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Justin Bieber Vintage Video: His First Meeting With Usher
Justin Timberlake also wanted to sign Bieber, ‘Never Say Never’ star said in 2009.
By Jocelyn Vena
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Just as the world was learning who Justin Bieber was, MTV News caught up with the shaggy-haired singer in September 2009. He was gearing up to release his debut album, My World, and plotting his pop-world domination. In the year and a half since that interview, Bieber has done the nearly impossible, launching himself into the pop mega-sphere.
In the chat, Bieber recalled how he and his manager, Scooter Braun, met and eventually got big names interested in signing the teen.
“My manager found me on YouTube. He flew me out to Atlanta for the first time — I’d never actually been on a plane before. He flew me to Atlanta where i was going to the studio to meet some people,” he recalled.
“And Usher happened to roll up in his Range Rover. I ran up to him, and I was like, ‘Usher, I love your songs. Want me to sing you one?’ The politest possible way he could say no, he did. … I took the hint. I didn’t get to sing for him: He had to run into a studio session.”
But later, Usher was beckoning the teen back to the ATL. “He actually watched my videos — after my manager got to talking to him — and was like, ‘I should have let this kid sing,’ and flew me back to Atlanta where I got to sing for him in a proper setting. A week later, I had a meeting with Justin Timberlake, who also wanted to sign me, so they both kind of wanted me.”
As the story goes, Bieber went with Usher, and the two never looked back.
“As far as Usher being my mentor, he’s definitely given me words of wisdom. I hear it from everybody, but definitely to hear it from Usher is great, just to stay humble and grounded is very important,” he explained.
“There’s a lot of people, especially young stars, that have gone down the wrong path, and I definitely plan to stay humble and stay grounded and keep my family first, because that stuff really is important in life.”
On Friday, Justin Bieber’s 3-D documentary, “Never Say Never,” opens. The film takes a look at how the teen star worked to hit it big. MTV News has been chatting with him along the way, from the time he first burst on the scene in 2009 until now, as he embarks on a huge 2011 that will include a tour and more new music.
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Joel McHale Calls It Quits For His Kids
Joel McHale is a stand-up kind of guy. Well… sort of.
The 39-year-old comedian recently quit his stand-up act in order to spend more time at home with his kids, Eddie, 5, and Isaac, who’s almost 3.
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Justin Bieber Won’t Have Sex Without Love
The 16-year-old also says he isn’t tempted to do drugs in the new issue of Rolling Stone.
By Nuzhat Naoreen
Justin Bieber on the March 2011 cover of <i>Rolling Stone</i>
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Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. As one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Justin Bieber‘s right in the thick of it. In the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine — which is already causing a buzz due to comments Bieber made about abortion in the interview — the pop star opens up about where he stands on premarital sex and the temptation to take drugs, while also inadvertently providing some insight into the speculation surrounding his relationship with actress Selena Gomez.
At 16 years old, Bieber, who has no shortage of female admirers, says he’s aware that many people have sex without love, but that it’s not for him.
“I don’t think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them,” Bieber said. When asked about premarital sex, however, he was a little vaguer. “I think you should just wait for the person you’re … in love with.”
Bieber also opened up about what kind of girls he’s interested in.
“I like a girl with a nice smile and who’s funny,” he said. “As far as looks, my taste is dark hair. But I don’t limit myself. I like girls with blond hair too. I like everything.”
While Bieber has yet to confirm whether or not he’s dating Gomez, Rolling Stone reporter Vanessa Grigoriadis notes in her profile that she caught a peek of his computer background, which was a picture of him and Gomez against an orange sunset. His manager Scooter Braun told the magazine that the young star is “absolutely girl-crazy.”
“Not that he goes after tons of girls, but if there’s a girl he wants to see and he feels that we’re not respecting that, he will make our lives hell to see her,” Braun said.
As for other temptations that he might face during his career, Bieber, who is a huge Michael Jackson fan, said he wants to avoid falling into the same pitfalls as his idol. Namely, when it comes to drugs, which he said he has no interest in trying.
“Are you curious about cutting off your finger? Do you want to know what that feels like?” Bieber reasoned. “To me, taking drugs is the same type of thing. In the end, all that happens is you get hurt by it.”
The full interview with Bieber hits newsstands on Friday.
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Justin Bieber, Eminem Grammy Snubs Prompt Open Letter From Hip-Hop Brand Manager
‘The awards show has become a series of hypocrisies and contradictions,’ writes Steve Stoute in full page ad.
By Shawn Adler
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Ad man, brand manager and occasional consigliere to many of hip-hop’s most powerful stars, marketing mogul Steve Stoute took out a full page ad in Sunday’s New York Times Style Section blasting the Grammy Awards, its parent organizational, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and its president, Neil Portnow, for what he feels is both increasing irrelevance and possible malfeasance.
“Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture,” he wrote in the ad, which took the form of an open letter. “The awards show has become a series of hypocrisies and contradictions, leaving me to question why any contemporary popular artist would even participate.”
In particular, Stoute focused on the relatively recent snubs of Eminem, Kayne West, and Justin Bieber, all musicians he believes have been unfairly beaten for awards by inferior artistic and commercial acts.
