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| 4/13/04 |
Chris update from Bev on
kirkpatrick.nu NEW TO ALL: I just spoke with Michael, Chris's business manager and he said Chris is currently running SIX MILES A DAY! He's really trimmed down. I think the show in Dallas really got him excited. I have a HUGE thing to share with all of you once I get it "okayed" by Chris's managers. Hope it goes through, I'll share once I know. Bev
Everytime' vid about Justin/Britney relationship BRITNEY Spears, in an effort to be "edgy," has decided to keep a controversial suicide scene in her next video, "Everytime," shot by fashion photographer David LaChapelle. The video is a recap of her relationship with Justin Timberlake, as played by Stephen Dorff, who is shown ripping the covers off magazines with Spears' face on them. A close-up then shows her dead and bloody in a tub. Spears had considered cutting the scene. "The sad thing is, her label Jive is bragging about it because they think it is so edgy," sniffed an insider.
Youth-friendly music acts on the decline If some kids seem to grow up faster than others, popular-music trends could be a factor. Five years ago, innocuous pop acts such as ’N Sync, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera had a chokehold on the charts with success driven mainly by an underage demographic, a large chunk of whom were preteens (including a considerable number of single-digit-age fans). Now Spears and Aguilera are frenching Madonna while ’N Sync’s Justin Timberlake exposes Janet Jackson’s breast and his bandmate JC Chasez sings candidly about masturbation. The older fans from 1999 are adults themselves now and could probably care less, but the younger ones are still quite young and have obviously been set adrift by their former idols. Meanwhile, the chart-toppers these days include the likes of OutKast (considerably more risque than 1999’s pop superstars) and Norah Jones (just try getting kids to listen to her). The bubble-gum genre has been all but chewed up and spit out by the masses -- a disconcerting trend to worried parents who aren’t too fond of their kids going crunk. Nevertheless, youth-friendly acts do continue to lurk about in lower profile, offering aural candy to any takers...
Tuesday Smack: Miss Oklahoma wants to dine with JT ...We caught the last bit of the Miss USA Pageant last night. Are they always this dense? Yes, they're all hot, but we were laughing out loud at some of their answers to pageant questions. For example, they asked Miss Oklahoma, "If you could have dinner with one person in the world, who would it be?" Who'd she choose? President Bush? The Pope? Nelson Mandela? She thought really, really hard and came up with Justin Timberlake...
Indie London review: Some Girls JC CHASEZ - SOME GIRLS (DANCE WITH WOMEN): Having appeared with Basement Jaxx for their recent hit, Plug It In, the time seems right for JC Chasez (the one out of N-Snyc who remains in Timberlake's shadow) to make his own bid for solo superstardom. Some Girls (Dance With Women) sounds a great deal sleazier than Timberlake's efforts, and a little more grown up to boot, thanks to its headstrong mix of funky r'n'b flavas, and smooth vocals. The track also owes a lot, in composition, to the Cream/Laid style of Prince, while also possessing a lot of the values which have made The Neptunes work so highly-rated at the moment. With this in mind, the components appear to be perfectly in place to make this a massive hit. And it aint bad, either.
TOTP Review: Some Girls/BMU single * JC CHASEZ - 'SOME GIRLS (DANCE WITH WOMEN)/BLOWIN' ME UP' |
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