Think you know Britney Spears? In an interview with Pop Justice , the star says that you probably do not – and the real Britney Spears is a lot LESS interesting than what you likely imagine. She opens up about bedtime (10:30 p.m.), her gray hairs (or lack thereof) and what she’d be doing if she weren’t famous (“probably a teacher”) and more. When it comes to Britney the real person, as opposed to the pop star, Spears believes most people only know about “half” of what makes her who she is. “I can be pretty guarded with my personal life and I’ve learned that’s okay,” she says. “Your personal life is your personal life, and should stay private.” Keeping people guessing, she says, is part of her job. “Sometimes it’s our secrets that define us,” she says. It’s no secret Britney Spears has had a wild life. So what would she do if her boys – Sean Preston, 5, and Jayden James, 4 – pursued pop stardom? “I’d definitely keep an eye on them,” she says. “But if that’s what they really wanted to do then I’d let them go after it. I’d just be very protective.” “I wouldn’t want them to go into it feeling fearful, and also nobody can really prepare you for this and what you experience,” says the 29-year-old. “I’d just have to trust their instincts and help guide them.” Learning to trust her instincts was hard for her personally. “The biggest mistake I’ve ever made [was] to not trust my instincts,” she says. “It’s just about listening to your gut in different situations. I’ve learned to trust my instincts over the years but it definitely took time.” We’re glad she’s doing so much better these days. [Photo: WENN.com]
‘I wish I could sing sometimes, but I can’t,’ Cash Money rapper says. By Rob Markman Glasses Malone Photo: MTV News Celebrity Favorites: Glasses Malone Life must be good on Cash Money Records. Just ask California rapper Glasses Malone who is set to drop his debut album, Beach Cruiser, on the Birdman-helmed label in August. The label’s roster boasts Baby himself, Lil Wayne and Bow Wow, and then there’s label subsidiary Young Money, which houses Drake, Nicki Minaj and Tyga. “Hell, yeah, it’s competitive,” Glasses said when asked about the amount of talent on the two labels. “Let’s face it, Drake is probably one of the most, if not the most talented artist right now. This dude can be into a nice verse and kick some singin’ sh–, after being into a nice verse. Not an all right verse, he’ll be into a nice verse and then start singin’ and hold a great pitch. And then you look at Nicki Minaj, it’s success stories.” G. Malone is such a fan of Drizzy’s crooning that he sometimes wishes that he himself could hold a tune, but by the same token, he is aware of his own fanbase, which looks to him for harder, street-bred material. “I wish I could sing sometimes, but I can’t, so what I try to do is keep carving my niche at this gangsta sh–,” he told Mixtape Daily. “I figure, I can’t top Drake doin’ what he’s doin’. Drake is that n—a, he got it together. Wayne is that n—a, but I could make them n—as like, ‘Man that n—a G’s sh– hard.’ And once you do that, you win.” For Glasses, Cash Money and Young Money’s talented roster ultimately fuels his drive. “I use their situation as inspiration to know that the sky’s the limit,” he said. One of the perks to having such high-profile labelmates is the potential for good features. But on Beach Cruiser, Malone refused to force the issue. He has already recorded with Birdman and Wayne for his album and a number of other Cash Money artists on various side projects. When it comes to Drake, however, Glasses would rather wait until the time and the vibe is right. “Me and Drake, we talked a couple of times. We barely finna do somethin’ now. I just couldn’t figure out a song for Drake. I don’t talk about girls,” the Watts rapper said about his and Drizzy’s respective styles. “My songs wouldn’t be the right songs. He really appreciates women. I have to find the right niche.” For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines . Related Artists Glasses Malone Drake
Past interviews have highlighted the band’s love of drinking. By Gil Kaufman Kings of Leon Photo: Getty In an era where most rock bands are about as edgy as the latest Ark Music Factory teen-sensation-in-a-box, Tennessee hell-raisers Kings of Leon have often stood out as a throwback to a messier era. The band of brothers (and cousin) raised by a Pentecostal preacher rose from humble beginnings to their current status as one of the biggest rock bands on the planet thanks to dark, moody songs, good genes (and jeans) and a well-established reputation as boozing, brawling ladies’ men who’ve been only somewhat tamed by rock stardom. In recent times, it seemed as if those hellion days were behind them, as one by one the Followill boys have gotten engaged, married or into serious relationships and talked about dialing back the partying. Questions were raised, though, over the weekend when the Kings announced they were canceling the remainder of their U.S. tour due to singer Caleb Followill’s “vocal issues and exhaustion.” The news came after a disastrous show in Dallas during which Followill repeatedly complained