Christina Aguilera is releasing a new single, “Not Myself Tonight,” from her forthcoming album due out this year – and as a teaser she’s released the sexy new art for the single.
In the black and white image, Aguilera, 29, is dressed in dominatrix gear with devil horns and tail drawn in. She officially announced the news of her new single on Tuesday at noon on her Web site, promising more information in the next two days.
In January, she revealed that that she’d finished work on her new album.
Mariah Carey’s planned remix album of her recent Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel called Angels Advocate apparently has been scrapped in favor of what her reps are calling “some new surprises.
” The album had been scheduled for a March 30 release, but earlier this week, Carey fansite Mariah Daily Journal cited a management representative as saying the album will not be released. “We are looking to go possibly to another studio album or Christmas album. The decision hasn’t been totally made yet. It’s a creative process that cannot be rushed,” the rep reportedly said.
On Monday, a spokesperson for Carey’s label, Island Def Jam, did not directly confirm that the album had been canceled but said, “We’ve released a few of Mariah’s hot remixes on iTunes and Mariah’s back in the studio working on some new surprises.”
Two tracks slated for the album “Angels Cry” (featuring Ne-Yo) and “Up Out My Face” (featuring Nicki Minaj) are currently available on the iTunes Store.
The IDJ spokesperson did not elaborate on what the “new surprises” might be, and did not specifically mention plans for a Carey Christmas album. Her last foray into the genre, 1994’s Merry Christmas, was a massive success, and spawned the instant classic “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” a song which continues to receive Holiday airplay to this day.
ALICIA Keys thinks starting a family will be “the most beautiful experience” she will ever have.The Doesn’t Mean Anything singer who got engaged to music producer Swizz Beats in January can’t wait to settle down and become a mother but admits there are lots of things she wants to do with her career first.“I absolutely am very interested in starting a family,” she said. “It is one of the most beautiful experiences to have in this life and I am looking forward to it when it is my time.
“I have a lot of things I still want to do. As far as retirement goes, I just wanted to have the ability, if I so choose, to be able to do so. But I fell that I am just getting started.”In 2007, the 29-year-old beauty appeared in Smokin’ Aces and The Nanny Diaries, before working on the movie ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ in 2008.
Alicia would love to explore more acting possibilities and is desperate to write her own musical theater production.“I love acting and producing, and I am developing some ideas for TV and film, and also for Broadway,” she said. “I am excited about that. I really want to create a new musical. I think it’s time.”
Kicking off one of the world’s biggest sporting events should be the job of some equally big superstars. The 2010 FIFA World Cup did its best to recruit A-list artists, and on Wednesday, the soccer organization confirmed that Alicia Keys, Shakira, the Black Eyed Peas and John Legend would be among the performers hitting the stage on June 10 at Orlando Stadium in Soweto/Johannesburg, South Africa.”It’s going to be insane,” Keys told MTV News, shortly after the announcement.
“I’m very excited about going to Africa, and the fact that the World Cup is in Africa is unbelievable for me! To be a part of that is incredible.”
Malian duo Amadou & Mariam, Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo and South African rock group BLK JKS will be among the musicians celebrating the first World Cup on their continent. The opening celebration, which is held on the eve of the first match, will also likely include appearances by soccer legends past and present, plenty of celebrity power and more performances to be announced soon.
Keys is excited to go back to Africa and work with her Keep a Child Alive foundation, which provides support for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. FIFA is doing its part to help too: All net proceeds from the concert will be donated to 20 Centres for 2010, a campaign to build soccer-training centers in Africa that will also offer education and health-care services to disadvantaged communities.
