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Interview with Alan Carr on Chatty Man
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Today is rumored to be Cara's last day in the UK before flying back to the US for more US promotion for her album 'Distant Horizon' released this week which is also promoted by the single 'La Belle' and the promotional singles 'Honey' and 'Kiss To My Heart'. Wearing a Emanuel Ungaro outfit with Nicholas Kirkwood heels, Cara had her hair up in a bun while arriving to the show and sat down in a an elegant long dress from a private pieces collection of Cara composed of Vintage items. She also wore long black gloves and her hair had one big headpiece composed of Swarovski crystals and feathers, the ensemble giving off a very 1920s inspired outfit.
She sat down on the couch next to Alan Carr who proposed her a few drinks from which she gladly took a glass a filled it with a tequila. After joking around with Alan Carr a little bit and teasing him, acting as if she was being seduced by him, making the whole crowd laugh, the more serious interview started.
Alan Carr: So how do you actually go on promoting your album? Do you just ask your label to appear at a certain show and you come? I'm sure you asked yourself to come here
Cara: *laughs* Well not really, I do propose to appear at certain shows that I think are convenient, they book nearly everything as long as I'm in a perfect shape to promote I ask them to book me some more shows so I can just bring up my music again and again to everyone.
Alan: And your music, do you think people can relate to it?
Cara: Well it depends, it depends on a lot of things actually. This album talks about rejecting hate your getting, trying to make everything as amazing as it can be, with a few sex songs. I think everyone receives hate at some point, everyone tries to live as good as possible and everyone doesn't wants to have some more fun in life. So for this album, yes overall. Not directly through certain lyrics, because I'm pretty sure I'm one of the rare people who afford luxurious clothes or hang out with designers as said in the La Belle lyrics, but as an overall theme, basically making yourself look as good as possible yes, I think everyone relates to a certain level.
Alan: What about the tour, you keep on promising your fans you're doing a stadium tour, we stil haven't seen that!
Cara: Well it's just that I'm really busy right now, it will happen, that's for sure, when is the actual question. My label is currently booking a few venues here and there.
Alan: And you don't just do music. You're interested in a film career, continuing your own fashion line, creating your first perfume, is that right?
Cara: Yes, I already got the lead role in Paper Towns, I did this fashion line called 'CARA" back in 2013 and opened my own store, but I'd like to see it expand. And I'm currently working on a perfume...
Alan: Well thank you for joining us today, you will be performing now, right?
Cara: Yeah, obviously!
After the commercial break, Cara was shown sitting on a black piano, in a very short version of the 1920s inspired dress she wore on the show. She had a different head piece but it kept the same 1920s theme. She also was wearing an Emanuel Ungaro pair of heels. She started her performance by singing the first lines of 'Kiss To My Heart'. Cara twirled around the stage and sat down next to the pianist, who was playing a more simple and acoustic version of the pop song. The song was shortened and the moment the pianist stopped playing a heavy trap beat started and dancers came onto the stage dancing around to the 'La Belle' beat which started. The whole performance was very inspired by the party scenes in The Great Gatsby movie. After a few dance moves and choruses, Cara ended the performance sitting back down on the piano, a champagne drink in her hand before giving a kiss to the crowd which was screaming Cara's name.
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I did alan yesterday tho.
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Everyone can do any TV show as long as it's not within the same day
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Everyone can do any TV show as long as it's not within the same day
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Oh. Okay. Didn't knew that.
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Miley Cyrus - Vevo GO Show: D.U.I.
Over the weekend when Miley Cyrus was at New York City, a couple of reports said that she performed at a street in the city but nothing was confirmed until now; It was her VEVO Go Show.
The video was uploaded on the singer's VEVO Channel
“I’m kind of nervous but excited at the same time. I love how these fans came early to see me just walk into a building so doing a surprise show will be very cool for them and so unexpected,” Miley Cyrus said about doing the VEVO Go Show.
Miley said "I'm actually really nervous about this because I've never done a go show before and I've never done an unannounced show before so for me to do that now is extremely nerve-wracking and I'm still very excited to give back to the fans and hopefully give them a show they can enjoy."
“So the fans will be beside an entrance for the hotel I’m staying at in New York City, we purposely tweeted that I will be staying at that hotel just so they come to see me, and so they think that I will just walk by and wave to them and go inside but really, we have planned a kind of flashmob a little like right behind that street and I will be performing D.U.I. for the fans,” the pop singer explaining the surprise performance.
"Hey this is Miley Cyrus and this is my Go Show," Miley says seconds before she performs.
