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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.
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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.
Jason Mraz. Remember that name? Think back. Think hard. No, not John Mayer. Mraz. It’s been a while since anyone has really heard from the singer-songwriter, unless you were listening to his breakout hit “The Remedy” for the umpteenth time on the local adult contemporary station.
But after spending some time away from the spotlight, Mraz is gearing up to get back into the music scene with new songs and a new record. The hiatus, Mraz tells andPOP, has helped shape the album into something he hopes listeners will find quite different from what they might expect from him.
“The last album was very introverted, very personal songs: songs about Jason Mraz or songs from the Jason Mraz perspective,” he says. “Over the last few months, and throughout my travels in the last year, I realized that writing specifically only about my life experiences is limiting, considering there’s so many great stories to be told out there in the world.”
Moving away from writing simply love songs, Mraz plans to address social issues – environmental ones, especially – on his upcoming album, tentatively set for release in the fall.
Already, he’s sung about issues of self-esteem and self-image in a track he contributed to the “Be Ugly” campaign, recently launched by the ABC hit sitcom “Ugly Betty.” “Beauty In The Ugly” is a revamp of an old song that Mraz used to play live but was never formally released. The upbeat anthem tells ordinary girls to “own your name and stand up tall.”
Mraz says he was inspired to write the song after seeing so many girls at concerts and knowing so many women who “leave a trail of beauty magazines everywhere we go” – magazines that promote only one standardized version of what is considered beautiful.
It’s something Mraz himself isn’t immune to either.
“Image becomes a pressure on an artist and it certainly has for me,” he admits. “I just want to write songs and tell these stories and I just want to sing… but you have to make appearances and do videos. It’s so weird.”
Getting some time off away from all of that, he says, has not only given him new ideas and new feelings to work with musically; he’s also had the chance to have some time to rediscover who he is.
Mraz hasn’t taken such a long break since he first burst on the scene in 2002 with his debut album “Waiting For My Rocket To Come.” Since then, it had been constant touring and the release of another album, 2005’s “Mr. A-Z,” a critical bomb that saw only mild commercial success.
“I realized I really haven’t just settled down for six years. What does that feel like? Who am I now? What do I do? When I go to the grocery store, what things do I like to buy,” he asks, “cause I’ve been living off of catering and tour bus food and restaurants for so long?”
Now, Mraz is enjoying cooking his own food and laying low at his home in San Diego, where he has built his own personal studio. When he’s not working on the new album (which he’s “super proud of” so far), he’ll break out a book and do some reading or head to the beach with his surfboard. Once in a while, he’ll take his guitar out to a local coffee shop for an impromptu performance to test some of his new songs on fresh ears. No lights, no cameras, not even any bootleg tapers, whom Mraz has always made a point of welcoming at his shows.
It’s a useful and almost therapeutic process, which he likens to test-driving a car for kinks. “You’re like ‘alright, maybe I should go home and make some improvements on it so I can make it work a little smoother around the turns.’ That’s what I do,” he explains.
Perhaps reflecting the organic roots of its conception, the new record will be mostly acoustic: “keeping the sound raw, letting just the voice in the song be heard, trying to do as little electric instruments as possible,” Mraz describes.
Playing acoustic was how Mraz started out and it was important to him to go back to that approach after producing two big pop rock records. It’s why over the course of the last year, Mraz has made an effort to return to some of his old haunts (such as Schuba’s in Chicago and New York City’s Irving Plaza during a four-city “Songs for Friends” Tour last July) to play exclusive acoustic sets. A few select performances made it onto a live acoustic record, released in December and sold exclusively through jasonmraz.com.
So, he says, “it looks like I’ve been out of the music scene but actually I’ve been more involved in my music scene than ever.”
