Daily Archives: November 7, 2008

Election Inspires Ross Copperman To Cover ‘Imagine’

Posted on November 7, 2008 by popdirt

checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace on Thursday (November 6), reacting to the election of Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. President by posting a cover of John Lennon’s classic ‘Imagine’. The Nashville, Tennessee singer songwriter told readers, “I’ve been incredibly inspired lately by the election and everything that it represents. A huge achievement in history and a giant step in the right direction for this country. I felt like this song was appropriate so I did a live recording at my house and wanted to share it with everyone.” Listen to the track here.

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Christina Aguilera Reacts To Prop 8 Passage

Posted on November 7, 2008 by popdirt

spoke with MTV News about Tuesday’s passage of California’s Proposition 8, a ballot measure amending the state’s constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry, and the demonstrations against the measure that followed its passage last night. “Last night, there was a whole rally that I saw for Prop. 8,” she told MTV News. “A lot of people came out with their signs, and I think [Prop. 8] is discrimination and I don’t understand how people can be so closed-minded and so judgmental. We chose an African-American president, and it means so much as a time in history, great change and open-mindedness. Why is this any different? It just doesn’t make sense to me. Why you would put so much money behind something [aimed at] stopping from people loving each other and bonding together? I just don’t understand it. It’s hard for me to grasp. But I would’ve been out there with my rally sign as well.” Watch her remarks below.

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Brendan James Visits mVids

Posted on November 7, 2008 by popdirt

stopped by TV Guide’s mVids to talk with Nikki Boyer about his new album ‘The Day is Brave’. The singer songwriter also talked about how he got started in music, his struggle to get heard starting out in New York City, the songs ‘Green’ and ‘Hero’s Song’, and how his music landed on the same album with Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam.

The interview at YouTube has since been removed.

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Anastacia Checks In After Presenting At EMAs

Posted on November 7, 2008 by popdirt
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checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Friday (November 7) after participating in Thursday’s MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool. The American pop singer tells readers:

Hello Fan-ily…

I am at the Manchester airport heading to Amsterdam…I was presenting an award at the European MTV awards yesterday!!! It was a very long day but I had a great time!!! How cool that the event was in Liverpool!!

I didn’t get to hang out with anybody but I did say hello to Leona Lewis, P!nk and Kid Rock!!! I am going to perform on the World Music Awards on Sunday so with any luck I will have some behind the scenes video footage from a super cool video camera that my record label gave me so I could share some fun and special moments with you guys…

more to come…

(-: xoAnastacia

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Kaci Brown Discusses New Album & Interscope Exit

Posted on November 7, 2008 by popdirt

checked in with her MySpace friends on Thursday (November 6) with a bulletin about her new album. The Los Angeles based pop singer tells readers:

I’m doing all I can to make sure the record will be something you’ll all be proud of.

As most of you know, I’m no longer with Interscope. With records not selling like they used to, record companies don’t have budget to do with artists what they wish anymore.

I’m trying to do a record with all live instruments, which can be pretty costly after the studio space and all the musicians. It’s not as easy as programing a beat in the laptop and slapping a vocal down.

Therefore, a lot of time is going in to creating other marketing ideas, and making sure the record is everything I know it can be.

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Darin Zanyar ‘Breathing Your Love’ Video Making Of

Posted on November 7, 2008 by popdirt

posted some behind the scenes footage from his ‘Breathing Your Love’ video shoot over at his MySpace TV channel. The Swedish pop singer was joined by , who Darin called “real cool” during the taping in New York City. Watch it below.

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Jesse Carmichael Reacts To Prop 8 Passage

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Jesse Carmichael of checked in with fans from Brazil on the band’s blog at MySpace on Thursday (November 6). The keyboardist tells readers:

We’re in Rio right now… show tomorrow night… such a beautiful place… amazing mountains… the ocean… trees… birds… people smiling… a lot of poverty… traffic… a lot of traffic all over the world… I wonder if we’ll ever find another planet we can get to safely and live on… wouldn’t that be great… we’d know how to do a lot of things differently… we’d be able to figure out how many people the environment could comfortably and sustainably support… we’d use renewable energy sources like Wind and Solar from the beginning so we wouldn’t have such a pollution problem… and then we’d have more time to figure out why it is that humans have such a hard time getting along…

Read more, including his thoughts on the passing of Proposition 8 in California here.

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Robyn ‘Be Mine’ Acoustic Performance

Posted on November 7, 2008 by popdirt

posted an acoustic version of her song ‘Be Mine’, filmed at Cherrytree Records headquarters in Los Angeles. The track comes off the Swedish pop singer’s self-titled fourth album. Watch it below.

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Ava Leigh Cheers Obama Victory

Posted on November 7, 2008 by popdirt

updated fans on her blog at MySpace on Thursday (November 6), reacting to the election of Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. President. The British reggae pop artist tells readers:

If there’s anyone that can take America from a state back to being the ‘United States’ is Obama.

Congratulations to America for making the RIGHT decision! The energy that he created around this election brought people out to vote that would usually have just stayed in, young, old, black, white…. You didn’t have to be interested in politics to have been excited about this election! I stayed up till 5am watching it, until my eyes were too heavy to keep open!

Exciting stuff! Yey Obama!

Check out the full post here.

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