Anastacia Is A Freak of Nature

Posted on 26 February, 2002 by admin

After giving us ‘Paid My Dues’, Anastacia’s back once more with her second single that can be found on her sophomore full-length recording from Epic Records, ‘Freak Of Nature’. Called ‘One Day In Your Life’, it’s one of those songs that seem to get stuck in your head once you hear it, especially the part where she sings the title.

The Chicago-born, New York raised singer who co-wrote 12 songs on her follow-up LP which by the way has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide and counting, used to be called freak of nature by her mother because of Anastacia’s voice that simply don’t match the way she looks.Set for even bigger things in the future, Anastacia and that mesmerizing voice of hers will be recognised by even more people when she sings the new World Cup 2002 theme song entitled ‘Boom’ which she wrote for the occasion with Glen Ballard. Who knows, the World Cup song might do the same for Anastacia as it did for Ricky Martin way back in 1998. ‘Boom’ will be available on the ‘International Official Album of the 2002 FIFA World Cup’ which will be out around late May just about the same time when the World Cup fever starts to kick in.

Anyway, ‘One Day In Your Life’ is a pretty cool number that I would give 3 stars out of 5. Worth listening to.

The Envious Dawn Robinson

Posted on 26 February, 2002 by admin

Dawn Robinson has, recently in the US, released her solo disc, ‘Dawn’ and the very first single to be taken off it is called ‘Envious’. Who exactly is Dawn Robinson and why should anyone keep a lookout for her material?

See, back in the 90’s, Dawn was previously of the successful R&B outfit, En Vogue. When she left the group, she, together with Ali Shaeed Muhammad formerly of A Tribe Called Quest fame and Raphael Saadiq who was in the past, in Tony Tone Toni, formed the critically acclaimed, Grammy nominated Lucy Pearl.Apparently, Dawn’s thirst to branch out as a solo artiste took over and soon after leaving Lucy Pearl, she signed on with Q Records last year and immediately started looking for collaborators. “In many ways this is the record I was always supposed to make,” she says. “The one where I feel I’ve left no creative stone unturned. The opportunity with Q gave me a chance to be more creative all the way around. Q Records understands what I want to accomplish. I’m in a place where I can make the kind of solo album all my fans have been waiting for.”

Her new album, which consists of 12 songs, also gives her the opportunity to write and produce her songs, something she wasn’t able to do in the past. Filled with an outstanding mix of soul, rock, funk and R&B in her brand new CD, the stunning beauty, who grew up listening to The Bee Gees and Janis Joplin, worked with Pajam (N’Sync, Sisqo), Travon Potts (Christina Aguilera, Monica), and more when it came to putting her solo release together.

More news on Dawn? Want to catch her music video? You might want to get to her website then at: www.dawnrobinson.net

Today Is Kylie Fever Day

Posted on 26 February, 2002 by admin

Today sees the long-awaited release of Kylie’s hit album “Fever” in the United States.

The album has already gone double-platinum in the UK alone, and according to our sources, the initial pressings will contain two extra bonus tracks – “Boy” and “Butterfly”.

The full tracking listing is as follows:More More More

Love At First Sight

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

Fever

Give It To Me

Fragile

Come Into My World

In Your Eyes

Dancefloor

Love Affair

Your Love

Burning Up

Boy (Bonus Track)

Butterfly (Bonus Track)

Princess Superstar Is A Bad Babysitter

Posted on 25 February, 2002 by admin

Currently at No.11 on the UK charts for her pretty filthy single ‘Bad Babysitter’, Princess Superstar, born Concetta Kirschner, has been dubbed as the female equivalent of Eminem.

It may seem like Princess Superstar, a native New Yorker, is a newcomer but the truth of the matter is she has been making music for years at her own leisurely pace and her latest album ‘Princess Superstar Is’ is actually her fourth LP.”Everyone tells me I’m the female Eminem. Well, all I’m going to talk about is getting f***ed up the butt then.”

Seldom a second passes on Princess Superstar’s excellent current album without the New Yorker impressing with her astounding lyrics. Fresh and with a twisted sense of humour, Princess Superstar, who respects Missy Elliott a lot and feels there should be more female rappers today, offers what is lacking in today’s music scene.

In an exclusive interview conducted recently, Princess Superstar, who chose the stage name so as to be as ironic and over the top as possible, talked about her controversial music video for her ‘Bad Babysitter’ number. She said “There are different boyfriends in the shower. There’s even the pizza man who turns up and I do nasty, crazy things to him.”

Princess Superstar has her own official website:

www.princesssuperstar.com. Surf on to there for more news.

Puddle Of Mudd Comes Clean

Posted on 25 February, 2002 by admin

Faking a backstage pass and handing a demo tape to Fred Durst at a Limp Bizkit concert in Kansas, Puddle Of Mudd may have never enjoyed commercial success at all. Last week, they entered the UK charts at a No.15 slot for their incredible debut offering ‘Control’. Their virgin album ‘Come Clean’ can be found in stores right now and has sold over 1.3 million copies in the US alone.

Signed on to Fred Durst’s Flawless Records, Puddle Of Mudd consist of singer/guitarist Wes Scantlin, guitarist Paul Phillips, bassist Doug Ardito and drummer Greg Upchurch.Puddle Of Mudd revealed their true feelings recently on the whole Britney phenomenon and the lack of non-manufactured pop dominating the charts nowadays and this is what lead singer Wesley had to say “I like listening to artists that write their own music. It really, really connects the band to the music.” He went on to diss artists who don’t write their own songs as “puppets”. Paul, the guitarist, added: “Actually, I like her when the mute button is on. If the volume is down all the way, she’s great”.