The hundreds fans are waiting outside the hotel for Miley to appear in the night, D.U.I. plays suddenly in loud speakers around that area, and the fans are weirded out. A moveable stage comes from beside the area and Miley Cyrus appears, wearing red feathers, and then sings the entire the song for the fans that ran to the stage.
After the performance ended, Miley Cyrus talked to the fans, saying "I just wanna say to you guys, thank you so much I mean you really came just to see a glimpse of me and I'm so honored and I was so excited to give you a performance without you knowing that, so thank you guys so much for coming and I hope you enjoyed the show, thank you again for coming."
"When the stage moved and the fans realized that I was on that stage it was so amazing to be in that moment, even though I was like laying on the ground so I won't give it away until the stage is in place but everyone saw me immediately and everyone ran and screamed to the stage and it was amazing," Miley says, "When they came into the stage and the street was filled with people it felt like it was an actual planned show and I loved how that came together, I would definitely love to do a show again and surprise my fans because it was awesome."
Miley Cyrus’ single ‘D.U.I.’ is out on iTunes right now along with the remix ‘D.U.I. (featuring Dev)’ and the video is available for streaming on Youtube & VEVO.
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Cher Lloyd visits BBC radio 1 for interview about album and performs an acoustic version of “Dirty Night”
Today, to continue the promo for her new album “Forbidden Story” Cher visited BBC radio 1,one of the biggest radio stations in UK, she sat down with the host, talked about her album, her new single, she also talked about her new label, management, and how did it happen. Cher also didn’t forgot to mention L.A Reid who is the person behind all the drama with her album “Sorry I’m Late” the obvious smash album ,that should have been. Cher also find out the news from radio that they have finally play sited her on list A, yes her single “Dirty Night” was play listed by the radio, and Cher was completely lost for words because of that, you could have heard her cry if you were listening to radio, if you didn’t poor you.
Read the interview below:
H: Hi Cher, been such a long time, where have you been, also you look really great, and happy too, how has your life been?
C: My oh my, so many questions at the same time (says in mad (in funny way) british accent) My life has been great these past couple of months, I saw new things, discovered new thing, discovered new music, saw a lot of concert, was just getting inspired all the time, I just have been creating, living life and enjoying every fun second of it, it has been a bliss.
H: Sounds like you indeed had a great time, haven’t seen you this happy since the day you reached 4th place in x-factor, you actually were so thrilled back then, but then after all of it you like disappeared from music business, after album sticks & stones, and USA hit Want U Back, you just faded. You have been getting push back by label, sort of mistreated right?
C: Oh, yes life was suckfish was then, my label paid me, let me say this f**k, they haven’t given any f**k about me, and just pushed my album from left to right, I have worked my butt of on Sorry I’m Late, I have been staying up all night, and just losing my powers, I was so weak, even ended in hospital one time, they still didn’t care.
H: Okay, let’s forget that, and let’s talk about your new album instead, which is great. I loved how you secretly released it, so unexpected, especially from artist like you, who has been away for so long. Why now, this time? Do you think that this is your moment?
C: I’m not sure actually, I think so, it’s definitely the moment like break it or make it, and I’ll hope I’ll make it, because it’s indeed an amazing album in my opinion, have never put so much effort and work into something, me team, producers and etc, have worked so hard, we collaborated with a lot of people, and I just think that it deserves the success.
H: Well, thank you Cher, also guys, the news we have play listed Cher’s new single “Dirty Night” on A list so yeah, good time for you Cher!
C: OH MY GOD! Thank, thank, thank you, so much.. (cries) and bye.
After the chat, she performed an acoustic version of Dirty Night, and also the host after that played the song, Cher left BBC radio1 and went to promote elsewhere.
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Cher Lloyd perfoms “Dirty Night” on The Voice UK in order to promote album and single.
Today, Cher was the special guest of the voice UK version, she performed her song “Dirty Night” and also was asked a few questions from the host after her performance. A lot of people have been waiting for Cher when they heard that she will be performing, it’s a huge deal for them to meet Cher, because at the moment she is kind of the huge star. Cher has been promoting hard this week going from place to place, from town to town, and just going through whole UK just to promote her newest studio album “Forbidden Story” as you all know the album was released secretly on Saturday night and reached 1 on iTunes in multiple places, but let’s talk about the performance.
