Day in Pop Report for 10/15/2014
According to TMZ, the singer claims, among other things, that she was given "sober pills" after drinking with Dr. Luke (real name Lukasz Gottwald) and later woke up naked in his bed with no memory of getting there. In another instance, she claims he forced her to snort a drug on a plane and then forced himself on her after she had taken the drug. She also brought forward claims of abuse that led to an eating disorder for which she had to enter rehab. "You are not that pretty, you are not that talented, you are just lucky to have me," he reportedly told her, along with calling her a "fat f**king refrigerator." While Kesha has not commented on the lawsuit, her lawyer Geragos submitted a statement. "This lawsuit is a wholehearted effort by Kesha to regain control of her music career and her personal freedom after suffering for 10 years as a victim of mental manipulation, emotional abuse and an instance of sexual assault at the hands of Dr. Luke," he said. "The facts presented in our lawsuit paint a picture of a man who is controlling and willing to commit horrible acts of abuse in an attempt to intimidate an impressionable, talented, young female artist into submission for his personal gain. Kesha is focused on moving her life and her career beyond this terrible time." Read more here.
Now Iggy's addressed the incident on Instagram, defending her stance and actions. As a caption for a photo of He-Man that reads, "Dude I'm having a bad trip!," Iggy defended what she said and why she said it. "Something is only 'the way it is' for as long as one ALLOWS it to be," she wrote. "What I'm comfortable consenting a paparazzi do doesn't require anyone's opinion but my own. I don't see why that's hard for some to fathom. "Judge me for spazzing if you like but you only saw the 30sec aftermath which was classy in comparison to what he said to us inside the grocery store where we discovered him lying on the floor after we had repeatedly & politely asked him to leave multiple locations during the course of the day." Read the rest of her comments here.
Clarkson took to her website to announce she will be hosting the first annual benefit concert, Miracle on Broadway, which will be held at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. The concert will feature performances of Christmas classics along with original hits from Clarkson's 2013 Christmas album Wrapped in Red by some of her famous friends including her mother-in-law Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Ronnie Dunn, Kacey Musgraves, Meghan Trainor, Charles Esten and Paramore's Hayley Williams. "I love my adopted hometown of Nashville with all of my heart and I am so honored to be able to give back to the community alongside some of my favorite artists and friends for my first annual Miracle on Broadway benefit concert!" Clarkson said in a statement. "I thank all of the artists joining me, as well as the people of Nashville for making me feel so welcome over the last 7 years I have called it home!" Read more here.
The rocker revealed the news with a post to his Facebook page, which featured juxtaposed images of Prince and band 3RDEYEGIRL alongside host Rock in a Prince costume. Prince last appeared on the show as a musical guest in February 2006. At the time, it was the longest any musical guest had gone between appearances on the show, with his previous gig coming in February 1981. Read more here.
In a sneak peek of the show's new season, which starts this Friday, the National play a very important role in a sketch, hosted by Scott Auckerman, called "Retool the School." The absurdist mockumentary clip, which borders on a plot point you'd find on Comedy Central's Nathan For You, is centered around the host making over a school's music room. For the unveil, Auckerman tapped the National only the plan hits a road bump when Auckerman springs the bill for the rennovation on the school. While the school teachers are in shock, the National demands their promised $300,000 fee. "Who do you think you're dealing with here? Those p*****s in Arcade Fire? The National get their check," they joke. Watch it here.
This morning the rapper posted in an Instagram caption claiming that Atlantic Records is holding back release of his Tetsuo & Youth project "until they get a 'pop' single� so putting together a mini-project while they find one for me. "It's called Lost in the Atlantic Ocean with a bunch of my friends to stay active and happy," he added. "this a snippet called 'Lilies' feat Sirah produced by The Buchannons�finishing today�" Lupe quickly deleted the caption, but not before dedicated fans saved it. Read more here.
