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Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
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Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
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Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
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Remember those totally gross Crescendo ads a few months back? The one where all the people got sunburns just around their eyes from watching their pizzas rise in the oven? I always thought those ads were completely disgusting. They were constantly on television or on billboards all over town?all I could do was try not to look directly at it. Something so gross shouldn’t be dignified with a response, I thought.
But what happened in the midst of all this Crescendo frenzy does deserve a very outraged response. I was riding the subway on my way to an obscenely early class on an obscenely cold morning when I noticed a boy about my age. He had his back turned to me but I could see the back of his blazer, black Dickies, red Converse, and green messenger bag. His look was so perfectly emo it was kind of cute, I thought. What was that it said on his messenger bag? I leaned in close to get a better look. Did it say?Crescendo Pizza?!?
I stared at the back of his blazer in shock at the exact moment he turned around, revealing perfectly tousled hair and a sunburnt strip around his eyes, just like in the Crescendo ads I so despised. No, not ‘like’ a Crescendo ad, I realized in horror?.he WAS a Crescendo ad! I felt like the girl in a horror movie when she finds out her boyfriend has been the murderer all along. Aren’t human beings supposed to be sacred, “the body is a temple” and all that jazz? Was his body a temple of four cheeses and pepperoni?
Even worse, this offensive teen got off at Davisville station and was immediately replaced with an attractive thirtysomething businessman, his face also sunburnt and a big Crescendo sticker on his fancy briefcase. The company is trying to appeal to all commuters, I realized, by making them blend in with the average Joe/Jane on their way to school/work.
What was happening to the world? How could this be acceptable? I know these people were probably just struggling actors who needed to pay rent, but didn’t they feel?used? A billboard is one thing, but your face is quite another.
That same day I saw two more walking Crescendo ads, this time in the form of two mom-types pretending to shop at the Eaton Center (I say pretending because their shopping bags were different colours and sizes, but they all had Crescendo painted on the front in different fonts). Last month two model-beautiful people walked into my workplace wearing Red Bull brand jeans and polos; on their backs they carried huge plastic Red Bull cans as though they were backpacks. They looked like normal people, they shopping like normal people, and they bought normal Urban Outfitters purchases, but they weren’t people at all ? they were a Red Bull commercial.
Ever since those walking ads came onto my subway and into my nightmares, it has made me strangely paranoid. A few Sundays ago I was working in the men’s department and a guy walked by me wearing a plain blue tee shirt that just said ‘Hollister’ on the front. My brain immediately began working overtime ? was he really just wearing a Hollister shirt, or did he secretly work for the company and was sent to walk around Toronto to promote the upcoming opening of the Eaton Center store?
I realized I was beginning to sound like the mime that lives on my street corner, who screams paranoid political conspiracy theories while trying to escape from a glass box and climb a rope. He probably just bought that shirt from Hollister, no strings attached.
But if human beings are becoming the next step for advertisers, is this really such a new trend? I remember back in grade six when all the cool girls wore white Calvin Klein baby tees that just said ‘Calvin Klein’ across the front. In high school everyone knew who had a pair of Seven jeans or bought Stila makeup for prom ? actually, I had both. I had typed and filed in my mom’s office and saved all my Hanukkah money to buy $200 jeans. For prom, I didn’t buy shoes or a purse and spent the extra money on makeup from Holt Renfew. So what? It turned out, so plenty. Girls asked me if the rumours were true, had my blush really cost $50? Last year a friend admitted to me before she got to know me, she hated me because I was the “girl with the Sevens”. It felt like we were all brand obsessed; maybe the advertising companies weren’t so off base. They simply reversed the order. Instead of us paying a company to proudly display we were wearing their brand, the company would pay us to wear our oven pizza and caffeinated beverage choices literally on our sleeves.
And so I say no. Our bodies should be a temple and I refuse to be defined by what denim covers my ass, what blush paints my cheek, or what kind of crap food I eat from the supermarket. I wear what makes me feel good and what flatters my body. I am not a billboard up for sale, and you shouldn’t be either. Think about that before you wear anything just because it’s a certain brand.
