Melody Plant

Beyonce’s Top goes flying during her performance of Deja Vu, makes funny faces after, and holds down her shirt/skirt/dress in front of the audience

Will somebody please tell this X@@##! to shut the X@@##! up…..It never fails, as soon as he has material to put out, he has to start a non-existing beef with someone to get peoples attention. Why can’t you just let the music do the talking and keep your mouth shut? Fact: Lil Wayne and Kanye West are better than you are……Stop making songs about killing people and selling coke because you don’t do either anymore. Just do us all a favor and retire so we don’t have to listen to you or any of your G-Unit X@@##! anymore……P.S. you suck! Like is this the only way you guys can get the attention you want for a release and none without it. Why do you have to attack other singers in your songs and also those who buy his CDs are of the same intent – that they like to hear of violence and killings which is truly a shame to our lovely society. I don’t want question their upbringing coz this is none of my business but my mind can’t seem to stop asking this question – did these rappers have an abusive upbringing coz they seem not to be able stop using all this horrifying language.

This is a preview of Nicole Scherzinger new song called Baby Love

Another reality star thinks that just coz her show got big, she can get big too. ‘The Hills’ star Heidi Montag premiered her single ‘Body Language’ on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show on Thursday morning. Fans called in giving great reviews and even KIIS FM co-host Ellen K had herself calling Heidi the next Britney.The catch? Heidi’s fiancé Spencer Pratt raps on the single. Eww.

But guess what? The release was a mistake. An insider reveals that the record company leaked the track. As Spencer told People magazine, it’s not the single and that it was done as a joke. Actually Spencer, it’s just you that’s the joke.

It has been reported that 50 Cent “erupted” during a meeting at his record label Interscope, after a forthcoming single and video–a collaboration with Robin Thicke–inadvertently leaked on to the Internet.

Reported by MTV News, the track “Follow My Lead” was due to be released as the third single from the rapper’s forthcoming album Curtis, and after current videos for “I Get Money” and “Ayo Technology” had dropped from rotation.

According to MTV’s sources, when 50 heard about the leak he reportedly ripped a plasma TV from the wall and threw his mobile phone through a window.

He later talked about his frustrations during an interview with DJ Kay Slay on New York’s Hot 97 radio station.

He said: “The process has been ill for me this go-around. I usually have to start a project myself, as far as Interscope. I got to lead. On the first album, ‘Wanksta’ just took off before ‘In Da Club’ came about. When we got to The Massacre, I leaked ‘Disco Inferno’ and they caught up with ‘Candy Shop.’

“This album, I threw ‘Straight To The Bank’ out there, and ‘Amusement Park’ was the joint they were supposed to assist me with going after. But when that came, it grew at the same pace that ‘Straight To The Bank’ grew. And I was like, ‘Yo, it don’t feel like it’s a difference in the support for the actual record.’”

Clips from “Follow My Lead” have since been removed from YouTube, but have already been posted elsewhere.

Sugababes new single, ‘About You Now’ from their upcoming 5h Studio album. Released 24th September

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James Blunt album titled “All Lost Souls” due for release on September 17th.
I can’t wait to check out his songs!!!

Britney Spears has decided to pick up what Kelly Clarkson dropped. Jeff Kwatinetz, boss of The Firm and ex-boyfriend of actress Brittany Murphy is an industry bigwig. He was formerly working with singer Kelly Clarkson when she had issues with Clive Davis and in turn dumped Kwatinetz as her management. Britney Spears has now reportedly hired him on to her team. She just recently hired back her cousin Alli Sims who had worked for her previously as an assistant and is now standing in until the position can be permanently filled. I’m not sure if the best manager in the world could get Britney’s career back on track. I guess he’s willing to give it a shot if the dollar signs are big enough. I can’t say that I’d be as bold. Choosing to work for the wrong star could in effect harm a manager’s career. Working for Britney has got to be right up on that level of crazy that working for Michael Jackson would be.

Here’s the Music Video for the new Akon single titled “Sorry, Blame It On Me”

Looks like some stars got busy before the summer and they are about to get busier after. The amazingly talented Juanes is coming out with a new album.

