At the end of May, ‘American Idol’ alum Jordin Sparks teased her return to music by unveiling the standalone single, ‘Unknown’ (click here to listen). Now, it appears she’s ready to launch her first full-on era since 2015’s ‘Right Here Right Now.’
Branding it #JS4 (as representation of her fourth yet-titled album), Sparks took to Instagram Friday (July 24) to announce ‘Red Sangria’ would act as the first song from the LP.
Slated for release on July 31, look inside for the announcement and a snippet of the forthcoming tune.
From The Vault is back this week with a Pop classic from 2008.
Today’s pick comes courtesy of mother-to-be Katy Perry: it’s the smash hit ‘Hot n Cold.’
After zooming up the charts with breakout single ‘I Kissed A Girl’, Katy proved that she was no novelty act with ‘Hot’ — the second single from her second album ‘One Of The Boys.’
Written by Dr Luke, Benny Blanco and Max Martin, the cut was produced by the latter and was another success for Perry. Peaking at #3 in the US, #4 in both the UK and Australia, and reaching the top spot in Canada, it was also nominated at the GRAMMY for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2010.
The song sees the artist confronting an undecided lover about how toxic his behavior is to their relationship.
Alan Ferguson directed the colorful video which presented Ms. Perry as a bride hunting down her love-interest all over town after he fails to say “I do” at the altar.
Katy’s parents make a brief cameo.
As of July 2020, the video is just under 20 million views away from hitting the billion mark.
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Keeping it 100, we still can’t pin point the exact reason why Katy stopped ruling the charts the way she was during her first three album cycles.
From ‘Chained To The Rhythm’ to ‘Harleys in Hawaii,’ she has kept on churning out top tier bops, not too far removed from her most successful and acclaimed hits – qualitatively speaking.
Anyhow, here’s hoping Ms. Perry’s next project ‘Smile’ is one filled with yet more of her signature Pop bops, akin to ‘Hot N Cold.’
As her sisters learned that Tamar Braxton may have attempted to commit suicide, someone in her camp was determined to convince the general public that a feud with WeTV had driven the singer to the edge and worked with media outlets to spread the word.
Days ago, Towanda Braxton urged one well-known publication to put an end to the stream of tips and stories it was receiving from “sources” from outside of the family who- as far some Tamar fans saw it- were more interested in feeding anti-WETV stories to the media than supporting the singer after she was hospitalised.