SOTD: Shontelle "Perfect Nightmare"

Shontelle's No Gravity album is available everywhere tomorrow!  Start the week off right with a dance driven song.  Heck yeah!

Shontelle - Perfect Nightmare

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Diva Dish: Carmen Reece

By now, you should all be familiar with this 22 year old beauty from London, Carmen Reece.  She's been Wonk Pop's Flavor of the Month for September and her first album Love In Stereo just dropped on iTunes last Thursday.  The Indie artist (who's album was produced by the legendary Mark Feist) is not only beautiful, but she's a one of a kind singer-songwriter about to explode on the Pop scene.  With a voice that is unlike any other and songs that blend pop, dance & adult contemporary sounds, this is the birth of a superstar.

To be speaking to Carmen the day her album was released, made me feel like a giddy school girl who just got asked to the prom.  My heart started to race as Mark connected Carmen and I over my cell phone.  I had to remind myself to breath.  Immediately, Carmen's mature demeanor and thoughtful question of "Are you feeling better?" made me feel as though I was talking to an old friend, someone I had known for years.  This woman knows just how important it is to connect with her fans on a personal level, (nearly 28,000 on Facebook & growing) as it is to connect to her own music.  Read on (after the jump) to learn more about this rising pop star.
Carmen Reece - Love In Stereo by Wonky Pop

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New: The Saturdays "Higher"

This is the song The Saturdays should have released as their first single from their latest mini-album Headlines.  Cute video!

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Download: Maxine Ashley & Will Smooth "Unthinkable"

You may have been wondering who was that half-pink half-brown haired girl in the Alex Gaudino's I'm In Love video we posted a few weeks back.  Her name is Maxine Ashley and she's recently covered Alicia Key's Unthinkable (I'm Ready) with a fellow named Will Smooth.  You can download her cover here.  Happy Sunday!

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Introducing: Marion Raven

Here's something to chew on for your Saturday.  Somewhere, Kelly Clarkson is queuing up all her bitter memories and transmogrifying them into Max Martin assisted pop miracles. For the interim, listen to Norwegian survivor of the M2M disaster and fellow Max Martin devotee, Marion Raven. With her new album Nevermore arriving in November, Marion has dropped a new single, Flesh and Bone, and it's kind of a gear change. For whatever reason, it reminds me Fefe Dobson's new song Ghost, but way more pissed off and with way more lank, Alanis Morisette style hair. It's a good bet that you won't hear her album anywhere in the U.S. but will nonetheless be amazing.  Don't sweat it though, it is sure to be available on Legalsounds.com

Marion Raven "Flesh And Bone" by thegreydahlia

Marion Raven "Set Me Free" by thegreydahlia

Marion Raven "Falling Away" by thegreydahlia

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Kelly Rowland Embraces Us With Another Video

I feel a though this one was inspired by Apple's new iPad.  Love the song but the video is alright.

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Hot Weekend Jam! Taio Cruz & Ke$ha

Taio Cruz's Rokstarr is one of Wonky Pop's best albums of 2010 and this song is definitely a great addition to the airwaves.  Taio includes Ke$ha on his new single, Dirty Picture. The dance-driven hit is featured on his second studio album, which was released in the US in June. Taio admitted that he wrote the song with Lady Gaga in mind, but producer Dr. Luke encouraged him to collaborate with Ke$ha. "She hadn't done TiK ToK or anything like that at that point," Cruz states. "But I just thought she sounded really cool. A very unique-sounding voice." 

For the UK release of Ke$ha's Animal, an alternate version of the song, entitled Dirty Picture Pt. 2 is included, where Ke$ha replaces Cruz on the first verse (see below). The official remix features Fabolous and will be on the American version Rokstarr as a bonus track. A clean version of the song also exists where references to Send a dirty picture is replaced with Won't you take a picture and Ke$ha's line Take a dirty picture is replaced with Take a, take a p-picture. It was physically released on May 3, 2010 in the UK. The song will be released to U.S. mainstream radio next Tuesday. DigitalSpy gave the song 3 out of 5 stars, saying that Ke$ha had "enough gusto for the pair of them."


Taio Cruz Ft. Ke$ha - Dirty Picture
Ke$ha feat. Taio Cruz - Dirty Picture (Part 2)
Taio Cruz "Dirty Picture" (Dave Audé Radio Edit) by DaveAude

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