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Veteran soul man JAMES ‘DIAMOND’ WILLIAMS has taken aim at today’s young artists for ignoring decency and singing all about sex.
The Ohio Players star, famous for his risque sex-charged songs and racy album covers, insists the Love Rollercoaster and Sweet Sticky Thing hitm akers left a lot to the imagination - because their songs would be rightl y banned from radio if they went to far.
But nowadays, he’s shocked when he hears teenage hitmakers singing and rapping about sex.
He tells WENN, "I do not approve and I think, as these artists grow up and come of age, that they’ll have a lot to look back on and say, ‘I wish I had said this differently’.
"The industry and society have allowed these artists to say things such as they say today and be so blatant in their expressions.
"When we were in the studio and our music was in the charts, there was a certain line that was drawn; you couldn’t say certain things. It wasn’t really hip to get bleeped on the radio… The chances were you ain’t gon na get played. The line has been dropped.
"This is not right for our kids. I’ve been at festivals where certain m usic was being played and I look at these kids singing the words to these songs and there’s, like, four or five-year-old kids saying, ‘Let me lick you up and down,’ and ‘Let me do whatever!’ It doesn’t look right coming out of their mouths. This is crazy.
"At least we left it to your imagination what Sweet Sticky Thing is. Th e phrase could mean anything to you."

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Rocker JOHN MAYER thrilled fans at a sold-out concert on Sunday (22Aug10) after inviting jazz star BRAD MEHLDAU onstage for a duet set.
The singer took to his Twitter.com page last week and hinted that his c oncert at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl would be extra special, teasing, "P lanning something so beautiful for the Hollywood Bowl show… Stay tuned.
…" And Mayer kept his promise - he and pianist Mehldau wowed the crowd wit h a collaborative set as the sun went down over the outdoor venue.
The duo covered Jimi Hendrix’s The Wind Cries Mary, Can’t Find My Way H ome by Blind Faith, and Led Zeppelin’s Going to California, before transi tioning into Mayer’s own Stop This Train.
They ended the set with a jazz rendition of The Verve’s 1997 hit Bitter Sweet Symphony.

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STEREOPHONICS frontman KELLY JONES is still mourning the loss of his form er bandmate STUART CABLE - and he’s coping with his grief by reaching out to the late star’s family.
Cable, who left the band in 2003, was found dead at his home in Wales i n June (10).
Jones spoke of his devastation shortly after the tragedy, admitting he was in "total shock", and two months later he’s still struggling to come to terms with Cable’s passing.
But he’s found solace by speaking to Cable’s loved ones, who have been relying on the rocker to offer them support.
He says, "I’m up and down, to be honest. Stuart’s always with us on sta ge and he’s in the songs. He never goes away. I speak to his family prett y much every week and to his girlfriend. I think they’ve found some comfo rt in talking to us because we knew him as well as they did." (KD/WNTEX/P

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KINGS OF LEON frontman CALEB FOLLOWILL refuses to obsess over sales of th e band’s next album - because the rockers are so "rich", they don’t need the money.
The singer admits the band has taken a few creative risks with their up coming fifth release, Come Around Sundown, following the global success o f 2008’s Only By The Night.
But Followill is more interested in creating good music than adding to his piles of cash.
He explains, "We’re already plenty rich, we don’t need it. We’re like t housand-aires, multiple thousands, multiple. This record has got a little bit of every record we’ve ever made to this point.
"All the people that only know us from the last record - which is quite a few people - we wanted to show them a little bit of our background and the kind of music that we’ve been trying to make all the while." (KD/WNT

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SHIA LABEOUF is set to swing back into action in the fifth INDIANA JONES instalment - the actor has confirmed he’s in talks to return to the franc hise.
Harrison Ford reprised his role as the heroic archaeologist in 2008’s I ndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which hit cinemas near ly 20 years after 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Ford has since confirmed movie bosses Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are working on a follow-up, but he’s adamant he will only sign up if he likes the story.
And now LaBeouf, who played Jones’ son Mutt in the latest film, is look ing forward to the new storyline.
He tells Britain’s Daily Express, "They’re scriptwriting now. It sounds crazy. It sounds really cool." The film is reportedly due for a 2012 release to coincide with Ford’s 7 0th birthday.

