Sirius radio’s The Beat (ch. 86) has begun playing Madonna’s new single from her last recorded album from Warner Bros. records titled Hard Candy. The new single which debuted Monday on Sirius radio is called “4 minutes”. It has more of a hip hop feel with Justin Timberlake and Timberland in the background.

The artwork for Hard Candy has also been released on the Madonna.com site and looks hot!! I am excited to hear the rest of the CD when it comes out. If you have not seen the video of Madonna inducted in the Rock and Roll hall of fame on Youtube make sure you watch it. It is a 4 part video and I loved the story of Justin telling everyone of his B-12 injections from Madonna when she told him to “drop em” so she could stick him with a shot.

The full album release of Hard Candy comes April 29 in the US and April 28 internationally. See comments below for the video of Ellen dancing to Madonna’s new 4 Minutes song. Also, read our article on the seductive book by Madonna.

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Do you believe in life after love? Well you can this time. Cher is making a comeback after many farewell concerts to glitzy stage that once belonged to Celine Dion and still belongs to Elton John and now Bette Midler.

The Pop-Diva and Gay Icon, Cher, has signed a three year contract with AEG live to perform at Ceasar’s Palace Colosseum. The cast includes four aerialists and at least 14 dancers. She is known for having one of the best dancing, choreography, and entertaining shows so it will be a big hit in Vegas. She will also feature some new props and moveable scenes according to Luxe Life of Vegas. A USA Today article claims that it will be “visually unbelieveable.”

Cher is supposed to take stage on May 6th. Tickets will be available in a few weeks. There is also word she will be releasing a new album for 2008.

Update: Cher Tickets can be found on sale here.

I am really saddened and shocked to hear of the death of Heath Ledger especially at such a young age of 28.  Brokeback Mountain was one of my favorite all time movies.  Heath was picky about his scripts that he took part in… he turned down many teen movies and always went for the scripts he believed in.

It is such a shame that the media keeps making it sound like Heath Ledger may have committed suicide.  My search on google news I see headline after headline seizing on the fact that he was taking prescription drugs and sleeping pills.  I am leaning more towards the fact that sometimes you keep taking sleeping pills on accident because you may build tolerance to them and feel that they do not keep you asleep.  I have heard of several deaths that are related to sleeping pills in the last year and wonder if they are the devil.  But they are so nice to have when you have insomnia like I do.  So I do not really know what to believe.

I think that he may have been tired and could not fall asleep and may have tried everything possible to sleep.  Just like we all do.  That does not in any way mean someone tried to commit suicide… it means they were trying to fall asleep!  Screw these idiots who sit there and judge someone because they have sleeping pills near their bed.  Nancy Grace and all the talking heads should quit trying to make this something that it is not.  This certainly is not anything like we had with Kirk Cobain who overdosed on Heroin.

They called yesterday the most depressing day of the year but I think today could have been that day.  The U.S. stock market has been falling like the icebergs into the ocean (and the American Dollar), the Democrats are fighting like they are in different parties and possibly hurting a chance of winning against the Neo-cons, and there just seems to be more and more depressing news out of Hollywood.

The stupid paparrazi will just not leave poor Britney alone so I guess she will commit suicide soon because that is what these jerks want.  They tried it with Mariah Carey but she eventually came back and they tried it with Princess Diana and they had their way.

The Person of the Year should be a tie between Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, Ron Paul, and Hillary Clinton. Then again there were other influencers who made the year grand including Keith Olbermann, Ellen DeGeneris, and then Madonna and Al Gore with making the world a better place.

I do not think I could pick from all these people but Keith Olbermann really did the most presenting his news and poking fun of the pin heads over at Fox News. Bringing us truths that we have not seen for years that could all be seen on the Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

Time Magazine picked Russian President Putin as their Person of the Year. Maybe because of his shirtless fishing pictures while he was moving his pecs with his strangely shaped stomach area. Maybe it was that hes got more power than we know over there after the cold war. Or Maybe hes really a nice guy underneath all the testosterone. I would have picked Britney Spears for the Time Magazineaward because she was the most talked about person of the year over President Bush and Putin. Everyone wanted to know when Britney went to the bathroom, drove her kids to Starbucks, drove to the gas station, and walked in bookstores to get coffee.

