Christmas came early for jingle writer Elizabeth Chan, who jetted from a high-level job at Condé Nast in pursuit of a singing career.
The decision seems to have been a good one. The Big Apple singer/songwriter just learned that tunes off her new Yuletide album “Everyday Holidays” will be used in the soundtrack for the Kardashian family Kristmas special, “The Kardashians: A Very Merry Christmas.”
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An aspiring singer can’t ask for better exposure than a nod of approval from the world’s most overexposed family. At least two of the former publishing bigwig’s tunes will be performed Dec. 1 when the E! network airs the Kardashian special at 8:30 p.m.
PHOTOS: KIM KARDASHIAN TAKES THE PLUNGE IN NYC: HER STYLE TRANSFORMATION
We’re told nine of Chan’s songs were licensed for the show and “specific interest” centers around two numbers, “Wouldn’t It Be a Merry Christmas?” and “Vixen.” That one must be for momager Kris Jenner.
It’s a Christmas miracle — too bad the deal is likely more of a stocking stuffer than a big-ticket item. Often smaller cable networks like E! don’t want to pay the high prices for licensing famous songs, so they find unknowns who need exposure.
Chan, who says she has written more than 300 Christmas songs, helped finance “Everyday Holidays” using the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter, where she racked up $10,599 in one month. On that site, Chan wrote, “I’ve dedicated my life to become one of the great Christmas songwriters of our time.”
PHOTOS: KRIS JENNER, BRUCE JENNER SPLIT: A HISTORY OF KARDASHIAN FAMILY DRAMA
The jingler solicited those donations by posing for a photo in which she sports a tight red holiday tank top with the word “ho” across the chest. Seems she’s a perfect fit, in many ways, for the Kardashian gig.
News of the sexy songstress lending tunes to the show comes sliding down the chimney just as Kanye West’s naughtier-than-nice video, “Bound 2,” debuted on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Tuesday.
The not-so-family-friendly clip features a topless Kim Kardashian getting intimate with her baby daddy while cruising on a motorcycle. At one point in the song, West lets Kim know she’s all he wants for Christmas by proclaiming: “One good girl is worth a thousand bitches.” Then the pair steam up the screen with a make-out session that requires no mistletoe.
Hopefully Santa brings their 5-month-old daughter North a blindfold for Christmas.
DVF LOOKING SHARP THIS YEAR
Diane Von Furstenberg and Barry Diller aren’t one of those couples who finish each others’ sentences. Diller gushed over his designer wife at the Worldwide Orphans ninth annual gala held at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, telling the crowd that he loves her more every day and that she’s always grateful.
But Von Furstenberg begged to differ. “Thank you, Barry. That’s not what he says to me,” said Von Furstenberg, who was being honored, to the crowd. “He says to me I’m the most narcissistic person in the world and I only think about myself — but I do think about myself, because I like myself.”
“Saturday Night Live” star Seth Meyers hosted the event, and he also dished on his legal-eagle wife, Alexi Ashe. Things turned sour — and mighty suspicious — just before their wedding when the bride-to-be landed in the hospital with food poisoning. “I thought, ‘If she dies, I’m the prime suspect,’ ” he joked. “You can’t have your fiancée die on your wedding day and not have the cops at least look into you.”
‘SIX’ APPEAL
Tony Bennett, Meg Ryan, Dick Cavett and Darren Criss savored a sneak peek at “Six By Sondheim,” an HBO documentary about composer Stephen Sondheim. En route from the Museum of Modern Art screening on Monday night to the tasty after-party at the Four Seasons, America Ferrera, who sings in the film with Criss, told Confidenti@l she loved the movie. “It was my first time seeing it,” she said. “I cried.” The rest of us can see catch the flick when it airs Dec. 9.
COMEBACK STREET
Backstreet’s back, all right. The ’90s boy band is on a comeback, releasing its new video “Show ’Em (What You’re Made of)” on Facebook on Tuesday. It’s a tech-savvy move for a group that surged up the charts back when even the smartest of phones were dumb. In August, Jay Z used Facebook to debut “Holy Grail.” Last month, Bruno Mars used the social network to release “Gorilla.” Let’s see if a generation raised on Bieber finds a way to “like” the Backstreet Boys.
A NEW DELHI SPECIAL
It’s lights, camera, donations. Hollywood and Bollywood came together when Golden Globe winner Sharon Stone and India cinema power couple Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan hosted the inaugural amfAR India Charity Gala benefiting AIDS research at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai Sunday night. They were joined there by jet-setting hotelier Vikram Chatwal, actress Hilary Swank, designer Kenneth Cole and pop-star Ke$ha, who performed for the star-packed crowd.
SEEN AND HEARD ...