“We must acknowledge the massive cultural impact of Eminem and Kanye West and how their music is shaping, influencing and defining the voice of a generation,” Stoute wrote of the two hip-hop superstars, adding of Bieber, “How is it that Justin Bieber, an artist that defines what it means to be a modern artist, did not win Best New Artist?”
While acknowledging in his letter that the most popular acts aren’t always deserving of awards simply on the basis of their commercial success, of particular focus for Stoute is the seeming dichotomy between musicians the award ceremony chooses to honor and musicians the ceremony asks to perform.
“While these very artists that the public acknowledges as being worthy of their money and fandom are snubbed year after year at the Grammys, the awards show has absolutely no qualms in inviting these same artists to perform,” he wrote. “Interesting that the Grammys understands cultural relevance when it comes to using Eminem’s, Kayne West’s or Justin Bieber’s name in the billing [but not when handing out trophies].”
Not content to simply attribute these gaps to the general irrelevance or ignorance of the NARAS voters, Stoute goes on to suggest that performances are scheduled much more cynically and crassly, citing this year’s Best Album winner Arcade Fire as an example of an act too serendipitous to be coincidental.
“What truly inspired the writing of this letter was that this most recent show fed my suspicions. As the show was coming to a close and just prior to presenting the award for Album of the Year, Arcade Fire performed ‘Month of May’ only to, surprise, win the category and, in a moment of sheer coincidence, happened to be prepared to perform ‘Ready to Start’,” he wrote. “Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program a show against this expectation?”
According to the official website of the Grammys, it would be impossible for anyone to know the winners of the various awards before the show, as they are delivered in sealed envelopes to the presenters by Deloitte Accounting.
The winners themselves are determined by several rounds of submission and voting, starting with a screening process where 150 “experts” ensure “that each entry is placed in its proper category.”
From there, nomination ballots are sent out. Voters are encouraged to vote only in their area of expertise in addition to the four general categories, incidentally the same categories Stoute has the most problems with: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best New Artist.
The top five vote getters from this process are listed as the official nominees. Finally, ballots are sent out with the new, limited choices to determine a winner.
Not good enough, Stoute says, believing this system is possibly ripe for being corrupted.
“The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences hides behind the ‘peer’ voting system to escape culpability for not even rethinking this approach,” he writes. “You are being called to task at this very moment, NARAS.”
Representatives from NARAS have not responded to MTV’s request for comment by press time.
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Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Muse Added To Grammy Show
Usher, Jaden Smith, B.o.B, Janelle Monae and Lady Antebellum will also perform on February 13.
By Gil Kaufman
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While Willow Smith is the one who made music headlines with “Whip My Hair” last year, it’s her brother, “Karate Kid” actor Jaden Smith, who will take the stage at the upcoming 53rd Grammy Awards in a special performance alongside Usher and Justin Bieber, with whom he collaborated on the song “Never Say Never” last summer.
The trio joins a list of new performers added to the show on Thursday (January 20) that will also include another power trifecta made up of B.o.B, Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe, according to a press release from the Recording Academy announcing the additions to the February 13 telecast from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Also taking the stage next month will be nominees Muse and Lady Antebellum. They will join a roster of previously announced performers that includes Eminem, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Arcade Fire, Cee Lo Green and Miranda Lambert. It will be the first time on the Grammy performance stage for Bieber, B.o.B, Lambert, Mars, Monáe, Muse and Smith. Eminem, Green, Gaga, Perry, Usher and Lady Antebellum will be making return visits for the occasion.
While 11-time Grammy winner Eminem leads the pack in nominations this year (with 10 nods), Mars has seven nominations, and Gaga and Lady Antebellum are not far behind with six nods each. B.o.B has notched five, Perry and Green are each up for four, and Arcade Fire and Lambert are vying for three awards. Bieber, Muse, Usher and Monáe are each nominated for two Grammys.
No details of the collaborative performances were released, but the Grammy announcement promised a rare, never-before-seen event for the Mars, B.o.B and Monáe segment.
With the addition of Antebellum, all five Album of the Year nominees (Eminem, Arcade Fire, Gaga, Perry) are now scheduled to perform on the show. Additional performers, presenters and special segments will be announced soon.
Which Grammy performance are you most looking forward to? Talk about it in the comments!
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Mark Wahlberg & His Basketball Boys
Mark Wahlberg was spotted with his sons, Michael, 4, and Brendan, 2, at the NBA All-Star Saturday night in Los Angeles, Calif. last night (February 19). The handsome trio sat beside film director, Spike Lee.
Mark’s latest film The Fighter is nominated for seven Academy Awards. The critically acclaimed actor/singer/producer recently opened up about his greatest success story: “I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.”
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Happy 4th Birthday Eden & Savannah Mahoney!
Names: Eden & Savannah Mahoney
Date of Birth: February 20, 2007
Parents: Marcia Cross & Tom Mahoney
Siblings: None
Facts:
- Eden and Savannah are fraternal twins
- They were born in Los Angeles, Calif. just before mom Marcia’s 45th birthday
- They were both baptized at Trinity Episcopal Church
Quotes:
“My girls are really funny! They?re actually little jokesters. They do twists on words already. I call them ?my little minxies.? They dance, they do imitations of other kids dancing, they make up songs, they make up lyrics. It?s all so silly but every mother just adores their own child and I?m the same way. They make me laugh all the time.” – Marcia, on her hilarious daughters.
