Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Is that Kim Kardashian? Socialite takes inspiration from Nicki Minaj for Jam music video in black and red wig

By Daily Mail Reporter


New look: Kim Kardashian pulled on a scarlet red and jet black wig for her the video for her new single Jam


Her long glossy locks are almost as famous as her curvy figure.

And while Kim Kardashian may constantly change her wardrobe, she rarely changes her hair.

But the reality star completely transformed her look for her new Jam music video, seemingly taking inspiration from the unlikely source of rapper Nicki Minaj.

Pulling on a scarlet red and jet black wig, the 30-year-old mogul was almost unrecognisable if it wasn't for her trademark pouty lips.


Along with the synthetic strands she pressed on acrylic nails in similar colours.

She also poured her ample curves into a pink-laced corset making her bustier that ever.

The extreme look was finished off with stage make-up which achieved an almost doll-like effect.

Kim, as always, took to her blog to upload the photos from the video shoot and to express her excitement over the new look.

'This is one of the other fun looks I tried out for my music video. It's definitely a different look from anything I've tried before! How amazing are those nails!?' she wrote.

The pictures showed Kim being made-up for the shoot and posing and pouting with her make-up artist.

It also gave her fans a sneak peek of the new music video.

The excited star released her début single earlier this week on Ryan Seacrest's KISS FM breakfast show.

The poppy dance track, Jam (Turn It Up) was produced by hit record maker The Dream, who has worked with the likes of Rihanna, Beyonce and Kanye West.

'It's a fun dance song,' Kim told Ryan Seacrest, going on to describe the response it got in Las Vegas over New Year.

'We played it in Tao in Vegas and the whole crowd was singing along in the end.'
The singer revealed she was uneasy at first about trying something new.

'I think it's only normal for me to be nervous,' she told MTV of the chance to work alongside The Dream on a song.

'I'm human… this is definitely something that I don't do. I needed to step outside my comfort zone. This is a really big deal.'

Strike a pose: Kim and her make-up artist had a ball during the transformation process

Make-over: Kim's trademark pouty lips were painted scarlet red


'This was just a fun new experience.

'I am so glad I went for it. And the proceeds to Jam are being donated to St. Jude's Children's Hospital.'.

Reviews of the new song have already started streaming in and unfortunately for Kim they aren't so kind.

Strike a pose: Kim took to her blog to upload photos from the video shoot and to express her excitement over the new look


The New York Daily News especially gave the tune a particularly scathing evaluation.

'It's official: Atlanta Housewife Kim Zolciak is no longer the worst singer ever to slither out of a reality TV series and into a recording studio,' it said.

'It's a dead-brained piece of generic dance music, without a single distinguishing feature. As for Kim's singing, it's a bit of breathing that's been auto-tuned into something vaguely approximating a vocal.'

Meanwhile Kim has been enjoying some downtime.

Finished product: Kim also posted a sneak peek of her music video clip


Yesterday she treated herself to a pampering session as she headed to the Lancer Dermatology centre in Beverly Hills for some skin care.

Dressed in a long beige cardigan and some casual jeans, she looked ready for relaxation.

But for her day-off she still couldn't bare to be without a pair of platform stilettos.

She slipped on a cream and gold pair for the occasion.

Downtime: Kim spent some time pampering herself yesterday as she headed to the Lancer Dermatology centre in Beverly Hills for some skin care





Source:dailymail

Sunday, February 27, 2011

The cat that got the dream: Nicole Scherzinger says goodbye to the Dolls

By LIZ JONES

'I don't really like the Wag tag because I think it's demeaning. I mean, I'm an independent woman, says Nicole


Having slogged hard to get to the top, former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger is a lot more relaxed on the diet and fitness front these days. But that certainly doesn’t mean her solo ambitions are taking a back seat to F1 beau Lewis Hamilton’s career, as Liz Jones discovers

I have a Pussycat Doll (well, a former Pussycat Doll) in my hotel room. She keeps ordering food, and glasses of white wine, which is something celebrities, especially female celebrities, rarely do. I keep thinking of all the men I could send a text message to who would be driven insane with jealousy that Nicole Scherzinger is perched on the end of my bed.

She is all in black – skin-tight jeans, curvy jacket – and she’s complaining about the cold: London is in the grip of a deep freeze. ‘I live in California!’ she cries. ‘Please can I shut the window?’


Nicole with F1 boyfriend Lewis Hamilton, left, and performing on The X Factor


If there is one woman in the world who can outdo Cheryl Cole in the incredibly, outrageously groomed glamour-puss stakes, it’s 32-year-old Nicole.

When she stood in for Cheryl as a judge on The X Factor, her lashes were longer, her black hair reached that impossibly round posterior, the clothes seemed airbrushed on to her naturally honeyed skin, and her affinity with the contestants bordered on the motherly. She was hilarious, rather than always being on the verge of crocodile tears.

