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.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
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.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
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.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
Once upon a time, long before the sold out stadiums and screaming fans, little Howie D was a self-proclaimed “Dough Boy.” Apparently, his first love wasn’t music, it was Twinkies. In all fairness, Howie went on to much better things, however, for this interview the guys reminisce about some of their more embarrassing moments.
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 — driving cars, throwing birthday parties, reading books — and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks! We have the hilarious video from the gang at College Humor to share with you all.
Our friends over at CHARTattack posted the new video this morning saying:
“Ye and Jay’s 2011-defining hit “N****s in Paris” finally has a video, likely thrilling all of the Illuminati conspiracy theorists who were getting desperate for new material, as well as those eager to bring back the irritating trend of saying “That shit cray!” in totally unremarkable situations.
If you missed the Watch the Throne tour and its now-legendary encore, the hyperkinetic video documents one of the several times that the song is played during the end of the show, except with more CGI leopards and kaleidoscope effects. It’s directed by Kanye, so you can expect to feel poor as hell after watching.”
If you were lucky enough to see them live, you probably heard this song more than once. Like the concert, you’ll probably want to replay this video thirteen times.
Side note: it was nice to see Will Ferrel make an appearance in the video.
Watch it below:
Many actresses were coveting the role of a lifetime; Charlize Theron, Carey Mulligan, Blake Lively and basically any actress with blonde hair all wanted to play Princess Diana in the upcoming Biopic.
But producers have made their decision. Naomi Watts (“Eastern Promises”, “21 Grams”, “King Kong”) has been hired on to play the ill-fated princess in the new film titled “Caught in Flight”.
The British actress and mother of two released a statement expressing her gratitude towards the role.
“”It is such an honor to be able to play this iconic role. Princess Diana was loved across the world and I look forward to rising to the challenge of playing her on screen.”
As you may recall, Princess Diana died in 1997 at age 36 in a car crash while visiting Paris, France. The movie will reportedly focus on the last two years of her life and how finding true personal happiness for the first time allowed her to evolve into a major humanitarian.
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.
Every Super Bowl we practically look for something to scandalize us, and this year M.I.A.’s finger flip is the new wardrobe malfunction. As if M.I.A. didn’t make her message clear enough while rapping the verse “I don’t give a sh**” she literally gave America the middle finger during last night’s halftime performance with Madonna. Many are calling it premeditated because she looked directly at the camera. Gasp!
Inevitably the move raised profound questions: Why does M.I.A. hate us? Does she actually want us to F-off or was this a publicity stunt? Was this her opportunity to make an obscure political statement?
Or — and I know this might sound crazy — maybe she was just swept up in the moment, as they say. Whatever the reason, many online commentators are questioning if she’ll ever be allowed to appear on live TV again.
Statements are being issued all over the place. In one corner, the NFL issued an apology for the “completely inappropriate gesture,” while NBC took a more diplomatic route, apologizing that their delay system failed to catch the spontaneous brush off — so not taking much responsibility at all.
Still, the people M.I.A. ought to be worried about are the concerned parents of America. Although her finger is no more scandalous than things you’d find on any prime time show, the Parents’ Television Council is calling it a cheap way to get attention. They claim the moment was a slap in the face and (cue ominous music) that “the nation — and the PTC — is watching.” Cue ominous music: dum, dum, dum.
There’s still no word on how next year’s performer plans to up MIA. Do you have any ideas? Let us know below.
Holly Laurent took the two most talked about things, Lana Del Rey and “The Hunger Games” and mixed them together.
She wrote the lyrics about the highly anticipated film “The Hunger Games” and set it to the tune of LDR’s “Video Games”. It’s genius!
Holly hails from Chicago as member of the longstanding improv group The Reckoning. She tours the states quite heavily with Second City. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see her on “Saturday Night Live” in the next few years.
For those living under a rock — like, a big rock called America — The Junos are essentially the Canadian Grammys. The nominees for this year’s Junos, held in Ottawa, have been announced this morning.
We may have escaped from Celine Dion, but Nickelback still control our radio stations, unfortunately. So, it’s no surprise they’ve gotten a bunch of nods and are even slated to perform at the ceremony in April. Drake, Avril Lavigne, Dan Mangan and Feist lead the pack with 4 nods each.
Here’s a look at some nominations. Check out the official Juno website for the complete list.
JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD
Arcade Fire
Avril Lavigne
City and Colour
Deadmau5
Drake
Ginette Reno
Hedley
Justin Bieber
Michael Bublé
Nickelback
ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY MUSIC CANADA)
Avril Lavigne – Goodbye Lullabye
Drake Cash – Take Care
Justin Bieber – Under the Mistletoe
Michael Bublé – Christmas
Nickelback – Here And Now
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
City and Colour – Fragile Bird
Hedley – Invincible
Johnny Reid – Let’s Go Higher
Nickelback – When We Stand Together
The Sheepdogs – I Don’t Know
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
City and Colour
Deadmau5
Drake
Feist
Michael Bublé
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Arkells Arkells
Down With Webster
Hedley
Nickelback
Sam Roberts Band
Deadmau5 is looking like an early favourite for Artist Of The Year; after all, he did sell out the Rogers Center this summer (see below).
For decades, many people have been buying into the idea that sex, drugs and music are synonymous. Even The Kooks have built somewhat of a reputation based on the fallacy that they’re just a bunch of party hooligans from Brighton. In reality, they’re actually pretty relaxed people. Like anyone, they like the occasional pint and Luke has dabbled with mind-altering substances. Their key to success, however, is keeping the Rock N’ Roll lifestyle separate from the actual music. When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
Cher Lloyd released one of the best pop albums last year. Now, in 2012 Cher is proving to be a force to be reckoned with.
The X Factor contestant, only 18, shows off her amazing pipes during a taping of MTV Live Sessions. She sang “Beautiful People” with just two guitar players backing her up.
The pop version found on her debut “Sticks + Stones”. If you can’t get enough of Cher, you can listen to her acoustic performance of “Superhero” here.
When Nicki raps she spits out a hundred words per minute. She’s one of the fastest talkers out there in the industry.
But what would she sound like if she was played in super slow motion? The answer: Jay-Z.
One YouTube user uploaded a sluggish version of her popular music video “Super Bass”. The normally 3 minute long song is now an extended 4:52. You even get to see Nicki dance at the speed of a snail, which is pretty amusing.
Nicki sounds so much like Hova it’s a bit frightening. Check it out:
You may not be familiar with Dia Frampton but after listening to her Lana Del Rey cover, you won’t forget her name.
The 24-year-old was the runner-up on the first season of “The Voice” and late last year she released her debut album, “Red”.
Dia has been making music since she was a little girl. She formed her first band, Meg & Dia, back in 2004. Over the years, she’s really grown as a solo artist. She does a wonderful delivery of Lana’s eponymous “Video Games” single. Some may argue it’s better than the original.
Dia just uploaded an acoustic performance of the song on her YouTube page. Have a look below.
When Madonna agreed to perform at the half-time show last night, she promised fans “the greatest show on earth in the middle of the greatest show on earth”.
Not that many people knew what to expect, other than a medley of her old, classic songs and a performance with M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj.
She began her set with “Vogue”, as she was being carried by an army of gladiators to the stage. She sang (or rather, lip synced) “Express Yourself”, “Like a Prayer” with Cee Lo Green and “Music” with LMFAO.
When it was time to perform her newest, “Give Me All Your Luvin’”, Nicki and M.I.A. joined her on stage, dressed as some sort of Egyptian cheerleaders.
My favourite performance has to be her duet with Cee Lo, which was saved for last. A choir of a hundred people joined the two on stage and when the song finished, “WORLD PEACE” was seen lit on the stadium. Aw, shucks!
Watch the 13-minute long set 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.
Adam Lambert’s latest video ‘Better Than I Know Myself’ dropped yesterday, it uses the tired concept popularized by another Adam.
The Sandler-like multi-character plot (or Eddie Murphy or Peter Sellars or Jerry Lewis) features the familiar Glambert persona with the guy liner, spikey hair and all black everything versus a clean cut, happier, tea-drinking version of his ego. Could it be a battle of the Adam past and Adam future? Introversive and extroversive? Is this some sort of psychobabble that we cannot grasp?!
“It’s about the relationship you have with yourself between your dark and light side,” Lambert explained to MTV News. “It’s about duality. It’s about that balance and finding it and struggling to maintain it and what that means. It’s an emotionally complicated video and I hope people are open-minded about it. I thought really hard and long about what was covered in it and what I was trying to say with it.”
The video nods to his ‘Whataya Want From Me’ video. “It’s a cousin to that. … There is something similar to ‘Whataya Want From Me.’ I think that domesticated version of myself is my idealistic better version of me,” he explained. “It’s the me I want to be in my right mind. It’s the most happy, content, peaceful, wholesome version of myself.”
