Timbaland Update!!

Hitmaker & producer Timbaland has recently signed a deal with Verizon Wireless to create the first "mobile album" which will be exclusively available to subscribers of V Cast, Verizon's mobile entertainment service. Timbaland will produce one song per month throughout 2008 and they will be released days after they're finished in the studio. The rumored artists to collab in Timbo's new project are; OneRepublic, Paramore, Flo Rida, Natasha Bedingfield, Taylor Swift and Chris Cornell. But the very first Verizon song has already been recorded and was premiered at a Pre-Grammy show last night. It is a collab with the one and only Keri Hilson! Hopefully it'll leak in some way soon.

Other news: Timbo recently shot the music video for the collaborated track with Justin and Madonna, the song is titled "4 MINUTES TO SAVE THE WORLD". Can`t wait to hear it!!


Justin Timberlake was interviewed for Hollyeood Daily People and of course was asked a few questions about his collaboration with Madonna:

HDP: You worked on Madonna's new album with Timbaland. In what direction did you take her?

JT: Basically, our job was to re-invent her sound. My thing was producing her vocals, really experimenting with rhythm. Everything she does with rhythm is straightforward. What I do is more staccato and R&B. So the challenge for me was writing songs, then saying, 'How can I make this sound more like Madonna?' I'm a big fan of her first album. So my mission was to write a modern-day 'Holiday.' I wrote a cool house record for her called 'Miles Away' that I think is a smash! She sounds great on it.

HDP: So is it an R&B Madonna?

JT: It's an R&B/pop/dance record, but it´s still Madonna. Her voice still sounds like she's 18 year old! It trips me out that she's 49. She´s always been rough and tough. Her last couple of records, she's like, 'Rrrrrrr!'

HDP: How did she react to your ideas?

JT: A couple of times I pushed her in a direction where it took a minute before we saw eye to eye. Her approach was, 'Well, I just haven't done that.' And I was like, 'Yeah, that´s why you should do it.'

HDP: So did you teach Madonna how to beatbox?

JT: (Laughs) No, no. We left that to me and Tim.