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Next time you purchase an album, hard copy or digital, take a moment to glance over the production credits. Chances are you’ll notice a glaring difference between the artists of today and the artists of yesteryear - very few actually write or produce their own music. Big budget acts such as Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige and even Justin Timberlake often fail to contribute more than their vocals to the mixed and mastered final product.
While he doesn’t share in the fame of the aforementioned A-list stars, writer/producer/singer/rapper Novel is looking to change how music is made. Scripting out his Rowdy/Capitol debut album, “The Audiobiography,” with creative concepts and thematic lyrical content, this Atlanta native isn’t just versatile; he defines the very word.
In an exclusive interview with DJBooth‘s DJ “Z,” Novel steps inside the booth to talk about following his family’s footsteps into the music industry, why it’s easy to pick up women in a recording studio, and what minimum-wage paying job he’d accept as long as he could continue to record music and support his children.
DJ Booth: What’s goin’ on everybody? It’s your boy “Z,” doin’ it real big, and joining me inside the DJ Booth is a multi-talented artist who is going to share with the world his Audiobiography later this year. Please welcome my man, Novel – how you doin’?
Novel: How’s it goin’, man?
DJ Booth: It’s goin’ well, thanks. You got a lot goin’ on right now!
Novel: I’m tryin’, just workin’ hard.
DJ Booth: The fact that your stage name is “Novel” means one thing to me: you got something to say. With so many artists singing and rapping about the same topics, what will your music offer, so that all of our listeners are going to want to turn your pages?

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London, Feb 26 (IANS) Julia Roberts has been voted the best-dressed Oscar winner in a new online poll.
Contactmusic.com reports that the dress she wore in 2000 when she won best actress award for “Erin Brockovich” beat out what Halle Berry wore.
Roberts got 25 percent of the vote and Berry garnered 24 percent. Hillary Swank came in third for the outfit she wore in 2004 when she won the coveted award for “Million Dollar Baby”.
In other polls, actor Richard Gere and Sandra Bullock were favourite actor and actress never nominated for an Oscar and Sally Field’s “You really like me!” speech was voted the most memorable.
Concerning favourite Oscar-winning films of each decade, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) claimed the 1970s prize, “Rain Man” (1987) was voted the favourite Oscar winner of the 1980s, “Forrest Gump” (1994) beat “Titanic” (1997) for the 1990s honour, and “The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King” (2004) was named the favourite film of the new century so far.

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