Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladehawke’s latest music video and much more!
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.
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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.
A large amount of sports columnists covering the Grey Cup (the Canadian Football League championship game) on Sunday noted two things: the game was one of the best ever despite its lackluster first half, and the hip-hop group singing about “humps” and “lady lumps” at halftime was beyond their comprehension and shouldn’t have occurred.
That group is one of American’s highest-selling groups of the year, the Black Eyed Peas, for you folks who didn’t know.
How typical right? Sports writers, out of touch with today’s youth; they don’t understand what we like; they can’t accept that Simon and Garfunkel are not topping the charts anymore; they don’t know anything except how to cover meaningless barbaric competitions, blah blah blah.
But they were right.
Now let me point out a few things. First, whether it was the Black Eyed Peas or any other artist popular with the youngins these days performing, they’d be saying the same thing: I don’t understand it, this shouldn’t be happening, where is the Guess Who? Second, I should say that while I am a sports fan, I have no interest in the CFL, especially if the Toronto Argonauts are not playing. That, combined with my hatred towards the Black Eyed Peas’ awful music, meant I was watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and Family Guy on Sunday night, not a minute of the Grey Cup.
So with that said, I can now argue that the Black Eyed Peas should not have been the halftime show performers at the Grey Cup. The sports writers just happened to be right, even thought they would have made the same suggestion had another artist performed, in which case they would have most likely been wrong.
The Grey Cup is a Canadian love fest. There is nothing more Canadian. Prime Minister Paul Martin participated in the ceremonial kickoff. R&B songstress Jully Black sang the national anthem. Canadian-born Pamela Anderson appeared at a celebration.
The Black Eyed Peas don’t seem to fit.
So there are really two arguments here. One, they shouldn’t have performed because a Canadian artist should have. It’s an opportunity to celebrate an artist’s achievements, and showcase them to Canadians who may not have heard of them before. Two, they shouldn’t have performed because their music has no substance, it’s assisting with the deterioration of mainstream music, and watching Fergie sing about her lady lumps is embarrassing for her and anyone else who has to watch that. The first, I think I have a case for. The second is more of a personal tirade, which you can feel free to skip.
To say Canadian music has never been more recognized worldwide (and therefore on Canadian turf, since Canadians love Canadians only if they’re successful stateside) is almost clich? since it is said almost every year. But whereas in the past, where the most celebrated Canadian artists have been targeted at the older crowd, today’s hottest Canuck acts are popular with the kids?the demographic that both the CFL and advertisers covet.
You know the artists: Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Nickelback, Billy Talent, Arcade Fire, Michael Buble, etc. Canadian hip-hop hasn’t been successful internationally yet, but it’s never been more popular in Canada. k-os has become the highest-selling Canadian urban artist, Kardinal Offishall is a mainstay on radio, and there a handful of other quality urban artists worthy of a halftime spot.
If any one of those artists performed at halftime, nobody would be (or at least, nobody should be) saying, “they’re just performing because they are Canadian.” Any one of those artists would be a fine choice for a 15-minute halftime slot.
It’s not like the Black Eyed Peas were chosen to draw in more fans. The game is most often a sellout, so the musical guest is not a factor with regards to tickets. And advertising the fact that BEP were performing was very minimal, so the television audience couldn’t have been dramatically influenced with news of their appearance.
Now, my bias opinion: the Black Eyed Peas are awful and should be banned from television. Why would the CFL want the Black Eyed Peas to represent them?
The Black Eyed Peas have not recorded a track with some substance to it since they added Fergie. Before that, they were a different group, one with a mission of making music with socially conscious messages. Then they hit this wall where all they cared about was making a song with catchy lyrics, and the substance was not in reach.
To the CFL: you messed up.
