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Join us this evening on ustream.tv/thosegirlsarewild at 8:30 pm! We’re talking about everything! My album, Shannon’s new book, the web series, acting, photography, relationships you name it ! Come support your girls!  

We just finished our final skit for the web series pilot today with our special guest and fab friend (did you guess who yet?). Tomorrow we have a meeting at Universal, a quick photoshoot for the intro and then finishing up some scenes with Laith. After that we wanna sit and chat with you guys sooooo bad! We feel terrible that the blog has become so blah and we wanna chat about why and how now more than ever we need you in our lives.

Sooooo if you happen to be square bears like us and home on a Friday, meet us at ustream.tv/channel/thosegirlsarewild at 8:30 p.m. (eastern time) we’ll be on for an hour or so, so it’s okay if you’re late. For all you pervy girls out there, maybe Laith will be there too for a bit. Okay back to editing for me and back to whatever it is that you wild kids are up to.

xo fam,

See you tomorrow?

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I absolutely love this song! Creative and Funny = Awesome! Cee Lo is the greatest!  

Are you good at keeping secrets? Who do you tell? Is there ever a right or wrong time to keep to tell or keep secrets from people? This week we have our intern Torie Michelle joining us in the discussion, let us know your thoughts.   

We had an extremely productive week this week on all of our journeys. Andrea has been in the studio recording (she is there today actually), I set a meeting with my agent for my book and we did a LOT of work on the pilot for our web series. Monday our friend Mike Warren from Everything That’s Fly was kind enough to let us record our show intro plus our spoof song at his wicked studio! Then Wednesday and Thursday we filmed all day (which has resulted in less than 4 minutes of finished footage..ya we still got a ways to go). This week we are filming our celebrity sketch with a famous friend of ours (I bet you can guess who), we are also filming sketch intros, a few more skits, some scenes with Laith and then we need to put visuals to the intro.

Here is where you can help! Up top is our show intro, we need some ideas on what visuals to add to it. And if you wanna be our super hero, maybe you can volunteer your super incredible video editing skills to do it for us (hey just thought I would put it out there).

Post links or just let us know what you think in the comments. Here are some ideas that we like. Maybe a combo of all three?

Today is the 9th anniversary of Aaliyah’s death. I still miss her and I still listen to her music like she has a current hit on the radio. She truly was one of my biggest inspirations! Wild Girl fah true R.I.P Aaliyah.

Lawrence Fishburne’s daughter is doing PORN!!  The blogs have been talking about Montana Fishburne for a couple weeks now and all the foolishness involving her decision to become a porn star, so this week we’re gonna gossip a little bit  with our intern Tactix aka Gary (music reviewer) and give you our opinion on what’s going on with this lost little girl!  

Okay so I know myself and Andrea have been a lil MIA on the blog, especially when it comes to delivering our regular goodies but it has been for good reason! We are so lucky to have such incredible interns and guest bloggers so that we can still keep TGAW updated while putting a little bit more of ourselves into our journeys. To recap, our original journeys were as follows:

Andrea – release a new album online
Shannon – Get LAID on Tyra
ThoseGirlsAreWild.com – reach 1, 000, 000 hits by 2011

Since then I have changed my journey to starting my second book (because the Tyra show ended) and we have changed our TGAW journey to starting our own sponsored web series (we are very confident we will reach our first goal). Andrea is still working on her new album and I don’t mean to brag but I heard some of the joints and it’s RIDICULOUS, naw it’s actually Voo Doo to be exact. But I don’t want to summarize, I want to give you detailed accounts of what we have been up to – please share the same!

Shannon’s Journey her 2nd Book

TGAW’s Journey to a Web Series

We recently decided that we are absolutely going to do a web series as opposed to pursuing a TV deal. We were born on the web and frankly the flexibility and possibilities on this thing is limitless. Our gameplan right now is to film a pilot half hour episode (to be edited down into a 3 minute reel which we will share with you guys), do a live screening of our entire episode once online, sign with a manager and then shop around a 13 episode season. EVERYTHING has been put in motion and we begin filming Monday. Our show is broken up into three parts: reality-based Seinfeld comedy, celebrity appearance, viewer interaction.

We are so excited about what we have been working on and yes this is why you have not seen any skits on the blog of late because all of our efforts outside of our individual projects have been going into this journey.

