Being Cool
U-Daily News, CA
February 25, 2005
"It's a few hours before the Grammy Awards, and Christina Milian, who'll present the broadcast's first prize with John Travolta and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, is up, but not upset...Milian, who resembles a petite, young Janet Jackson, says. 'My parents have been fans of Aerosmith their whole lives, and I'm the generation that's working with them now. I pinch myself every day'...But no amount of show-business savvy - or that youthful, accomplished cool she wears as effortlessly as her long, piled-high copper hair - could prevent jitters leading up to 'Be Cool's' most demanding scene: a duet with Tyler on 'Cryin',' performed at a real-life Aerosmith concert.
'I was really intimidated going in to do that with him,' Milian admits. 'He's been doing it for awhile, plus I come from more of a history of r&b pop music. Going in to do a rock song that's his own, in front of an audience of 30,000 people that were there to see an Aerosmith concert in Boston. ... But actually, I'd say it was the highlight of my whole life. We shot it three times in the middle of their show, and every single time, the chemistry that Steven and I had was so natural as performers, it just felt so good. The energy that we got from each other - on one microphone! I, like, want to be a rock star!' "
February 25, 2005
"It's a few hours before the Grammy Awards, and Christina Milian, who'll present the broadcast's first prize with John Travolta and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, is up, but not upset...Milian, who resembles a petite, young Janet Jackson, says. 'My parents have been fans of Aerosmith their whole lives, and I'm the generation that's working with them now. I pinch myself every day'...But no amount of show-business savvy - or that youthful, accomplished cool she wears as effortlessly as her long, piled-high copper hair - could prevent jitters leading up to 'Be Cool's' most demanding scene: a duet with Tyler on 'Cryin',' performed at a real-life Aerosmith concert.
'I was really intimidated going in to do that with him,' Milian admits. 'He's been doing it for awhile, plus I come from more of a history of r&b pop music. Going in to do a rock song that's his own, in front of an audience of 30,000 people that were there to see an Aerosmith concert in Boston. ... But actually, I'd say it was the highlight of my whole life. We shot it three times in the middle of their show, and every single time, the chemistry that Steven and I had was so natural as performers, it just felt so good. The energy that we got from each other - on one microphone! I, like, want to be a rock star!' "
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