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STYLE MUSIC VIDEO
The release of Taylor Swift’s brand new single ‘Style’ has been met with an outstanding reception not only critically but commercially as well. The single’s been reviewed positively by many publishers including Pitchfork, Spin, The Guardian, and even TIME magazine. Commercially the song has fared more than well, not only reaching the summit of the iTunes charts in Taylor’s home country of the United States but in over fifty countries worldwide on the iTunes chart (countries include the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Spain, Germany, and Japan) This is an outstanding feat for the single under it’s conditions; these conditions being that the song’s originally from a previously released album and has been made available for purchase for a little over three months.
The singer-songwriter has been a main topic of discussion this week not only for her music but for her personal life. There’s been plentiful speculation taking in consideration the rumored split between Taylor and her male model and boyfriend Simon Nessman to cocaine usage allegations after erratic behavior in interviews and performances. Miss Swift became a popular searched topic on Yahoo and Google’s most searched celebrity of the week. This would do nothing but increase even further as Taylor announced the release of the music video for ‘Style’ tonight; releasing two teasers from the video before premiering the entire thing on YouTube, VEVO, and long time supporter and television channel MTV.
Millions of fans tuned in to see the much anticipated video for the Max Martin and Shellback produced track. #TSStyleMV was the number one trend in America while sub-trends such as #TaylorStyle and #StyleMVPremiere #TSMTV managed to trend with a little help of the MTV, YouTube, and VEVO’s Twitter accounts. A little earlier than expected (11:59 EST) Taylor popped up on the screen, decked out in a gorgeous sequined dress with a lovely shade of red lipstick on, a smile on her lips. The singer waved before informing fans about what they were about to see.
“Hey you guys, it’s Taylor and you will not believe how glad I am to see you. Before I get into what I know you’re all tuning in to see, I want to thank you guys so much for all you’ve done. I want to thank you for believing in me, trusting me, and just letting my music be the soundtrack to your lives. There’s nothing more as a singer-songwriter than knowing you are all out there singing my lyrics, lyrics that I wrote from the heart about personal experiences I’ve went through. More importantly, I’m so grateful that you guys love the stuff I put out, my art, so much that you’re willing to spend your well deserved money and important time on it. Thank you so much for believing in everything I do and thank you so much for helping me build this kingdom for us. Remember, I am forever yours.”
Following her emotional thank you to fans, Taylor began to talk about the video. “This video was a video, or should I say a project I spent an entire weekend. We filmed in various locations across the world, went through countless designers, went through casting, and more to make sure everything was perfect. I was so grateful everything fell into place so fast and I’m even more grateful for how great it turned out thanks to my co-director Romain Gavras. I think it is one of and if not my best video ever. It's really sexy and classy, I think. So here it is, the music video for my new single ‘Style’.
The music video starts off at the front of a gate of a huge manor/mansion. Slowly the gates open and limousine pulls through, driving slowly down the long and extensive cemented driveway. The limousine is jet black and oddly enough doesn’t have it’s headlights on despite it being night time.
The screen switches to a huge bedroom, the master bedroom. The interior design of the bedroom is a soft pink with black lace pattering running down the wall paper, along with the bed being covered with a silky pink comforter with black lace embroidery. Taylor’s seen sitting on the huge bed, in a silk pink robe that too is embroidered with the same black lace pattern. The robe is open far enough to see a glimpse of Swift’s cleavage pushed up in a soft pink bra, revealed to be a Victoria’s Secret bra as a closeup of the bra is shown, the letters ‘VS’ imprinted on it. Swift’s hair is short and straightened, her lips a natural soft pink color.
“Midnight, you come and pick me up no headlights. Long drive, could end burning flames or paradise.” The singer sings seductively in the camera, shots of her gripping the cover of the bed, her lips singing the words, along with the shot of a frontal, showing viewers a closeup of the ensemble Swift had on (and a nice shot of her breasts). (Swift’s outfit)
“Fate in the view, it’s been awhile since I’ve even heard from you” Taylor sings as the camera pans back to the limousine that’s now parked outside of Swift’s mansion, revealed to be Uptown Court (x) A shot of her lover sitting in the backseat, staring out the window to the light in Taylor’s room is shown for a brief moment. We do not see his face but we see the outline as it is dark.
