In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
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.
In 2002, it was hard not to notice Tweet, then a new R&B singer who performed with southern soul. She wasn’t reinventing the genre, but her genuine approach to making music with substance, in a time when the airwaves were dominated by manufactured music, was respectable.
She had a massive hit with “Oops (Oh My),” leading people to discover her debut album, “Southern Hummingbird,” which had few similar songs. She also had another single, “Call Me,” which was featured in a phone commercial.
But people were also captivated by her compelling story. She was a member of a girl group going nowhere. About to kill herself, she was saved by her guardian angel Missy Elliott who invited Tweet to do backup vocals on her album. Her career?but more importantly, her life?was saved.
It seemed her life story was commodified so much that consumers were being sold that tale almost as much as they were being sold her album. The line between what was a marketing strategy and what she was really going through was questionable because if one did not hear the words coming from her mouth, the story could have been mistaken for just another marketing ploy.
But with sincerity in her voice, Tweet says there was nothing overblown about it. That was her story, and it was important for her to share.
“I think people were more fascinated with the fact that I wasn?t afraid to talk about it,” she says, on the line from New York. And after hearing her story, many got hooked on her music. “I guess that?s what kept their attention, that I wasn?t afraid.”
Tweet, Born Charlene Keys, was in a “dark” place when she wrote her first album, and she can see that state of mind when listening to it now. “I was suicidal so that?s a reflection of my life back then, just feeling worthless.”
With the success comes a whole new attitude. Tweet, now 34 years old, sees a different person when she looks back at that time in her life?before the music career lifted off.
“I want to slap myself because it wasn?t really that bad,” she admits. “Whatever I was going through to get to that state was not enough to take my life.”
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Her second album, “It’s Me Again,” released last week, sees a different side to Tweet. There’s lighter music; happier music; uplifting music without feeling sympathy.
Recording the album, Tweet felt symptoms of the sophomore jinx early on.
“I felt like I had to duplicate ‘Southern Hummingbird.’ But I thought, I’m not in that place anymore in my life. I just wanted to write about what’s going on in my life now.”
What helped her get over the fears of a jinx was thinking about the real success of her first album?not the certifications, the money, and the fame?but the people she says she’s helped.
“The success to me comes when my fans come and say, ‘thank you because you’re music helped me through a lot’.”
And Tweet has proof that her music can touch people, and it came in the form of a letter.
“I was in DC or Baltimore signing autographs and a 14 or 15 year old came and gave me a letter. She said, ‘read it.’ I said I’d read it later. She said, ‘I need you to read it now.’ I read it and it said how she was going through a lot and she put a gun to her head and was going to pull the trigger, but because she heard my music, she didn?t do it.”
Despite the different tone to the music on the new album, Tweet kept the same formula. She used the same producers, wrote lyrics in the same way, and of course, stayed “brutally honest about my life.”
She reminds, “I don?t mind telling my story without sugar coating it or anything like that.”
Tweet answered 3 emails from andPOP visitors
1. How important is commercial success to you vs. the love of making good music, and do those two contradict?
They don?t contradict because my whole thing is if I could just touch one person with my music, that?s my success. I want to put out timeless music that you can put in 10 years from now and still enjoy it.
2. Do you have any regrets in life?
Never. You should never live on regrets. Everything I went through I feel was a learning experience and I’m the strong person I am today because of what I’ve been through.
3. When did you learn how to play the guitar and will you be playing it on tour?
Definitely. I picked up the guitar in 1996 because I got tired of waiting for people’s tracks. I will definitely be playing it on tour. (Tweet says she plans on touring from as soon as April until “whenever.”)