To one clearly hopeless hopeful she said, deadpan, ‘You need to work on your vocals.’ She spotted the potential of eventual runner-up Rebecca Ferguson after about one perfect note. ‘She reminds me a little bit of Billie Holiday, maybe Aretha Franklin meets Etta James,’ she says today. ‘It’s just that really, really, you know, dirty-sounding voice.’


Nicole speaks in that slightly hushed, soft whisper beloved of so many American stars, but the gentle tones belie the fact that she possesses what is clearly an inner core of titanium. I’ve been reading her Tweets, and it seems 17-hour days are routine.

The morning after we meet she says she has to be up at five. When I ask what she is going to do with the one evening she has free in London, she replies, ‘I am going to watch a film in my room and order room service!’

But when I ask how on earth she finds the time to maintain a body like hers – she’s a UK size 8 – she says she has in fact become more relaxed about her body, and is 11lb heavier than in her Pussycat heyday. She used to do that Los Angeles thing of never eating after 7pm, but with me she is tucking into the olives as if there’s no tomorrow, and it’s almost 7.30! ‘I’m a perfectionist, but I have been trying to be a little easier on myself,’ she says.


‘I love my pasta, my chocolate; I cook when I can. I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I’m a pretty simple girl. I’m eating now with you because I haven’t had time all day. Not a second.’

Cakes? Pies? So does she work out all the time? I read that instead of feeling like a singer, she feels like an Olympic athlete. She shakes her head. ‘I’m taking a break now. For a couple of years, at the end of the Dolls, fitness was my life. I’m a lot more relaxed now. The choreography from the dancing keeps me in shape.

If I ever feel like I need to be stronger in my mind and body then I jog. I’m a runner, I like that. But I love to sleep. I used to not like to sleep but now I love it.’

On the day we meet, she gets the news that her single ‘Poison’ is number one on the UK iTunes chart. Sales were boosted by her live performance on The X Factor. Although she had huge success with the Dolls, you feel Nicole has still to prove herself as a solo artist.

Nicole’s new single ‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’ will be released on 13 March


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source: dailymail

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Is this the most ill-advised pop comeback ever? B*Witched twins look like cheap Lady Gagas for attempted chart return

By Georgina Littlejohn


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They're back: Edele and Keavey have reunited and are now called Barbarella


They were the sweet and sickly girl group that topped the UK charts several times in the late 90s but then disappeared without trace a few years later.

But nine years after they split, B*Witched have pulled themselves out of the 'where are they now' file and are back with a new look, a new name - and two less members.

However, their attempt to reign the pop charts once again could be set to fail before it has even started, if today's TV appearance was anything to go by.


Twins Keavy and Edele Lynch appeared on Lorraine Kelly's show this morning reformed - without former members Lindsey Armaou and Sinead O'Carroll - as a two-piece called Barbarella.

And keeping the sci-fi theme, the 32-year-olds were dressed in white bodysuits, silver cropped jackets and cropped bobbed wigs.

But as one observer put it, they looked more like 'Primark Lady Gaga' then possibly the cool and cutting edge look they were probably striving for.


Desperate? Or determined? The former B*Witched twins are back as duo Barbarella and appeared - in space age Gaga attire - in Lorraine Kelly's show to promote their debut single


The twins, who are the younger sisters of Boyzone and Coronation Street star Shane, are set to release their debut single Body Rock on Monday.

They performed the single on the show for Fiona Phillips, who was sitting in for Lorraine, with three half naked male dancers.


Sisterly strut: Keavy and Edele perform their new single in the studio - complete with semi-naked male dancers


Space age: The girls tried to emulate Lady Gaga in their bodysuits and cropped bobbed wigs


But long-gone was the saccharine fresh-faced 23-year-old chart-toppers of the late 90s that sold-out concerts and also became a success across the Pond in the United States.

Instead, the two girls just looked sad and desperate, their performance looking far too amateur from a duo who have had years of experience in the industry.


We're back! The girls make their presence known in their music video


Before they sang, they spoke to Phillips about their time away from the charts and said they were shocked when they were dropped without warning by their record label in 2002.

But while Edele threw herself into her work, writing songs for Girls Aloud and Sugababes, it hit Keavy hard and she sunk into depression.

But having bounced back after seeking much-needed help, she said it didn't put her off returning to the charts.


Not so sweet anymore: The girls ditch the denim for skin-tight suits


Keavy said: 'So many people ask us why we're doing it again and we've always loved music, we've been writing songs since we were teenagers, it's about the love of music for us.'

And they said their older brother has been very supportive of their comeback - even if his manager, X Factor judge Louis Walsh isn't.

Edele said: 'Louis doesn't like to promote bands that aren't his own. So when our names come up naturally in conversation about Wonderland, an Irish girl band, he goes, "oh please!".

'But maybe he's not trying to shake off the B*Witched image - that's our job!'


Chart cuties: B*Witched - with former members Lindsay Armaou and Sinéad O'Carroll - in an early photo shoot in 1998







Source:Dailymail

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