more pop news

jay-z is once more tramp to beyonce's lady
conflicting spizzazzz versions! see i heard tonight on fox fm that bonnie and clyde ride together again: they were spotted in a restaurant eating off eachother's plates. which is nice.

the strokes
ryan from whizzkid management reports in his for-the-fans update email that most of the strokes (except julian strangely) are beginning to act like primadonnas! they have their management staff running their mundane and probably slightly malodorous errands for them:
"....you know, like running nick's laundry to the
cleaner....washing fab's dirty dishes that he leaves in our kitchen
sink, installing albert's stereo in his new apartment"

the new album will be out "SOMETIME IN LATE AUGUST or SEPTEMBER 2003......we'll see!". (poor ryan probly gets a lot of "WHEN?!" emails.) i have a feeling it's gonna be good.

australian murder inc. update
ja rule was um livin' it up this weekend on his tour here with ashanti and irv (but sadly no charli baltimore, but we forgive her for being busy finishing her album.) - he was on a massive roll at crown casino and was signing autographs on $50 notes and eventually extended his stay an extra 24hrs, possibly indicating he is addicted to gambling maybe. my friend's sister met him and she said he was very short and very cute like some kind of woodland creature. she didn't take her top off for him tho unlike ~40% of girls in melbourne. at that same 'tops off rule' after party ja's minders made the dj take 'in da club' off the turntable - i thought he wanted to end his beef with 50!