DEMI Lovato has finally confirmed she’s dating Joe Jonas!In an interview with with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush on his radio program, The Billy Bush Show, the host asked Lovato if she’d ever dated any of the Jonas Brothers: “Umm, maybe,” she said coyly.“Which one? Joe?” asked Bush, to which Lovato said, “Yeah. He’s actually… he’s my best friend.”“So you guys went from boyfriend-girlfriend to best friends” Bush inquired.“No kind of the opposite,” Demi replied.“Oh? So you’re dating him now?” asked Bush.“Umm, yeah he is my best friend and he is incredible,” Lovato finally confessed.Demi then called Joe a “complete gentleman,” who “treats me to the most amazing places.”“He’s perfect,” she said.Lovato and Jonas first on the set of Camp Rock in 2007.
LADY GaGa always get the last laugh!The Bad Romance hitmaker has revealed how one of her ex-boyfriends doubted her future fame.
“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail,” GaGa, real name Stefani Germonatta, told Cosmopolitan magazine for its April issue.“I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not 
together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***ing deli without hearing or seeing me.’”GaGa added that she “ate sh** for so long” trying to make it in the music business. “I’ve always been delusionally ambitious to the point where people don’t understand me,” she says.
The star who is said to have grown increasingly close to her style collaborator Matthew Williams in recent months, who she previously romanced for over a year recently revealed she’d like a husband and some babies.“I want to have a husband who loves and supports me, just the way anyone else does,” she said. “I am a very sentimental person and family is important to me.”
AMY Winehouse turned down a duet with Robbie Williams.The Rehab singer’s father Mitch has revealed his daughter was approached by the Angels hitmaker to record a song with him, but she told Robbie she thought his idea was a joke.Speaking on his online show, Mitch Winehouse’s Showbiz Rant, he said, “I’m a bit worried about Robbie, next thing he’ll be wanting to make a record with Amy. That’s preposterous.
“Actually he said that once… he wanted to do a record with Amy. Amy said, ‘Are you f***ing joking.’ ”Amy is currently working on her long-awaited third album which she has recorded in London and Jamaica.Mitch recently spoke about his concerns for his daughter now she has seemingly reconciled with her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil.“I’d be devastated, I’m worried about the situation and I’m going to discourage her in every way I can,” he said. “Their relationship was a disaster, it was destructive and they’re lucky that one of them didn’t die. Two addicts can’t be in a relationship.”
KYLIE Minogue is looking forward to taking some time off.The Aussie pop princess is currently recording her new album, and admits her work is starting to take over her life.“I don’t have a life at the moment,” said Kylie. “I am basically in the studio all the time.“It’s work, work, work. It will all be worth it when my new album comes out and I am just getting to the exciting bit. But I really need to get out more.”Kylie who’s dating Spanish model Andres Velencoso recently revealed she wants to start a family.“It won’t happen just yet but soon I hope, it would be lovely. I’ve got a new album coming out I’ll have to get that out of the way first,” she said.
WHEN music video starring Alicia Keys latest single “Put It In A Love Song”, a duet with Beyonce Knowles R & B singer was in Rio de Janeiro, last week. The wife of rapper Jay-Z spit it back sexiness wearing body with intricate patterned jumpers completed a hat. Apparently, eye catching clothing worn by the 26-year-old woman was the design of Maya A Lake. Maya is a designer label Boxing Kitten is responsible to design a black tank top and worn white singer based in New Jersey is now starring in a video clip “Rude Boy”. Maya is also a favorite designer of another celebrity, from Fergie, Solange, and Erykah Badu.
Melina Matsoukas, music video director Beyonce and Alicia Keys, deliberately mendapuk the designer to design a brightly colored clothing and sexy, in accordance with the carnival theme. Such as Legal lansir of People, Monday (2/22/2010). “Keys and Beyonce put on the draft Lake jumper labeled ‘Billie’, after the legendary singer Billie Holiday wore these clothes. The Keys also wore a black and white dress custom made, as well as a skirt ‘Althea’ which I have made much shorter because I think be sweet to be used in the video clip, “said Maya told People.
“Meanwhile, Rihanna appeared on the video clip ‘Rude Boy’ by wearing black and white bustier that totally custom made,” said Maya.As reported previously, to star in a video clip, Beyonce and Alicia’s body was also showing off sexiness with Samba costumes of bikinis, including some decorative feathers head high like a princess on 9 February. The single taken from Alicia’s third album titled “Element of Freedom”.
