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One Direction, Frankie Sandford And A Romance Made In PR Hell
ONE Direction’s bandmate Harry Styles fancies The Saturdays singer Frankie Sandford. Indeed. As anyone who has followed the celebrity press knows, Sandford’s role is to be fancied; her shaggability used to promote a band that has yet to produce a signature hit and look anything but a Girls Aloud tribute act. To date the woman on the books of the same music company Simon Cowell and Cherly Cole shills for has been fancied by or fancies:
* One Direction’s Nial Horan
* Ashley Cole – former husband to Cheryl Cole
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Chase & Status And Race Scene Nostalgia: Music Video Of The Day
THE Chase & Status video for Blind Faith is nostalgia as it is meant to be: raw; plain; grainy, smoky, and most likely a false memory. It’s a piece of music telly created by director Daniele Wolfe on a VHS camcorders. (You can tell because the skin is not grey enough and Michaela Strachan’s not trying to get in.)
This is a great video. Well, I was there. Am I in the video? Can you spot me? Or are you growing dewey-eyed from when life was simple and hot knives and hoodies didn’t mean a kebab-shop stabbing?
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Music | Comment (1)
How The Hoosiers Won X Factor: Elvis Is Dead
THE X Factor has been won by…the Hoosiers:
Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Music | Comments (4)
NME Tribute To John Lennon: Fail
JOHN Lennon died 30 years ago. In a media keen for easy news and nostalgia this is billed as a landmark. Over on the NME website, the guru’s of pop have created a homepage that pays tribute to the man shot dead by Marc Chapman. It’s touching and sensitive stuff…
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X Factor 2012: Mark Gormley’s Greatest Pop Video Ever
X FACTOR 2012: You’ve met candidate Lori Watt, now meet Mark Gormley. He’s the star of the greatest pop video of them all…
X Factor 2012: Next Year’s Finalists – Lori Watt
THE X Factor is building to a dreary climax. The entertainers are gone and we are left with Dot Cotton’s mini me (Cher Lloyd); a five piece ensemble called One Direction who are a shoo-in to front a campaign to make all boys carry a clean hankie in their pockets; and Matt Cardle, a nice singer of nice songs.
So. Here’s to next year’s finalists. And in 2012, we will surely thrill to Ladies Chill in my Veins by Lori Watt:
Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball Photos: Nicole Scherzinger Gussies Up Fergie’s X Factor
NICOLE Scherzinger introduced the crowd to Minnie Mouse – The Fetish Club Years at the Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball at the O2 Arena, London. Fergie and her Black Eyed Peas wowed the cool kids; Alexandra Burke showed us that with Ollie Murs, the X Facctor can produce middle of the road music beyond the show’s TV season; and Duffy lifted her skirts. We took photos…
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Exclusive: Marc Mysterio Says Brandy Norwood ‘Dissed Us’ As Court Date Looms
BRANDY Norwood will stand trial in a $6million lawsuit brought by Anorak’s pal DJ Marc Mysterio.
Marc’s claim is that Brandy accepted a $10,000 fee (read the documents here) to feature on his hit song Shout It Out. She then did not sing. Marc tells us:
“I’m glad that the judge denied Brandy Norwood’s request to delay the trial until Fall 2011 and hope that this is resolved shortly, however, I’m a proactive guy and rather than sit home and cry about the situation and move to another project, my focus right now is on promoting my song SHOUT IT OUT as is, without her, writing new verses for it, and finding the best possible singer for these new verses. No one can replace Brandy Norwood, but just because she dissed us, doesn’t mean we will give up, now or ever!”
Well, thanks to Brandy and the court case, the PR is going great guns…
Exclusive: Evidence In Marc Mysterio Case Against Brandy Norwood
Kanye West On Rihanna: The Art Of The Celebrity Interview
KANYE West is interviewing Rihanna for Interview magazine. It’s hideous stuff that, as with all bad journalism, reveals more about the hack than the subject. Maureen O’Connor says its like “a Jack Russell terrier burying its face in your crotch and humping”. It is. But it’s more like Jonathan Ross, Jay Leno, Michael Parkinson or any other celebrity interviewer whose only interest is thin themselves. The highlights are here:
ON Location:
KANYE WEST: Whuzup?
