Oops….

It seems like the National Enquirer’s report pertaining to Jennifer Aniston’s pregnancy is not true as the actress’s representative told Usmagazine.com “She is not pregnant.”

So as to if Vince Vaughn, Paul Sculfor, or Sex and the City hunk Jason Lewis fathers the child (that was reported) would never be known.

A source says seeing the actress with “Friends alum sipped a martini at a Christmas Eve dinner with pals Courteney Cox and David Arquette at Mastro’s in Beverly Hills.” “She also recently had her hair colored by Michael Canali — another pregnancy no-no — last week.”

“The star is in a great mood." A source told Us, "Despite the fact that she didn’t have a date and “left alone” after the Christmas Eve dinner."

“There’s no drama, and that’s why she’s happy!”

Well let’s just see of baby bump signs months from now to see if either of the reports is true.

Jess Gets Engaged

Well this is what in-order means to hot babe Jessica Alba, get pregnant, get engaged, then get married.

Yes, the 26 year-old actress just got engaged to her long-time boyfriend Cash Warren who also fathers the child she’s carrying now.

As Us magazine previously reported, “Alba and Warren, 28, had split in July after two-and-a-half years together. They reunited in August, around the time their child was conceived.” “She wanted to get married, but Cash wasn't ready.” A source further told Us.

But I guess Cash just made a change of mind and probably was already ready for the “ever after” part.

The Best Paris Hilton News

No, it’s not her being into jail; not even a new sex tape nor her drunk driving antics. It’s about the “Heiress” facing the possibility of losing inheritance --a very big inheritance. Barron Hilton, Paris's grandfather, announces his intention to donate 97% of his entire net worth to charity!!!

Uh-oh… emergency alerts are probably playing Paris’s ears now. I would definitely be frantic too if I learn that gramps is donating away a whooping $2.3 billion fortune.

That would mean goodbye to parties, goodbye luxury cars, frocks, and jewelry. Looks like Barron's giving Paris a real Simple Life. Well I guess she should start being a good girl now to impress gramps and make him change his mind.

What a year ender this is for (poor) Paris!

Posh Spice Mobbed

Just when we all thought that stars are really secured granting they have all the resources like bodyguards and all, Victoria Beckham aka Posh Spice just missed a teenie weenie bit of that security as she was robbed of $11,500 worth of shoes, clothes, and jewelry during her performance in Germany.

According to source, "Victoria’s post-show high was ruined when she noticed stuff had been nicked. All the other girls’ dressing rooms were untouched, but somebody had clearly been rifling through Victoria’s possessions. She was very upset. Fashion means everything to her. She keeps all her old outfits in storage."

Hmmm… I smell some stalking in here… Why is she the only one worth stealing in the group?

Young Pinay Hits The Ellen Degeneres Show

Well it seems 15-year-old Charice Pempengco’s been banging the media lately for her appearance in The Ellen Degeneres Show. And of course, since another Pinay hits Hollywood, expect every other Pinoys to be raving about her.

I’ve first seen her in the Little Big Star, a singing contest hosted by Sarah Geronimo. Back then I wasn’t really a big fan of the young singer, her voice’s really impressive, but hey I prefer Sam Concepcion’s star appeal better than hers (the latter emerged as the ultimate champion later on).

Yes I wasn’t a fan of hers then, and guess what; I’m still not a fan until now. But since every blog I stop by I see a video of hers in that very astounding performance at the high-rating The Ellen Degeneres Show, so I guess I might as well join with the flow.

Man, the first time I saw the video, I was like “Wow…what a voice! Just don’t let her speak…” But then she did, and I was just controlling myself to suppress laughter with her ‘newly learned’ twang. She probably did a lot of practice there huh?!

Oh well she got a standing ovation, who cares how she speaks after all?

And in case you haven’t seen the full video of her performance at the show, here it is:

Who wants to go naked?

