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Joss Stone “not bothered”
Posted in Joss Stone, Music People, News, Performance on the January 28, 2008
Critics and fans alike panned singer Joss Stone, following an infamous display at the Brits in 2007, as she unveiled a new haircut and an American accent. However, although she now admits to being shocked at the response, Stone says in a new interview that she’s not really bothered.
At the end of the day, I don’t give a f**k if people have a problem with my accent. That’s all I can say about it. The words I say do not change”, she explained. “If the way that it sounds is skew-whiff and you don’t like it, don’t listen. I’m not being a cruel person by sounding a different way.”
The singer has seen her pop profile and album sales plummet in the UK since being relaunched for last year’s “Introducing Joss Stone” album. However, her fan base in the USA, where the record was made, remains steady.
Speaking about the backlash, she continued: “I made my album with a bunch of Americans. When people go to Australia for two weeks they come back sounding Australian - but the whole world doesn’t turn round and say, ‘Well, f**k you.’ Which is basically what England had done. Obviously not everybody in England. But the big press people. They were just like, ‘You know what? We’ve decided we don’t like you anymore.’
I always though Joss was such a polite and innocent type of girl. Oh well, fair enough.
Madonna to perform on Lennox song
Posted in Celebs, Concert, Joss Stone, Madonna, Music, Music Award, Music People, New LP, Pink, Pop Music, Shakira, Song on the July 24, 2007
Lennox is set to appear at a special concert in London next month
Madonna is among a host of female stars to appear on a new charity single by vocalist Annie Lennox.
Sing will feature contributions from 23 singers including Shakira, Joss Stone, Dido and Celine Dion, who were asked to perform by the former Eurythmics star.
Lennox, whose new album is due for release in October, wrote the song after her work with Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Aids charity.
The singer’s last solo collection, Bare, was released in 2003.
Other singers to appear on the new record, which is being released in September, include Pink, Fergie, Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt, Melissa Etheridge and Lennox’s fellow Scottish star KT Tunstall.
The song will raise funds for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), whose own vocal group The Generics inspired Lennox to create the track for her Songs of Mass Destruction album.
The award-winning singer, who released her first solo album 15 years ago, performed at the 46664 concert in South Africa in 2005, staged to highlight awareness of the plight of women living with HIV and Aids.
Lennox has amassed four Grammy and 11 Brit awards in a career spanning more than 25 years.
Concert for Diana Preview
Posted in Concert, Diddy, Joss Stone, Kanye West, Music, Song on the July 4, 2007
Princes William and Harry attended a rehearsal with Joss Stone prior to The Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. The musical celebration of the life of their mother Princess Diana can be seen in its entire 6 hours on VH1 Sunday and will air highlights of it later in the evening.
The first part of the concert would see a welcome from the Princes, Elton John, Nelly, James Morrison, Lily Allen, The Feeling, Fergie, Duran Duran and the English National Ballet. The second set will feature Status Quo, Joss Stone, Orson, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, Tom Jones, Will Young, Natasha Bedingfield, Pharell, Bryan Ferry, and an Andrew Lloyd Webber blowout featuring Donny Osmond, Andrea Bocelli and more.
The third part features Rod Stewart, Kanye West, Diddy, Take That and closed off by Elton John again.
Joss Stone’s “diva demands
Posted in Divas, Joss Stone, Music, Rumor, Singers on the June 23, 2007
Joss Stone is becoming something like a diva, a British tabloid announced after the singer issued an 11-page list of demands ahead of her appearance at a music festival.
The Devon celebrity has told the organizers of this year’s Knowsley Hall Music Festival that she wants 12 de-thorned roses for the Liverpool gig, the Sun reports.
The other peculiar claims are a request for American salad dressing Miracle Whip and a reminder that the singer will only eat in china plates arranged on a table cloth, the newspaper reveals.
This list of diva-like demands is something unusual for Joss. She seems carefree and has built an image of a down to earth entertainer.
Perhaps the fact that Stone is to appear at the festival alongside The Who’s legendary performers Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey has gone to her head.
On her website the singer tells her fans that she is expecting to “have a lot of fun” at the festival where The Zutons and Keane are also due to play.
However a representative for Stone has denied that the singer has been enjoying regal company of late after the Daily Mirror reported that she had struck up a close friendship with Prince William.
The prince wanted to talk with the singer about the forthcoming concert in memory of her mother in which she will participate too.
“They talked about what songs she is going to sing at the concert and that gets translated into a story about how William has been bombarding her with calls,” said Stone’s spokesman Dave Woolf.”