RIHANNA: Hey. How are you?
WEST: I’m good. I’m just out here in this retarded-ass studio- Peter Gabriel’s studio.
RIHANNA: Where? In London?
WEST: Yeah. Like two hours out.
RIHANNA: That’s dope.
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Marc Mysterio Cancels US Tour Over TSA Fisting Abuse
MARC Mysterio tells us that he will not be touring the US Tour because he doesn’t fancy being fisted by TSA guards at the airport. The Obamas are not averse to the fist. And not every music star has the constitution of the average barber’s shoppe quartet or trad jazz ensemble.
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Justin Bieber Pray: Pro-Life Music For Christian Rock’s Chosen Son
JUSTIN Bieber’s video for Pray is a boon to the ailing newspaper industry. Bieber – messiah of Twitter (dear followers…) and small black girl heroine of XBox – says he reads the papers. And the signing foetus is pro-life, taking an anti-abortion stance with:
I pray for the life not started
I pray for all the ones not breathing
Take them away, Sunday school music enthusiast Justin Bieeeeber….
Posted: 28th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment
Bono And U2’s Tribute To Dead New Zealand Miners: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
AT the U2 Concert Bono is paying tribute to the 29 miners who died in New Zealand.He follows his pap tribute with the song I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.
“Hello [insert name of venue here]. I love yooooouuu” used to be enough; now bands feel a need to tap into the zeitgeist of the crowd by empathising with their grief.
Better had Bono orchestrated a two minute silence…
The Beatles: John Lennon’s Lyrics To I’m Only Sleeping Are On Sale
WANT to buy John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to I’m Only Sleeping? Lennon wrote the words for the 1966 hit in ballpoint pen and blue felt tip. The paper is a reminder letter for an unpaid bill of £12.3.0 for a car Radiophone.
The piece of paper is now worth and estimated £250,000 – 350,000.
The bill was paid…
The T4 Awards In Photos: JLS Leaving Them Panting
THE T4 Awards show in photos: The Saturdays’ Frankie Sandford wore hotpants; JLS left them panting; Olly Murs was pants; Mark Ronson wore the pants; Jason Derulo grabbed his pants; and Tinie Tempah did not wet this pants…
Adakini Ntuli Photos: Take That Star Howard Donald’s Ex-Lover Named
MEET Adakini Ntuli, a neme suggestive of a deliciously spreadable kiss-‘n’-tell, is now able to be named as the woman Take That’s Howard Donald secured a super-injunction against.
In April, Donald secured a restraining order, banning publication of confidential information by Ntuli, a former girlfriend and musician. She had sent Donald a text message:
“Why shud I continue 2 suffer financially 4 the sake of loyalty when selling my story will sort my life out?”
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Posted: 16th, November 2010 | In: Music | Comment (1)
Katy Perry Upskirt And Breasts Photos: BBC Teen Awards Get Lift
CAN looking up Katy Perry’s skirt and down her top make the BBC Teen Awards a hit? At the Hammersmith Apollo, London, Perry wore a dress with the candy machine dispenser over her veejay. For the teens. Especially for those teens stood in the front row with camera phones.
Russell Brand does not you like pictures up his wife’s skirts. But where was he to save the day?
In photo 4, Katy obliges the congregation with a stoop into the crowd. She’s a modern day Saint Agatha is Katy, a god-fearing, breast carrying entertainer waiting to be painted in your adoration…
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Posted: 14th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (2)
Gorillaz And Joe McElderry Turn On Manchester Illuminations: Photos
WHO better to turn on the Manchester illuminations than Cock-er-ney geyser Damon Albarn and his Gorillaz? The answer is most likely Geordie not Joe McElderry, who was also there to perform at the M.E.N. arena. In any case, it’s a rhetorical question and Take That were busy…
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Miku Hatsune Is What Cheryl Cole Pretends To Be
MIKU Hatsune stomps on Cheryl Cole and all the manufactured popstars. Here’s a video of thousands of Japanese music fans swaying along to a singing synthesizer application and its hologram female singer called Miku Hatsune.
