Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
Once upon a time, long before the sold out stadiums and screaming fans, little Howie D was a self-proclaimed “Dough Boy.” Apparently, his first love wasn’t music, it was Twinkies. In all fairness, Howie went on to much better things, however, for this interview the guys reminisce about some of their more embarrassing moments.
Her debut album has not even been released yet, but Lucy Woodward is already getting compared to Avril Lavigne. Woodward, 26, is a songwriter and guitarist who sings about personal experiences, just like Lavigne. But the similarities stop there.
“They compare us because we’re white girls who sing with electric guitars. That’s all we have in common,” she tells andPOP, on the line from New York. “We come from very different places. We have friends in common. She does her own thing. She’s like a punk skater girl. But I have more experiences in life, just like anyone who’s an 18 year old and a 26 year old.”
Being a blonde, female, pop vocalist, it is almost certain that Woodward will also receive comparisons to Britney Spears. Listening to Woodward’s debut album, “While You Can,” scheduled for release on April 1, will prove that she is not like anyone else in today’s pop music scene.
“I listen to a lot of slow music now and growing up. When I got into Led Zeppelin, I realized the power of electric guitars and live drums. I really meshed them all together. I did a soul rock record and I don’t think there’s so much of it out there right now from girls. I come from more of a soulful kind of rock, funky place, and I love to just wale out and scat.”
But she’s not the “Anti-Britney” type, an image attached to Lavigne. In fact, Woodward says she has a lot of respect towards Spears.
“I really like Britney,” she says. “I think she’s an incredible performer and dancer. When you have a record deal that young, I think it’s hard to make your own decision sometimes and it’s a lot of pressure. I’m dealing with a lot of pressure right now and I’m older then her. I can’t even imagine being 14 or 15 and having a record deal. I love Britney, period.”
Woodward studied piano and flute at an early age, and took her first voice lessons at 14. Her father is a composer and conductor for the BBC, while her mother is an opera singer and teacher. She has also sung background on an album for Joey McIntyre, but didn’t ask the former New Kid on the Block for career advice.
“I realized then when you get into a situation where you’re someone else’s background vocalist, you don’t talk about your own stuff so much. It just gets weird. I don’t think he knew I wrote my own material. It wasn’t appropriate. I just focused on his music.”
She spent several months recording her album, which was produced by John Shanks and Kevin Kadish. Working with Shanks, who has also produced material for the Corrs, Sheryl Crow, and Stevie Nicks, was on Woodward’s wish list.
“I met [Shanks] a couple years ago and I always knew I wanted him to do my record. He’s very musical and funny; we were laughing the entire album. There were times when we were hoarse from just laughing. There was such a good vibe going on and we really respected each other. We had just a great chemistry.”
Woodward wrote most of the album, and said she wouldn’t have it any other way. The hardest part of making the album was finding the right lyric for a song.
“Sometimes lyrics are really hard to write. Sometimes it might take 3 days, sometimes it might take an hour, or it could take a month. It just has to be right and I’ve worked really hard on this.”
Her first single, “Dumb Girls,” has been downloaded over 500,000 times on AOL Music. In the song about her getting dumped, she sings, “I thought I knew what was going on/But love was deceiving me/Now I’m just a dumb girl.”
“Sometimes you think you’re too smart to get dumped and you’ll never get dumped, and only dumb girls get dumped, but I got dumped, so I’m just a dumb girl just like the rest of them who got dumped,’ she says.
But she’s not going to become a dumb girl when it comes to her career. Woodward is not a fan of the “business” part of the music business.
“What you’re wearing, how much you’re revealing clothes-wise– who cares? It all comes down to good songs and good music in the end. But it’s such an image-based business right now. Maybe it’s just a wave, but it’s a lot of pressure to be really hot.”
Woodward also realizes the realities of the business, especially when it comes down to what is trendy. She says she does not like when record companies try to copy what is hot at the moment.
“Like when Britney came out, everyone wanted the new Britney of their own label,” she says. “And I think that’s disgusting. Everything is like in fad, in fashion. To get people’s attention these days is different than the way it was five years ago. People forget about the music. We’re in the age of video. People aren’t listening to the song sometimes and are just watching the videos. People’s attention spans are getting less and less.”
On the verge of becoming a star, Woodward is already looking ahead to the future.
“Making a record is so cool. I can’t wait to do my next one.”
Check out Lucy Woodward on the internet at her official site, lucywoodward.com. The site features an e-card, where you can hear some of her songs.
