Mary J. Blige visited ‘Dancing With The Stars’ last night to perform her classic hit song “Real Love” and new single “25/8.” The Queen of Hip Hop Soul looked amazing in a form fitting dress that showed off her curves. Blige’s “My Life II: The Journey Continues,” is schedule to be released November 21st. Take a look: Mary J. Blige’s Rapping Alter Ego Returns On New Album Mary J Blige: “What Happened To Amy Winehouse, Could’ve Been Me”
We adore Taylor Swift. There are few artists more entertaining in concert, as this young superstar brings various guests on stage and covers hits by local stars . But we wish she’d stick to singing. THG simply can’t get behind celebrity fragrances. They are too transparent of a money grab, with singers or actors (or whatever the heck Kim Kardashian is) slapping their name on a bottle of perfume and watching the proceeds roll in. They also lead to incredibly cheesy commercials, such as the following ad for Swift’s “Wonderstruck.” Get ready, readers, for your journey to begin… Taylor Swift Fragrance Commercial
“You wrote in your book she had to choose between us – and that Tareq won. Guess you’ll have to rewrite that now – because I won!” – Neal Schon to The Daily Beast , regarding a recent book on Michaele Salahi White House party crasher / reality star Michaele Salahi has stirred up quite a lot of gossip and controversy lately, and her husband, Tareq Salahi , has already spoken out about her running off with the Journey guitarist. Now she’s telling her side of it. Short story: It’s all true, and she’s happy. The cheaters spoke to The Daily Beast exclusively in a series of interviews, via telephone and text, as Schon’s band continues on its cross-country tour. “It’s like a fairy tale. It is, it really is,” Schon said from Tampa. “I’m very happy, very happy after waiting for her for 15 years. Now I want to get beyond all this media hype that Tareq has put out there. It’s quite embarrassing.” Michaele actually dated both Neal and Tareq in the late ’90s (Neal first) and there came a time she had to make a life decision – to marry Tareq. “I chose Tareq over Neal because I thought life would be less stressful living on a vineyard in Virginia. Life on the road with a rock band … well, I thought I might not have been able to keep up,” said Michaele, who suffers from MS. Yet Michaele made it clear she still had deep feelings for Neal. Fast forward to this summer. Just 10 days after they saw each other backstage at a Journey concert in Bristow, Va., she had run off with him for good. How? The couple now admits they had been communicating via text “for a while” over a device that a friend had sneaked to Michaele so the controlling Tareq wouldn’t find out she had a pipeline to the outside world. “Neal was like, ‘Are we going to do this forever?’ I said, ‘No, we’re not,’” Michaele said of the moment she realized it was time for another life decision. That was when she knew she would leave her husband for good: “I began to see he really loved me. I had to begin to feel it completely – in my soul.” Neal sent tickets and backstage passes to the Salahis to come to Journey’s Labor Day concert being held just 20 miles east of their home in Linden, Va. In what can only be described as painful irony now, the ever-sociable Tareq showed up backstage with a video camera, Michaele, and her friend Irina. He urged the women to surround Neal and kiss him, “Ahhh. There you go! Hugs and kisses for Neal!!! Rock on, Journey!” Tareq says in the background. Tareq would later supply that video to TMZ in an effort to humiliate his wife, along with an alleged pic of Neal’s penis he says that the rocker emailed. Tareq had no way of knowing the precise details of Michaele’s affair with Neal Schon , or exactly what happened just moments ago in his dressing room. But if he did any idea, he didn’t show it. “What happened was … she takes off her wedding ring, OK, right in front of Tareq – takes it off,” Neal told The Daily Beast, sounding astonished. “And then she proceeds to come into my dressing room where I’m sitting down. I have tennis shoes on and she’s, like, nine feet tall over me.” Neal’s voice took on a joyful tone: “And she looks down at me like she’s standing on stilts and says, “I love YOU. And, that’s never gonna change.” “When that happened I said, ‘Get over here! This has taken 15 years!’” The night of the concert, September 4, Neal urged Michaele to just get on the tour bus with him. “I was pretty close to doing it,” Michaele said. “But then I thought, No, that’s not who I am. That would be public humiliation for Tareq.” And so, she went home with her husband that night. Nine days later, Michaele realized she couldn’t stay. “I didn’t want to hurt anyone, but I realized I was hurting myself,” she said. “I was absolutely going crazy. Because when you want to be with someone that bad, you start to go crazy. He sent someone to come get me.” “I got on a plane by myself and I just went. I just walked away.” The rest, as they say, is history. And kidnapping reports , and outrage, and a lot of head-scratching, and a ton of Journey-themed puns.
