Britney Spears will release a single taken from the forthcoming Austin Powers Goldmember soundtrack next month. The track, Boys, already appears in its original form on her album, Britney, but has now been remixed by Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes.
Britney has filmed a video for Boys together with Austin Powers star Mike Myers. The tracklisting for the album is unavailable. Britney has a brief, cameo role in the movie. 'blink and you'll miss me,' said Britney of her role.
Destiny's Child star Beyone Knowles who appears as Austin Powers's sidekick, Foxy Cleopatra, is also set to release a single from the soundtrack, entitled Work It Out. The song is an up-tempo funk tune also produced by the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams. Beyonce is set to shoot a video for the single next month. Work It Out will also be the first single from Knowles' solo album, Dangerously in Love, due in October, according to her manager and father, Mathew Knowles.
Beyonce also has another song on the soundtrack, Hey Goldmember, which was written by Mike Myers.
Posted by Jen on Saturday, May 25, 2002 @ 08:25 p.m.
Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst wants departed guitarist Wes Borland back in the band. "We are hoping Wes will come back and suprise [sic] us one day soon," Durst posts on Limp Bizkit's official site. "We really miss him."
Borland left the band last October to start a new band, now known as Eat the Day. At the time, Durst vowed to find the "illest guitar player known to man," and subsequently launched a nation-wide tour of open auditions. "Wes was a big part of the Limp Bizkit you're used to, but his decision to leave has left us in a place where we know the best of Limp Bizkit is yet to come," Durst posted at the time.
Now, Durst is re-thinking life without Wes, and is even enlisting Bizkit fans to help him beg Borland to return. "If you want, e-mail Wes and tell him to come back to his family," the new post continues. Durst also provides Borland's email address (tongueofcolicab@earthlink.net), but confesses to not know if it is still in use.
With or without Borland, Limp Bizkit are moving along with their fourth studio album and follow-up to 2000's Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water. "I've been doing a lot of writing lately," Durst continues. "All kinds of styles. I'm playing guitar too. Scary!!"
In other Durst news, the singer/filmmaker has just finished directing the video for "Epiphany," the fifth single from Staind's Break the Cycle, which features Titanic star Billy Zane. Durst also recently shot the video for Deadsy's "The Key to Gramercy Park," and is poised to make his feature film directing debut this summer when he begins work on Lords of Dogtown, which will focus on the birth of skateboarding in Venice, California.
JOHN D. LUERSSEN
(May 24, 2002)
Posted by Jen on Saturday, May 25, 2002 @ 08:22 p.m.
Limp Bizkit jammed with four finalists after their much-publicized guitarist audition tour, but now it looks like Fred Durst might be taking a cue from his Puddle of Mudd pal Wes Scantlin and handling both vocal and guitar duties himself.
"I've been doing a lot of writing lately, all kinds of styles," he posted on the band's Web site. "I'm playing guitar, too, [and] I have a couple PRS custom guitars being made for me."
Durst added that Limp Bizkit have rented a "cheesy '70s house in the flats" that they've soundproofed so they don't bother the neighbors.
"It's pink and out of control," he raved. "We call it the Pink Palace. Each room has a little studio set up in it. The master bedroom is a studio too, and I'm sleeping in the closet, literally."
The house seems to be conducive to the band's style of chaotic, colorful songwriting, and it's got plenty of distractions as well. Durst's sleeping hole is equipped with a TV, PlayStation 2, computer and cable modem.
"Out back we built a tiki hut by the pool for ill pool parties," Durst wrote, adding that fans can see the lunacy for themselves on the band's soon-to-be revamped Web site, which will feature video of the group's next album being created.
Durst capped off his message by extending an olive branch of sorts to Wes Borland, who left Limp Bizkit last year (see "Limp Bizkit And Wes Borland Part Ways"), spurring the band's cross-country search for a new guitarist (see "Wanted: Ill Guitar Player; Must Know Limp Bizkit Tunes").
"We are hoping Wes will come back and surprise us one day soon," Durst wrote. "We really miss him. But he's doing his thing and he's supposedly really happy."
As heartfelt as the message may have been, listing Borland's e-mail address and encouraging fans to send messages urging him to "come back to his family" probably didn't improve the singer's relationship with his former guitarist.
For more on the Wes Borland/Limp Bizkit split, check out "Fred & Wes: He Said/He Said."
—Jon Wiederhorn
Posted by Jen on Saturday, May 25, 2002 @ 08:20 p.m.
Craig David continues his impressive assault on the North American market with a second major US tour of the year.
Southampton's very own international superstar will play the following:
May
30 - Fairfax, VA Patriot Center
June
1 - Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center
2 - East Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
7 - Fort Lauderdale, FL National Car Rental Center
9 - Tampa, FL Ice Palace
15 - Pasadena, CA Rose Bowl
Craig kicked off his very first US tour in January and recently celebrated his debut album 'Born To Do It' shifting a whooping million copies in the US. His current US single, 'Walking Away' is at number 58 this week in the Billboard Hot 100.
David has been busy working on his eagerly-anticipated second album which he plans to finish following these latest dates.
Posted by Jen on Saturday, May 25, 2002 @ 08:17 p.m.
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