I WILL, that is of course if I have the same body just like Eva Mendes.

Surely, everybody will be in awed as this Cindy Crawford look-alike actress gets naked tomorrow on the streets of Los Angeles for her PETA billboard.

“It’s very tasteful,” Mendes just told me. “It’s all in fun. It’s got a flirtatious, fun spirit about it. It’s not like come hither or anything like that.”

The 33-year-old starlet is talking about her new “Fur? I’d Rather Go Naked” campaign for animal rights group PETA. She'll unveil the poster tomorrow afternoon on celebrity-filled Robertson Boulevard, just down the street from the Ivy restaurant. (She had planned to kick off the campaign earlier this month in New York City, but had to postpone due to illness.)

Now, wouldn’t this cause any traffic problems?

Well from Alicia Silverstone and now to Eva Mendes, it seems Hollywood stars are all going bare for PETA. But can’t they think of other campaigns other than putting off clothes?

Britney wants to take the limelight… AGAIN

Obviously the attentions’ all drawn to younger Spears, Jamie Lynn. But sister Brit wants to steal the limelight by wanting to have her kids tested for drugs.

“Britney believes Kevin’s been smoking pot in front of the kids,” says a friend of hers. “She says she can smell it in the boys’ hair and on their clothes when she has her visitation with them.”

So okay, after her not showing up in court for being “sick” and ignoring the judge’s ruling, now Brit’s trying to sound so concern???!!!

Wasn’t that just your dress and your hair?

Once and for all, what is up with you Brit?

Now frankly, I don’t really care about you anymore, I mean, who still does? But using your kids to get public attention is making me sick. Why don’t you get yourself tested for drugs first (again)?

Jaime Lynn Spears’ Pregnancy: A Perspective

When Jamie Lynn Spears debuted in the entertainment industry, she was under the shadows of her elder sister’s superstardom, after all she was known to all as Britney’s little sister.

When big sister, Brit went into a trashy marriage, trashy behavior, and later on doing trashy performances, everybody else were hoping that Jamie would at least vindicate her sister’s image in the public, or at least take a different path.

But when the news about Jamie’s pregnancy broke out it seems like the younger Spears idolizes her sister so much to be following her footsteps. Now don’t get me wrong, a baby is always a gift no matter what its consequences are. But Jamie is just 16, still 16 to take all the responsibilities that come with being a mother.

Yes, they have the money and resources to provide everyTHING the baby would need, but is Jamie and boyfriend Casey ready to provide all the emotional security their coming bub mostly needs? Wouldn’t there be another Brit-K Fed custody case in years (or months) to come?

I really thought Jamie has learned from Britney’s experience. It breaks my heart seeing this photo of Jamie in all her youthfulness and thinking that she will soon be rearing her own kiddo. I guess the Spears should come up with a reality show called Trash.

Younger Spears confirms pregnancy

News:

Britney Spears’ little sister Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant with long time boyfriend, Casey Aldridge as the father.

The 16-year-old Zoey 101 star is already 12 weeks along her pregnancy as confirmed by her and her mother. "It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected," Jamie Lynn told OK! "I was in complete and total shock and so was he."

Britney’s Reaction:

Britney found out about the news the same time that everybody else found out.

As a family friend told People, "This is going to kill her," "In the end, she'll be supportive, but this is a big shock."

Brit is 10 years older to sister Jamie Lynn.

Effect to Mommy Lynne:

Lynne Spears, the two stars’ mom was said to release a parenting book but was delayed indefinitely due to Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy.

The book was scheduled to be out in public in the spring of 2008 but was put on hold just last week.

"Lynne Spears's personal story of raising high-profile children while coming from a low-profile Louisiana community." Publishers’ Weekly said about the book. "We are standing behind Lynn at this time and understand that she needs time with her family – we support that."

News like this would really bring great shock to all people involved. But I know everything will end up well (with Britney as exemption of course).

