Linda Perry says she thought Christina Aguilera was too โhotโ to sing โBeautifulโ:
โShe was like, โOkay I want that.โ And Iโm thinking in my mind, โNo, youโre like, a hot chick. Iโm not giving you this song. No way. Are you kidding me?โ My manager at the time said, โWhy donโt you let her sing it and see what it sounds like?โ So I let her sing it and it made sense. Thatโs when I discovered beautiful people are actually insecure and are just as damaged as I am.โ
๐: https://t.co/U1pVPTMwPy
@pedoqpop Yang bawa motor mana ada otak. Parking kereta dia ambik, pam minyak motor taknak guna, lampu merah tak stop, jalan wrong way dia lalu. Memang kategori cacat akal.
@anoeosman@kamaghul Dia kena angkat perut ke atas, lipat sikit guna satu tangan pastu satu tangan lagi melancap. Camtu la time orang gemuk camni nak cum on my face/mouth.
Masalah sesak KL bukan sekadar kereta seorang penumpang.
Masalahnya kerja sudah zaman cloud, tapi budaya pejabat masih zaman punch card.
Ramai orang redah jam 7 pagi ke KLโฆ
hanya untuk buka laptop, masuk Teams, dan reply email client luar negara.
Teknologi remote.
Mentaliti car park.
A music executive walked out of Columbia Records with all of Katy Perry's unreleased music tucked under her arm. She handed it to a competitor. Three labels had already dropped Perry. The fourth nearly did too. Without that theft, there's no "I Kissed a Girl."
Perry was 16 when she released a gospel album under her real name, Katheryn Hudson. It sold 200 copies. The label was bankrupt by December.
She moved to Los Angeles. The producer behind Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill signed her to his small label in 2004. It collapsed before her album came out. Columbia Records picked her up the same year and kept her for two years. They paired her with Dr. Luke and Max Martin, the producers behind hits for Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson. The team recorded a full album. In 2006, right before its release, Columbia fired her too.
The executive's name was Angelica Cob-Baehler. She had spent years as a senior publicity executive at Columbia, trying to convince the company to release Perry's album. They wouldn't budge. So in 2005 she quit for a job at Virgin Records. On her way out, she took Perry's files with her. "I just grabbed them and put them under my arm and I just snuck out," she later recalled.
She handed them to her new boss, Jason Flom. Flom listened to the demos and signed Perry to Capitol Records in April 2007. When Perry recorded "I Kissed a Girl" the next year, the label panicked. Nobody at Capitol believed in the song. They were sure conservative religious markets in the US wouldn't play it on radio. Most of the label wanted to bury it.
Two Capitol executives pushed it through anyway. Chris Anokute, who oversaw Perry's record, teamed up with Dennis Reese, the label's head of radio promotions. Reese got a Nashville station to play it first. The station's phones were flooded with calls within three days. The song hit number one in July 2008 and stayed there for seven weeks. Capitol had been about to drop Perry for the fourth time. Without that file theft, none of it happens.