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.
Once upon a time, the undoubtedly talented Vanessa Carlton had seen her fair share of unhappy endings. After becoming a megastar with the smash single “A Thousand Miles,” Carlton saw her second album, “Harmonium,” fare terribly on the charts upon its release in 2004, which resulted in her subsequent release from A&M Records.
The third time, however, may be the charm for Carlton’s fairytale career, as the release of album No. 3, “Heroes and Thieves,” put the 26-year-old Jill-of-all-trades back on the map.
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“Heroes and Thieves,” as Carlton describes it, follows the format of a fairytale, and similarly, the songs symbolize different chapters in her life leading up to now. The songs are like a timeline, mapping Carlton’s growth as an artist, and a woman as well.
“You can notice the fundamental changes in the approach to my work that comes with experience. I have a very clear vision now and awareness when it comes to music,” she says with a certain confidence, sounding far beyond her years. “The whole process was like a midnight arts and crafts session. It was all written and recorded in those enchanted hours, the ones that are most alive, and most kinetic.”
Putting the album together, under Irv Gotti’s label The Inc., was a labour of love for Carlton. Coincidentally, her latest single “Hands on Me,” addresses labours of love in a literal sense.
“This song reflects such an intensity about vying for somebody else,” Carlton says. According to her, longing for the affections of another is “such a universal situation, everyone can relate.”
The lyrics, which were in part crafted by her ex-boyfriend Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, are filled with a concentrated, yet tender passion that reads through in the song’s music video. Taking place in an understated boudoir, Carlton rolls around in bed fantasizing about a man whom she met at the video exchange – certainly a touch racier than the video for “A Thousand Miles” where she rode a piano off her driveway and down the street.
A piano on wheels became an image closely associated with Carlton since the video for “A Thousand Miles” appeared on MTV and music channels across the globe in 2002. Wanting to separate herself from the image, although beautiful, Carlton decided that she would counter the icon by smashing a piano with a car in her video for “Nolita Fairytale,” her first single off her latest album.
“I felt it was the perfect parlay into the new chapter, resurrecting the old image of the moving piano, which was lovely, but in order for me to move forward, I guess I had to run it over,” she says with a laugh as she describes the opening scene of the music video that debuted this fall. The scene symbolized transition from the old Vanessa to the new Vanessa. But aside from the abstract meaning, “it was just really fun to hit a piano with a car.”
The album focuses on matters of the heart, the search for identity, and the discovery of happiness, as it mirrors Carlton’s personal quest for the same. However Carlton’s whole life isn’t lived strictly in song.
“I actually draw, and I love to go treasure hunting in [New York], to find people’s old photos and stuff. I love interior design, and estate sales, I take long walks, and I’m trying to start a stationary line to resurrect the art of the written note,” she says, as her dog bounces around on her knees.
“I’m sorry, my dog just jumped up on to my lap,” she laughs apologetically as she struggles to keep the phone in her grasp. “His name is Lord Victor,” she says of her brown-haired dachshund, “and he’s very handsome. I like to think that he [was once] an all knowing, omnipotent professor of ‘something’ from the 1880s.”
With a dog by her side, a new label, a fairytale life in Nolita, and hopes that her album can start climbing the charts faster than Jack climbed his beanstalk, Vanessa Carton, it can be assumed, is destined to continue to make music, and live happily ever after.
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