Forget the need for flesh and blood Cheryl Coles miming, lip-syncing and auto-tuning their voices to look like singers. Just cut to the chase and create the woman you want to shag and plug her in.
Susan Boyle: Lou Reed’s Perfect Day Is A Cynical Christmas Hymn To God Bothering
LOU Reed is directing the video of Susan Boyle’s Perfect Day. It’s Boyle’s cynical Christmas hymn. Boyle’s shtick is to take any song and make it churchy. Next year, Boyle will sing The Ace of Spades in the Methodist fashion, followed by an organ-driven version of Smack My Bitch Up.
Scene 1: Boyle walks slowly towards the end of a jetty. The waters are calm. Will she dive in? Is this an advert for Campbell’s soup?
The glinting twilight and moving clouds are like a scene when the hero has just died and the cameras make out his soul has lifted up to Heaven.
Scene 2: Boyle is now engulfed in cloud. She is floating. Each note ends with a ring of a bell. Boyle is no longer just a sign of God’s love for humanity – she is the authentic voice of Mother Nature. She is Gaia thanking us for a perfect day in the bosom of her voice.
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Hot Property Rihanna Turns On London Christmas Lights: Photos
RIHANNA was there to press the switch and turn on the Christmas lights at the Westfield shopping centre. What does the celebrity say at such an occasion?
Do you thank your manger for making it all possible? Do you name check a few stores in the hope of earning more free clobber? Or do you says: “I love London, maybe one day I’d like to have a home here”?
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Lady Gaga And Katy Perry In Sexy Tomato Fight: Photos
TO London’s Golden Square for a sexy tomato fight between Katy Perry would-be K.Pez (aka Delia Marie Williams) and Lady Gaga look-alike – only sexier – Maybe Gaga (Victoria Cluskey). The stunt was to promote the MTV Awards in Madrid. It’s all hideous PR and exploitation. Here are the pictures for you to disapprove of – the tomatoes were non-organic…
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Electric Proms 2010: Robert Plant’s Hair Wows The Roundhouse
ROBERT Plant’s hair performed at The Roundhouse in Camden, north London, during the BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms. They come to stare at the Led Zeppelin front man…
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Posted: 30th, October 2010 | In: Music | Comment (1)
JLS: Buy The Official Love Doll – Aston Merrygold Outsells The Rest
JLS are now action figures, or love dolls, as some of their fans will term them.
Which ones will outsell the others? Or advice is to go long on pocket-sized Aston Merrygold, then take more reserved position on – in order – Marvin Humes, Jonathan “JB” Gill, and Oritsé Williams.
But, more importantly, they earn their place in our gallery of the greatest every celebrity dolls.
Enjoy them – there are some blinders:
Kylie Mingoue Beats Winter For Sexy 2011 Calendar Shoot: Photos
KYLIE Minogue has new calendar for 2011. You can while away the year gazing at 12 shots of Kylie in her swimmers and undies. It’s pretty clear from these photos that Kylie does not do winter. But as an international pop star, she transcends the world. There are not enough hemispheres to contain Kylie…
Take That Announce Latest Comeback With Comatose Press Conference: Video And Photos
TAKE That were at Radio 1 to sell their stuff. And thrill fans with talk of second comeback tour.
The Daily Mail pours it usual bile on the event by looking at Robbie Williams and opining:
With the top of his hair teased into a quiff-style, Robbie appeared to be attempting to hide his silvery locks as he arrived at the studios with Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald.
Yeah, Because that’s how you hide going grey isn’t – by giving your hair a curl. It’s why self-billed blondes like Doris (79) Old Mr Anorak’s stamp archivist has given her luscious locks a soft curl.
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