Posts Tagged ‘interviews’
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JoJo Talks About New Album, “Jumping Trains” (VIDEO)
JoJo is that girl. “The Other Chick” is a great song, that’s a refreshing departure from everything else (content and sound-wise) that’s on the radio today. Can’t wait for this album!
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New Single Came To Vanessa Carlton In Her Sleep
I often have messed up dreams. And sometimes, those dreams contain dreams and ideas that wake me up. But, unlike Vanessa Carlton, my ideas don’t turn into great works of arts like a beautiful single.
In an interview with AfterEllen.com, Nessa describes the process she went through, in writing the melody and lyrics for her current single, “Carousel”.
Yeah. I have these dream songs and they’re wonderful dreams, but then you wake up and they’re crap songs — they’re not great. Or I forget them because they’re just snippets of your subconscious, I guess. I don’t know. But this one, I just woke up with that singing line in my head [hums melody] and I love that. So I went out, at 3:30 in the morning, and played it on the piano and put it on my Garage Band and then went back to bed. But I couldn’t go back to sleep so I just lay there and the lyrics kind of slid in and I wrote it just with my thumbs on my Blackberry, in the dark. And the next morning I woke up and I forgot that the whole thing went down. I just thought the whole thing was a dream. Then I went and checked my iTunes and I played it the little demo I made and it had really happened. And it was a really kind of lovely.
You can not like Vanessa Carlton’s music, but if you’re not impressed by how she created this song, then I think you need to reevaluate your music IQ.
Read the full interview to learn more about the process Nessa went through in freeing herself from labels and creating Rabbits On The Run, as well as her thoughts on coming out as bisexual last year.
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JoJo’s Back…Well, Almost!
If you’re like me, and a fan of JoJo, you’ve been dying for an official album release and label-backed singles. I’ve got a lot of her leaked material, and one of the songs has made it to my iPhone/iPod’s Top 25 Most Played Playlist.
So, Miss Levesque stopped by Rap-Up Magazine offices to give an update. Watch below:
And we betta have a new album by the end of 2010!
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Kristinia DeBarge Debuts at #23
Kristinia DeBarge’s debut album, Exposed, debuted on the Billboard 200 album charts in the #23 position after moving 16,000 copies. I think that’s a respectable entry position considering the only recent TV promo was the Wendy Williams Show and The View. SYTYCD performance was great, but would have been better had she performed last week instead of a month ago.
Also, since “Goodbye” peaked a while ago, that didn’t help much either. Although the track did rebound to #59 on the Hot 100 chart.
For some additional press, read a new interview with CNN.