“I think some days I do it more gracefully than others, and other days it takes its toll. I think like any parent I go through times where things are going great and then I’ll have a week where both of my daughters are sick and so I?m trying to juggle work and home life and it?s hard. It can be stressful and I think it would be unrealistic to say otherwise. I think that mothers manage an incredible work load, whether you?re a stay at home mother or you have a job as well. It?s a very full life and certainly one that I dreamt about and always wanted. Given that, there are days that are challenging because you can only be in so many places at once, whether it?s at work or with your kids. You know, sometimes you just really want a nap!” – Marcia, on balancing her career and motherhood.
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Justin Bieber’s ‘CSI’ Appearance: A Cheat Sheet
Everything you need to know before Thursday’s (February 17) episode.
By Jocelyn Vena
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Last September, Justin Bieber made his first of two appearances on “CSI.” In the episode, he played a troubled teen named Jason McCann. Amid plot twists and bomb explosions, fans were left wondering if young Jason was more trouble than he seemed.
Bieber returned to the “CSI” set in January, and while on set, he was hospitalized with an allergic reaction. But Bieber was fine enough to finish shooting his big second episode, “A Target of Obsession,” which airs Thursday night (February 17).
“CSI” star George Eads, who plays Bieber’s foil in the episode (Nick Stokes), revealed that Jason wouldn’t live to see another day by the episode’s end. “One of my crew guys goes, ‘Man, you’re going to split the country down the middle — half of them are going to hate you and half of them are going to love you,’ ” Eads said. “In the context of the story, he deserved it. I think in a way I was also at fault for killing Taylor Swift, too. Man, I’m going to have to stay away from a lot of people. Tell Miley Cyrus not to come on our show.”
Bieber told MTV News earlier this month that he really loved being involved in the whole process of making the episode, including his fake death.
“Yeah, I get killed in the episode. I definitely get murdered,” he revealed. “It was really cool because I actually — I get shot, like, several times,” he revealed. “I fall down, and there’s fake blood and everything. It’s crazy how the whole process is.”
Bieber also shared that he enjoyed stretching his bad-boy muscle for the part. “I’m not a bad person, so it’s funny to play a bad person,” he explained.
As for why the pop star chose “CSI” for his acting debut, he said, “I wanted to do something that’s going to be challenging for me, and it’s definitely going to be. It has been.”
Will you be watching Justin Bieber on “CSI”? Tell us below!
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Justin Bieber Won’t Have Sex Without Love
The 16-year-old also says he isn’t tempted to do drugs in the new issue of Rolling Stone.
By Nuzhat Naoreen
Justin Bieber on the March 2011 cover of <i>Rolling Stone</i>
Photo: Terry Richardson/ Wenner Media
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. As one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Justin Bieber‘s right in the thick of it. In the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine — which is already causing a buzz due to comments Bieber made about abortion in the interview — the pop star opens up about where he stands on premarital sex and the temptation to take drugs, while also inadvertently providing some insight into the speculation surrounding his relationship with actress Selena Gomez.
At 16 years old, Bieber, who has no shortage of female admirers, says he’s aware that many people have sex without love, but that it’s not for him.
“I don’t think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them,” Bieber said. When asked about premarital sex, however, he was a little vaguer. “I think you should just wait for the person you’re … in love with.”
Bieber also opened up about what kind of girls he’s interested in.
“I like a girl with a nice smile and who’s funny,” he said. “As far as looks, my taste is dark hair. But I don’t limit myself. I like girls with blond hair too. I like everything.”
While Bieber has yet to confirm whether or not he’s dating Gomez, Rolling Stone reporter Vanessa Grigoriadis notes in her profile that she caught a peek of his computer background, which was a picture of him and Gomez against an orange sunset. His manager Scooter Braun told the magazine that the young star is “absolutely girl-crazy.”
“Not that he goes after tons of girls, but if there’s a girl he wants to see and he feels that we’re not respecting that, he will make our lives hell to see her,” Braun said.
As for other temptations that he might face during his career, Bieber, who is a huge Michael Jackson fan, said he wants to avoid falling into the same pitfalls as his idol. Namely, when it comes to drugs, which he said he has no interest in trying.
“Are you curious about cutting off your finger? Do you want to know what that feels like?” Bieber reasoned. “To me, taking drugs is the same type of thing. In the end, all that happens is you get hurt by it.”
The full interview with Bieber hits newsstands on Friday.
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Roll over Betty Ford and tell Promises the news. A new rehab center in South Central, Pennsylvania called Clarity Way is providing its clients the use of an in-house recording studio and a music therapist. So now drug-addled artists can try to get clean and be productive at the same time.
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Grammys Give Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber Immediate iTunes Bump
Cee Lo, Esperanza Spalding, Lady Antebellum and more also see post-show sales increases.
By Gil Kaufman
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It didn’t take long for the big winners at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards to get an iTunes bump. Less than 24 hours after the show, the iTunes singles and albums charts were flooded with songs that were either performed on the show or which won awards during the program.
