Here’s another run down of American Idol… Season 5 runner up, Katharine Mcphee got a new look for her upcoming album Unbroken which is due on October 6.

“My Music is a little more edgy so that inspired me to be adventurous.”

“I’ve never dyed my hair before so this was a pretty drastic change,” Katharine reveals  in the August 17 issue of PEOPLE. “I’ve always been known brunette but I’ve been thinking about it for a long time and it kind of just fit with all of the searching the music and experimenting that I would do the same thing with my look.”

Likey or Yucky?

September is the month for VMA and as early as today, MTV have released the top artists who are vying for the Top Awards on September 13, 2009.

Beyonce is competing head to head with Lady Gaga for the Video Music Awards for 2009 with 9 nominations.

“I’m excited and honored to be tied for most nominated for the VMAs.” Beyonce told the Press.

“I’ve been blessed this year to have ‘Single Ladies’ become a video people really connected with and responded to. I’ve spent so much time watching all the great versions people created all around the world. It’s beautiful to feel you touch people and bring a song to life with a video.”

Single Ladies or Paparazzi?

Not afraid of the Swine Flu scare, Nelly Furtado rocks the night away at the Hard Rock Live last Monday night in Mexico City.

Nelly is about to release a new album but I am afraid that the songs are all written in Spanish.

“I’ve always sung in, well, three languages for the past five years. I’ve been singing in Portuguese and English since I was 2 years old, so I really love being a universal artist. I love being a world artist, so it’s just my next step really. The Spanish project is just my next step to get to [being] 80 years old onstage, singing something. This is my next step in the puzzle.”

She also added that its about Love – “The songs are all about amor. They are all about love, and it’s my first album with more love songs. They’re really like songs that everybody can relate to about love and life and everyday living, just the things you go through. So basically, I found that once I started writing songs in Spanish, I had a new voice.”

After 7 years off the limelight, RnB singer Whitney Houston will be promoting her upcoming album in ABC’s Good Morning America. But instead of performing it live, she will be taping it as she said she is not a morning person.

Whitney will released her album I Look To You and like other artist, she will have  a series of promotions and her first stop will be at New York.

“Lots of singers don’t like to perform at 7:30 in the morning,” tells Good Morning America to New York Post.