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Lana Del Rey still gets stage fright ana Del Rey still gets stage fright. While the 29-year-old Lsinger struggled terribly with the affliction at the start of her career, she believes she is getting better but sometimes still feels like she’s not sure if she can perform. Speaking about Cat Power, who has been open about her own struggle with stage fright and still plays through it, Lana told : “That’s why I really liked Cat Power, because I felt like I really understood her. “She was a person who really meant a lot to me, just knowing that it was okay to start your performance with your back to the audience, at first, if you really couldn’t face it. I mean, a lot of the time I just really felt like, ‘I’m not really sure if I can do it.’ But I mean, I’ve gotten better.” While Lana’s latest ‘Ultraviolence’ has won widespread praise, she admitted producer Dan Auerbach found her quite tough to work with. She said: “I would explain things to him in terms of colours and touchstone words. My word for the record was ‘fire,’ you know, blue fire, when a flame gets so hot it goes from red to blue. And I told him I Manic Street Preachersplan ‘big’ album wanted everything to sound like it was in the key of blue. And I think at first he was like, really? anic Street Preachers want to raise the scales to an enormous level.” The Mmake “the biggest rock record ‘Walk Me to the Bridge’ hitmakers are very ever”. The Welsh trio have just happy with their new album even though released their 12th album, ‘Futurology’, they think their intentions with the record which has been one of the most well- were “ludicrous”. Nicky added to NME mag- received of their career, but they are azine: “It’s ludicrous in its ambition. We’re already looking ahead to the future and trying to talk about abstract art move- have set the bar high for themselves. ments in a three-minute pop song, and Bassist said: “I think we all know there’s so much eastern Russian stuff in deep in ourselves that there is only one there on songs like, ‘Black Square’ and Beyonce’s Crazy record left to make and that’s the biggest ‘Mayakovsky’. “It’s got the same ridiculous rock record ever.”It’s Zeppelin, it’s the ambition as ‘’ but it’s Pistols, it’s [debut album] ‘Generation more cultured. It has that intent though, it’s Terrorists’, but bigger. “That’s a long way off. got the post-punk jaggedness of ‘The Holy In Love ‘perfect fit’ But I think we know that’s what’s left; to Bible’, but it merges that with the retro- for 50 Shades oots says Beyonce’s ‘Crazy In Love’ was the perfect Bfit for the ‘50 Shades Of Grey’ trailer. The producer - who created the trailer’s soundtrack - chose to rework the singer’s hi-tempo anthem into a slower, more sultry tune and says it was the best choice for the S&M movie. He told Complex.com: “It just fits. I like to think of myself as more than just a producer. I look at what we did for the trailer and this version of the song is, very much in my opinion, a score. “It was something that I consciously scored. Whenever it comes to the stuff that Bey and I do, I’ll never speak for her, but I think that she killed it. She just absolutely killed it. The acapellas that she did gives me chills, so it’s really dope.” Boots also believes Beyonce’s song is the perfect accompaniment to the raunchy movie which tells the story of how vir- ginal Anastasia Steele falls for bondage-loving billionaire Christian Grey. He added: “I think falling in love can make you do crazy thing. That was the spirit of the original song in the first place, we flipped it and it kind of became a whole thing. This is the first time I’ve ever worked on a trailer.”

