Janet Jackson Joins The Jackson 5 World Tour

Janet Jackson is set to go on a world tour later this year with the Jackson 5, instead of her brother Michael. Jermaine, Tito, Jackie and Marlon wanted to find a special way to pay tribute to their brother and now they’ve finally found it.

“Janet will be joining us. We're all talking about it now. She has never played with us before so that will be very special. She definitely wants to do it,” Jermaine said while completing a promotional tour of Australia. “We had a conference call and Janet has agreed to join us on tour.”

Some of the sets Michael Jackson was going to use during his This Is It Tour will be shown during their tribute.

Lady Gaga Launches her U.K Monster Ball Tour!

Lady Gaga kicked off her U.K. “Monster Ball” last night infront of 23,00 fans in the Manchester M.E.N. Arena.  Her show included brand new sets, 15 costume changes, and Lady Gaga’s very own personality.

She opened the show with “Dance in the Dark,” performed “Telephone” for the first time on tour, set her piano ablaze during “Speechless,” and shared the stage with a 40-foot mechanical sea monster for “Paparazzi.”

Lady Gaga will perform the Liverpool Arena on February 24th and London's O2 Arena two days later. When the U.K. leg is finished, she will head up to New Zealand, Australia and Japan for a series of concerts. More detailed info about her forthcoming show can be seen on her MySpace.

New Avril Lavigne Video – Alice (Underground)

Avril Lavigne’s new song and video “Alice (Underground)” has just been released. Just like “Alice in Wonderland”, Avril tumbles down a hole after chasing a rabbit. It completely matches with Tim Burton’s upcoming movie “Alice in Wonderland”, and shows a few shots of the film.

In addition to "Alice (Underground)" the soundtrack compilation called "Almost Alice" will contain songs from The All-American Rejects, Toko Hotel, Kerli, Metro Station, and 3OH!3.  The album will be released in the U.S on March 2nd, three days before the movie will premiere in theatres nationwide.

Soldier Of Love Captures #1 Album Worldwide

Heralded as one of this year's most highly anticipated albums and garnering much critical acclaim, SOLDIER OF LOVE secures the # 1 album spot worldwide today with over 501,000 copies sold taking its rightful place among the collection of iconic Sade albums. SOLDIER OF LOVE marks Sade’s second album to land at # 1 on the Billboard chart - the first was in 1986 with Promise – and is the first official album release from Sade since 2000’s multi-platinum Lovers Rock which debuted with 370,000 records sold.

Not only has America welcomed Sade back with open arms after close to ten years, but worldwide, SOLDIER OF LOVE has proven to be a smash. So far the album has seen a #1 worldwide debut in territories including Canada, France and Switzerland.

Entertainment Weekly featured SOLDIER OF LOVE in their “Must List” and gave the album an “A”, Rolling Stone wrote, “it’s unimpeachably excellent,” and The Boston Globe calls it, “a rich and rewarding album.” But the accolades don’t stop there. Associated Press raved, “like a long-ago lover not quite forgotten, Sade has returned to steal our hearts with more beautiful, uncategorizable music,” Billboard was quoted as saying, “it’s been 10 years since Sade released an album, but be forewarned – the giant has awoken,” while People Magazine reminds us that “Sade remains the voice of comfort to the wounded heart.”

The accomplishments of SOLDIER OF LOVE so far are astounding. The single, “Soldier of Love” - which Sade co-produced with Mike Pela, and was written by Sade along with longtime collaborators Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman and Paul Spencer Denman continues to make radio history. In less than four weeks “Soldier of Love” propelled into the top five at both Urban Hot AC and Smooth Jazz radio charts, making it one of the fastest moving records of the year. The track has held the #1 spot at Urban Hot AC radio for four weeks straight and topped the Smooth Jazz chart for 2 weeks. Sade is now the first group since the Isley Brothers in 2001 to earn a #1 spot as a lead act on the R&B Chart. The intriguing and seductive video, which Sophie Muller directed is currently the # 1 most played video this month.

Sade kicked off a phenomenal TV campaign last week with appearances on BET’s 106 & Park, The Today Show, Letterman, and The View. Performances on both Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen Degeneres air this week.

In case you missed it: Watch Sade perform "Soldier of Love" on Ellen below.

New Black Eyed Peas Video – Imma Be Rocking That Body

The Black Eyed Peas's new video for “Imma Be Rocking That Body” is the X-Men meets The Transformers! It’s very futuristic and truly looks like an action hero mini movie.

Will i.am tells Fergie apl.de. ap and Taboo: "This is what's gonna take the Peas into 3008." Then Fergie takes off and seems to find herself in the year 3008! I can see why they’ve chosen to make their video like this, there are so many movies doing the same while being successful at it. Action heroes are totally in right now, just like Aliens were in the 90’s.

The video directed by Rich Lee, was partially shot in the desert of Lancaster, California.
Check out the Black Eyed Peas latest video below:

Shakira Shoots Video For Gypsy

Shakira and Rafael Nadal are getting close in the teaser for “Gypsy” or “Gitana” in Spanish. Videos for the song are being done in both English and Spanish. Both clips show similar scenes with the singer seen lying next to the tennis player before then drawing her body closer to his.

"Gypsy" is taken from Shakira’s latest album “She Wolf”, which was released last October. The videos will both premiere on February 26th and were directed by Jaume de Laiguana.  

Here’s a little gossip, Shakira was reported to have dated Rafael Nadal after they were spotted going out several times in Spain.  Her rep however says: 

"We were all there, and Shakira only came when we'd finished the main course to have something to drink, accompanied by her manager, Ceci Kurzman, and Jaume. It was a dinner organized with the director to brief Rafa on what was expected from him in the video."

Too bad, they look sweet together, in any case Shakira will surely grace us once again with a beautiful video this February.

