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☆ Piper Ferguson’s ‘Indie Seen’ book documents early-2000s rock
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Marianna Cerini | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The Libertines, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse and Amy Winehouse might all be considered part of the movement, albeit in very different ways. Ferguson’s debut book “Indie, Seen” offers a raw and nostalgic look at the early-2000s, with behind-the-scenes portraits depicting artists from Interpol to Kasabian, Peaches to PJ Harvey. Piper Ferguson The Strokes, shot for 'Rolling Stone' in 2001 after their performance at The Troubadour in Hollywood. Piper Ferguson The Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing at the NY Parking Lot show in Williamsburg, New York, in 2002. Piper Ferguson Beck, who graces the cover of "Indie,Seen," is pictured in a shot for 'Mojo' magazine in 2006.

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☆ Biden turns 81, pardons turkeys, confuses Taylor Swift with Britney Spears
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Taylor Berman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Biden turned 81 on Monday. And he confused Britney Spears for Taylor Swift. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOn Monday, President Joe Biden turned 81. He was, of course, trying to make a reference to Taylor Swift and her ongoing Eras tour, which is currently making its way through South America.

Persons: Biden, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, —, Joe Biden, I'm, Liberty, Bell, She's, Swift, Britney, Chateau, Joe Organizations: Service, Liberty, Bell, CNN, Washington DC, Renaissance Locations: Washington, Brazil, South America, West Hollywood

☆ Opinion: Megan Fox, the actress-turned-poet, has a lot to say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Opinion Patricia Grisafi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But I am thinking about the phenomenon of the celebrity poetry collection differently — and it has to do with the actress Megan Fox’s recent debut collection, “Pretty Boys Are Poisonous” (Simon & Schuster). Simon and Schuster has lost all credibility…”Fox, who has starred in “Transformers,” “Jennifer’s Body” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is, of course, not the first celebrity to write a poetry collection. Confessional poetry continues to be a debatable term in academic circles. Confessional poetry is genre that is not limited to women but seems to be associated most frequently with them. In particular, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are often invoked when confessional poetry is discussed.

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☆ Barbra Streisand, in Her Own Words
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | More About Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This year’s memoirs have kept ravenous consumers of celebrity culture well fed. Now, Barbra Streisand joins their ranks with “My Name Is Barbra,” a memoir released on Tuesday. At almost 1,000 pages, “it’s not a book you inhale,” the Times critic at large, Wesley Morris, writes. “Streisand is poring over, pouring out, her life.”Her childhood, in a Brooklyn housing project, was emotionally fraught. Her father died when she was just over a year old; her mother was emotionally unavailable, and her stepfather was distant.

Persons: Prince Harry plumbed, Britney Spears, Elliot Page, Patrick Stewart, Henry Winkler, Kerry Washington, Pamela Anderson, Barbra Streisand, “, ”, “ it’s, Wesley Morris, Streisand, Fanny Brice, Marlon Brando, Pierre Trudeau Organizations: Paris Hilton, Greenwich Village, Canadian Locations: Brooklyn

The nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards will arrive Friday. Nominees will be announced during a video stream live on the Grammy website and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel at 8 a.m. Pacific/11 a.m. Eastern. Period.”He continued: “What’s not going to happen is we are not going to give a Grammy or Grammy nomination to the AI portion.”There are also three new categories: best pop dance recording, best African music performance and best alternative jazz album. Previously, the general categories were made up solely of the “Big Four” awards: best new artist, as well as album, record, and song of the year. The 2024 Grammy Awards will air Feb. 4 live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Persons: — Buckle, Al ” Yankovic, Jimmy Jam, Jon Bon Jovi, Kim Petras, Samara Joy, Muni, Drake, Savage, “, Michelle Williams, Britney Spears, ”, Harvey Mason, “ What’s Organizations: ANGELES, Recording Academy, Associated Press, CBS, Paramount, Crypto.com Locations: Pacific, Los Angeles

