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News Flash Music - 18 November 2013
Nobody could ever accuse Lana Del Rey of not appreciating her fans. The Summertime Sadness songstress well and truly showed her love for her adoring public who were waiting patiently outside her hotel in Rio de Janeiro to catch a glimpse of the star. Not only did she reward them with autographs and photos for their effort, but she also planted kisses on the lips of several thrilled Brazilians. The star rocked her own unique style as she exited the luxurious Copacabana Palace Hotel, clad in black bell bottoms with lace detail on the legs and a simple white v-neck tee. She wore her waist-length tresses in soft, loose waves, with a severe centre parting, and covered her eyes with rose-tinted glasses with clear frames. Lana ditched her shades and showed off her fresh-faced glow as she got up close and personal with her fans, revealing just a slick of black eyeliner and nude, glossy lips. The affectionate hitmaker didn't hesitate to pucker up to some lucky supporters, clutching their faces in her red-taloned hands as she went in for a sweet and endearing embrace, much to their pleasure.
Britney Spears is reportedly looking for a body double for her next music video, and it could be you if you can measure up to the pop star. HollywoodLife claims to have obtained a casting notice seeking a body double for the singer, and the ad reportedly reveals the singer's exact measurements: “Looking for a body double for Britney Spears. Please only submit if you have these measurements or are very close to them all. Height 5’4″, 130 lbs., 32C-27′-35′, dress size 4, shoe size 7.” If the ad is real, it wouldn't be the first time the singer is said to have used a body double. In 2007, now-defunct Blender magazine put out a call for a double to pose for photos reminiscent of Bert Stern's photograph of Marilyn Monroe in bed for The Last Sitting.
Ellie Goulding loves being single. The 'Burn' singer dated BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James and has been romantically linked to Ed Sheeran and One Direction's Niall Horan, but insists she is currently unattached and very happy with her dating status. She said: ''I am so single now - I am single and I am loving it. I can't imagine being in that place now. ''Being alone I've realised a lot of things about myself and who I am. In the last six months I've completely changed - being single has taught me that I have to focus on myself. ''But I have a team of people around me who would slap me down the second I turned into a k**b or started acting like a diva.'' Ellie, 26, also says any potential romance with Ed - who she was photographed holding hands with at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this year - was snuffed out by the scrutiny their relationship was placed under. In an interview with The Sun newspaper, she explained: ''Let's get this straight - I think Ed is a really wonderful person and I love him as an artist. We were definitely very close at one point. And we're not close now but we certainly are friends now ... We were hanging out and having a nice time but it was put into the spotlight so drastically. ''That amount of scrutiny freaked me out. But I don't regret holding his hand at all because we were really close.''
Rihanna appears to give serial twerker Miley Cyrus a run for her money in a string of short video clips posted on Instagram. The 25-year-old songstress currently rounded off her Diamonds World Tour with a show in New Orleans on Friday (November 15), and she was clearly in the mood to celebrate backstage with close friend Melissa Forde. Indeed, a topless Rihanna is seen twerking to T-Pain track Up Down (Do This All Day) in the three clips, added to Forde's Instagram account. Following the final show at New Orleans Arena the Bajan star is believed to have partied with model Cara Delevingne throughout the weekend. The pair were later seen sporting heavy shades as they gingerly made their way back to their New York hotel after partying until the early hours of Sunday morning.
Though M.I.A. and Eminem are stylistically worlds apart, they share a sincere desire to upend expectations. M.I.A.’s previous album, “maya,” from 2010, was thrilling and discordant, but seemed to baffle some of her core audience, as if she were going off some sort of aesthetic deep end. Without a hint of apology or anxiety, she has returned with a double-barrelled coup: “Matangi” is an entirely coherent pop album that makes no concessions to anything currently popular in North America. For Eminem, the challenge was simply to return to form and to prove his physical and artistic health. In the last decade, he engaged in a publicly reported battle with prescription drugs, after which he disavowed two albums, writing off an extended, commercially successful stretch of his career: “Encore” and “Relapse” “didn’t count,” he rapped on “Recovery,” from 2010. Eminem, born Marshall Mathers III, has said that with his new album, “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” he is trying to recapture the spirit of the agile, loony rapper who, in 2000, released his biggest-selling album, “The Marshall Mathers LP.” In 2013, that mission may be doomed. It’s not that he has lost any skill as a performer. His voice is as nimble as it’s ever been, but that, oddly, is part of the problem. Nobody doubts his prodigious talent. Few rappers have loved words and their physical properties more, the way that language can be split into musical bits and arranged in any order. But his desire to reëstablish his bona fides has introduced an uneasy tension into his music: he’s rapping well, technically, but he seems to have learned nothing from what has been, by any account, a difficult life. Whereas M.I.A. has eased herself into an alpha position of her own design, Eminem—the far bigger commercial force—can’t seem to find anything that eases his pain.
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