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- Sweeten-Shults: What is played at Gitmo isn't the issue - Wichita Falls Times Record News
| RODNEY JERKINS' PLATE IS FULL: New Janet Jackson song, unreleased ... - EURweb Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:53 PM PDT
"There is a certain groove, there is a certain melodic-ness to Janet and you have to be able to capture that. Also, Janet writes. A lot of the hits that happened in the past, Janet was heavily involved in the writing process. And if you look on her last three records, she didn't write at all. So that's the first thing I did with her. I gave her a pen and a pad and said, 'We're going back to the roots. I want you involved; I want to see how you feel."
*Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Rodney Jerkins has created hits and hot tracks for the likes of Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Toni Braxton, Beyonce, and the King of Pop Michael Jackson. With a roster of megastar alliances such as this, Jerkins might have every right to arrogant, but he lives his life quite to the contrary. The super producer might have simultaneous hits, but he takes it one day at a time, as one of the most sought after music producers around. He's finished up a track with Mary J. Blige and Drake that is not only a hit, but the AT&T commercial soundtrack and he's currently putting the finishing touches on a track with the sister of one of his greatest music collabo partners, Janet Jackson. "Janet is coming out with a greatest hits album. It's due this winter for Christmas," Jenkins revealed. He produced the single "Make Me" for the new album. "It's fun. We did it focusing on her fans," he said of the track. "We weren't trying to make a record that's going to compete with Rihanna or Beyonce; it really is a gift for her fans. We just really wanted to tap into her fanbase, and for me – being a fan – that made it easy for me." Jerkins commented that while Jackson had a great chemistry with producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, new music from the pop star will more than likely not be Jam & Lewis dominated. "They were taking her in a different direction, but it wasn't iconic," Jerkins said of the famous duo. "There is a certain groove, there is a certain melodic-ness to Janet and you have to be able to capture that. Also, Janet writes. A lot of the hits that happened in the past, Janet was heavily involved in the writing process. And if you look on her last three records, she didn't write at all. So that's the first thing I did with her. I gave her a pen and a pad and said, 'We're going back to the roots. I want you involved; I want to see how you feel." Like we said, the new Jerkins/Jackson track is title "Make Me." The two-disc greatest hits album, titled "Number Ones," will include 33 classic hits ranging from "Control" to "Discipline" and is scheduled to be released mid-November. As he mentioned, Jerkins has been a fan of Janet Jackson for some time; since her days as Penny on the 1970s television show "Good Times," but the musician told EUR's Lee Bailey, he considered himself both a huge fan and a close friend of Michael Jackson, who died this past summer. "It was definitely a sad experience," he said in learning of and dealing with Jackson's passing. "We miss Michael as the superstar icon that we know him to be. I miss Michael as a friend. I cherish all the moments that I had a chance to spend with him. I can remember every single moment that I had with him and getting to know him as a person outside the music. Music was a big part of him as a person, but I learned a lot from working with Michael." Jerkins said that he has to keep reminding himself not to dwell on the fact that the superstar has passed, but that his music must be celebrated all over the world. "We have to celebrate the music that he left us. He left us with the best music ever. It's not every day that someone comes along and is able to make music that can impact the world and impact generations," he said. Plus, as Jerkins revealed, there is a lot more Michael Jackson music that the world hasn't heard that the producer thinks will catapult Jackson's legacy even further. "There are so many records that Michael broke, but there were so many more goals that he had. I would always say, 'Wow, how is it that this man stays so hungry with all that he's accomplished?' I knew some of those goals and now I think he's going to shatter some of their goals. It's sad that he won't be here to celebrate it." Of the projects archived that he worked on with Jackson, Jerkins simply promised that they will be released in time. "I don't think there's any reason to rush. Michael's legacy is forever. In due time, some of that music will be heard. It's exciting to know that there is new music to look forward to." In the meantime, new music and a new act that Jerkins is working with are making a big splash on the music scene. Newcomer Verse Simmonds, who is signed to Jerkins Interscope/Darkchild record label, is all the buzz with his debut hit "Buy You A Round." "I'm really excited about him. When you work with everybody you're always thinking, 'Who am I going to work with next?" I've always had success with female artists. I only had one #1 record with a male artist and that was Michael Jackson. And then this guy comes across my desk and I'm just excited about him," Jerkins said. More on award-winning producer Rodney Jerkins and his new projects in Part II. Also, check his website (www.darkchild.com/). And for more info on Verse Simmonds, and to hear his music, check www.versesimmonds.com. Watch Rodney Jerkins' protégé, Verse Simmonds:
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| Hollywood all Abuzz about Luminous Hot Lashes Best heated eyelash ... - PR Leap Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:00 AM PDT
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| Season of false starts for news organizations - Morning Journal Posted: 25 Oct 2009 10:13 PM PDT Six-year-old Falcon Heene is shown with his father, Richard, outside the family's home in Fort Collins, Colo., after Falcon was found hiding in a box in a space above the garage. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO NEW YORK — A balloon racing across the Colorado sky without a 6-year-old boy inside. A major lobbyist not changing its position on climate change. A shootout with terrorists on the Potomac River that never happened. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Celebrity in the Noughties - News.com.au Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:10 PM PDT THE Noughties will be remembered as a time of excess. It was when things got a little out of hand, when everything went macro - scrutinised in minute detail and dragged across the pages of magazines, TV screens and computer monitors. We downloaded and barely had time to process the information before our minds were hungry for the next juicy morsel. Our "lean cuisine" intake of celebrity and world events dumbed down our language; morphed it and gave us short attention spans. The latest news report became a mad lib - insert new celebrity name here, add bizarre outburst there. Suddenly everybody could be famous.