Aldean and Anthony's dominance wasn't long — and Combs did earn a 2024 Grammy nomination for best country solo performance — but Wallen stands out as an obvious exclusion. While “Last Night” is nominated for best country song, a songwriter's award, Wallen himself isn't despite his successful year. Monét has also picked up record of the year and best R&B song nominations for her glossy, brassy “On My Mama,” best R&B performance and best traditional R&B performance. Her 2023 release, “Jaguar ll,” is up for best R&B album and best engineered album, non-classical. IT'S RAINING WOMEN, HALLEJUAHThe best story of the 2024 Grammy nominations, of course, is just how many women are represented in the major categories.

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☆ ‘My Name Is Barbra’ Review: A Star Is Boring
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Joanne Kaufman | Barbra Streisand | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Barbra Streisand in 1966. At nearly 1,000 pages, Barbra Streisand’s memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” is longer than the combined recollections of Prince Harry (“Spare”), Britney Spears (“The Woman in Me”) and Henry Winkler (“Being Henry”). Grab a Copy My Name Is Barbra By Barbra Streisand Viking 992 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Granted, Ms. Streisand, now 81, is the enduring pop voice of her generation, not to mention a Broadway and Hollywood star, movie director, producer and composer, and political and social activist. A winner of Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and a Tony, Ms. Streisand is a woman of many talents.

Persons: Barbra Streisand, Bill Eppridge, Barbra Streisand’s, ”, Prince Harry, “, Britney Spears, Henry Winkler, Henry ”, Barnes, Streisand, Hillary Clinton, Tony Organizations: Noble, Hollywood

Britney Spears' “The Woman in Me” remained the country's top-selling book in its second week of publication, although the pace of sales fell substantially. The singer's memoir sold just over 132,000 copies last week, according to Circana, which tracks around 85% of hardcover and paperback sales. The week before “The Woman in Me” sold more than 400,000 physical copies. Thanks to the popularity of the audio edition, read by Oscar-nominated actor Michelle Williams, “The Woman in Me” is already a million seller, Gallery Books announced last week. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Persons: Britney Spears, ”, Oscar, Michelle Williams, “, Critics, Spears Organizations: The New York Times, Associated Press

☆ Spotify Premium subscribers can now listen to over 200,000 audiobooks for free
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A little over a year after Spotify first added audiobooks to its platform, the music streamer is making more than 200,000 titles available to its premium subscribers. Users who pay for ad-free access to the service will now be able to listen to 15 hours worth of audiobooks per month. Previously, users had to pay to access audiobooks within the Spotify app. In a release announcing the new perk, Spotify said the 15-hour limit "should get you around two average audiobooks per month." Students, meanwhile, can sign up for Spotify Premium for $5.99 per month.

Persons: Britney Spears, Bonnie Garmus, Stephen King's, Warren Buffett Organizations: Spotify, CNBC, New York Times

☆ See the best red carpet looks from the 2023 CFDA Awards
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images Hari Nef arrived in hot-off-the-runway JW Anderson. Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images Molly Ringwald stepped out in a scarlet red Zac Posen number. Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images Jenna Lyons opted for a classic back suit with a fitted waist. Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesSerena Williams, who became the first athlete to be honored as a CFDA Fashion Icon, similarly opted for an all-American designer. Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesKim Kardashian and Law Roach, meanwhile, broke from the ranks and chose to amplify smaller US designers in two equally eye-catching looks.