At press time on Tuesday morning (February 15), the iTunes singles tally was topped, not surprisingly, by Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” which got its televised debut during the show, followed by Dr. Dre’s “I Need a Doctor,” which Eminem and Dre (making his first televised performance in nearly a decade) also performed on the show.
Justin Bieber’s “Never Say Never” was at #3, followed by Cee Lo Green’s “F— You,” which was one of the most colorful and bizarre live spots in the three-and-a-half-hour show thanks to his outer-space Henson Puppet band and a cameo from a sultry Gwyneth Paltrow.
Mumford & Sons also got some iTunes love after playing on the show with folk legend Bob Dylan, which helped their song “The Cave” hit #5, followed by the night’s big Grammy victors, Lady Antebellum, and their Song and Record of the Year winner, “Need You Now.”
Although she didn’t perform “Firework” on the Grammys, Katy Perry’s anthem hung in at #7, ahead of Rihanna, who had two shots onstage at the Grammys. Her “S&M,” whose video is the subject of legal action, came in at #8, with Bruno Mars‘ “Grenade” and non-Grammy performer Avril Lavigne’s “What the Hell” rounding out the top 10.
Just outside the top 10, there were plenty more Grammy bumps to be found: Cee Lo’s censored “Forget You” (#11), Mumford & Sons’ “Little Lion Man” (#12), Muse’s “Uprising” (#20), Rihanna and Drake’s “What’s My Name?” (#21), Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” (#24) and Florence and the Machine’s “Dog Days Are Over” (#29).
The iTunes album chart told a similar story, with Mumford’s Sigh No More holding on to the #1 slot, followed by Bieber’s Never Say Never remixes disc, Album of the Year winner the Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs was back in play at #3, proceeded by Grammy performers the Avett Brothers’ I and Love and You at #4, with Best New Artist Esperanza Spalding’s Chamber Music Society climbing to #6.
Other Grammy album action included: Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now (#7), Bieber’s My World 2.0 (#8), Eminem’s Recovery (#9), Rihanna’s Loud (#10), Florence and the Machine’s Lungs (#11), Bieber’s My Worlds Acoustic (#12), the 2011 Grammy Nominees compilation (#14), as well as albums by the Black Keys (#17), Muse (#19), Bruno Mars (#21) and Spalding’s 2009 Esperanza release (#28).
Did you do any post-Grammy downloading? Tell us what you’re listening to in the comments!
For more Grammy Awards analysis, interviews, fashion and more, stick with MTV News!
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J. Cole, Wale NBA All-Star Weekend Show Features Drake, Melanie Fiona
Drake and J. Cole sing ‘In the Morning,’ before Fiona, Cole and Wale perform ‘Beautiful Bliss.’
By Steven Roberts, with additional reporting by Janice Llamoca
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NBA All-Star Weekend is officially under way in Los Angeles, and Wale and J. Cole helped to kick it off with a sold-out show at the House of Blues in West Hollywood on Friday night. The Roc Nation duo treated their fans, who had braved the uncharacteristically cold and damp Southern California weather, with an amazing performance as well as a surprise guest.
Drake hit the stage during J. Cole’s set to perform their salacious smash hit “In the Morning.” The crowd erupted as soon as the track began to play, but it got even louder once Drake hit the stage to seduce nearly every young lady in attendance with his romantic style.
“Baby, you wintertime cold/ The night is still young, drink that dinner wine slow/ I’m trying to make the goose bumps on your inner thigh show.”
J. Cole and Drake released the video for the track this past week on Valentine’s Day. It features behind-the-scenes footage from their Paris stop on Drake’s Lights, Dreams and Nightmares European tour. When MTV News caught up with Cole before the show, he said that video was meant to be something really organic, even though it’s becoming something much bigger.
“It was really a viral video. At the end of the day, it wasn’t supposed to be a Hype Williams production or nothing. I wanted it to be really organic, just to document the tour. Just to document that moment in my life, or our lives, touring Europe for the first time.”
Cole said this was his first All-Star weekend, and he loved the energy it brought to the town. He has been in L.A. for two weeks now, since the Grammy Awards as well as working on his project with Kendrick Lamar. He said he hopes to play in the All-Star celebrity game next year to fulfill his hoop dreams.
Another Canadian singer hopped on the stage as well. Fellow Roc Nation artist Melanie Fiona joined Cole and Wale onstage for their first-ever performance of Wale’s “Beautiful Bliss.”
Wale opened his show with his usual vigor. During his set, which included tracks from his More About Nothing mixtape and Attention Deficit, the crowd roared once his collaboration with Waka Flocka and Roscoe Dash came on. But by that time, he had already cleared a space for himself to dance and shake his dreads as the crowd helped him rap. As far as he was concerned, it was business as usual, making sure the crowd had an amazing time.
“We’re used to this now. We’ve done a lot of sold-out shows together. I just think the significance of this is it being All-Star weekend,” Wale said. “I think being a quote-unquote ‘real’ hip-hop show, that’s what makes it special.”
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1658374/j-cole-nba-all-star-weekend.jhtml
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- Artist: Beyoncé
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Tom Dumont & Wife Welcome Baby Boy Koa!
