Rihanna has been hospitalized in Sweden with what she says is the flu and was forced to cancel a concert in the city of Malmo.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the pop star released a statement after she was forced to cancel the performance on October 31.
“I am so sorry to everyone who was coming out to my show in Malmo Sweden," she wrote. "I was so excited to perform for you all. It would have been a great time… so much better than being sick with the flu, ugh! I’m really disappointed I couldn’t be there.”
She also tweeted her apologies to fans, posting the message, "Sorry Malmo!" and attaching a photograph of an IV drip inserted into her forearm.
THR reports that she is expected to resume performing November 1 in Stockholm.
In other Rihanna news, it’s been announced that the singer will guest on Drake’s Take Care album, along with Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Outkast's Andre 3000, Rick Ross and The Weeknd.
Today it was widely reported that Lady Gaga had officially amassed 15 million Twitter followers. Word was that Mother Monster set a personal best by collecting a million followers in just 27 days. So... she's the most popular person on that site.
Also today came news that The Bieb has surpassed a landmark 2 billion YouTube views. 2 BILLION.
According to Famecount, Bieber is the first person to reach the huge number on his official YouTube channel. And it looks like the speed is becoming a new thing, as Gossip Cop makes a note of pointing out that 94 million of those views were collected in the past month.
In October 2010, Gaga became the first artist to get to the billion mark, but Bieber has since passed her.
While Gaga is winning on Facebook and Biebs holds the YouTube crown, Eminem has the most Facebook fans, with more than 48 million.
The soundtrack to the Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour will drop November 22.
Here's a snippet from the record, “The Immortal Megamix,” a mash up of four of MJ's hit singles “Can You Feel It”, “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”, “Billie Jean” and “Black Or White.”
MJ's website says the album is a "musical tapestry for Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour.
"Led by esteemed musical designer, Kevin Antunes (Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Madonna) IMMORTAL takes a fresh, creative approach in redesigning and reimagining more than 40 of Michael Jackson’s greatest original recordings into a compilation that allows listeners to experience his music in an entirely new way."
“I feel like I’ve waited a lifetime to come here tonight, and I’m very grateful,” Gaga said. “I just wanted to make it so perfect. So as a very special treat, for the first time ever, I’m going to sing ‘Marry The Night.’”
Blake told TheBoot.com he wasn’t originally asked to record "Footloose": "They originally asked me to do another song but I told them it was 'Footloose' or nothing," he said. "That song was the only one I was interested in doing. When I asked to do it, I knew it would be polarizing, and I was right. I mean, I'm that guy, I always have been. Who better to do that song and piss people off than me?"
He says of the video, "The video is freakin' cool. We did it in Lewisburg (Tenn.) and we brought a bunch of kids into this drive-in theater. We had everybody dancing and having fun."
The movie itself -- which stars Kenny Wormald as Kevin Bacon, Julianne Hough as Lori Singer, Dennis Quaid as John Lithgow and Andie McDowell as Dianne Wiest -- has received fair to middling reviews and has a score of 5.8 out of 10 on metacritic.com.
Michael Winslow, the self-proclaimed “Man of 10,000 Sound Effects,” may have peaked fame-wise with his role as Cadet Larvell Jones in Police Academy 1 through 7, but when it comes to mimicking sounds and songs, the guys’ still got it.
As a guest on late-night talk show Senkveld, essentially Norway’s Letterman, Winslow throws his throat into a rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love,” with an assist from Norwegian singer-songwriter Odd Nordstoga on acoustic guitar.
A fun, impressive little clip from a guy who, unbeknownst to me, is still active. And, apparently, big in Norway.
You know when you love a particular food but it’s not available in your country? I know some Americans who stock up on salt ’n’ vinegar chips when they come to Canada. And I used to beg my grandmother to bring back a case of Cherry Coke when she went outlet mall shopping in Buffalo. I’m sure there are Aussies living abroad just aching for vegemite.
But I digress.
Ozzy Osbourne, who spends most of his days in the U.S. has a soft spot for a particular brand of breakfast cereal, Sugar Puffs, only available in the U.K. What Ozzy wants, Ozzy gets. The singer frequently orders boxes upon boxes of the stuff from England and stocks up.
The first time they did it, it was completely unexpected and a viral sensation. Now late-night viewers expect Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon to launch into a “History of Rap” performance each time J.T. appears on his buddy’s talk show.
Well, Timberlake’s most recent guest spot brought more of the same.
Keeping up with their fun tradition of performing a medley of classic hip-hop songs, the duo karaoke’d over The Roots’ backing tracks of everything from L.L. Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” to Kanye West’s “Stronger.”
Catch the latest “History of Rap” performance, a full track list, plus the rest of the triology after the jump.
Team Bieber threatens site using Bieb's image to protest proposed copyright bill it claims could put him in jail
Is this irony or the opposite of irony?
Justin Bieber’s people have apparently threatened legal action against a website using his face to fight a proposed bill that would make unauthorized Web streaming of copyrighted content a felony.
See, the Commercial Felony Streaming Act, or S.978 has gotten people all worried, ostensibly that artists like Justin Bieber could spend up to five years in jail. It’s been dubbed the “Bieber Bill.”
According to the Washington Post, internet freedom advocates say the bill’s open-ended language means Bieber, and people like him, who post videos to YouTube could wind up in the big house.
Taylor Swift is reportedly threatening to take legal action against a website that posted a topless picture of a woman that looked something like the country sweetheart and suggested it was of her.
According to TMZ, Taylor's peeps are ready to wage war against a site called Celebrity Jihad, claiming the site wrongly identified her in a "leaked" nude photo that was posted with the headline, "Taylor Swift Topless Private Pic Leaked?"
So TMZ says T Swizzle's lawyers sent a letter stating that the site contains "false pornographic images and false 'news" about Taylor, and demanding it take down the post immediately or be sued for trademark infringement.
The site is reportedly weighing its options.
You'd think these people would know better than to mess with America's darling. The country music set does not take kindly to their reputations being besmirched.
September 2011
