Here and There #5

    

Casting Crowns new album The Very Next Thing came out September 16, 2016 and it debuts at number one on the christian charts. This is Casting Crowns first album since Mark Hall has been cancer free which was not that long ago. He does talk about the songs and what it was like when he got the news that he had cancer. He talks with billboard about the music he has written and about his cancer. 

 Yet, in time, he found a new message to address with his students and it led to new songs. "We are always looking for what is off in the distance and God has placed you right where you are, to bloom where you are planted, to love the people around you and point to the people around you to the God that you know," he says, encouraging people to just do the very next thing God is calling them to do. "People that won't go to church, people that probably won't go buy a Christian record, they're not going to click on YouTube and watch a bunch of preachers, but they'll sit next to you in class. They'll ride with you to work or they'll sit at your table during your lunch hour and God has planted you there -- not so that you can get a better job one day -- it's so you can know Him and make Him known right where you are. That's what I've been trying to pour into my students and pour into people and remind myself is that [accomplishing] big things for God is really just reaching the person sitting next to you right now."

 The Very Next Thing is the first Casting Crowns record since Hall's battle with cancer. During a routine trip to the doctor to deal with acid reflux, Hall's doctor decided to do some scans and found a tumor on his kidney that turned out to be cancerous. He admits the diagnosis caught him by surprise. He was attending a funeral when he got a text from his doctor asking him to call. "When I read that, it was just that feeling you get when you look up and see the blue lights in your rearview mirror," says Hall, a married father of four, who worried about breaking the news to his kids. "It stopped me. Everything around me stopped and in that very moment all I could think was, 'This is about to happen. This is about to happen to me. I'm the youth pastor. I'm the guy that helps everyone else get through their stuff. I'm the encourager. I don't know how to do this part.'"

To read more click here: Billboard

 

        The latest news for Backstreet Boys is that they will be in vegas in March to July 2017 it will consist of 18 dates. The show will be called Larger Than Life which is a song that is dedicated to their fans from the millennium album. Now if you have ever been to one of their shows you will know that its fantastic but when you see them in vegas it will be even better.

 Backstreet Boys discuss their residency in Vegas with Billboard

      


If you ever wanted to know about their song I want it That away and if it ever made sense to you Backstreet Boys says that it doesn't...hmm never really thought about it until now. I guess it makes sense to me but some a long the way it doesn't. Here is what they had to say about the song.

“Well it’s funny, we actually were OK with the lyrics when we heard it first,” Carter told HuffPost. “And then the president of JIVE records at that time ― I mean he’s a genius ― but he and some of the A&R people wanted to change the lyrics.”
“To make the song make more sense,” Richardson chimed in.
The Backstreet Boys were releasing the album with JIVE and so the label having a problem with the nonsense lyrics could have derailed the single.
“We hired some really well known producers at the time to redo the song,” Carter continued. “So, there was another version of the song out there and then we listened to it back. Then, we as a group voted on it and said, “No.”
The legend ends here. No more speculation into how the band could not realize what they were doing.

 To read more click here: Huffington Post

Here and There #4

 



         There is so  much news that is out there. Backstreet Boys will have there 20th anniversary and it will be a great one. They will also be releasing a new album this year and then they will also get their name on the Hollywood walk of fame. Backstreet Boys aren't slowing down. There is also news about Backstreet Boys in production for a documentary.

Here is what Ew.com said about it:

“This is an incredible opportunity to make a film no one would expect The Backstreet Boys to make. What drew me to this project is their openness and willingness to push themselves into uncomfortable places, to be vulnerable and honest and to be really trusting of the filmmaking team to steer them in the right direction. This isn’t some 3-D Boy Band puff piece – BSB is getting real and it has been exciting to work with them as they explore their past and start to look towards their futures. They’re grown men in a boy-band. They are wrestling with the big questions in their lives and their careers. And they are just really fascinating guys,” Kijak said in a press release.

To read more click on this link: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/02/11/backstreet-boys-documentary/


This comes from Rollingstones.com:


Kijak, who hopes to complete the documentary by this fall, said members of the band have been enthusiastic about the project. "What drew me to this project is their openness and willingness to push themselves into uncomfortable places, to be vulnerable and honest and to be really trusting of the filmmaking team to steer them in the right direction," he said, promising the project won't just be a "3D boy-band puff piece."

