Thursday, January 22, 2009

Circus Gone Rock!

By The Royal Pirates


Monday, January 19, 2009

January 17-Britney at the Dance Studio


Britney was spotted at a dance studio in Los Angeles Saturday afternoon.

Brit looked beautiful as she made her way into the studio, wearing a strapless yellow top and skinny jeans. Britney was accompanied by her mom Lynne and her security as she made her way inside for tour rehearsals.

Britney's "Circus" tour kicks off in less than two months in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Britney Won at NRJ Music Awards

Our Queen B won INTERNATIONAL FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR and BEST VIDEO CLIP OF THE YEAR for Womanizer!

Congratulations Brit! We love you!


Thursday, January 15, 2009

New home, new life?


It's move day, y'all!

As exclusively reported by BreatheHeavy.com several days ago, Britney is currently moving in to her new home in Calabasas titled "Chateau Suenos" or "House of Dreams."

According to x17online.com, Britney, her mom Lynne were seen at the estate Tuesday afternoon helping Brit move in.

Chateau Suenos sits on one acre of land, with super-star accommodations, including a gourmet kitchen and breakfast room, a two story library, formal dining rooms, an elevator, an advanced home theatre, iron staircases, a private basement / wine cellar, a guest suite for company, a craft room, a master suite with accompanying master bath and sitting room, a pool highlighted by glass mosaic tiles, an infinity jacuzzi, guest house, 6 car garage, even a maid's quarters!

Another movie?

According to new reports, "Sarah Jessica Parker is apparently keen to cast Britney Spears in the next Sex And The City movie."

Sarah Jessica told friends: "My idea is to have someone like Britney Spears move to New York as my cousin or niece and Carrie would show her the ropes."

A.K.A. the press is bored and Sarah Jessica Parker's "friends" is the media - who like to make shit up!

Britney worked with "Sex & The City" star Kim Catrall back in 2000 for Britney's first movie "Crossroads."

Anyway...

Britney, Justin and Jessica

Rumors were true!

Britney was in fact photographed at Yatai in West Hollywood last night, and Justin Timberlake and girlfriend Jessica Biel WAS there.

Dressed in a red shirt and a ponytail, Britney was spotted holding her purse over her face in an effort to "hide" from the paparazzi. Brit's bodyguard promptly took her home after dinner just in time for her 10 o'clock curfew.

No word on whether the ex lovebirds said hello, though Brit reportedly left after just 30 minutes. Sounds like a no.

Stay tuned...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

"If You Seek Amy" Poses Censorship Problems For Radio








Profanity in pop songs is old news. Hell, the chorus to Christina Aguilera's recent single, "Keeps Gettin' Better," kicks off with the phrase, "Some days I'm a super bi---." That one is easy enough for radio stations to edit out in order to avoid any fines from the FCC or threats to yank their licenses.

But what will they do with a new single from a major artist that doesn't actually contain a four-letter word, but rather spells it out in a not-so-subtle way? That dilemma is beginning to dawn on top-40 radio programmers across the country as the third single from album, "If U Seek Amy," starts to make its way to the airwaves.

The cheeky title (try saying it fast) joins the tradition of album titles like Van Halen's 1991 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The chorus doesn't even try to make grammatical sense of the phrase: "But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy."

The spelled-out profanity puts the song into a legal gray area for radio stations.

"It's OK to put in on an album, have fun with it, but we're publicly owned, you know?" said Patti Marshall, program director at Cincinnati's Q102, a pop station in a decidedly conservative Midwestern market. "We have a responsibility to the public ... you put this ... out and act like we're all fuddy-duddies, like we're trying to make moral judgments. It's not about us. It's about the mom in the minivan with her 8-year-old."

Like several programmers we talked to, Marshall said she had not yet been told that "Amy" was the next single from Circus. She's still busy playing the album's title track, which was recently released as the second single. Asked if she would play "Amy" if it came to her as a single, Marshall said likely wouldn't. She likened its chorus (which she has not heard) to "a little boy in sixth grade doing arm farts."

A spokesperson for the Federal Communications Commission did not return calls for comment, and Spears' label confirmed the choice of the single but would not comment on its content or any potential issues at radio.

Sharon Dastur, program director at Z100 in New York, also had not yet heard the song and said she's not sure what the station's plans are for it. She compared its possible problems to those faced by her station in 2005 upon the release of the Black Eyed Peas single "Don't Phunk With My Heart."

"Listeners thought it was the other word, and so we had to change it to 'mess,' " she said. That example was also the first that popped to mind for KIIS FM Los Angeles program director John Ivey, who said he knew he couldn't play the Peas' song as originally recorded but felt that censoring it would make it sound more nefarious, so he asked the group's label for a new version.

"It's a potential issue for every station," Ivey said of the Spears single. "I'm certain that I would run it by my legal department first. My first job is to protect [the station's] license. ... It's better to be safe than sorry."

Asked if he would recut the song to edit out the naughty bits, Ivey said he probably wouldn't because he felt the phrase was included in the song to provoke, so an alteration would change its intention. "[Spears' label, Jive,] might also be just floating it out there to see if they can stir things up a bit."