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Britney Spears Headlines Glastonbury 2014 - Streamed Live On BBC One
Britney Spears headlined at the Glastonbury Festival today to promote the re-release of her latest album. Her set-list consisted of 4 songs from the new re-release as well as a performance of the biggest hit of the summer, Gimme Your Best. Britney also brought Rihanna to the stage for a special intro performance of "Touchin' Me", the one week #1 smash which dominated the UK. The screens around Britney constantly promoted the "American Dream: The Pop Bible" release and as the concert was streamed live on BBC One, the TV stream faded to promotional pictures of the new re-release with the caption "Get Britney's new release in stores everywhere and on iTunes now" during breaks between Britney's set-list. Britney ended the show with her first live performance of "Sun-kissed", the latest single from Britney's "American Dream" era and the lead single for "The Pop Bible" re-release.
Set-list:
-Touchin' Me
-Gimme Your Best
-Aftermath
-Truth Or Dare
-Getaway
-Sun-kissed
For the full performance, Britney wore a gold studded black leotard with some transparent parts along the leotard to show off certain parts of her body. Britney also wore an additional black train to the leotard for some songs (Truth Or Dare, Getaway). The stage remained the same for most of the set-list with lots of special effects ranging from pyrotechnics to fire to smoke and to water for the full show.
The Britney performance started with Touchin' Me and a special appearance from Rihanna who was wearing the same outfit as Britney. The crowd was excited for the two girls to be together on stage. They did a very simplistic performance, dancing alone on opposite sides of the stage while smoke covered the stage. They moved towards each other as the song reached the first chorus and danced together at center stage for the first chorus. The girls ended up touching each other by the end of the song and they kissed each other to end the performance, Rihanna descended underneath the stage after the kiss. Britney then performed Gimme Your Best with her classic futuristic plane, she danced on top of the plan while men shot lasers around her body. She performed a big dance break center stage to the chorus of Gimme Your Best while men surrounded her in a circle formation, she pushed them all away and danced while fire surrounded her, she ended Gimme Your Best with a dramatic pose as the fire subdued. Britney performed "Aftermath" like a ballad, she sat on a stool and sang the song completely live. Britney performed "Truth Or Dare"/"Getaway" as a medley, with a lot of remixed instrumentals and dance breaks between both of the songs.
Britney ended the festival with her first live performance of "Sun-kissed". Beach balls were blasted onto the stage as Britney changed her outfit to a sexy pink bikini with gold chains and gold pumps. Britney danced with two girl back up dancers center stage, water rained down on them while they danced and pushed the beach balls around to the crowd. Britney then jumped into the crowd while she continued singing "Sun-kissed", the crowd touched her wet body for about 30 seconds before pushing her back to the stage. Britney then touched her body and the bodies of her dancers while singing the final lyrics to "Sun-kissed". Britney ended the show thanking the crowd of 175,000 for attending and said "If you liked this set-list get the re-release of my album! I love you guys so so much, good day everybody!"
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Just wanna let you guys know I'm done now. I won't be finishing off my promo this week, it's too much on my plate and I'm going to continue on with CAL on GGD. Farewell girls this has been really fun to do. See you next season!,
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There's CAL on GGD?
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Yeah Rayan (HausOfCarlos) told me about it a bit ago. Just joined actually because I really wanna get Céline's / Clare's eras done with but everyone's done with Céline here so
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Britney Spears On Good Morning America
Britney Spears stopped by Good Morning America this morning for an interview and performance. Britney announced that she would be doing a Fox special for her re-release of American Dream tomorrow, she told fans that the special was called "American Dream: The Pop Bible Comes To Life" and that it would focus on her new tour and re-release of her album, that it would consist of various performances + behind the scenes footage of her projects + professional footage from her tour. Britney talked about her life and what it was like to make the re-release, she said that she was happy to re-release the album with 8 new songs and really complete the record. She said that some of those 8 songs had been scrapped from making the official album and she was happy to re-release the album and put them on it because she really loves the songs, she talked about how "Sun-kissed" came about from laying on the beach with her boyfriend Cristiano Ronaldo. Britney also announced plans to release a special version of "The Pop Bible" re-release on iTunes and said that fans should potentially expect this special version later in the week, she wouldn't budge on what the special version would include. Britney talked about what it felt like to win Best Pop Video at the VMAs and have the hottest single of the summer, she was very thankful for both. Britney spoke about creating the album and the process around it, she talked about how good it felt to cross 3 million records sold with her "American Dream" era and how thankful she was to have various hits and a successful album after a few weeks. Britney also talked about her new single, Sun-kissed, and said that it's "a perfect end of summer song" and that she hopes people enjoy it as much as she does. Britney talked about recording it in the studio and the process behind it, she spoke about the iTunes banners as an extension of Britney's promotional deal with Apple. Britney thanked all her fans for sticking buy her and said that she was very happy to bring her Naughty Girl Tour to America.