To read more click on this link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/backstreet-boys-give-approval-to-documentary-20130211


Kelly Clarkson won for Best Pop Vocal album at the Grammys. She was also being funny in her acceptance speech. Later in the show she performed. Here is part of what she said:

This comes from MTV.com



"I didn't know I was going to win 'cause I literally, I was so excited to be in a category with Fun. I have been covering you all summer. I'm sorry, I love that song. I think it's so awesome. I love Pink. Everyone — Adele — that I was in a category with. Miguel, I don't know who the hell you are, but we need to sing together. I mean, good god, that was the sexiest damn thing I've ever seen. What? Anyway, thank you so much, friends, family, label, my manager, Narvel [Blackstock, Brandon's father and Kelly's manager], my fiancé, who is sexy tonight. I did not think I was going to win. Thank you!"

To read more click here: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1701724/grammy-awards-kelly-clarkson-speech.jhtml

Here and There #3

KELLY CLARKSON 

Kelly Clarkson's new album Stronger comes out October 24 and she talked with MTV and here is a little video of what Kelly had to say about her album 

Here is what Kelly had to say: 

"Oh yeah, there's a little bit of dance," Clarkson continued. "One of the songs, it's probably gonna be a single, 'What Doesn't Kill You,' it's a great song and definitely ... that's the one everybody will be jumping up and down to."

That combination of soul, rock, pop and dance is apparent in the album's lead single, the ultimate tell-off anthem "Mr. Know It All." But what are Clarkson's other top picks from the LP?

" 'You Love Me' is probably one of my favorites," Clarkson said. " 'Honestly' is another one. 'What Doesn't Kill You,' I can't wait to perform that live. We've already rehearsed it and it's so much fun. It's like this big dance anthem. That'll be the one [that's] kinda like 'Since U Been Gone,' [with] people jumping up and down to [it], and it's just kind of really inspiring, so I can't wait to perform that one."

    To read more click here

Despite Kelly having a new album coming out she also has other things on her mind. Kelly reveals that she has 50 animals she takes care for.

 

KELLY Clarkson owns 50 animals.

The Because of You hitmaker admits her home has become like a “rescue ranch” as she is so willing to take in sick and abandoned creatures.

“It’s like a rescue ranch now,” she said.

“We have 30 dogs, 14 horses. We still only have three ponies and four minis, but we have goats now, two pigs we rescued called Miss Daisy and Boss Hog, I gave those to my brother.”

While Kelly loves getting new animals, she insists there are some creatures she wouldn’t take in because they are just too big.

“There are elephant sanctuaries about one mile from where we are — which in Texas isn’t that far because we’re all spread out — and people have asked would I ever take in something that big,” she added

  To read more click here

  Here is Kelly Clarkson's new music video for MR. Know it All

DEMI LOVATO

Demi released Unbroken September 20, 2011 and I hear she is being compared to Kelly Clarkson but not as strong as Kelly. Here is about Unbroken from my.hsj.org a site about teenagers  

       When celebrities go to treatment centers, they tend to hide the facts from fans and media alike. Demi Lovato takes a different route; she openly speaks about her problems. Demi speaks – or rather, sings – about her experiences in her new album “Unbroken”, out September 20. From songs about family issues and self-harm to tracks about dancing the problems away, Lovato’s new album has a track that everyone can relate to.

Some of Lovato’s best tracks off the album are her ballads. “For The Love of a Daughter” is a ballad about Demi’s relationship with her father. A biographical song, Demi hauntingly sings about the pain she’s felt with her father. The song – which was shelved from her sophomore album "Here We Go Again" – talks about mature issues like drinking and fighting. She ends up saying “it’s hopeless” because he pushed her out of his world. This trend continues with “Fix a Heart”, a song where Lovato talks about her own life, making references to cutting (“I ended up with wounds to bind...and I just ran out of band aids”) and how she will never be completely "fixed". The pain behind the vocals is evident, making it one of the most vulnerable songs on the album. To read More Click Here 

Here is the music video to Sky Scraper