The Colombian singer’s ‘La Vida Es… Un Ratico’ album is set to be released on October 23 and the lead single ‘Me Enamora’ will be out on the radio by September 4. This album will be his first release since his last record ‘Mi Sangre’ was released in 2004. His last album moved 659,000 units in the US so let’s hope that it hasn’t been too long that people forgot about him already which would make his album tank.

Either way, welcome back Juanes.

There will be no revealing costumes at U.S. singer Gwen Stefani’s concert in Malaysia this month, a newspaper said on Saturday, after a Muslim student group demanded that the event be cancelled as being too obscene.

Although Malaysia is a moderate Muslim country with sizeable non-Muslim minorities, conservative groups often frown upon departures from strict Koranic injunctions.

Malaysian mobile phone firm Maxis Communications, which is promoting the August 21 show as part of Stefani’s “Sweet Escape” tour, promised it would feature no revealing costumes, the Star newspaper said.

“She will abide by the Malaysian authorities’ guidelines to ensure that her show will not be offensive to local sensibilities,” it quoted a Maxis statement as saying.

Malaysia’s official guide for performers says women must be covered from the top of the bosom to the knees, the Star said.

Jumping, shouting and the throwing of objects are barred, while performers may not hug, kiss or wear clothes with obscene or drug-related pictures or slogans, it added.

On Tuesday, an official of the 10,000-strong National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students said Stefani’s video promotion clips were obscene and the event would clash with local Asian and Islamic values.

“We want the organizers to cancel the concert, failing which we will ask the authorities to intervene,” said Mohamad Hilmi Ramli, the group’s president.

Ethnic Malays, who are by definition Muslims, make up just over half of Malaysia’s 26 million people, while ethnic Chinese and Indians, who are mostly Buddhists, Christians or Hindus, account for most of the rest.

THERE are the deliriously exciting parts of getting signed to a major record label — spreading the news, hobnobbing with superstar labelmates, planning an album with a household-name producer — and then, according to the singer-songwriter Chrisette Michele, there are the not-so-thrilling parts. For example, “I never knew I was fat until Def Jam signed me. I seriously had no idea,” said the 24-year-old at her home here last week. “But then I started doing interviews, and people would ask, ‘How’s it been dealing with your weight all these years?’ ” Fat, America has so many obese people that there is no count and therefore so many heart disease patients. But if a celeb or a model or singer has slightly extra pounds on him/her all these media guys just stare at them like they have never seen something like this ever before and jump on to discuss weight matters. The interviewer could be fat herself but since Michele is an upcoming star she cannot have asked the interviewer about her weight problems. How single minded, may be they nothing better to ask about.

Ever since the release of her latest album “My December” there have been rumors flying about Kelly Clarkson’s falling out with record mogul Clive Davis. It began when Clarkson wanted more control and freedom to write on her record. Davis didn’t agree with the loss of using hired star song writers. Around the same time Kelly announced the cancellation of her latest tour due to slow ticket sales. She has since spoken out about the issue saying that she considers everyone she works with family and families tend to fight. She adds that its respect and admiration that keeps them together. She says there is no bad blood between her and Davis and that she has nothing but respect for him. I don’t see why writing your own music is a bad idea. It’s strange to sell a manufactured product. I’d much rather see true art whether it’s good or bad.

Joni Mitchell, who had been largely retired from the music business since 2002, has joined Paul McCartney on the roster of Starbucks Entertainment’s Hear Music label. Mitchell’s new album, “Shine,” will be released September 25 through the coffee retailer’s stores as well as traditional outlets.

Mitchell angrily threatened to quit recording after the release of 2002’s “Travelogue,” but her work with Starbucks on a 2005 “Artists Choice” compilation helped encourage her to not throw in the towel just yet.

“Joni acknowledged back in 2005 that not only was she very, very impressed with our commitment to music and our customers’ love of music, but that really helped to re-energize her passion for music,” Starbucks Entertainment president Ken Lombard told Billboard.com “As we continue to have discussions with respect to this new CD, it is obvious to us that she’s back, in a big way.”

In fact, it was Mitchell who reached out to Starbucks when she was nearing completion on “Shine.” “Frankly, for Joni fans, this is the Joni they’ve been waiting for,” Lombard said. “This is true Joni — it is almost the return of her as a storyteller.”