The performance started with an empty stage, and flickering light bulbs, there was a huge wall filled with light bulbs, and they were all flickering suddenly half of the bulbs fell down, and the bulbs that were left of wall spelled Cher, Cher’s name was spelled of flickering bulbs. Suddenly many neon lights started shining, but they were only shining in some places, because on stage there was a huge glass box, suddenly out of the ground Cher rises up into the box, she is wearing a black short sexy dress with small diamonds, she is also holding a baseball bat in her hand, on the baseball bat there is written Cher with golden letters. Cher herself looked very fierce, with gold lipstick on her lips, gold nails, gold earring and etc. Her shoes are also with small diamonds. Suddenly the remixed version of the song starts without words, and Cher screams she starts hitting the glass box, the box break, and Cher is being carried out of it by two dancers. The normal version of song starts loads of dancers run on stage and start doing moves, while Cher is doing her vocal work, she at the same time dances and does her dance routine, she is just working on that stage. Fire blasts start shooting from ground, even more dancers appears, suddenly remix track starts, and Cher and her dancer stars doing serious choreo, somewhat like in Jennifer Lopez in young days, they all are just looking amazing. Remixed version stops, lights went off, all dancers lay on the floor, Cher is still standing, she starts counting 3…2…1 more fire blasts appear, it’s so hot on stage, like woo daddy. Cher then stars singing the last chorus, all alone on stage, only spotlight is shining and Cher is in it, it keeps changing colors, red, blue etc. Cher looks great, serves vocals on point, and in the end, she belts a high note like a pro. The performance ends with Cher fading out into black.
Audience and judges star cheering, Cher looks happy, the night ends.
That is it, and then host asked Cher a few questions about her new album, her love life, future plans, and about maybe her upcoming tour, which Cher is still unsure about.
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TAYLOR SWIFT X ADVERTISEMENTS
Taylor Swift’s career has been at an all time high since late 2013. In little time, the singer-songwriter has become one of the biggest forces in pop music and in music in general. With five number one albums to her name along with nine number one singles (her last number one being ‘Style’ the current number one this week) and fourteen overall number ones overall, Swift’s career doesn’t seem to becoming to a halt anytime soon. In fact, it seems to be doing the opposite. For the past three or two albums Taylor Swift has released, she’s scored three consecutive numbers ones for each of them. Speaking about her success, Taylor was grateful but kept it one hundred percent real. “Success is something that’s very exciting at first. You put so much work into making an album and promoting so when you start experiencing it for the first time you’re extremely grateful. Eventually, you become so accustomed and used to it, that you eventually begin to realize it’s sortve a non event to you. It’s gotten to that point with me I must admit but I’ve kept myself grounded. Whenever I get another number one, I mean I have nine to date, I’m not surprised but I’m still rely grateful for all those who’ve supported me, who’ve bought the single. Without them I wouldn’t be half as successful but it’s not really… it’s really not a huge deal to me anymore.”
With the release of Taylor Swift’s tenth studio album, a greatest hits album entitled ‘Yours: The Greatest Hits’, the American singer-songwriter has embarked on a huge promotional tour in support of the album and it’s lead single ‘Style’, which as mentioned above went to the number one spot on the Create a Label charts (Worldwide Charts) despite facing huge competition from new and old contemporaries of Taylor Swift. “It was a busy week but I had faith. I remembered thinking if I worked hard enough I’d be able to get to the top spot. But the expectation, the lowest would be just to make it to the top three of the charts that week. So when I got the news, I was pretty happy. Ecstatic really. I remember calling up a few of my friends and they were congratulating me. Even Simon called me up and congratulated me about making it to the top spot. So it was a pretty good feeling really making it to number one when there was tons of competition.” Taylor told this to Yahoo Music this week in a press release junket.
Some massive promotion would come today as a commercial in support of the album would start airing in heavy rotation on channels such as MTV (Music Television), VH1, CMT, GAC, FX, and most local channels. The commercial would feature Taylor Swift in a studio, shots of her modeling in the outfit she wears on the cover of the album. She adjusts her hat cutely, looking nothing but adorable and beautiful in the commercial. ‘Style’ would play dying the commercial, as a picture of the album cover along with a Target symbol would appear at the end of the commercial.
Taylor’s greatest hits album would see massive promotion on the internet as little advertisements would pop up all over the internet. If clicked, the person would be linked to the Target site where they’d be able to order the album physically and digitally for a limited amount of time. The advertisement would also be in rotation on YouTube and such to boost sales for the greatest hits album that was released this week.
Taylor Swift’s first greatest hits album ever ‘Yours: The Greatest Hits’ is out now and is exclusively available at Target for the first weeks.
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"WE ROAM" OUT NOW!
Exclusive Music Video Premiere + Short Clips during ABC's Revenge
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Hey guys this Lena, before we start with the TV programm I have an exclusive gift for you. This is the premiere for my music video of my new single "We Roam"!
The music video starts
It's a simple clip with Lena in a forest in light clothes.
