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'D.U.I.' REMIXES - EP
Album Title: 'D.U.I.' REMIXES - EP
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Genre: Pop - EDM
Length: 38:13
Label: Rebuilt Records
'D.U.I.' REMIXES is an EP released by the american recording artist Miley Cyrus under her label Rebuilt Records. The extended play (EP) contains four different remixes of the single, which is the lead single from the singer's upcoming fifth studio album, plus an extended version of the track, with the instrumental version. The remixes were done by DJs and producers such as Gareth Emery, Christian Karlsson (Bloodshy), Mathieu Jomphe (Billboard) and Cedric Gervais.
Tracklist:
1. D.U.I. (Main Version)
2. D.U.I. (Extended Version)
3. D.U.I. (Instrumental)
4. D.U.I. (Cedric Gervais Remix)
5. D.U.I. (Billboard Remix)
6. D.U.I. (Bloodshy Club Remix)
Composition
D.U.I. (Extended Version): The extended version serves the listener a version with more more depth comparing it to the original recording, the track is approximately six minutes long which is generally appropriate for an extended version. The song starts with the original kick drums from the chorus, with a dirty-electro loop joining the drums after fifteen seconds. The white noise splashes and we hear the 'D, U, I,' whisper from the beginning of the original single, ad-libs from the final chorus of the original song join the drums with the bass. After a minute and a half we hear the normal verse, hook and chorus. At the bridge, instead of Miley singing directly when the bridge starts, we hear filtered synths rising and building up to that moment. It continue till the Miley sings the bridge and chorus. After the chorus ends, we hear the same drums and the dirty-electro loop again, the loop stops and we hear the drums fade away.
D.U.I. (Cedric Gervais Remix):At the beginning of the remix, we hear snares doing the four-on-the-floor type of pattern with sidechained piano playing the chords of the song, we then hear Miley’s vocals looped, she’s not saying anything, just aahs. Then Miley sings the verse with a calm background pads and electropiano, during the end of the verse we hear claps building up to the hook. When the hook starts, we hear loud snares and filtered bass rising, building up to a big bass drop that has high percussion-type of pluck. Electro bass joins the drums and Miley sings the chorus with edited robot-like effect on the background vocals with serves an electrifying feeling. The same bass sequence is played during the verse and the hook but during the second chorus we hear the same drop without drums in it’s first part, but when Miley sings the chorus we hear the drum joining in. During the chorus we hear filtered drums and claps while Miley sings the bridge, the remix comes to a surprise finish without a final chorus.
D.U.I. (Billboard Remix): We hear Miley’s background vocals sing the chorus at the first part of this remix with tiny plucks playing the song’s chord progression. The same pluck continue with drums joining in at the verse, an efx skips the hook and builds up to the chorus with large synths and bass. The same pluck is played during the second chorus with the bass, but we hear synths used as an echo, repeating what Miley sang. The same effects skips the hook again and builds up to the chorus with more intense drum loops and melody. During the bridge we hear Miley singing the hook with the bridge gated at the background. We hear an ad-lib near the end of the bridge that sends us to the final chorus. The final chorus is accompanied with side chained white noise.
D.U.I. (Bloodshy Club Remix): We hear drums and side chained synths that may sound like a bass to some people. We hear background ad-libs and claps joining in later during the 0:30 mark of the song. Cyrus sings the verse with the same instruments but with a louder low synth. Treble sounding synths join the hook and chorus, the track blasts into silence and we hear snares rising up and building up to the big drop. The drop has dubstep sounding bass with Miley’s background vocals side chained to it, sort of like Rihanna’s second drop in her song Where Have You Been. The same thing repeats again for the second verse, hook and chorus. The drop this time has a very loud high synth playing a very weird melody. This continues till we hear the bridge where Miley’s vocals are slowed down and we hear drums that sound like they were from a 70’s drum set. Miley sings the final chorus later with the same snares building up to the final drop.
"D.U.I." The Remixes EP is available for purchase on iTunes, and for streaming on Spotify.
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“COVEN DE COUTURE CONTEST”
In celebration of the release of Natalia Kills’ new single “Coven De Couture”, her and her team have decided to hold a contest where winners get the rare opportunity to meet Miss Kills backstage at any show of their choice during her upcoming concert tour. There will be 50 lucky winners and the contest runs from now till the 5th of January 2015.