“Shine” includes nine new songs as well as a new version of Mitchell’s evergreen, “Big Yellow Taxi.” The album is part of a series of new work from the singer/songwriter, including a ballet based on her music, “The Fiddle and the Drum,” and a visual art exhibit that opens in the fall in New York.

On Friday rap star 50 Cent sued an Internet advertising company for one million dollars. Plenty of silly online games involve different target shooting for prizes. One of these games is called “Shoot the Rapper” and uses 50 Cent’s image as a target that the player fires at. The website doesn’t ever use the rapper’s name but his lawyer insists the character is made to look like him. Because the rapper has been a known victim of gun violence he is especially offended because it’s misleading to fans who may think he endorses the game. He is seeking one million in damages. The lawyer for the web company would not comment. He said that he has yet to receive the papers. Is there ever a time in Hollywood when someone isn’t getting sued? The worst part is that it’s always over something completely ridiculous. This story speaks for itself.

It’s only been days since Patrick Wolf opened a concert for Mika but it seems that the red headed singer has some bitterness to get off his chest. He’s been slamming and criticizing Mika since then.

Patrick says that “Mika is a twat. Please let’s put an end to over marketed, expensive, heartless, tacky, rubbish, autotune airbrush.” Meow! The kitty has claws.

Who are you placing your bets on? I say Mika. Looking at the grand scheme of things, wasn’t it Patrick that opened a concert while Mika took the headliner spot? It’s jealousy. And bitterness because Mika was a smarter business man.

In a music sense of course. Think those cheesy porn songs that play in the background as porn stars are going at it. Justin Timberlake is reportedly a guest star on a song for 50 Cent’s new album. The song is apparently about loving pornography.

The two, along with Timbaland, have already filmed a video for the song, tentatively called ‘Ayo Technology’. An insider told the press, “The track is an analogy for watching porn” and that ‘technology’ was a substitute for pornography.

The song is also about being fed up with having to only watch dirty movies and how desperate they are to do those things. The video is said to have the 3 men dressed up as spies peaking at girls using see-through eyewear technology.

Nashville-based, Miami-born Raul Malo has never been part of the country mainstream. Even when his seminal band the Mavericks was scaling the country airplay and sales charts in the early ’90s, he was on another plane.

Malo’s musical palette has included everything from Latin rhythms to rock to bluegrass to children’s music, which, depending upon your point of view, makes his new release either a natural progression or a complete left turn.

Malo’s interpretation of country classics, “After Hours,” out July 17, and “A Marshmallow World and Other Christmas Favorites,” another album of covers due later this year, will be released on New Door/Universal Music Enterprises.

The label is “primarily dedicated to producing new music from historically significant” Universal Music Group artists, according to the UMG Web site. (The Mavericks recorded for MCA Nashville in the ’90s.) Styx, Smokey Robinson, Joe Cocker and Nanci Griffith are among the acts that have released projects on the label.

“After Hours” includes noteworthy treatments of Eddy Arnold’s “Welcome to My World,” Hank Snow’s “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such As I” and the Ray Price-sung, Kris Kristofferson-penned “For the Good Times.” Buck Owens’ “Crying Time,” Hank Williams’ “Cold, Cold Heart” and “Take These Chains From My Heart,” and Roger Miller’s “Husbands and Wives” are also included.

Chantal Kreviazuk, the fellow Canadian singer-songwriter who dismissed collaborator Avril Lavigne’s writing skills in an interview in the June issue of Performing Songwriter magazine, has retracted her comments.

Kreviazuk’s comments have been in the media of late in the wake of a copyright infringement suit filed against Lavigne by the 1970s band the Rubinoos. That group claims Lavigne’s hit “Girlfriend” infringes on their earlier song “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”

“I would like to apologize for any misconceptions concerning Avril Lavigne, which may have resulted from statements I made in my interview with Performing Songwriter Magazine,” said Kreviazuk in a statement released Tuesday . “It was not my intention to call Avril’s songwriting ability or ethics into question.

“My statements and any inference from my statements, which call into question Avril’s ethics or ability as a respected and acclaimed songwriter, should be disregarded and are retracted. Avril is an accomplished songwriter and it has been my privilege to work with her.”