During the chorus it turns nighttime, Lena is dancing with her dancers.
The music video is nothing special tbh, very beautiful to look at though.
Lena is back on the screen after the video ended.
Well that's it I hope you liked it. You can download the single NOW on iTunes.All information about me, my music can also be found on abc.com or lena.com.
Revenge starts
During the break several clips of Lena's music video are shown from time to time, as well as a Q&A
I wrote "We Roam" in like 1 hour together with a friend of mine. It was so much fun.
We're a good team now since we've written a lot of songs together and well I'm always satisfied with what's coming out.
some scenes of the music video
Finally being able to release my music in the US has been a dream of mine for a long time now. I'm super excited how it all will work out.
But I have a great team behind me.
the single cover is shown now
Working with Ellie was great and I'm so happy that we can release a special remix of "We Roam" a week after the normal edition. She wrote a new verse for the song and I instantly fell in love with it. She's a true artist and such an inspiration
Some scenes of the music video are shown again and a voice says: "The new single "We Roam" by Lena out now! Check out abc.com for more information!"
Revenge is shown now again
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“Forbidden Story” 89 on metacritic.
Today after the surprise release of Cher’s new album “Forbidden Story” internet went wild, and so did critics. Everybody started going to iTunes just that they could get their hands of Cher‘s new album. Everybody tried to do it fast, because you know iTunes page was even down for a few minutes because of this extreme event. Over 1 million people tried to sign into iTunes, and that just caused a frenzy and server went down. But let‘s get back to metacritic score as we said Cher scored so far a whopping 89 score based on 14 reviews, and that’s just fantastic, none of her albums did that well, but I guess this was just the perfect time for her to release, and the material was good. Cher Lloyd is really happy about this and she still can‘t believe that this has happened, she‘s grateful and thankful.
The critics received Cher quite well she got good reviews, some reviewers were biased, but some were lovely and nice, Cher expected a worse score, but after the saw a whopping 89 she just was shocked, she never received such good scores, and thinks that this era is turning out to be her best, she just feels so happy and lucky that her worked is finally being accepted well, and isn’t bashed for no reason.
from Rolling Stone: 91/100
Cher Lloyd is back yet again to music world we heard from her last year when she released „SORRY I‘M LATE“ but after that flop Cher just disappeared, but now she is back, and better than ever with new album, and possibly a first hit her sleeve, Cher is set for good future. Album itself is really fun and sad at the same time, it just tells so many stories, it‘s a great relaxing album and I would definitely recommend it to my friend, it‘s just something new and fresh, also the 2pac track caught me off gourd.
From BBCMUSIC 87/100
Pop rap at its finest, somewhat reminds me of Nicki‘s pop stuff Starships, Va Va Voom and etc. It‘s definitely an album which you would listen to more than once, it‘s just so catchy, fun and at the moments even depressing, it has everything fun music, sad music, all that you need, it‘s perfect, and Cher definitely put a lot of heart into this, you can just feel the life in this album, it‘s not just an album it‘s a story.
From Examiner. 34/100
Uhh, how bad can she get, I‘m not impressed lame, boring, uninspired piece of crap, if I can call. Cher has been pretty uninteresting artist, and she is still now, she just can serve a good dish, it‘s always something we have already heard or just try hard, yes it‘s personal but so childish, and eh she getting 2pac song, he would be ashamed, trash is trash. Can‘t believe this, does music even mean anything these days, of course the likes of Cassie, Ciara save this album, but Lil‘Kim and Cher is pure vile and disgusting.
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Avril Lavigne is the newest face of MAC Cosmetics
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- Avril Lavigne signs as the newest brand ambassador for VIVA GLAM Campaign of MAC Cosmetics.
- Avril will be the spokeswoman for the M.A.C Aids Fund.
- A video advertisement for VIVA GLAM featuring Avril's single "I'll Lie To Myself" is set to premiere on January 8 worldwide.
Avril Lavigne's comeback to the music scene on 2015 is deemed to be very colorful and artistic by music enthusiasts and critics. And at the rate of things going in for the Pop Rock Princess, It seems that 2015 will be more colorful for her career as MAC Cosmetics chose Avril Lavigne as their newest brand ambassador. MAC Cosmetics witnessed how Lavigne transformed through the years and they are eager to sign her to be not just their newest endorser, but also as a spokeswoman for their charity events.
MAC Cosmetics signed Avril Lavigne to be their spokeswoman as they saw how she matured in a very excellent way. Avril Lavigne is ecstatic to sign the deal and be part of the MAC Cosmetics family due to the fact that she will be able to be the voice for one of the most successful campaigns of all time, MAC Cosmetics VIVA GLAM Campaign. The pop rock royalty is the newest face of MAC Cosmetics VIVA GLAM Campaign that also happens to help patients infected with HIV/AIDS.