It goes back to Taylor who’s now pulling on skin tight black dress. We see her slip the dress on, her back bare as the camera pans to show her slim body looking quite curvaceous in the dress. She slips on a pair of heel booties before she looks over her shoulder, knowing that he’s arrived. [x]
During the pre-chorus Taylor is seen at her vanity mirror, which has three mirrors surrounding either side of Swift. She’s applying some mascara, blush, before a shot shows her carefully applying a thick layer of red lipstick. “I should just tell you to leave cause I, know exactly where it leads, but I, watch us go round and round each time,” Swift croons the lyrics as she stares into the mirror, looking sexy yet classy, leaning forward to inspect herself in the mirror, admiring the view.
The pounding full production of the chorus hits as the limousine appears to be stopped at a location. Quickly the door opens, revealing Taylor’s love interest, Francisco Lachowski in a tuxedo, a black one before he holds out his hand to help Taylor out, a shot of him doing so from outside the limo being shown. A closeup of Taylor’s eyes are shown before one of his’ are too as she sings, “You got that James Dean, daydream, look in your eye… They share a moment before cameras start flashing instantly and constantly. A shot of the two walking together, hand in hand, is shown, showcasing the classy yet sexy look the both have going. “A tight little skirt” shows a closeup of Taylor’s outfit. Scenes of the two in the limo, face to face are shown as the city lights shine through the windows are shown before it switches to the two inside a restaurant that’s illuminated in a very romantic and sexy dark red light. The two are seen looking in each others’ eyes before they both take a sip of their champagne, shots of the two smirking at each playing during the chorus.
The second verse hits and the two are staring face to face with each other in the limo, a shot being shown of it speeding down the highway. Their eyes are locked on each other as they both appear to have something on their mind along with a desire for each other. A shot of Francisco licking his lips is shown as Taylor slowly but surely crosses her legs, catching his eye as she uses a hand to rub her legs in a nonchalant and seductive way. He slowly begins to unbutton the blazer he has on, causing Taylor to look at him frustrated as he begins to unbutton the undershirt underneath it too. She then proceeds to pull up her dress as shots of the two posing for the cameras flashing are shown once again, interrupting the little strip off they had going, along with clips of the two embracing in other locations. A clip shows her straddling him in the limo, her face inches above his as a close up of her red lips are shown as she sings, “I got that red lip classic thing that you like…”
“We never go we never go we never go” Taylor sings as a clip of him following Taylor closely behind into the mansion is shown before a different scene is shown, one of the two kissing passionately in the bedroom Swift appeared in at the beginning although the lighting is now in a dark shade of pink. Close shots are shown of their lips moving together are displayed, along with her hands on his chest, unbuttoning his undershirt completely, him removing it and more. He then undoes Swift’s dress hastily before clips show him pushing them down on the bed. His lips are shown on her bare neck, hers on other parts of his body, before we get shots of them moving together in the dark, in obvious sexual positions. Close ups of their facial expressions are shown, eyes closed before more scenes are shown, including shots of Taylor’s red lipstick all over his face, along with his neck.
Some other intimate shots are shown, including the two kissing each other in the limousine before they switch back to some more of the two in the bed. Taylor’s seen moving downwards of his face with a smirk before more visually beautiful of the two making love are shown. “Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style” Swift sings on the track as an aerial view of the two from the waist up are shown before the lights in the room dim out into complete darkness.
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So much good single artwork this season Love Ariana's and Dawn's!
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"Vixen" To Be Released Dec. 30th - On iTunes Now
Adriana surprised the world by putting her new album, "Vixen", on iTunes with a December 30th release date. Several demos from the album leaked this past week through an anonymous source and many think this is the reason for the sudden album release.
By ordering the album now, you get a download for the 2nd promo single "Down On My Knees", which features Sky Ferreira. It was produced by StarGate and Sandy Vee and is a fizzy, bass-heavy electro-pop song about pleasing your man.
The full tracklist and credits can be seen below, along with the standard and deluxe covers of the album. Production includes hit-makers such as Dr. Luke and Calvin Harris.