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Actress DIANE LADD has spent years and a small fortune on a campaign to f ind out the truth about apparent government whistle blower MARTHA MITCHEL L after the ghost of the former U.S. Attorney General’s wife appeared to her minutes after she died in 1976.
The actress mother of Jurassic Park star Laura Dern had just visited th e Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. - one of the key locations in the b urglary scandal that brought Richard Nixon’s administration down - during the run of her Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander play at the nearby Kenn edy Center, when she first encountered Mitchell’s spirit.
She recalls, "It was Memorial Day weekend and I was in the apartment…
It was exactly 4.45 in the morning and I was dead asleep. I felt someone shake my left arm. I was terrified.
"As I sat up, there was a gold vision… (and) I could see a person wit hin the gold vision." The spectre disappeared as Mitchell got out of bed, convinced there was an intruder in the house.
Then she was haunted by whispering voices throughout her performance on stage that night.
She adds, "The third act comes and I’m now on this huge stage alone… and just as I’m about to speak I feel someone walk up beside me and there ’s nobody there. I’m so thrown because I feel somebody’s there… but I c an’t see anybody there.
"There’s 1500 people there, waiting for me to speak my lines, so I take a breath and before I can speak, someone else speaks. She says, ‘Chose y ou… Must… Martha…’ Then silence, and everybody out there’s waiting for me to speak so I had to go on with the play.
"I didn’t deal with it and the very next morning I had to do a televisi on show… The show went great and at the end of the show, for some reaso n, I say (to the host Maury Povich), ‘Maury, do you know anybody named Ma rtha?’ He said, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, you’re the one. You’ll tell the tr uth’.
"I said, ‘Who’s story?’ ‘Martha Mitchell’. I said, ‘Martha Mitchell, At torney John Mitchell’s wife, the crazy old alcoholic?’ (Povich said), ‘Sh e’s the one who brought them all down. She’s the one who did it.’ "I’m going, ‘Alright, Maury, OK, I’ll meet her.’ (He said), ‘You can’t meet her; she died… yesterday morning at 4.30am.’" The whole experience made Ladd compelled to find out more about Mitchel l - and she told the whole story for a recent taping of U.S. TV show Cele brity Ghost Stories, insisting Mitchell was held captive by government of ficials after she threatened to go to the press with what she knew about the Watergate Scandal.
She adds, "Martha Mitchell was Watergate and she had something to tell us that hasn’t been told. All the congressmen and representatives mocked her, called her a dirty, crazy alcoholic, called her insane, but she was a truth teller.
"Martha Mitchell, you were a great lady and I know you went through liv ing hell, you were held down, you were kidnapped, you were given a shot a gainst your will. That should not happen in my country."

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Australian actor MATTHEW NEWTON has gone back into rehab - just three mon ths after he was discharged from a treatment facility.
The Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities star checked into a private hospit al in Melbourne in April (10) after he was accused of trashing a hotel ro om in the city where he was staying with his girlfriend, Transformers act ress Rachael Taylor.
He left the centre earlier this summer (10) and subsequently opened up about his alcohol issues, describing himself as a "work in progress".
The star was due to begin hosting the Australian version of singing con test The X Factor but he’s pulled out to focus on his ongoing health issu es.
A statement from bosses at Australia’s Seven network reads: "Matthew ha d a strong commitment to the program - he has tried his utmost to make it work. He has the support of his family and close circle of friends as he works his way back to full health."

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TV boss RYAN MURPHY was so pleased with BRITNEY SPEARS’ cameo on GLEE, he ’s already making plans to bring the pop superstar back to the hit show.
The Toxic hitmaker began shooting a special episode earlier this month (Aug10), acting out the part of Madonna in a recreation of the pair’s Me Against The Music video as part of a full show dedicated to her music.
Spears’ Glee episode is due to air in the U.S. on 28 September (10) - b ut Glee creator Murphy has suggested fans can expect another appearance f rom the star in the future.
Asked if another Spears show was likely, he tells Access Hollywood, "Pr obably, yeah… probably… Britney came this week and shot, and I got to hang out with Britney. She was sweet, she was great."