"We know that Avril Lavigne is not only beautiful on the outside, she has a huge heart that aims to help people in need through her music. And that is something Avril and MAC Cosmetics do have in common, We here at MAC does not only want to make people feel more beautiful with our products but we also want to spread awareness and help people that are facing serious and life challenging diseases. Avril and MAC is a perfect match." - MAC Cosmetics
"First off, I have been using MAC products even if they didn't choose me as an endorser when I was just starting out. I really like the colors and the effect on my skin of their products. Secondly, I am here to support the MAC Aids fund and I will never get tired of doing it. Lastly, It is about time that everyone gets to know that beauty is not only superficial. And MAC Cosmetics excels on that category." - Avril Lavigne
Following the announcement of Avril Lavigne and MAC Cosmetics partnership, Avril will be headlining a fund-raising event for the M.A.C AIDS Fund. The mission of the fund is to serve all people with AIDS and HIV: all races, sexes, and ages. Simply no discrimination.
The fund supports programs that deals directly with the victims. “Making a difference, one VIVA GLAM lipstick at a time” is their mission, as every cent from the VIVA GLAM lipstick and lipgloss goes to helping those affected with HIV and AIDS.
Avril Lavigne already did an ad photoshoot and video shoot for VIVA GLAM. The ads are shot by Nick Knight and styled by both Thierry Mugler and styled by Nicola Formichetti. The video advertisement features Lavigne's newest single "I'll Lie To Myself" as the background music. It will premiere on January 8, 2015 worldwide on TV and social media.
With the newly improved style of Avril Lavigne, how could the campaign go wrong? MAC hopes for another successful campaign for their important cause.
Viva Glam is a series of lipsticks and lipglosses that see 100% of sales donated to the MAC AIDS fund, which supports men, women and children living with AIDS. The campaign has been trying to help those living with HIV/AIDS one lipstick at a time since 1994. Today, the MAC AIDS fund supports multiple programs around the world including community grants and harm reduction programs in North America, and grants to affiliates and partners around the world.
Catch Avril Lavigne's VIVA GLAM video ad on January 8, 2015. Meanwhile, Avril Lavigne's newest hit single "I'll Lie To Myself" is still available on iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers. The album "Heartfelt Confessions" will be released on January 12, 2015 and the pre-orders for the album is still ongoing.
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NATALIA KILLS STOPS BY KELLY AND MICHAEL. PERFORMS COVEN DE COUTURE + MEDLEY OF 3 OTHER SONGS FROM NEW ALBUM
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After the release of her sophomore album “The Definition Of Bad” this morning, Natalia Kills has begun to do promotion for the new record in other to get the news out about her latest project. Her first stop, Kelly and Michael.
Michael: Our guest today is one of the most hardworking women right now in the music business. Her latest single “Coven de Couture” debuted at #7 on the Singles Chart this week selling close to 400K copies and her latest album, “The Definition of Bad” was released this morning and is currently sitting atop the US Itunes Chart. Ladies and gentlemen, here she is, Natalia Kills!
Natalia: Thank you Michael, such a humbling introduction.
Miichael: Thank you. So how are you Natalia? You’ve been everywhere, have you had anytime to actually go home and sleep?
Natalia: To be honest Michael, I am exhausted **laughs** but I can’t complain because it’s just a sign of how hard I have been working. My schedule is incredibly tight, I am constantly on the road, from show to show, camera to camera. It’s been hectic
Michael: But you’ve managed to keep up.
Natalia: I’ve tried.
Michael: Tell us about the new album.
Natalia: Well, the new album is titled “The Definition of Bad”, it dropped this morning and it’s such a fantastic record. It is by far my best body of work till date and if this is the last album I drop in my career, then I’m fine. It’s so good.
Kelly: Speaking of which, I was listening to the album this morning on my way here and there’s this song called “Stilettos”. Girl….
Natalia: **laughs** Now why would you play that song Kelly. **Laughs**. Yes! Uhmmm, “Stilettos” is one of my favorite songs on the album. It is RAUNCHY as hell though. It’s a really dominitrix kind of song and it’s really all about sex.
Kelly: That pretty much sums it up. I want to talk to you about your new line with Steal Her Style. How did that all come about?
Natalia: Well, I’ve always been a big supporter of the brand “Steal Her Style” and so I told VDK that I have this idea for a fashion line and he asked me to show him my designs so of course I did. Immediately I showed him, he loved it. Everything happened really quickly after that. He got on the phone with a couple of people, we signed a couple of contracts, and some 3 months later, here we are!