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Britney performed the lead single off the re-release for her American Dream album, Sun-kissed. The performance started with Britney wearing a golden one piece bikini as she rose up from underneath the stage inside a big sun prop. The sun prop opened up as Britney began singing the first verse, Britney stepped out of the sun as 10 dancers in bikinis came to the stage around Britney. The girls and Britney danced to "Sun-kissed", touching their bodies to the lyrics. Guys with beach shorts on came to the stage and started touching/kissing the girls. Beach balls were pushed up from underneath the stage and the girls/Britney pushed them around the stage. The guys held the girls up in the air and swung them around in the air. Britney slid down a guys body from up in the air as they kissed during the final chorus of Sun-kissed, the guy was Cristiano. Britney and the girls then performed one final dance break to a remixed instrumental as everyone on stage descended underneath the stage while lights flashed around the stage and fire shot up all around the stage.
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Zedd: Moment of Serenity World Tour – Night 8 (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom)
Zedd continued his worldwide Moment of Serenity Tour at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom tonight. This concert was held at a temporary venue in an empty field next to the park, allowing for many fans to watch the concert. As this leg will have varying stage specifications to conform to various venues, there isn’t a specified stage design (it also isn’t completed for the other legs yet). Besides, it probably is best not to have expensive stage equipment sitting outside, exposed to the elements. Anyway, the stage pretty much consists of the stage itself and an HD video screen, as well as the necessary equipment for the concert, such as lighting and speakers.
The concert started at approximately 6 pm local time. The park did not need to close the park as the venue was outside the park; however, the park was pretty much dead after 5:30 pm. 113,742 fans packed into the general admission lawn area. At this concert, standard lawn tickets were $75, 40,000 VIP tickets were $150 (a section towards the front-middle to the stage), 15,000 Super VIP tickets were $200 (closer to the stage), and 20 Ultra VIP tickets (special area in front of stage + meet and greet) were $500; a total of four others were given away in San Francisco. Zedd also chooses a random person from the Super VIP section to join the meet and greet. This concert is the largest yet of the tour; it is sure to bring in a huge amount of revenue to the tour. Concertgoers have all declared the concert amazing, despite an official stage design.
The concept of the concert is that Zedd is a DJ working his way up in the world. He starts out with an introduction that explains the backstory of the concert. After the introduction, Zedd finds himself DJing at a house party. He does a couple of tracks for them and then he leaves. There is an interlude of Conduit prior to him arriving at his next gig: a rave. He plays the Gaga-inspired track “Slay,” and then Lady Gaga herself makes a surprise appearance to sing “Temple,” “Stache,” and “Aura.” Zedd then realizes he needs to break free of this monotone life of DJing. He runs off the stage, leaving in the middle of “Shave It Up.” He returns when the song finishes and begins to break free of his monotone life of being a small-time DJ to make his move into what he was longing for, the EDM industry as a whole. Of course, during part of this he plays “Break Free.” He ends up finding success and no longer has a single problem in his life.
During the concert, every song from Serenity was performed. The concert started out with “Beautiful Sky,” which transitioned smoothly into “G.U.Y.” The rest of the concert incorporated all of the songs of Serenity, some of Clarity, and two Zedd songs from ARTPOP. As the concert ended, Zedd made a short speech: “As you all may already know, my friend Marina and the Diamonds is currently in a medically-induced coma. I was actually in the car next to her, so I had to watch the whole thing. It was terrible. Luckily she is still alive, but who knows for how long. We were supposed to tour together, but she cancelled the tour due to low album sales. No one expected this to happen. In honor of her, I will play a few of her songs.” Zedd then played his remixes of “Primadonna,” “Happy Meal,” “Where The Diamonds Grow,” and “Myths.” All of those remixes were meant to debut on Marina’s tour, but were not for obvious reasons, so he finished them up and added them to his encore. After “Myths” ended, roaring applause and a 3-minute standing ovation came from the audience. People then left to buy Serenity and “Temple” at shops and booths nearby the venue.
Concert Information
Venue: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
City: Vallejo, CA
Country: United States
Tickets Sold: 113,742/113,742
Avg. Ticket Price: $117.93
Gross: $13,414,150
Information for All Dates
Date: Venue - City (Tickets Sold) (Avg. Ticket Price) (Gross)
July 22: Six Flags America - Mitchellville, MD (21,329/21,329) ($30) ($639,870)
July 23: La Ronde - Montreal, Canada (4,855/4,855) ($44.20) ($214,600)
July 24: Six Flags Great America - Gurnee, IL (4,000/4,000) ($47.60) ($190,400)
July 25: Six Flags St. Louis - Eureka, MO (6,110/6,110) ($43.67) ($266,830)
July 28: Six Flags New England - Agawam, MA (19,643/19,643) ($55.24) ($1,084,985)
July 29: The Great Escape - Queensbury, NY (29,600/29,600) ($58.58) ($1,734,100)
August 4th: Six Flags Magic Mountain - Valencia, CA (74,412/74,412) ($90.57) ($6,739,480)
August 5th: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom - Vallejo, CA (113,742/113,742) ($117.93) ($13,414,150)
All Dates
Tickets Sold: 273,691
Avg. Ticket Price: $88.73
Gross: $24,284,415
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Mariah Carey Album Journey (Marvel Comic Series)
Earlier today, Marvel comics revealed in a press conference that they have made a deal with Camouflage Records and will be going to make a comic of Mariah's album journey. Mariah's album, "The Stygian Chevalier", has sold 966,000 copies to date and has also spawned two gold-certified singles, "Libidinous Dream" and the title track, "The Stygian Chevalier". It is currently the third best selling album of this CAL's season and is one of the three albums which have surpass sales of 900,000. With Azealia and Charli XCX ahead of her with their album sales, Mariah said in the press conference that she is working 2 times as hard as before to reclaim her best selling album title before this season of CAL ends. "For the past 2 weeks, I brought my 'dembabies' on a vacation due to the fact that I've neglected them for a while and now I'm refreshed and ready to promote the album again. I'm glad Marvel decided to create a comic version of my current album's journey which is titled, "The Elusive Stygian Chevalier". The opportunity gives me a chance to expose the album to comic fans worldwide and get to know what the song is all about.", Mariah says in the Marvel comic press conference.