Hannah Bronfman and Amanda Hearst brightening things up at the Humane Society of the United States’ “To the Rescue!” gala. … Julia Restoin Roitfeld will host a party for Hunter & Gatti’s “The Series” on Nov. 19 at the Openhouse Gallery on Mulberry St. … Giants stars Jon Beason, Andre Brown, Stevie Brown and Corey Webster will touch down at Food Bank for New York City’s Community Kitchen in West Harlem to hand out turkeys before Thanksgiving. … Katie Couric presented Dr. Felice Schnoll-Sussman, the director the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, with Michael’s Mission Achievement Award at Gustavino’s.
COBIE AN NYC COMING ATTRACTION
“How I Met Your Mother” star Cobie Smulders plans to move to New York when the show wraps this spring. “I love it here,” the Canada native told Confidenti@l about the Big Apple. “I feel very creative here. I feel very at home and I love the people.” Smulders’ husband, “Saturday Night Live” star Taran Killam, works in NYC, and her series co-star Neil Patrick Harris also plans to make the city his permanent home after the show wraps for good this season.
A SPIKE OF INTEREST
Filmmaker Spike Lee wants to deck the walls with stars of Hollywood. At a luncheon for Oscar contender “12 Years a Slave” at the Lotos Club on the Upper East Side on Tuesday, Lee brought a dozen movie posters in hopes of snagging autographs from director Steve McQueen and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong’o. “I’m a filmmaker and a film historian,” Lee told Confidenti@l. “You walk into my office, you’ll see posters from Fellini. Now I’ll have Steve McQueen.”
VARGAS ON REBOUND
ABC’s “20/20” co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas has been released from rehab, tweeting Tuesday: “Hello everyone! I am home, and so grateful for all your support and well wishes. I am so much better and taking it one day at a time. :)” Confidenti@l reported earlier this month that Vargas was halfway through a stint for alcohol abuse. “Like so many people, I am dealing with addiction. I realized I was becoming increasingly dependent on alcohol. And feel fortunate to have recognized it for the problem it was becoming,” she had said at the time.
CRUISING TO SCHOOL
Suri Cruise made her latest fashion statement while scooting to school on Tuesday morning in Chelsea, pairing an oversized cable sweater with pink tights and pink ballet flats with pearl straps. Thankfully, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ 7-year-old daughter put personal safety above personal style and wore a clunky helmet to protect her noggin.
LET 'GAMES' BEGIN
Jennifer Lawrence pairs a sheer Dior gown with her new short ’do as she arrives at “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” premiere.
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The decision seems to have been a good one. The Big Apple singer/songwriter just learned that tunes off her new Yuletide album “Everyday Holidays” will be used in the soundtrack for the Kardashian family Kristmas special, “The Kardashians: A Very Merry Christmas.”
PHOTOS: OMG! KIM KARDASHIAN GOES SHEER 2 NIGHTS IN A ROW
An aspiring singer can’t ask for better exposure than a nod of approval from the world’s most overexposed family. At least two of the former publishing bigwig’s tunes will be performed Dec. 1 when the E! network airs the Kardashian special at 8:30 p.m.
PHOTOS: KIM KARDASHIAN TAKES THE PLUNGE IN NYC: HER STYLE TRANSFORMATION
We’re told nine of Chan’s songs were licensed for the show and “specific interest” centers around two numbers, “Wouldn’t It Be a Merry Christmas?” and “Vixen.” That one must be for momager Kris Jenner.
It’s a Christmas miracle — too bad the deal is likely more of a stocking stuffer than a big-ticket item. Often smaller cable networks like E! don’t want to pay the high prices for licensing famous songs, so they find unknowns who need exposure.
Chan, who says she has written more than 300 Christmas songs, helped finance “Everyday Holidays” using the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter, where she racked up $10,599 in one month. On that site, Chan wrote, “I’ve dedicated my life to become one of the great Christmas songwriters of our time.”
PHOTOS: KRIS JENNER, BRUCE JENNER SPLIT: A HISTORY OF KARDASHIAN FAMILY DRAMA
The jingler solicited those donations by posing for a photo in which she sports a tight red holiday tank top with the word “ho” across the chest. Seems she’s a perfect fit, in many ways, for the Kardashian gig.
News of the sexy songstress lending tunes to the show comes sliding down the chimney just as Kanye West’s naughtier-than-nice video, “Bound 2,” debuted on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Tuesday.
The not-so-family-friendly clip features a topless Kim Kardashian getting intimate with her baby daddy while cruising on a motorcycle. At one point in the song, West lets Kim know she’s all he wants for Christmas by proclaiming: “One good girl is worth a thousand bitches.” Then the pair steam up the screen with a make-out session that requires no mistletoe.
Hopefully Santa brings their 5-month-old daughter North a blindfold for Christmas.
DVF LOOKING SHARP THIS YEAR
Diane Von Furstenberg and Barry Diller aren’t one of those couples who finish each others’ sentences. Diller gushed over his designer wife at the Worldwide Orphans ninth annual gala held at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, telling the crowd that he loves her more every day and that she’s always grateful.