To win, you have to buy Natalia’s new single “Coven De Couture” on ITunes or Google Play and if you already have, all the better. Take a snapshot of your device showing that you have PURCHASED the single and then tweet it @NataliaKills with the hashtag #CovenDeCoutureContest and #CovenDeCoutureOnITunes. 50 lucky winners will then be drawn at random and these people will receive direct messages from Natalia Kills with the remaining details.
So get buying, get tweeting, and may the best man win. Good Luck!
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Cara Delevingne appears on the Late Night with Seth Meyers, announced 'Live From Stade de France' Concert and Contest
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Promoting a brand new single might be an issue for many artists who can't book many shows but it isn't for Cara Delevingne who's label is fully backing her and fully backing her brand new single 'La Belle' and her upcoming sophomore album 'Distant Horizon' which is released next week on January 3rd. The single received many promotional appearances on TV, radio and magazines and even had a promotional deal with one of the biggest airlines in the world. Late Night with Seth Meyers is just another one of those stops, but Cara had an important announcement to do during the show.
She arrived in front of the studios of the show wearing an elegant light pink knee length dress with a matching jacket and black Christian Louboutin pumps, next to her, was Kendall Jenner, one of Cara's many celebrity friends however rumors about a new relationship have been circulating around for a few months now, having posed for multiple magazines together earlier and seen together at the British Fashion Awards 2 months ago. This new public appearance is adding up even more and creating more attention surrounding Cara Delevingne's private life and relationships. Cara also appeared to be very happy as she entered the set of the Late Night with Seth Meyers show.
To launch the show, Cara performed her latest hit, 'La Belle' which has reached the top of the ITunes charts in numerous countries already. She was wearing a short purple lace dress created by Roberto Cavalli and a pair of black Jimmy Choo custom made heels. Cara started the performance singing the first few lines of the song in front of the microphone while two mae dancers were doing a few moves in the background. When the chorus kicked in Cara took the microphone off the stand, and the male dancers held her up in the air while she sat down on their hands as if it was a regular chair. The dancers started moving around while Cara was doing hand movements while rapping the lyrics. By the time the chorus ended, 3 female dancers were on stage as well and the performance went on, Cara doing then a choreography along with the female dancers synchronized while the 2 male dancers did another similar choreography.
After the performance, Cara sat down wearing a DSquared outfit along with black leather gloves and a pair of Versace boots. Her hair was straight and she had some light red liptick and black eyeliner and eyeshadow on. She looked beautiful and sexy.
Host: Wow this was amazing! You're getting better every year!
Cara: Thank you!
Host: The song 'La Belle' sounds great, are all the tracks on the album like that?
Cara: Well the album is mostly Urban oriented but some of the tracks especially at the beginning of the album are very pop oriented as well. So you sort of have a mix even though if the overall album is very much like 'La Belle' yes.
Host: There's a lot of major singers out there releasing this week and promoting, how do you feel about them? Let's take for example, Avril Lavigne, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber.
Cara: Well I mean I always like new music, I'm a music fan myself at the end of the day. And I release the songs yes, I try to make them hits but if I don't care that much if I'm blocked from a higher position, I jsut enjoy the songs! Avril is doing a great job again I feel like we're back in like 2004 again and I'm jamming to her two first albums. I've always been a big Taylor Swift fan and Justin Bieber is good looking.
Host: Let's talk about other people, there's someone that is rumored you are dating right now, are those rumors true?
Cara: Well I don't get why people feel the need to talk about my private life. If I'm ready to reveal it then I will. I'm not scared of saying who I'm dating what I'm doing with him or her or anything but I like to wait till I feel ok with talking about it, especially on TV.
Host: Ok, now before you go I heard you have a big announcement to do. Say it!
Cara: Ok, alright I'll do it. Ladies gentlemen yu can now purchase tickets for a concert at Stade de France in Paris, which is a stadium that has 75,000 places. 1,000 places of those will have to be won throught a contest, details on my website. The concert will be held on January 3rd on my album 'Distant Horizon' s release date. Tickets are NOW available! Thank you for having me .
Host: Cara Delevingne's new single 'La Belle' is now available and so are the tickets for her Stade De France concert. Goodnight everybody!