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JERMAINE JACKSON can’t sleep with the lights out after a spooky encounter with ghosts at the family’s Encino, California compound left him terrifi ed of the dark.
The Do What You Do singer told all about the Jackson family’s haunted h istory during a recent taping of U.S. TV show Celebrity Ghost Stories, re vealing the estate that became his home in 1968 was built on Indian buria l grounds and attracted all manner of spirits.
And Jackson was left spooked late one night when two evil ghosts visite d him in the bedroom he shared with brother Marlon.
He claims the elderly ghosts picked on him at a time he was exhausted a nd stressed following a long day in the studio with the Jackson 5.
He says, "I felt very frightened… I think they picked a time when you ‘re weak. I was very very tired and very sleepy and that was the moment f or them, so I gave them the opportunity to come and visit me.
"From that point on I never slept with the lights out. To this day I sl eep with the lights on."

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U2 frontman BONO and his wife suffered a financial blow last year (09) as their clothing company racked up $9 million (=C2=A36 million) in losses.
The rocker and his wife Ali Hewson set up Edun in 2005 to stimulate bus iness in Africa but accounts filed for the ethical fashion firm show it p lunged into the red last year.
The debts were 90 per cent bigger than in 2008, according to official d ocuments obtained by British newspaper The Sun.
Luxury business group LVMH, which owns Moet champagne and couture house Louis Vuitton, is believed to have bought an "important" stake in Edun l ast year.

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A PHISH fan, who fell 25 feet (7.63 meters) from a balcony at the band’s New York Jones Beach amphitheatre show on Wednesday night (18Aug10), is e xpected to recover from his injuries.
The unidentified Maine man was listed in critical condition at Nassau U niversity Medical Center, but now his health has improved and his conditi on has been upgraded to satisfactory.
It is still not known if the fall was an accident or whether the fan wa s attempting suicide.
If it was the latter, it ends a week of three concert suicide attempts - two of them fatal.
One man fell to his death from the roof of the Mountain Winery venue in Saratoga, California during a Swell Season gig and Charles Haddon, the f rontman for British trio Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, took his own life by ju mping from a satellite mast backstage at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgiu m.

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Former SYSTEM OF A DOWN star SHAVO ODADJIAN is still wary of fan encounte rs after one crazy devotee came at him with a box cutter at an instore si gning and attempted to cut off his famous braided beard.
The rocker admits the incident left him really shaken and he had to rel y on other fans to drag the girl away before she did any damage.
He tells Hustler magazine, "It was back in 2001… and we didn’t have t oo much security back then.
"I was signing, and in the crowd of pens and pads I saw this little gir l’s hand come straight at me with a box cutter. My fans actually tackled her down.
"She kept shouting, ‘All I want is his beard!’ "It kind of f**ked me up… This 15-year-old girl thought it was OK to come at me with a box cutter to cut off my beard. If she had slipped, the box cutter would have gone in my neck."

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Angry DOVES star JIMI GOODWIN threatened to beat up crowd members who ups et him during the band’s last gig "for quite sometime" at Britain’s V Fes tival on Sunday (22Aug10).
Earlier this year (10) the British rockers announced they would be taki ng a two-year hiatus after growing tired of their repetitive schedule and guitarist Jez Williams told fans the band’s set at the Essex, England fe stival, "This is our last festival for quite some time… It’s been inter esting." But the set was marred after bassist Goodwin became increasingly upset with one section of the crowd, telling them, "Real classy s**t, yeah? You think you’re s**tting me? I’m going to have to come out there and kick t he s**t out of you, and I mean it." It was unclear what had riled the musician.

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The members of rock band SYSTEM OF A DOWN agreed to an indefinite hiatus to stave off a permanent split after success started to get the better of them.
Bassist Shavo Odadjian has revealed the real reason behind the band’s 2 006 break, which is ongoing four years later, admitting it was the only w ay to keep the band going.
He tells Hustler magazine, "We won a Grammy and we had two number one r ecords. We were making a lot of loot (money). Then some people within the group of four brothers started seeing things differently… and their ac tions made the reactions of others pretty unbrotherly-like.
"Ten years ago these four motherf**kers were getting paid nothing while travelling in a ten-seat RV for seven months, following Slayer around.
"Flash forward: We are now in a situation where we are making so much m oney a show that I can’t even say. We’re being flown around, catered to a nd being treated like royalty.
"All of a sudden band members are having problems financially… (and) fighting about, ‘I want my style of music to be this and that.’ "I love them. They’re my brothers, but I couldn’t see my brothers diggi ng into each other’s pockets and killing each other’s artistic creativity .. We said, ‘Let’s take a break when we are at the highest point… Then c ome back when it’s time, when we again have the hunger and the fire in ou r eyes that we did when we started System of A Down.’"

