¡viva la graham!

here’s the new gwen stefani video for “early winter,” as promised. the song has been edited slightly to make it a bit shorter, but it doesn’t really effect the beautifully-broken vibe of the track. she looks fantastic, of course, and i especially love the contrast of her virginal white dress and the blood red rose petals. the video is definitely as haunting and ethereal as the song.

what do you think? will this be a hit or miss for gwen?

this photo is 2 weeks old, i know, but i had to post this halloween party pic of maroon 5’s adam levine. he decided to dress up like brad pitt’s character from fight club, tyler durden.

his abs aren’t as tight as brad’s were at that point, but he doesn’t care. this is the perfect costume for a shameless show-off.

speaking of fight club, that brings to mind my favorite line from the film, when helena bonham carter says, “i haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.”

i do enjoy natasha bedingfield, despite the fact that i am still bombarded with “unwritten” several times a day in makeup advertisements and chick flick film trailers.

lucrative licensing aside, i am intrigued by the u.s. launch of her second album. originally titled n.b. for obvious reasons (think about it!), the powers that be demanded a change and so it has now been re-christened pocket full of sunshine. now then, doesn’t that make you want to buy it more??

lead single “love like this,” featuring labelmate sean kingston, was not on the original version of n.b. the aforementioned decision-makers didn’t think european lead single “(i wanna have your) babies” would fly on this side of the pond, and for that i applaud them. on the downside, i get the feeling that there’s little of bedingfield in this recipe.

i suppose it doesn’t matter, as the slow pop jam has grown on me with repeated listens. despite the vocoder! hence my list of “love like this” fun facts:

• in the first verse, natasha sings, “we were cool back in high school / ooh i really liked you,” while nat is british and they do not have “high school” in england.
• as proven in the photo above, bedingfield and kingston are a natural pairing. he obviously isn’t doing this for the money. haha!
• whomever is in charge of finding the “love interest” in her videos should be commended. first the cutie from “unwritten” and now this hot piece! well done.