Thursday, July 20, 2006

Popozao! Popozao!

Clap Your hand everybody! And everybody just clap your hands! Have you heard the news? The time has come for everyone's favorite family man, Mr. Spears himself, Kevin Federline to showcase to the entire world his mocha latte flava, and what better venue to unleash the beast than at the Teen Choice Awards. Cause really if you can't win over the teens, then well who can you win over? Gotta work if you wanna crack that top ten over at TRL. As reported on USATODAY.com Federline will be closing the festivities set to take place on August 20th, by performing his hip-hop/rock single Lose Control. [cause I know y'all didn't get enough of that phase back in the day when Kid Rock and that Limp Bizkit/Method Man track was all the rage] It's one of the many scorchers [though Scott Scorch's production will probably be nowhere to be found on the album, tsk tsk] from his upcoming debut album entitled, get this, Playing With Fire. Yes, K-Fed, yes you are. Not only was the public not impressed with the "fake" first single Poppozao, but if that album is released anytime soon [meaning in the next 3-6 months] it will have to compete with new albums by artists people actually care about such as Jessica Simpspon, Christina, Aguilera, and Britney's ex-flame Justin Timberlake. Now a few summers ago I was a production assistant for the Teen Choice Awards hosted by Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. The entitre staff, myself included, were all lucky enough to sit through every tedious rehearsal and/or take needed for each performer, including a fresh on the scene Ashlee Simpson [the old I'm doing it for the love of the game Ashlee, not the new and "improved" Ashlee of today] with her hit single Pieces Of Me. Rehearsals seemed to be quite the challenge for young miss Ashlee, vocal problems, fatigue, scratchy throat, oddly pitched wailings, etc., etc. In the end [showtime] everything was a-ok and Fox [and Ashlee too] managed to magically pull off a performance that thankfully improved on the much talked about run throughs during production week. Who knows, maybe Fox and K-Fed will come through, depsite the giggles and uncertainties sure to be reverberating through the venue's halls as he runs through Lose Control over and over again. And I am sure Britney will be there in the audience cheering her baby on, that is when she isn't raiding the craft services table as was the case with members of Ashlee Simpson's band a few summers back. Who knows? In the end Federline may succeed in proving himself "as an artist, rapper and human being who goes through everything everybody else goes through."

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