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| | Celine Dion releases three new songs as she kicks off her world tour | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In April, Celine Dion announced her Courage World Tour, which kicked off Wednesday in Quebec City. To celebrate, Celine released three new songs: Imperfections, Lying Down and Courage. You can listen to all three below. Im excited to hear the entire album when Courage is released on November 15. These are on-brand for Celine: uplifting songs about love, and ballads that shes known for. After a long couple of days, ?Lying Down? and ?Courage? made me a bit weepy (though I?ll cry at the opening of an envelope). ?Imperfections? is in the vein of the ?encouraging love song.? ?Courage? is definitely a conversation with Rene, and ?Lying Down? is all about self-empowerment and getting away from a toxic relationship, which is very much in keeping with Celine?s recent comments about self-confidence and assertiveness.
CNN notes that this tour will be the first that Celine has embarked on without the support of her husband, Ren, who passed away three years ago. Celine discussed why she named the album Courage, and Rens death factored into her choice:
She explained why she chose Courage.
We all go through a lot of things in life, Dion said. Whether its losing someone, whether its a sickness, something we have to fight, something that life imposes on us.
And I think I went through a lot. Life had given me the tools to find my inner strength, in a way, to find courage to keep going.
When I lost Ren, he wanted me back on stage, she added. He wanted to make sure I was still practicing my passion, and I wanted to prove to him that Im fine. Were fine, were going to be OK. I got this.
[From CNN]
I remember Celine telling someone (Oprah, I think) years ago that Ren communicated with her during her show via her earpiece, and shed rub the side of her nose to indicate that shed heard him. She said something to Oprah about how people must have thought it was strange that she was constantly touching her nose. Given how deeply entwined her personal and professional lives are, and that Ren was central to both of them, Im not surprised to hear that he wanted her to keep performing and that thats what shes been doing, both with her Vegas residency and now her tour. I dont think Im going to be able to see her, but Im ready for the stories, and of course, more of her fabulous fashion on stage and off. Celine has been talking a lot about being empowered and being the boss, so Im looking forward to how that comes through when shes front and center, performing.
Here are Celines three new songs!
Imperfections:
Lying Down:
Courage:
Photos credit: Avalon.red and Backgrid
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| | Megan Fox: 'I feel like I was sort of out and in front of the #MeToo movement' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s sort of nice how many people have sort of adjusted their opinions of Megan Fox over time. A decade ago, I thought she was an unprofessional brat and word-salad-spinner extraordinaire. But she went away, she grew up, she got partly bullied out of the industry and she had to work her way back in slowly. At this point, I mostly find Megan kind of harmless, and I even feel sort of protective of her I think her marriage to Brian Austin Green sucks and I wish some director or writer really knew what to do with her. Anyway, Megan sat down for a lengthy interview with Entertainment Tonight. The purpose was to mark the 10-year anniversary of Jennifer?s Body, which was Megan?s first lead role. Jennifer?s Body has become something of a cult classic, and Diablo Cody (who wrote the script) was part of this interview too. You can read the piece here. Some highlights:
Megan on what was happening to her in 2009: There was so much going on with me at that time, that movie being picked apart was not at the top of [my list of concerns]. Because I had such a fraught relationship with the public, and the media, and journalists, and I was struggling so much at that time in general, this didnt stand out as a particularly painful moment, it was just part of the mix.
The era of being sexualized and objectified: It wasnt just that movie, it was everyday of my life, all the time, with every project I worked on and every producer I worked with. It preceded a breaking point for me. I think I had a genuine psychological breakdown where I wanted just nothing to do. I didnt want to be seen, I didnt want to have to take a photo, do a magazine, walk a carpet, I didnt want to be seen in public at all because the fear, and the belief, and the absolute certainty that I was going to be mocked, or spat at, or someone was going to yell at me, or people would stone me or savage me for just being out? so I went through a very dark moment after that.
She felt like she was ahead of the #MeToo movement: I feel like I was sort of out and in front of the #MeToo movement before the #MeToo movement happened, I was speaking out and saying, Hey, these things are happening to me and theyre not OK.? And everyone was like, Oh well, f**k you. We dont care, you deserve it. Because everybody talked about how you looked or how you dressed or the jokes you made.