So how did the real celebrities fight back? The movie stars, the television heroes, the musicians? What did they do in the Noughties which had never been done before? The brief was tough, but here are some events and behaviours which made living in the Noughties a memorable decade. It was OK to lose the plot. In fact, everybody did it One thing was for sure, the baying public was there every step of the way thanks to a hungry media scrum. We had drug addictions, curse afflictions, tantrums, career doldrums and on-set outbursts. Nobody was safe from the probing lenses. See our celebrity meltdowns video. We saw more than we needed to, thanks very much Two became one, then morphed all over the place But the fun didn't stop there. Jolie made it fashionable for celebrities to adopt children from all around the world when, in 2002, she welcomed her first child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan into her home. Madonna followed suit, adopting her first Malawian child, David Banda, in 2006. Most recently Katherine Heigl adopted 10 month old special needs Korean daughter Nancy Leigh, nicknamed, Naleigh and Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick used a surrogate for the birth of their twins, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge. But wait, there's more. Not only did celebrities find new ways to have babies, they managed to come up with some rather inventive names for them. Enter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Suri Cruise and most recently, Sparrow Madden. See our celebrity broods and strange names gallery. One thing we hadn't seen before the Noughties were celebrity same-sex unions. TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres announced in May last year she and her partner Portia de Rossi were engaged. They were married on August 16, 2008. They had a lot of time on their hands, didn't they? Many began to see TV as a legitimate path, despite having lucrative film careers. Most notably and recently was Toni Collette's shift to the small screen in United States of Tara where she picked up an Emmy for Best Actress. Similarly, Hugh Jackman decided to tread the boards with blond Bond Daniel Craig in Broadway's A Steady Rain. Hollywood heavyweight Glenn Close took up a role in Damages, while Harvey Keitel switched to the US version of Life On Mars. The rise of Twitter gave stars such as Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore an outlet for their creative talents, while allowing fans to see into their lives even more closely. Musician John Mayer caught the Twitter bug too and it was the first decade where fans felt truly connected with the stars - although in his case perhaps it's a little too well connected. Other celebrities looked to charities and causes, with PETA securing the services of many stars for its nude campaigns. Scientology and Kabbalah were also thrust into the spotlight thanks to the star power of Tom Cruise and Madonna. So how does the decade rate against those which came before? They called Hugh Jackman the Noughties version of Clint Eastwood, Scarlett Johansson the decade's Jayne Mansfield; everyone watched as history repeated itself, with the new generation looking for its own superstars and trends. Little did they know that the next big Hey Hey It's Saturday would be … well, Hey Hey It's Saturday. Coming up on Thursday, October 29: Sport in the Noughties.
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| Sweeten-Shults: What is played at Gitmo isn't the issue - Wichita Falls Times Record News Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:58 PM PDT As much as I love Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" — we in the Shults household have attempted to reproduce the "Single Ladies" video in front of our television without success — if I was barraged with the song, looped over and over again for 20 days, I would eat my own socks. Music torture is the latest thing to come under fire in the wrangling over Guantánamo Bay, which President Barack Obama has said he would close in his first year in office. According to an article Thursday in The Washington Post, musicians demanded the government release the names of songs used to torture prisoners at Guantánamo Bay since 2002, endorsing a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the National Security Archive, a Washington-based independent research institute seeking the declassification of all records related to the use of music interrogation practices. Rap, country and heavy metal songs were the main choices in the Guantanamo tortures,. According to Jayne Huckerbey, research director at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the NYU School of Law quoted in The Washington Post article, prolonged use of music as a form of torture is a violation of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and constitutes "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." Mentioned as some of the music played at Gitmo: "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees, Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA," music from Barney and Sesame Street, anything by Britney Spears, Queen's "We Are the Champions" and "Hells Bells" and "Shoot to Thrill" by AC/DC. (I would have thrown DJ Unk's "Walk It Out" into the mix for good measure.) Prisoner Binyam Mohamed said he was forced to listen to Eminem's "Real Slim Shady" for 20 days. Musicians such as Roseanne Cash and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor have spoken out publicly against the use of their music — created by their artistic hand and meant for listeners to enjoy — as torture devices. They say they're appalled that their songs would be used in such a way. If I were a musician, I'd be upset, too. I mean, what a blow to the ego to learn that one of your songs is actually torturous to someone. Then again, these musicians are seeking for the release of a list of songs. They actually want to know if their music made it on the list. I imagine those egos are really enormous to think the torturers would be so concerned about which songs they played that they kept an official list. I imagine the artists want to know so they can whine about it, make the government pay them damages to quell those big egos and then make the government create a National-No-Play-If-Torture-Is-Involved List — you know, kind of like the National No-Call List. It's all just petty. Except for the musicians, who cares exactly which songs were played? Music has been used as a torture technique for a while, and not just by the U.S. government, to break down prisoners mentally — make them go crazy — so that in their fragile mental state they just give up and do anything to make the incessant sound noise stop. It's not even a matter of what songs are chosen. Any song, after being played over and over again for weeks will break anyone down. Rather than waste time lobbying to find out what music was played, the musicians should keep their focus on the real objective, which is to close Guantánamo Bay, an embarrassment to the U.S. in the realm of human rights. That's where the real music lies. "The Buzz" is a pop culture/entertainment column. "The Buzz" writer Lana Sweeten-Shults can be reached at shultsl@timesrecordnews.com or follow her on Twitter at trn_next. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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