Products - Music Listings May 11th, 2007

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B'day (Deluxe Edition )
The follow-up to Beyonce's multi-platinum Dangerously In Love features 10 hot new tracks including the explosive first single off the album Deja Vu and the red-hot Ring The Alarm. B'Day Deluxe Edition not only has all of the classic original B'Day recordings but includes 3 brand new, never released songs and 6 brand new Spanish songs. Included in the repertoire is the first single Beautiful Lira featuring Shakira and Gitana featuring superstar Alejandro Fernandez.
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Loose
In preparation for her new album, Loose, Nelly Furtado tried out collaborations with a who's who of producers, and she tried to create a music more of the body than the mind. A prime example of the latter is first single PROMISCUOUS, a duet with Loose producer Timbaland, known far and wide for his groundbreaking work with, among others, Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake and Aaliyah. It stands to reason that gold and multiplatinum certifications (for 2003's Folklore and 2000's Whoa, Nelly!, respectively), a pair of Top 10 singles ( I'm Like a Bird and Turn Off the Light ), and a Grammy Award (for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance), to name just a few accomplishments, would afford a certain level of confidence. But nothing has inspired Furtado to throw caution to the wind more than motherhood. Motherhood makes you fearless, she says. The album is very youthful-sounding, Furtado continues, and I think that's partly due to the presence of this two-year-old in my life. I was with her all day every day and then I'd go to the studio at night, and I think that translated into a playful energy I feel onstage but that hasn't really been heard on my records. Starting with her longtime production team of Track & Field, she also knew she wanted to check out a variety of producers. Working with new producers, she hazards, is like trying on new clothes - you never know what you look good in until you try it on. And sometimes they will see something in you that neither you nor anyone else could see. So she traveled with her daughter from Toronto to London to work with Nellee Hooper; to Los Angeles to work with Lester Mendez (who produced, Te Busque, her moving duet with Juanes) and Rick Nowels (co-writer and producer of the gorgeous ballad In God's Hands ); and to Miami to work with Pharrell Williams and Scott Storch and finally, Timbaland. Indeed, the raw, lighting-in-a-bottle spontaneity of the collaborative process is at the heart of Loose. This record shows who I am in a jam-type environment, where I really feel the excitement of the creativity flowing, Furtado reveals. It's who I am at my most artistic. I live for that, and I'm very grateful to be able to share it.
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Continuum
With any trilogy, says John Mayer, the third in the series blows it open. On Continuum the singer/songwriter/guitar slinger meets that challenge head-on. Mayer's third studio album marks his first turn as producer. It is his most soulful, cohesive collection yet and he says it's no accident that this project is where all of his efforts, his potential, and his disparate influences fully come together. He has collaborated with icons and contemporaries alike - Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Herbie Hancock, as well as Kanye West and Alicia Keys. In doing so, Mayer says his own interests have grown and his perspectives expanded. Mayer also credits his collaboration with Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino (collectively known as the John Mayer Trio) with helping to recalibrate his musical priorities. If it wasn't for the Trio, Continuum would have been less accessible. It let me settle up with my needs as a musician, and get to a point somewhere between the Trio record and Room For Squares - and that's a really good place to be. Ultimately, Continuum represents maturity, both musically and thematically, for John Mayer a concept that he wasn't comfortable with until now. A lot of these songs are about coming to terms with getting older, he says.
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Some Hearts
She won America's hearts and delighted our ears with her heavenly voice. Now American Idol Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood, has released her debut album Some Hearts. The much-anticipated album features 14 tracks including the uplifting hit Some Hearts and her new single Jesus, Take the Wheel, as well as the bonus track Inside Your Heaven.
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Introducing Joss Stone
Joss Stone has sold more than 7.5 million albums worldwide; been nominated for four Grammy Awards; appeared onstage with James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Patti Labelle, Mavis Staples, Donna Summer, and Smokey Robinson; sat for an interview with Oprah Winfrey; starred in two major ad campaigns for the Gap; and performed for more than 200,000 people at the 2005 Live 8 Concert in London - all before reaching the ripe old age of 19.And yet, only now, on her third album, Introducing Joss Stone, does the British soul singer and songwriter feel she is expressing her true musical vision. This is the first album I've made that is truly me, she says. That's why I'm calling it Introducing Joss Stone. These are my words, and this is who I am as an artist.
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