And, by God, I did! I’m still turning up! When I first heard this, I was all “meh”. But I think that was mostly because the copy I had wasn’t very good and there was a freaking DJ yelling through the whole damn song. That messed up the flow.

But once I heard the finished product, through the headphones of my iPod, I was feelin’ it! Nicely done, Breezy! Listen below:

Now that I think about it, I didn’t care for “Forever”, “Beautiful People”, or “Yeah 3x” until weeks after they were released/leaked. Like, it took a LONG time. But this one only took about 24 hours. I’m hooked! I’m sure it’ll only be a matter of days before this song makes it to my Most Played playlist with another supposed fortune tune, Open Road (I Love Her) (Yup, I’m still wearing that sucka out). This album is setting up to be pretty dang good!

Song goes to iTunes on Valentine’s Day; 2 days after the Grammy’s.

Can’t wait for the video, because you know the choreography is gonna be poppin’!

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:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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:

I’ve struggled with the decision on whether or not I’d continue to follow Jessie’s career due to the fact that she decided to ditch the pop portion of her repertoire and focus soley on country music. (much like Josh Kelley) Now y’all know how I feel about country music. If not, let me break it down: I’m not really a fan. I can handle some, but it’s mostly the crossover stuff. If pop radio won’t play it, I’m probably not gonna enjoy it.

Due to how incredible I feel Jessie’s voice is, she has managed to keep me interested, so we’ll see how this goes when the single is released to iTunes on January 31st. I’ll need to hear it in HQ before really deciding how I feel. For now, I think it’s a cute track and it’s obvious Jessie is very much in love with her man, Denver Broncos Wide Receiver, Eric Decker.

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

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)
4.) A Thousand Miles (Acoustic)

In other VC news, she has been named to the new VH1 Save The Music Ambassador Class. According to the press release:

Throughout the year, the Ambassador Class will continue to raise awareness for The VH1 Save The Music Foundation and deliver key messages about the importance of music education in a young person’s life. They will help increase profits to further the Foundation’s goal of providing instrumental music education programs in U.S. public elementary and middle schools. Ambassadors will even perform at select national events and visit with public school students to share their experiences of how music has impacted their lives, passion and careers.

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”.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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.