Halfway Down The Sky For Splender

Posted on 7 July, 2002 by admin

Splender is going to release ‘To Whom It May Concern’ come 20th of August.

Splender is, of course, the band that gave us all hits like ‘Yeah, Whatever’ and ‘I Think God Can Explain’, taken off their debut album ‘Halfway Down The Sky’.

‘Halfway Down The Sky’ was backed by Columbia Records but apparently when the A&R person left, so did Splender. So now, their upcoming release in August will be released through the good people at J Records.

The first single from ‘To Whom It May Concern’ is ‘Save It For Later’ and it’s played in radio outlets in US right this instance.

Hear the single and more at their official site, conveniently located at http://www.splender.com/.

Kylie Minogue Does Indeed Have Cellulite

Posted on 6 July, 2002 by admin

Pop vocalistress Kylie Minogue has revealed that she does actually have cellulite. The claims will get a thumbs up from women around the world but her male fans will greet the news with shock.

The Australian’s flimsy outfits have helped her soar back to the top of the charts. Her glittering hot pants have become legendary among tabloid newspapers. With all those sexy duds that she wears, people have long wondered whether or not she does possess cellulite. Mel B, in a previous Pop-Music.com article, went on to say that Kylie did do plastic surgery.

Kylie admits most photographs of her are so airbrushed that they bare scant resemblance to the real Kylie.

“Cellulite is there already. It’s only faint, but if I squeeze my thighs I can see it. I just make sure my lights are in the right place,” the 34 year old said.

The elfin star, who rejects Mel B’s accusations on the whole she having cosmetic surgery, went on to say that she is open to the idea of plastic surgery or so-called soft surgery such as Botox injections.

“I’m not averse to it. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image then I can kind of understand that pressure. I’m considered to be one of those images and I know how unreal they are” she told Marie Claire magazine.

Other glamour icons such as Jerry Hall and Naomi Hall have been pictured with the dreaded dimpled skin around their thighs. But few are as willing as Kylie to admit that many of their official photographs are airbrushed.

Well done Kylie.

All Eyez On Monica

Posted on 6 July, 2002 by admin

R&B singer and possibly Brandy’s rival (it’s what I think), Monica, has just finished wrapping up work on her upcoming third LP set. Apparently, after agonizing over coming up with a proper name for her new album, she’s decided on just calling it ‘Monica’.

In a statement released on the 27th of June, she describes her new material as a “coming of age” offering that she co-wrote, saying “I’ve never had a self-titled album before and since I co-wrote the entire thing, what better timing for one?”.

The new album, due out in shops come 20th of August, is backed by the people of J Records. They’re the people who gave us Alicia Keys, Angie Stone, Busta Rhymes and more.

The first single from the album, ‘All Eyez on Me’, which features part of Michael Jackson’s ‘Pretty Young Thing’, is already playing at R&B radio stations. Other songs on the album are ‘Ain’t Gonna Cry No More’, ‘Breaks My Heart’, ‘Down 4 Whateva’, ‘Searchin”, ‘U Should’ve Known’, ‘I Wrote This Song’, ‘If U Were the Girl’ and more.

‘Monica’ follows 1998’s ‘The Boy is Mine’, featuring the No. 1 hit duet with Brandy on the title track, and 1995’s ‘Miss Thang’.

Spiritualized To Play Witnness Festival

Posted on 6 July, 2002 by admin

Music fans who still in outdoorsy kind of mood after this year’s Glastonbury will be pleased to hear that Spiritualized are to play this year’s Witnness Festival in Ireland.

Jason Pierce and crew will play the Dance Stage at The Fairyhouse Racecourse, just outside Dublin on the 13th of July.

Other acts recently who have recently been added to the line-up over the weekend of 13th and 14th of July include Telepopmusik and The Redneck Manifesto. Oasis, Foo Fighters, The Prodigy, Green Day and a whole host of other big name bands will also do their thang at the event.

Westlife Spends Million Pounds To Be Thin And Posh

Posted on 5 July, 2002 by admin

You’ve probably already heard this but in case you haven’t, Westlife have decided that they need to pay out GBP1 million in order to revamp their image so that they can crack the American market. You know what’s interesting, Westlife did swear that they would never return to the US again after they failed to make an impression last year. Wonder what inspired them to give it another shot?

Anyway, as previously reported on Pop-Music.com a while back, we all know that they’ve been putting on weight and in order to win the hearts of the Americans, they’ve got to be thin so I reckon part of that GBP1 million goes to the slimming pills and diets and what not.

They’re also having posh makeovers as well so a chunk of that million pounds would go there. Apparently, their looks and image have to undergo a massive change so as to appeal to the music fans Stateside, complete with new hairstyles and designer duds.

So what happens to the rest of the money? See, they have to make high-class music videos as well so they’ve hired video maestro, AttiI J, to reshoot their ‘World Of Our Own’ video.

A source told The Daily Star “Westlife know how much effort needs to be taken into cracking America and they’re psyched up for it.”

Their new American manager Robert Livingston is confident that they will be a hit in America and has booked them to appear on top rated US chat shows like ‘The Late Show With David Letterman’, my favourite ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’ and ‘Entertainment Tonight.’

