Miley spent New Year’s with her Aussie boyfriend Liam Hemsworth at music festival ‘Pyramid Rock’ in Phillip Island.
After plenty of rumours she was in town and finally photographic proof of the couple in the flesh yesterday, Miley was greeted by plenty of fans and a Channel Ten news crew. Channel Ten reported that paparazzi had been tailing her for about 7 days, which is highly unlikely as photos didn’t surface of the star until yesterday.
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As if Lady Gaga didn’t have enough to be proud of already in recent years, there is one more thing that just might put her over that precipice into full out giddy-headed full-of-herself-ness (if I was her, anyway 
In a recent interview, Travis was asked about what artists Michael Jackson was interested in colloborating with before his death in June, to which he replied that he had suggested various people to Michael that they both thought were cool. However, Michael himself told Travis that he’d love to work with Lady Gaga saying, “You gotta get into her. She’s good.” Travis then said, “so, I started listening to her music more and going on YouTube and looking at her performances, and I was like, ‘He’s right.’ “
Check out the interview below:
Many people think that Lady Gaga is nothing but a gimmick who compensates for a lack of talent with the crazy costumes and performance theatrics. But what many people do not know is that Lady Gaga, just like Michael, was gifted even as a child. To provide a little background, she learned to play the piano by age 4 and wrote her first ballad at age 13. At 14, she played open mike nights at New York clubs by night and at age 17, she was one of 20 kids in the world to get early admission to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. By 20, she was signed to Interscope and was writing songs for other artists such as the Pussycat Dolls, all this before she ever released her first album.
Lady Gaga is not someone who has lucked upon pop success by virtue of being beautiful, she is one of the few contemporary pop artists who combines raw talent with hard work and persistence to be where she is today.
Even at 50, Michael Jackson still had a good ear for modern pop music 
Young Sam – So Lonely – New Music February 2010- Hip Hop – Rap
A Song about being Lonely.
Remember there are over 6 Billion people in this world, you are not alone.
You just feel like your alone.
Get outside, go to a coffee shop and sit down and talk to a total stranger.
Then you will no longer feel so alone.
You’d be surprised how many people feel alone out there.
I know, I know…this site’s not about music. Well, with judges like Quentin Tarantino and Ellen Degeneres, neither is American Idol and nobody’s calling them on that, so I say on with the show…
*ahem*
Though it’s been over 6 months already since Michael Jackson exited the stage, the reality of it still hits me every now and then.
And although the King of Pop has left the kingdom, like every artist, he lives on in his work – his game-changing music and revolutionary videos, both of which are byproducts of his relentless pursuit of perfection. A pursuit that unfortunately led him down a path from which there was no return.
Like numerous artists before him who left us before their time, he undoubtedly left many unfinished works behind. Predictably, these unfinished pieces will be completed, polished and presented to us by an unsettling mix those who cared about the man, those who cared about his work and those who simply want to profit from a newly bankable star.
But regardless of how you feel about posthumously released work, it’s undeniably exciting to get a glimpse into the unseen library of one of music’s most influential minds.
The first of these inevitable glimpses was “leaked” onto the Internet earlier this week. It’s called “Another Day” and it’s a collaboration between the King of Pop and Lenny Kravitz, written and produced by Kravitz, performed and recorded by Jackson. While the powers-that-be try to decide the best way to make money from this track, we the fans can still enjoy the minute-and-a-half unmixed bit of track that managed to find its way to us. Enjoy it while it lasts…
This is it.
–Dpoe
So we’re now in 2010, a whole new decade, if there’s any new year that deserves resoluting (?) (resolutioning? is resolutionworthy? – none of these are in the dictionary but go with it), anyway, in the words of the late, great MJ – THIS IS IT.
This year, rather than coming up with a resolution that is going to make me miserable – you know the traditionals like healthy eating and exercise – I’ve decided to start blogging again.
