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GOSSIP Mendes wrote song about fictional girl

hawn Mendes wrote 'There's Nothing Holding Me girl." It comes after the 'Treat You Better' hitmaker teased album. I think if you're creating music and you love the Back' about a fictional character he "fell in love" with. he was working on new music. He shared: "I've been listen- song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice. SThe 19-year-old star has revealed his hit song was ing to some old school rockers; I've listened to a lot of Sometimes when the song is right for that time period it's inspired by a female character in a movie script, which he Michael Jackson, and just [am] trying to explore a little bit. just kinda bad to let it wait and then when you do release read when he was auditioning for a part. Speaking about I think the album is gonna be not just one particular thing - it eight months down the road, it's not the same." his hit track, he told MTV News: "I wrote the song actually it's gonna be a kind of exploration of music ... "We're trying about a girl in a movie script that I read. I was going to act to plan everything so that there's time to make music, too. in a movie and I fell in love with the girl character, and so I I'll be writing and recording a lot on the road. I want to wrote a song about her. I mean, it'd be cool if it was a real make sure I have a good amount of time to create the next

Foo Fighters Charli XCX hates want Tears For assumptions Fears collaboration she doesn't oo Fighters want to collaborate with Tears for Fears. The 'Monkey Wrench' rockers reached out to the 80s Fband's singer, Roland Orzabal, to ask him to appear write her songs on a track on their new record, 'Concrete and Gold' and though he never got back to them, frontman Dave Grohl harli XCX is fed up of the "assumptions" that isn't ruling out hope it could happen in the future. He said: she doesn't write her own songs. The 'Boys' "There was a song on the new record that I thought would Chitmaker has called out the music industry be amazing if Roland Orzabel sang on or helped produce. for their treatment of female songwriters such as "I emailed him - and never heard back. It would have been herself, Katy Perry or Taylor Swift. She said: "There's a dream come true, to get together with the singer from an assumption that girls don't write their songs, Tears for Fears." Tears for Fears hold a special place in especially in the pop world. People don't believe Dave's heart because their music struck a chord with him that Katy Perry writes, or Taylor [Swift] - or, like, when he was a young teenager. He told MOJO magazine: me." And the 25-year-old singer admits her song- "My sister had 'The Hurting' and 'Songs From the Big Chair' writing is "very unstructured" as it reflects her and I secretly fell in love with Tears for Fears. "That melan- "messy and spontaneous" life. She added: "My cholic sense of melody really encapsulated that specific songwriting is very unstructured. It reflects my life place and time in my life - when you're 13 years old, your and lifestyle, which is messy and spontaneous. I nuts are dropping, your voice is changing, you're breaking see the sound in waves of color and it helps me through puberty, so listening to Tears For Fears somehow with my lyric ideas." Charli has also opened up soothes the burn. "When 'Songs From the Big Chair' came about suffering from panic attacks and admits out and they broke into the mainstream, they were they are "amplified" because of her status as a inescapable in America. I still listen to those records often." musician. She shared to The Sunday Times' Style While the band didn't secure Roland for their new LP, Boys magazine: "I still get them [panic attacks] every II Men singer Shawn Stockman did lend his vocals to a now and again. I don't know, definitely if I've been track. Dave previously said: "The guy from Boyz II Men partying a lot, that will trigger anxiety, but some- Sean to release walking through the parking lot and me saying 'would you times it's to do with relationships with people, like sing on our record?' And he does - on the heaviest song on if there's some kind of weird energy and I have to the entire record. "It sounds like Sabbath and Pink Floyd. confront it, that will take me a second. Normal s**t 'seductive' new It's heavy. It's the last song on the record. He built a choir - that people just have. Humans are weird, you it's like 40 vocals stacked. It's insane." know. "The thing about being a musician is that it amplifies things. So sometimes, if I have to go to single this year an event or a party, I get nervous energy. I'm not ay Sean has teased his new single will be "more seduc- good at putting that away. I'm not good at being tive" than his previous records. The 38-year-old singer 'on' if I don't want to be .. I'd be a terrible sports Jhas revealed he will soon be releasing a "brand new player. You know when you watch tennis and single" titled 'Want What You Want', and the star has everyone is really composed. I would not be there, described the track as "super sexy but rhythmic" and I'd be freaking out the whole time." "more throwbacky", which is unlike any of his other songs. savoring the moment Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz about his forth- coming drop, he said: "I've got a brand new single coming icole Kidman is "savoring the moment" right now. out in about a month. It's called 'Want What You Want' and The 'Lion' star is thrilled with how her career and life its super sexy but rhythmic. "I do kind of know what I'm Nis going at the moment and tries her best to "stay in known for and what I like to do. But this is one that is kind a consistent place". She told Australia's Stellar magazine: of like a bit more throwback-y to the point of like the way "I'm always just gently moving through life, so I try to not I'm singing