Vixen
Adriana Lima
1) Primal Instincts (Hit-Boy, Detail)
2) How Do You Do What You Do (Benny Blanco, Max Martin, Zedd)
3) East Coast Nights (Pop Wansel, Mike Will Made It)
4) No Way Home (William Orbit)
5) Vixen (Diplo)
6) Hallucinations (William Orbit)
7) Down On My Knees (feat. Sky Ferreira) (StarGate, Sandy Vee)
8) Bed Of Roses (Calvin Harris)
9) Sex With Style (Bloodshy & Avant)
10) 911 (Detail, Boots)
11) Model Behavior (Diplo)
12) Mannequin (Dev Hynes, Zedd)
13) I Own The World (Detail, Mike Will Made It)
14) Kiss It Better (Jeff Bhasker)
15) Wings (Greg Kurstin, Sia)
DELUXE EDITION
16) Air On Fire (William Orbit)
17) Break Down The Walls (Greg Kurstin)
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Writing the lyrics for Heartbreak, then writing up the lyric video article
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@AvrilLavigne Thank you so much love. Glad you're enjoying the new music.
Natalia Kills
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Day 2 of extensive promo #CovenDeCoutureOnItunes
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Avril Lavigne
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@NataliaKills You're very much welcome!
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would there be a payment if we include a collaboration with an artist that's not signed up to any labels on this game? thanks
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would there be a payment if we include a collaboration with an artist that's not signed up to any labels on this game? thanks
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You can collaborate with two different artists that are signed. You can put them both on a one song, you can also put them on different songs - it's basically up to you how you want to do that. Only two collaborations with artists that are signed. However, you can collaborate on as many songs as you want with artists that aren't part of CAL.
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Ariana Grande’s “Heartbreak” lyric video released
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Ariana Grande’s new single dropped overnight, and now she has released the lyric video for the soon-to-be-smash “Heartbreak”. “Heartbreak” is an R&B-fueled pop song written by Ariana, Babyface, and Antonio Dixon and produced by Babyface and Dixon. It is three minutes and 43 seconds long and runs at 94 bpm. It is inspired by artists such as Mariah Carey, Aaliyah, and Brandy. The lyric video of the song takes us through a mini journey through pop culture over the years, focusing on fashion. It begins in the 1920s with Ariana dressed as a flapper and goes through each decade up to the 2000s and today. The lyric video is three minutes and 53 seconds long. The full lyrics follow this article.
At the beginning, the title card is shown, displaying name of the song as well as the artist. Ariana is now shown walking up to a piano in the present day. When she starts playing it, we are taken all the way back to the 1920s, where we can see a flapper version of Ariana in black-and-white (like above). Flapper Ariana sings the first half of the first verse (“The love we had was cool / But you played me like a fool…”), and then we skip to the 1930s where we see another version of Ariana who looks kind of like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz sing the other half.
We then skip ahead to the 1940s. A classy version of Ariana (similar to how Ariana is dressed in the “Right There” video) is sitting on a regal-looking sofa; she is holding a fan. She sings the pre-chorus, in which (in the explicit version- yes, there’s an explicit version!) she says “s**t’s about to go down!” In the clean version, this is changed to “It’s about to go down!” It’s interesting that she decided to throw in a curse word. Looking for controversy, Miss Grande?
(Click for explicit)
Now we’re in the 1950s. She has two outfits here. The first is a cute lace outfit. She wears this for the first half of the chorus: “Hope you enjoyed my love / Cause it’s gonna be gone…”.
In the second half of the chorus, Ariana is dressed in a lovely slightly-longer-than-knee-length, white-and-gray dress… well, it probably has color, but we still can’t see that! Anyway, it looks similar to the one on the red carpet below. This is where the chorus kicks in; Ariana, as always on her R&B songs, gives Mariah teas while belting out this chorus: “We were flying up above / Now what we had is gone…”.
For the first half of the second verse, we’re taken to the 1960s. Here is when we start getting a little color. She is dressed in a pink, flowery dress with a silver belt and headband; she has big hair as well as a watch and a silver handbag. It’s kind of like her and Iggy Azalea’s outfits on the “Problem” video. She really coordinated colors well! Anyway, the color is still a little faded at this point.
For the second half of the second verse, we gain full color. Ariana pays homage to The Brady Bunch by wearing an outfit similar to Marcia’s in the picture below. She sings: “I assumed she was a friend / But you went with her in the end…”
She returns to the pre-chorus in an 80s outfit. She wears a shoulder-free tee (like the one she’s wearing in the picture below) complete with leggings, 80s earrings, and odd 80s makeup. She is acting like she’s in an exercise video while singing: “When our eyes first met / I felt our love was true…”.