Don’t pray for lighter burdens, pray for a stronger back. – Anon Growth often requires you to embrace pain and use it as fuel for your journey. The fool sheds tears over his scars. The wise turns wounds into wisdom. Adversity may be tough but it will groom you for success.
‘American Idol’ alum says she’s well into recording her yet-untitled, R&B-flavored debut. By Gil Kaufman Pia Toscano Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images You can’t blame Pia Toscano for being angry. The “American Idol” season 10 finalist was shockingly bumped from the competition in ninth place, though many viewers and experts suspected it was not the last time they would see — or hear from — the raven-haired singer. After Toscano scored a major-label deal with Interscope Records — making her the first ninth-place eliminee in “Idol” history to pull off such a feat — the 22-year-old New Yorker made it clear on her first single, “This Time,” that she’s determined to do things her way. “The song could pertain to ‘American Idol’ and my journey on the show,” Toscano told MTV News about the double meaning some fans and critics have found in the empowerment anthem’s lyrics about shaking off a guy (or a voting bloc) who did her wrong. “It’s a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, and it’s not just a breakup song.” The tune, with a heavy R&B beat and a twinge of twang that might not be out of place in a Carrie Underwood foot-stomper, was written by Ester Dean, who has made similarly smart anthems for Rihanna (“S&M,” “Rude Boy”) and Nicki Minaj (“Superbass”). Though she said no specific breakup in her past inspired the tune, Toscano — who is reportedly dating “Dancing With the Stars” pro Mark Ballas — said she felt like it suited her well and might just reflect on some things that have happened to her in the past. “I can 100 percent relate to it whether it’s about a relationship or my journey on ‘Idol,’ ” Toscano said as she navigated her way through an airport on her way to an Idols Live! Tour date in Oklahoma City. What’s ironic about the song is that Underwood-esque country twang mixed with an R&B backbeat, which gives it a sound like the kind of contemporary pop/country tunes you might expect from “Idol” runner-up Lauren Alaina. In it, she sings that she’s “mad as hell, ain’t gonna take it no more” and that she’s “gonna free herself.” “This time, I’m gonna do it my way/ This time, I’m finding out the hard way,” Toscano sings on the chorus. The former makeup artist said that’s just a preview of the range of sounds you can expect to hear on her yet-untitled debut, due in the fall. “It’s not just one thing, not pop or R&B,” she said, promising that “This Time” is an anomaly and she won’t be encroaching on Alaina’s or winner Scotty McCreery’s country airspace. “It will be pop with an R&B influence, with an edge,” she said of the album. “It will be soulful and powerful.” Get your “Idol” fix on MTV News’ “American Idol” page , where you’ll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.
Catherine Breillat’s movies are so bold and brash in their views of women’s sexuality that no one could accuse her of being subtle. ( Tampon teabag, anyone? ) But Breillat’s latest, The Sleeping Beauty , originally made for French television, is so visually and stylistically delicate that watching it, you can almost forget how forthright, in characteristic Breillat style, it is. I gasped at some of its images, like that of a young princess, dressed in a pink coat trimmed with white fur, crossing the snowy landscape of Lapland on the back of a doe, the Northern Lights shimmering in the vast sky behind her. Personally, I don’t remember the journey from girlhood to womanhood as being all that pretty (or, luckily, all that perilous), but I’ll take it when I see it.
… Karen Rodriguez. The New York singer survived placement in the bottom three a week ago, but could not do so again tonight, as she became the second finalist eliminated on season 10 of American Idol . “It’s like I’ve been on this journey for such a long time now, and this is my last opportunity,” Rodriguez said prior to singing Mariah Carey’s “Hero” in an attempt to remain on the show.. “I’m trying not to cry.” Haley Reinhart and Naima Adedapo rounded out the bottom trio. Think viewers eliminated the right contestant?
Hey, kids! Check out some newly released videos that make you feel as if you’re blasting off with a space shuttle — and then plan your own high-flying mission. Your journey begins with a half-hour-long series of videos that NASA released today, showing last Thursday’s laun … Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Cosmic Log Discovery Date : 04/03/2011 02:13 Number of articles : 2
Hey, kids! Check out some newly released videos that make you feel as if you’re blasting off with a space shuttle — and then plan your own high-flying mission. Your journey begins with a half-hour-long series of videos that NASA released today, showing last Thursday’s laun … Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Cosmic Log Discovery Date : 04/03/2011 02:13 Number of articles : 2
