Kelly Rowland has admitted she didn’t expect people to create such a big fuss over her new breasts, having waited ten years to get the ample chest she so desperately wanted.
The Destiny’s Child songstress went under the knife last year to boost her modest A-cup to a B-cup, because she was fed up with her clothes not fitting her properly.
She tells WENN: "It was something I'd been thinking about since I was 17 years old, and my mum looked at me like I was crazy.
"She said, 'Let your body finish developing', and I did, and I remember I thought about it when I got a little older, when I was around 20/21. I went in for a consultation and I was nervous, I was scared, so I thought about it a little more.
“Then a year later, I was still not comfortable, and finally I felt comfortable and I had the time to do it."
But Rowland admits she was shocked by the media coverage of her breast implants - because she didn't expect anyone to take notice of her more generous assets.
She adds: "It was something I didn't really think that people would notice, but I guess it's kinda noticeable!
"But then, the thing is, I felt that I couldn't lie, and I felt like I didn't have to lie, because now it's like going to get your teeth cleaned! It's just as simple as that, and I don't think that it's something that should be a feature or headline for the story; I don't think it's worth that, it's just a decision that I decided to make for myself, so I could fit my clothes better!"
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Sunday, 25 May 2008
The Kooks - The Kooks Snubbed By Minogue
British rockers THE KOOKS were left devastated after their unlikely musical hero KYLIE MINOGUE refused to allow them entry to her latest tour's after-party.
The Naive hitmakers were in Paris shooting the promo for upcoming single Do You Wanna at the same time the Australian pop star kicked off her X2008 tour in the French capital last week (ends09May08).
And being huge fans of the Can't Get Your Out Of My Head hitmaker, the group desperately pleaded for invitations to the exclusive event, but were left disappointed after the superstar snubbed them.
The band's frontman Luke Pritchard explains, "We heard she was having a party so asked if we could come. We were gutted (when refused). I like her and her songs."
But the knock-back won't stop the rockers trying to party with the diminutive singer in the future. Pritchard adds, "I won't give up. We'll try again next time we're in the same city."
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David Turpin - The Sweet Used-to-Be
When your debut features samples from Nico's 'These Days' and doesn't actually need them, you can sleep the sleep of the job well done - and David Turpin and his cohorts deserve their share of lie-ins.
While the sheer quantity of Irish records available in any week now is more likely to bewilder than beguile, Turpin does plenty to make himself stand out - singer-songwriter forays into programming long ceased to inspire UFOs-over-the-GPO awe, but someone trying to make every track a planet in a bigger universe is reason enough to watch the skies.
Together with co-producer Stephen Shannon, Turpin makes sure that the electronics don't end up taking over and left in a corner with a hand-me-down acoustic he'd still cut it. Maybe that's the next album.
In the meantime, you can mix up the happy and sad here; wonder if his drama would work better on a soundtrack or musical or see how often you can play the standout 'Dancing on My Grave' and still get the same pop buzz.
Harry Guerin
While the sheer quantity of Irish records available in any week now is more likely to bewilder than beguile, Turpin does plenty to make himself stand out - singer-songwriter forays into programming long ceased to inspire UFOs-over-the-GPO awe, but someone trying to make every track a planet in a bigger universe is reason enough to watch the skies.
Together with co-producer Stephen Shannon, Turpin makes sure that the electronics don't end up taking over and left in a corner with a hand-me-down acoustic he'd still cut it. Maybe that's the next album.
In the meantime, you can mix up the happy and sad here; wonder if his drama would work better on a soundtrack or musical or see how often you can play the standout 'Dancing on My Grave' and still get the same pop buzz.
Harry Guerin
Timbaland - Bilan Wins Eurovision For Russia With Timbaland Track
Russian singer DIMA BILAN is celebrating after claiming victory for his country at Saturday's (24May08) Eurovision Song Contest - with a TIMBALAND-produced song.
The pop star's Believe track landed Russia its first ever win in the European competition, taking 272 points to beat Ukraine's Ani Lorak into second place with her disco track Shady Lady, which scored 230 points.
Greek singer Kalomira scooped third place with her pop song Secret Combination at the event, which was held at the Belgrade Arena in Serbia.
Britain's Eurovision entry, by former The X Factor talent show star Andy Abraham, came last with a dismal 14 points, while the German and Polish entries were also awarded 14 points, but finished tied one place higher than Abraham because their top scores in a single round were higher.
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Nicole Richie wants five children
New mom Nicole Richie doesn’t plan to stop at just the one child.
The 26-year-old socialite — who gave birth to her first child with boyfriend Joel Madden in January — says she hopes to have “five children � twin boys and three girls.
“I�ve wanted that since I was a little girl.”