The storyline of Mariah's album journey comic will feature Mariah as the main character, and each song will depict a different storyline comic scene. Four album tracks storyline scenes were teased during Marvel's press conference, which is the "Peasants", "Disguise", "Heartbreaker Part II ft. Nas" and "I'm Not Done" ones. The "Peasants" scene will be in a high school setting. It will feature Nicki Minaj and Paris Hilton's lookalike as the side character. The story talks about Mariah studying really hard to get to where she is right now while the Nicki Minaj and Paris Hilton lookalike uses dirty methods to get themselves to the top. For the "Disguise" scene that was teased, it features a young girl, around the age of 13-16, being very insecure about herself which eventually led to her wanting to commit suicide. Mariah plays a role as a doctor in this particular scene, who tries her very best to bring this young girl out of her depression.
As for the "Heartbreaker Part II ft. Nas" scene, it is placed in a suburb setting where Mariah is a housewife. Nas is also featured in this storyline scene, where he is a successful businessman, who happens to be Mariah's ex-lover. Scenes of their love life in the past was also featured in the comic storyline scene as nostalgia. And lastly, the "I'm Not Done" scene features Mariah as a businesswoman who has lost everything in her life and it is placed in a old motel. She cries and almost committed suicide due to the fact that she loses a place to live in, huge businesses and more. The tease that Marvel comics gave during the press conference received positive attention from psychologist since it left out the crucial or climatic scene. "It is a clever move from Marvel comics and Mariah because it leaves people wondering, "What will happen between the both of them next ??" subconsciously and it triggers their mind into wanting to buy the comic, either physically or digitally," a famous psychologist said after he was asked about this matter.
Camouflage Records had a deal with huge retail stores like Walmart that every Marvel comic sold, the person who bought it will receive a free copy of Mariah's latest album, "The Stygian Chevalier", and 5% of the money gotten will be donated to charity. Rumors say that the physical copies of Mariah's "The Elusive Stygian Chevalier" comic has already been shipped over 750,000 copies worldwide to local retail stores due to the high expectations from comic fans and Mariah fans. Later that day, the digital version of Mariah's comic was released on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon. The digital version features Mariah's latest album tracks inside of it. The album track will play if a person is reading a certain scene. This shocked many people which in turn helped increase the sales of Mariah's latest album. Mariah's album managed to dethrone Britney's rerelease album from the iTunes album chart's top spot due to the increase of digital sales.
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Mariah Carey performs on Vh1- Special Segment
Earlier today, rumors were circulating around the web that Mariah will be making an appearance on Vh1. Pictures of Mariah leaving the Vh1 studio were also circulating around the web too which left people hoping for a taped performance from her. Mariah Carey later on revealed on twitter that she had made an appearance on Vh1 and had performed a few songs off her latest critically-acclaimed album, "The Stygian Chevalier". This made the hashtag #MCVh1 and #MCVh1performance trending on twitter for 8 and a half hours worldwide after the rumors were addressed by Mariah herself. After Vh1 confirmed the timing for it to be aired, 8 million people stay perched to tune in on their televisions just to see Mariah's appearance and performance. Vh1 also revealed Mariah's setlist moments before the segment was aired.
Setlist:
1. Disguise
2. Up In The Sky
3. Peasants
4. I'm Not Done
During the segment, Mariah wore a beautiful yellow shimmering gown which showed her sexy curves with a pair of simple black stilettos. She also wore a beautiful shell-like necklace too. "Hi, I'm Mariah Carey, today I'll be performing a few songs for you and tell a little backstory of the songs that I will be performing today", Mariah says as the camera switches scene towards a stage. As she walks towards the stage, fog starts to cover the stage as she grabs her golden 1950s inspired microphone. The intro of "Disguise" kick in as Mariah did some impromptu melisma belts. The lightings dimmed a little to give the performance more emotions and sadness. She used her clear voice to sing the verses while she used more of her lower and huskier part of her voice to sing the choruses and bridge. She sat down after the performance and revealed that "Disguise" was written at a time when she thought of committing suicide, and she said she was glad to let the pain out of her chest. After that, she went back to the stage and this time, she performed "Up In The Sky", an upbeat alternative soul song mixed with some jazz guitar sounds from her album. This time, shining blue lights was shone around the stage as Mariah croons to the verses, she belted out the second chorus "I'm Up In The Sky/I know I can fly" as she transitioned into the last chorus, skipping the instrumental break that is found on the album track. Mariah revealed that this song was written during her "Me I Am Mariah.... The Elusive Chanteuse" era, but she somehow decided to keep it for this album. She also added that the song talks about being up in the sky, and that is a metaphor for being happy.