One thing is for certain, he’s definitely no Freddy Mercury. Hey dude – you brought on the comparisons yourself.
Mark Zuckerberg may have a lot of friends – U2′s Bono being one of them and his stake in the Facebook stock will soon make him the richest rockstar on the planet.
The Dublin band’s frontman might not have a crucial role in the founding role of Facebook, though Zuckerberg may “like” U2, but his private equity firm Elevation Partners owns 1.5 per cent of the shares.
That means he invested about $90 million in 2009 – but, when the social networking site goes public later this year, Bono’s share will be worth about $1 billion. If you think about it, that’s some $300 million more than the current richest rock star, Sir Paul McCartney
For those of you that might think that amount of cheddar is redonkulous – remember how much of Bono’s finances goes to his many charity projects, mostly focused on humanitarian aid in Africa.
Adam Lambert, the flamboyant American Idol alum, was rumoured to be joining Queen for a performance at the Sonisphere Fest in July followed by a string of tour dates.
As we reported yesterday, Lambert gloated to the Daily Mail: ”The intention is to pay tribute to Freddie and the band by singing some f***ing great songs,” he allegedly said. “It’s to keep the music alive for the fans and give it an energy that Freddie would have been proud of.”
Lambert then took to his Twitter to dismiss the rumours on Friday evening:
“Oooh them clever reporters takin my quotes outta context…. I haven’t confirmed any guest appearances. I was talking about the EMA’S,” he tweeted, without directly referencing the report. “That being said, I’m truly flattered by your jump to such glorious conclusions mr journalist!! 
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They had all performed together at the 2009 American Idol finals as well as a November gig at the MTV EMAs.
Lambert’s sophomore album Trespassing is due in March.
As Twitter buzzes about faux ‘RIP Drake’ rumours – he must’ve overdosed on confidence – the rapper has some business to take care of himself.
Yesterday, word spread that Drake was being sued by Ericka Lee, his alleged ex-girlfriend and business partner who appeared on the infamous voicemail message in the Take Care single ‘Marvin’s Room’ – now Drake’s party has responded and released the following statement:
“This claim is entirely without merit and our client has not engaged in any wrongful conduct. Ericka Lee consented to the use of her voice in the song “Marvin’s Room” prior to its release. Lee asked only for the credit she received as ‘Syren Lyric Muse,’ and she did not ask for any compensation. It was only after she retained a lawyer that there was a demand for payment. Drake tried for months to resolve the matter amicably, and he now looks forward to being vindicated in court.”
Lee had claimed that she deserves credit as co-writer and should received royalties for her contribution to the song.
Damn! M.I.A. is on a roll today. Her other music video featuring Madonna and Nicki Minaj has also been released today.
M.I.A. and Nicki act as Madonna’s cheerleaders in her comeback song. All three look amazing — Madonna more so when she’s fully clothes — as they are roaming the streets, being carried off by football players.
This is a great lead up to their Superbowl performance this Sunday night.
The song itself is very corny and playful. It could easily be placed in an iPod commercial. It’s that catchy. See for yourself.
Freddie Mercury is irreplaceable, but unfortunately, Adam Lambert never got the memo.
The flambouyant “American Idol” winner thinks people will still pay attention to Queen now that he’s their brand new lead singer. Mercury died of bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS in 1991. Queen was just never the same.
Now, 21 years later, the rest of the band wants to ressurect their sound and carry on. Lambert’s busy promoting his new album “Trespassing” that comes out next month but Rolling Stone reveals he’s set to tour with Queen in the summer.
“The intention is to pay tribute to Freddie and the band by singing some great songs. It’s to keep the music alive for the fans and give it an energy that Freddie would’ve been proud of,” Adam tells reporters.
I doubt anybody is proud that the band constantly tries to replace Freddie. Sometimes you just got to give up and start something new.
While appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last night, Oscar-nominated actor Gary Oldman (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”) agreed to do a cold reading of the latest “Jersey Shore” episode.
Like Jimmy Kimmel says, every week the Jersey gang sets the bar lower and every episode they get under that bar. Gary got on stage and recapped the episode that aired last night.
“While dancing in the club, Snooki accidentally pees on herself. She sprays perfume on herself and calls it a ‘Shore Shower’,” Gary recites in a theatrical voice.
“Snooki pees in the backyard. Mike claims he’s the nicest out of everyone this year. J-Wow says she saw his weiner hanging out,” Gary continues.
The actor does an amazing job and I’d much rather listen to his sharp recaps than the sleazy show itself. Have a listen below.