The concert at Stade France is already selling well and it is titled 'Cara Delevingne Live From Stade de France'. A DVD and Blu-Ray of the concert will be filmed and released soon after. "It's not part of the tour" confirmed Cara through her website. Only 74,000 seats out of the 75,000 are available the 1000 other places need to be won through a contest. The fans will need to promote Cara Delevingne and her album as much as possible, and will need to film their achievements. The 50 best entries will get to sleep in a 5 stars hotel in Paris and meet Cara herself. They will also receive special packages including Cara's first album 'CARA' and physical editions of 'La Belle' along with a poster. The 50 following will only get the ticket, the hotel night and the gift package without the meet and greet while the 900 other winners will only get the hotel night and the concert ticket. Cara Delevingne's album 'Distant Horizon' will be available on January 3rd worldwide physically and digitally and will receive a Deluxe edition and probably an exclusive release as well. 'La Belle' is available digitally and has a Remix EP while it will be released physically next week.
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I'm so sorry gerls, but I gotta quit, school and all next week. At least Cher pooped out one single.
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Cara Delevingne Releases 'La Belle - The Remixes'
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To further push the single's position on the charts, Cara Delevingne released a Remixes EP for her single 'La Belle', which features remixes by multiple artists and DJs some being also modified versions of the songs which features other artists. Here's the list of the remixes and tracks features on the EP with a few details concerning every track as revealed by Cara Delevingne through various social network posts to push the hype surrounding the remixes.
"La Belle (Feat. Mariah Carey) [Le Remix]" is the first track on the EP and is a RNB version of the song which features Mariah Carey. Giorgio Tuinfort modified the track himself to suit Mariah's voice more and it was generally slightly less aggressive. The instrumental isn't trap either as it was completely revamped. It was a released as an official remix single a few days ago and performed on America's Got Talent by both Cara Delevingne and Mariah Carey.
"La Belle (Feat. Charli XCX)" is the second track of the EP, it features singer songwriter Charli XCX. The track is just like the first one, heavily modified to have a more Pop vibe, as this remix is considered the Pop remix of the song. Charli recorded her vocals for the remix during the sessions she and Cara Delevingne had over a few days when they were writing lyrics for some of the songs on Cara Delevingne's album 'Distant Horizon' such as 'Kiss To My Heart' which was included in the final cut of the album along with 'Behind Closed Doors'.
"La Belle (Alphabeat Club Mix)" is the version of the song the clubs are currently having on constant replay, as it is a big club banger, with a multitude of changes, including the instrumental and Cara's vocals, which were slightly auto-tuned to fit the overall theme of the remix. The remix can also be heard in a Vodka commercial currently on repeat on Television late at night.
"La Belle (David Guetta Remix)" is an EDM version of the single, remixed by David Guetta a few days before the release of the song when Cara Delevingne wanted a famous DJ who would do a remix that would make everyone want to dance at a club.
"La Belle (Skrillex Mix)" is a Dubstep remix of the single made by Skrillex who wanted to work with Cara Delevingne ever since her first album 'CARA' was released back in 2013.
"La Belle (Extended Remix)" is a 8 minutes long version of the song that combined many different genres including Dubstep, EDM, Urban with Trap and Rap and RNB and Electronica. The remix was made by Tiesto over the week before the release of 'La Belle' officially.
"La Belle (Demo Version)" is the demo of the single which was recorded back in July 2014, as one of the first tracks for the album, she created after cancelling some of her previous sessions and scrapping the previous concepts. The demo is less electronic then the final version of the song and sounds just raw.
"La Belle (Radio Edit)" is the version that was sent to radios and which is now on constant repeat on some of the biggest stations in the US and the rest of the world such as Z100, KIIS FM, AMP, NHK, 2Day FM, NRJ and more. It's slightly more upbeat then the album version and has a more Pop-like melody.
"La Belle (Instrumental)", just the instrumental of the final version of the song, created by Giorgio Tuinfort.
The 9 songs EP was created throughout the creation of 'La Belle' up to the days right before the release of the single. The EP is already available on all digital retailers including on ITunes to which a link was added on the banners supporting Cara Delevingne which were up this week after Variety Records, Cara Delevingne's record label made a deal with ITunes to promote her as much as possible.