Dolly Parton Weird Al Yankovic won’t retire needs Twitter break olly Parton will never retire. The 68-year-old singer insists only if she or her husband Carl Dean got ill would she turn eird Al Yankovic thinks he needs a “vacation” from social media. The 54-year-old D her back on her career and she hopes to keep performing Wsinger is “obsessed” with websites like Twitter and loves having millions of people well into old age. She said: “I hope to continue to go, unless my hanging on his every word. He exclusively told BANG Showbiz: “I’m a bit obsessed health should fail me or my husband should fall sick. I intend to with Twitter and Facebook and Instagram right now. I think I need to take a vacation from work till I fall over. I would love to be able to be like Bob Hope and it for a while. But I do love it. “It’s an amazing feeling to think of something stupid to say Betty White and a lot of those folks that work till they’re 90, 100 and hit a button and then three million people are reading it.” The ‘White and Nerdy’ hit- years old. I have no intentions of retiring!” Dolly also admitted she maker also thinks Twitter has had a positive impact on his career. He said: “[Twitter] allows loves seeing her friends “slaughter” her songs at karaoke. She me to interact with my fans and get feedback on anything I happen to be doing at the laughed: “ I have seen my songs slaughtered pretty good, by some time. And it’s brought me a lot closer to my peers in the comedy industry. “I’ve been of my drunk friends. But it’s always fun. It’s always good.” Several of enjoying social media for the last few years and it certainly helped me in a major way with Dolly’s songs have been covered by other artists, and she insists the release of this album.” The singer loves interacting with his fans on the social media there are no interpretations she doesn’t like. She told The Guardian website and is overwhelmed by their support, particularly by one group of fans who are newspaper: “It’s always a great honor for anybody to record your campaigning to get him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He said: “Normally I read songs. It’s always curious to see how people interpret your songs. every single mention, every single response I get on Twitter but this week it’s been impos- Some people say, ‘Ooh, I didn’t like that version’, but I say: ‘Well, I sible. The outpouring from the fans have been truly overwhelming. “Whether or not I ever like every version, because it’s amazing how people feel and hear get a star on the ‘Walk of Fame’ is sort of immaterial to me. The fact that I have fans that the songs so differently.’ care enough to spend all that time and effort to make that happen - that to me is the prize, to know I have such wonderful, dedicated fans.” Weird Al’s new album ‘Mandatory Fun’ is out now. Zoe Saldana: Avatar sequels will take 8-9 months Steven Seagal a oe Saldana says she’ll be working on the ‘Avatar’ sequels for “at least eight or nine months”. The ‘real’ action hero Z‘Colombiana’ actress - who is pregnant with twins with her husband Marco Perego - has revealed that the upcoming follow-ups to the 2009 blockbuster will be filmed one after the other in California. She said: “We’re going to be shooting mainly in Los teven Seagal insists he is a “real” action hero. Angeles and that will make things easier for me since I live SThe burly actor - who forged his reputation there.”Because we’re doing the sequels back-to-back, it’s going in popular movies like ‘Above the Law’ and to take at least eight or nine months to finish them.” Saldana ‘Under Siege’ - explained that he does many of the starred as Neytiri in the first installment of the adventure fanta- action scenes that his peers only pretend to do. sy and is to reprise her role in the upcoming sequels, which are to be released in 2016 and 2017 respectively, and she claims Speaking to ShortList magazine, he said: “I’m some- the director is nearing the completion of her and her co-stars’ - body who has been doing action a long time and Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver’s - scripts. Speaking to who is a real action person in the sense that I’ve the Daily Mirror newspaper, she added: “James Cameron is still really done - and do - many of the things that other working on the final drafts of the script and then everyone in people pretend to do in their movies.” Seagal has, the cast will get the call.” The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ star also in fact, acted as a reserve deputy sheriff for 20 spoke about the types of characters she likes to portray and confessed she wouldn’t feel comfortable appearing in a film as years on the border of Arizona in the Southwestern simply someone’s love interest. The 36-year-old beauty United States, a role that has seen him “put on a explained: “I could never play just the girlfriend kind of role bulletproof vest and a machine gun and chase the where, as a woman, you’re there just as an afterthought to the bad guys”. He added: “I’m chasing high-risk people, male character. “I’ve always held out to play dynamic and force- dealing with murder, rape, armed robbery. That’s ful women, and it’s worked out very well for me.” what I do. So I look at myself as a real guy.” Seagal went on to claim that the action heroes of today are not expected to perform their own stunts and can instead rely on special effects.