Kelis posted brand new song “Acapella” to her official site today (where you can weigh in with your comments on the song in a Twitter widget). The minimal dance track is produced by knob twiddler du jour, David Guetta. MORE »
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Kelis Goes ‘Acapella’ With Her New David Guetta-Produced Single
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The American Music Awards: Surprises, Stage Falls and Simulated Sex
“Last nights AMAs seems to have met all 3 award show requirements: a staged controversy, a gaffe and a triumph.” Couldn’t have said it any better myself, John Mayer’s Twitter. Let’s take a closer look at last night’s zany show, complete with performance videos: MORE »
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Leighton Meester Takes On A Christmas Classic
Among the slew of new releases today—Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert, to name a few—comes the A Very Special Christmas Volume 7 compilation. Yes, it’s chock full of the usual holiday suspects. But hark! AVSC 7 also features a cover of the yuletide classic, “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” by Gossip Girl starlet Leighton Meester.
So will Blair Waldorf’s rendition of the holiday fave become as celebrated as the Darlene Love original and the 1987 cover by U2 (which, incidentally, appeared on the very first A Very Special Christmas album)? Have a listen to a clip of it after the jump and see what you think of her prospects. MORE »
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Rihanna and JT’s Duet—Do We Need ‘Hole in My Head’ Like We Need a Hole In Our Head?
Justin Timberlake has been almost Midas-like when he decides to appear as a guest vocalist on other artists’ tracks, but evidently neither his track record nor his baby falsetto was enough to keep “Hole in My Head,” a Rihanna tune, on RiRi’s Rated-R. Should it have made the cut? Give it a listen yourself after the jump: MORE »
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See If You Like Keri Hilson’s ‘I Like’ Music Video
Don’t go looking for Keri Hilson’s synthy, dreamy new jam “I Like” on her album In A Perfect World…—currently, the song only features on the soundtrack to German flick Zweiohrküken. (How belästigt!) However, at the rate artists’ albums are being re-released with bonus tracks these days, “I Like” might be washing up on these shores soon enough.
Til then, catch the music video for Keri Hilson’s “I Like” after the jump! MORE »
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Timbaland Vamps It Up In The ‘Morning After Dark’ Vid
Yes, yes—vampires are very now, very chic. But with all the goofy faces Timbaland is sporting in the video for “Morning After Dark”—which also features singer SoShy—the menacing bloodsuckers aren’t the creepiest thing in the clip. MORE »
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Susan Boyle Goes ‘Wild’ On The ‘Today Show’
Amazon.com sensation Susan Boyle can kiss the days of pre-orders goodbye, as her album I Dreamed A Dream was finally released today. To promote it, the Britain’s Got Talent vixen jetted off to New York—for the first time, apparently—and took to the Today Show stage to perform “I Dreamed A Dream” and “Wild Horses” (video clip after the jump). MORE »
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Justin Bieber, Mall Terror
If pint-sized pop singer Justin Bieber was looking for bad karma after instructing his fans to attack John Mayer via Twitter, last week, he certainly found it. More details—and video footage (see below)—have emerged about Friday’s incident at Long Island’s Roosevelt Field Mall, where allegedly 10,000 Bieber fans caused a riot while waiting for the singer’s autograph session appearance. MORE »
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Liveblogging the 2009 American Music Awards: Let’s Count Lady Gaga’s Outfits Together
Heya folks, tonight’s the American Music Awards (one step below The Grammys and two steps above the People’s Choice Awards) and we’re here to liveblog the whole thee-hour shebang! Now that Mad Men’s wrapped up for the season, you’ve got no excuse not to tune in to see every last pop star try to outshine one another—with their performances, their outfits, or by just being an a-hole on-air. (Somebody’s gotta play the villain role in Kanye’s absence.) After the epic VMAs back in September, the AMAs have a lot to live up to in terms of incessantly-talked-about watercooler moments: if one drunken throw-down doesn’t take place, if Jennifer Lopez doesn’t stumble to the ground while prancing around in her Loubies, or if Lady Gaga refrains from terrifying us with a pantsless performance peppered with bodily fluids, we’re calling it a snoozefest. Onto the awards! MORE »
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The American Music Awards: Keeping the Michael Jackson Tributes Going
Hey folks, just a quick note to let you know we’ll be liveblogging the American Music Awards this Sunday night (ABC, 8/7central — we’ll be here for the Pacific time zone broadcast) so please come by as we bow down to/bitch about who won what, who blew whom off the stage and who ripped off Lady Gaga’s look most blatantly. A few things we should all reasonably expect to see: MORE »