Hello Wild Guys and Dolls! I’m Izabela Szydlo, Editor-in-Chief of Toronto-based pop culture magazine CreamWorld. Cream, by the way, stands for Cars, Real Estate, Entertainment Arts & Culture and Models. I also happen to run the magazine’s official blog, creamworldmagazine.blogspot.com, with which I scientifically explore and analyze the culture of celebrity. Oh! Who am I kidding? I’m a gossip addict (with a conscience)…and your guest blogger for today.

I remember staring at the image of Rihanna without blinking. Her eyes were swollen shut, her lip was cut and it looked like two horns were growing out of the sides of her head. In reality, they were lumps she received during a severe fight with then boyfriend Chris Brown that would be in the headlines for months to come. I felt like a voyeur, but I couldn’t look away. People speculated whether Chris Brown, in all his bubblegum pop innocence, could’ve done this. Talk peppered with assumption continued for months and new “information” emerged everyday. The situation now serves as a perfect example of how we interpret celebrity blogs.

Ah, yes. Celebrity blogs. They’re a mostly barren landscape of rumours, gossip and speculation, but the public can’t seem to get enough. Whether true or not, the things we read on celeb blogs provide great conversation topics during awkward moments with co-workers or when we’re hanging out with friends. Although I’ve published my fair share of rumours on CreamWorld’s blog, I have my limits. If it’s a rumour, I state that it is. If it’s my opinion, I make it clear. If I’m making fun of someone, you’ll know it. I just wish other bloggers would have the same courtesy. How many times have you heard your friends recite, word for word, a blind item they saw on a celeb blog site as fact? It’s a pandemic, people! But fear not, after being engrossed in the celeb blog world for more than a year, I’ve learned a thing or two about deciphering the tricks used by those crafty celeb bloggers.

1. If there’s no clear source (i.e. a video of Jay-Z saying he’s divorcing Beyonce), chances are it’s not true. Phrases like “close sources say”, “a solid source has confirmed” or  “the insider explained” are convenient ways of covering up a complete rumour.

2. Watch for descrepencies. Celebrity bloggers love to turn something innocent into a headline. For example, you’ll see something like, “A Pregnant Alicia Keys Has Steamy Affair with Prince!” There will be a photo of Alicia and Prince standing close together and speaking in what appears to be an intimate manner. Look at the corner of the photo for a DJ booth. Chances are they were in a loud club, had to lean in to speak and Swizz Beatz was cropped out of the image.

3. Learn to spot total assumptions. Here’s a classic one. Last month, photos surfaced of Halle Berry and her assistant walking arm-in-arm and laughing. One blogger wrote an entire story about how the woman was Halle’s lesbian lover and was whispering sweet-nothings in her ear. *blank stare * Note to self, if you link arms with friends, you’re a lesbian.

4. Bloggers pick targets. I’m guilty of it too; some targets are just so easy. But I digress. These “chosen ones” will get smeared, no matter what they do. They’re also often the topic of rumours. So, if you visit a blog five times and every time you go, it’s trashing Nicki Minaj, chances are she’s a target. (This works in reverse too because bloggers have “favourites”, who can do no wrong in their eyes).

5. Read the entire post. Sometimes you’ll get to the end to discover that a celeb blogger’s headline was actually a catchy ploy to get you to read the story and contains maybe an ouch of truth.

With these tips in mind, have you ever fallen victim to the “celebrity blog disease” that had you believing a wild rumour? What do you think makes celeb blogs so popular?

Thanks to Izabela for an amazing post this weekend. Girl knows a thing or two about how to work celeb blogs because not only does she have one but she has also gotten her magazine in top ones like MediaTakeout, Bossip, Nah Right, All Hip-Hop and 2DopeBoyz. Creamworld Magazine is a quarterly publication that I am actually a senior writer for! It has given me the opportunity to interview Ciara, Kid Cudi, Keri Hilson, Robin Thicke, Drake and Girlicious to name a few, click CreamWorld for more details. Izabela is a journalistic gem and I want to thank her soooooooo much for taking the time to write an exclusive piece for TGAW!