The No Doubt baby boom continues! Guitarist Tom Dumont, 42, and wife Mieke welcomed their third child early Saturday morning (February 19). Friend and bandmate Gwen Stefani took to Facebook and Twitter to share the exciting news:
Koa Thomas Dumont was born this morning at 5am. Baby boy & parents are great. Looks like his brothers! One more No Doubt baby in the world!
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- Artist: Usher
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- Director: The Brothers Strauss
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Ivanka Trump looked radiant as she met with fans last night at Nordstroms in Woodland Hills, California (February 17). The expectant mom posed for pics and signed autographs as she promoted her line of designer shoes.
It was a very busy day for the Trump exec – we saw her earlier touching down at LAX after a 24-hour trip to Hawaii with her hubby Jared Kushner.
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Leighton Meester Channels Ke$ha On New Song
The ‘Gossip Girl’ star gets her party on with ‘Front Cut,’ a new track that just hit the Internet.
By Jocelyn Vena
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For a while there it seemed like Leighton Meester was only going to be “Country Strong,” but now she’s again embracing her dance-club music roots on a new track. On Tuesday, a new Meester tune titled “Front Cut” hit the Web.
The “Gossip Girl” star’s track, a certain club banger that could easily be confused with any song in Ke$ha’s dance-heavy discography, features the writing, production and vocal talents of Clinton Sparks.
“I’m too fly to be all up in this line, boy/ I should get a front cut/ I should get a front cut,” Meester proclaims in the opening lines of the song — which is all about getting key access to a slamming party — before some killer keyboards and heavy beats kick in. She goes on to rap/sing, “You see me coming through/ Not just me, my girlfriends too/ You know what we came to do/ That’s why we in front of you.”
Meester really displays her swagga on the song’s bridge, when she goes on to sing, “Don’t tell me I gotta wait in the line/ I said f— the front door, I should go in through the side/ Why don’t you/ Lift up that rope to let through/ All these girls in my crew / Give me a drink or a few/ I mean a bottle or two/ We’ve been out here too damn long / And I hear Clint Sparks playin’ my song/ Got my diamond and my Louboutins on/ Ya better hurry up or I’ll be gone/ Don’t tell me I gotta wait in no line/ ‘Cause there’s plenty of other clubs that want me inside.”
With no official release date for the track or any definite plans for an album release, it seems that for now Meester fans will have to just enjoy the song online. The singer/actress’ pop-star career has been long-simmering, to say the least. She was expected to drop an album in 2010, but that never happened.
In 2009, she appeared on Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls Go Bad,” then she hooked up with Robin Thicke on the song “Somebody to Love.”
So what do you think of Meester’s new club banger? Share your opinions in the comments.
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Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’: Story Behind The ‘Glee’ Cover
Hit show covered two Bieber songs on Tuesday night’s episode.
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Just in time to mend the wounded hearts of Justin Bieber fans still reeling from his Grammy loss on Sunday, “Glee” paid tribute to the pop powerhouse the best way they know how: by covering two of his hit songs, “Baby” and “Somebody to Love.”
During Tuesday night’s new episode, “Comeback,” Chord Overstreet’s worrisome Sam attempts to woo back his possibly straying lady (Dianna Agron) by serenading her in glee club’s practice room with a rendition of Bieber’s “Baby.”
But before a Bieber-ized Chord (The purple hoodie! The hair!) belted out the simple yet addictive chorus — “I was like, baby, baby, baby, ooh,” — on the show, the song, and its subsequent video, helped propel Bieber to staggering fame.
Released as the lead single off of Bieber’s gold-certified debut studio album My World 2.0, “Baby” first hit the airwaves in late January 2010. The song begins quietly, with Bieber harmonizing accompanied by a guitar, and unfolds into a three-and-a-half-minute unapologetic pop/R&B smash.
Bieber co-wrote the track with rapper Ludacris (who appears on the song), Christina Milian, and Christopher “Tricky” Stewart and Terius “The-Dream” Nash (both of whom also worked with the 16-year-old on his single “One Time”), and it has been his biggest single to date.
Though it never reached #1 on the Billboard charts (it debuted at #5 on the Hot 100) in the United States, nor in Bieber’s native Canada, “Baby” became certified platinum the world over. The song fared even better as a digital download, going to #1 in the U.S. after it was released on March 23, 2010.
Bieber continued to bring “Baby” to the masses, performing the song on various TV programs like “Saturday Night Live” (he was the musical guest on April 10, 2010), “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Kids Choice Awards” and the “Today” show, in which throngs of Beliebers showed up on the plaza at Rockefeller Center to sing along.
But it’s the music video for “Baby” that’s made the biggest impact. The clip features cameos by Bieber’s friend and fellow Canadian performer Drake, as well as “Baby” collaborator Lucadris. ‘Cris, who first met Bieber in Atlanta in 2009, told MTV News last year that the video reminded him of “a 2010 version of Michael Jackson’s ‘The Way You Make Me Feel.’ ”
While Ludacris predicted, “Mark my word, ['Baby' is] going to be one of the biggest songs of the year 2010,” there was no indication of things to come for the video.