But Von Furstenberg begged to differ. “Thank you, Barry. That’s not what he says to me,” said Von Furstenberg, who was being honored, to the crowd. “He says to me I’m the most narcissistic person in the world and I only think about myself — but I do think about myself, because I like myself.”
“Saturday Night Live” star Seth Meyers hosted the event, and he also dished on his legal-eagle wife, Alexi Ashe. Things turned sour — and mighty suspicious — just before their wedding when the bride-to-be landed in the hospital with food poisoning. “I thought, ‘If she dies, I’m the prime suspect,’ ” he joked. “You can’t have your fiancée die on your wedding day and not have the cops at least look into you.”
‘SIX’ APPEAL
Tony Bennett, Meg Ryan, Dick Cavett and Darren Criss savored a sneak peek at “Six By Sondheim,” an HBO documentary about composer Stephen Sondheim. En route from the Museum of Modern Art screening on Monday night to the tasty after-party at the Four Seasons, America Ferrera, who sings in the film with Criss, told Confidenti@l she loved the movie. “It was my first time seeing it,” she said. “I cried.” The rest of us can see catch the flick when it airs Dec. 9.
COMEBACK STREET
Backstreet’s back, all right. The ’90s boy band is on a comeback, releasing its new video “Show ’Em (What You’re Made of)” on Facebook on Tuesday. It’s a tech-savvy move for a group that surged up the charts back when even the smartest of phones were dumb. In August, Jay Z used Facebook to debut “Holy Grail.” Last month, Bruno Mars used the social network to release “Gorilla.” Let’s see if a generation raised on Bieber finds a way to “like” the Backstreet Boys.
A NEW DELHI SPECIAL
It’s lights, camera, donations. Hollywood and Bollywood came together when Golden Globe winner Sharon Stone and India cinema power couple Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan hosted the inaugural amfAR India Charity Gala benefiting AIDS research at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai Sunday night. They were joined there by jet-setting hotelier Vikram Chatwal, actress Hilary Swank, designer Kenneth Cole and pop-star Ke$ha, who performed for the star-packed crowd.
SEEN AND HEARD ...
Hannah Bronfman and Amanda Hearst brightening things up at the Humane Society of the United States’ “To the Rescue!” gala. … Julia Restoin Roitfeld will host a party for Hunter & Gatti’s “The Series” on Nov. 19 at the Openhouse Gallery on Mulberry St. … Giants stars Jon Beason, Andre Brown, Stevie Brown and Corey Webster will touch down at Food Bank for New York City’s Community Kitchen in West Harlem to hand out turkeys before Thanksgiving. … Katie Couric presented Dr. Felice Schnoll-Sussman, the director the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, with Michael’s Mission Achievement Award at Gustavino’s.
COBIE AN NYC COMING ATTRACTION
“How I Met Your Mother” star Cobie Smulders plans to move to New York when the show wraps this spring. “I love it here,” the Canada native told Confidenti@l about the Big Apple. “I feel very creative here. I feel very at home and I love the people.” Smulders’ husband, “Saturday Night Live” star Taran Killam, works in NYC, and her series co-star Neil Patrick Harris also plans to make the city his permanent home after the show wraps for good this season.
A SPIKE OF INTEREST
Filmmaker Spike Lee wants to deck the walls with stars of Hollywood. At a luncheon for Oscar contender “12 Years a Slave” at the Lotos Club on the Upper East Side on Tuesday, Lee brought a dozen movie posters in hopes of snagging autographs from director Steve McQueen and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong’o. “I’m a filmmaker and a film historian,” Lee told Confidenti@l. “You walk into my office, you’ll see posters from Fellini. Now I’ll have Steve McQueen.”
VARGAS ON REBOUND
ABC’s “20/20” co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas has been released from rehab, tweeting Tuesday: “Hello everyone! I am home, and so grateful for all your support and well wishes. I am so much better and taking it one day at a time. :)” Confidenti@l reported earlier this month that Vargas was halfway through a stint for alcohol abuse. “Like so many people, I am dealing with addiction. I realized I was becoming increasingly dependent on alcohol. And feel fortunate to have recognized it for the problem it was becoming,” she had said at the time.
CRUISING TO SCHOOL
Suri Cruise made her latest fashion statement while scooting to school on Tuesday morning in Chelsea, pairing an oversized cable sweater with pink tights and pink ballet flats with pearl straps. Thankfully, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ 7-year-old daughter put personal safety above personal style and wore a clunky helmet to protect her noggin.
LET 'GAMES' BEGIN
Jennifer Lawrence pairs a sheer Dior gown with her new short ’do as she arrives at “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” premiere.
SOURCE http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/singer-scores-big-kardashian-jingle-sell-article-1.1522803
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