For the 90s and the second chorus, she pays homage to both Mariah Carey’s “Honey” video and her own video for “Baby I”. She’s dressed very similarly to how she is in the “Baby I” video; she also jumps in a pool from the second story of a house just like Mariah did in the aforementioned video. #Only90sKids will remember these things!
Finally, for the bridge, we return to the present day. She is still playing the piano, and at this point it’s just her and the piano. She sings softly, and builds up to the final line: “Oh, you didn’t know she’s my friend?” Then, she is in front of a black background, saying “Yeah, I never told her about us. Oops, too late now! Good luck!” The rest of the video shows her in all her different era forms; the lyric video ends with her getting up and walking away from the piano.
Critics have responded extremely positively to the video; they loved how it represented nearly every single decade of pop culture. They loved how it didn’t just show the lyrics but actually had substance to it. The video already has over 5 million views and is on track to hit 12 million views in its first 24 hours, which, while it won’t break the record for most watched video in 24 hours, is still very impressive for a lyric video. The official music video, coming out on Wednesday, still has a chance of breaking that record.
Below are the full lyrics to “Heartbreak”.
“Heartbreak”
By Ariana Grande
Written by Grande, Babyface, Antonio Dixon
Verse 1:
The love we had was cool
But you played me like a fool
Why didn’t I know?
Should’ve known, should’ve known
We went to all the parties
We acted kinda naughty
But then you threw it all away
Why didn’t I know?
Pre-Chorus:
When our eyes first met
I felt our love was true
But now
S**t’s about to go down!
Chorus:
Hope you enjoyed my love
Cause it’s gonna be gone
I don’t know about you
But I’ll get through the heartbreak
We were flying up above
Now what we had is gone
I don’t know about you
But I’m getting through the heartbreak
Verse 2:
When I first saw her with you
I didn’t think you were with her too
Why didn’t I know?
Should’ve know, should’ve known
I assumed she was a friend
But you went with her in the end
You threw it all away
Why didn’t I know?
Pre-Chorus
Chorus
Heartbreak, heartbreak…
Bridge:
Well I guess this is the end
You left me for that chick
This won’t happen again
I hope she knows bout this
If not, I’ll tell her you’re a bitch
Oh, you didn’t know she’s my friend?
(Yeah, I never told her about us. Oops, too late now! Good luck!)
Getting through the heartbreak!
Chorus [x2]
Outro [x2]:
Getting through this heartbreak
Heartbreak
I should’ve known should’ve known
Getting through this heartbreak
Buy Ariana Grande's new single "Heartbreak" on iTunes TODAY!
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Meet Cara Delevingne, the new face of British Airways
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"Meet Cara Delevingne, supermodel, actress and superstar singer Cara Delevingne and now the new face of British Airways."
This is what passengers are going to hear once in seat on their British Airways flights once they plug in their headphones. Cara Delevingne is now the new face of British airways, and she will be representing the national carrier of the United Kingdom all around the world. British Airways is one of today's biggest Airlines as it has more than 180 destinations all around the world and has a fleet compose dof more than 290 aircrafts. The gigantic company will now have Cara Delevingne's face painted on every single aircraft's livery, around the tail of the plane for a limited amount of time, for 3 months to be precise. Cara also filmed the video sequence shown at the beginning of the flight which will be presenting the regular safety procedures.
The campaign featuring Cara Delevingne was launched at this same time as Cara Delevingne's promotional schedule started for her brand new album and single, the single called 'La Belle' having easily topped the ITunes charts in a multitude of countries and the album reaching over a hundred thousand pre-orders in the past few days. The campaign itself, was synchronized with Cara Delevingne's era launch to boost the attention for both the United Kingdom's national airline and Cara Delevingne and it already showing the first signs of impressive sales for both, as the British Airways tickets sales were boosted of over 10% over the past few days and keeping in mind that this is a Holidays climate during which thousands travel, the campaign brought in an impressive amount of attention towards Cara as well. Cara Delevingne also appears on all British Airways in-flight magazines which include the Duty Free presentation, the company's official magazine and a Vogue created Fashion magazine for the airlines itself. "I am very happy to be representing my countries' biggest airline! It's amazing to see my face on a plane!" said Cara to fans at the campaign's launch party.