Kelly: Interesting. Finally, let’s talk about the single and the tour. What’s up?
Natalia: Well Coven is really doing well. I am overwhelmed by the amount of love and positive reception the song has been getting. I will be performing it later here on the show. In regards to tour, details of that will be coming really really soon and I already have a show planned in the UK by the end of the week. It’s not part of the tour but it will be a really good show all the same.
Michael: Thank you for coming to chat with us Natalia.
Natalia: Thanks for having me.
THE PERFORMANCE.
Performing a medley of songs from her new album and her latest single “Coven de Couture” in full, please welcome Natalia Kills.
Natalia sits on a stool in front of a standing microphone and she does a short acoustic medley of 3 songs from her album, “Eyes Shut”, “Whirlwind”, and “Givenchy”. Immediately after the medley, the banging instrumentals of Coven begin playing and Natalia gets up on her feet and sings the song for the audience. The performance features a lot of hand clapping, hip shaking, and strutting across the stage. She ends with her hands in the air and Kelly and Michael come out to give her one final hug before saying:
“Natalia Kills’ new album “The Definition of Bad” is in stores now. You can also download her latest single “Coven de Couture” from ITunes but right now, everybody in the audience is getting a copy of the album. Have a great day and stay blessed. Good bye”
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Cara On Ellen
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After a few long days in Europe, mostly in the UK and France, Cara flew all the way back to the US to sit down on an interview with TV giant Ellen DeGeneres, to promote the brand new album 'Distant Horizon'. Girlfriend Kendall Jenner who accompanied Cara to the UK flew back to the US early and made a few appearances on smaller TV shows such as the Queen Latifah show to promote her E! show, her modeling career, and her girlfriend's album, but she was seen hand in hand with Cara Delevingne, both wearing beautiful outfits, Cara wearing a large white fur coat with a white short dress underneath it and large white heeled boots, while Kendall wore a simpler Chanel Dress. On the show though, Cara wore a simple light blue dress which reached her knees, the dress also featured gold details and Cara wore a golden headpiece.
Ellen: Wow, you look amazing, how are you?
Cara: Thank you, the dress is Ralph Lauren, the accessories are all vintage!
Ellen: Those must have cost a fortune
Cara: Well I enjoy spending a lot *laughs* maybe too much, I really need to control my expenses more.
Ellen: But it's not like you're gonna have many money issues, you have this new album out, which already turned out to be an amazing success!
Ellen: Yeah, well I hope so.
Ellen: Well it sounds amazing no matter what. When do you feel like you've achieved something good with an album? As in making it sound good?
Cara: It's by instinct. I try as much as possible to outdo myself with every song. AT one point you can't just go on editing you just know when a track feels perfect. It's probably with time that this instinct come, after doing multiple tracks you jsut start knowing what's best for the track.
Ellen: I find some of your songs like 'La Belle', 'Honey', 'Kiss To My Heart', 'Fall Out' and 'Distant Horizon' amazing and just perfect right now, all from your new album, how do you think you managed to outdo your debut? Some artists can't seem to do that.
Cara: Well my first album was mostly worked on by other people when it comes to lyrics, production and other things, I just said what I wanted to hear, my second album is more 'me'. I was more hands on and I learned many things after my debut I think the way my life evolved, helped me evolve as an artist musically and thematically.
Ellen: Thank you for coming Cara, you'll be on tour soon right?
Cara: Yeah definitely.
Ellen: Thank you again, stay tuned guys, Cara will be performing after the break!
After the commercial break, Cara started performing a medley of 'Kiss To My Heart' and 'Honey' wearing a short leather leotard with a white fur coat on with big boots. The medley was short being only 1 minute and 30 seconds long. She then started singing the regular version of 'La Belle', while dancing her choreography along with a few dancers. Cara Delevingne' 'Distant Horizon' is now available, and it features the single 'La Belle' and the promotional singles ' 'Kiss To My Heart' and 'Honey'.
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TAYLOR SWIFT X WALL STREET JOURNAL
Taylor Swift has become one of the biggest forces in almost any genre of music. Whether it’s the country field or the pop field, Taylor Swift has proven herself to be the leading lady. Whether it’s selling over five hundred thousand copies of an album first week, or going platinum in her first, Taylor Swift’s career has been on an upward spiral since her debut over ten years ago. For her past three albums, all of which have scanned over eight hundred thousand copies, she’s managed to score multiple number ones from all of them, including one already counting from her first ever greatest hits album which was released this week titled ‘Yours: The Greatest Hits’. The first song released from the record, ‘the Max Martin and Shellback produced track ‘Style’ debuted at number one with over four hundred thousand copies sold first week, marking it to be one of her highest first week sales for a song, and her ninth overall number one and her fourteenth top three hit (the only artist with more is contemporary and best friend of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber).