After the commercial break, Mariah had a change of clothes and she wore a simple blue t-shirt and a pair of jeans. She also straightened her hair too. She stepped up on stage, and this time she performed "Peasants", an upbeat R&B song from her album. She danced to the song, dancing moves that shade other celebrities. She even changed a few lyrics just to shade Nicki Minaj and Paris Hilton. "Don't you know I have better curves?/While you are nothing but a perv"(Towards Nicki Minaj) and "I don't count on auto tune/I just slay you with my belts you fool"(Towards Paris Hilton). She rap sing the last chorus while belting at the same time to end the energetic performance. She said that her alter ego, Bianca wrote the song when Nicki came all out on her during the 'American Idol' era back in 2013, but she decided to shelve the song till now. Now with the last performance, she performed "I'm Not Done", the piano ballad song which was featured on the Stand Up To Cancer commercial a few weeks back. The lighting was dimmed again to give it emotions like what she did for her "Disguise" performance earlier on. Mariah cries halfway performing the song, but it didn't affect her singing in any way. She belted the last chorus and did some whistle runs after that to end the performance. She revealed that "I'm Not Done" was written with her father, Alfred Roy in mind. She thanked the audience for watching after that as the segment came to an end. Her previous singles, "Libidinous Dream" and album title track, "The Stygian Chevalier" was played during the end credits of the special segment. The special segment aided the album to continue to stay on the top spot of the iTunes album charts, preventing Britney's "American Dream...The Pop Bible" from reclaiming it back. Walmart reported that the physical copy of "The Stygian Chevalier" is 85% sold out after the special segment was aired on Vh1 too.
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The only celeb in Mariah's way this week is Britney tbh. May I know what is GGD ??
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THE VIEW
(Interview & Performances)
Taylor Swift was live on The View this morning where she interviewed and performed two songs from her latest record Electric Princess which debuted at the second spot on the albums chart, selling over five hundred thousand copies first week, making it Taylor's strongest debut out of her past three albums that all hit the number one spot. Though she didn't score the top spot on the albums chart, Taylor did manage to score her eight number one single from the album, 'Cathedrals'. The song became Taylor's third consecutive number one single and would have been her eight if a weak bitch named Paige Elliot had promoted their single. But it's all cute and dandy as Taylor is currently on top, selling albums and singles while the other is in rehab retrieving her daily doses of coke during visits from her abusive ex-husband. Unfortunately, Taylor did not mention her in any part of the interview and instead mainly talked about her album and her highly attractive boyfriend that the world wants to know more about. There was also some rumors addressed on the show that many found shocking. An excerpt from the interview is below.
"So Taylor Swift, you've already sold almost four million copies of songs and albums in just the span of two months. What's next for you?" Whoppi asked Taylor, who was looking cute in a Alexander McQueen dress. "Um hopefully more albums and sales. Actually yeah, hopefully there's a good five more albums before things start to slow down. This is only my seventh record and I think I have a good six more in me before I really need to decide if I want to keep making music anymore. But definitely another album is coming soon. Along with some other exciting things in my life." The next question made Miss Swift blush hard. "Could this other exciting thing be marriage and perhaps a family?" The starlet turned blood red and covered her face. "I try not to think about it too much but yes." "Have you two talked about it any" one of the girls asked, the audience listening to every word. "We have. Plenty. He really wants to start early but I'm just really ready to take it slow and just wait. But yeah, those future plans have been discussed plenty by the both of us." The topics in the interview were diverse but they finished it off with the topic of Taylor's seventh album 'Electric Princess'. "So 'Cathedrals' went number one. What's the next song from the album that will be a single?" Taylor replied with an answer that didn't satisfy many or well anyone. "It was actually already chosen. I filmed the video last week but right now we aren't sure. I feel terrible to say this but I really don't know yet. You'll get news about it soon though."
Taylor would then take to the stage on The View this morning to perform none other than the two singles from 'Electric Princess'. First up was the first number one single of the era, 'Loverboy', a song that has become one of the biggest and unexpected hits in Taylor's career, debuting at number two before climbing up to the top spot in the following week. Swift's vocals were unite heavenly as she sore some leather shorts and white fur sweater that had a black leather stripe going around the sleeves of the sweater. 'Cathedrals' was perhaps the better out of the two vocally and stage wise as Taylor was really feeling herself throughout. The performances nonthingless got the job done as Taylor's seventh studio album 'Electric Priness 'reigns at the number one spot on iTunes for it's ninth day atop, managing to best competition for the day until the next promotional slot. Swift's seventh album 'Electric Princess' is available on iTuens now, along with the second single from it 'Cathedrals'.