A commercial was filmed a few days ago in which was featured Cara Delevingne and her single 'La Belle':
The commercial starts off by showing Cara walking fiercely through the streets of London after getting out of a limousine and having the Paparazzi following her around while 'La Belle' plays, she reaches the airport at which she suddenly does a 360 degree turn and we see her in the British Airways hostess outfit. She heads towards a counter and start receiving the passengers while still smiling and helping them, before the commercial switches to a inside a plane view inside which we can see Cara serving the passengers in various ways, helping the children get seated, bringing food & drinks and more. During the plane sequence, Cara's voice can be heard: "At British Airways we will offer you the best service you can get, and we will fly you to wherever you want to go at the best prices possible". A shot of Cara's face after helping putting a child at his place is shown where she turns around and say to the camera the company's slogan: "To Fly. To Serve.", the commercial then ends by showing the 'La Belle' and 'Distant Horizon' single and album covers and saying "Out now" under 'La Belle" and "Out on January 3rd" under "Distant Horizon".
The commercial is being played in hundreds of countries all around the world on different channels to bring in an impressive amount of attention towards both Cara and the company, millions have already watched the commercial. When the commercial first premiered it sent Twitter fans into an insane mood, all of them tweeting words such as "Cara Delevingne", 'British Airways", 'Cara Commercial" and 'CaraXBritishAirways", all of which ended up trending for hours on twitter and bringing in some extra attention towards Cara and british airways. The commercial is also on constant replay at all London's airports served by British Airways and at selected airports all around the world including New York City's JFK Internatinal Airport, Paris' Roissy-Charles De Gaule, Dubai's International Airport and at Frankfurt, Atlanta, Tokyo-Narita, Osaka, Sydney, Melbourne, and Barcelona's airports.
"Cara Delevingne has proven yet again to be a buyers magnet, each time she's done a commercial sales for the company that did it seemed to rise enormously. She is British. She is famous. She is a model, a singer and an actress. She basically was perfect for the job!" said the British Airways CEO commenting on he's decision of having Cara Delevingne be the new face of the company. "This is amazing for all the parties included in this agreement" added Variety Records CEO Rways, during the press conference held in London earlier this week.
In addition to the TV commercial, various Radio versions are played all around the world, boosting yet again the sales, Cara being the one voicing the radio commercial, and La Belle playing. Magaizne advertisements were also bought inside various magazines such as Vogue, British Vogue, Elle UK, Cosmopolitan, Fashion Magazine and Numero Magazine and it's Japanese version Numero Tokyo.
To hype up the overall campaign as well, British Airways also published a video of Cara playing an acoustic version of La Belle which had it's lyrics modified to fit a bigger public in which she says "La Belle, serves you" referring to herself in the TV commercials. Streaming the video will also count as stremaing points for Cara Delevingne's single 'La Belle' on the charts which will surely help and every ticket bought from British Airways includes a discount to 0.69$ of Cara Delevingne's single 'La Belle' on ITunes and a 10% discount off 'Distant Horizon' Cara Delevingne's album on ITunes as well, once the ticket code is redeemed on ITunes. 'La Belle' will be soon available physically but it is digitally available on nearly all digital retailer platforms aside from ITunes and so will be 'Distant Horizon' once it is released on the 3rd day of January worldwide.
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But what if someone signs them after you release the single? Can you tell us, Eglė?
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Avril Lavigne On Ellen
Avril Performs "I'll Lie To Myself" Live!
Avril Lavigne keeps the promotion for new album "Heartfelt Confessions" going. She certainly wants it to become one of the must-buy albums of 2015! The "I'll Lie To Myself" singer guested on "The Ellen Show" on December 29th to chat about her newest album slated for release on January 5, 2015, her new single "I'll Lie To Myself" that's enjoying its radio airplay & digital download success fueled by it's heartbreaking music video and more.
Avril got introduced by Ellen and the crowd starts cheering as the pop rock princess waves her hands to them and shake hands with Ellen. Ellen hugged Avril and jokingly pats her back. As they sit down, Ellen said that she pats Avril's back because she feels for Avril's character on her "I'll Lie To Myself" music video wherein Lavigne plays the role of a brokenhearted runaway bride.
The Interview
Ellen DeGeneres: It's really nice seeing you again Avril, How you doing?
Avril Lavigne: Thank you! I feel so good being able to be back on your show! I'm more than happy right now.
