Following her recent songs with Cobra Starship and Robin Thicke, Leighton Meester spilled to MTV that her next collabo will be with Lil Wayne (of course it will be) on the track “Make It Rain.” MORE »
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Leighton Meester Becomes Lil Wayne’s Umpteenth Duet Partner
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“Sexy Video” Poll Proves Once Again That People On The Internet Are Confused/Confusing
In one of those online polls that makes you fear for the sexual development of Internet-enabled persons as a whole; Britney Spears’ clip for “Toxic” has been named the “Most Sexy Video” of all time by the users of the UK music-video site Muzu.tv; No. 1 on the corresponding “Least Sexy” list, meanwhile, is Madonna’s leotard-tastic “Hung Up”. In case you’re wondering just what the gender breakdown of the artists included on each list is: The “Most” list has a 6.5/3.5 female/male split (although I don’t think I’d be wrong to guess that Robert Palmer’s “Addicted To Love,” No. 10, was deemed “sexy” not because of the late blue-eyed soul singer but by his fake female backing band); the “Least” list’s split, meanwhile, is 4/6. The only artist to make both the “most” and “least” lists? Robbie Williams-spawning Britboyband Take That. (How UKrazy!) The two top tens after the jump. MORE »
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Boy Least Likely: Jay Sean Sinks Black Eyed Peas’ Titanic Run
Remember Lost in Space? What a timeless film: William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, and TV greats Lacey Chabert and Matt LeBlanc. Back in 1998, there was such excitement for this cinematic recreation of the classic ’60s CBS series.
What’s that? You say you don’t remember this bit of Clinton-era movie magic? Or…you do, vaguely — but you seem to recall that it kind of blew chunks?
Well, how could that be? After all, Lost in Space was the movie that evicted Titanic, the highest-grossing and Oscar-winningest movie of all time, from the top of the U.S. box office after a record-setting, still unbeaten run.
This bit of throwaway trivia (regarding a movie that, all kidding aside, was a serious flop) leaps to mind as I consider the song that finally terminates the Black Eyed Peas’ half-year run atop the Billboard Hot 100.
Jay Sean’s “Down,” to be fair, isn’t half as bad a song as Lost in Space was a movie. It’s a pleasant little ditty, a Chris Brown‒like midtempo jam with a not-embarrassing supporting rap from prodigal chart hero Lil Wayne. London native Sean — born Kamaljit Singh Jhooti — also earns the happy status as one of the few people of South Asian descent to top our singles chart, after a successful half-decade career hitting charts in the United Kingdom and India.
Still, there’s no question that the Hot 100 win by “Down,” over a very competitive field of songs-in-waiting, has less to do with love for the track than with the Peas at last letting go. Jay Sean should enjoy the victory he’s eked out, because it will likely be short-lived. MORE »
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MTV Gets Ready To Honor “Single Ladies” One More Time
Beyoncé, Kings of Leon, and Shakira have each scooped up multiple nominations for MTV’s European Music Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Nov. 5 and feature performances by Green Day, X Factor-winning warbler Leona Lewis, and “popular on the Internet” mope-rock act Tokio Hotel. The winners in most of the categories—save Best Video Of The Year, which inexplicably includes Eminem’s stale-on-arrival “We Made You” as the lone male-fronted video in its ranks—will be determined by fan voting, which probably explains the Jonas Brothers vs. Tokio Hotel matchup in the “Best Group” category. (Gimme an S! Gimme an E! Gimme an O!) Full list of non-regional nominations after the jump. MORE »
the way we listen now
Tom Ewing’s overview of pop in the oughts is crucial reading for any Idolator reader, not the least because without his influence in the earliest part of the decade this site (and probably a good chunk of the Pitchfork list!) would look pretty different. (Tom was one of the guiding lights behind the bulletin board I Love Music, where I and a lot of other writers cut their musical-rhetorical chops.) It’s a dense piece full of lots of meaty material on how the “pop” ideal has shape-shifted since the Britney-n-Justin glory days that ushered in the millennium; I’ve excerpted a bit about the curious nature of pop qua pop in the current moment (which is something that I think about a lot) after the jump. MORE »
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TLC To Turn On The Waterfalls In Las Vegas
Sassy R & B act TLC is slated to make their first U.S. appearance since 2002 at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center in October, when they’ll play a Justin Timberlake-helmed benefit concert for the Shriners Hospitals For Children. (Also on the bill: Alicia Keys, Ciara, and Taylor Swift.) MORE »
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2009 Video Music Awards Nominations
Nominees for the 2009 Video Music Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, Sept. 13 in New York City:
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Teen Choice Awards Engage In A Bit Of Prediction
Nominees for the surfy Teen Choice Awards were announced today, and the music-related categories were dominated by the usual suspects–GaGa, Kanye, Beyonce, Britney, Taylor. And leading the pack of nominees for Teen Choice Album is the Jonas Brothers’ Lines, Vines, And Trying Times–a neat trick, since the album doesn’t come out until tomorrow. It couldn’t be because the Bros Jo are hosting the show, could it? Or that there’s a huge honking banner ad for Lines right on the show’s official site? How could I even think that such an upstanding network like Fox would engage in these sorts of shenanigans with a trio that they’ve collectively nominated for Choice Male Hottie? Full list of music-related nominees after the jump. MORE »
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Wavves And Susan Boyle Appear In Their Own Versions Of “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here”
Nathan “Wavves” Williams and Susan “Conventionally Unattractive People Can Have Good Voices Too” Boyle both stumbled along the path toward celebrity this week. Williams, whose lo-fi star has ascended almost as quickly as the backlash against him, saw his drug-fueled antics onstage in Spain last week result in music-blog chatter and a canceled European tour; Boyle–the early favorite to win the Simon Cowell vehicle Britain’s Got Talent–capped a week of British tabloids chronicling every bad word she said with a second-place finish on the show. Shortly afterward, she checked herself into a UK hospital because of “exhaustion.” Sure, Wavves (and its attendant backlash) is relatively small-potatoes compared to Boyle’s lauding by the likes of Oprah Winfrey and hounding by the British press, but yet again, one is forced to wonder why anyone wants to be famous at all. MORE »
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Hey Everybody, I’m Pretty Sure That KFC Was Not Giving Away Free Copies Of The Ciara Album
Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmongerer, I’ll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox.
THE RUMOR: Earlier this month, KFC distributed a coupon that allowed anyone who bought an Original Recipe Chicken Sandwich Value Meal to get a free copy of Ciara’s eternally delayed, poorly received Fantasy Ride.
TRUTH THRESHOLD: 0%, although the notion that Ciara’s star has fallen precipitously is 100% verified. MORE »