about the heat and abruptly left the stage, at one point telling the crowd, “I’m gonna go backstage and I’m gonna vomit. I’m gonna drink a beer and I’m gonna come back out and play three more songs.” Though Caleb never returned to the stage, frustrated bassist Jared Followill later tweeted, “There are internal sicknesses & problems that have needed to be addressed. I can’t lie, there are problems in our band bigger than not drinking enough Gatorade.” The missive clearly made it seem as if some deeper issues than the heat were afoot. Looking back at interviews the band has conducted over the past few years, it’s clear that alcohol has long been a part of the fuel that helped the band navigate their rise to stardom — for good or ill. Whether it’s Jared jokingly telling MTV News that he was impressively good at “Rock Band” while drunk or Caleb suggesting that the band’s most recent CD, Come Around Sundown, “sounds better with a cocktail,” to which Jared replied, “Everything [is better with a cocktail],” the boys have not shied away from discussing their tippling. An April 2009 cover story in Rolling Stone magazine called “The God-Fearing, Booze-Swilling Rise of America’s Hottest Band,” in fact, opens with Caleb and brother drummer Nathan arriving home late one night in 2007 after a heavy night of drinking and getting into such a vicious fight that Caleb dislocated his shoulder and Nathan shattered a $7,000 mirror and then proceeded to repeatedly stab his brother’s mattress with a kitchen knife. The rest of the story has a number of other boozy moments, from Caleb’s drunk New York apartment shopping to a description of the light in the interior of their 75-acre Tennessee property “reflecting off the endless bottles of hard alcohol and wine that cover nearly every inch of counter space.” It notes that after Caleb met his wife, model Lily Aldridge , he gave up drinking whiskey and now sticks to “wine, beer and the occasional shot of tequila.” Though their well-documented love of spirits appears to be at least somewhat to blame for recent troubles, the RS story also mentioned that, like his preacher father, Caleb “suffers from nerves, and he regularly vomits during performances.” Caleb has not made any public statement about what ails him, but on Tuesday, he told TMZ he was focused on healing. “I’m just trying to get better,” he said. Asked if the band will still hit the road as planned in September for a string of Canadian shows, he replied, “I don’t know … we’ll see how it goes.” Related Artists Kings Of Leon
Wow…kids sure do say the darnedest things!! Make sure you read this in its entirety… Garcelle’s lil boy is a trip: As her 3½-year-old twin boys Jax and Jaid graduate from tots to talkers, Garcelle Beauvais finds herself on the learning end of an unexpected — and somewhat bittersweet — master class in the art of expression. “They’re just much more verbal with their feelings,” the actress tells PEOPLE while at the Lia Sophia Social Fashion Soiree at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood on Tuesday. “The other day Jaid said to me, ‘Mommy, when I’m with you I really miss Daddy, and when I’m with Daddy I really miss you’. It was unbelievable.” What surprised the recently divorced actress wasn’t so much that her boys were struggling with splitting time between their parents, but the manner in which Jaid was able to crystallize his emotions in words. “[It was] heartbreaking, because it’s not the ideal, but I was glad that he could share it with me. We could talk about it, and I could say, ‘I miss you too when you’re not here,’” Beauvais, 44, says. “To be able to have those words, to be able to use those words, at 3 years old. I can’t imagine that I could put those things together [at that age].” And while her boys often flash an insightful wisdom that belies their years, the Franklin & Bash star also gets constant hilarious reminders that they are, in fact, not yet 4. “[Jaid] was sitting on the couch and I said, ‘Jaid, what are you doing?!’” Beauvais says, breaking into laughter. “He goes, ‘I’m playing with my penis!’ and I said, ‘How does it feel?!’ He said, ‘Good!’ and I said, ‘That’s the end of that conversation! Let’s go out and play!’” That’s too cute! SMH.
What’s daring about The Myth of the American Sleepover , a modest, untroubled elegy for the passages of middle-American youth, is as straightforward as it is uncommon. Working within a well-worn format — the hometown coming-of-age drama — the effect of feature-debut writer and director David Robert Mitchell’s intensely personal attention to tone and the flow of emotional currents is one of negative exposure, a setting of the genre into a stark and original relief. Conspicuous among his choices was to set and shoot the film in his native suburban Michigan and give it a largely local, unknown cast, several with twanging accents intact. The girls are built as girls that age tend to be — with variety, but tending toward awkwardness — and the boys are as small and reedy as we rarely remember them to be. In other words, it looks more like your teenage world than such films generally allow, and it’s not pretty. It’s beautiful.