"La Belle", the original version of the song can be bought through the album pre-order on ITunes and on other digital retailers such as Amazon MP3. Cara Delevingne's album 'Distant Horizon' contains 16 tracks on the standard edition of the album and more tracks will be revealed. It will be released worldwide on January 3rd.
Tracklist:
1. La Belle (Feat. Mariah Carey) [Le Remix]
2. La Belle (Feat. Charli XCX)
3. La Belle (Alphabeat Club Mix)
4. La Belle (David Guetta Remix)
5. La Belle (Skrillex Remix)
6. La Belle (Extended Remix)
7. La Belle (Demo Version)
8. La Belle (Radio Edit)
9. La Belle (Instrumental)
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FKA twigs Covers British Vogue
FKA twigs has been promoting her album Against the Front as well as her single Feeling of Acrimony for the past week. She shook the world when she dropped the single and album by surprise onto iTunes. The artist has had everyone talking from her crazy performances, to her insane music. Well today FKA twigs showed a more simple side to her by covering British Vogue where she got shot by Annie Leibovitz for the cover of the much more simple side of twigs. The magazine hit newsstands today.
In the issues FKA twigs talks about the making of Against the Front and how she came up with what she came up with. twigs admitted within the magazine to using MDMA to enhance the writing process of the album. This did not stop fans from loving her though, as the photoshoot and cover have gotten great praise from both critics and fans of the alternative artist. Another thing twigs speaks of in the issue is the next single off of Against the Front. twigs says that the next single willl be coming within the next two weeks and she plans to release it whenever she feels ready.
The cover of Vogue has already sold out of multiple newsstands throughout the queen's country. Within the first 100,000 prints of the magazine there are copies of Against the Front with a special pink colored disc. The magazine has already been a huge hit and doesn't seem to be slowing anytime soon, just like twigs herself. Be sure to purchase Against the Front on iTunes. Also go out and purchase The Feeling of Acrimony on iTunes as well. Vogue UK covered by FKA twigs is on newsstands today!
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FKA twigs Performs on Live! With Kelly and Michael
FKA twigs appeared on Live! With Kelly & Michael to promote her single Feeling of Acrimony as well as her album Against the Front. The performance was heavily praised by critics who acknowledged her great vocals throughout the performance. The performance was promoted throughout NYC with posters saying she would be performing on the show this week and to watch. FKA twigs helped draw in over two million viewers to the program who watched during her performance. The performance helped Against the Front move up a spot on iTunes.
During the performance, FKA twigs wore a vintage Thierry Mugler design. Vogue, which she recently covered, praised twigs' outfit as a true fashion statement. Throughout the performance, she had no background dancers, just twigs was on stage and she moved around and swayed and danced to the beat of her own drum. twigs' went out into the audience to perform the last verse of the song where fans went wild. At the end of the performance, it was revealed everyone would go home with a copy of Against the Front as well as a copy of Feeling of Acrimony.
twigs' performance of Kelly&Michael's daytime program was overall a success. Fans everywhere got to see the singer perform Feeling of Acrimony and got to get a copy of Against the Front. After the program, twigs' held an album signing outside of the studio for all her fans. FKA twigs trended on Twitter after the performance where people talked about their love for the new and odd alternative artist. Be sure to purchase Against the Front and Feeling of Acrimony on iTunes today!
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we're about to be the #1 most viewed thread<3
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Jax's articles made me want to re-listen to FKA twigs and give her another chance (I couldn't really get into her that much before) and ff I'm loving Video Girl, Pendulum, Two Weeks, Hours and Numbers
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we're about to be the #1 most viewed thread<3
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d not with that new Madonna/Gaga thread emerging and already being number #1 after 3 hours Doesn't seem likely now, the thread will probably get blocked by it and get that #2 peak
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NATALIA KILLS MENTORS ON STYLED TO ROCK
After announcing on Ryan Seacrest that she would be mentoring on the new episode of Styled To Rock, Natalia kept her word and surprised the contestants with her entrance. Take a look at what happened.
It was yet another day in the Styled To Rock house and contestants were busying themselves with designing and sewing and all the things that a prospective celebrity designer does but little did they know that all their plans for the day would be changed by just one person…Natalia Kills.