ED: I have a question for you, It's something that I ask myself all this time, Are you a vampire because you don't really age?!
(Lavigne and the crowd laughs)
AL: Oh no! My youthful appearance is due to my genes. And believe me, I don't have vampire blood. ha ha ha
ED: I'm still not convinced, We still need to check your DNA.
(crowd laughs once again)
AL: I'm not prepared! Don't expose me right now, I beg you.
(Ellen and crowd laughs harder)
ED: Okay, by the way can you give us the reason why you released "I'll Lie To Myself"? The song itself is very sad but when you released the music video, everyone felt your grief.
AL: I just want everyone to know that my brand of music is not limited to releasing pop or punk sound and the video marks the birth of a new and improved Avril Lavigne. If you guys liked it, Then I can assure you will love the whole album as well. The album is really a labor of love. It shows my views about life and love, Maturity really helped a lot and you can see that on the album's overall theme.
ED: We love your new self then, Let me congratulate you for the success of your single. You truly deserved it. I have it on my playlist and I can say I'm addicted to it. Your album will surely be a must-buy on 2015.
AL: Oh thats so sweet! Thank you!
ED: Your newest album "Heartfelt Confessions" will be out on January and we heard you have a lot of surprises coming up for us. Mind telling our audience about it?
AL: Sure, My album will be released by January 5. I'll be also performing on New Year's Rockin Eve and next year, I'll be guesting on Glee's final season. Other surprises will be announced very soon as soon as my label allows me to do so. I'm excited to share it to all of you, There's more to come definitely.
ED: You're definitely busy. I bet you don't sleep at all because of your hectic sked. Which strengthens my speculation of you being a Vampire!
AL: oh no! You did it again! Don't expose me right now. hahaahaha
The Performance
Ellen: We feel privileged and honored to have Avril sing her latest hit "I'll Lie To Myself" here. This is the first performance from her newest era "Heartfelt Confessions", So without further ado, Here's Avril Lavigne with I'll Lie To Myself!
Avril can be seen wearing the black gown that's very similar to her gown on her music video. The set also looked like a candlelight dinner for two. Lavigne sings "I'll Lie To Myself" live and the audience gave her a standing ovation when she reached the high notes to the end of the song. Lavigne thanked the audiences and Ellen goes to give her a bouquet of flowers. The date for Avril Lavigne's newest album "Heartfelt Confessions" appears on screen.
The guesting of Avril on Ellen trended on social media, The Hashtags #IllLieToMyself, #AvrilOnEllen, #HeartfeltConfessions are on top of the trending list. It definitely helped the single to stabilize inside the Top 5 of iTunes chart. The guesting further strengthens the single's sales, Heartfelt Confessions' pre-order also goes up to the top 5, peaking at #2 as of the moment. The single and album's sales are surely to improve more as Lavigne and her label still has a lot of surprises for everyone. Buy "I'll Lie To Myself" on iTunes, Amazon, Target, Walmart. You can also download it on Spotify, The album is also up for pre-orders. Don't forget to grab a copy of 'Heartfelt Confessions' by January 5, 2015!
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NATALIA KILLS STOPS BY Z100 TO CHAT WITH RYAN SEACREST
Ryan: After releasing her debut album “Ko-Motion” and going on the “Ko-Motion World Tour”,
Natalia Kills shows no signs of slowing down as she is currently in the process of finishing up her sophomore album. Her lead single off the new project “Coven De Couture” premiered yesterday on ITunes and has been sitting atop the US ITunes Chart since its release yesterday. Natalia Kills, how are you?
Natalia: Hahah, I’m good Ryan.
Ryan: Miss Natalia Kills, you have so much going for you at the moment, I mean with the single out, working on the album, a tour in the making, and a surprising new gig you want to announce.
Natalia: Yes. I will be a celebrity mentor on Styled to Rock.
Ryan: WOW! That must be exciting!
Natalia: Ya it is, it really is. I’m extremely happy that it’s just a one-time thing though cuz heaven knows I have tooo much on my plate to properly mentor those kids but to go in there and give them my candid advice…it would be fun!
Ryan: So let’s talk your new single. It’s different, it’s INCREDIBLY different. How do you come up with a sound like that?