Reading over my old blogs to relocate them to this shiny new site, it pained me to think I haven’t been a personal blogger for almost three years (also it’s pretty scary to think I left uni three years ago- well old). I can put the non-blogging down to having a real grown-up-editors job and not having time, but I think part of me also thought nobody wants to read the superficial ramblings of a 23-year-old anglo-hungarian.
But now I think ‘fuck it’, I have spent at least two years growing up and being serious and it’s high time I grew back down again (I know that made no sense, but that’s the beauty of digressing).
Also I never cared before that I have only had three dedicated readers, so why should I now? And it just so happens in the last two days two people have told me they’d like to read my blogs- all I need to do now is rope my Mum into subscribing and i’m laughing!
My year so far has been pretty damn good, so the rest of it has a lot to live up to. PLUS I already have plenty of things i’m looking forward to. So for those reason it would be a crime to let 2010 go unrecorded, regardless of who wants to read about it.
Now i’m aware that i’ve rambled on for 3oo words so I won’t write a propper blog now, but I will do is a little exercise in comparing the me of now and the me of yesteryear.
Here is a link (or a pingback as the kids are calling it these days) to a blog I wrote exactly three years ago which I very creatively entitled January. Have a read of it to get an idea of what my views were then…
now I bet you’re wondering what I think now…well pretty much exactly the same - I would still take leaning against something over walking up a hill any day…however I don’t know what my problem was that particular January because right now I can’t think of anything I don’t like about January…that said I don’t go back to work until tomorrow.
Merry new year one and all!
Yeah, I said it. Michael Jackson is dead. A tragedy for his family and friends. But do we really have to see a show highlighting his *genius* every day? Or see all his albums back out in the music stores? Or see his picture posted all over? Really, he topped his career 20 years ago, people. Even this week, Billboard has him in the top 15. Good grief. Yeah, he wowed everyone with his moonwalk. Thriller was a good video. He wore one glove, big whoop. I never understood how people could just go crazy over him, and all the new profits coming now seems a bit like vultures picking over a carcass. He was in the public eye his whole life, he made some decent music, and lead an extremely disturbing personal life. Can’t we just let the man rest in peace, and give the rest of us a break?
I was thinking about music as of late, and I am frankly tired of American Idol and the Disney Channel dominating what Americans, and the world, consider popular. Justin Beiber follows Miley Cyrus, who followed Jonas Brothers, and before that we had Spice Girls, Britney Spears, and Backstreet Boys. I think the last time music was interesting was probably in the early 1990s when hip-hop and dare I say even grunge rock were prevalent. Back then you had House of Pain, Salt-N-Pepa, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Dr. Dre and others making very potent music that people respected and cared about. Lately, I can’t think of music/artists that people respect and care about. It’s alot of rappers saying nothing with catchy hooks sung by females, with “auto-tune” on full-blast, making everyone sound digitally manipulated and party-ready. Well, the party isn’t as good as it once was.
I feel like the music biz and show business in general have run out of creativity. It seems like everything’s a remake of something already done before…Where are the artists taking music to different places? Where are the new Michael Jackson’s and Beatles? Who is re-defining American culture through song these days? I can’t think of anyone. Sure Rihanna has had a lot of hit singles, but I can’t see how “Umbrella” will matter ten years from now, except to get people on a dancefloor perhaps? Just seems to me that music today is alot of noise but little substance.
Now I know you can go online and find obscure bands and singers and support them by downloading their tunes for 99 cents these days, but the problem is they have small audiences. The industry used to be controlled by gatekeepers which helped Joe so-and-so become a superstar. Now with all the labels pretty much kaput, and artists doing it for themselves, you don’t have superstars, you’ve got minor, niche successes. Fall Out Boy is an example. They’re big but not HUGE. Where are the Celine Dion’s? The Aerosmith’s? The Journey’s? Today the music world is splintered by the web and it’s something that really bugs me!
I should talk. I am planning on being an independent artist promoting my music online in 2010. I don’t know if I will “sell” 10 downloads or a million. We shall see. Would I like to influence many people thru music? Yes! Will that be possible in today’s “Facebook” world? Who knows? What a weird wired world we live in right now.