We wanted more so she Gimme More. Gimme More. Britney Sprears 2007

Then there were the gay friendly people of 2007 who PlanetOut Voted on earlier this month. The winner went to Hillary Clinton for her consistent words on the gay issues.

The worst persons of the year go to Gov. Mike Huckabee, Gov. Mitt Romney, Bill O’ Reilley, Fox Business Channel, Fox News, The Writers strike, amd the extremetists christians protesting along I-35 saying that the highway belongs to them (the start of our next holy war).

Runners-up

Bob Iger, CEO, Walt Disney Company — For so many, many out characters on ABC, and for the gay employee association and same-sex fairytale weddings at Disney parks

CSMR (Ret.) Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr — For asking the army to ask, and telling us to tell

Howard Stern, radio personality — For hiring George Takei, for denouncing Tim Hardaway, and for bringing a higher level of gay acceptance to an unlikely audience of millions

Tammy Faye Messner
	29%
Hillary Rodham Clinton
	31%
Bob Iger
	9%
Keith H. Kerr
	13%
Howard Stern
	18%

Move over who shot JR this is much more sexier…

I admit I got addicted to this crazy ‘Tequila’ show on accident just by turning channels in my hotel room one night. I was amazed first that my hotel had MTV because most hotels seem to have every boring cable channel but MTV. Not that I watch MTV much but when you are in a hotel as if you are going to get LOGO or MTV Hits or anything exciting that you are not charged extra.

So it lands on some kind of typical re-run-a-thon that MTV loves to do and has done since it quit playing videos back in the 90’s. I think I watched the episodes of ‘A Shot of Tila Tequila’ so many times my head could spin now. They were damn good episodes and I loved them.

Dani is adorable and even the blond huge-boobed amazon girl was interesting to watch when she was kicked off during a after-show. Amanda has a great sense of humor and seems like a fun diva to hang out with but Dani seems more the type to date. One funny thing is that if you click on the video of Amanda and Tila Tequila in the hot tub it asks your age because of viewer discretion. I also kept getting Dani and Bobby mixed up because their names could go back and fourth. I think they are both hotties.

Who did Tila Tequila pick on the dating show on MTV? Did she pick Bobby or Dani? It was kind of a male vs. female and straight vs. bisexual vs. gay tossup which made it more interesting than most dating shows. Girls kissing girls and boys going after hot girls… MTV is sounding much more fun than their gay sister LOGO.

Tila Tequila picked up a huge ratings for MTV networks just under the Hills which was an unstoppable hit.

You can actually watch the season finale here online from MTV’s Video Player. Update: The MTV Player is not working on this site for some reason.

I understand this is not a blog that has anything to do with Girls Gone Wild but in this case it does.  This blog stands advocates rights for everyone and this time we see a person who has been good to the gay community and an overall good person being kicked down for no good reason.  I have been flabbergasted from hearing the story behind Joe Francis the creator of Girls Gone Wild.  I was driving from Dallas to Austin so I had over an hour to listen to his side of the story and how the locals in Florida took advantage of him.

I heard one of the most amazing interviews on the XM Satellite radio last night on a conservative channel called AmeriRight.  I was channel surfing and stumbled upon it since it was next to Air America.  The Rusty Humphries show was the name of the show.  It was a show that Rusty said he normally would never have someone on so long and never takes the side of someone who owned something like Girls Gone Wild but in this case he did because of the corrupt judge and corrupt police officer in the Florida town where Joe Francis (the CEO of Girls Gone Wild) was arrested.

