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[bengraham.livejournal.com]

At her Hammersmith Apollo show last night, Nelly Furtado treated us to a performance of a track that is being released in March. It seems her favourite producer has called in a few favours from some old friends. This is going to be a MASSIVE hit.

Timbaland feat Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake - Give It To Me (Audio stream only)

Also, I know it was posted here before, but since it was only in the comments to another post, it appears some Poptimists may have missed this, and it's had me in hysterics all week... Kelly Clarkson gives her reaction to Baldney's head shaving.

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[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I think we reviewed that Timbaland single on Stylus last week. I wasn't that taken with it, really.

Kelly doesn't look like a pop star! Not how I imagined her to look (and I'm surprised that I had no idea what she looked like).

Warm heart

[koganbot]

Kelly's the warm-hearted girl next door but w/ diva chops and psychological struggles, which in many ways makes her the perfect modern American pop star but not celebrity fodder. Even though she has had the broken affairs and the emotional torment and difficult past that could fill the celeb pages, she somehow isn't the breed apart that gets one into the tabs, though she far outsells the singers who do; if she'd shave her head, however....

Timbo bumble

[koganbot]

I've very mixed feelings on the T-Land single; Justin's OK but feels a bit out of place, needing a more hip-hop style than he's got; but Nelly F. does some of her most moving singing ever, utterly beautiful, and Timbo's eerie arrangement provides her a great setting; problem is that his own drunk-in-a-bar vocalizations come near to ruining the record, and since his name's on the marquee, there are far too much of those vocalizations. I thought his mouth got in the way of "Promiscuous" as well, though not as badly as here. Someone's got to boot this and get rid of every vocalist but Nelly.

Mournful mover

[koganbot]

And Nelly F. is doing some of the most movingly mournful sounding bragging ever, utterly beautiful. Why does "If you see us on the floor you'll be watching all night" sound so sad?

Kelly & the Stooges

[koganbot]

Martin, I think you'll like this vid I keep posting of Kelly C's "Maybe", recorded lo-fi on some fan's cell phone: pensive song that gets as intense as the Stooges' "Gimme Danger" when it gets loud. (Forthcoming Clarkson alb uses Stooges' current bass player Mike Watt, by the way, though I don't know if he'll be on this song.)

Re: Kelly & the Stooges

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

And The Stooges themselves have a new album coming out shortly... a first new release by them in 33 years! That makes Guns'N'Roses' hiatus look reasonable in comparison!