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X FACTOR UK
(Performance)
Taylor Swift was live on The X Factor UK today where she would take to the stage as today's guest performer. After a great week of success last week, where the singer sold nearly one million records in one single week, there singer plans on aiming for her fourth consecutive number one album in the past two years, her previous three, including the extended play 'Coven 13' she released earlier last month, which also went number one. Taylor also managed to score three consecutive number one singles in the past two months, putting her total up to eight in just the time span of eight months, making her the female artist with most number one singles and the most successful female in Create a Label artist, selling over twelve million records with three albums only. 'Electric Princess' the singer-songwriter's seventh album debuted at the second spot this week with over five hundred thousand copies, becoming the singer's highest week opening in her career. It seems this week the singer is aiming for the top spot as she performed a medley on the X Factor UK today from the album.
The singer was introduced to the stage by a video montage that she showcased much of Taylor's endless receipts, stating all her United States of America receipts, then her British ones, the montage lasting about a minute and thirsty seconds longs. The performance would then start with Taylor standing on a platform that was raised up in the air. It then had to two staircases leading down wither side. The visuals behind her made it look as if she were in a dark tower. Her dress was silver an Electrifying color of silver that suited her skin color and slim figure. The intro to the album track off the album played as Taylor soon began singing. She sand the first verse as the lights began to flash over her. Dancers would appear at the bottom of the staircase where Taylor would eventually meet them at as the chorus hit. They did a dance routine before they were on to the next song. That was 'Sex Kitten'. Taylor would then pause to strip her dancers down to their boxers to the instrumental as a bed would roll out from the side of the stage. She would lay on the bed as her dancers touched on her before she would mount one and then roll off of him. Female dancers and male dancers would then all pile up on each other on the bed, as Taylor would rub her legs seductively and lean against the front of the bed. The tempo of the performance would slow down as the dancers would disappear from the bed to reveal Taylor's real life boyfriend on the bed where he laid in just his boxers. Taylor would then climb on the bed and get onto of him as he kissed on her skin, as she sang 'Loverboy' and 'Cathedrals' to the best R&B sensual beat that replaced the disco one. It marked the end of the performance as the stage turned into darkness.
Taylor would join Dermot back on stage to give some advice to the contestants but also give some cute little information about where the fans and viewers who were watching could get her brand new album. "That was absolutely incredible Ms Taylor Swift. Wasn't that incredible?" he asked the audience who roared. Taylor's vocals had been on point the entire performance, even haters said so via Twitter where everyone seemed to be favorable of the performance. "Thank you so much. It's from my new album 'Electric Princess' which is out now on iTunes and any store you can probably go to in the United Kingdom." He would then congratulate her on her eight number one single. "Thank you for performing for us Taylor. Also congratulations on your eighth worldwide number one. How do you feel?" He asked America's Sweetheart. "I feel absolutely incredible and ecstatic about it. Thank you to all of my UK fans who bought it too." "What advice do you have for our contestants right now?" Taylor would the give some cute but helpful advice. "Not to think about you're doing so much. Don't worry so much about your pitch, the key. Be confident, have fun, and just show everyone what you have. Sing like you need to pay rent. Just sing. No one wants a robot with a great voice singing on stage. Just have fun. That's it. If you don't win don't give up either." Taylor laughed before leaving the stage.
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Mariah welcomes competition tbh For the next season, Mariah will be focusing on her album sales only for a few weeks before a proper single is released.
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ELECTRIC PRINCESS TOUR DVD/CD
(New Tour Dates Announced)
Taylor Swift's embarked on major tours in her short eight year career but perhaps no tour of the singer-songwriter's has been as massive and big as her Electric Princess Tour. The tour which has already visited two continents, Asia and South America, will continue until it meets it's end in late December, where it will finish off back in Asia where the demand has been at an all time high for America's biggest export it seems. With the eight number ones to her name and six number one albums to her name, there's no reason for there not to be demand for the seven time GRAMMY winner. Taylor Swift is also one of the most awarded female artists of all time, the most awarded amongst her contemporaries. Taylor Swift recently took home the MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration and Video of The Year, along with the problematic female artist she collaborated with on the song. The performance Taylor gave at the MTV Video Music awards caused much buzz and was a huge hit with the critics who applauded Miss Swift for taking a risk and doing something out of the box. That served as promotion for Taylor's single 'Cathedrals' as well as her album 'Electric Princess' which debuted at the second spot last week, though it sold over five hundred thousand copies, making it Taylor's highest first week sales in the past two years, a time span in which she's released three albums. More promotion is expected to ensue this week as today it was announced a very special release in side of Swift's seventh studio album would also be released separately and would also be packaged with the critically acclaimed album (which holds a 93 Metacritic score)
It was earlier last week with the tour date in Rio De Janeiro being filmed last week , many fans began speculating why there were also audio equipment and crew in the audience and backstage as well. Fans tweeted questions to Taylor asking what it was all for. Some fans argued that it was just Swift filming a performance that would air on show since she would most likely would not be able to attend in person. Others argued and said it was for another televised concert, something Taylor's been known to do more than once for a single tour. But all their questions were answered today as Taylor announced the release of the brand new DVD/CD for the 'Electric Princess' tour via video. "Hey everyone, all my Swifties. I hope you're all having an absolutely amazing Sunday morning because after I tell you this my Sunday will certainly be better. I know you've guys been tweeting me for the past week wondering what the camera crews and audio recording men were about and I can tell you it wasn't for a televised concert. In fact it was for something even better. Something that you don't have to DVR. It was actually for something I think you all will love even more. It's exciting and I mean really exciting to announce that the Electric Princess Tour DVD and, yes I said and, will be hitting stores' shelves tonight at midnight. It features every single performance on the tour, nothing's left out. You get to see behind the scenes of the tour, the process of recording the album and more. The CD will also be packaged with the tour DVD. I also believe that the DVD and CD will actually be packaged with 'Electric Princess' itself. So make sure you go out to your Target, Best Buy, Walmart, um iTunes, Amazon, any place you can think of that sells music or DVDs to go and get it. I'm so excited for you all to see what I've been working on and I also would love to announce a few more dates of the Electric Princess tour right now."
