection complete with safe-yet-amazing post- Idol balladry ("Anytime"), soulful R&B-pop offerings ("Just Missed The Train") and slightly rambunctious, attitude heavy pop-rock anthems, including "Miss Independent" and "Low." The runaway success of the latter two singles quickly helped to sculpt the sound of what would become Clarkson's grand opus [...]

For those who might not have loved the wailing, bananas o'clock frenzy of 17-year-old songstress Cher Lloyd 's noisy UK debut, "Swagger Jagger," here's your breath of fresh air: "With Ur Love," featuring Mike Posner . The Almighty Lloyd's easy breezy mid-tempo finds the young singer catching feelings and getting all swoon-y on top of a "What's My Name?"/"Rude Boy"-reminiscent groove crafted by legendary pop producer, Max Martin . That's not to say that Martin's straight up lifting from RiRi's ceaselessly amazing 2010 singles (or swagger jagging, if you will), but the similarities are [...]

When Britney Spears dropped "Hold it Against Me" earlier this year, the Bellamy Brothers ran their mouths off to anyone who would listen, claiming that the song was a rip off of their 1979 track "If I Said You had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold it Against Me?" Obviously, that's pretty much all the two tracks have in common so Dr. Luke and Max Martin pressed charges against them for defamation. But according to court documents filed last week, the lawsuit has been dropped as the Bellamy Brothers have finally admitted what everyone knew. Their official apology states "The [...]

Om in de lijn van de Guilty Pleasures te blijven, nog zo'n band die ik stiekem erg leuk vind. Ik heb een voorliefde voor strak geproduceerde popliedjes. Die voorliefde stamt al uit halverwege de jaren negentig, toen aan de lopende band boybands en girlbands werden gelanceerd. De een had nog perfectere nummers dan de ander. In die tijd streden twee bands om de hegemonie die Take That open had gelaten toen ze uit elkaar gingen. De Backstreet Boys en 'N Sync. Je was voor de een of de ander, en mijn voorkeur ging uit naar 'N Sync. Omdat [...]

• 'N Sync - I Want You Back

The season two finale of Glee included three new original songs.

Fact: The Swedes are a superhuman race sent from the future to make amazing pop music. Due to this undeniable truth, Swedish pop stars you've never heard of snatch wigs from your favorite pop stars for fun — just because they can. In my ongoing series, Amazing Things I'm Listening to From Sweden, I review the best Swedish exports that are currently blowing up the charts (i.e., getting blasted at ear-splitting volume in my apartment). Le Kid - America Pop outfit Le Kid first appeared on the scene [...]

Bonnie McKee just tweeted that she's in New York shopping for record deals. Here's why you should care: At the age of 16, the self-described wild child's big voice and startlingly self-assured songwriting chops ignited a fierce bidding war between Interscope and Warner Brothers. After eventually signing with Warner, Bonnie's debut LP, Trouble , was released in 2004. It was a radio-friendly collection of provocative yet polished pop-rock, but — mismanaged and mismarketed to an oversaturated public — the album failed to make a commercial splash. It wasn't until Bonnie was dropped [...]

The season finale of Glee is bound to bring up mixed emotions: on the one hand, it's sure to be awesome. On the other hand, no more new Glee until fall! (Well, besides a North American tour and 3-D movie, that is.) Of course, the Rebecca Black-loving high school musical is all set to go out with a bang, as greedy Gleek Ryan Seacrest has unveiled the tune New Directions will use to bring down the house at Nationals in the May 24 finale — and, as [...]

Geez! Planet Pit , go-to Cuban-American rapper Pitbull's sixth album, has more featured pop stars than a David Guetta album . In fact, even David Guetta gets a production credit on the record! Planet Pit is due out on June 21. Head below to see who all is doing what on Mr. Worldwide's latest. We already know that Chris Brown appears on the Planet Pit jam "International Love." Also stopping by for vocal enlightening are T-Pai n, Sean Paul, Kelly Rowland ("Castles In The [...]

It seems that Glee 's use of original songs wasn't just a onetime thing for its March episode, uh, "Original Song." Savan Kotecha, who co-wrote the Max Martin-produced "Loser Like Me" (a #6 Billboard Hot 100 hit) for said March episode, noted in a recent interview that there's more new material to come in the show's Season 2 finale. "We've actually done another song for the season finale," Kotecha told Digital Spy . "It's not been confirmed, but it's for Glee ." [...]

The American Society Of Composers, Authors and Publishers were on our wavelength, as they honored Max Martin and Dr. Luke — two hit makers from our 8 Producers Who Made 2010 Go Pop list — with Songwriters Of The Year plaques at last night's 28th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards. When cameras started flashing, they were flanked by Adam Lambert and Ke$ha, artists Martin and Luke scored hits with last year. The Midas-touch pair picked up the joint award for collaborating on Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" and Katy Perry's "Teenage [...]

Still quite fresh off the news that Nicki Minaj will announce her sophomore effort by September, with the album set to drop within the next 12 months and that she will join (and replace Enrique Iglesias) Britney Spears on her upcoming Femme Fatale-tour that begins June 17 in Sacramento, Calif, Nicki now teams up with Britney and Ke$ha (who also wrote the original version together with Dr. Luke, Alexander Kronlund and Max Martin) for a nice little remix of Britney's current single 'Til the World Ends'. Have a listen below: [...]

Why? Well, we feel it didn't get enough airplay. Also, it was released too close to "Hold It Against Me" and too close to the leak of the album Femme Fatale , so it kind of got lost in the crowd. Moreover, it's definitely not the best from the leaked tracks. But, maybe the video will be spectacular, but we don't see it. Filed under: Beats , Lofty Exclusive , Yankee Panky Tagged: Against Me! , arts , britney spear , Dr. Luke , hold it against me [...]

LA-based, award-winning singer/songwriter and edgy pop recording artist BC Jean will be releasing her brand new single "I'll Survive You" available at all digital providers April 5th (and impacting radio on April 4th). "I'll Survive You" is the follow up track to her Top 40 charting debut single "Just A Guy," which received raves from the likes of New York Post "Popwatch" writer Ryan Brockington who exclaimed "If Kelly Clarkson and P!nk could have a baby…her music is [...]

Disc #7. Britney Spears is Femme Fatale . Top-notch pop music. Filed under: Beats , Haiku Review , Yankee Panky Tagged: album , Anti-Music , arts , britney , britney spears , Dr. Luke , femme fatale , Max Martin , music , new , Out (magazine) , review , Shellback , spears