This past Valentine’s Day, Jada Pinkett-Smith released a song with her band Wicked Evolution called Burn, which was a song dedicated to her hubby Will Smith.  Burn is a ballad filled with tons of emotion and senuality, with lyrics like “Can you feel my heartbeat next to yours?/Just melt inside me to the core/Stay here within me, never leave me/I want to burn.”

While in Costa Rica with her husband, Jada has been learning how to speak Spanish and records a message before the video plays, completely delivered in Spanish.  The translation says this:

This song that I am about to sing is very important to me because it’s the beginning of a new love for my husband. After 17 yrs, I never thought I could love him even more. This is for him.

I don’t know about y’all but this sounds like a woman who’s head over heels for her husband.  And I’m not even mad.  Check out the video, after the jump… Continue Reading →

Singer Katy Perry is defintely one of those artists who dabbles a bit in being “extra” without being overt like *fill in your own artist(s)* but this is kind of…interesting…and brave.  During a performance for the BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge series, Katy covered the Kanye/Jay-Z hit, N****s In Paris.

Like I said, it’s a brave and interesting choice of a song for her to cover.  Number one, it’s a completely different genre than her native Pop music but she adjusts it fairly well to match her voice and flow.  Number two (and probably where the controversy would lie) she covers a song that uses a racially sensitive word.  While she doesn’t say it, substituting “ninja” instead, some could be offended just knowing what the actual word is. Then again, Katy can’t be blamed for the word, since it’s not her song. Check out the video of her performance after the jump and share your thoughts! Continue Reading →