I Am Legend Plot

Let's take a look at one of the factors that made this movie break box office records.

The plot:

Adapted from acclaimed author Richard Matheson's influential novelette of the same name, Constantine director Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend follows the last man on Earth as he struggles to survive while fending off the infected survivors of a devastating vampiric plague. A brilliant scientist who raced to discover a cure for the man-made virus as humanity came crumbling down all around him, Robert Neville (Will Smith) was inexplicably immune to the highly contagious superbug. Now the entire population of New York City -- and perhaps the world -- has been transformed into carnivorous bloodsuckers that fear the light and live solely to spread their contagion to any remaining living creature that crosses their path. It's been three years since civilization came to an end, and the loneliness has taken a devastating toll on Neville. By day he scours the city for food and supplies while sending out desperate radio messages in hopes that someone might respond, and by night he attempts to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus by experimenting with his own blood. But time is running out for Neville as the legions of infected watch his every move from the safety of the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. They, too, long to learn the secret that lurks in Neville's blood, though they will have to take caution while attempting to procure it because Neville will sooner die attempting to slay every last one of them than willingly giving up a single drop. Previously adapted for the screen in the 1964 Vincent Price frightener The Last Man on Earth and the 1971 Charlton Heston action film The Omega Man, Matheson's novelette also served as the inspiration for George A. Romero's groundbreaking zombie classic Night of the Living Dead.

~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

This type of plot is not my thing but with a good script and brilliant actors and director, I think I am watching "I am legend." I would prefer some politics and dark horror -- the devils and satan type. Wildly imaginative viruses and stuff don't bring as much fear as getting faced with the silhouette of a horned and tailed creature giving out a boisterous and blasphemous laugh.

Dan Fogelberg dies at age 56

We share the same first name and I am his fan. He helped define the soft rock era with hits like “Leader of the Band” and “Same Old Lang Syne.” Last Sunday, at age 56, the singer succumbed to cancer.

Posted in his website: “Dan left us this morning at 6:00 a.m. He fought a brave battle with cancer and died peacefully at home in Maine with his wife Jean at his side. His strength, dignity and grace in the face of the daunting challenges of this disease were an inspiration to all who knew him.”

Showcasing the brilliance in simplicity, Fogelberg's music influenced a number of artists including fellow sensitive singer-songwriters James Taylor and Jackson Browne. He scored several platinum and multiplatinum records during the 70's and 80's. Fogelberg’s songs tended to have a weighty tone, reflecting on emotional issues in a serious way. Nonetheless, he said they did not represent his personality.

"Music doesn’t really reflect the whole person." This is one quote I would really remember about the man.

Sole Survivor Hailed

Survivor China buckles up as 22-year-old flight attendant, Todd Herzog was proclaimed as the ultimate survivor bagging away the $1,000,000 cash prize.

With a strategic mindset, the Utah-native came victorious after outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting his fellow castaways for 39 days; and of course after convincing the jury that he once lied to and backstabbed.

Asked by OK! Magazine on how he plans to spend his hard-earned dollar, the openly gay champ just said, “I’m going to enjoy that money!" "I’m going to go to Disneyland, buy a car, get a Merry Christmas for my family, invest and go back to school.”

Well Todd may not be my Survivor favorite but he indeed knocked all of them out. Watching through the season, Todd definitely manipulated the whole thing. The members of the jury sat there because of him, and the other members of the final three reached through the end because of him, too.

Courtney Yates, the 26-year-old New York waitress who was more famous of her boney figure during the season was fell second to Todd. The gal’s I’m-just-surprised-why-I-haven’t-been-voted-out-yet attitude brought here to the most coveted top three spot as she was never a physical nor mental threat to anybody in the game.

While 23-year-old L.A. based former hiking guide, Amanda Kimmel was on the third place. Compared to Courtney, Amanda truly deserves to be on the final three as she was smart enough to make an alliance with Todd and win two immunity challenges during the game.