Megan doesn?t feel like ?there is a space in feminism for her: Even though I consider myself a feminist, I feel like feminists dont want me to be a part of their group. What is supporting other females if there is only certain ones of us we support? If I have to be an academic or have to be non-threatening to you in some way? Why cant I be a part of the group as well? Considering all of the stuff that has happened since then, and is happening on a regular basis in this country, and with celebs [stories] we have everyday, I never really did anything that crazy. But I was really dragged through the coals for a lot of it.
Being a mom in Hollywood: Being a mother is not something really respected in this industry. If anything its considered as a handicap. And thats unfortunate because its not acknowledged, what were juggling, what were doing.
Megan?s work: I get this all the time, people will be like, You just dont really work that much.? And its like, I have given birth, I have gestated and given birth to three children. I stared in a movie that opened world wide, number one twice! I was on a critically acclaimed sitcom. I f**king executive produced and created a show about archaeological controversies! How much more f**king productive does a f**king women need to be? F**k you!
[From Entertainment Tonight]
You know what? Megan still has a point about how she was telling #MeToo stories before people were willing to listen. She tried in her way to talk about how Michael Bay made her feel, and how he behaved towards her and? she was fired from the Transformers franchise. She?s also right about how we and I?m including myself talked about how she did deserve to be fired, to be shunned, to be criticized. Because I really did think she was an unprofessional brat, and for several years, she oversaturated the media with those ?sexy photoshoots? and whatever we were like ?well, Megan can?t complain about being objectified when she?s choosing to do a million scantily clad editorials.? She was just a really young woman in the studio system, being controlled by a lot of powerful men, men who then threw her away when she talked too much. *deep sigh* I?m sorry, Megan Fox.
Photos courtesy of WENN and Avalon Red.
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| | Laura Dern says she's not dating Bradley Cooper and they?re just friends | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We can cross Laura Dern off the Who Will Bradley Cooper Hook Up With white board list. Laura and Bradley were photographed having lunch together earlier this summer and people really wanted to make them a thing. Everybody knew they weren?t, but news was slow, so we had a lot of time to pair random people together. Even though the oddsmakers had already dropped DeCoop from the books, Laura felt compelled to officially go on the record to dismiss the rumors. At an event this past weekend, Laura confessed she does love Bradley dearly, but just as a friend.
Just friends. Laura Dern opened up about her relationship with Bradley Cooper and how the pair are close ? in a platonic way.
?We?re amazing friends. We?re so lucky. And we?re family,? Dern, 52, told Us Weekly exclusively at L.A. Loves Alex?s Lemonade culinary event in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 14.
After photos circulated of the Big Little Lies star and Cooper, 44, eating lunch together in New York City in June, speculation arose that they could be dating. Dern doesn?t blame people for their interest in Cooper?s love life because she knows people are going to be curious.
?I mean, everybody?s always gonna comment about whatever seems intriguing, and he?s the greatest human, and one of my best friends in the world. So I don?t blame anyone for having deep curiosity about his life cause he?s spectacular,? Dern said.
[From US Magazine via Pajiba]
Aha! So it?s? just as we all suspected. Ah well. I actually really like Laura?s response. Instead of calling the media silly, she uses the speculation to compliment Bradley, that?s very sweet. He should date her. He should date somebody, for heaven?s sake, because it?s been three and a half whole months since he split with the mother of his child. Surely this gap in his relationships will end his life. Good lord, let the poor man (and the women helping him through his breakup) be.
But since we are determined to link BCoop up, let?s return to the white board. You know who has not denied dating him? Anna Wintour. Well, well, well ? isn?t that telling. No, it?s not. He?s not dating Anna. And he is most certainly not dating Angelina Jolie, even though Kate Hudson?s at Pajiba argument that we should consider it is my favorite piece of Romance Journalism ever. I know odds are on Jennifer Garner but I think she?s still loved up with her ?true partner, John Miller. No, poor Bradly is just going to have to stand next to another woman in public so he can be fictionally romantically linked for an afternoon. And then she can deny it, like Laura, and send us all back to the white board.
Are we dating now?
Photo credit: WENN Photos
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