‘People were like, ‘Oh my God, are you kidding? Coldplay is going to kill you!’ Stronger singer tells MTV News of Billboard face-off. By Christina Garibaldi Kelly Clarkson Photo: MTV News Kelly Clarkson ‘s fifth studio album, Stronger , landed her at the #2 spot on the Billboard album chart, selling 163,000 copies in its first week. While her first-week sales may have been softer than what Clarkson had hoped for, when the former “American Idol” winner sat down with MTV News on Friday, she acknowledged that she had some fierce release competition in Coldplay . But she had a refreshingly positive take on the matchup. “My album came out this week, Coldplay came out at the same time, and people were like, ‘Oh my God, are you kidding? Coldplay is going to kill you!’ I don’t care if they kill me,” Clarkson said of the rock band, whose Mylo Xyloto topped the charts with 447,000 copies sold. “It’s more like, how many people are going to buy their album, and then my album is right there, ’cause it’s out too,” she said. “I always think competition is healthy.” Clarkson, who told us she thinks Stronger is her “best album” to date, is now prepping the second single off the LP, “What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger).” “I think we might be going with ‘Stronger,’ the title track.” Clarkson revealed. “It’s just a great song, so I think we might go with that one.” Much like the first single off the album, “Mr. Know It All,” “What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)” is a powerful breakup anthem somewhat reminiscent of “Since U Been Gone.” ” ‘What Doesn’t Kill You,’ I can’t wait to perform that live,” the singer, who plans to tour in January, told us recently. “We’ve already rehearsed it, and it’s so much fun. It’s like this big dance anthem.” As much fun as “What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)” will be to perform, Clarkson says another song takes the top spot on her list of favorite songs off her latest album. ” ‘You Love Me,’ that’s my favorite,” she said. “Even before I wrote a song to it, the track is just unbelievably cool. It doesn’t sound like anything else that’s out right now. It’s very like Prince, Tina Turner, but nowadays; it’s more contemporary. And the message of the song, too, I love that, the fact that saying like, ‘Your love feels like a punch in the face.’ I just think it’s a fun song.” Share your review of Stronger in the comments! Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Coldplay MTV News Extended Play: Kelly Clarkson Related Artists Kelly Clarkson Coldplay
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Singer performs her latest Born This Way track, reveals video details in India. By Jocelyn Vena Lady Gaga in New Delhi, India Photo: India Today Group/Getty Images Back in April, Lady Gaga and the world of Indian pop culture kicked off their love affair when Indian composers Salim-Sulaiman produced a remix of Gaga’s smash “Born This Way.” And Gaga kept the fire burning during a recent trek to the country. On Sunday night at a Formula One afterparty in Greater Noida, Gaga performed a Bollywood version of her Born This Way single “Marry the Night,” according to Aceshowbiz.com . “I feel like I’ve waited a long time to come here. And I feel very grateful,” she told the excited crowd at the party. “For the first time ever, I’m going to sing ‘Marry the Night.’ ” Gaga sat at a piano and played a slowed-down version of the song, accompanied by a sitar. Before the show, in a chat with NDTV in New Delhi, Gaga described it as “a performance that is unique and specific just for India.” In addition to performing the song live for the first time, she had another treat for her Indian fans, revealing for the first time some new details about her video for “Marry the Night.” “Well, I can share exclusively with you that I directed this video myself. So this is my first directorial debut,” she told NDTV. Until now, she has co-directed with her Haus of Gaga and her creative director Laurieann Gibson. “But it has been a wonderful experience. I worked alongside director of photography Darius Khondji, who is an absolutely amazing DP, and I worked with Gideon Ponte, who is an incredible art director,” she explained. “So I’m looking forward to sharing this autobiographical video with the world. I’m very excited. It’s my favorite song on the album.” As for what’s next for Gaga and India, she tweeted out several photos of herself around town, with the message , “Screw Hollywood. It’s all about Bollywood.” During her interview, she shared that she hasn’t ruled out some Bollywood-themed projects, explaining, “There’s nothing in the works right now, but I love the culture here and I love Bollywood so who knows?” Related Videos Track By Track: Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Related Artists Lady Gaga
Mound is a stop-motion animated film short by artist Allison Schulnik where her claymation characters beautifully morph and move to the song, It’s Raining Today written by Noel Scott Engel. via Cartoon Brew Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Laughing Squid Discovery Date : 29/10/2011 01:48 Number of articles : 2