"I will be seeing you tomorrow London at the Twickenham Stadium, so get ready for me and buy your tickets on ticketmaster.co.uk. Make sure to be extra loud and Londonish for me, please. I love you guys. I will then be going down under to the Sydney where I will be seeing you all at the massive Allianz Stadium, in which I was the first female to ever sell it out if I mean to boast. Then I will be seeing my lovely American fans at the Rose Bowl in the beautiful Los Angeles where I spend half of my life. Then I will be home in New York City playing the Yankee Stadium. I'm so excited about playing there. I've never played that venue before and it will be lots of fun I'm sure. The final date is where I spent the entire time recording the album. Paris, France. I will be seeing my lovely French fans at the Stade De Paris. I hope you all come out and see the show and I cannot wait too see you all and hopefully meet you. Thank you all so much. I love you. Je t'aime. Ciao." Taylor would wave bye and the video would be replaced with a trailer of the DVD. Immediately following the announcement of the DVD and new tour dates, fans immediately gave her their coins over 100,000 copies of the Dvd being purchased by Monday evening, making it the surefire #1 on the DVD charts. The album and Dvd for the tour hit the top ten on albums and movies chart, making it one of the few live albums to hit the top tens, though it was't the first for Taylor. The Electric Princess Tour DVD and Live album are out now along with the album itself. Make sure to purchase it!
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After announcing that she would be doing a Fox Special for her re-release of "American Dream" on Good Morning America yesterday, the hype went through the roof. The special aired at 8 PM EST with the title "American Dream: The Pop Bible Comes To Life" on Fox and it followed Britney recording the album, performing on her tour, doing exclusive performances of the new tracks for the special, and more behind the scenes footage from the "American Dream" era. The special was two hours long and created several worldwide trends #BritneyFoxSpecial, #BritneyOnFox, #BritneyAmericanDream, and #BritneyPopBible.
The special started with a 7 minute segment of Britney in the studio recording the 8 new tracks on "The Pop Bible" re-release. Britney talked about the tracks as she sang live in the studio with Danja and Max Martin. Britney talked about feeling more open with this record, open to say what she wanted and sing the songs she wanted to sing. She talked about writing the songs over the past few hectic weeks and said that she was very excited for her fans to hear the music.
The next part of the special focused on the "Naughty Girl Tour", the tour is a worldwide stadium tour which Britney is bringing to North America this week. Britney talked to the camera as she left the studio and reminded them to buy tickets on livenation, tickets on livenation now come bundled with the digital re-release of "American Dream". The special followed Britney rehearsing in the dance studio for the tour while flashing to professional footage of tour performances of "Gimme Your Best", "Touchin' Me", "Body To Body", and "Sweet (Like A Lollipop)", all songs off of the "American Dream" album. The footage showed incredible choreography by Britney and showcased the massive stage and beautiful special effects perfectly.
After the segment focused on the tour, the special transformed to a promotional tool for the re-release of "American Dream". Britney rented out a big stage in Planet Hollywood and recorded performances of the 8 songs on the re-release of "American Dream: The Pop Bible". The special now flashed from these 8 performances to other behind the scenes footage of Britney's latest works and career moves.
Set-List:
-Truth Or Dare
-All You Ever Wanted
-Getaway
-Curtain Call
-The Last Laugh
-Aftermath
-Crazy Bitch
-Sun-kissed
Britney wore five different outfits for the performances. A crop top + skinny jeans combo, a black catsuit, a red lingerie set with red latex boots & a pink bikini with a transparent white coat. She also wore a long white dress for the "All You Ever Wanted" performance and transformed the song to an unplugged version with a live band, singing it like a ballad.
The performances started with "Truth Or Dare" where Britney ran around a smoke-filled stage holding a dagger. Female zombies rose up from underneath the stage and attempted to grab Britney as she danced/fought her way through the euro-pop track. The special then faded to Britney behind the scenes of the "Touchin' Me" video set, getting dressed in her nun outfit with Rihanna. The girls talked about being very excited to shoot the video and release it on MTV. The special followed them recording the nun in the bank scene as they ran out of the bank with the money and a real helicopter came to get them.
The next performance was the ballad/unplugged version of "All You Ever Wanted". After that the special followed Britney on the set of her "Lascivious" perfume ad as sponsored by Macys. The special then once again moved back to the performances with Britney wearing the catsuit and doing a mashup of "Getaway" & "Curtain Call". Spears was running away from a SWAT team with laser guns for the 7 minute performance as she did many acrobatics to escape, jumping on flying platforms, descending underneath the stage and popping up on the opposite end, and dancing in her ring of fire as she pushed them away. After this 7 minute performance the special followed Britney behind the scenes of the Victoria's Secret campaign, shooting with Candice Swanepoel and Adriana Lima, "Sun-Kissed" played in the background of this behind the scenes segment.
