The latest tour webisode from Jessie and The Toy Boys features Jessie Malakouti continuing on the Femme Fatale tour with Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj and giving fans a peek their ‘Naughty’ show in Las Vegas. Also, watch Jessie try her luck at the slot machines as she and her “mannequins” gets strange looks from fellow gamblers.
Jessie and The Toy Boys is giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at life on the Femme Fatale tour in their first tour diary webisode filmed in Los Angeles. Jessie Malakouti and the mannequins will be putting out more webisodes while on tour with Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj.
“It’s amazing to be here in Los Angeles, my hometown,” Jessie says in the clip. “I took a picture in front of [the Staples Center] like a super nerd. I grew up coming here watching shows and looking at the stage and kinda closing my eyes and wishing and wishing and here I am.”
Jessie and The Toy Boys continue on the Femme Fatale tour through early August before joining the Identity Music Festival tour. Watch the behind the scenes footage below.
Jessie and The Toy Boys dropped a brand new remix ‘Push It (Dig It Remix)’ while Jessie Malakouti and her mannequins are on the road with Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj on the Femme Fetale Tour through mid-August. Next Jessie will join the Identity Music Festival tour. Check out tour dates for the Identity Music Festival and the remix below. Jessie and The Toy Boys’ EP ‘Show Me Your Tan Lines’ is available on iTunes and Amazon now.
8/14 Holmdel, NJ @ PNC
8/16 Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/18 Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
8/19 Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center
8/20 Mansfield, MA @ Comcast Center For the Performing Arts
8/21 Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Music Theater
8/23 Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre
8/24 Tampa, FL @ 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphitheatre
8/25 Miami, FL @ Bayfront Park Amphitheatre
8/27 Spring, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
8/28 Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion
8/30 Albuquerque, NM @ The Pavilion
9/2 Chula Vista, CA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
9/3 Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
9/4 San Bernadino, CA @ San Manuel Amphitheater
9/5 Las Vegas, NV @ TBA
9/10 George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheater
Jessie Malakouti of Jessie and the Toy Boys visited Hot 95.7 FM in Houston, Texas on Wednesday (July 13) while on tour with Britney Spears. The former Shut Up Stella member talked about her appearance on ‘Conan’, her debut single ‘Push It’, having a messy bus, Jessie’s “Make It Fit” underwear, and ended up with a lightning round. “That was my first time on television, and that was actually the first time we all performed ‘Push It’ together,” Jessie revealed about the ‘Conan’ appearance. “So it was like, ‘Here we go, national television’.” Listen to the discussion here.
Jessie and the Toy Boys were interviewed at Z100 in Portland, Oregon the other day while Jessie Malakouti and her mannequins were on tour with Britney Spears. The former Shut Up Stella member talked about her Toy Boys, #16 and #27, who stood motionless to either side, as well as her younger days doing commercials, and how starting bands only to have them break up inspired her to create a group with mannequins instead. “I needed Toy Boys who wouldn’t get in the way of my creative vision but instead would inspire me,” Jessie explained.
As for how she landed the coveted opening slot on Spears’ tour, Malakouti said she “immediately got so emotional” upon hearing the news. “I started crying. I was so happy. I was screaming and there were tears just streaming down my face.” After that, she had to return to the studio crying but couldn’t reveal the top secret news to those wondering why she was teared up. “Everyone thought I was crazy,” she confessed. “Like crazier than they already thought I was.”
Watch the interview via YouTube below.
Jessie and The Toy Boys (Jessie Malakouti) appeared on ‘Conan’ on Thursday (June 9) in Burbank, California, performing her new single ‘Push It’. Watch it via Turner.com below.
Jessie and The Toy Boys (Jessie Malakouti) is out with the music video to her new single ‘Push It’, featuring Yelawolf. Watch it via YouTube below.
Jessie and the Toy Boys teamed up with photographer Maria Carmel for their first official photo shoot. “When you have a band that can’t speak and disagree with you things run a lot more smoothly,” Jessie Malakouti said of inanimate bandmates. “Manequins don’t talk back and they smile and look pretty.” Watch highlights from the shoot via YouTube below.
Hard2Beats newest signing is Jessie Malakouti, and the 21 year-old pop singer’s debut single is ‘Standing Up For The Lonely’. Listen to the track via the label’s YouTube channel below.
Jessie Malakouti updated fans on her blog at MySpace on Wednesday (August 26), talking about what happened to her song ‘Trash Me’, which received attention after Britney Spears released a song sounding suspicously like the track called ‘If You Seek Amy’. More recently, the song was covered by ‘The Hills’ star Heidi Montag – apparently without Jessie’s blessing. The former Shut Up Stella singer seems to point the finger at Max Martin for lifting the song after she went to Sweden to work with the famed producer for a few weeks. Malakouti writes:
A couple of okay songs came out of the trip, but I didn’t have the same connection with the unmentionables that I did with Xenomania. So I signed to Xenomania and began working on my debut album.
Fast forward a few months, and a little tune called
Trash Me“If U Seek Amy” comes out by Britney Spears, which was funny enoughstolenwrittenby these same Swedish unmentionables I had thought were my friends. Of course, Britney being on a major label was able to do something I could not do,go to radio with my songgo to radio with her song, and thus ruin any chance I had at releasing my ORIGINAL material. To add even more salt to the wound, Heidi Montag decides tomurdercover my song, and gets more recognition than I ever did for my own art.So you see people, “Trash Me” has become a bit tainted for me, and to be honest a bit old!
The entire message at MySpace has since been removed.