Left hand green, right hand finger snap in the air as you flip your hair back? Britney Spears’ choreography has been a staple in her career since her debut album, so it makes sense that she’d be the spokesperson for a new revamp of Twister.
Earlier today, Britney tweeted that she’s working with Hasbro on the new version of the Twister game. She said, “So excited to announce that I’ll be working with #Hasbro on their new game called Twister Dance. You guys are going to love it! @HasbroNews”
Hasbro announced that the new dance edition of Twister will feature a special remix of “Till The World Ends,” and Britney will also appear in promotional materials for the game.
“As soon as I saw the new Twister Dance game, I knew I wanted to be involved. I think kids will love rocking the spots and dancing to the music as much as my boys and I do. It’s a lot of fun,” she said of the game, which will be in stores everywhere in 2013.
Blow that whistle because Madonna is officially back in the music game! The Queen Of Pop premiered her highly anticipated music video for her new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin,” earlier today, and it was definitely worth all the hype! The video, which also stars M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj, is a playful look at Madonna’s ego as she is surrounded by her own personal cheer squard. Faceless football players protect her and masked cheerleaders cheer for her, as Madonna as she looks absolutely fabulous as she trots around the set.
What we love most about this video is that it’s just fun! It’s a upbeat video that goes along great with the playfullness of the song. We like it when Madge doesn’t take herself too seriously. There’s not doubt that we have nothing but LUV for Madonna!
Yuyi, who? Move over, Gaga! There’s much fiercer mermaid swimming in the pop waters! Earlier today, Marie Claire Magazine released the first promotional pictures for Katy Perry’s new GHD campaign. The ads, which feature the popstar in a sparkly mermaid outfit and pink hair, are for The GHD Straightener.
“David La Chapelle made the set amazing,” Katy said. “It was fun. I got to have purple hair which foreshadowed the real purple hair I had last fall. It’s as if Lisa Frank had done The Little Mermaid.”
Katy also said that she was “such a fan of the Disney movies,” and that she loved the mermaid costume so much she was considering keeping it aside for Halloween.
The GHD Air will be available on March 2011 at approved GHD salons and on their official website.
Yesterday, Nick Carter vowed to continue his tour despite the sudden death of is younger sister, Leslie, on Tuesday.
“Nick Carter is thankful to the many people and the fans who have shared their wishes and prayers during this tragic time,” his publicist said in an official statement released to the media. “We want to let the fans know the tour will go on as promised.” The tour will then continue on to Baltimore’s Rams Head Live on Friday, February 3rd. The trek will wrap in Columbus on February 12th.
The statement also included a personal message from Nick himself, letting his fans s know that he will continue with his I’m Taking Off Tour, and that the remaining tour dates will be dedicated to his sister’s memory. “Performing is cathartic to me and I am dedicating the rest of my tour to my sister since she loved to watch me perform.”
Last night, Nick performed at New York’s Irving Plaza to a sold out audience. The street outside the venue was filled with fans, some who had been waiting in the cold weather overnight to see their favorite popstar’s solo show. While most of the fans were chatting about how excited they were for the show, there were some fans who asked each other a good question. Would Nick make a statement about his sister’s death at the show? Would he not mention it to keep a positive vibe? The only way to find out was to watch the show.
Excited fans filled the venue, as the start of the show was getting closer. It only took a few minutes to see that although the Backstreet Boys have been in the music business since their debut album was released in 1996, they haven’t lost their appeal. They still have the power to not only fill arenas around the world, but smaller, intimate venues as well. As long as they’re making music, they’ll have sold out shows.
Opening the show, was up and coming popstar, Guinevere. Dressed in a black corset with blue feathers on the shoulders, black spandex pants adourned with golden chains, and matching blue lipstick, the petite singer commanded the audience from the moment she strutted on the stage with her two dancers. Sure, she’s beautiful, but don’t think that she’s just another pretty popstar. This girl has talent! Her dance moves were sharp, and her vocals were definitely on point as she not sang live, but she danced her ass off.