‘I can’t wait to hear it,’ Rihanna tweets of version band performed on BBC Radio 1. By Jocelyn Vena Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Rihanna Photo: Getty Images Coldplay ‘s love affair with Rihanna continued this week when the band stopped by BBC Radio 1 on Thursday. The Brits put their moody spin on “We Found Love,” the pop star’s Calvin Harris-produced track. Their version, which was performed on the radio station’s Live Lounge series, mirrors the melancholy lyrics of the song, about wanting to be with someone despite knowing that it’s all going to end anyway. Lead singer Chris Martin’s haunting vocals and the band’s acoustic rendition, using drums, piano and guitar, play up the sadness of the track. The performance was a nearly flawless interpretation of the song, minus a hiccup at the very beginning. As an alarm sounded, Martin giggled a bit delivering the first few lines. If you’re wondering what Rihanna thinks of it, you’re going to have to wait a little bit longer. In the midst of putting the finishing touches on her own album, she hadn’t yet heard the Coldplay cover. “I can’t wait to watch/hear it RT @Sean_Hansen: Not a big fan of cover songs but @coldplay’s version of @rihanna’s WFL is just superb!” she responded after a fan tweeted about the song. Rihanna appears on Coldplay’s just-released album, Mylo Xyloto, on the heartbreaking track “Princess of China.” “Her bit on our record is my favorite bit. … When the song came out, it sort of asked for her to be on it. And I think at this point, we have nothing to lose, and so we’ve been trying some new things and trying to break down the perceived boundaries between different types of music,” Martin explained to MTV News. “Because from where we’re sitting, it seems like you can try and sound any way you like nowadays. You don’t have to be in a rock box or a hip-hop box or a pop box, and I think it’s fun when you embrace that idea.” “We Found Love” is the house-heavy lead single off Rihanna’s Talk That Talk album, which drops November 21. Its video, directed by Melina Matsoukas, is in keeping with the album’s tone, according to Matsoukas herself. “I think it sets up definitely the imagery for the album and it’s in line with what they’re doing,” she told MTV News shortly after the video dropped. “So that’s good, and I’m sure there’s plenty more, hopefully. I’m not sure, but [we’ll see]. She called me after, and she loves it and I love it.” What do you think of Colplay’s “We Found Love” cover? Tell us in the comments! Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Coldplay Related Artists Rihanna Coldplay
Awesome and Modest, an animation studio in Brooklyn, New York, made the lovely music video for the song, Amateur Rocketry by Dan Wholey. Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Laughing Squid Discovery Date : 27/10/2011 23:59 Number of articles : 2
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What can be said about The Roots that hasn’t already been said? Everyone knows they are the go to band for rappers wanting to experiment with live instrumentation. Need we remind you of their performances with Jay-Z for his Unplugged show in 2001 and his Fade to Black concert film? The Philadelphia bred hip-hop musicians are posted behind Hov. Though many know the drummer, Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson , for his wild afro, some might not know dude has a serious record collection. Some might even venture to say he’s drifting into hoarding territory. The Urban Daily spoke with Questo yesterday where we discussed his support for Occupy Wall Street, the new Roots album, and why Black Thought should sing more often. TUD: I’m excited to do this interview because if there was any musician’s music collection I would want to raid, it would be yours. I feel like you have every record known to man. Your apartment must be full of records. QL: My library is just so overwhelming that a lot of people would love to raid my music collection. I have some property in Philadelphia and one of the main criteria for moving out of that house was I was always running out of space. Plus, when Q-Tip had a fire back in ’97, that scared me. I thought about getting another house for my records. One of the setbacks of having an apartment in Manhattan is I’m far away from my record collection. A little bit at a time I’m sneaking records to my apartment and I find myself getting back into dangerous territory. That’s not really dangerous territory. It’s just a lot. You don’t know me, bro. Guests that are frequent are like, “Okay, this used to be where the dining room table was.” Now, it’s become a turntable station. See, that sounds like a good time to me. I love places like that. Yeah, I love it too. That’s not sexy when your girl comes over though. That’s true. I hear The Roots are working on an exclusive track for the upcoming Captain Morgan ‘Life Love and Loot’ campaign. How did you guys link up? They approached us about doing music for the campaign and the thing was having been familiar with the visual campaign, the