“All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason,” Jay Electronica said via phone from London. Jay who’s on the other side of the pond headlining shows — just celebrated his daughter Mars’ first birthday (mom is Erykah Badu) and his hometown team the New Orleans Saints just won the Super Bowl. Plus his career is on the upswing; life is good. Jay’s Just Blaze-produced “Exhibit C” is one of those special hip-hop records that you hear and instantly love. An independent release, it’s garnering heavy rotation on major radio stations like New York’s Hot 97, and in the streets and on the Internet the record has the buzz of a #1 single. Several MCs from Capone-N-Noreaga to Cassidy have freestyled over the track on mixtapes and Diddy, Mos Def, Nas, Q-Tip and Talib Kweli have been publicly co-signing Electronica. The record is definitely his breakthrough.”We did that song in 15 minutes,” Jay boasted. The track came about when Jay and Just Blaze were scheduled to be on Angela Yee’s Sirius Satellite radio show and wanted to make a new record to play on the program.
“We never went on the show,” Jay explained. “We fell asleep in the studio. I forgot the song existed. I didn’t hear it again until I heard it on Tony Touch’s [satellite radio show]. I was mad. Even when he played it on the show, he said, ‘I’m gonna get in trouble for doing that.’ The next day [the song] was all over the Net and people were asking for the CD-quality version. It grew legs on its own. It’s amazing to see. It grew its own legs. To see it walk all the way to mainstream commercial radio is a helluva magic trick. It’s almost like it’s an entity of its own.” Other than Electronica’s distinctive deep tone and conviction in his verse, it’s his inspiring story on the record that pulls the listener in. One of the topics he speaks on is overcoming homelessness. “On the record I was talking about when I was homeless in New York,” he explained. “I’ve been homeless on a few occasions. That was the first time I was homeless in New York. The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.” Jay moved from his native New Orleans to ATL in hopes of breaking into the music biz in the mid-’90s.
“Music in New Orleans was a local thing or regional at best,” he said. “No Limit had just started gaining ground, being recognized on a national level … actually, No Limit was shortly after that. I was also in a searching period in my life and one of my good friends had gotten killed. I was like, ‘You know what? I’m outta here.’ ” Jay lived in New York briefly in 1999 before moving to Chicago, where he once again found himself literally out on the streets. But eventually the Big Apple would be the place Jay would plant his feet and establish himself musically.
“A lot of people would always say I’m delusional,” he said about his triumph. “I always felt like, ‘I’m gonna do it no matter what.’ There were times when my spirit would be broken a little bit but I still would be pushing forward. I had little jobs in between, but I was still pushing forward. Any time I got told no or ‘You’re getting too old,’ the record companies was telling me, ‘Blah, blah, blah,’ I guess stubbornness kept me going. But I always believed this my entire life — that I was destined to do something on a global scale.
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“But I matured in it as I got older,” he explained. “At first it was because I wanted to be like LL. After a while, I started getting mission-orientated once I took that mindset on I felt like, ‘I cannot not do it.’ ” The first body of work Jay released that got him recognition in the industry was Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge). He rapped over music looped from the film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” “If ‘Exhibit C’ is Jesus, then Act I: Eternal Sunshine, (The Pledge) is John the Baptist,” he claimed.
Act II is coming “soon” with more production by Just Blaze. That too will be a free opus, with his official album Act III to follow. Nas makes a cameo on Act II while Jay’s gems “Exhibit A,” “Exhibit C” and “Moleskin” will be included on the latter. Just Blaze, J Dilla, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Mr. Porter and Jay himself will produce. “I never got a moment where I feel I made it, victory, completion,” Jay says of his buzz. “I’ve had moments of excitement. I can’t believe people are responding like this. It’s an overwhelming thing — even though it’s something you planned for, it’s a surprise.”
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