Gimme More
Artist: Britney Spears
Label: Jive/Zomba Label Group
Director: Jake Sarfaty
Album: Blackout
Moon Bloodgood
Mýa
Nadine Velazquez
Naomi Watts
Natalie Imbruglia
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Kanye West's 'Runaway' London Screening Was A 'Mad Event' 
After showing 'surreal' film, West stuck around for two hours of Q&A, MTV UK reporter says.By Gil Kaufman, with reporting by Tom Thorogood
Selita Ebanks and Kanye West in Paris on Tuesday
Photo: Victor Boyko/ WireImage
Kanye West invited a very select group of about 100 journalists and bloggers to the Wednesday-night London screening of his 35-minute art film for the song "Runaway." Among them was MTV UK reporter Tom Thorogood, who got on the phone on Thursday morning (October 7) to talk about the typically over-the-top audience with the Louis Vuitton Don.
"It was a mad event," Thorogood said of the screening, which included a rambling two-hour Q&A session during which West took any and all questions about the film and his upcoming albums. "Halfway through, an American guy from his label asked for one last question and just as the person asked it, Kanye said, 'Why is this the last question?' and said he was happy to talk as long as people wanted him to."
Thorogood said there are perhaps only two dozen words spoken in the "ambitious ... great looking" 35-minute art movie, whose narrative he described as "very loose and abstract." If anything, he suspected it could be chopped up into five separate mind-bending music videos, though it only uses heavily altered snippets of West's music that are quite different from the versions of such songs as "Monster," "Runaway" and the Bon Iver-sampling "Lost in the World" that fans have heard so far.
"It opens with shots of Kanye in a sports car and slow motion shots of deer and then you see a huge explosion and you see he's crashed into the Phoenix," said Thorogood of the other star of the film, model Selita Ebanks, who plays the Phoenix and who has been seen on 'Ye's arm at events lately. "He picks her up in his arms and walks away from the car which explodes behind him." The title of the film then flashes on the screen and the first voice you hear is a snippet of Nicki Minaj's English-accented rhyme from "Monster."
In another scene, Thorogood said you hear a brief bit of "Power," which Kanye taps out on the same kind of MPC drum machine he played on both the VMAs and on "Saturday Night Live." The three- to four-minute bit features Ebanks silently dancing around West as the song plays. "It was quite clear that [the movie is about] what he said about this before being about his story ... a representation of his career," Thorogood said.
And in a setup cued to the new song "Lights" that is likely to be the most iconic of the film, Thorogood said Kanye (a.k.a. "Griffin") and the Phoenix watch as a marching band stomps across the screen carrying a giant, somewhat flimsy-looking papier-mâché model of Michael Jackson's head.
"With the passing of Michael Jackson, I feel a responsibility to bring things to our generation that can inspire and bring real culture to pop culture," West told the audience in London about the film shot over four grueling days in Prague last month. "I want to use my power in a proper way."
In another pivotal scene, West and the Phoenix arrive for a formal dinner at a huge table and are given weird looks by their fellow diners, one of whom asks, "Why didn't you leave the monkey in the zoo?"
Thorogood said the film had French subtitles for the sparse dialogue, which were likely a holdover from Tuesday night's screening in Paris, since West said the version he showed in London was still a rough cut. Among the other new songs featured in the movie is one called "Blame Game," which contains a healthy sample of the melancholy piano groove in cult electronic musician Aphex Twin's 2001 song "Avril 14th," as well as vocals from frequent 'Ye collaborator John Legend, which the rapper said may or may not make the final cut of the album.
West introduced the film to his London audience by saying, " 'Purple Rain,' [Pink Floyd's] 'The Wall,' Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' — I wanted to do a modern version of that." He also said that about "90 percent" of the music featured in the film appears on his upcoming fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, due out on November 22.
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Kanye West invited a very select group of about 100 journalists and bloggers to the Wednesday-night London screening of his 35-minute art film for the song "Runaway." Among them was MTV UK reporter Tom Thorogood, who got on the phone on Thursday morning (October 7) to talk about the typically over-the-top audience with the Louis Vuitton Don.
"It was a mad event," Thorogood said of the screening, which included a rambling two-hour Q&A session during which West took any and all questions about the film and his upcoming albums. "Halfway through, an American guy from his label asked for one last question and just as the person asked it, Kanye said, 'Why is this the last question?' and said he was happy to talk as long as people wanted him to."
Thorogood said there are perhaps only two dozen words spoken in the "ambitious ... great looking" 35-minute art movie, whose narrative he described as "very loose and abstract." If anything, he suspected it could be chopped up into five separate mind-bending music videos, though it only uses heavily altered snippets of West's music that are quite different from the versions of such songs as "Monster," "Runaway" and the Bon Iver-sampling "Lost in the World" that fans have heard so far.
"It opens with shots of Kanye in a sports car and slow motion shots of deer and then you see a huge explosion and you see he's crashed into the Phoenix," said Thorogood of the other star of the film, model Selita Ebanks, who plays the Phoenix and who has been seen on 'Ye's arm at events lately. "He picks her up in his arms and walks away from the car which explodes behind him." The title of the film then flashes on the screen and the first voice you hear is a snippet of Nicki Minaj's English-accented rhyme from "Monster."