It is time for another Those Girls vs Cal V the Intern segment (everybody’s hands go UP…..and they stay THERE)! Last time Andrea took it in the Monique impersonation and this week Shannon is taking him on for a good ol fashion random talent show. Youtube seems to think Cal is taking this one, what do you guys think? Let us know who you think took it this week and if you have any ideas for his next challenge against Andrea, let us know!

Our WILD intern Tactix aka “Gary” is back at it again! This time he’s reviewing music from our friends Ron Dias and Wolf J McFarlane and Seoul Sistah , if you have new music that you want reviewed email us at thosegirlsarewild@gmail.com

This week we’re exploring the world of b*tches and bad boys! Why do guys and girls choose to be in relationships with people that are jerks? Helping us in our discussion is one of our interns the lovely Whitney Ellis! Give us your thoughts on this topic!  

We are dead seriously thinking about starting our own online dating website. After seeing what is out there we think, we think we have found a definite market niche. Check out our idea and let us know what you think…

We would totally LOVE some response videos like this, so if you have time to create one: DO IT!

Where do you know her from? She is the winner of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 4

Interview and writeup by TGAW Intern, Torie Michelle

Vocalist, writer, model, former ballet dancer…. Naima Mora leaves no aspect of her distinct creativity untouched. It is hard to pinpoint a title in the arts arena she cannot claim, yet Naima seems to defy categorization and because of that, there is actually only one label that fits her tiny modellesque frame.

No it is not Gucci. No it is not diva. It is, Rebel.

Yes, rebel.  The incredible kind.  She’s a wild girl, certified.  She’s forthcoming and a vibe of self-awareness is in her voice.  Perhaps not what you’d expect her to be described as if you’re an avid America’s Next Top Model viewer (like me) and recognize Naima as the Cycle 4 contestant who was critiqued as shy and introverted (but also “undeniably edgy”) whose calmness and growing confidence led to her win.  To call her a “rebel” is not to say that she flouts all the rules “just because” or that she is caustic and unapproachable now that she’s shed some of her past misconceptions about her potential.  In fact, Naima’s warmth, openness, good humor, and upbeat attitude is what made our nearly hour and a half Sunday morning phone chat on everything—music and performing with her new band (Galaxy of Tar), the idea of being pretty, family, pop culture, religion, and what makes her inspirationally WILD—possible.  Here’s a peek into our conversation:

What makes you WILD?

I try not to censor myself.  I’ve learned that I have to in certain circumstances.  (laughs) I’ve just learned and understood that I have to think before I act.  I just act, you know, it’s whatever.  Sometimes I have to tone it down a little bit but mo.st times I am my natural wild self

Since winning ANTM, working with Tyra Banks, Cover Girl and flying over the world, we are curious: Are you still modeling?

I do, yeah.  I just shot for a campaign—well, for the preview of a campaign I’m going to shoot again—for an amazing designer who’s a friend of mine.  His name is Richard Hallmarq.  He’s based out of California; he’s really great.  That was my most recent job.  I still model outside of that here and there.  Not as much as I used to only because I’m so focused on music.  Music is more fun for me.

Okay, so let’s talk about what you’re currently doing first. Your band is called Galaxy of Tar, right? Tell me a bit more about the name and how the group came about.

Yeah, I sing for Galaxy of Tar and  Elias [Diaz] writes the music for the band.  He’s the artistic director for the band as well; he came up with the name from the inner workings of his brain so only he truly knows what it means. But I think it has an obviously dark connotation to it which I really like. We’re working with two really great musicians—Samuel Fernandez and Nemanja Rebic.  Sam plays bass; Nemanja plays the guitar.  We just had an idea for a sound that we wanted to create—something new and something different from what we’re hearing right now on the radio.  We released our debut album [Pneuma] in May.  But it’s still very new, we’re just touring and playing a lot.

I watched a little clip of one of your performances from the Afro-Punk Festival.  Watching that, I was like, “Wow, is that the same Naima from America’s Next Top Model? This is a different person!”  Some might think it’s a bit of a departure… (more…)

Soul For Real was kinda like the 90’s version of the Jackson 5…kinda! 4 Brothers who could sing and the youngest one was the lead, they didn’t dominate the charts or anything but they did have a couple hits! I don’t know much about Soul For Real but I do know that if I’m having a 90’s jam their songs have to get played!