If you aren't counting, that's 10 more than T.I., whose new album is also available to stream this week and comes out next Tuesday (Oct. 21). On the tracklist, you'll even find T.I. and other heavyweights such as Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Soulja Boy, Chris Brown, Too $hort, Tyga, Young Jeezy, Freddie Gibbs, Yo Gotti and French Montana. A few up-and-comers make the show too, such as Ty Dolla $ign, Bobby Shmurda, Kevin Gates, Pharaoh Prophet, Dubb, Jake & Papa and Skeme. The Game also recruited vocalists Eric Bellinger and Grammy-nominated songwriter Stacy Barthe, who's co-written songs for Miley Cyrus ("Adore You"), Rihanna ("Cheers (Drink to That)") and Britney Spears ("Blur"). Check out the stream here.
Promoting Common's latest album Nobody's Smiling, the tour will move East across the country, starting in Los Angeles on Nov. 23, hitting several dates in Texas, crawling up the coast, and concluding in New York. Jay Electronica recently jumped on a remix of "Kingdom," from Common's new album. Chances are you'll get to hear the introspective anthem live if you catch one of the dates listed here.
She told the morning show that the song is about the "fragility and breakable nature of some relationships." It's about a relationship where she was "living day to day, wondering where it was going, if it was going to go anywhere or was going to end the next day." "It was a relationship where you never felt like you were standing on solid ground," she explained. "And that kind of a feeling brings on excitement, but also extreme anxiety and kind of a frantic feeling of wondering, endless questions." The song, which she wrote with fun. and Bleachers singer, Jack Antonoff and you can hear a :36 second snippet of here, features lines like, "The rest of the world was black and white / We were in screaming color / Are we out of the woods, yet / Are we in the clear?" Swift goes on to say that the song sounds like all of those anxieties, but it "stresses that a relationship is breakable and fragile and full of anxiety doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile, exciting and beautiful and all the things we hoped for." Read more here.
It's got guest stars for days, including appearances by fellow Atlanta man Usher, Iggy Azalea, Chris Brown, Young Thug, Jeezy, Boosie, The-Dream and Rick Ross. Paperwork is executive produced by Pharrell Williams, which is sure to make everyone happy. He also appears on the album's title track. T.I. spoke to 92.3 AMP in New York (a CBS Radio station) in August about his single "No Mediocre," featuring Azalea. "The way we work at Grand Hustle is we're a think tank operated company," he said. "When we have opportunities or when it's time to put together strategies, we put them all no matter how crazy or deranged in the pipe. Then we pull them out, one by one� I will say mine was to put Iggy on 'No Mediocre,' and there were more ayes and nays." Check out the stream here.
The tour kicks off Jan. 14 at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, N.C., and runs through March 8 at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston. Stops also include a show in Wynonna's hometown of Ashland, Ky. All tour dates so far are listed below and on Wynonna's website, where fans can also get information on purchasing tickets. Additional dates are expected to be announced soon. During each of the shows, Wynonna will not only perform music from throughout her three-decade career but also share personal stories behind the songs, including what inspired her to record them. "The concept for the 'Stories & Song' tour has been a dream of mine for many years and will be unlike any tour I've ever done before," Wynonna said in a press statement. "My husband and professional partner, Cactus Moser, and I have put this show together and, along with the band [The Big Noise], we all feel a renewed passion and we believe that this music is being celebrated in a whole new way. That gives me a great deal of hope and it is my prayer that others who come to our shows will experience that hope as well." More details including the tour dates here.
And they did indeed get such a question: a fan (or maybe a former fan) named Harriet Madeline Jobson asked Bono, "Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people's playlists ever again? It's really rude." Bono's response started out rather glib: "Oops." "I'm sorry about that," he continued. "I had this beautiful idea, we might have gotten a bit carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing." Read the rest of his response here.
Fellow country artists Randy Houser and Dustin Lynch will join Bryan for his tour, which continues on Feb. 10 in Grand Rapids, Mich., and extends through Feb. 21 in Orlando, Fla. Bryan's That's My Kind of Night tour has sold out in each market he has played, with crowds amassing 225,000 fans. Previous dates included two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden and Brooklyn's Barclays Center, the latter of which marking the debut of a country artist playing the venue. Check out the tour dates here.
Titled Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced, the project was conceived by Mitchell to be the music to a ballet about love, but after 18 months of song sequencing, she could not condense her work down to a single disc that seemed more than just a collection of old songs. "I wanted the music to feel like a total work-a new work," Mitchell says in the liner notes. "No matter what I did, though, at that length, it remained merely a collection of songs." Eventually, after two years, she had this new set, 53 songs that for her speak as a new work. "I am a painter who writes songs," Mitchell says. "My songs are very visual. The words create scenes�What I have done here is to gather some of these scenes (like a documentary filmmaker) and by juxtaposition, edit them into a whole new work." More details here.