In a July 6 post on her Web site, Lavigne had hit back, “Chantal’s comments are damaging to my reputation and a clear defamation of my character and I am considering taking legal action.”

They have no creativity in them and half the time there are busy seeking publicity so how could she ever have the time to create something ‘different and original’. Avril Lavigne faces a law suit by the members of a 1970s rock band who claim her hit song Girlfriend rips off one of their tunes. Songwriters Tommy Dunbar and James Gangwer alleged in a law suit filed in US district court that Lavigne and her co-writers lifted their 1979 song I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, which was originally performed by new wave band The Rubinoos. “We are not so naive as to chalk it up to some sort of cosmic coincidence,” Dunbar said in a statement Thursday. “The lyric, the meter, the rhythm _ they’re identical.” Hey, if this is really true as it sounds to be then the singer better be prepared to pay a heavy penalty and share revenues for the sales of the album that has the song. What ugly piece of song writing she and the co-writer has done – just picked up the song and added some tunes and there u have a finished product.

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has been known for being the enemy of both celebrities and photographers due to either harsh remarks or copyright infringement but let it be known that Perez has also championed a winner.

Kate Nash, who was featured in one of the blogs, just had her first official single ‘Foundations’ debut at the number two spot on the UK singles charts. See, being featured on a blog about celebrity gossip and rumor can be a good thing. Plus, the girl does have great music under her belt. It was kind of a given that she’d be a winner.

Music industry insiders all know that record sales are declining so it’s not news if an artist finds novel ways to make money out of the music. An insider even told the press the trick of the trade in which the artist needs to make the brand part of the song so that it slips down the throats of fans easily.

Fergie is cashing in on that trick and her appeal to the teenage girls of the world. The singer is reportedly set to make $4 million by teaming up with Candies clothing and accessory line on her next album. The brand name will be dropped in her songs and she will work with them on ad campaigns. She’s already started that by featuring several Candies clothing on her video for ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’.

It’s not really a matter of selling out. It’s a matter of business.

Carlos Mencia slapped Kanye West with the humiliating label of ‘Theo Huxtable’ and Kanye did not like that one bit. So what does a rapper do? Fire back of course!

Mencia did a hilarious spoof of ‘Gold Digger’ on his Comedy Central show. He skewered Kanye for downplaying his suburban, upper-middle-class upbringing (his mother was an English professor while his father was a well-paid photographer).

Kanye responds to it with his latest single ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing’. The lyrics of the single renounces any connection to the Huxtables by rapping ‘I ain’t one of the Cosbys, I ain’t go to Hillman’. That line refers to the college that one of the Huxtable children attended in the series.

In true comedy fashion, don’t expect Mencia to not fire back.

Her appearances on remixes of Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend” and Rihanna’s “Umbrella” have been proving to the fans that Lil Mama is more than just the “Lip Gloss” girl — and she’s earning kudos from peers like Eve too. She certainly might be a good singer/ song writer as I have not listened to her till now. But there’s certainly one thing that all these good looking babes have in common, they all dress up like they are at a night club, they wear so much of make up and accessories that someday if u spot them without the make up you really can’t fingure out which one of them is there on the streets. On another potential single called “Swim,” produced by Cool & Dre, she sings and raps as well.

At a recent festival in London Aerosmith handed out a list of crazy demands. One that stood out as especially nuts was the demand for three roast chickens for each band member. Apparently they insisted they had to have two for before the show and one for after. Who really eats that much chicken in a night? It certainly can’t be good for you. Another demand they had which was a bit outrageous was that they wanted Run DMC flown in from the United States just to sing on one song with them. Booking a flight from America to Europe for one five minute song seems more than extremely unnecessary to me. How many times before have they played the song Walk This Way without Run DMC? Plenty! When Mariah Carey wants people to pick certain M & M colors out of her candy dish it’s totally ridiculous. But when a handful of old men demand three chickens in a specified order it makes me ask myself why they would want to join her ranks and be known as selfish divas?