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Kronos Quartet
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Genre(s):
New Age
Classical
Instrumental
Jazz
Other
Discography:
Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Caravan
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
John Adams - John's Book Of Alleged Dances
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Alfred Schnittke - The Complete String Quartets Cd1
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
25 Years (Cd10)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
25 Years (Cd09)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 5
25 Years (Cd08)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
25 Years (Cd07)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 6
25 Years (Cd06)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
25 Years (Cd05)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
25 Years (Cd04)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
25 Years (Cd03)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 1
25 Years (Cd02)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
25 Years (Cd01)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Tan Dun - Ghost Opera
Year: 1997
Tracks: 5
Released: 1985-1995
Year: 1995
Tracks: 15
Released - 1985-1995 (Cd2)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 3
Released - 1985-1995 (Cd1)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Night Prayers
Year: 1994
Tracks: 5
Short Stories
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Bob Ostertag - All The Rage
Year: 1993
Tracks: 1
At the Grave of Richard Wagner
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Pieces Of Africa
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
Witold Lutoslawski - String Quartet
Year: 1991
Tracks: 2
Kevin Volans - Hunting-Gathering
Year: 1991
Tracks: 3
Henryk Gorecki - Already It Is Dusk
Year: 1991
Tracks: 4
Black Angels
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Salome Dances for Peace CD 2
Year: 1989
Tracks: 8
Salome Dances for Peace CD 1
Year: 1989
Tracks: 15
In Formation
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
The music of Bill Evans
Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
Kronos Quartet
Year: 1986
Tracks: 5
Monk Suite - music of Thelonious Monk
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
Monk Suite
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
Lutoslawski
Year:
Tracks: 2
Pasquini - Works For Organ and Harpsichord
Artist: Pasquini - Works For Organ and Harpsichord
Genre(s):
Classical
Discography:
Lorenzo Ghielmi
Year: 1991
Tracks: 18
Actress and (real) singer: Johansson's debut discis acclaimed
Scarlett Johansson's best-known musical performance to date was her pink-wigged karaoke rendition of a Pretenders song in the film Lost In Translation. But the Hollywood actress has now released an album and it has been proclaimed by one of the music industry's toughest critics as "the coolest movie/rock crossover album in the history of celebrity cash-ins".
The New Musical Express says Johansson's "astonishing debut" of Tom
Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head, has succeeded where other celebrities
who have attempted to break into music have so miserably failed. Proclaiming
the 23-year-old an "indie icon", Johansson is pictured on the
cover of the NME's latest issue holding a horned animal skull between
crimson-painted fingernails.
The magazine's deputy editor, Krissi Murison, said: "When people first
started talking about it, we thought it didn't sound very NME; then we got
the album and it floored everybody. It's really beautiful, really
unexpected, with very artful, interesting influences. A lot of people's
expectations of an actress making an album are that it would be manufactured
and robotic. No one expected she would sound like that – a deep baritone and
quite androgynous."
NME's glowing verdict is not universal, however. The American magazine Rolling
Stone gave the album just two-and-a-half stars out of five. "Johansson's
voice is unremarkable and her pitch sometimes unsteady; she's a faintly goth
Marilyn Manson lost in a sonic fog", the magazine wrote. Entertainment
Weekly gave the album a C grade, branding the actress's voice "expressionless".
Murison said Johansson may have more appeal in Britain than in America because
her musical tastes are "quite Anglophile". Johansson, who grew up
listening to Depeche Mode and Radiohead, is a fan of the Scottish bands
Cocteau Twins and The Jesus and Mary Chain, with whom she sang the track "Just
Like Honey" at the Coachella Festival in California last year.
Scarlett Johansson's video for single "Falling Down"
Johansson was invited to make an album by Rhino Records, the label behind last
year's Led Zeppelin compilation album Mothership, which heard Johansson sing "Summertime"
on a 2006 compilation of recordings by actors.
The actress, a prot�g�e of Woody Allen, agreed to cut the CD but her first
attempt at a Waits cover album was, by her own admission, a flop. It was
only when she teamed up with Dave Sitek, the producer recently ranked number
one in NME's list of the 50 most forward-looking people in music, that
success beckoned. Sitek came up with the idea to take Johansson to a
Louisiana recording studio to recapture some of the rawness of Waits'
original recordings. David Bowie provides backing vocals on two of the
album's tracks, and sound effects including owls and rainstorms were used. "It's
Dave Sitek who opened the horizons of what this album could be and brought
in ideas," said Murison.
Initially, Johansson just wanted to record "I Never Talk To Strangers",
a duet between Waits and Bette Midler. Then to balance the song out, she
recorded some more Waits songs until she had an entire album of covers, plus
one original track, "Song For Jo", which she and Sitek co-wrote.
In an interview with the NME, Johansson said she had been a fan of Waits
since the age of 13, when her father played the singer's music to her and a
friend. "At first we were like, 'What is this noise? Chainsaws hitting
nails into walls?' But we liked it and it became our little secret, the
music that we were into that none of our friends knew about," she said.
"What gripped me about it was that he writes from shadows. It's really
dark and shadowy music that talks about the emotion, passion and rawness of
the human condition and there's this real fire to it."
Musical interludes
Paris Hilton
Released her debut album, Paris, on Heiress records in 2006. It received a
mixed critical reception.
Keanu Reeves
Bass guitarist in the rock band Dogstar, which supported Bon Jovi in 1995,
before quitting in 2002 over work commitments.
Russell Crowe
Sang with 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. He quit in 2005 before returning in a new
band with the same initials, The Ordinary Fear of God.
Minnie Driver
In the UK last week performing her second album, Seastories, which has just
been released to warm reviews.
Bruce Willis
Released his debut album, The Return of Bruno, a collection of R&B covers
with The Temptations, in 1987.
William Shatner
Recorded a spoken-word album with orchestral backing, The Transformed Man, in
1968. It included a version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
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