Natalia crept into the house from the back door wearing a black hat and dark shades with a scarf tied around her neck and black studded stilletos. She wore black skinny trousers and a plain white T with the words “Can’t Touch” on it. She looked elegant yet casual and just appropriate for the kind of room she was about to walk into. The contestants had no idea what was going on and just then in the midst of all that was going on, an announcement came through the speakers:
“Contestants, converge at the Styled To Rock Lounge”
The contestants looked at each other confused and in their confessionals, one of the contestant says “I knew something was about to happen, I didn’t just know what”.
By the time the contestants all gathered, they looked at themselves confused and asking questions.
Cut to confessional of another contestant saying “We were all standing there eager to know what was going on. Was somebody going home, was there an emergency that has forced us to all leave the house. What was going on”
Back to the show. The contestants all stand there and in-walks the host of the show. She tells them to calm down and then goes ahead to say
“I’m sure you’re all wondering what the hell your doing here, well, let me say some things that are not happening. Nobody is leaving…yet! There is no pizza party happening, none of that kind of thing. What we’re gathered here for is for something way more exciting. We have with us a special somebody. She is the definition of high end fashion. She has strutted down runways, red carpets, and award stages while looking elegant at all times and she represents what fashion should be in this new age. She has a song that came out just yesterday and I’m sure that you have all heard it”
--Rob, contestant whose obsessed with Natalia screams!!—
“Yes, I think you know who I’m talking about Rob, please all of you welcome the beautiful Miss Natalia Kills”
--Rob kneels down and begins sobbing—
Natalia walks in waving at everybody before giving them little hugs and kisses on the cheek. Coven De Couture plays as she walks in and continues to play in the background. Natalia then walks up to Rob and squats to his level, there she says “Are you okay?” and Rob is sobbing and nodding all while smiling and then Natalia gives him a big hug. He begins crying some more and Natalia tells him to calm down and then proceeds to take a selfie with him which forces him to clean his tears and smile for the camera. With that
Natalia leaves him and proceeds to take her seat.
“Hi, how are y’all doing. You all look super sheek, I love it! I’m Natalia Kills and I’m here today to look at some of your designs and hear some of your ideas and then give my opinions If I say anything that’s out of line, well suck it up, that’s just how this industry is and you have to learn how to take a lot of negative reactions to work you have put so much time and energy into. So, are you all ready to wow me?”
Contestants cheer and then cut to commercial.
Commercial ends and Styled To Rock continues with Natalia sitting at the end of a short red carpet. A table in front of her and 2 other designers at the side.
“Samantha, please walk up with your design.” Natalia says as she sits there with a pen in her hand and a piece of paper on the table. Samantha walks up the red carpet and then stands in front of Natalia with her design in her hand.
“This here is a ruby-encrusted dinner gown designed particularly for exquisite and high end important dinner meetings, business negations, or your simple date night.”
“Wow. Really elegant. What inspired the dress? Why ruby??”
“Just because I feel that red is a really bright and daring color and rubies are like my favorite pearls soo”
“Well, I’m a diamond girl honey but this dress is really pretty. Good job Samantha”. Natalia says and then proceeds to write some things down on her piece of paper.
“NEXT UP! Carl!” Natalia calls out.
Carl walks up sexically obviously trying to use his charm to capture the heart of Natalia. Natalia then proceeds to pick up the piece of paper and fan herself in a very charming cartoonish way which makes the contestants laugh.
“Okay bad boy, show us what you got!”
“Well, this is what I designed.” He then brings out a completely see-through black and white gown.
Natalia keeps the paper down slowly and dramatically and then her face turns really serious. Carl begins
stuttering and trying to defend his design when Natalia says
“STOP! Just stop right there. I don’t like this. I do not like this AT ALL. What is this, a more fashionable way to look in prison? Like, I don’t get….and then it’s see through??. You are HOT and I mean you are drop dead gorgeous but honey you may not be there at every store to seduce each and every woman into buying this. You have to let your work do the speaking and so far, this design is not saying anything more than disaster. I’m sorry to say but this is a really terrible job Carlos, really terrible.”
Carl nods and then walks back to his position with the other contestants obviously angry.
Natalia does the same thing with all of the other contestants and after she sees and analyzes each and every design, she gives them some final pieces of advice and then proceeds to take a selfie with them before hugging them one final time and then leaving.