Love don’t cost anything is something that Jennifer Lopez might have told us, but in the video for her next single, “Me Haces Falta” — from her Spanish-language debut album, Como Ama una Mujer — the singer’s character definitely learned that there’s a price to pay for a lover scorned. “[It's] basically about someone who is missing someone so much and has done something so wrong to the person that they know they can’t fix it,” Lopez explained last week from the Los Angeles set of the video. “So they just hate themselves right in that moment, they can’t stand [it], they regret everything that they did and they wish they could change things. It’s basically about missing somebody terribly. This is so true, when a person there around you we sometimes just don’t care for the relationship so much and when the same person is out of your life you are left fond memories.

Jermaine Dupri got away with singing on Mariah Carey’s albums, and nobody flinched. But the producer didn’t want to press his luck on the new Fabolous album, From Nothin’ to Somethin’, which dropped June 12. Dupri produced the track “Don’t Let Go,” which features T-Pain, but Fab told last week that the producer was really the first choice to croon on the chorus. “JD was actually on the hook, but he did the audio-tune to his voice,” Fab said of some studio tricks they used on the chorus. “I don’t think he wanted to really be on the hook though. We had to figure out who we could put on there. Who’s better than Mr. Audio-Tune, T-Pain? That’s Mr. Audio-Tune right now.” What ever the story is, why can’t producers just stick to their jobs and let the singers and rappers do theirs. It ain’t mean that if you are a music producers you can be a singer as well. If you think you have the talent and the voice minus the techno digital mixing then why not try it by producing a solo for yourself.

Pink has been out of the limelight for a little bit but that doesn’t mean she’s quitting her job.

The colorful singer who sported what I would guess is her natural blonde color made a surprise appearance at the Key Club in West Hollywood on Monday night to join the cover band Metal Skool in singing Skid Row’s ’18 to Life’.

All the time away from the stage didn’t deter the singer though because everyone at the club would be with me in saying that she absolutely rocked it.

And if her appearance wasn’t enough, the performance featured another surprise cameo. And it was quite surprising, if not, a bit weird. Juliette Lewis came up to jam with Pink and Metal Skool on the performance as well.

Kelly Clarkson, who rails against a former flame in her new song “Never Again”, says she’s never been in love.
“I love my friends and family”, the Grammy-winning singer and original “American Idol” tells Elle magazine in its July issue. “But I have never said the words ‘I love you’ to anyone in a romantic relationship. Ever.”
Clarkson, 25, doesn’t take romance lightly.
“I am very old-school, conservative in my thinking when it comes to relationships”, she says. “Love is something you work at. It doesn’t come easily. There are going to be bad days. You are going to have to work at loving someone when they are being an idiot.”
She adds: “People think they’re just going to meet the perfect guy. Don’t be ridiculous.”
Marriage and motherhood aren’t in the cards for Clarkson — not right now, anyway.
“My point of view is that I shouldn’t be a mother at all, because I’d be horrible”, she says. “I’m not willing to be that selfless.”
Her comments speak to the singer’s frankness, which makes Clarkson stand out from many of today’s publicist-protected pop stars. In recent weeks, Clarkson has made headlines for saying the media is exaggerating reports that she and music mogul Clive Davis clashed over her upcoming CD, “My December”, to be released by RCA Records, a unit of Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
It’s a sensitive subject.
“I’ve sold more than 15 million records worldwide, and still nobody listens to what I have to say. Because I’m 25 and a woman”, she says.
“I am a good singer, so I can’t possibly be a good writer”, she continues. “Women can’t possibly be good at two things. I haven’t lost my temper about it. It only drives me more. If your thing is to bring me down, cool. I’ll just work harder.”

Prince needs to do something to get back on track with his music career. People have been saying this for a long time and it seems that the rock star is trying to do just that. He will promote his new album, “Planet Earth”, as he never did in the past. The first single will be available for free for cell phone users. This follows similar moves by David Bowie and Paul McCartney, both finding new ways to promote music material. David Card, an analyst of Jupiter Research declared:

“Artists have to stay in the public mind and they have to stay hip. For an artist to be associated with a slick new service is a good idea. He probably wouldn’t have done the Super Bowl in his heyday. He’s a mainstream artist that needs to keep his name out there”

The new single is called “Guitar” and will be available for Verizon Wireless phones that use the new V Cast song ID feature. Not that many people will have access but it might be enough to gain some more fans. Maybe we are witnessing a strong Prince comeback!