Stars Are Blind

Rolling Stones magazine talks about Justin Timberlakes new album FutureSex/LoveSounds. Our intention was to make every song so good that we had a problem picking singles, says Justin, who is wrapping up his September release, FutureSex/LoveSounds. And now we are having a problem picking the singles.

After his Justified tour wound down in late 2003, Justin says he put music aside to focus on acting: Three films featuring Justin“Edison, Alpha Dog, and Black Snake Moan“are slated to premiere this year. But about a year ago, he became fed up with what he heard on the radio (I just didnt think it was that good, personally) and got the bug to make another record. My main thing was that I didnt want to sound like I did on Justified, he says. I wanted to take a chance to experiment with the tone of my voice, the production and the arrangements.

Justin started recording in LA with the BEPs Will.I.am and later with Rick Rubin, but he hit his stride in Miami during sessions at the Hit Factory with Timbaland and Timbas protege Nate Danja Hills in November. There was no pretension, he says. Every body was throwing ideas into the pot. And I cant say enough about Timbaland. He knocked every beat out of the park.

The trio struck gold on their first day in Miami, laying down What Goes Around Comes Around, a soaring ballad featuring Justins falsetto, with verses and choruses that pile on top of one another with dizzying effect. That song has an A hook and a B hook, says Justin. Somebody once said to me that when John Lennon found a hook for a song, hed make it the verse. Thats what I was going for. (The song, which is about a guy who gets dumped but has the last laugh, isnt autobiographical in anyway, says Justin. But Id be lying if I said I didnt have the experience to relay the message.)

The albums first single, Sexyback which will hit radio on July 7th, was JTs attempt to harness the raw vocal emotion that he hears in singers like David Bowie, Michael Hutchence, and David Byrne. That he utters the phrase, Im bringing sexy back/ You mothaf**kers watch how I attack jibes with Justins belief that his audience has grown up with him. My music is for my age group says the 25 year old. My Love features a percussive loop played on wine glasses and a twenty-four bar rap from TI (other raps on the album come from Three 6 Mafia and Will.I.Am) before morphing into a salsa beat. Though the singer and his label, Jive Records have yet to agree on the final cuts, Justin says FutureSex/LoveSounds will be dominated by songs that came out of the Miami sessions, with one exception: the mellow Rubin-produced tribute to Donny Hathaway, Another Song. Justin adds that his time in the studio with Rubin was so fruitful that it has inspired yet another album and he says that Another Song will bridge the gap. Weve done a bunch of songs together, says Justin, who will show off about five of his new tunes during a US club tour in August. But I dont want to jinx that“right now Im just trying to get peoples asses off the wall.

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Check out Fergie from Black Eyed Peas new single London Bridge. Fergies debut album will be released sometime this fall. I really like the song the breakdown is pretty good. Its sounds sorta sounds like Timbaland, Rich Harrison, Missy Elliott track in a way. The song was produced by Polow Da Don check it out.

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Apparently, Britney Spears Bazaar cover will be released afterall

Just days after baring her soul on Dateline, the pregnant pop tart is taking a page out of Demi Moores playbook and baring, well, everything else, for the cover of the August issue of Harpers Bazaar.

The magazine confirmed Wednesday that Spears posed in the nude for the cover and an accompanying feature story and photo spread at a shoot on Thursday.

Unfortunately for Harpers, said photos leaked onto the Internet shortly after the conclusion of the shoot and were available on various Websites as of Wednesday afternoon.

In the images, a newly dark-haired Spears strikes various poses in all her six-months-pregnant glory, sometimes clothed, sometimes not.

A naked Sean Preston makes a cameo in one of the photos, clutched in his mothers arms. A naked Kevin Federline, thankfully, did not make the cut.

After the leak, Harpers released the cover shot for publicity purposes, but informed the non-Internet-using segment of its readership that it would have to wait until the issue hit stands on July 25 to view the rest of the spread.

Spears, shall we say, artsy cover girl stint comes after the singer was reportedly shocked by the negative reaction to her recent tearful Dateline confessional.

In a poll conducted by Us Weekly, 87 percent of respondents said they had less respect for Spears after her sitdown with Matt Lauer. Meanwhile, the New York Post reported that the NBC crew filming the interview was so startled by Spears disheveled appearance when they arrived that they thought they had the wrong day.

As a result of the backlash, Spears apparently decided to prove that with the help of a little airbrushing, she can be the same Britney we once knew and loved. Except, you know, pregnant.

Meanwhile, according to a report in In Touch Weekly, Spears is considering returning to her roots“and not just the brunette ones. The magazine claims that the Louisiana native is considering moving back home to the town of Kentwood, where she was born.

She wants to come home, Kentwood Mayor Harold Smith told the magazine. Shes building more rooms for her growing family. She wants a nursery and some kids rooms.

The magazine claims that Federline is supportive of his wifes wishes, though theres no telling how the move could affect his quest to save the penny.

The couple is expecting their second child together, and Federlines fourth overall, in October

source: yahoo

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From Music to movies. Pink has landed her first major movie role. Following her cameo performance in Charlies Angels: Full Throttle, the singer had been looking for another film script that took her fancy and settled on horror flick Catacombs, which was shot earlier this year. Its pretty intense, says Pink of the story, which co-stars Shannyn Sossamon as her characters sister. Its not only a sort of slasher type, scary movie; its also psychological and shows how mean and cruel siblings can be to one another. I liked that part of it.
source:glamour

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