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.
Forget the Gaga comparisons. Little Boots may be Britain’s reigning blonde synth-pop bombshell, but you won’t catch her hitting red carpets with Kermit the Frog or posing half nude on the cover of Rolling Stone. Plus, she’s not opposed to wearing pants.
To put it simply, Little Boots is just a little more low-key.
“All that sex stuff is really not me,” Boots says of the comparison. “We’re both blonde and we both have a lot of synth in our music [but] I don’t really pay attention to it. I’m not offended by it. I’m not annoyed. I’m just kind of like whatever.”
With the matching hair colours, the shared affinity for producing exhilarating electro-pop songs and corresponding friendships with Perez Hilton, it looks like it’s going to take this songstress from across the pond a little bit longer to shed the “UK’s Lady Gaga” tag, whether she pays attention to the pundits or not.
When andPOP caught up with Little Boots at the Cadillac Lounge on Queen Street West in Toronto, she was just Victoria Hesketh—her infamous platinum hair tied back in a messy ponytail, sipping on water, raving about all the nice Canadians she’d met and looking more like the girl you’d sit next to in Psych 101 than an international pop diva.
Hesketh entered the UK music scene back when she was actually a student at the University of Leeds with a little indie rock band called Dead Disco. But when Hesketh’s dreams of making funky, danceable pop tunes clashed with the band’s direction, she ditched the boys and took to YouTube to broadcast her talents. With that, she became a bit of a sensation.
YouTubers take note. Since her covers of MGMT and Madonna blew up on the site, Little Boots hasn’t looked back. The British media hailed her as the future of pop after winning the BBC Sound of 2009 Poll and garnering a coveted Brit Award nomination before she actually had a full-length album in hand.
“I was on the covers of magazines and I hadn’t even [officially] released a song. It felt like a big bubble of all this talk and all this hype…it was all really scary,” she says. “But once the album came out, the bubble kind of burst and I was ready for the backlash.”
But the backlash never came. The album, “Hands,” hit #5 on the U.K. charts and went gold.
“Now I’m relieved. I just feel like I can get on with my job now and stop worrying.”
Little Boots’ job, it seems, is to provide fans with sweet and sugary synth-pop. It’s that upbeat, sophisticated sound reminiscent of early-80s acts like Depeche Mode and Eurythmics paired with Kylie-esque poppy vocals and light, soothing lyrics. But in a post T-Pain pop climate, Little Boots’ reliance on synth-driven songs and a tech-heavy sound could be perceived as just a resurgence of a passing fad.
The pint-sized powerhouse is quick to defend her art.
“In American hip-hop, it’s become this really cool thing, but in the UK and Europe, dance pop has always been around and it was never really abnormal,” Hesketh explains. “To me, to say synth is a genre is really kind of weird because to me it’s just a tool—like a guitar. It’s like saying ‘guitar music.’ It’s just what I play,” she says with a wave of her hand as if to fend off detractors.
“I guess it’s good for me that it’s kind of taking off [here] but I’d probably do it even if it wasn’t cool,” she laughs.
Well, with the current disco-infused hits of late, Little Boots seems to fit right in. The singer is clearly an avid fan of pop music, revealing her admiration of The Beatles to an unexpected love of Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus.
“I love Miley songs. I will totally admit to it. She has some great pop songs.”
But the same machine that gave us Hannah Montana herself is the same one Hesketh slams for producing too much, as she’s pegged, “stupid pop.”
“I think pop got so caught up in the industry in the last 10 years or whatever so now it’s all too calculated. I mean, you can see when something is a genuinely good song and when something has been tweaked together by boardrooms full of A&R men in suits,” she says.
Then, Victoria Hesketh, self-proclaimed techie nerd and synth-pop enthusiast, seems to have a moment. After denouncing a subset of the very genre that she is now a reputable member, Little Boots smiles and adds:
“I just love good pop music. I’ve always enjoyed that kind of music. I want to make music that everyone can enjoy and everyone can connect to. I don’t want to make some weird white noise record,” she says.
“I want to make something fun that everyone can enjoy and make them feel happy or positive.”