Supposedly Joe was jailed over a civil lawsuit (you are supposed to just be jailed for criminal charges) for not paying crazy amounts asked of girls that were 17 yrs old (one year from the legal limit in Florida) in videos filmed of them where they lied about their age and showed fake ID’s and the filming was not even done by Joe Francis.   He said the judge was friends and ex business partners of the lawyer for the girls or something to that effect.

Basically, its all a corrupt story in a Florida town and I listened to it for over an hour last night just amazed.  Joe was calling in from jail and you could hear the phone say “this call is being monitored…beep.”  Joe was treated like a murder and shackled up and cuffed similar to the way animals or mass murders are treated in a prison in Florida.  He  did not see daylight for 60 days and he’s still in prison but is now speaking out while hes in Reno so he does not get brought back to the inhumane Florida jail cell.   Both Rusty and Joe agreed that the lockup in Florida was worse than Guantanamo Bay treatment.

Most know him as the Girls Gone Wild CEO but he seems to me like a good person caught up with some shady girls and a judge that went wild on him.  I think this points out many reasons we should always send money to the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal , American Civil Liberties Union, and groups that seek to defend our rights.  You may check out more of Joe’s story here.

The biggest Yahoo search of the day today was Britney Spears for her new CD titled Blackout.  We are excited for Britney and hope it goes to #1.  The album has many hot songs including “Gimme More” which is a sexy dance song you can move to at the clubs.  We even have our own Britney dance we do at the clubs when it comes on!

The fact she is so talked about in the media from sites such as TMZ.com and Perez Hilton you just know Blackout will be hot.  Blackout goes on sale this Super Tuesday, October 30th.  Yes, the day before Halloween.

The gay bars in Houston are having a Britney Halloween where they will feature a contest for the best impersonator.  That will be hawwwt!

So if the new Blackout CD takes off on Itunes ond tops the billboard charts then Chris Crocker will be proud and so will some of the gay bars that Britney supported such as Tigerheat and Piranah in Vegas.  We love you Britney!

Madonna has helped change our culture and openness about sex and now she is about to open up the world of the old-school record labels. With Madonna back in the news again signing a mega-million deal with Live Nation it made me do some downloading of all things Madonna including books and video media. I came across a .pdf file of a book of culture some may not remember.Think back to 1992. October 21st to be exact: was it a coffee table photo book? A publicity stunt? A personal view of sex? Whatever it was, it’s a fact that the world was shocked by its appearance. Actually I like to think of it as a coffee table photo book – which was what it was intended to be and even today I am still a little shocked by it.

I am talking about Madonna’s infamous book simply called “sex”. Looking at it again now in retrospect I don’t find it as shocking as when I first saw it and that’s because the world has moved on – and because I spend a lot of my time reviewing and writing about all things gay. But that doesn’t mean I find Madonna’s book pornographic, though that was one of the arguments against it when it came out. The thing that shocked everyone so much back then was that a mainstream artist, as Madonna no doubt was and still is, had never revealed themselves so much in print before.

The book contains a mix of text and images. The photography is by the same guy who photographed Madonna for the cover of the ‘Like a virgin’ album in 1984, a guy called Steven Meisel. He was also responsible for most of the photos of the superstar during the early 1990’s. Along with Herb Ritts, in the 1980’s, they have created some of the most iconic images of Madonna to date. The text is by the great lady herself though comes from the point of view of a character. Dita, inspired by silent film actress Dita Parlo, a character who appears in some of Madonna’s work of 1992/93, tells us of her lust and longing for sex in a kind of journal form where she fantasises about another fictional character, Johnny.

