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.
The universal reaction to the idea of established actors wanting to try their hands as serious musicians is probably to cringe or to start having nightmarish flashbacks of David Hasselhoff in a tight leather jacket.
But soap star Jerry Douglas is serious about changing minds and melting hearts with a debut album he swears is far from the typical actor-turned-musician, easy–listening vanity project.
“The disillusion about being good is amazing, isn’t it?” Douglas tells andPOP, sitting in his Toronto hotel room. “If I didn’t know I could sing well, there’s no way I would be doing this.”
His CD is an eclectic collection of jazz and pop standards that are not often heard on any other crooner’s repertoire.
The 74-year-old, wise-cracking actor, best known for his role as John Abbott on the CBS soap opera The Young & the Restless, says that when it comes to credibility in the music world, actors-turned-singers should be the least of fan’s worries.
“Half of the singers out right now can’t actually sing,” he says with a laugh. “That Timberlake kid is a good entertainer, but not a good singer. Put him up [singing] by himself with a piano and he’s got nothing.”
Justin Timberlake is the first current artist subject to Douglas’s criticism but not the last. He takes on Fantasia and Hilary Duff while hailing old school blues artists like Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald for their soulful inhibition.
Douglas laughs, shares insights, and erratically breaks into a hilarious impression of last year’s American Idol winner, Taylor Hicks, who also “can’t sing a lick” according to the daytime star.
He believes today’s artists need to receive a lesson in how to strip a song to its bones and discover the passion hiding behind romantic sentiments.
That is how Douglas chose to interpret the timeless songs he reintroduces on his album, “The Best Is Yet To Come.” Finding inspiration in the character he played for years, Douglas tried to find the “John Abbott” in each song on the CD. Douglas holds a strong belief in the traditional values embedded in the popular standards – beliefs, he says, he developed from his character’s caring personality.
Douglas has transformed from a man known to millions as a heavy-hearted patriarch and morally-sound cosmetics mogul to a sweet-talking singer with sophisticated pop-jazz narratives that adhere to a rigid structure and bow to the masters of his time.
“Hip hop today is like what b-bop was then, but back then we’d throw in a ‘wop ba-ba loo bop’ and that swing element could turn anyone on musically,” he says.
Douglas speaks with Frank Sinatra-inspired coolness that makes everything he says charmingly convincing even when he categorizes Kelly Clarkson as “hip hop” and refers to Jennifer Hudson as “that heavy girl in Dreamgirls.”
Douglas may ooze a certain Rat Pack demeanor simply because his biggest influences growing up were entertainers like Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra. He says he’s always had aspirations of becoming “the next Sinatra.”
This is why he started out singing in clubs in Boston and Long Island hoping to make it to the bigger gigs in Manhattan where artists like Sinatra got their big break. But, instead of a record deal he was noticed by the “right people” who got him into acting. Many fans don’t know that Douglas started singing long before he stepped foot in the fictional Genoa City or that for the last 20 years he’s been touring the States performing in casinos and concert halls.
Douglas thinks that because his work as a recording artist has come relatively late in his career, he’s got the advantage of a loyal fan base and a new shift in popular music on his side. Pop music has recently seen earthy crooning soul reappear on the charts in the form of Michael Buble and Norah Jones – two artists Douglas finally approves of, but he still thinks music fans his age are not quite sure where to turn to when it comes to new music. He sees himself as carrying the torch of the great singers of his generation and wants his Y&R fans to brace themselves for a dose of blue-eyed soul from this brown-eyed crooner.
“I feel like [for] 25 years, I’ve never cheated a day, I’ve worked hard on every scene I did and fans have gotten a lot of joy over that. So now, it would be nice for them to give me back the support.”