Persons: Willy Chavarria, Catherine Holstein —, —, Olsen, Anne Hathaway, Dimitrios Kambouris, Demi Moore, Carolina Herrera sequined, Taylor, Devon Lee Carlson, Jeremy O, Harris, Chloe Sevigny, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hari Nef, Molly Ringwald, Zac Posen, Jenna Lyons, Greta Lee, Emma Chamberlain, Thom Browne, Ashley Graham, Anne, Ralph Lauren’s, jean, Britney Spears, it’s, Ralph Lauren, Vanessa Hudgens, Vera Wang, Anne Hathaway's, Serena Williams, Williams, Thom Browne —, “, ” Williams, Hudgens, Wang, Wang —, Kim Kardashian, Law Roach, Roach Organizations: CNN, of Fashion Designers of America, American Museum of, Getty, Anderson, Housewives, New York, U.S ., York Locations: New York City, New York, Carolina, Los Angeles, Brooklyn

☆ Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Wesley Morris | More About Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Rick Kot, an executive editor at Viking who oversaw production on the book, told me, “Publishing books in two volumes is difficult just as a commercial venture. Nor does it inspire the “five takeaways” treatment that juicy new memoirs by Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith have. These are my thoughts.” She also considered those other Streisand titles, the ones by other people. Sydney Chaplin (one of Charlie’s kids) played the original Nick Arnstein during her “Funny Girl” Broadway run; they shared a flirtation that Chaplin wanted to consummate and that Streisand wanted to keep professional. It’s that Barbra Streisand endured a parade of harsh workplaces yet never stopped trying to make the best work.

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☆ Opinion | The Despair at the Heart of Britney Spears’s Memoir
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The first chapter of Britney Spears’s new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” includes the story of her paternal grandmother, Emma Jean Spears, called Jean; everybody says Britney Spears looks like her, but that’s not the only thing they have in common. “Tragedy runs in my family,” the passage about Jean Spears begins. “Jean wasn’t the only wife June sent to the mental hospital in Mandeville,” Britney Spears writes. “He sent his second wife there, too.”That’s the environment that her father, Jamie Spears, was raised in, Britney Spears writes. By now, most people have heard about her conservatorship (the subject of a Times documentary, “Framing Britney Spears”), which started in 2008, after her father petitioned for control over his daughter’s life and finances, citing concerns about her mental health.

Persons: Britney Spears’s, Emma Jean Spears, Jean, Britney Spears, that’s, Jean Spears, June Spears, “ Jean wasn’t, “, ”, Jamie Spears, Justin Timberlake Organizations: Louisiana Hospital Locations: Mandeville

☆ Britney Spears’s Memoir Sells 1.1 Million Copies in U.S. in First Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Julia Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A news release from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announcing the sales numbers quoted Spears as saying, “I poured my heart and soul into my memoir, and I am grateful to my fans and readers around the world for their unwavering support.”(Published figures put the price tag for Spears’s memoir between $12.5 million and $15 million.) The book is Spears’s first full account of her 13 years under a conservatorship, which her father, James P. Spears, was granted in 2008 amid a custody battle and Britney Spears’s series of public struggles. In the memoir, Spears describes an adulthood in which security personnel dispensed her medications and put parental controls on her iPhone. Kristen McLean, an industry analyst for Circana BookScan, which tracks book sales numbers, said on Wednesday that Spears’s memoir seemed as though it had a good chance of surpassing one million in print sales in the United States this year. Only one adult nonfiction title — Prince Harry’s “Spare” — has reached that height so far.

Persons: Simon, Simon & Schuster, Spears, Mickey, Justin Timberlake —, James P, Britney, Kristen McLean, Circana, Harry’s “, McLean, Walter Isaacson’s, Elon Musk, Michael Lewis’s, Sam Bankman, Jada Pinkett Organizations: Books, Simon &, Mickey Mouse Locations: Louisiana, Kentwood, United States

NEW YORK (AP) — Britney Spears' memoir “The Woman in Me” has sold 1.1 million copies in the U.S. alone through its first week. On the day of publication, Spears posted on Instagram that her book had become “the highest selling celebrity memoir in history.” It is not, so far, even the highest selling memoir of 2023. But Prince Harry's memoir “Spare,” which came out in January, sold 1.6 million U.S. copies in its first week. In one day last week, from Monday to Tuesday, Spears’ catalog jumped 18.2% in on-demand streams, and 36.8% in album sales. According to Luminate, her U.S. streams increased 24% over the previous week — from 16 million to 19.8 million; her album sales were up 61.4% and digital sales 49%.