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British singer PAUL HEATON has publicly slammed the KINGS OF LEON for the ir unfriendly behaviour, insisting they were the only band to not be "nic e" to him at this weekend’s (21-22Aug10) V Festival in England.
The former The Beautiful South frontman performed sets before the U.S. rockers at both Saturday’s Staffordshire V and Sunday’s Essex V - and use d his performance on the second day to hammer the Use Somebody hitmakers for their bad attitude from the day before.
Heaton took aim at Caleb and Nathan Followill and their bandmates for h aving their own compound and for failing to mingle with the other acts.
He told his fans, "I don’t like Kings Of Leon; they’ve got their own co mpound. We couldn’t get in because we didn’t have beards… Everyone has been really nice except the Kings."

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WYCLEF JEAN refuses to give up his dream of becoming Haiti’s next leader - he’s planning to appeal a decision that bars him from entering the pres idential race.
On Friday (20Aug10) Haitian electoral officials ruled Wyclef is ineligi ble to put his name forward as a candidate - because he doesn’t reside th ere, but the singer/songwriter plans to fight for the right to stand.
He’s hoping to contest the ruling, arguing that his role as a roving am bassador for the Caribbean state exempts him from the residency rule.
In a post on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "Our lawyers are appealin g the decision… We have met all the requirements set by the laws. And t he law must be respected." The former Fugees star went into hiding last week (beg16Aug10) after re ceiving death threats following his decision to campaign to become his na tive Haiti’s next President, replacing friend Rene Preval.
On Thursday night’s (19Aug10) Larry King Live TV show, the singer/songw riter told the newsman he would concentrate on his charity efforts to imp rove Haiti following January’s (10) earthquake, which left the nation dev astated, if he is turned down as a presidential candidate.
He said, "If I’m turned down… what we will do is, we have the movemen t for the youth, which is called Fas a Fas and the political party, which is called Vive a Sum, living together. We will continue to fight in the sense of how can we work with the new government, the administration… t o give kids (a good education), which is one of the number one things in the constitution, the Haitian constitution, (that) says all kids should h ave privilege to a free education. And that’s something that we’re going to push on, whether I make it or not."

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ALEC BALDWIN is heading back to the stage for a Broadway revival of GARSO N KANIN play BORN YESTERDAY.
The Cooler star led a reading of the play on Monday (16Aug10), accordin g to the New York Post - as corrupt businessman Harry Brock.
Josh Charles was also part of the reading.
The Post suggests Doug Hughes will direct the play on Broadway next spr ing (11).

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French movie star VINCENT CASSEL had to call on doctors to help him lose weight safely for his role in new film MESRINE as he struggled to keep th e pounds from plummeting.
The Ocean’s Eleven and Eastern Promises villain piled on 40 pounds (18.
1 kilograms) to play infamous French gangster Jacques Mesrine in the film and then had to lose all the weight to play the thug as a young man.
Wiry Cassel called in experts when his efforts to shed the pounds becam e a little too easy.
He says, "I was helped by my doctors. For the first time in my life, I had bad cholesterol. I was freaking out, but by the time I finished the m ovie, the weight was gone and so was the bad cholesterol.
"I actually had a problem keeping the weight on. I had an assistant com ing with this huge milkshake every day. When we completed the first (part of the) movie, I actually started to lose weight too fast and I had to s tay on a certain kind of diet." Cassel’s efforts have already been rewarded in his native France - he p icked up a Cesar award for his portrayal of Mesrine.
The film was a labour of love for the actor - he spent seven years tryi ng to find the perfect director and raise the $50 million (=C2=A333.3 mil lion) required to make the gritty four-hour epic.
But the wait cost him the chance to appear onscreen with his real-life father - Jean-Pierre Cassel died before the film started, so the Derailed star turned to family friend Michel Duchaussoy to play his character’s d ying dad.
Cassel admits the scene in which Mesrine bids his father farewell was p acked with emotion.
He tells the Los Angeles Times, "The day we shot the scene it was terri ble. There was a tension on the set. We shot that really fast, maybe thre e takes. Then I shook his hand and said, ‘Ciao’."

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