This one’s one of the best seasons I’ve seen throughout the Survivor history. To Todd and all the others, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Naughty girl's looking for nice boy

Paris is looking for a nice boy.

"Right now I'm single but I am looking for a nice boy," she told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday. "He should be funny, smart and loyal."

Speaking to entertainment press in Germany, Hilton expressed her "intentions" to change her ways.

"I changed all the light bulbs to energy safe light bulbs and I'm buying a hybrid car right now."

"Little things that people can do every day to make a huge difference."

The hotel heiress says she is making an effort to personally contribute to protecting the environment. That might explain the buzz. Looks like Greenpeace is hitting it big here -- hiring a new, popular, and incongruous campaign front.

Whatever.

Vanessa’s Supah Birthday

Although the breach-of-contract suit filed against Vanessa Hudgens by his former lawyer moves forward, the young actress still seem to find more and more reasons to fete.

Celebrating her 19^th birthday last Friday, High School Musical Star Vanessa Hudgens went out with her mom out and about the San Fernando Valley. The duo bought some flowers then headed to the mall in Sherman Oaks to shop until they drop.

On the following day, Vanessa drove her new Audi S4 Cabriolet that has a base price of $75,000! Wootwooo….

Ashley’s New Nose

Then…

High School Musical Star Ashley Tisdale announced to the public that she’s getting a rhinoplasty procedure. However she defended that the procedure was not for cosmetic purposes.

Interviewed about the decision, she told People, "Growing up, I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing."

Now…

Please welcome the result of the five-hour procedure that Ashley went through.

Obviously she looked really, really different. But as to better or worse, you do the judging.

Source: Celebrity Weasel

Allergic to Celine

You know we know how many know Celine Dion is somewhat an icon of the un-cool and abhorrent. She can brag all the way to the bank the title of being the best-selling female artist of all time or the impressive 700+ sold out shows in her Las Vegas stint. Nevertheless, she remains to be one of pop-culture's most popular and most hated figures. And now it seems even that hatred has been encoded down into the genes. Look how the poor innocent baby reacts to the poooooweeeeeerrrr ooooooofffff looooooovvvveeeeeee...........

Just for laughs.

The Golden Compass

Religious controversy: this seems to be the film's marketing scheme. It worked well for the Da Vinci Code so don't blame New Line Cinema for imploring the same stratagem.

The Golden Compass is a fantasy film based upon the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. At $180 million, it is one of New Line's biggest-budget projects ever.

The story involves Lyra, an orphan living in a fantastical parallel universe in which the dogmatic dictatorship of the Magisterium threatens to dominate the world. When Lyra's friend is kidnapped, she travels to the far North in an attempt to rescue him and rejoin her uncle.

Before The Golden Compass's release, it received criticism from secular organizations and fans of His Dark Materials for the dilution of the religious elements from the novels, as well as from religious organizations, particularly the U.S. Catholic League, for perceived anti-Catholic themes.

The plot (Wikipedia):

There are infinitely many parallel universes; eleven-year-old Lyra Belacqua, an orphan-ward of Jordan College, Oxford, lives in one in which a person's spirit resides outside the body in the form of a "dæmon," which is visible as an animal. The story begins when Lyra and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, save her uncle, Lord Asriel, from poisoning by a representative of the Magisterium. They learn that the motive for the attempted murder was to prevent Asriel from presenting evidence that elementary particles called Dust were flowing from a parallel universe into the far North. In spite of the Magisterium's official insistence that Dust does not exist, Asriel obtains funding from the university to mount an expedition to explore the phenomenon. It is later revealed that the Magisterium is aware of Dust, which it links to original sin, and that its scientists are working on a means of inoculating children against its effects.