Last week, ReadWriteWeb.com reported that Bieber’s “Baby” clip is the most-watched YouTube video of all time. It currently has a staggering 463,506,023 hits, besting other viral vids like Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and “Charlie Bit Me.”
Since then, the song has been included on the compilation album Now 34: That’s What I Call Music! and is currently featured in Bieber’s 3-D documentary/concert film “Never Say Never” and has been used in the movie’s trailers. The G-rated movie earned an impressive $30.3 million in its opening weekend.
What did you think of the “Glee” renditions of Bieber’s songs? Tell us in the comments.
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Beyonce Working With Kanye West Producer S1
‘Power’ producer tweets he’s ‘finishing up some monsters’ after week in the studio with B.
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Beyoncé’s already taken inspiration from the likes of Michael Jackson and Lauryn Hill, hit the studio with a list of producers that includes Ne-Yo, Sean Garrett and Jim Jonsin, and now, she’s hoping to capture the surge of Kanye West’s “Power.”
B — who’s already hard at work on the follow-up to her massive I Am … Sasha Fierce album — just wrapped a week in the studio with producer S1, the man who co-produced “Power” and has logged time with the likes of Ghostface Killah and Erykah Badu.
S1 broke the news via his Twitter account and also posted a photo of himself and B over on his official site. And from the sound of things, the sessions, which took place in New York City, were definitely eventful.
“A couple of meetings then back in the lab with Beyonce today,” he wrote in one tweet. “Excited to see what we’re gonna create today after last night’s session.
“Not going to bed anytime soon. Beyonce got us in here working and I’m loving every bit of it,” he wrote in another post. “Finishing up some monsters … everything is sounding really great and big!”
There’s still not much information about Beyoncé’s new album, though in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” last year, she said that, this time out, she’s aiming to “make [her] own genre of music.” In a follow-up interview with MTV News, she clarified that statement, explaining that she’s “mixing every type of genre that I love” on the new album, and added, “I’m not in a box. It’s not R&B. It’s not typically pop. It’s not rock. It’s just everything I love all mixed together in my own little gumbo of music.”
What do you think S1′s work with Beyoncé will sound like? Tell us in the comments!
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Ke$ha Pokes Fun At Disney In New Funny Or Die Clip
Pop singer plays a dirty Disney princess in online parody.
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Ever wonder what it would be like if Disney gave Ke$ha her very own movie? Well wonder no more, since the folks over at Funny or Die have dreamed up a new Ke$ha-starring satire, “Disney’s Princess Ke$ha.”
The clip opens with Ke$ha in a castle bedroom addressing her animated pals, complaining about her alarm clock waking her up. “Oh that clock. What a killjoy,” she says as she stares out of her window in the castle tower. Just as she begins singing a very Disney melody, she proclaims it “gross” and says “f— it,” before kicking off a signature Ke$ha-style tune, complete with her rap-sing style and club-ready beat.
“Time to get the day going/ Dress it up to the nines/ Yo, critter crew/ Make Princess Ke$ha look fine,” she sings. “Add a little pinch of magic from my fairy-tale life and off we go.” Then she goes into the chorus: “I’m getting ready so nice / I’m getting customized.”
The pop star is later catapulted into the real world. In an alley, she meets up with an animated rat, a pumpkin and a cross-dressing hobo fairy godmother. The rat and pumpkin are transformed into a shopping cart and a man who take off with Ke$ha.
This is the singer’s second appearance on the site. Last November she appeared in a clip where she jokingly explained “The Story of the $.”
“I used to be Kesha with an S, instead of a dollar sign, and then one year I had my birthday party at Shakey’s Pizza,” she said in the clip. “On the sign, the big sign where they write ‘Happy birthday,’ they replaced the S with a dollar sign. It ruined my life. I wanted to be a CPA, but you know who H&R Block doesn’t hire? People with dollar signs in their name. I pretty much had to be a pop star.”
What do you think of Ke$ha’s latest Funny or Die video? Tell us in the comments!
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Beyoncé Knowles is headed back to the big screen and into the familiar territory of playing an aspiring singer-turned-superstar. According to Deadline, Knowles will star in a remake of “A Star Is Born,” to be directed and produced by Oscar winner Clint Eastwood for Warner Bros.
The remake will be the fourth telling of the “A Star Is Born” tale, the most memorable in recent years being the 1976 version with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson as star-crossed lovers of sorts. It is also worth mentioning that the producers of that film, Billy Gerber and Jon Peters, are also attached to this new project. It is said to be a full-on musical with production set to begin sometime in the fall.
Naturally, the plot details are under wraps, but the original story revolves around an aspiring singer who meets and falls in love with a troubled, failing former star who helps get the young ingénue her big break in the business.
No announcements have been made with regard to the male lead, but the report mentioned that major names like Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Hamm have been floated around.
It’s definitely an interesting step for Knowles but not necessarily a surprise, given the fact that the majority of her film roles have been as singers (“Cadillac Records,” “Dreamgirls,” “The Fighting Temptations”). While many thought “Dreamgirls” would bring awards recognition for Beyoncé, Jennifer Hudson’s supporting role ended up garnering the most attention. With Oscar fave Eastwood at the helm of this new project, Knowles could be in line for some hardware yet.