Think they’ll make it? I’ve my doubts.

Nelly On Ways To Not Get Spotted And Speaks About A Duet Featuring Justin

Posted on 5 July, 2002 by admin

As we all know, huge stars need to put on sunglasses, a hat, and baggy clothes, even if it’s in the evening, just to head on down to the store without getting noticed. All rapper Nelly needs to do is shut his mouth up and take off his trademark Band-Aid from his cheek.

When asked if he can still go to the mall unbothered, Nelly tells a reporter “Probably not the mall. But yeah, I just put a hat on and I’m fine. I still go to the same clubs as everybody else, I stop by the same fast food joints as everybody else. If I don’t have the Band-Aid on, people will say, ‘You look just like Nelly.’ But when I open my mouth to talk, they’ll spot the gold teeth. But really until then, I can just walk around like a regular fellah.”

Meanwhile, when rapper Nelly was coming up with a song for N’Sync’s Justin Timberlake to duet with him, he said a pop ditty about “diamond rings and chains and cars” just wasn’t going to cut it.

“The thing is, for me, I was trying to keep Justin realistic and believable. I don’t want Justin singing about my ‘hood or about diamond rings and chains and cars because that wouldn’t be believable, now would it. I wanted something he and I could feel comfortable with, and what better than singing about the girlies?” explains Nelly.

Trina Plus Tweet Have No Panties On

Posted on 4 July, 2002 by admin

Raunchy rapper Trina is set to release her new single ‘No Panties’, come 16th of July in the US of A. ‘Diamond Princess’ is where ‘No Panties’, its first single, is taken from.

Trina teams up with ‘Call Me’ vocalistress, Tweet in ‘No Panties’. Speaking to a popular webzine, Trina said “I absolutely love Tweet. She is adorable and such a dazzling cookie.”

So what’s ‘No Panties’ about? “It’s a song about two girls who are real glammed out” according to Trina. “They love diamonds. Love a lot of money. ‘No Panties’ is a real sexy song and it’s really hot, trust me.”

With a title like that, I’m sure it’ll do pretty swell. Anyway, just for the record, Trina’s debut album was ‘Da Baddest Bitch’ and it was made available in 2000. Trina’s spokespeople say that you’ll find Trina’s new full-length CD set, ‘Diamond Princess’ out in shops sometime in the end of August.

Jennifer Lopez Real Busy Making Movies

Posted on 3 July, 2002 by admin

Jennifer Lopez may be stepping into the superhero world with ‘Shrink’ but don’t expect to see her in spandex.

“She’s surely not going to get dressed up in spandex” said ‘Shrink’ creator, Rob Liefeld. “She gets to look great in her designer clothes and at the same time, be the center of a universe where everything around her is extraordinary.”

Picked up by J.Lo’s production company, Nuyorican, ‘Shrink’, the film version of the online comic strip, will star the pop diva as a psychiatrist who counsels both costumed heroes and villains. Nuyorican is also developing ‘Shrink’ alongside a handful of other projects.

“There’s also my ‘Carmen’ and I also have a upcoming flick called for now the ‘Hector Lavoe’ project, which is about a salsa singer and we’re getting most probably Marc Anthony to star with me. It’s about New York and that kind of whole salsa era. That’ll be interesting” J.Lo said recently.

Though ‘Shrink’ is expected to steer clear of salsa dancing, Rob deems it will positively stand out amid the slew of more serious comic-inspired movies flooding theaters.

“See, the genre was getting more accepted with the ‘X-Men’ movie, plus ‘Spider-Man’ blew like everything up ok and so somebody has to take the piss out of them right. That’s what we’re going to do” the veteran comic creator said.

N’Sync’s Joey Fatone Hangs With Korn

Posted on 3 July, 2002 by admin

Here’s a really interesting piece of news.

Nobody ever knows whether celebrities will show up at a big rock show, but no one, and I bet nobody there, even in their wildest dreams, could’ve guessed that they’ll be joining N’Sync’s Joey Fatone to rock out to Korn.

Pop star Joey, sans the rest of his N’Sync boys, was spotted backstage at the Korn concert in New York at Madison Square Garden last Monday night, 24th June. Most of the hipsters there were quite shocked and surprised to see him hanging with the rock crowd.

What were the chances, really, of that happening?

Hear’Say Defending New Bandmate

Posted on 3 July, 2002 by admin

What have the members of Hear’Say been up to recently? For the majority of their time, it seems like they all have been defending the audition process which picked out the band’s new member, Johnny Shentall.

At the time of the auditons, Hear’Say were accused of nepotism after it was discovered that Johnny was known to the band and had performed as a backing dancer with the group on ‘Top Of The Pops’.

“It wasn’t nepotism” said Hear’Say’s Danny Foster. “There was no fix and the auditions were legitimate. He had danced for us before but Johnny was the best man for the job.”

Johnny Shentall added “It hurt when I read the reports that the auditions were fixed because I queued up in the rain over two days to take part in the auditions. It’s true I did dance with the band but I was one of 15 dancers who performed with the group and I didn’t know the band at all. It was just a job.”

Hear’Say’s new single, ‘Lovin’ Is Easy’ will be released in August.