Prince has a lot in store for us this 2009. The diminutive purple one is set to release three albums this year! According to the LA Times, Prince is in negotiations with a major retailer to distribute the albums. He will also be selling them on a new interactive website. Prince commented on why he wasn’t working with a record label this time saying “The gatekeepers have to change.” The first of the three albums to be released is tentatively called ‘MPLSOUND’ for which the style is described to go back to the sound of ‘When Doves Cry’. The second album is called ‘Lotus Flower’ and is described as “a varied album, featuring cuts recorded over the course of two years, but standout tracks include some heavy rockers.” I can’t wait to hear the new music!
If and when I do have a mid life crisis, I hope I don’t do anything as embarassing as this. In what lloks to be a pathetic attempt to look hip, cool and connect with the ladies, Eurythmics member Dave Stewart has teamed up with a sex toy company to develop a diamond encrusted vibrator that retails for $1400. The vibrator is called the Little Steel Tonight and is made of solid steel with a satin finish and a band of 28 diamonds. It also comes with a guitar pick attached and the lyrics from Stewart’s latest solo song ‘Let’s Do It Again’ scrawled all over it. Buyers also get a code that allow them to download the song.
Even the crazy people can have good hearts as Bjork has become a venture capitalist. The singer has teamed up with Reykjavik-based Audur Capital in order to help raise money to invest in different businesses in her native Iceland. The country has been having financial trouble after the collapse of their financial system in October. Bjork will start fund raising in early January and reports estimate that her involvement may raise up to $16.5 million by the end of March. Bjork and Audur Capital have already invested a lot of their own money to help one of the hardest hit countries of the global financial crisis. It’s nice to see Bjork helping out.
The legendary Eartha Kitt has passed away. The entertainer who did just a bit of everything died of colon cancer last week in Connecticut. The singer and actress, best known for the legendary purr in her role as Catwoman in the ‘Batman’ TV show and her song ‘Santa Baby’ was performing up until this past summer. It just went to show just how strong and resilient she was as she still got up everyday to perform despite her health battles which could have been plaguing her by then. Eartha’s memory and her work will live on and never forgotten. May she rest in peace.
Despite reports from the UK, Michael Jackson’s publicist says that the dethroned King of Pop is in good health. Jacko was said to be battling alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency, a rare disease which has left him half blind and needing a lung transplant. His publicist released a statement that the rumors are not true saying “The writer’s wild allegations concerning Mr. Jackson’s health are a total fabrication. Mr. Jackson is in fine health, and finalizing negotiations with a major entertainment company & television network for both a world tour and a series of specials and appearances.” Well there you have it. It’s more believable that he’s sick though considering how he looks.
Late Beatle John Lennon is all set to appear in a TV commercial for charity some twenty eight years his death. Well of course I’m not saying John Lennon himself but footage of his will be used in a commercial which is directed at promoting a new campaign launched on Thursday to deliver solar-powered laptop computers to the world’s poorest children.
The advertisement is part of the promotions for the One Laptop per Child Foundation, the foundation was created in 2005, a voice dubbed over images of Lennon recalls the sentiment of his 1971 hit song Imagine. This is the same foundation that started producing the XO series of laptops at the end of last year at a manufacturing cost less than $200 per machine.
Hey that’s really not the thing to do, there are enough good people that exist in this universe who would have done a great job for this cause but to use John’s image and song and then mix it and have a voice being dubbed really sounds as if either his real voice would not go down so well with today’s generation or something else.
Eartha Kitt a dancer, an actress but more than any of the two professions she was will always be remembered as a sultry singer who belonged to the cotton fields of South Carolina and from being an unknown quantity she transformed herself to being an international symbol of elegance and sensuality. Eartha Kitt has died at the age of 81, this was said in a statement by the family spokesman.
Kitt, a self-proclaimed “sex kitten” got her nickname mainly thanks to her catlike purr, and was amongst America’s most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and nabbing a third nomination. She also was nominated for several Tonys and two Grammys.
Now look we call a woman a slut at the age of 81 and people like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan celebrities. This is complete hypocrisy on the part of us, Eartha was as it is believed to be an international symbol of elegance and sensuality. Now if anyone would like to use the same words for the other two ladies I mentioned then here’s my definition - Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, are the sensual no they are complete sluts and elegance well no where near that either.
So please give people titles that at least some what if not complete measure what they stood for. So Queen Eartha Kitt dies at the age of 81.
Rick Astley’s MTV Europe Music Award for Best Act Ever has finally been sent to him. The singer was not at the ceremony but did pass on a message to his fans. He said “Please give my thanks to everyone who voted for me, those people I know and the anonymous ones as well.” You would think that it was such a big award that there will be more to his thank you speech. But really, I think all thank you speeches should be like that. I really don’t get the long droning ones that give thanks to everyone including their neighbor’s mother.