The track opens with a distorted mic, which has members Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman sharing lead vocals singing "forever." "You say it's over with a middle finger / But then you're calling before I turn off my ringer," they sing. "And I answer 'cause I love to hear 'you're sorry' for the 400th time." Written by busbee, Natalie Hemby and Shane McAnally, the song finds the quartet singing of how they're always fixing something that was never broken. Despite the somber tone of the lyrics, it's easy to see the upbeat track being a hit in a live setting.
Called "Drunk Americans," the song brings complete opposite walks of life together for one cause: drinking. "We ain't East we ain't West / We ain't left we ain't right," he sings, contrasting different folks from across the fence. "Ain't black ain't white / We just came here to drink." The bar stomper, which Keith describes as what would happen if his previous hits "I Love This Bar" and "American Ride" had a child, noting that "we're all drunk Americans." "We're the whole kitchen sink�we're all the same, everyone knows your name," he continues. Keith has yet to announce a release date for 35 MPH Town. The album will be the followup to last year's Drinks After Work. Listen to the song here.
In an interview with Billboard, the recently appointed head honcho gave a meaty - though still vague (hey, we'll take what we can get) - description of West's Yeezus follow-up. "It sounds incredible," he said. "He's focused, energetic, happy and making unbelievably great music. Kanye always wants to make sure that when it actually arrives it's at the best possible place it could be, that the first song is as big as the last. He's the absolute bar of perfection in terms of that." Bartel also went on to say that hip-hop's most divisive figurehead is still reaping the rewards of his former albums. Read more here.
Yes, Lorde-who is not a middle-aged man, contrary to what South Park says-is on Time's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014 list. Besides being a two-time GRAMMY winner, the magazine says Lorde is a role model "who promotes healthy body image," even sharing photos of herself Photoshopped and unedited, to remind her fans that "flaws are ok." Other young musicians who made the list include 16-year-old Vine star Shawn Mendes, 16-year-old Jaden Smith, 18-year-old Austin Mahone and 17-year-old "Shower" singer Becky G. Read more here.
She's the only female up for Favorite Artist - Rap/Hip-Hop going up against Drake and Eminem, who are also up against Iggy in the category for Favorite Album - Rap/Hip-Hop. The "Fancy" singer is also one of ten artists up for the biggest prize of the night, Artist Of The Year, which has her going up against Luke Bryan, Eminem, Imagine Dragons, John Legend, Lorde, One Direction, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams and Beyonc�. Beyonc�, the Queen that she is, also earned her fair share of noms-three total-including Favorite Album - Soul/R&B and Favorite Artist - Soul/R&B. Along with Katy Perry, who is nominated for five awards, including Single of the Year and Favorite Female Artist - Pop/Rock. The show airs live Nov. 23 on ABC. Check out the full list of nominees here.
"I always say, judge a person when you meet them," Jessie told Us Weekly at the William Rast debut at Lord & Taylor in New York last week. "I've met Ariana, and there's a very thin line between 'diva' and 'survival.' And a lot of people can't [differentiate that] - and I've had that." Jessie J went on to explain that she's also dealt with the term diva being directed at her. "It's when people can't cope with how passionate you are, and how much you care," she said. Read more here.
Swift took to Twitter last night (Oct. 13) to share a text conversation with Antonoff on how exactly to download the new tune to her phone, a perk of having already pre-ordered Swift's upcoming full-length, 1989, scheduled for release on Oct. 27. It's the kind of adorable pop star exchange that fans dream of. It was also a sly, smart (albeit admittedly cute) way for Swift to show her followers exactly how to access the new tune while gently encouraging them to take part in the album pre-order, if they hadn't already. She tweeted, "Tech support from @jackantonoff: How to get Out Of The Woods to download if you've already preordered 1989 on iTunes: http://t.co/0CDQrEwRZ9". She jumped over to Instagram to divulge even more of her text exchange with Antonoff. Read more here.
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