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.
Not winning a spot in “Making of the Band” might have been one of the best things to happen to Justin Roman.
Roman, the singer and songwriter from the group VI3, made it into the final 25 on the television series, but was not selected as one of the members of O-Town.
“I wouldn’t change it for the world,” he tells andPOP, on the line from his home in Chicago. “They’re doing their thing and we’re doing our thing. It just took us a little longer to get it going. I’m very proud of the fact that I was able to write most of the album and I think if I would have been in O-Town, that wouldn’t have been the case.”
VI3, which also includes Lucas Bowers and Jackie Salvucci, consider themselves a “hip pop” group, the sound that is heard on their debut album, “So Tight.”
“What we tried to do is take the hip hop music that we listened to growing up and also the pop music that has been relevant since music was created and combine the two just to find our little niche in music,” Roman says. “We have the singing in there, we have the rapping in there, and we tried to go where other male vocal groups have not gone before.”
Being labeled with the dreaded “boy band” tag comes with the territory, he says, but he does not consider that a fair classification of VI3.
“People are automatically going to see the cover and see three guys that look like they should be in a boy band and say, ‘you all are a boy band.’ We understand that. We’re not going to fight it. We think the music is way different, but if people are going to say that, they’re going to say that. You really can’t change people’s minds except try to give them really good songs.”
Even before joining VI3, Roman was planning for his future in the industry by studying Music Business in college. He also hopes to ensure the longevity of the group after he read Donald Passman’s “All You Need to Know About the Music Business.”
“People who think that the music business is all about singing and dancing are nuts. There’s such a business side to this thing,” he says. “You’ve got to be foolish not to read up and study this stuff. Majoring in Music Business, I was definitely one step ahead of a lot of people in this industry, just not being a dumb naive kid.”
When the group signed a major label deal with MCA, some of the responsibilities were taken away from Roman, and the fate of the album was put in someone else’s hands.
“There’s people that are promoting it to radio stations, there’s people that are promoting it to retail, and you’re depending on all these other people to control your career. And that’s probably the hardest thing about it. I definitely want to be hands on and be in control of everything, but when you get to a big label, that’s impossible. You have to trust other people and that they’re going to do their jobs correctly.”
Roman wrote the majority of the album, including the first single, “Eyes Closed So Tight.”
“That’s a song I wrote years ago about a real girl that actually broke my heart. I wrote it from a real place, a real sad place. It’s kind of cool now, years later, and the song is a single and doing phenomenal. It shows how a broken heart will never go out of style. People can relate to it even today.”
Roman was named “Songwriter of the Year” at the Chicago Music Awards this year, beating out R. Kelly and Donell Jones. VI3 also won for “Most Outstanding Band or Group” and “Pop Entertainer of the Year.” The group hooked up with another Chicago artist, rapper Da Brat, on “Turn It Up.”
“Our manager knew her manager and we all just made it happen,” Roman says. “Chicago’s got a great music scene but there hasn’t been a lot to come out of it besides R. Kelly and the Smashing Pumpkins. Da Brat is one of them. She’s probably the most talented female rapper out there. When we were looking for a guest spot on the song, it was just a perfect fit.”
VI3 recently toured across the U.S., opening for Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys. The trio played in markets that they had never been to before.
“The reception was amazing. It was almost like we were in Chicago every night, being in different cities; that’s how great the reaction was.”
They are currently on a 17 Magazine mall tour, and Roman says some big acts have asked VI3 to open for them this spring and summer. He remained tight lipped on who these acts were, but did provide some hints.
“One is one of biggest superstars out right now. The other is a group that is leading this whole teen craze right now.”
As for a second album, don’t expect a completely new sound to VI3 when they decide to begin recording.
“People who are into VI3 are into the ‘Eyes Closed So Tight’ [type songs] and into the hip pop songs. We’re not going to change it up and totally change our musical direction. You’re going to hear a more mature and developed VI3 but you’re going to know it’s the same group.”