The episode dragged in the most viewers in the history of “Styled To Rock” and rumor has it that producers plan on signing Natalia permanently on to the show. “Coven De Couture” still sits atop the US ITunes Chart.
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Jax's articles made me want to re-listen to FKA twigs and give her another chance (I couldn't really get into her that much before) and ff I'm loving Video Girl, Pendulum, Two Weeks, Hours and Numbers
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I love twigs. You need to get into her. LP1 and both her EPs slay
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d not with that new Madonna/Gaga thread emerging and already being number #1 after 3 hours Doesn't seem likely now, the thread will probably get blocked by it and get that #2 peak
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nn We were JUST about to get #1 then the Madonna/Gaga thread passed both CAL and the Billboard chart from last week.
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I just dunno how to start this
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Release a single first and work your way from there with performances, interviews, radio interviews, partnerships, music video etc
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I hope you first release Lena's single, not Ellie's.
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Azealia has done no magazines or partnerships this week. loLZ hopefully I don't flop
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To honor Justin's album release, he went to Twitter last night to announce 'Let's have the biggest album release party EVER!' & 'Come to MSG tomorrow! Tickets will be $50, and come with the album paid!'. The immediate tweets blew up, and got the trend #BieberAtMadisonSquareGarden to #1 the whole night, and the following day. Tonight the star, finally did what he said last night and performed at Madison Square Garden. The stadium was PACKED, infact -- they had to hire staff and security the whole day including the previous night so people could stand in line and by their tickets. The setlist also leaked in the early hours of the morning, and he basically was performing the whole GH album 'The Collection & More'. This caused even more craziness, since people were more than ready to see him perform all his career hits. The tickets for about every seat were for $50; except to the 20 rows closest to him cost $100. But $100, to be that close to Justin was a great bargain for the fans -- whereas he usually charges $300+ for seats that close. A limited amount of tickets were also sold through LiveNation because the lines outside of Madison Square Garden were getting out of hand. The attendance? 65,000+ estimated fans showed up to the extravaganza for the 1 night only. The release party. History was made, guests were there, it made the papers. It even made the Guinness Book of World Records!
Setlist:
1. Hot Right Now
2. Come & Get It
3. My Everything / You're Mine
4. Favorite Kind of Trouble (featuring Eric Saade)
5. Lift Me Up / Turn Me Down
6. If I / Memphis (featuring Big Sean)
7. Fast Times
8. Turnt
9. Take Me To Your Heaven
10. Lift Me Up / King Sh*t (featuring Jay-Z)
11. Grand Scheme
12. Master Technique
13. Da Vinci
14. Fever
15. So Much For You
16. Showtime / Dressin' Out
17. Trainwreck Paradise Island
18. Ride or Die / Down Tonight
19. Time After Time / Just Between Us / Too Good to Lose (Medley featuring Taylor Swift)
The show was rated a 5/5 star history making evening according to New York Times, while the Los Angeles Guild had to say 'Justin established the hits, along with the top notch collaborations, in a night in which his album was made in ink'.
Some of the highlights of the show.
Time After Time / Just Between Us / Too Good to Lose (Medley featuring Taylor Swift)
The show was near it's ending, but Justin wanted to make the ending one of the highlights of the night without a doubt. Just as the audience was winding down, 'Please, welcome out Taylor Swift!' was heard in the whole stadium as the audience went crazy yet again. It took about 2 minutes just for the audience to wind down, so they could slowly cue to the slow-jam 'Time After Time' on their guitars and microphones. Nothing was dull as Ms. Swift gave some spice in her voice, and Justin gave his usual smooth. The audience was in love, at one point the stadium was filled with lights as Justin said 'Take out your phones, and put your flashlights in the air. They'll be the candles!'. They sung the whole song, before delving into 'Just Between Us' the song which originally features Selena Gomez who couldn't make the event. Some of the lyrics were changed, and the melody was softened as they deeply sung in each other's breaths, and looked each other in the eyes the whole time. The performance was deep, personal, and raw. Lastly, they went into 'Too Good to Lose' effortlessly, and that's when PANDEMONIUM came. The song had just been dropped with the album today, fans were in love, raving Tay's new R&B sound was 'game-changing, and a new side'. They were the first to hear it live and completely unwrapped. The performance was hailed 'the best performance of the whole setlist'. The vocals were breath taking, the effects on stage were illuminating, and the whole audience was in silence listening.