Duo hit on songs by Vanilla Ice, Cypress Hill and 50 Cent on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ on Tuesday. By Gil Kaufman Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Photo: NBC We already know Justin Timberlake can do funny on “Saturday Night Live,” and serious in “The Social Network.” He can obviously sing (though he doesn’t seem that interested in doing it lately), and now he’s top-lining his first motion picture with “Friends With Benefits.” But the dude can also rap, which he proved again on Tuesday night when he visited old pal Jimmy Fallon on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and dropped a blazing sequel to their first road trip through hip-hop with an equally head-spinning “History of Rap 2.” Though he made it seem like he was once again reluctant to pick up the mic, it took very little convincing to get Timberlake to lace up. “No, no, no stop. It’s not gonna happen, we can’t do it again, we can’t top …” Timberlake told the cheering crowd before locking eyes with Fallon and grabbing a conveniently hidden microphone from behind his chair and strutting to the stage. Over the next five minutes, he and Fallon ripped through two dozen classics, opening with Kurtis Blow’s legendary “The Breaks,” before segueing into another early rap totem, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message,” complete with both men busting out their best robot dance moves. It’s easy to sound great when you’ve got the Roots backing you up, and the band was more than up to the task, hitting the right bass-heavy tone for N.W.A.’s “Express Yourself,” as Fallon and Timberlake traded off on a verse, then nimbly pivoting into a peek at Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noise.” Curiously, it was Fallon who did most of the heavy vocal lifting, taking on the chorus to Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock’s “It Takes Two” as Timberlake jived behind him and added the song’s indelible yelps. From there they busted through a variety of hip-pop standards: Salt n’ Pepa’s pelvic-thrusting “Push It,” a tiny taste of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” Black Sheep’s “The Choice Is Yours,” Cypress Hills’ “Insane in the Brain” and a hip-swiveling throwdown of DJ Kool’s party anthem, “Let Me Clear My Throat.” The pair had clearly rehearsed the bit to a T, because neither stumbled even for a moment during the routine. Whether it was their thuggish ruggish take on DMX’s thudding “Up in Here,” Timberlake’s swishing falsetto break on Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” (which lead to an awkward moment where both men seemed to question their sexuality for a brief second), or their intertwined duet on 50 Cent’s “In da Club,” the music just flowed seamlessly. Timberlake gave the crowd a bit of sugar during Outkast’s “Hey Ya,” shaking his booty while Fallon sang the verse, before both men took on the falsetto chorus. They then teased Lil Wayne’s “A Milli” and got their Auto-Tune on for DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win.” While Fallon needs a bit of work, clearly nobody has to school Timberlake in the finer art of Cali Swag District’s “Teach Me How to Dougie,” though the former boy-band star did have to ease his co-star back a bit when Jimmy got a tad too into character and in the cameraman’s face during a menacing trip through Rick Ross’ “Blowing Money Fast.” “Jimmy, Jimmy, stop … why do you always do that?” a concerned Timberlake said as he pulled his pal back. The whole shebang ended with the boys trading lines on Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend” and then rolling out into the studio and getting the audience to help them sing the chorus. “Clap your hands, everybody, if you got what it takes, cuz I’m Justin, I’m Jimmy and we want you to know that these are the breaks,” they chanted as they brought it all home. Related Photos The Evolution Of: Justin Timberlake Related Artists Jimmy Fallon Justin Timberlake
We have absolutely no complaints about anything Mila Kunis has to say in GQ’s August issue but we wouldn’t mind getting a closer look at her in them drawls! The Ukraine-born banger chats it up for the cover Q&A of Gentlemen’s Quarterly and we figured we’d share a lil sumthin’ sumthin with y’all. Here’s an excerpt: GQ: Your new movie is called Friends with Benefits. Ever been in one of those relationships? Mila Kunis: Oy. I haven’t, but I can give you my stance on it: It’s like communism—good in theory, in execution it fails. Friends of mine have done it, and it never ends well. Why do people put themselves through that torture? GQ: It’s because they enjoy sex. Mila Kunis: But friends with benefits isn’t a purely sexual relationship—it’s two people who like each other having sex, not a random hookup. And when two people who like each other have sex, eventually someone catches feelings and everything is fu*ked. You might be able to treat our relationship as killing time. I might not. I may be in love with you. GQ: Who’s the funniest person you know? Mila Kunis: My father. He has such a dry sense of humor. He’d say something funny and then be like, “Kiddo, now’s the part where you laugh.” GQ: What about someone you’re not related to? Mila Kunis: