Just when we’re falling madly in love with her latest video “The One That Got Away” (warning: watch only with tissues within reach), Katy Perry informed her managers that after the final leg of her California Dreams world tour, she’s entering a musical hiatus. I feel like my lover is leaving in a few days to study abroad, and he’s just telling me now.
Friday=pay day for most people. We’re gettin’ paper! Friday is also the day to go out and have an awesome time at a club/bar/wherever with all of your hard-earned “paper.” That’s why Chris Brown’s Look at Me Now is an awesome Friday song. I’m sure that this song has an amazing video with a lot of Chris Brown dance moves, but I like this video better. Check out this literally interpreted video made in MS Paint of Look at Me Now.
[Disclaimer: We realize this video isn't exactly new, but it's new to us and if you heard the WTFs rippling through our office, you'd understand why we just had to share it.]
I don’t know what’s worse about this video – the fact that Kiely Williams is a former Disney Cheetah Girl, the lyrics (“Last I remember I was face down, ass up, clothes off….”), the booty dancing on a random brick wall, or the naked dude’s butt just hanging out while she does her thing. It’s bad. Awful. Probably the worse thing I’ve seen since Britney’s “Gimme More” performance at the VMAs. And I’m not the only one who has a problem with it; even our favorite hater Kingsley has something to say.
Sure, we’ve all been there before, but that’s something we tell our friends over coffee in our pajamas on a Sunday morning, not to a beat in a pair of sequin booty shorts.
I love Kanye West. Yes, even when he gets all cocky and “I’m the greatest in the mother effing world!” I also happen to be ob-sessed with his new song, Love Lockdown. I downloaded it on iTunes 2 weeks ago and already have 189 plays (I have a problem).
Yesterday, Kanye went on the Ellen Degeneres show to debut his video for the song (what ever happened to MTV, people?) and it is…weird. Like, really weird. Like, I think I need to be one some sort of mushroom/trippy drug to understand what is going on, weird.
Not that it makes the song any less awesome. Watch and judge for yourself.
You may not have seen this show. In fact, I hope -- for your soul's sake -- that you haven't. But if, like me, you were watching the Olympics last night and just happened to change the channel to ABC, I'm sorry for what your eyes had to see:
Teenagers overacting while singing tired pop songs. Teenagers being pushed to overact while singing tired pop songs by adult "teachers" who seem to want nothing more than to prey on the naivete of theater kids from Milwaukee (or wherever they're from). Teenagers selling their soul to sing in a music video that will be shown during the credits of High School Musical 3. Nick Lachey. Teenagers being forced to "connect" with each other in ways that will surely get them beat up and ostracized when they get back to real high school. Did I mention pop songs that make me want to hurl? What about Nick Lachey, did I talk about him and how it's like what the f*ck is he doing on my TV?!
High School Musical: Get In The Picture is disgusting by anyone's standards. Are these kids talented? Sure. But wasting that raw talent by forcing them to turn inane lyrics into some kind of heartache or life moment is stupid. So is encouraging them to act like Vanessa Hudgens.
So, if you value the contents of your stomach and the opinion you may already have of theater kids, stay the eff away from this reality show. On the other hand, if you enjoy Nick Lachey's wax-like interpretation of talking, as well as hearing "Bleeding Love" for the 9849th time turned into a duet and shoved into a weird scene about...what? Preppy guy meets 80's-clad girl?, then by all means, TiVo this sh*t.
Pete Wentz’s band, Fall Out Boy, for which he is the principal lyricist and bass player, has sold upwards of 5 million albums worldwide. Decadence Records, Wentz’s label, has signed bands like Gym Class Heroes, Panic at the Disco and The Academy Is…, who’ve all turned into massive successes. Clandestine Industries, Wentz’s clothing line and book publishing company, recently opened the flagship location in Wentz’s hometown of Chicago. He’s been busy in his personal life too, marrying his muse, Ashlee Simpson last month. And the two are expecting their first child later this year.
You’d think as a successful musician, entrepreneur and family man, Wentz would want to settle down a little, and soak it all in. Wrong! He’s just gearing-up for his biggest project yet: redefining the way we experience music videos on TV and the Web, as host of MTV’s new show, “FN MTV.”
So we got Wentz on the phone to talk to him about life, music and the next big thing in music video history!
Check out Pete Wentz’s full interview after the jump!Read More »
Have you ever stumbled across a song and thought, “damn, this song should be my soundtrack as I walk down the street in my new short shorts”?
Well, if you’re like me, then you HAVE had this thought before. Everyone needs a song that gets them feeling badass. Everyone needs a pulsating, bass-a-rific riff that makes them forget that they’re just driving to the store to get some milk and instead imagine that they’re in an action movie where the opening credits are rolling as they ride down the highway, hair flying and looking hot.
David Guetta (with Chris Willis on vocals) has supplied us with the first perfect badass summer song of the season, Love is Gone. The beat is undeniable, it works on the treadmill as well as on the car stereo, and the music video is kind of weird and awesome.
Congrats. Summer is here.
Check out the video for Love is Gone after the jump. Read More »