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.
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.
When you’re talking with Beenie Man, his enthusiasm for his music shines through the conversation.
“Music is my everyday life,” he tells andPOP. “If I’m thinking about the kids, I’m thinking about music. I get inspiration just from watching a movie. That’s what I do. I live for music. It’s everything I do.”
He’s 34 years old, yet Beenie Man has been making music for over 25 years. In spite of his obvious enthusiasm for his career, Beenie Man still finds it humbling and amazing to know that he is still on top of the reggae and dancehall music scenes after all these years.
“It always amazes you every time you move from one step in life to another; it always amazes you,” he says, adding that it also amazes him that his career has lasted longer than most new reggae artists have been alive.
“I’ve been doing this since before these kids were even born and they come up and they sing and they become a part of this thing and you’re still there. You’re still making music, you’re still on top of the game too. You’re not really an old artist, you’re still making a number one song, you’re still closing all of these shows, so it’s amazing,” he says.
And he’s ready to continue his impact on August 29, the day his latest album, “Undisputed,” is scheduled to hit stores.
-Beenie Man on making music
“They don’t speak English but they speak reggae. This is great. You go to Japan, you see all these Japanese people rocking and singing along. And when you figure out that you have broken all of these language barriers and people are turning out to your shows, that feeling is not something that you can trade for nothing else,” he says.
Beenie Man says his inspiration comes from just about everywhere and that the secret to his success and longevity is to be ahead of the crowd on music. He goes into the dancehalls, picks a beat and then will write three songs to it before he finally chooses the one that sticks.
“You don’t try to fit yourself into the group, you try and put yourself above the group, so how are you going to do that? You’re going to make songs that people want to hear, you’ve got to say things that people are afraid to say. This is what you do, you get in the mind of the people, because people are the bosses and you are the employee, so you were employed to make music for the people. If you don’t make good products, you don’t get paid,” he says.
Beenie Man pauses when asked what he would be doing if he wasn’t a musician.
“I don’t even think about it,” he says, though adding that he might have been a soccer player because he loves the sport.
Almost as soon as the words come out of his mouth, he pauses again and realizes that a soccer player usually only plays professionally until he is 34 – his current age.
“So I’d be a retired soccer player,” he muses.
That leads into a discussion about this year’s World Cup, which Beenie Man says was the best one since 1978. His infatuation with the sport is almost as overwhelming as his passion for music, as he begins to go through this year’s event as well as nearly every event over the last 28 years.
Discussing Canada’s national soccer team, which didn’t make the Cup this year, Beenie Man is quick to point out that Canada did have a team in the World Cup at one time, and they did pretty good. I tell him that we need to get the ball rolling on a national team again for the World Cup before Beenie Man points out that Canada knows its priorities when it comes to sports.
“No one,” he says, “messes with Canada and their hockey.”
An AIDS benefit concert scheduled for Tuesday (July 18) in New York City has been cancelled after gay activists protested against two of the performers.
Activists said the two reggae artists, Beenie Man and T.O.K., perform music that includes violent anti-gay lyrics.
Lifebeat, the concert organizer, said in a statement that the event was cancelled because of the “possibility of violence ? from the firestorm incited by a select group of activists.”
Beenie Man is outraged that the concert was scrapped.
“I am kind of getting really fed up because they came down on us two years ago, trying to take some songs we sang like 10 or 15 years ago, and try to say okay we push (anti-homosexuality),” he told andPOP, speaking out for the first time since the concert was cancelled.
Beenie Man said that the situation is different in Jamaica, but he has apologized for his anti-gay lyrics.
“We come out, we’re doing a campaign called no violence for no one,” he said. “We did all of this for the gay community. We’re not gay but we are supporting these people’s movements because people is people.”
The benefit concert was supposed to raise awareness for AIDS, a cause he feels is very important. Beenie Man compared silencing his music to terrorism.
“We going to take this terrorism seriously and you don’t want that. You don?t want some Jamaican artist saying, ‘we cannot go nowhere.’ It becomes very annoying,” he said.
Beenie Man was quick to point out that he hasn’t seen a response to anti-gay remarks in other media, such as film or comedy, the way the response is when anti-gay remarks are in music.
“What they are doing is wrong,” he said. “Yeah, we hurt you, we agree. We came and apologized. What more do they want?”
