Kylie Xposed: The Interview

17 01 2008

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Herald Sun, Australia: January 17, 2008

KYLIE Minogue took a realistic approach to her breast cancer diagnosis, manages to treat with grace the paparazzi who shadow her daily. But one thing’s got her stewing. When dozens of work-in-progress songs from her X album leaked online en masse last May, Minogue found herself in an unfamiliar mood: livid. “Absolutely livid,” she clarifies.

Sources believe someone in a recording studio swiped three discs of demo tunes for X and posted them online.

Conspiracy theories suggest Minogue HQ may have leaked the songs as some kind of superhighway road test.

Minogue nearly chokes at the claim.

“No! No no no no no. No!”

That’s a no then.

Some of the leaked songs wound up on X despite many Minogue fans enjoying them (illegally) for months before their official debut.

One of her collaborations with Scottish dance producer Calvin Harris, In My Arms, was among the leaked tracks — as well as album tracks Stars and Sensitized, the latter written by Guy Chambers.

Based around a sample of Serge Gainsbourg’s Bonnie & Clyde, Chambers originally wrote the song for his former partner Robbie Williams, then roped in Cathy Dennis (who wrote Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head) to Kylie-fy the song.

Other leaked songs — Lose Control, Fall for You and I Am Ready — have been selected by fans as preferable to some chosen for the album. Indeed, some particularly devoted fans have made their own videos for the unreleased songs and posted them on YouTube.

“A lot of those songs were just demos,” Minogue says, “and then I see these kids making videos for them and putting them up (online) and I’m going, ‘No! That’s not right! Those songs aren’t finished!’

“I think any artist would be annoyed with that. It wasn’t just the trust factor of the leaks — because none of us really knows how it happened — but it takes up everyone’s time trying to work out what went on. Still, it was a lesson learnt.” Read the rest of this entry »





VB: Elle Cover Girl January 2008

5 12 2007

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Here is a huge scoop for ya’llz… pics and an excerpt from VB’s interview with Elle magazine.

Click here for the video of the shoot. Nice to see she does have SOME unflattering angles. Phew!

P.S: Those silver shoes are so subtle!

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With a head for business, a bod for sin, and a swank sense of style, Victoria Beckham is America’s poshest import. PLUS: Exclusive video and behind-the-scenes photos from our cover

By Holly Millea
Photographed by Gilles Bensimon
Styled by Joe Zee
Sneaking into Los Angeles in disguise under the cover of darkness would not exactly be Victoria Beckham’s style. She’s more the Cleopatra type, arriving on a gilded barge with purple sails, rowed by maids dressed as sea nymphs. Having already been there, done that, she opted for the twenty-first-century equivalent-a reality show, Victoria Beckham: Coming to America. In case you missed it, Victoria Beckham came to America.

The Spice Girl known as Posh disembarked picture-perfect from the plane at LAX on July 13, her famously unsmiling self groomed to the nines, nary a blond hair out of place, wearing an Azzedine Alaïa black dress, mile-high heels, and humongous black sunglasses, with an Hermès Birkin bag on one arm and her grinning soccer star husband on the other. What doesn’t come naturally to his missus comes naturally to David Beckham, though it could be argued his smile was due to his having signed a $32.5 million, five-year contract with the L.A. Galaxy, a deal that also gives him the chance to earn in excess of $200 million in ticket and jersey sales. Paparazzi royalty, the pair were greeted by more than 100 reporters and photographers, rousing fanfare, camera flashes, and warm, welcoming shouts-out: a V-day parade, or in their case, a dVb-day parade.

Next stop? Beverly Hills.

ON HER DESIGN CAREER:

“Some of the best, coolest stores are taking on dVb,” Beckham says proudly. “A year ago, they would have laughed. Maxfield, Fred Segal, Collette, Harvey Nichols…I’ve spent years banging those bloody doors down. There are so many-and I hate the word-celebrities doing clothing lines and fragrances, and most of them have nothing to do with it.”

ON CRUEL CHILDREN IN HER PRE-POSH YOUTH:
Let’s go back. There’s someone you should meet on the playground at the Church of England school. See that chubby, pimply kid in the duffle coat with the hood cinched up against the cold and flying debris? That’s Victoria Adams, loser, loner, and- unbeknownst to the classmates pelting her with stones-future Spice Girl. “They were literally picking things up out of the puddles and throwing them at me,” Beckham says, cringing. “And I just stood there, on my own. No one was with me. I didn’t have any friends. People would push me around, say they were going to beat me up after school, chase me. It was miserable, my whole schooling, miserable. I tried to be friends with people, but I didn’t fit in. So I kept myself to myself.”

ON HER TALENT:
“It became very obvious from the start,” Beckham continues, “that I was never going to be the best singer or the best dancer or the best actress. I was never a ‘natural.’ ” She thinks about this. “You know, I’ve never been that good at anything, to be completely honest.”

ON MEETING HER HUSBAND, DAVID:
Meeting David was “completely love at first sight,” Beckham says. “I remember it so clearly.” The Spice Girls were at their zenith when she flew with Fuller to a Manchester United match. David had yet to wow the world with his way of bending the ball. But he wowed her. She gave him her phone number on her airline ticket stub. “And he told me he went home and wrote the number on so many other things in case he lost it,” she says. “We found the ticket the other day!” They dated for months under the radar. “We drove around in his car and would sit in car parks and talk for hours and hours. We didn’t need to go out for meals. We didn’t need to go out for drinks. We just wanted to be together and get to know each other.”

ON HER LIFESTYLE:
“I work seven days a week. And I so love what I’m doing. I could go shopping all day, which is what a lot of people think that I do. That’s their perception-that I’m a miserable bitch and go shopping all day and boss David about.”

ON HER PUBLIC IMAGE:

Twenty-four hours later, it’s been decided. Two Batmans, a vampire, and a Victoria Beckham will be trick-or-treating in their Beverly Hills neighborhood. “The boys had great fun in the costume shop,” Beckham says. “Someone told me I’m going to feature big this year with the drag queens.” She loves this. “I’m so camp! I’m such a gay man trying to get out. I don’t give a shit what anybody thinks.”

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