challenge was to make the song match the visual. When you think of pirates and the sea, the normal Roots backdrop of music isn’t necessarily what comes to mind. They told us we could take the liberty to make a song we wanted. The Roots wanted to make sure we stepped out of our comfort zone to fit the spirit of the campaign. The real challenge was having to make this song with only three instruments-a guitar, tuba, and a drum. Did you guys come up with the track jam session style, like a lot of your records are known for? Absolutely. We prepared for three days. We tried seven or eight different sketches of the song. Once we came up with the sketches, we played them for our Captain Morgan liaison and he decided he liked one over the others. Then, we went into the studio and fleshed it out. It took about eight takes to get it right. Was is it a conscious decision to have Black Thought sing instead of rap on this song? It wasn’t in the beginning, but because of the nature of the song, just to yell out the lyrics didn’t feel natural. Since he is a singer as well…it’s kind of hard for me to coax him to sing. I don’t know why he’s shy about it, but Black Thought sings as good as he raps. That’s always been a head scratcher for me as to why he won’t get his male Lauryn Hill on. I told him it would sound much more natural with him singing it as opposed to him rhyming it. He did both and the singing does have better energy than him not singing and that’s what we went with. Will the Captain Morgan track be available for download? Yes. It will be available for download on the Captain Morgan USA Facebook page. People can also see the making of it there. They can see some clips and photos of us recording it and jamming out. When you heard about the whole ‘Life Love and Loot’ campaign, what did you take away from it? What did it mean to you? We decided that the campaign is pretty much our thing. I guess that would make us pirates too. [laughs] We had to put ourselves in that position and define it for ourselves. If anything, we’ve been pirates too. We’re always on the road, always working to survive, and loving what we do. We’re also running a business. That’s what so many people tend to forget because we’re having so much fun doing what we do. We run a very tight business as well. But usually when we are given a set of perimeters, we just put ourselves in that position and see how it applies to us. The Roots have a new album, undun, coming out soon. Does the sound d of this Captain Morgan track reflect the sound you’re working with on the album? Nah. We finished our record at 4:30 this morning. It’s being mastered right now. We actually did this track at the same time we recorded our album and one of the advantages of doing this track was it provided us a relief because the sound of the album is very somber and serious. There really wasn’t a high adrenaline moment on the album. Doing this on the side kind of scratched that itch for us. Besides being on Jimmy Fallon, the new album, and the song for the ‘Life Love and Loot’ campaign, what are you guys doing to stay busy? That’s a big list you just gave right there. [laughs] I heard it myself and was like, “Whoa! When am I going to sleep?!” We’re really trying to focus on the album. Fallon is everyday so there’s no escaping that, but our priority is with the new album, undun . The Roots have worked with a very wide range of artists. Who haven’t you worked with that you want to work with? I’ll be honest with you. As far as the studio is concerned, John Legend and D’Angelo are the two artists under the age of 50 I enjoy working with. I enjoy working with Erykah Badu whenever she wants to collaborate. As of late, I’ve been having a ball doing these soul records. As soon as Al Green gives us the word, we’ll probably work on his next record. We just did Betty Wright’s record. Her album comes out in December also. It sounds incredible. The Roots have always been more of a politically conscious band. What are your thoughts on the whole Occupy Wall Street movement? Yeah, I’ve been down there a few times to support them. It’s taken 99% of the people long enough to finally wake up and see the power that they hold in their hands. A lot of people think revolution and change will be the next man’s fight. They want to hang back and see what happens and it doesn’t work that way. You’ve got to get your hands and knees inside the mud. You have to be apart of the change you want to see. We’ll see what happens because this is just the beginning. Related Posts: ?uestlove Says He’s Back In The Studio With D’Angelo Top 10 Lauryn Hill Songs Lauryn Hill Has Butchered [ORIGINAL] D’Angelo, Raphael Saadiq, ?uestlove & Ali Shaheed Muhammad “Lady” [THROWBACK]
Over 200,000 people have seen this young man blow this song away. Watch and be amazed. Jotta, performed in a children’s music festival by “Raul Gil”. The program is very similar as “America’s Got Talent.”. Make sure to watch and share: New Gospel Artist Pick: Angélla Christie and Brian Courtney Wilson “So Proud” [LYRIC VIDEO]
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