It’s because of this feat that makes Taylor Swift one of the most sought out artists. As the most successful female artist in history, suppressing the likes of many artists who claim titles that do not really apply, she’s in heavy demand for magazines and newspapers who are more than wanting an interview or exclusive photo shoot with the singer-songwriter. Because of this strong demand of insight into the singer’s career and personal life, Taylor Swift has to choose wisely for which of these publications she gives interviews and photo shoots. Taylor Swift would give one this week to the biggest newspaper in the world, The Wall Street Journal.
In her interview with the Wall Street Journal, Taylor Swift talks and addresses numerous things. She addresses her blossoming film career, her stable and everlasting increasing music career, her heavily publicized personal life, and drama in the music industry.
First addressed was the drama that the singer-songwriter has experienced in the music industry. The interviewer asked the following question. “In this music industry how does someone avoid the drama. It’s a tough industry, ruthless even, to go along with that question what drama have you ran head first into so far?” Taylor would smile before answering the question honestly. “To avoid drama in the music industry, well I don’t necessarily think you can. Because if you avoid it, most likely someone’s probably controlling your career and what you do. So to avoid it, I’d say don’t. Stand up for what you believe in, control your career. Don’t do anything you don’t want to do. And what drama have I ran into? I’ve run into almost every kind. I’ve had managers, label heads, and such tell me what kind of music I should record. But I’ve stood up to them every time. Because I’ll be damned if I sing anyone else’s words but mine. If so, I wouldn’t even be here. I couldn’t image singing someone else’s songs but mine. Meaning original songs that I’d claim to be mine that I’d have no part in. I’ve also ran into that petty drama you’re probably thinking about anyway. It’s a ruthless industry and drama is just a small part that comes along with it.”
About her music career, the singer songwriter was asked about her greatest this album and future plans. “My music career’s went to heights I’ve never expected it to go to. I’m incredibly thankful to all those who helped me get there too. I’m releasing my first ever greatest this album for god’s sake. The fact I have over fifteen hits, and nine number ones. That’s crazy. So for this greatest hits album I really wanted it to be solely for the fans. I recorded some very special and inmate stuff for them that I think they’ll like.”
About her film career, Taylor would grin. “My film career is something I’m really excited about. After this album I’m going to spend a few months focusing on films. I’ve got some exciting stuff lined up along with some premiers so yeah, that’s pretty damn cool. It’s going really well there so uh yeah.”
The last thing addressed would be Taylor’s personal life where she was very reserved yet open. “My love life right now is full yet void. I still have Simon in my life and always will. He’s my best friend but right now romantically, there’s nothing. But that doesn’t mean anything isn’t on the horizon. So I’ll leave it at that.”
Exclusive performances of Taylor Swift’s single ‘Style’ and her promotional singles ‘Lipstick on HIs Collar’, ‘Harvard Smiles’, and ‘Hold On’ were uploaded to the Wall Street Journals website and their YouTube channel.
Taylor Swift’s first greatest hits album ever ‘Yours: The Greatest Hits’ is out now and is exclusively available at Target for the first weeks.
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‘CLARE BOWEN’
HDD EXCLUSIVE
Hits Double Daily executives had the pleasure of joining in with Revolution Records executives to take a listen to Clare Bowen’s debut LP, self-titled, which is confirmed to slap the market sometime between now and February 28th. Last summer, Clare & Co. played two ready tracks, “Bullseye” and “1492”, which both were acclaimed by HDD as bare, bold and fantastic. After Clare & Co. played the twenty tracks for all the executives, many were left stunned by the body of work she had created. The album was scheduled for release last September, but due to artistic direction, the album had been reworked on until earlier last November. According to HDD, Bowen had selected five tracks from her compositions with Nashville to appear on her debut; however, as time passed, she wanted to take more initiative with her project, and record more original material. The album now has four tracks migrating from the Nashville soundtracks over to her debut LP- “If I Didn’t Know Better” with Sam Palladio, “This Town” with Charles Esten, “Looking For a Place to Shine”, and a fresh version of “Twist of Barbwire”. In addition, the standard edition of the album has also been lengthened to fourteen tracks, as opposed to the original twelve; with the deluxe shaping up to make twenty tracks in total. According to HDD, “..the album has not been scheduled for any specific release date. […] it could be released next week, or on the very last day of February. The record label and Clare would like to see how the debut single performs, and how Céline Dion’s schedule will shape up.” They have also revealed that Céline Dion has writing credits on two of the tracks, with a production credit on one.