is not the way I've been singing on recent have the massive highs and the massive lows and try to songs in terms of the high energy, throw-your-hands-up, stay in a consistent place. But in terms of just really savoring dance, have fun. This is a bit more seductive. I won't say the moment, yes ... I know when things are good and I anymore, I really like it. " And the 'Down' hitmaker has savor them." Meanwhile, Nicole previously admitted she admitted he will "100 per cent" be going on tour in the wasn't getting the roles she wanted so she "made opportu- future, although the string of concerts will need to be nities" for herself. She explained: "That was the great thing "planned right" for them to go ahead as he will only per- about reading something like 'Big Little Lies' and going, 'We form at a certain selection of venues. He said: "Absolutely, can get this made.' And I have to say for [Reese 100 per cent. With England I try to be very careful when I Witherspoon] and I to have taken that from nothing and all do a show because it has to be planned right. There's only the way to here, we both said, 'We weren't getting the a few venues that you can do which is respectful and opportunities of great roles.' I mean, sometimes every now where we people can be 'Ah, he's playing there, I'm going.' I and then, but I think now, particularly for women, we're in a don't just want to turn up or go to like a hot club and get position where if it's not happening, you've got to make it on the mic and sing two songs. When I live in America it's happen for you. "You've got to make opportunities for your- not a good look for me to come here and not give my fans self and your friends. And that's pretty much what Big Little a good show. So yeah we're lining it up." Meanwhile, Jay Lies was. It was building opportunities for ourselves and has silenced rumors he is collaborating with fellow singer Dame Judi our friends, and it just happened to become what it Taylor Swift, although they were previously signed to the became, but that was because there was an enormous same record label. He explained: "Me and Taylor used to Dench amount of passion behind it as well and optimism, actually." be signed to the same record company. I did one show prefers with her years back. It was really fun. It was me, Taylor, The Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake and it was just so much fun. She was so sweet, a lovely girl but we've never honesty worked together." ame likes that her mother was honest with her growing up. The 'Best DExotic Marigold Hotel' star is glad her mom 's told her she was "intolerant" as a young girl because she feels it has helped her become a bet- ter person. She told The Sunday Times' Culture magazine: "Oh, I don't know. I have a happy nature. easier life I have been very, very unhappy, like everybody, but usually I have quite a sunny nature, which is something you don't manufacture. It's either rie Larson admits success has made her life "easier". something you're born with, or you're not. And I The 27-year-old actress - who is engaged to rocker think that comes from my parents. They had great, BAlex Greenwald - doesn't live a particularly extrava- great senses of humor ... "Well, I remember my gant lifestyle but she is thankful she never has to worry mother saying to me when I was at art school, 'You about being able to pay the bills. She said: "It makes you are without doubt the most intolerant person I've life much easier on a practical level. Not that I've changed ever met.' I think I found fault with everything. And my spending habits dramatically or live differently now I remember not being able to say anything back, from the way I used to, but at least I don't jave to worry and just looking out of the window. She said it to about money any more. "It's not pleasant having to live my back. It's very good to be told that early. I hope under that pressure when you're trying to find good roles [I took it on board]. Because I think I am quite toler- and wanting to prove yourself." However, the 'Glass Castle' ant now. To a certain extent." Meanwhile, the 82- star does still have some worries, as she's always checking year-old actress previously criticized young actors that her career choices are in line with her ambitions. She for their apparent lack of interest in theatre greats. said: "I guess that, on an artistic level, I still worry about the She said: "What is so shocking is that young actors kind of work that I'm doing and whether I live up to my don't want to find out about the legacy that we've own ambitions. "I don't think that will ever change when it been left. They don't want to know about David comes to how I approach things." Brie won an Oscar for her Garrick and Sir Henry Irving and role as a kidnapped woman in 'Room' and she admits the and Edith Evans, and that seems to me to be a ter- experience of making the film took her back to her own rible shame. "Because although the fashion now childhood, where she, her sister and single mother shared may not be to speak the way that John and Peggy a studio apartment, and led to an emotional chat with her and and Sir mom. She told Psychologies magazine: "While we were spoke, nevertheless if you listen to Sir John you will shooting it, I felt more connected to my past. "We had a always get what Shakespeare means. "They're just pretty tough time after my mother, my little sister and I not curious. It's just non-curiosity. I think it's terri- moved to Los Angeles. "I remember calling my mom in bly important to know the huge history of theatre tears and telling her that I understood at last how many that we have, why you're in it, what people did sacrifices she had made for me. "She was crying too, during before, the lives of actors." our conversation and she apologized for all the difficulties we went through. It taught me how we all need to be more forgiving of ourselves."