Although the crowd was most female, who were their to support their favorite Backstreet Boy in his latest solo endeavour, they seemed to love Guinevere as well as they sang along to her covers of Bon Jovi’s “Living On A Prayer” and Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Outta My Head.”
The highlight of the show, besides her sexy live performance of her debut single, “Crazy Crazy,” was when Guinevere and her dancers pulled out toy guns, and shot something into the audience. “Don’t worry! They’re marshmallows!” she laughed as watched the audience grab the marshmallows flying in the air.
The screen was lowered on the stage, and space themed music played as stage was getting ready for Nick’s show. The crowd went wild everytime his picture was flashed on the screen. After the intermission, the screen was raised up again, twinkling star lights appearned in the background, and the fans were even louder than before, as they chanted Nick’s named throughout the venue. His band walked onto the stage one by one in white space-inspired suits with helmets.
As the music started to play, the one and only Nick Carter, dressed in blue pants, a red, white and blue leather wrap around jacket, and helmet, slowly walked onto the stage. He looked up with his signature, gorgeous, blue eyes, and the fans screamed even louder than before with excitement. He waited, as he looked at the crowd. We couldn’t help but think about his sisiter, and how were death would affect the mood of the show. Would he perform with the amount of energy that he usually has? As he started singing his first song, “I’m Taking Off,” there was no doubt in our minds that his should would be anything less than incredible.
While we’d love to give you a walkthrough of the whole concert, we really can’t. Nick has this ability to put you in a trance during his shows. One fan was overheard saying,”You can take the guy out of the boyband, but you can’t take the boyband out of the guy.” And, she’s right! While some singers tend to fizzle out the longer their in the music industry, Nick just gets better and better.
While he performed mostly songs off of his new solo album, he couldn’t help but sing a couple of BSB hits. After a fun, guitar-driven performance of “Larger Than Life,” he slowed things down a little bit with a beautiful performance of “Incomplete.” The song gave us chills, and made us wonder if this was going to be the moment that he dedicated a song to his sister, as he paused for applause after the song. However, Nick carried on with the show like usual with a few new songs from his second solo album.
Towards the end of the show, Nick returned to the stage with an acoustic guitar. As the audience became quiet, we could see that the mood had slightly changed. Before he started singing “Falling Down,” the most beautiful ballad on I’m Taking Off, he finally dedicated a song to Leslie. “I’ve never done this before and I never thought I’d ever have to, but I’d like to dedicate this song to my sister,” he said. As he tried hard to fight the tears, he couldn’t help but cry during the song. And, we don’t blame him. Looking around the venue, there were very few fans who weren’t crying as well.
After finishing the song, Nick walked off the stage, and put his arm over his face as he leaned up against a well. His manager walked over to talk to him, and rubbed his back, as the crowd began chanting his name over and over again. After a few minutes, Nick walked back on stage and said, “Let’s celebrate her life damnit!” as he picked up his guitar again. The venue was once again roaring with applause as started singing his next song. Nick owned the stage with a flawless, encore performance of his first single, “Burning Up.”
Words can’t describe how awesome Nick’s show was. Even with his sister’s death, he made sure to put on a good show for her. It was magical. He reminded us over and over throughout the show why he was, and always will be our favorite Backstreet Boy.
After not presenting at The People’s Choice Awards last month, Katy Perry will finally make her first TV appearance after announcing her divorce with Russel Brand at The 2012 Grammy Awards. Katy’s nominated for Best Record and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Firework,” the song that she’ll most likely sing on the show. She’ll probably also sing “The One That Got Away” to promote the song, and help give it a boost up The Billboard Hot 100. (We know that you can do it, Katy!)
This will be Katy’s third time performing time performing at The Grammy Awards. Last year, she performed “Teenage Dream” and “Not Like The Movies.”
The dean-kelly.com team got to chat to Laura White before her first live performance of tracks from her debut album, “Lyrics In My Underwear”. Now you may remember Laura as one of the finalists on the 2008 series of X Factor (UK). Since then she has been working very hard on her album, which has been inspired from her own experiences over the years as well as writing for other artists including Cher Lloyd, Eliza Doolittle, Leona Lewis, Rihanna and Beyonce!