Persons: Britney Spears, ”, Spears, Simon & Schuster, Justin Timberlake, Prince, Luminate, Oscar, Michelle Williams, Williams, Barack Obama's, Michelle Obama's “, Harry Potter, “ Harry Potter, Maria Sherman Organizations: Books, Simon & Locations: U.S, ”

☆ Pairing Celebrity With Audiobook? It’s a ‘Kind of Matchmaking.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Frank Rojas | More About Frank Rojas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s not clear how many takes it took to get that “fo’ shiz, fo’ shiz” just right in the recording studio. But however many it was, the actress Michelle Williams landed on a line reading that has resonated on social media. Ms. Williams narrates how the pop singer had an abortion while she was dating Mr. Timberlake, started drinking alcohol with her mother at age 14 and how she navigated her 13-year conservatorship. Simon & Schuster, which published “The Woman in Me,” did not immediately respond to questions about how Ms. Williams was selected to read Ms. Spears’s memoir. But in the world of audiobooks, the idea for many such pairings often comes from the producers.

Persons: It’s, ”, Michelle Williams, Britney Spears’s, Spears, it’s Ms, Justin Timberlake, Ginuwine, Williams, Timberlake, Simon & Schuster

☆ The Many People Behind ‘The Woman in Me’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Jacob Bernstein | More About Jacob Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“If you follow me on Instagram, you thought this book was going to be written in emojis, didn’t you?” Britney Spears asks at the end of her memoir, “The Woman in Me.”She has said that completing the recently published book — an account of her journey from Louisiana to the top of the pop charts and on to a conservatorship that denied her control of her career and finances — required an enormous amount of therapy. And to get the story on the page, she had the help of “collaborators,” as she called them in the book’s acknowledgments. “You know who you are,” she writes, without naming names. According to two people close to the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, three writers — all successful authors in their own right — made significant contributions to Ms. Spears’s memoir.

Persons: Britney Spears, ”, — Locations: emojis, Louisiana

☆ Aaron Spears, Drummer for Usher and Other Stars, Dies at 47
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Mike Ives | More About Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Aaron Spears, a Grammy-nominated drummer who played with Usher, Ariana Grande and many other major pop stars, has died. The statement did not provide details about other survivors or specify a time, place or cause of death. Representatives for Spears could not immediately be reached for comment late Monday night. In 2004, he earned a Grammy nomination as a producer for Usher’s album “Confessions,” which sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. Over the years, Spears also played with Grande, Lil Wayne and Lady Gaga, among many other artists, and performed several times on the show “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”

Persons: Aaron Spears, Usher, Ariana Grande, Jessica, Spears, James Brown’s, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Seth Meyers, ” Organizations: Grande

☆ All the best celebrity costumes over Halloween weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Scroll down to see some of the best celebrity costumes from Halloween 2023. Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty ImagesJodie Turner-Smith opted for a bustier and printed dress as a devilish cowgirl. Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty ImagesKyle MacLachlan's pickleball match appeared to have gone dangerously wrong. Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty ImagesParis Hilton as Britney Spears' iconic blue flight attendant outfit from the "Toxic" music video. Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images

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☆ Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith demonstrate the delicate dance of the celeb memoir
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Something to sip on…Jada Pinkett Smith and Britney Spears Santiago Felipe/Getty Images; Mario Anzuoni/ReutersBoth Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith grasp the concept that drama sells. It should be said, though, that both Spears and Pinkett Smith are most probably used to a lot of attention by now. Can’t wait to watch…Fabrice Morvan attends the "Milli Vanilli" in June. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images North AmericaReader you know it’s true – Milli Vanilli was the duo to beat back in the day. The “Milli Vanilli” documentary is streaming on Paramount+.