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In her next single from Teenage Dream, “E.T.,” Katy Perry sings about falling in love with an alien to a spacey dance track. And unlike in the version on the album, the radio version features the extraterrestrial stylings of Kanye West.
The rapper not only makes a cameo on the song, but he will also appear in the video alongside the California Gurl. The video was shot by “The Runaways” director Floria Sigismondi, who is known for putting her dark, feminine spin on clips for artists like Christina Aguilera, Marilyn Manson and the White Stripes.
Little else is known about West’s contribution to the song and the video, but in a photo released by Perry’s label, Kanye appears in regular street clothes while Perry looks like perhaps she’s playing the alien character she sings about in the song — complete with pastel-colored makeup and giant braided headpiece. In fact, the look harks back to some of the costumes former Sigismondi collaborator Björk has worn in the past.
Last month, Perry released artwork for “E.T.” In the black-and-white photograph, Perry sports blunt bangs, heavy cat-eye makeup and an elaborate top.
Perry has made it known that she wants the videos for her Teenage Dream songs to be over-the-top. “I’m looking forward to making music videos on this new album,” she explained. “There’s a story to the songs. … I’m really excited about … making those music videos that are going to be larger than life.”
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Deadmau5 Brings Dance Music To The ‘Masses,’ Wolfgang Gartner Says
‘He has a major role in the younger generation to this music,’ producer/DJ tells MTV News of his collaborator.
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It’s no secret that 2010 was a pivotal year for electronic dance music here in the States. With deadmau5 and Swedish House Mafia becoming household names, the genre’s momentum shows no signs of slowing down. Using a conduit of collaboration, artists such as deadmau5 (a.k.a. Joel Zimmerman) have paired up with various underground acts to further the rapid expansion of the genre.
Perhaps one of the most notable movers and shakers of the year is now-Grammy-Award-nominated producer and DJ Wolfgang Gartner, who recently sat down to chat with MTV News about deadmau5 and dance music’s rise to the top.
“He has a major role in the younger generation to this music,” Gartner says, “but there have been certain artists that have been instrumental in helping it cross over and reach the mainstream — which I think is a good thing. I think rap artists using dance beats is a great thing. I think it just brings more people towards this music that we all love.”
Thanks to several key moments, such as deadmau5 taking the helm as house DJ (well, technically “House Artist”) for the 2010 VMAs, dance music has been thrown into the forefront of America’s youth, a key demographic for any genre.
“Everybody knows who he is now and he’s kind of exposing the masses to dance music. These little five-, six- and seven-year-old kids latch on to this ‘mau5head’ logo — they get into the music and he’s bringing this tiny young generation into this music that probably wouldn’t be exposed to it.”
Gartner certainly doesn’t mind the exposure either. Unless you were living under a rock for the past six months, you probably heard one of this past summer’s hottest anthems, “Animal Rights,” a collaborative effort brought forth by deadmau5 and Gartner.
“It was interesting because I kind of had a preconceived notion about how he would be to work [with],” said Gartner. “I think our sounds are really similar, so I figured he would work in a similar way to me, but the way that he writes music is actually completely different to me. But he achieves kind of the same sound through a completely different process.”
Recorded in deadmau5′s favorite Los Angeles studio — that would be rocker Tommy Lee’s House — “Animal Rights” is a thumping progressive house anthem that melds Wolfgang’s unmistakable harmonics and funk riffs with the driving bass line and wobbly synths that make deadmau5 one of the unique forces in the dance music world.
“[Deadmau5] writes these rich complex chord progressions and he does it by drawing these little bars on a grid, which is just amazing that you can do that and get that result,” Gartner goes on to say. “It just proves you don’t have to be able to play keyboards to write amazing music.”
The two sound pioneers never cease to stop pushing the limits on what they are able to produce. Using drastically difference production approaches, deadmau5 and Gartner had the ability to play off each other’s strengths while recording the track.
“I’d say the biggest thing is that I play everything in on a keyboard, like even my drums,” says Gartner. “I play everything in live and he draws it in with notes on a mouse, which blew me away because his music is very musical.”
What do you think 2011 will hold for deadmau5 and Gartner? Let us know in the comments below!
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Justin Bieber Vintage Video: ‘I Love Twitter’
‘My fans have made me a trending topic every day,’ Bieber marvels to MTV News in April 2010.
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In April 2010, Justin Bieber sat down with MTV News to dish about his devoted fanbase. His Beliebers, at the time, were keeping him at the top of the Twitter trends daily. Those fans were the ones who believed in him before he became the megastar he is today.
When he sat down with us all those months ago, Bieber seemed grateful for their love and support.
“They make me a trending topic on Twitter every day,” Bieber marveled. “It’s pretty incredible. My fans have made me a trending topic every day. I don’t think there’s been a day in the past month that I haven’t. So it’s pretty incredible.”
The singer — who is still one of the most devout celeb users of the social-networking site — said he loved using the site to stay connected to his fans. “I love Twitter,” Bieber said. “I use it for being able to interact with my fans as well as promote stuff.”
To this day, Bieber frequently tweets and retweets messages for his fans, noting that there’s no science as to who he picks. “It just depends. It’s kind of, like, it’s random,” he said. “It’s not really anyone specifically. It’s just kind of a random thing.