Natalia: That’s a good question…and a new one! Uhmmm, my writing process differs from song to song. With this particular song, me and Jeff, Jeff Bhasker, we were in the studio you know just talking and doing our own thing and then I told him about this experience I had at a red carpet event one time, I’ve shared that story on Fallon so you all know by now. But ya, I told him the story and we just kept on talking. Some minutes later, he told me that he had this beat that he had been playing with, that it’s really complicated and doesn’t have a specific genre so I told him I would like to hear it and when he played it for me, I don’t know but there was just this connection, this OMG moment and in that space, I began writing on my pad and few minutes later I was in the booth recording Coven.
Ryan: Really interesting, so how long did all that take.
Natalia: Uhmmm, I’ll say give or take, about 20 hours.
Ryan: WOW! I honestly thought that this process took like a week or something because of it’s really experimental nature.
Natalia: No Ryan, we were done in a day.
Ryan: So this cover art for the song…it’s really Halloween inspired.
Natalia: Hahahaha, I mean, I can see why you would say that and ya, it’s a spooky sounding song and if it reminds you of Halloween all the better.
Ryan: Do you like Halloween, the holiday?
Natalia: Of course. When else do you get the opportunity to dress up like a 1960s hooker and get away with it. **laughs**, I mean, just saying!
Ryan: Natalia, I want to ask you a really important question.
Natalia: What?
Ryan: How are you around the boys because it seems that you are a very naughty kind of girl
Natalia: Am I? **Poses innocently and bats eyes**. Well, I mean I’m a married woman so I don’t really have time for boys cuz I got one in my life but I still FLIRT A LOT!
Ryan: Really?
Natalia: Hell Yeah! All the time. I never take them home, they never see my panties but I flirt a lot.
Ryan: Christ Natalia, how does Willy feel about that?
Natalia: I mean, he doesn’t really care cuz we both have that trust for each other. I MARRIED him for crying out loud, if I’m talking dirty with some guy, it doesn’t really mean anything.
Ryan: Okay, if you say so. How’s the album coming along?
Natalia: it’s coming great actually. It’s everything I hoped it would be and better. VDK is just such a genius and I have the most amazing team in the world that see eye to eye with my vision. It’s a really great body of work.
Ryan: How many songs can we be expecting?
Natalia: You can be expecting roughly around 17 or 18.
Ryan: AMAZING! Any collaborations?
Natalia: No! There’s no collaborations whatsoever on this record. I wanted to keep it as personal as I possibly could. I have all the time to collaborate in the future.
Ryan: How would you describe the sound of the album?
Natalia: Very very Natalia Kills. Very French maid dominitrix, very high end fashion, it’s a sound that’s tangible.
Ryan: I’m super excited about it. Do you have a name yet, can you share it with us?
Natalia: I have a name, I have a cover art that VDK showed me just 2 days ago. The packaging is ready. Can I share it with you? Yes, I can, I would love to. Should I? No! Cuz then my management will kill me. Announcements are a very big deal for them and they like to make everything an event. Perks of being under VDK Records.
Ryan: Okay Natalia. Let’s moving on to your best friends, your fans. They hit us up on Twitter. Once they heard you’ll be here today, they SWARMED us on Twitter with questions for you so I’ll just jump right in. This one is from KillsIsMyLife. “Natalia, if there’s one song you would like us to take with us ONLY from your new record, what will it be?”
Natalia: Uhhmmmm, there’s a lot of amazing and personal songs on here but right now, there’s this song I’m working on, it’s called “Eyes Shut”…it’s beautiful. It’s absolutely stunning. I love it. It makes me cry sometimes and I’m not even done recording it ye. Really beautiful song.
Ryan: Amazing. This next one is from SarahCappucini, it says “Natalia, would your next tour be a world tour and if so would you be coming to Australia?”
Natalia: I would LOVE for it to be a world tour and I would love to come to Australia but that’s not in my power, it’s up to VDK and my team if I get to come to Australia or not. But keep your fingers crossed Sarah, you may never know.
Ryan: Final question is from LordRobStark. It says “Natalia, what are your views on orgies?”
Natalia: ORGIES!!! Love It. All For It. **laughs**
Ryan: It’s been an absolute delight talking with you Natalia. Hope you come back soon.
Natalia: Thank you so much for having me.
Ryan: Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time here on Z100, here is “Coven De Couture” by our friend, Natalia Kills.
Coven De Couture Plays.
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