As for the album, HDD has given it a 4.5/5 rating. “It is very well an amazing body of work,” they conclude. Executive favorites (along with “1492”), have been proclaimed “Ghost” and “Isles”, which contains an Alternate Version on the deluxe edition, featuring Nashville & American Horror Story lead actress Connie Britton. Although the executives were relatively pleased with each track, the least impressive were claimed to be “In Between” and “Railroads”. It has also been confirmed that executive-favorite “Ghost” will be released as a single sometime this era. When asked about touring, we got a direct quote from Bowen: “I’m definitely doing small, intimate venues. I love performing live lots, and I’ve had the pleasure of having Charles Esten and Sam Palladio join me on this tour. We’ll start going out in February for the album I believe. We definitely wanted lots of the dates and venues spread out well so I can also promote on radio, television, and other sorts of that.” Bowen revealed that she spent a majority of her time crafting the album in Nashville of course, as well as Memphis, Miami, Melbourne and New York. “Traveling while making music definitely inspired me and motivated me to record more tracks, and do a better job at them of course; I found it very effective, and definitely enjoyed myself. The lead single from the album, “Black Roses”, was released today without warning- it is available for purchase and streaming now.
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NATALIA KILLS STOPS BY THE VIEW. PERFORMS “COVEN de COUTURE” + MEDLEY OF 3 OTHER SONGS FROM NEW ALBUM
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After taping for Kelly and Michael, Natalia Kills continued her rounds by stopping at The View. Here’s how it went down
Our guest today is one fierce young artiste. She opened for Taylor Swift 2 years ago and now, she is about to embark on her own world tour. Her latest single “Coven de Couture” has sold close to 400,000 copies since its release last week and her latest album, “The Definition of Bad” dropped this morning. Please rise on your feet and join us to welcome Natalia Kills.
**Natalia Kills steps out wearing a black and nude colored gown. She steps out to Coven playing above her.**
Welcome Natalia, it’s very exciting to have you here with us today
It’s my pleasure to be here, you all look really amazing
Thank you. So, first of all, we know you’ve not been asked this question in a long time but after how far you’ve come we have decided to ask it. How was it opening for Taylor Swift?
WOW! That seems like such a looong time ago. Taylor is great. Taylor is simply amazing and she is such a hardworker. Working with her was one of the greatest life lessons of my career. She is so particular about what she wants and she g oes for it. I mean, for a woman to have 14 songs go number 1 in her career, it’s mind blowing. We haven’t really talked since then or done anything collaboratively since then but I see her at awards, and talk shows, and oh! Don’t forget the charts all the time. So ya, I’ve really come a long way. I’m so grateful
We were listening to your album before you arrived and it’s actually really good. It’s safe to say that it’s by far the best body of work we have heard in a while. So, let us start off by saying congratulations on that and what inspired the album?
Thank You. Well, a lot of things inspired this album. As I have said, it’s been such a journey for me over these past years, both personally and career wise. It’s been beyond an amazing year and all that is reflected on this record. It’s loud when it needs to be, it’s solemn when it needs to be, it’s sexy when it needs to be and the genre is so diversified that it’s amazing. Literally anybody can pick this up and instantly connect with even if it’s just one song. I’m really proud of it.
Let’s talk your single “Coven de Couture” which you will be performing for us later on in the show. What can you say about it and how it’s doing on the charts?
Coven is my baby. In fact, all of my songs are my babies and just as you watch your babies grow and grow into these beautiful people, that’s how I sit back and watch my songs grow. Coven has really taken a life for itself and I’m just so proud of it and how much it’s touching so many people, boys and girls, at the same time…it’s what any artiste asks for and I’m so happy to see it succeeding.
We know you’re going on tour really soon but what the fans at home want to know is if you will be playing any of the songs from “Ko-Motion”
Most definitely. That should not even be doubted. A couple of songs from “Ko-Motion” would definitely have to resurface because I really enjoyed that record and performing a lot of songs from it. It would be nice to bring some back.
Okay, you have to go and get ready for your performance but thank you so much for stopping by to chat with us.
Thank You
The Performance features Natalia standing to sing a short acoustic medley of “Under Your Spell”, “Whirlwind”, and “Eyes Shut”. Immediately after the medley, she jumped in to perform Coven de Couture in full. The audience clapped along with kills and sang along to the words of Coven with her as well.
The women of The View came out to hug her as soon as she was done and told the audience that every one of them will be leaving with a copy of the new album.
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