“They’re like, ‘I never thought you were gonna respond!’ ” he added. “And I say, ‘You thought wrong.’ ”
On Friday, Justin Bieber’s 3-D documentary, “Never Say Never,” opens. The film takes a look at how the teen star worked to hit it big. MTV News has been chatting with him along the way, from the time he first burst on the scene in 2009 until now, as he embarks on a huge 2011 that will include a tour and more new music.
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Two-year-old Honor Marie looked looked like such a big girl as she pedaled her tricycle around the playground today while out with her dad Cash Warren in Beverly Hills, California (February 12). How cute is she?
The doting daddy kept a close eye on his purple-clad princess as she took a turn on the slide and swing set.
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‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ co-star talks about seeing Bieber on set ‘a few times.’
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Despite the fact that neither Justin Bieber nor Selena Gomez will publicly admit to a budding romance, the amount of evidence supporting the rumor is starting to stack up. Especially the photo that surfaced over the weekend that showed Bieber and Gomez walking together holding hands, a month after photos surfaced of them canoodling in St. Lucia.
Still, all we’ve heard from the stars themselves is that Bieber thinks Gomez is “amazing,” and that “anyone would be lucky to date her.”
With Bieber and Gomez remaining mum, MTV News had no choice but to turn to their friends and co-stars for the inside scoop on their possible young love. When we caught up with Gomez’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” co-star Jake T. Austin on Wednesday at the premiere of “I Am Number Four,” we asked for his thoughts on the pair.
“[Justin has] been on set a few times,” said Austin, who plays Gomez’s younger brother Max on the popular Disney Channel show. “They just seem like really good friends,” he added, carefully avoiding any mention of the terms “romance” or “dating” or “boyfriend and girlfriend.” “They both live really similar lifestyles, so I can see why it’s easy for them to get along.”
The pair (if they are a pair) must be growing weary of the constant scrutiny, and Austin agreed that being relentlessly followed by fans, paparazzi and the media at large wouldn’t be much fun.
“Yeah. It sucks not being able to go to Ralphs [supermarket],” Austin said.
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‘It’s just a result of her constantly evolving,’ Tina Knowles says of the fashion in Beyonce’s “I Am … World Tour” DVD concert special.
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Beyoncé has never been shy about hitting the stage in stunning costumes. Her appearance has always been a mixture of showgirl sparkle and pop star razzle-dazzle. And her style is on full display in her new DVD concert special, “I Am … World Tour.”
Her mom and stylist, Tina Knowles, said that while the looks may seem a bit edgier than what fans have seen from the singer in the past, she thinks that her superstar daughter has always been ahead of the style curve.
“Well, the wonderful Thierry Mugler designed the costumes, and I actually worked on some of the dancers and the band, and it was just amazing to work with him because he is so creative,” Knowles told MTV News at a New York screening of the special. “So it’s just a result of her constantly evolving, but she’s been edgy. It’s funny for people to say she went more edgy, but she’s been wearing body suits and that type of thing.”
And while Knowles may act as her daughter’s stylist and costume designer, she says that Bey’s style decisions are all her own. “Well, we discussed her working with Thierry Mugler, and I’m the biggest fan. And so she had seen some of the fashions and she loved it,” she said. “So we always discuss things, but it’s her decision, it’s her career.”
Beyoncé, who also directed the concert special , said it gave her a better understanding of the filmmaking process. “It was hard work,” she said. “I learned so much. I have a new respect for directors and I think I would like to do more of it. … Well, I’ve done some co-directing for music videos [but] this was definitely a big step for me, and I’m so thrilled.”
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‘It looked worse than it actually was,’ the ‘OMG’ singer laughs about accidental blow during concert serenade.
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Usher’s club-rattling jam “OMG” may “kill it every night” according to tourmate Miguel, but when the Atlanta crooner hit Madison Square Garden earlier this week, he was almost taken out by a clumsy fan.
When the singer touched down in New York on Monday, he indulged a super amped fan’s fantasy by pulling her onstage for an intimate flirty serenade of “Trading Places.” As Usher and the concertgoer got cozy on a recliner, she swiveled around to face the crooner — knocking him squarely in his mug with her foot. She began apologizing profusely as Usher briefly paused to collect himself. But the superstar took the strike in stride, quipping, “We play rough in the bed. We kick each other in the face and all type of good stuff.”
Although Usher brushed off the blow, the moment did make an impression on him.
“In all my years, this is one of the most interesting experiences. I got a kick out of it!” he told Us Weekly. The singer assured fans that the knock wasn’t that bad. “It looked worse than it actually was. My audience and I got a good laugh.”
As for the fan, the “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” star maintained everything is all good on that front too. “Wherever you are baby, don’t feel bad,” Usher said. “No hard feelings.”
As Miguel has noted, Usher isn’t one dwell on drama, whether it’s cranking out another hit album or weathering an unexpected hit from a fan.
“He’s such a tremendous example of perseverance and determination,” Miguel recently told MTV News. “I was there throughout this album, so I’ve seen the adversity that he’s had to overcome perception-wise.”
What do you think of Usher’s response to getting knocked in the head by a fan? Tell us in the comments!
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