The special then faded back to Britney performing "The Last Laugh", wearing a red lingerie set. The performance started on the bed with a man raping Britney. Britney then smashed his head with a wine bottle as she ran away. Britney got a handgun as her laugh was played over the song. Britney chased the man running away from her throughout the performance. The performance ended with Britney shooting the man and licking the blood off her fingers that splattered onto them. After this, the special moved to behind the scenes footage of Britney shooting for MAXIM while "Sun-kissed" played in the background. The special then moved back to another mashup performance of "Aftermath" & "Crazy Bitch", both involved heavy special effects ranging from smoke to rain to fire and pyrotechnics. Spears performed a heavy dance number to this song with an army of female dancers.
The special then followed Britney rehearsing dance moves in a dance studio for the upcoming "Sun-kissed" video as the #SunkissedVideo was seen on the bottom left of the screen. The special then faded to the final performance and ending of the special, a performance of her new single "Sun-kissed". Britney was wearing a pink bikini with a transparent white coat as she danced her way around the stage with female dancers who were also wearing pink bikinis. Beach balls were being thrown around the stage as water rained down on the girls and they flipped their wet hair around. Britney sang "Sun-kissed" very well and the beats sounded incredible on the special. Britney rose up on a sphere platform with the dancers as they dance on top of sit as water shot up around it on all sides. Britney then attached herself to two cables and jumped off, doing flips in the air as water rained down on her and "Sun-kissed" came to an end. The special ended with a picture of the "American Dream: Pop Bible" album cover and a caption "in stores everywhere and on iTunes now".
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Night 14
Britney Spears embarks on her “Naughty Girl” stadium tour to promote her new album “American Dream” as the tour is filled with tracks off the album. The tour follows Britney’s life from the “Dreaming Days” before fame to the “Hollywood Babe” of Britney in her prime, to her “Rebellious Heart” and troubles of the past year and to her current “Naughty Girl” style as she embarks on the current era of her career. The tour is filled with incredible visuals and effects, the interludes are beautiful and sexy. Britney stuns in her outfits as her body is on point, the choreography is incredible and the stage features are amazing. Britney uses several flying platforms and additional stage platforms that rise up high in the air so the whole audience can catch a glimpse of her. Several fire/water effects are used as huge light shows create a technically advanced feel for the tour. Britney pushes the limits and even ties her herself up in a glass box of water to open the “Rebellious Heart” set, she bangs against the glass frame as she tries to escape, scaring the life out of fans in the stadium as she purposely panics. The costumes are sexy and scandalous and leave little to the imagination, Britney certainly pulled out all the stops for this tour as it truly is her biggest production yet.
Information:
MetLife Stadium (82,556/82,556)- 100% Sold Out
East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Opening Acts
Rita Ora
Set-List #1
1. Losing Me
2. Blind Side
3. Impulse to Soar
4. Fire Starter
5. Drunk In Love (Cover)
6. Losing Me (Acoustic)
Marina & The Diamonds
Set-List #2
1. Happy Meal
2. Primadonna
3. I Am Not A Robot
4. Where The Diamonds Grow
5. How To Be A Heart Breaker
Main Act
Britney Spears: Set List
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Britney Spears Surprise Releases Special iTunes Edition Of Re-Release
After hinting on Good Morning America that a special edition of the album would be released on iTunes, fans were very excited and pondered on what this special edition could contain. The special edition of the album was revealed as a surprise today at 6 PM EST with a promotional banner on iTunes and a tweet from Britney which says "Check iTunes for a verrrry special version of my album, loves <3". The main banner on iTunes worldwide now promotes the iTunes exclusive visual edition of the American Dream re-release while the rest of the banners promote the regular re-release edition and Britney's new single "Sun-kissed". Apple is also promoting the visual album in their stores by playing soundless clips of the videos on their display screens. Apple is also promoting the visual album/re-release on the homepage of their website with a clickable image to the iTunes download.
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With 27 songs, come 26 videos. The video for "Sun-kissed" is locked and will not be included in the special edition of the album until Spears officially releases it later this week. The special edition of the album includes the popular video for the biggest hit of the summer, "Gimme Your Best", which received three nominations at the VMAs as well as a win for best pop video and "Touchin' Me" which received two VMA nominations. Spears received a total of 5 nominations for her music videos at the VMAs which represents the high quality of her videos, this exclusive iTunes visual edition proves just why Spears is the queen of videos delivering 24 new quality videos for her fans. The album costs $15.99, only two dollars more than the price of the regular re-release, an incredible deal for 26 (soon to be 27) videos and all 27 songs in perfect iTunes quality. The videos cannot be found anywhere else, they are not on YouTube or VEVO (except for Gimme Your Best/Touchin' Me), they are solely on the visual album. The videos are formatted as a special iTunes filetype, they can only be opened on iTunes and cannot be opened on other apps. This formatting will make it very difficult for fans to spread the videos on other websites, Britney's team is also taking down any clips that leak onto the internet in an attempt to make sure people have to get the visual album if they wish to see the videos on it.
