In the half-hour leading up to my liveblog of MTV Hits, I saw a lot of young pop hopefuls dancing across the screen—the average age was so low, in fact, that Taylor Swift and Jordin Sparks came off like elder stateswomen. The star who stuck out the most to me was probably Justin Bieber, a 15-year-old Canadian who got his start on YouTube and whose covers eventually got the attention of Usher. “One Time” is a pretty adorable little slice of pop-and-B that brings together the GarageBand presets of “Love In This Club” with some cheek-pinch-worthy adorableness. (And the video even has a not-very-subtle ad for the iPhone!) Clip after the jump. MORE »
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Justin Bieber: The New, Adorable, Canadian Face Of Teenpop
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The Kidz Bop Kids Are Apparently Old Enough To Lose Their Souls To Girls So Heartless
The latest edition of the Super Mega Smash Hits… For Kids (With A Z) series Kidz Bop has been covered in this space before, but having heard their cover of Kanye West’s “Heartless” this morning, I figured it was worth bringing up again. The cover is certainly worth your time and/or your 99 cents, if only because the kids-in-unison take on the chorus adds a melancholia to the proceedings that should definitely be appropriated by Mr. West on his next album about love gone bad. (And the bridge sounds pretty psychotic!) Kanye’s ode to a toxic relationship has been covered by quite a few people lately—for example recent American Idol victor Kris Allen, who himself was “inspired” by the waily adult contemporarists The Fray. So, who wore it better? Our poll, after the jump. MORE »
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The “Kidz Bop” Series Goes From Singalong To LOL-Along
Nestled among the kid-centric covers of “Boom Boom Pow” and “1-2-3-4″ on the forthcoming 16th (!) installment of Kidz Bop is a song called “LOL”—and no, it’s not a Trey Songz cover. It’s by Sinai Rose, and it sounds kind of like a lost Lil Mama track, with attitude all over the place, a super-distorted guitar that sounds lifted right out of Rebirth, and a chorus that turns the old “cell-phone interference” excuse into a directive to text, not talk. Also: lots of acronyms, some of which I can’t decode for the life of me. Is our children learning? Find out, after the jump. MORE »
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Disturbingly High Number Of Americans Decide To Walk In Billy Ray Cyrus’ Footsteps
From an AP story on the Social Security Administration’s report on baby-naming trends in 2008: “Miley, as in popular teen singer Miley Cyrus, moved up 152 spots to No. 127. But her stage name, Hannah–as in Hannah Montana–fell from No. 9 to No. 17.” [do you know where your children are?
Note To Journey: If Arnel Pineda Becomes Unavailable, We’ve Found The Guy For You
You may have to figure out a way around child labor laws, because Cleveland resident Vincent Fondale–the lead singer of the band tearing through “Separate Ways” above–is nine years old. MORE »