In another scene, Thorogood said you hear a brief bit of "Power," which Kanye taps out on the same kind of MPC drum machine he played on both the VMAs and on "Saturday Night Live." The three- to four-minute bit features Ebanks silently dancing around West as the song plays. "It was quite clear that [the movie is about] what he said about this before being about his story ... a representation of his career," Thorogood said.
And in a setup cued to the new song "Lights" that is likely to be the most iconic of the film, Thorogood said Kanye (a.k.a. "Griffin") and the Phoenix watch as a marching band stomps across the screen carrying a giant, somewhat flimsy-looking papier-mâché model of Michael Jackson's head.
"With the passing of Michael Jackson, I feel a responsibility to bring things to our generation that can inspire and bring real culture to pop culture," West told the audience in London about the film shot over four grueling days in Prague last month. "I want to use my power in a proper way."
In another pivotal scene, West and the Phoenix arrive for a formal dinner at a huge table and are given weird looks by their fellow diners, one of whom asks, "Why didn't you leave the monkey in the zoo?"
Thorogood said the film had French subtitles for the sparse dialogue, which were likely a holdover from Tuesday night's screening in Paris, since West said the version he showed in London was still a rough cut. Among the other new songs featured in the movie is one called "Blame Game," which contains a healthy sample of the melancholy piano groove in cult electronic musician Aphex Twin's 2001 song "Avril 14th," as well as vocals from frequent 'Ye collaborator John Legend, which the rapper said may or may not make the final cut of the album.
West introduced the film to his London audience by saying, " 'Purple Rain,' [Pink Floyd's] 'The Wall,' Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' — I wanted to do a modern version of that." He also said that about "90 percent" of the music featured in the film appears on his upcoming fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, due out on November 22.
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Lady Gaga Adds Monster Ball Tour Dates
Additional dates extend Gaga's tour through April 2011.By Gil Kaufman
Lady Gaga
Photo: Derek Storm/ Splash News
Lady Gaga just won't stop. The singer, in the midst of her already massive Monster Ball Tour, has added another dozen dates to the outing, which will now keep her on the road in North America through late April 2011.
The new shows begin with a March 1 date in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and include stops in Omaha (March 17), San Diego (March 29), Orlando (April 15), Tampa (April 16) and Cleveland (April 27).
Perhaps staying on the road will help the VMA-winning singer deal with the death of her beloved grandfather, Joseph Germanotta, who died on Friday at age 88. Gaga remembered him in writing on Sunday, tweeting, "Having a Perfect Manhattan, for my perfect guy. Love you Giuseppe."
In May, Lady Gaga opened up to fans about her then-sick grandfather during her Monster Ball Tour show in Nottingham, England. "I don't always talk about my personal life but my grandpa's sick," she revealed. "And I'm really close with my grandpa and he's really sick and he's in the States and my dad's with him. So I was, like, crying all day, really sad. So I thought I might just be honest and tell you that's what's going on."
But in true Gaga fashion, the singer put her emotions into her music by dedicating her ballad "Speechless" to the elder Germanotta. "So it's been one of those tough things that my grandpa's too old to come to my show, but I suppose if we sing loud enough, he'll be able to hear us. So this one's for you Grandpa," she said after breaking down in tears.
Though a release date has not yet been announced, it's possible that Gaga's second full-length studio album, Born This Way, could be released while she's still on the road. Producer RedOne, a frequent collaborator of Gaga's, told MTV News that the upcoming disc is Gaga's "freedom album," though he declined to say much more as the project is too "precious" for him to spill the beans on.
New Lady Gaga tour dates:
» March 1 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
» March 4 - Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena
» March 6 - Ottawa, ON @ Scotiabank Center
» March 12 - Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
» March 17 - Omaha, NE @ Qwest Center
» March 29 - San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
» April 15 - Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
» April 16 - Tampa, FL @ St. Pete Times Forum
» April 22 - Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
» April 23 - Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Coliseum
» April 25 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
» April 27 - Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena
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Lady Gaga just won't stop. The singer, in the midst of her already massive Monster Ball Tour, has added another dozen dates to the outing, which will now keep her on the road in North America through late April 2011.
The new shows begin with a March 1 date in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and include stops in Omaha (March 17), San Diego (March 29), Orlando (April 15), Tampa (April 16) and Cleveland (April 27).
Perhaps staying on the road will help the VMA-winning singer deal with the death of her beloved grandfather, Joseph Germanotta, who died on Friday at age 88. Gaga remembered him in writing on Sunday, tweeting, "Having a Perfect Manhattan, for my perfect guy. Love you Giuseppe."
In May, Lady Gaga opened up to fans about her then-sick grandfather during her Monster Ball Tour show in Nottingham, England. "I don't always talk about my personal life but my grandpa's sick," she revealed. "And I'm really close with my grandpa and he's really sick and he's in the States and my dad's with him. So I was, like, crying all day, really sad. So I thought I might just be honest and tell you that's what's going on."