Shortly after Lord Asriel goes north, Lyra's friends Billy Costa and Roger disappear, and she believes that the folkloric "Gobblers" have taken them away to the North. Lyra has vowed to rescue Roger, and finds her chance when a visiting woman of great importance, Mrs. Marisa Coulter, offers to take Lyra north as her assistant. Lyra assents, but before she leaves is entrusted with a priceless object by the Master of the College: an alethiometer. Resembling a golden compass, it is a device able to reveal the answer to any question asked by the user. Although initially unable to read or understand its complex meanings, Lyra takes it with her to Mrs Coulter's flat.

Mrs. Coulter arouses Lyra's suspicion when she delays in taking her north. Lyra explores a room of the flat she was forbidden to enter, and discovers that Mrs. Coulter is head of the General Oblation Board – the real "Gobblers" who have been kidnapping children. She then returns to her bedroom to find the alethiometer in the hands of Mrs. Coulter's dæmon, the Golden Monkey. She manages to to steal it back, and flees into the streets of the city.

The "Gobblers" pursue her, but she is saved by the gyptians, a nomadic boat-people. She learns that many gyptian children like Billy have disappeared, and that the gyptians will be taking her to the North on a rescue mission. A gyptian and Serafina Pekkala, the queen of a witch clan, help her understand how to use the alethiometer.

In a Norwegian port, Lyra befriends Lee Scoresby, an aeronaut, who advises her to hire him and Iorek Byrnison, an armoured bear. She visits Iorek, who is in fact an exiled prince of the armoured bears, and uses the alethiometer to learn where the townsfolk have hidden the armour they stole from him. In return, he pledges to serve her until she has a victory.

Later in the journey north, the alethiometer guides her to Billy Costa, who has escaped from the Magisterium. She finds him dazed, and without his dæmon. With the help of Iorek, she returns Billy to the gyptians. Soon after, the group is attacked, and Lyra is captured and taken to the king of the armoured bears. She manages to trick Ragnar Sturlusson, the usurping bear-king into allowing Prince Iorek to engage him in combat for the throne. Iorek wins and becomes king of the armoured bears. He accompanies Lyra to Bolvangar, where the abducted children are held, to rescue Roger. However, they are separated when an ice bridge collapses, and Lyra chooses to continue, ignoring Iorek's instruction to wait for him and Lee Scoresby to return with the airship.

Lyra is warmly welcomed into Bolvangar. She immediately locates Roger and builds up a plan of escape. Lyra eavesdrops on a group of scientists talking with Mrs. Coulter about the experiments they do on the children, and is caught after Mrs. Coulter leaves the room. The method of preventing Dust from entering a child is to sever his or her bond to the dæmon. To silence Lyra, the scientists begin the procedure on her and Pantalaimon, but Mrs. Coulter intervenes at the last moment.

Mrs. Coulter explains that she is Lyra's mother, and that Lord Asriel is her father. When Mrs. Coulter asks for the alethiometer, Lyra deviously incapacitates her mother. Then she destroys the severing apparatus, and leads the other children out of the facility. The military guard tries to block the escape of the children, but gyptians, Iorek the armoured bear, witches, and Lee Scoresby arrive to fight them. The guard loses the battle, and most of the children return home with the gyptians.

Lyra and Roger choose to travel onward with Lee Scoresby, Iorek Byrnison, and Serafina to find Lord Asriel. Serafina foretells a great war.

The reviews point to no similar direction for The Golden Compass. At review aggregate website, Rotten Tomatoes, which divides the number of positive reviews a film has received by the total number, it has a 43% rating based on 143 reviews, with a 54% rating from selected "notable" critics. James Christopher of The Times was disappointed, praising the "marvelous" special effects and casting, but saying that the "books weave a magic the film simply cannot match" and citing a "lack of genuine drama." Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert awarded the film four out of four stars and called it "a darker, deeper fantasy epic than the Rings trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia or the Potter films. Morover, Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter predicted a "substantial" box office for the film, praising the special effects and stunts, strong storyline, viable characters and the acting.

To the right, to the right...