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☆ Opinion: Britney Spears’ howl of rage is one we all need to hear
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Britney Spears’ recently released memoir, “The Woman In Me,” opens with a succinct but devastating bit of family history. “Tragedy runs in my family,” Spears observes. Holly Thomas Holly ThomasSpears’ own story is a howl of rage that appears more justified with every chapter. The ridicule that met Spears’ 2007 “meltdown” has since been reevaluated. The fact that Jamie was able to reenter and quickly dominate Spears’ life with apparently minimal difficulty shouldn’t surprise us.

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☆ What Justin Timberlake and Sam Asghari did after Britney Spears released her memoir
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Lisa France | Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Britney Spears supporters have been waiting on comment from her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake and her estranged husband Sam Asghari about her new memoir, “The Woman In Me.”Both men are discussed in the book. Asghari and Spears were married for 14 months and are in the process of divorcing. Timberlake and Spears dated from 1999 until 2002. While the singer has not commented on Spears’ memoir, social media followers noticed that he recently turned off the ability to comment on the posts on his verified Instagram account. Meanwhile, a TMZ photographer recently caught up with Asghari, who filed for divorce from Spears in August.

Persons: Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Sam Asghari, Spears, Timberlake, Asghari, God ”, ”, “ I’m, ” Spears Organizations: CNN, TMZ

Paris Hilton did “The View” and spoke with the BBC. Kerry Washington appeared on NPR’s “Fresh Air” and “Good Morning America.” Arnold Schwarzenegger opted for Kelly Clarkson and Howard Stern. But for Britney Spears, the endlessly sought after and speculated about pop star who released her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” this week, there was mostly Instagram. (In the book, Spears writes of mentioning the arrangement in a 2016 interview, only to have it edited out.) Now legally cleared to do and say what she pleases, however, Spears has held back, essentially throwing out the playbook for promoting a celebrity tell-all.

Persons: Prince Harry, Stephen Colbert ”, Paris Hilton, Kerry Washington, ” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kelly Clarkson, Howard Stern, Britney Spears, Spears Organizations: “, CBS, ABC, BBC, America

☆ 5 Things Britney Spears Reveals in Her Memoir ‘The Woman in Me’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

“But when it first happened, that got my heart, because I was not okay, not at all. And the fact that my friends and my fans sensed what was happening and did all that for me, that’s a debt I can never repay.” On Nov. 12, 2021, a judge terminated the legal arrangement. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty

Persons: that’s, Patrick T, Fallon Organizations: Getty Locations: AFP

☆ Popcast (Deluxe): Britney Spears Tells … Some?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Popcast (Deluxe): Britney Spears Tells … Some? A conversation about the week in popular culture, including “The Woman in Me,” the new book by Spears, and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese’s latest film. Hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli. Produced by Sawyer Roque and Jamie Hefetz. Audio editing by Pedro Rosado.

Persons: Britney Spears, Spears, ” Martin Scorsese’s, Jon Caramanica, Joe Coscarelli, Sawyer Roque, Jamie Hefetz, Pedro Rosado

☆ Britney Spears in her new memoir: 'I'm roaring back to life'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Britney Spears is redefining what freedom means to her after over a decade of feeling like she didn’t have control of her own life. “In my forties, I’m trying things for what feels like the first time. “Now, finally, I’m roaring back to life,” she writes. Spears writes that she’s been “trying to rebuild my life day by day.”“There’s been a lot of speculation about how I’m doing,” she writes, in reference to her post-conservatorship life. “Freedom means that I get to be as beautifully imperfect as everyone else.”Most importantly, she writes, “freedom means the ability, and the right, to search for joy, in my own way, on my own terms.”

Persons: Britney Spears, ”, “, conservatorship –, Jamie Spears, Spears, she’s, ” “ There’s, isn’t, hasn’t, Will.i.am Organizations: CNN, Las Locations: Las Vegas, Austin

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