But in true Gaga fashion, the singer put her emotions into her music by dedicating her ballad "Speechless" to the elder Germanotta. "So it's been one of those tough things that my grandpa's too old to come to my show, but I suppose if we sing loud enough, he'll be able to hear us. So this one's for you Grandpa," she said after breaking down in tears.
Though a release date has not yet been announced, it's possible that Gaga's second full-length studio album, Born This Way, could be released while she's still on the road. Producer RedOne, a frequent collaborator of Gaga's, told MTV News that the upcoming disc is Gaga's "freedom album," though he declined to say much more as the project is too "precious" for him to spill the beans on.
New Lady Gaga tour dates:
» March 1 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
» March 4 - Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena
» March 6 - Ottawa, ON @ Scotiabank Center
» March 12 - Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
» March 17 - Omaha, NE @ Qwest Center
» March 29 - San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
» April 15 - Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
» April 16 - Tampa, FL @ St. Pete Times Forum
» April 22 - Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
» April 23 - Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Coliseum
» April 25 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
» April 27 - Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena
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Modern Family Stars Make A Video For Gay Youth
It gets better!
Check out the message from Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet (above).
Rachel Perry Rachel Weisz Radha Mitchell Raquel Alessi Rebecca Mader
Check out the message from Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet (above).
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Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Label: Atlantic
Album: Hiawatha Express
Jenny McCarthy Jessica Alba Jessica Biel Jessica Cauffiel Jessica Paré
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Label: Atlantic
Album: Hiawatha Express
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Justin Bieber's 'U Smile' Video: A Cheat Sheet
Here's everything you need to know before tonight's premiere of the singer's latest clip.By Jocelyn Vena
Justin Bieber
Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
It's only a matter of hours before Justin Bieber bestows his latest video gift upon the world in the form of the clip for "U Smile." The video is the fifth off his March release, My World 2.0. It follows videos for his singles "Baby," in which he went bowling with Drake and Ludacris, "Never Let You Go," in which he hung out at Atlantis, "Somebody To Love," in which he threw a karate-themed dance party with Usher and finally "Eenie Meenie," in which he and Sean Kingston partied in the Hollywood Hills.
While details are scant about what will go down in the Alfredo Flores-directed video, which premieres on Thursday evening (September 30), Bieber has tweeted that it will focus on wooing a young woman who will apparently be an actress playing a fan that he falls in love with. It seems the idea was inspired by people wondering if he would ever date a fan.
"I took the opportunity 2 make a video 4 the fans, about a fan, and how we could fall IN LOVE," he tweeted about the forthcoming video. "Love Grows. #LoveGrows."
As for what Bieber and his lady pal might be doing in the video, photos taken from the shoot show him and his female lead outside a closed, run-down movie theater trying to break in.
Bieber spoke to MTV News in March about working on the track alongside songwriters Jerry Duplessis, Arden Altino and Dan August Rigo. "I worked with August. I got him. He's a really good writer," the singer said. "The song is amazing. We really love the song, so we decided to cut it. It's really amazing."
At the time he further explained via Twitter, "It really is a throwback to the great records I listened to growing up. ... I wrote it for all my fans who got me here."
Are you looking forward to the "U Smile" video? Let us know in the comments!
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It's only a matter of hours before Justin Bieber bestows his latest video gift upon the world in the form of the clip for "U Smile." The video is the fifth off his March release, My World 2.0. It follows videos for his singles "Baby," in which he went bowling with Drake and Ludacris, "Never Let You Go," in which he hung out at Atlantis, "Somebody To Love," in which he threw a karate-themed dance party with Usher and finally "Eenie Meenie," in which he and Sean Kingston partied in the Hollywood Hills.
While details are scant about what will go down in the Alfredo Flores-directed video, which premieres on Thursday evening (September 30), Bieber has tweeted that it will focus on wooing a young woman who will apparently be an actress playing a fan that he falls in love with. It seems the idea was inspired by people wondering if he would ever date a fan.
"I took the opportunity 2 make a video 4 the fans, about a fan, and how we could fall IN LOVE," he tweeted about the forthcoming video. "Love Grows. #LoveGrows."
As for what Bieber and his lady pal might be doing in the video, photos taken from the shoot show him and his female lead outside a closed, run-down movie theater trying to break in.
Bieber spoke to MTV News in March about working on the track alongside songwriters Jerry Duplessis, Arden Altino and Dan August Rigo. "I worked with August. I got him. He's a really good writer," the singer said. "The song is amazing. We really love the song, so we decided to cut it. It's really amazing."
At the time he further explained via Twitter, "It really is a throwback to the great records I listened to growing up. ... I wrote it for all my fans who got me here."
Are you looking forward to the "U Smile" video? Let us know in the comments!
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Friday, October 8, 2010
First Look: Daniel Radcliffe On ?The Simpsons?
We’ve seen castmembers from Glee on The Simpsons as well as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on The Simpsons … and today we get our first look at Daniel Radcliffe on The Simpsons. DanRad will be a part of the annual Treehouse of Horror Hallowe’en Special that The Simpsons do every year … but instead of [...]Amy Cobb
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