This version of Beyonce's hit couldn't just get out of mah head!


IRREPLACEABLE
B Boy Truth

This is from a mans point of view
fellas sumtimes we gotta tell them ladies
to the right to the right
aha yea get the steping
to the right to the right
to the right to the right
thats where im going in the middle of the night

in the closet that's your stuff
but trick i bought it so bitch donlt touch
you talk a lot of bullshit allright
but while you walk and talk
imma get mine now
it my name thats on your lass
you bald-headed rat trying to get rid of that

back up out my face broad im really not trying to talk to you
talking about im never gonna find a girl like you
you must got me fucked up

you must not know about me
you must think im playing
i can have another you in an hour
matter fact she's up stairs in the shower-baby

you must not know about me
you must think im playing
i can find another you on the corner
so don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplacable

trick give me my phone
so i can call my chick and see if she's home
oh shit i forgot that she's already home
what did you think i was putting you out for
cause you was unreal kinda like the horse that is sitting on the back of your head
baby fix them teeth seeing your
face is so old to me
back up out my face broad im really not trying to talk to you
telling me im never finding a girl like you
boy you got me so damn twisted

you must not know about me
you must think im playing
cause i can have another you in a minute
matter fact she’ll drive up in a minute baby

you must not know about me
you must think i'm playing
i can have another you in an hour
so don't you ever for a second get to thinking that you're irreplacable

so since im not your everything
im not giving you anything
nothing at all to you
baby im not giving you nothing noway
go ahead and shed your tears
cause the truth of the matter is replacing you was the last tear

to the right to the right
to the right to the right

gotta gotta go the the ri-ight

to the right to the right
to the right to the right

to the right to the right
to the right to the right

to the right to the right
to the right to the right

so don't you ever for a second get to thinking
what?
get to thinking
what?
get to thinking you're irreplaceable

you must not know about me
you must think i'm playing
i can have another you in a minute
matter fact she’ll be here in a minute baby
you must not know about me
you must think i'm playing
i can have another you in an hour
matter fact she's up stairs in the shower ohhh

you must not know about me
you must think i'm playing
i can find another you baby
theres so many of you baby

you must not know about me (two timing)
you must think im playing (back stabbin, heifer-lyin)

all ways needing
i need something but the truth is
you have allways been replacable ohhh
please see yourself out this way

Celine Dion takes a chance while Alicia Keys stays as she is

It's a battle between the cool and the un-cool, hip hop and ballad, black and white, proven bestseller and another bestseller. Alicia Keys and Celine Dion's head-on album debuts has been a featured Billboard.com poll. Voters thought Celine was to emerge victorious, they were wrong. Billboard statistics placed Keys with a wide lead at the number one slot followed by Josh Groban and then, Dion. Contrary to prevailing calculations and expectations, the Dion magic seems to have failed. Forbes.com expected veteran artists to rule the charts -- two of them being Celine Dion and Garth Brooks.

Pop culture pulse today seems to have its leaning to younger artists. There's X-Factor alumna Leona Lewis ruling the British charts and here's Alicia Keys dominating America. Maybe it's the music. Perhaps it's the look and appeal. (Did I mention the dead ringer effect in Alicia and Leona's album covers?)

So much for the questions, let's take a quick look at the new musical offerings of Dion and Keys.

As I am

With Sony (Keys' label) doing heavy promotion and marketing campaigns, Alicia Keys' "As I am" is ubiquitous. The first single "No One" is reverberating.