Laura performed 10 tracks from her debut album to the sell out Lowry gig! They included Change, Got It Bad, I Heard, Raspberry, Crazy and Too Cool For You. I loved the gig and it was full of fun as well as some heart warming comments that Laura made to the audience about a number of songs and to never let anyone tell you that you’re unable to achieve whatever you want to! No one can fault how talented and humble Miss White is, and being a ‘Northern’ girl is even better.
In response to performing for the first time at The Lowry in Manchester, Laura said:
“It was a great night and I’d like to thank everyone who came and supported me because they made it really special.
I used to go to the Lowry Theatre to watch artists like Beverley Knight and only dreamt of playing there so to be able to do it as the first performance of my debut album and sell it out was amazing. I’m now focusing really hard on finishing the album and getting ready to launch it later this year”.
She just keeps giving and giving! After showing her fans the single cover for “Gimme All Your Luvin” yesterday, Madonna debuted the album cover for her new album, MDNA after her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The album’s photoshoot was shot by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
We absolutely LOVE the album cover! We’re guessing that the colorful artwork is going to match the exciting feeling of the album. Madonna’s album covers are always right on point with the themes of the albums. As if there was any doubt. She IS The Queen Of Pop!
It looks like Will.I.Am’s collaboration with Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger was just a taste of his star studded debut album, #Willpower! In a new interview with CapitalFM.com, the singer chatted about his new album and his super impressive list of collaborations, inlcuding Alicia Keys, Swedish House Mafia, Shakira, and Britney Spears! And, he’s not just talking about remixing their Femme Fatale collaboration, “Big Fat Bass.” He’s talking all new music!
“I have a song with Alicia Keys – me, Alicia and Swedish House Mafia. I have a song with The Beats, which is pretty grand. Me and Shakira have been trying to finish the stuff we started, and me and Britney is really crazy.”
No word on if Cheryl Cole will be on the album, but her replacement on The X Factor (US), Nicole Scherzinger, will be featured on the album or as an online exclusive. “I made this song with Nicole Scherzinger that you would never expect,” he said. ”It’s classical music.”
That sounds like a really impressive list of collaborations! We’re super excited for his new song with Britney!
The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, otherwise known as the SAG Awards, aired last night! The 2 hour star studded event aired live on TNT and TBS, and presented 13 awards for acting in film and television
Congrats to all of the winners! Their awards were well deserved!
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
JEAN DUJARDIN / The Artist
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
VIOLA DAVIS / The Help
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER / Beginners
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
OCTAVIA SPENCER / The Help
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
THE HELP
PRIME TIME TELEVISION
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
PAUL GIAMATTI / Too Big to Fail
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
KATE WINSLET / Mildred Pierce
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
STEVE BUSCEMI / Boardwalk Empire
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
JESSICA LANGE / American Horror Story
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
ALEC BALDWIN / 30 Rock
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
BETTY WHITE / Hot in Cleveland
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
MODERN FAMILY
SAG Honors for Stunt Ensembles
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS : PART 2
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
GAME OF THRONES
After doing a bunch of new interviews promoting her Oscar nominated movie, W.E., (in theaters on Friday, February 3rd),
it looks like Madonna is ready to start the promotional campaign for her highly-anticipated twelfth studio album, MDNA! The 53-year-old pop diva has just released the official cover artwork for the album’s first single, “Give Me All Your Luvin,” along with lots of other exciting news about the album! Check out some album details from the official press release!
- “Give Me All Your Luvin” will be released on Friday February 3rd.
- iTunes will be offering a global pre-order of the 18-track deluxe edition of MDNA, along with an exclusive remix starting between February 3-6 for $9.99.
- The Megaforce-directed video for “Give Me All Your Luvin” is cheerleader and football-themed.
- A sneak peek of the video will premiere on American Idol on this Thursday, February 2nd.
- MDNA features production by William Orbit, Martin Solveig, The Demolition Crew, Benny Benassi andAlessandro Benassi, Hardy “Indiigo” Muanza, Michael Malih and Madonna. It will be released on March 26 on Interscope Records.
- Madonna will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tomorrow, January 30th.