Rihanna’s Rude Boy Video

Sex definitely sells, especially for Rihanna. In her suggestive new video “Rude Boy”, she’s seen ridding several animals, and grinding on a “love interest” while singing "Come here rude boy, boy, is you big enough?"

Well Rihanna is certainly satisfied with the outcome:

“[The video] completely different from any other video I’ve shot before,” Rihanna has said. “A lot of my videos are really dark and edgy and tough. ‘Rude Boy’ is more playing along the lines from my roots… We used a lot of color, but also the costumes were very Jamaican dance-hall queen type.”

The Andy Warhol like video was directed by Melina Matsoukas, who also directed Rihanna’s video for “Hard”.

What do you say is Rihanna’s new video fab or a miss?

Personal life

Beyonce Knowles pic

During the turmoil of Destiny's Child in 2000, She had admitted in December 2006 that Beyonce Kowles had experienced depression from an accumulation of struggles: the publicized split of LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, being publicly attacked by the media, critics and blogs for causing the split-up, and a longstanding boyfriend (that Beyonce Knowles had dated from age 12 to 19 years) leaving her.

The depression was so severe it had lasted for a couple of years, while Beyonce Knowles had kept herself in her bedroom for days and refused to eat anything. She stated that she struggled to speak about her depression because Destiny's Child had just won their first Grammy Award and Beyonce Knowles feared no one would take her seriously. All of these events had made her question herself and who her friends were, describing the situation she said, "Now that I was famous, I was afraid I'd never find somebody again to love me for me. I was afraid of making new friends." Beyonce Knowles remembers her mother, Tina Knowles, for finally saying to help her out of her depression, "Why do you think a person wouldn't love you? Don't you know how smart and sweet and beautiful you are?"

Since 2002, She has been in a relationship with rapper Jay-Z, with whom Beyonce Knowles has collaborated several times. Rumors began to circulate about their relationship after Knowles was featured on "'03 Bonnie & Clyde". In spite of persistent rumors about their relationship, they remained discreet about it. In 2005, rumors began to spread about the marriage of the couple. She closed the speculation stating that Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z were not even engaged. When asked again about the subject in September 2007, Jay-Z replied, "One day soon—let's leave it at that." Laura Schreffler, senior writer for OK! magazine, said, "They are intensely private people".

On April 4, 2008, Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z were married in New York City. It became a matter of public record on April 22, 2008, but Beyonce Knowles did not publicly debut Beyonce Knowles wedding ring until the Fashion Rocks concert on September 5, 2008 in New York City. She finally revealed their marriage through an opening montage video at the listening party for I Am... Sasha Fierce in Manhattan's Sony Club.



2010 Grammys: Beyonce Knowles vs Taylor Swift.. Women Dominate at the 2010 Grammy Awards - Jan 31, 2010 -

Beyoncé makes Grammy history with six wins, although Taylor Swift nabs the top prize

The 52nd annual Grammy Awards were up against the Pro Bowl, and for once, the show actually had some great, football-style twists and turns. Taylor Swift started the evening as a consensus pick, and won three country awards to start things off. Then she proceeded to miss out on every pop award she was up for, including two key losses to most-nominated Beyonce. The Swift fans were packing up and heading home, when... There's a fumble on the field, and flowing blonde locks in the end zone! Swift closed the show by becoming the youngest artist ever to win Album of the Year. .

Yes, it was the Heidi Game of Grammy telecasts. But the voters were into sharing the wealth. We'll spread some, too, with our own post-show kudos:.

LEAST NOTICEABLE BIG WINNER.

You'd hardly know Beyonce walked away with six Grammys, the most ever by a female artist in one night. Only two of them were presented on the telecast, and in an example of bad traffic control, she couldn't accept one of those—for Song of the Year ("Single Ladies")—because she was about to perform a major production number. The choice to sacrifice her possible acceptance speech for that was good a piece of evidence as any that performances trump trophies on all musical awards shows now

We Are The World 25 Video

We Are The World 25 has been officially released during tonight’s opening of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on NBC. The song went through a makeover as it included 80 celebrities and towards the end of the song they started to rap. Michael Jackson’s original parts was added to this version too. The first part included his sister Janet Jackson. The song was recreated to raise money for Haiti, donations can be done directly on wearetheworldfoundation.org or download the song and video on iTunes.

According to a press release from “We Are The World 25″ sponsor Coca-Cola, the track features: Miley Cyrus, Wyclef Jean, Jamie Foxx, Josh Groban, Keri Hilson, Zac Brown Band, Akon, Brandy, Melanie Fiona, Mya, Musiq Soulchild, Katharine McPhee, Trey Songz, Faith Evans, Joel and Benji Madden, members of Sugarland, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Mraz, India.Arie, Mary Mary, Tyrese Gibson, Raphael Saadiq, Rob Thomas, Usher, the Fray’s Isaac Slade, pianist Ethan Bortnick, Enrique Iglesias, Robin Thicke, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, the Jonas Brothers, Nicole Scherzinger, Julianne Hough, Barbra Streisand, Carlos Santana, Natalie Cole, BeBe Winans, Orianthi, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson, Freda Payne, Harry Connick Jr., Earth, Wind & Fire, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, Tony Bennett, composer A.R. Rahman, “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson, Patti Austin and Gladys Knight. Actors Jeff Bridges, Vince Vaughn and Jimmy Jean-Louis were there, as well as some “WATW” offspring: Nicole Richie (Lionel’s daughter), “Parks and Recreation” star Rashida Jones (Quincy’s daughter) and the members of 3T (the sons of Tito Jackson), Taj, Taryll and TJ Jackson.

 

 

Which version do you prefer, the original or the new one? Whatever you prefer, remember that it’s for a good cause.