The tracks (song title - writers - track length):

1. "As I Am (Intro)" (Alicia Keys) - 1:52
2. "Go Ahead" (Alicia Keys, Kerry Brothers, Mark Batson, Marsha Ambrosius) - 4:35
3. "Superwoman" (Alicia Keys, Linda Perry, S. Moysten) - 4:34
4. "No One" (Alicia Keys, Kerry Brothers, George Harry) - 4:13
5. "Like You'll Never See Me Again" (Alicia Keys, Kerry Brothers) - 5:15
6. "Lesson Learned" (featuring John Mayer) (Alicia Keys, John Mayer) - 4:13
7. "Wreckless Love" (Alicia Keys, Harold Lily, Jack Splash) - 3:52
8. "The Thing About Love" (Alicia Keys, Linda Perry) - 3:49
9. "Teenage Love Affair" (Alicia Keys, Harold Lily, Jack Splash, Josephine Bridges, Carl Mitchell Hampton, Ivan F. Reyes, Tom Nixon) - 3:10
10. "I Need You" (Alicia Keys, Mark Batson, Harold Lily, Paul Green) - 5:09
11. "Where Do We Go from Here" (Alicia Keys, Kerry Brothers, Harold Lily, Ivan F. Reyes, Johnnie Frierson, Mary Lou Cross) - 4:10
12. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Alicia Keys) - 2:07
13. "Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)" (Alicia Keys, Kerry Brothers, Paul Green, Novel, S. Moysten) - 4:28
14. "Sure Looks Good to Me" (Alicia Keys, Linda Perry) - 4:31

Keys speaks of the album as something very fresh and new. "It's coming together incredibly. I am in love with this album. "

Critics give the album a mainly positive reception. Fans and audience are bringing it to lingering chart success. The album was selected by Rollingstone the #36 best album of 2007.

Being ubiquitous and highly successful, this album needs track descriptions no more.

Taking Chances

(Borrowing the words of Chris Daughtry) Closet Celine Dion fans may just be delighted to hear the Las Vegas Diva's latest offering. The 16-track album is packed with variety and a new edgy sound. It can't really claim to be a total deviation from the usual Dion ballads . Nevertheless, the album boasts of a great musical collaboration Clive Davis may have wished Kelly Clarkson did.

The tracks (song title - writers - track length):

1. "Taking Chances" K. DioGuardi, D. Stewart 04:07
2. "Alone" B. Steinberg, T. Kelly 03:23
3. "Eyes on Me" K. Lundin, S. Kotecha, D. Goodrem 03:53
4. "My Love" L. Perry 04:08
5. "Shadow of Love" A. Bagge, A. Nova, P. Sjöström 04:10
6. "Surprise Surprise" K. DioGuardi, M. Harrington, A. Howes 05:14
7. "This Time" D. Hodges, B. Moody, S. McMorran 03:47
8. "New Dawn" L. Perry 04:45
9. "A Song for You" A. Bagge, A. Nova, R. Wells 03:27
10. "A World to Believe In" T. Izzo, R. Ciciola 04:08
11. "Can't Fight the Feelin'" A. Nova 03:51
12. "I Got Nothin' Left" Ne-Yo, C. Harmon 04:20
13. "Right Next to the Right One" T. Christensen 04:10
14. "Fade Away" P. Astrom, D. Stenmarck, A. Nova 03:17
15. "That's Just the Woman in Me" K. Rew 04:33
16. "Skies of L.A." C. Stewart, The-Dream, T. Harrell 04:24

Surprise Surprise and Skies of L.A. seem to be the most noticeable new sounds introduced in the album. Both have calming and very pleasant effects reminiscent of Coldplay and the soundtrack-meets-country-music type of music. Fade Aways smacks of Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone. New Dawn has the Gospel Mariah Carey feel. Eyes on Me sounds Shakira -- not really Oriental as how many perceive it. That's Just the Woman in Me is a vocal exhibition with Dion trying to growl a la Janis Joplin.

The vocally notable "Map to My Heart" is a track only available in the Japanese release of Taking Chances. A World to Believe in, on the other hand, sounded a lot better in a collaboration Dion did with Japanese singer Yuna Ito.

Overall, the album is great. However, with the album's "wild" cover, closet Dion fans may still have to do the old trick hiding their cd's behind Alicia Key's (for example) when checking out from the store.