Earlier this month, Boy George was convicted by a London jury for falsely imprisoning a Norwegian male prostitute back in 2007. The has-been singer now faces up to 15 years in jail with his sentencing scheduled for January 16th. It seems that the idea of going to jail is stressing him out big time – and I do mean big. The singer was recently spotted after performing at Le Pigalle Club in central London looking huge – bigger than of late. He needs a new makeup artist. The person that tried to hide his doubleth wit some contouring didn’t do such a good job.
He is an achiever no doubt and has remained an international star for decades now so it comes as no surprise that Councillors in the London borough of Harrow are considering honoring their most famous former resident by naming a street after him.
Susan Hall who is the Harrow Council Councillor’s Deputy Leader said: “We are supportive of any initiative that supports pride in our streets and strengthens a sense of community. As long as local people back the idea, in Harrow we could look at Elton John Avenue or similar to mark the achievements of a true international achiever.”
Well Elton John has great admirers all over the world and it is just fitting that this man receives all the accolades and awards that have either already come his way or would be bestowed upon him.
I just do not know what does his partner David feel about all this, means does he walk up to Elton and say hey man you talk about this be a civil partnership so why not someone come up and appreciate my role in keeping you so famous these past few years. Why not name the street as ‘The Elton & David Street’? How does that sound to you guys?
Late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain’s guitar that too a smashed one has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000. An English broker named Helen Hall who was part of the auctioning process has said that the price was the 2nd highest known price for a piece Cobain memorabilia. Punk rocker Sluggo belonging to the band The Grannies and Hullabaloo was the seller of the memorabilia.
Jacob McMurray, senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, confirmed that such a sale had indeed taken place and also added that Nirvana, at that time living hand-to-mouth, was touring and were on the New Jersey leg of their tour when Cobain smashed the guitar on stage and immediately set off looking for one to play at his next gig.
Gee man unknown quantity then and this would have happened so many times with other bands but look where fame takes you, even after you are died a simple smashed guitar on which Kurt scribbled something sells for a hundred thousand bucks.
Cool I really cannot understand the value behind such a purchase and only another maniac would shell out more money when it is 50 years old and the price would be double in the market.
No, that’s not JLo with her diva hat on. But yes, that is a dead furry leather carcass of a mutt, a zebra sweater, Mary Kate Olsen’s handbag, a groupie’s old stretched out leopard print pants and a pair of working girl ferry commuter sneakers. All of which found on the body of Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler as he tried unsuccessfully to go unnoticed in New York City recently. It’s time for an intervention. That and a complete wardrobe raid and change. Does he not have a mirror in his house? Or was there no one that told him that he looked ridiculous before they let him out?
For the most optimistic fans would only say when was he gone, his albums mainly ‘Thriller’ still manages to sell a few thousand copies each month. But the truth is that he is a by gone era but a beautiful one while it lasted.
The only thing hurting his image is that he still thinks he can make a comeback and blast through the charts. Admittedly he has recorded a couple of singles along side his contemporaries. Michael is contemplating this even though some people are adamant that the former king of pop is suffering from a deadly lung condition.
Instead a spokesperson for Michael says that he is in fine shape and is doing very well in terms of his health condition and is even preparing to step back into the spotlight for a world tour.
I think his financial mess and the recent suing by a prince has left him with a huge burn in the pocket, either he will soon have to file for bankruptcy or only a miracle could save him from financial drowning now.
I always believe that paparazzi do nonsense but when they have some insider news then they are amongst the most reliable people. Well the same goes for those tabloid reports and the latest is that Janet Jackson has split up with her long-term record producer boyfriend Jermaine Dupri. The 2 have been an item for four long years (Hollywood standards of course) and till recently it was being rumored that they were planning to marry and start a family together.
When a lady’s career is in danger of skidding, an appearance in Playboy is sometimes helpful. Well do not forget she did that wonderful stunt baring her breast on stage while performing alongside Justin Timberlake.
So she is a pretty good strategist and might have figured out well that being with Jermaine no longer created the kind of curiosity amongst the few left over fans that she has. She surely figured out that she needs to do something quickly or else she will be a goner.
Yeah man, like can any of these old ladies sit in the graveyard before making a hell lot of noise. It seems no all the way. Whitney Houston step mom seems she won’t die without creating some problem for the singer. Her stepmother wants money over the wishes of Houston’s deceased father.
Barbara Houston says that Whitney improperly kept the proceeds from John Houston’s $1 million insurance policy after he died in 2003.
Whitney Houston is 45 years of age so probably Barbara would be if I can assume so, at least 65 – 70 years old. So basically it validates my point that old women need financial security and to have that if it meant spoils someone else’s life so be it.
Barbara should have taken care of such issues in her interest much before 2003 not that she did not do that she has nothing else to do but to sulk and live in hope. Hope we do not see her around for long.
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