The publicity for the book, I remember, was enormous and the fact that it came in a sealed, silver mylar-wrapping made it all the more intriguing to the hyped up public. Everyone was clamouring to get a view inside without having to buy it but, in the end, the only way to see what all the fuss was about was to buy a copy. And when you did…

It is not only Madonna who makes an appearance inside. There are images of her engaged in sex acts, and other erotic and non-erotic poses, with guys like Vanilla Ice, Tony Ward and Daddy Kane. Naomi Campbell and Isabella Rossellini make an appearance too. The images, and the text for that matter, often have a dark, urban quality to them so should you ever get your hands on a copy don’t expect to see the kind of images you would see on an adult website for example – you may even find some that you find disturbing. I’m not talking about the three-way sex poses or the erotic lesbian images, in fact most of the pictures are what you’d call ‘classy’ and ‘arty’ – but there is something raw and undefined beneath all of that which leaves you with a sense of having seen something not only unique but somehow forbidden too.

Actually several organisations tried to ban the book, when first published, because of the imagery involved. Not least of all the religious ones. But the 1.5 million, limited edition print run sold out within a couple of days. Each copy was numbered and that was that. As far as I know there are no plans for a re-release and you’ll be very lucky to find a copy in good condition and for sale. You may have some luck at places like E-bay or specialist on-line stores but be prepared to spend mega bucks getting your hands on such a rare and sought after item.

So we turn it over to MTV on a normal day and on TRL all the videos you will find are mostly hip hop artists or rap “artists” that dance around shaking their booties with highly sexual content. They are also screaming out curse words and saying bitch this and nigga that. Then you have bigot uneducated idiots like JaRule who know nothing about real values saying MTV is bad because its corrupting kids with a gay friendly message.

You could not turn on the radio before without a rap song. I think all these rap artists are all crying and complaining because their music has finally reached its peak and they know that. It’s time to move on to better pop music, dance music, and hip hop. There are so many better artists now like Rihanna and Chris Brown who are more talented than JaRule will ever be.

I have read so many blogs and seen so many E! type news reports that keep saying one thing and gossiping about another. It is hard to get the real facts. All we do know is that the MTV Awards will be on live from Las Vegas for the first time this year and only airing one time instead of the mass re-runs we normally see.

Who will be performing at the VMA’s? The usual suspects of the chart topping songs we are all tired of hearing on the radio every 15 minutes. Also, the ones we never get to see on MTV in actual videos because all they show is teenage soap opera “reality shows” 24 hours a day. That is unless you have MTV Hits on your cable which actually shows videos.

The buzz about this years awards is a little different than the last two boring years of MTV VMA’s. There is talk that Madonna or Britney Spears could be performing on the show. Neither artist has performed at the moon man’s Video Music Awards since their big kiss back in 2003. I believe Madonna was on there to present an award but not actually perform. That performance shocked everyone and was pure entertainment from all the divas at the time. The hottest part was the kiss between Madonna and Christina Aguilera. I loved their dance moves as well.   We have had fairly lame awards shows ever since Justin Timberlake pulled out Janet Jackson’s breast.  I think we can finally spice things up once again.

One rumor states that Madonna will show up with Justin Timberlake and Britney will not even be at the awards. I have also heard that Justin and Britney were supposed to perform together but we all know that is highly unlikey even though they are on the same record label. There is major talk about the Vegas magician Chris Angel and Britney working together along with Madonna’s choreographers. Hmm… Maybe another Madonna and Britney performance? Or will Madonna be using Justin’s choreographers for her performance?

I have a feeling that Britney is about to do something big though so my bets are on both. If you get on myspace you notice that everyone is sending out bulletions of a new song from Britney every single day for almost a week now. Her songs have all been leaked on Myspace and file sharing sites… even the dance remixes from TI among other hot dance remixes. Surely she would not be leaking music like crazy if she is not going to show up and make a comeback performance to go along with it. We all know her House of Blues performances earlier this summer were 15-min long and highly dissapointing.

Everyone is pulling for Britney Spears to make a comeback at the VMA’s according to all the hype on myspace and other blogs but if she backs out she will look really desperate. We can only watch Sunday night to find out if any of our favorites show up. I will be looking forward to seeing Rihanna (Please dont stop the music, Umbrella) who has had many hits this year and Nelly Furtado (All Good Things, Promiscuous). I am also keeping my fingers crossed Madge and her out of control daughter Britney take stage.