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Check out Gnarls Barkley's super-cool new video "Run" from their forthcoming album, "The Odd Couple." Justin Timberlake makes an almost unrecognizable cameo. He just loves to play dress up, doesn't he?
Gnarls Barkley "Run"
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Madonna and Steven Klein have once again teamed up for a photo shoot, featured in the April issue of Dazed & Confused. Looks like Madonna will be in fighting form for the release of her new album "Hard Candy," and the worldwide media blitz that will surely accompany it. Boxing gloves made by Chanel, naturally. [Source]
"I have moments where I feel incredibly invincible and know that I have the audience in my hand… and then I have panic attacks, where I feel like everyone is breathing my air, and I might just die on stage"
Steven Klein & Madonna "X-Static Pro-Cess"
Judging from the above movie still, Justin has been digging through Marky Mark's old toy chest. The scene in question is from the forthcoming movie "The Love Guru" starring Mike Myers. [Source]
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"The Love Guru" Trailer
The track listing for Madonna's "Hard Candy" has finally been revealed. Production and writing credits for each song are still unknown, though we do know that Justin Timberlake and Timbaland are on "4 Minutes." You can now pre-order "Hard Candy" on Amazon. [Source]
"Hard Candy" Track Listing
Candy Store
4 Minutes
Give It 2 Me
Heartbeat
Miles Away
She's Not Me
Incredible
Beat Goes On
Dance Tonight
Spanish Lesson
Devil
Voices
Madonna "Give It 2 Me"
And it looks quite uncomfortable. Her intense gaze is burning a hole right through me. Quick! Someone get Gwen a pillow.
Gwen Stefani "Sweet Escape" Featuring Akon
And with that we bid a fond adieu to the Spice Girls. Ladies, you've given us so much. By taking us on your own personal journeys, we, too, have gone on a journey--a journey within ourselves. What we discovered on that journey has scarred us for life, and required massive amounts of psychotherapy. Goodbyes can be so tough, we'll just let your video do it for us. [Source]
Spice Girls "Goodbye"
I always suspected that Mariah Carey had a unicorn in her backyard, and now it's been confirmed by the woman herself. Mariah's new album "E=MC²" will be released on April 15th.
"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey "Touch My Body"
The 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees and those artists formally charged with inducting them in () are: Leonard Cohen (Lou Reed), the Dave Clark Five (Tom Hanks), Madonna (Justin Timberlake), John Mellencamp (Billy Joel), the Ventures (John Fogerty), Little Walter (Ben Harper), and Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (Jerry Butler). The Museum will broadcast the 2008 Induction Ceremony from the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on March 10th and VH1 Classic will be streaming the ceremony this year. This we know with relative certainty.
Word is that Madonna will not be performing at the 2008 Rock Hall Induction Ceremony as is the custom. I presume this is still a point of discussion, between Madonna and her conscience, and is less certain.
But on Future Rock Hall, you get a peak at the future and that is always exciting if a bit daunting. Many a time I have looked across a table at the heavy-lidded eyes of a fortune teller with both fear and hope, despair and confidence. Are these tales of happiness and future successes just a crock from a half-in-the-bag charlatan or divine inspiration?
Future Rock Hall uses hard science, statistical algorithms, probabilities, hear--say and rats tails to determine chances for induction. Artists are eligible 25 years after the release of their first record, but the induction ceremony itself takes place the following year. For instance, Radiohead is eligible to be inducted in 2017 and the Future Rock Hall's algorithm gives them a 69% chance of induction. Eminem is eligible to be inducted in 2021 and they give him a 90% chance of induction. Their readers beg to differ and assign Radiohead a 93% chance and Eminem a 54% chance. I wouldn't give Eminem a 90% chance of not growing a third ear, but that is me.
AC/DC & Steven Tyler "You Shook Me All Night Long"
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"It's about the juxtaposition of tough and sweetness, or as Madonna so eloquently expressed 'I'm gonna kick your ass, but it's going to make you feel good.'"
Liz Rosenberg
Madonna "The Beat Goes On" Demo
So, Janet Jackson's "Discipline" has finally been released, and she hit New York City for some heavy promotion. Yesterday she appeared on BET, this morning she stopped by "Good Morning America," and tonight Janet will be on "Larry King Live." No word if Janet will masturbate while reading aloud definitions of the word "discipline"--as she did, so convincingly, on the new album--such a simple gesture could turn a routine interview into something really special.
"All those songs reflect all the people that live within me."
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson "Feedback"
