Life & Style Weekly reports that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West may be drifting apart. Senior Reporter Andrew Nodell also talked about Nick and Mariah renewing their vows and the wedding bands that Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne picked out on “The Ralphie Show.”
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It seems regardless of if she’s writing or recording, the superstar is constantly moving. The only down time Carey had during her break was the birth of her and husband Nick Cannon’s twins in April 2011. You would be hard pressed to find any mother that would classify pregnancy as “down time.” Yet for Carey, she was not only carrying twins, but also planning out her next record.
But Cannon isn’t complaining about the long hours and copious amount of responsibility – if anything, it’s the exact opposite. The personality says he feels “blessed.”
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Life & Style Weekly reports that Taylor Swift may already be lining up her next boyfriend. Senior News Editor Jordi Lippe also dished on Britney Spears and the feud brewing at “American Idol.”
AUDIO: Mariah Carey Hopes To Spur R&B Comeback With New Album
After an over three year hiatus, Mariah Carey returned to the radio airwaves on Thursday; first through a 30 minute phone conference with radio DJ’s from across the nation and then with the release of the first single from her forthcoming, untitled album.
“I don’t really know what I would do if I couldn’t [sing], because math and those things aren’t really my forte,” joked Carey on the phone Thursday afternoon. “But seriously, if I didn’t have music in my life I don’t know what I would do, so I just keep going.”
It seems regardless of if she’s writing or recording, the superstar is constantly moving. The only down time Carey had during her break was the birth of her and husband Nick Cannon’s twins in April 2011. You would be hard pressed to find any mother that would classify pregnancy as “down time.” Yet for Carey, she was not only carrying twins, but also planning out her next record.
“So I was pregnant forever, and I was being tortured day and night by techno music, and I was complaining to anyone who would listen,” Carey joked. The two main themes of the conversation were that Carey will not be conforming to the current sound of pop music and that she will not reveal any possible collaborators. “I remember one time I made dinner for L.A. Reid and we were both sitting there like, ‘What happened?’”
Carey then brought out the claws, albeit a little, as she spoke about the artists of her genre no longer creating music that could be classified as R&B.
“What started to kind of get to me was when hip-hop and R&B music seemed to be getting bowled over by [dance music],” Carey stated, prefacing the comments by twice mentioning she wasn’t trying to offend anyone over their musical taste. “I still make dance remixes myself; I’ve had a lot of number ones on those charts.”
The diva has scored a total of 15 chart toppers in the dance genre alone. Yet the current influx of up-tempo music not only pushed Carey away from creating it, but also moved her to record the vocals for her new single, “Triumphant,” in the same manner which she cut songs during the Fantasy period.
“I didn’t want to go in that direction just because it’s ‘in,’” Carey emphasized. She would complain about it to anyone who would listen and now she had a captive audience of over 500 members of the media. “I didn’t want people to be like, ‘Oh look at her, here she goes yunno, trying to be the next blah-blah-blah.’”
Prior to Thursday, you could have argued that “blah-blah-blah” should be filled in with Jennifer Lopez. Like Carey, JLO was successful in both acting and singing before taking a hiatus to start a family. Lopez resurrected her music career with both a stint at the judge’s table of “American Idol” and up-tempo, radio-friendly dance records. Despite the reported $18 million Mimi will receive to fill that seat on “Idol,” it doesn’t look like she will use either to spur her own comeback. The Rick Ross and Meek Mill-assisted “Triumphant” impacts radio this month, far ahead of “Idol.” Former manager and collaborator along with current “Idol” judge Randy Jackson did join Carey on the call; however there was no mention of the reality competition during the entire conversation.
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Life & Style Weekly reports in the magazine’s latest issue on a new tell-all book that details Mick Jagger’s courtship of Angelina Jolie back in 1997. Senior News Editor Jordi Lippe also chatted about Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey’s new home in the Hamptons and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Victoria’s Secret model girlfriend moving in with the actor.
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Life & Style Weekly reports in the magazine’s latest edition that Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon, along with their twins Morracan and Monroe, are living the good life! Senior News Editor Jordi Lippe talked about the exclusive photos and also covered stories regarding Jay-Z/Beyonce and Justin Timberlake on “The Ralphie Radio Show.”
HLN ‘SHOWBIZ TONIGHT’: Donald Trump, Mariah Carey, The Osbournes
On Tuesday evening I talked Donald Trump, Mariah Carey, The Osbournes with hosts Brooke Anderson and A.J. Hammer on CNN HLN’s “Showbiz Tonight.” Check out all three of my segments below!
Big thanks to HLN and Mark Goldman of Goldman & McCormick PR.
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EXCLUSIVE: Nick Cannon Discloses The Typical Hours He Works; Says He’s ‘Too Young To Burn Out’
Morning show radio host, Las Vegas resident club DJ, network executive, TV personality, artist with a forthcoming album release… Nick Cannon is a man of many, many titles. But, things aren’t any less busy at home for the mogul, as he and wife Mariah Carey are expecting twins at any moment. Clearly time management is a priority for Cannon, but that isn’t the only trait that helps him get accomplish everything.
“Man, I just don’t sleep,” Cannon admitted in a phone interview which aired Thursday night on “The Ralphie Radio Show.” The conversation was taped Wednesday morning, as Cannon traveled presumably from his gig at New York’s 92.3 NOW-FM to TeenNick, where he serves as chairman of the channel. “Literally, this is my nap time right now, in the car going to my next job.”
But Cannon isn’t complaining about the long hours and copious amount of responsibility – if anything, it’s the exact opposite. The personality says he feels “blessed.”
“I’m too young to get burnt out,” Cannon believes. “I’m not out doing myself. I’m not tired or anything like that. I just love what I do. I always say, ‘My vocation is my vacation.’”
But the hours he puts in are far from vacation-like. Cannon revealed that his day usually begins well before the sun rises.
“On the average, I walk in to the house around 9 (p.m.),” said Cannon on the length of his usual work day. “From there it’s just quality time with the wife or the studio ‘til I’m back up at 2 o’clock in the morning.”
By “studio” you could only assume it’s of the recording variety (as opposed to the radio type), as Cannon readies not one, but two albums. Mr. Showbiz, a comedy LP, will drop May 14. The follow-up, Mr. Showbiz Sings the Hits, follows later in the year. The rapper says both are finished.
“It’s going to have ‘Famous’ on it and a bunch of other stuff,” Cannon noted of the music portion, mentioning the lead single that features Akon in the process. “I worked with Flo Rida, Snoop Dogg, Roscoe Dash, everybody… Cee Lo (Green)… it’s crazy.”
The first track is a tongue-in-cheek take on everybody wanting to achieve fame in this day and age. But Cannon isn’t knocking the notion.
“I love (fame),” Cannon quickly replied after I asked him if the notion of “celebrity” and fame is overrated. “You got to just know how to handle it. Everything’s in moderation. Some people get sucked up in to it, but I mean the perks that it comes with are beautiful.”
It seems these days, the only thing not in moderation for Cannon is the amount of work that he is willing, and more importantly able, to take on.