Some Video Descriptions:
Gimme Your Best
Video description here
Sweet (Like A Lollipop)
Britney runs through Wonderland & an animated version of the Candyland board game for this video, the video also flashes to scenes of nude Britney covered by lollipops as she sings directly to the camera and scenes with Britney opening up a fairytale book and flipping between page as the video zooms into a page to show a new Britney "story".
Booty Call
Britney wakes up and is touching herself, she gets out of bed and grabs her phone to call someone. A guy comes over and they make love for the rest of the video, throwing clothes at the camera and doing sexy poses with the blankets.
Touchin' Me w/ Rihanna
Video description here
Fill Me Up
Britney walks down busy NYC streets as men/women touch her. She walks into Times Square and starts dancing around while she sings to the camera. She walks up the big steps in Times Square as she sings more and does crazy acrobatic moves along the railings.
Body To Body
This video is very sensual, it features sex scenes with Britney & Cristiano Ronaldo as well as scenes with Britney & Rihanna. The video also features a threesome scene with Britney, Cristiano, and Rihanna. The video flashes from these scenes to Britney lying in a blank white room on the floor, dancing around and touching herself. The video ends with Britney waking up and throwing the blankets off her body, she's wearing white lingerie and is sweating.. it was all a dream.
Bad Girls (We Do It Betta) ft. Miley Cyrus
The video features the girls running around, using sledgehammers to break guys cars as well as dancing in the club at night and getting turnt up. The girls also fake shave their heads and fake their deaths to secure the cover of magazines while laughing. They are very bad girls.
Naughty Or Nice
This video features Britney wearing two different outfits, one is an angel and the other is a devil's advocate. The video follows both versions of Brit and how she treats the same guy throughout the night. The end of the video is in the bedroom with the guy sleeping with both the naughty and nice Brit Brit.
Deranged
Britney is an room full of cameras as she holds some of the cameras, the video view constantly changes between the cameras in the room. Magazines on a big screen behind Britney transform to their "true covers", uncovering the truth behind the lies.
Where'd The Good Times Go?
Follows the storyline of the song, Brit falls in love with a boy but says no when he proposes. Her life tumbles down and she sees him later on with a new wife, life, and kids.. wondering where the good times went.
Getaway
Britney escapes a high security prison and jumps into a huge waterfall to get away. The video follows Britney on the run from the police as a wanted woman.
Aftermath
The world ends after a big meteor crushes the Earth but Britney and a few others survive. The dead humans become zombies and the video follows Britney/other survivors defending themselves against the undead zombies and running through the destroyed world.
Curtain Call
The video follows Britney on a basic theatre stage as red curtains close behind her. She sings "Curtain Call" a-capella before the live band kicks in. She's wearing a stunning red dress and singing to a large crowd with a white spotlight shining on her.
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Britney Spears On Ellen
Britney Spears appeared on Ellen today to promote her new single "Sun-kissed" and the re-release of her album, "American Dream: The Pop Bible". Britney talked with Ellen about the process of creating the visual album, telling Ellen that she filmed the visual album mostly in California but also ventured out to Italy for some of the videos, including "Sun-kissed" which is currently unavailable on the visual album. Britney confirmed that the video for "Sun-kissed" would be released tomorrow and that it was shot in a beautiful town in Italy on one of her off days last week. Britney also talked about the Fox Special saying that weeks of filming went into creating it and that it was basically a two hour look of the "American Dream" era behind the scenes with new performances, she was excited to announce that the special would be playing on Fox two more times this week, tomorrow at 8/7 C and tonight at 11 PM EST. Britney talked about writing "Sun-kissed" and the rest of "The Pop Bible" re-release tracks, she talked about the path she wants to go in her career as the summer comes to a close. Britney confirmed that "Sun-kissed" would most probably be the last single by Britney for the summer as she plans to focus on her tour more. Britney thanked fans for getting "Sun-kissed" and her re-release to #1 on iTunes, she also let fans know that she would be giving away free tickets to her tour tonight and told them to check twitter for more information. Britney talked about her love life and said that they are getting more serious as the months go by. Britney did some impersonations of other artists along with Ellen as part of a game Ellen had prepared, ha Whitney Houston impersonation was spot on. Britney and Ellen then continued to talk about her "American Dream" before Ellen announced that Spears would perform her new single "Sun-kissed" after the commercial break, Ellen told viewers to buy her new single and album before the break.
Performance:
Britney wore a red one piece bikini with red high heels for her ellen performance of "Sun-kissed". Britney sang live while doing some minimal choreography as smoke surrounded the stage. She sang with a normal mic and did some basic moves while giving off great vocals. Halfway into the song 10 ladies in pink bikinis came to the stage and Britney did a slow and sensual dance break with them to the chorus of "Sun-kissed". Guys in beach shorts then came onto the stage and held all the girls + Britney up, Britney sang high in the air as the boys moved her around the stage. They let her down as she did a few more dance moves and sang the ending to "Sun-kissed" live before smoke surrounded her and the performance was over.
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