It’s no secret that I absolutely love when Pixie blesses us with a cover of another artist’s song. Her voice is so unique that it gives a completely different vibe and depth on each cover. Her covers of Kings of Leon’s “Use Somebody” and OneRepublic’s “Apologize” were some of the things that really won me over, back in early 2009. 2009? Man, that was a long time ago! Been a fan since Day 1, though! (S/O More artists need to do the acoustic thing. You’re not an “artist” unless you can prove it without Pro Tools & AutoTune, in my opinion)

Anyway, Pixie’s tackled another song in Chris Brown’s “Beautiful People”, in which she’s accompanied by a piano in an acoustic version.

Take a listen below:

I’ve loved Miss Jessie James since she treated me to a guilty pleasure song called “Wanted”. And after I wore that out, I discovered “Guilty” on the old Imeem music network (RIP, *glares at MySpace*). While the latter still resides in my iTunes 25 Most Played tracks, I’ve just added another song to my iPod, Jessie’s latest, “When You Say My Name”, which she recently performed at a Denver Broncos halftime show, and announced on her newly redesigned website.

Take a listen below:

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Love, love, love when Pixie does choreography. You can tell she’s had some training.

If you’ve visited in the past few hours you’ve probably noticed things are looking a little screwy.

Long story short, there have been some hackings on this account and I think the previous theme I was using was part of the problem. So, I changed to something new (it was a long time coming).

Now, I’m going to comb through the rest of site and see if I can find the malicious codes or backdoors.

In the meantime, hope everyone enjoys the new look!

I don’t know about anyone else, but as a fan since “I Wanna Be Bad”, I had almost given up hope that my Queen had put away the microphone for good.

Thankfully she just misplaced it for a while. I guess she was looking for it on various movie and tv sets. Not sure where she found it, but I’m glad she did!

Anyway, she has a new group, Willa and The Breaks, who did a show in LA last weekend at the historic Viper Room. (Where’s that teleportation device when you need it?) Take a listen to new song “Back, Back, Back” below:

I like the tone of Willa’s voice. It’s soft, but has depth, if that makes sense. In any case, you can tell she’s worked on her vocals, which is something I wish I could say about a lot of other “artists” releasing music these days. WORK ON YOUR CRAFT, PEOPLE!

Meanwhile, at the LA show, Willa performed a mash-up of “I Wanna Be Bad” and Led Zeppelin’s “Going To California”. Loved it!

Willa will also do a show, with The Breaks, in Dallas on Jan 14. Still too far away for me, but she’s getting closer!

Can’t wait to hear more, Mrs. Modano!

Vanessa Carlton is set to release a Digital EP, Hear the Bells, later this month. I’m quite excited because we Nessaholics have had to wait so new music, it’s amazing to get to get 2 releases in the same calendar year! Thank you, Music Gods!

(Listen to one of the tracks, “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”, above)

Here is the EP tracklisting:

1.) Do You Hear What I Hear?
2.) Hear The Bells
3.) Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
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I mean, any excuse to post the phrase “Loose Women”, I’ll take it. It’s show, people. So, if you didn’t know, relax

But anyway, Pixie is promoting her new single, What Do You Take Me For (which features Pusha T), on British TV ahead as it has just been released this week.

Check out a performance on “Loose Women”.

Miss Pixie leaned a little more towards R&B on her 2nd single from Young Foolish Happy, “What Do You Take Me For” featuring Pusha T, and I gotta say I APPROVE! After hearing “All About Tonight”, which was extremely dance-y, I was expecting something in that same lane, or close to it. Pixie just put it on all of us! Like the variety!

But don’t take my word for it! Listen for yourself!

Pixie Lott has revealed the name of her sophomore album, Young Foolish Happy, set for release November 7th. Cute. But the cover art for it leaves much to be desired, even though I think her freckles are adorbs. It’s just that the image she used is very blah. Like they took a picture without her being 100% ready. Maybe it’s just me?

In any case, I’m still quite excited for the album (even though it won’t get an American release, I’m sure). Le sigh.

I knew she could do it! And by she, I mean her amazing fans, who went out and bought enough copies of “All About Tonight” to make it the #1 single in the UK! It’s her 3rd #1, after the footsteps of her debut single “Mama Do” and its follow-up “Boys & Girls”.

Her major competition for the week was The Saturdays’ “All Fired Up” and Leona Lewis “Collide”, who checked in at 3-4 respectively.

Congrats, Pixie!