If you liked their first smash hit ‘Control’, then you definitely wouldn’t want to miss their follow up track entitled ‘Blurry’ which just happens to be a personal favourite of mine.

Anyway, Wesley and company can be found on their official home on the web at: www.puddleofmudd.com

Brandy’s Full Moon Releases Today

Posted on 25 February, 2002 by admin

After two mutli-platinum albums, Brandy releases her brand new album in the UK today.

Titled “Full Moon”, it features input from Rodney Jerkins (Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez), and Keith Crouch (Boyz II Men, Toni Braxton), as well as acclaimed producers as Mike City (Sunshine Anderson), and Warren Campbell (Angie Stone, Sisqo).

The album is scheduled for a US release on Tuesday March 5th.

The track listing is as follows:1. B Rocka Intro

2. Full Moon

3. I Thought

4. When You Touch Me

5. Like This

6. All In Me

7. Apart

8. Can We

9. What About Us?

10. Anybody

11. Nothing

12. It’s Not Worth It

13. He Is

14. Come A Little Closer

15. Love Wouldn’t Count Me Out

16. Wow

17. Another Day In Paradise

Christina Closes Down The Winter Olympics

Posted on 25 February, 2002 by admin

Christina Aguilera closed down the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, USA, with a fantastic performance of her upcoming track “Infatuation”. She was wearing a great outfit, her dance moves were as slick as ever, and her vocals were strong.

As reported earlier on Pop-Music.com, Christina has a new album slated for release in April or May, and we should see it include Latin, Pop and R n’ B influences. “Infatuation” should do comfortably in the charts when it is released.

Other perfomers at the closing cermony included British Dance act Moby, Charlotte Church and Jon Bon Jovi.

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In Your Eyes At Number Three

Posted on 25 February, 2002 by admin

Kylie has gone straight into this week’s UK Top 40 chart at Number Three.

Her single, “In Your Eyes”, didn’t quite sell enough to beat Westlife with their new track “World Of Our Own”. Westlife knocked Enrique Iglesias off the top spot, after being there for 4 consecutive weeks with “Hero”.

Still, Kylie’s peformance at last week’s Brit awards should give us some idea of what to expect in her upcoming UK tour, and we doubt very much that fans will be dissapointed.

Well done Kylie!

Bryan McFadden, the Drunk

Posted on 25 February, 2002 by admin

When Bryan McFadden, husband of ex-Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona, has a bit too much to drink, those around him had better beware. He might try finding trouble with just about anybody and may have to be restrained.

The one-fifth member of Westlife had to be controlled by security at the Brits after drunkenly winding up So Solid Crew who won for Best British Video for their ’21 Seconds’. The Irish singer, whose band had almost a thousand votes disqualified by the Brit Awards’ organisers after it was discovered that it was voted with just 3 phone lines by their over-obsessive fans, wandered over to their table shouting, “You’re crap!”In order to prevent any messy conflict from taking place, Bryans’ minders had to swiftly step in and hold him back.

Afterward a member from So Solid Crew said, “We didn’t rise to the bait. We’re not interested in picking a fight with Westlife.”

But according to newspaper reports, that wasn’t the end of Bryan’s dramatic night. One observer claimed Bryan’s guard had to go to extremes, hitting him in the face to stop him from getting into more mess. And that’s not all.

Shortly after his run in with his very own security guard, Bryan had to be escorted from the backstage area by more security guards because he was just so drunk.

The Westlife member was spotted wandering around the television and radio area with a bottle of white wine gripped tightly to his hands. After being pulled out of a photo-taking session, he gatecrashed Samantha Mumba’s radio interview.

So far, there has been no comment from Westlife pertaining to this incident at the time this article was written..

Don’t Let Pink Get Herself

Posted on 25 February, 2002 by admin

I wanna be somebody else, yeah/ LA told me, “You’ll be a pop star/ all you have to change is everything you are”/ tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears/ she’s so pretty, that just ain’t me/ doctor, doctor won’t you please prescribe something/ a day in the life of someone else?/ ’cause I’m a hazard to myself.

That’s an excerpt of lyrics taken off the latest offering from Alicia Moore also more popularly known as Pink. Entitled ‘Don’t Let Me Get Me’, Pink, who never had friends of her own age while growing up, has decided to release this rock sounding new cut of hers as a single, found on her ‘M!ssundaztood’ LP. ‘Don’t Let Me Get Me’ is a follow-up to the smash tune ‘Get The Party Started’.Pink who grew up listening to The Supremes, Donna Hathaway and Madonna whom she actually thought was her mom for almost a year, got the world to take notice of her with that catchy song of hers, ‘There U Go’ that can be found on her debut album ‘Can’t Take Me Home’.

Her songs are no longer only about boys. On ‘M!ssundaztood’, Pink’s sophomore album, the tracks now seem to delve into family troubles, loneliness, how annoying she can be to herself and, of course, getting her party started. Most of the songs were penned by Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes fame together with Pink herself.

Interviewed a while ago about her ‘Get The Party Started’ tune, Pink said “Linda had actually written that song a week before she met me. Yeah, so I heard it, I loved it. I loved the vibe. I loved just everything about it, from the horns to the way we sang it. It’s a good song.”

‘Get the Party Started’ forms a bridge from Pink’s last album to her current LP, keeping the familiar dance feel but bidding goodbye to the R&B sound that dominated practically every single number on ‘Can’t Take Me Home’, as well as the airwaves for the past few years.

For more details regarding Pink, go to her website: www.pinkspage.com.