Debut performances to 'The Collection & More' new songs.
One of the highlights of the show was him debuting performances to the 6 new tracks for the first time; and 4 of those tracks were performed together. The songs performed right next to each other were 'Grand Scheme' / 'Master Technique' / 'Da Vinci' / 'Fever'. They were performed with a mid-tempo groove, and a whole lot of their fans had their cameras and phones out recording the first performance of the tracks. The songs were all solo, so they were able to listen to 100% Biebs with no interruption. He already had choreography for the first 2 songs, in which he did a dance-routine while singing through the whole of both tracks. The applaud was strong, and he even had a dance-off with a few of the dancers before then performing 'Da Vinci'. The performances of 'Da Vinci' and 'Fever' had no choreography or guest-stars, so they did fall a little flat in comparison to the other 4 new songs performed but the audience was equally ecstatic to hear them be performed.
'Lift Me Up' received 2 performances; both done differently!
One of the highlights of the night was also the fact he performed an album track, titled 'Lift Me Up' and featured on 'Crossing Paths' not once -- but twice. The original track features Jay-Z, but for the first performance it didn't include him. Instead it was a medley, with 'Turn Me Down' (the 2nd track after it on 'Crossing Paths') in which he did heavy choreography, and the stage was heavily decorated and put together differently for the medley. The choreo was hands down some of the best he'd done in his career, according to some of the critics. On top of that, he went into the air at one point during a medley, on suspenders while singing the choruses to 'Lift Me Up', before coming down and to an array of fire and smoke during 'Turn Me Down'. The medley was heavily liked, and 'Lift Me Up' was performed again later during the concert with music mogul Jay-Z. Jay-Z came out to perform 'Lift Me Up' in a medley with 'King Sh*t' both 2 songs that feature Jay-Z. The audience went crazy for Jay-Z, as Bieber also threw in some raps and tried to freestyle with Jay for both songs.
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Selena Gomez x Chanel
Selena Gomez for Chanel
Dash Records hosted a brunch today in honor of signing season. The event was hosted In attendance were all of Dash Records artists, including Kanye West, Rihanna and original Dash Records signee, Selena Gomez. Also in attendance was fashion legend, Karl Lagerfeld. So what would someone with no involvement with the music industry be doing at a record label brunch? Announcing the new face of his line, of course! Selena and Karl took to the podium together. Karl spoke of Selena saying “Chanel is a brand that has represented class, elegance, aristocracy and has been at the forefront of the movement of the modern woman. Selena Gomez is synonymous with all of these things. Selena Gomez will serve as the face and brand ambassador of Chanel.” Selena’s duties as brand ambassador will include a commercial, several photoshoots and she will be expected to speak at several events as representation of the Chanel brand. She is following in the footsteps of Gisele Bunchen, Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Stella Tenant, Kate Moss, Nicole Kidman, Jerry Hall, Audrey Tautou and of course, Marilyn Monroe.
This wasn’t the only big announcement revealed at the Dash Records brunch. Jay-Z was also in attendance as it was announced that Dash Records would be partnering with Roc Nation and becoming a division in the entertainment company. Label head of Dash Records, Kim Kardashian said of the merger “Roc Nation is an incredible company and after consultation with all of the wonderful people over at Roc, it made sense for Dash Records, Roc Nation Records and Roc Nation Entertainment to join forces.” Selena Gomez also received a promotion and has now been added to the board of directors.
There was a live streamed portion of the brunch Selena took to the stage to perform her single “What You See” in a white top and high waisted skirt with a slit. A diamond bracelet (gifted to her by Kim Kardashian, earlier at the event) and diamond encrusted off-white heels. After the performance, Selena, along with Kanye and Rihanna announced DASH x ROC, a music festival hosted by Dash Records and Roc Nation. This year’s lineup being Selena Gomez, Rihanna, Kanye West, Jay Z, J. Cole and more. The festival will take place on January 1st, 2015 in Miami, at the Sun Life Stadium. Tickets went on sale immediately after it was announced on the stream.
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