Lucille Ball is perfection—her timing and her commitment. Sarah Silverman is raunchy and brilliant, and people call her out for saying fucked-up stuff that they wouldn’t have a problem with a man saying. How dare she? Who else? Tina Fey. She’s a genius. I actually just finished reading Bossypants. GQ: That was good, I thought. Mila Kunis: No! Not good, brilliant. I love Tina Fey. So funny, but never shticky. She’s not tripping over sh*t. GQ: She’s so clearly attractive and successful that I can’t buy her self-deprecating stuff anymore. Mila Kunis: I see your point. You want the attention to go to the joke itself rather than be distracted by who’s delivering it. But look at Bridesmaids. That movie’s full of beautiful women who are hysterical. I’m so proud of those ladies. You have no idea how hard it is for a woman in this business. A lot of people don’t even think women are funny. It’s fu*ked-up, but you have to deal with guys like that. I’ve learned to roll with it. GQ: Do you have a personal experience of men in Hollywood not finding women funny? Mila Kunis: I don’t personally know of anybody, no. I could give you some bullsh*t excuse why I don’t, but I just don’t. The bottom line is if you’re an attractive female in this industry, people just take you as that: attractive. People aren’t getting the opportunity to move beyond being attractive. It’s not only with comedy. It could be with drama or action or whatever. People are distracted by looks. It happens. I’m not saying it happened to me, but it happens. GQ: I imagine working with people like Seth MacFarlane and Jason Segel ends up involving a lot of d*ck jokes. Mila Kunis: Put me at a table with five guys making dick jokes and I will be right there with them. And, uh, I’m on Family Guy. I’ve been on that show for so long that I don’t get grossed out by anything. But I’ve never had an experience where it’s been a bunch of dudes making d*ck jokes and I was like, “Oh, there go the boys. I’m going to go get a pedicure and be back in an hour.” GQ: Is it harder to be funny when you’re naked? Mila Kunis: It’s hard to be funny in general. I think I have a good sense of humor, but I’m not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me…. We’ve got a few ideas why Mila… Keep clicking for more pictures…
Here’s Britney Spears in concert pretty much mooning the audience, because that’s what you do when you are too medicated to actually tell us to fuck ourselves, cuz you hate every second of performing for us but you have no choice but to do it cuz the people around you are forcing you to do it cuz you make them too much money…. It’s like when the losing team moon’s the winning team in high school, or when the car full of girls gets mooned by the frat boys on a field trip from the school bus, in a playful passive aggressive fuck yourself, while I’d rather being fucking you to teach you a lesson kinda thing that can be as gay as it sounds…but I won’t get into that night at camp when two of the boys got a little too carried away with their mooning….and this reminds me of a time when I really wanted girls to moon me all the time…it almost became a fetish…whenever I’d be driving, I’d wish to get a car for of girls next to me, ass in the window, I went so far as to sit on the side of the highway hoping a bus of crazy girls would give me what I want, all pussy smeared against the glass without them knowing that when they moon, they give me a visual I want to fuck…before giving up cuz it’s a hard fetish to live out unless it’s staged…I mean people just aren’t mooning each other like it’s the 50s anymore, they are instead masturbating on webcam for each other …..which is okay, but not the same…. All this to say….I wish there was a little more mom pussy lip in these pics….
Here’s Britney Spears in concert pretty much mooning the audience, because that’s what you do when you are too medicated to actually tell us to fuck ourselves, cuz you hate every second of performing for us but you have no choice but to do it cuz the people around you are forcing you to do it cuz you make them too much money…. It’s like when the losing team moon’s the winning team in high school, or when the car full of girls gets mooned by the frat boys on a field trip from the school bus, in a playful passive aggressive fuck yourself, while I’d rather being fucking you to teach you a lesson kinda thing that can be as gay as it sounds…but I won’t get into that night at camp when two of the boys got a little too carried away with their mooning….and this reminds me of a time when I really wanted girls to moon me all the time…it almost became a fetish…whenever I’d be driving, I’d wish to get a car for of girls next to me, ass in the window, I went so far as to sit on the side of the highway hoping a bus of crazy girls would give me what I want, all pussy smeared against the glass without them knowing that when they moon, they give me a visual I want to fuck…before giving up cuz it’s a hard fetish to live out unless it’s staged…I mean people just aren’t mooning each other like it’s the 50s anymore, they are instead masturbating on webcam for each other …..which is okay, but not the same…. All this to say….I wish there was a little more mom pussy lip in these pics….
