3:56 PM on Mon Jan 11 2010 by Becky Bain
Lady Gaga is set to return to New York’s Fashion Week next month with a Feb. 10 performance at the amfAR New York gala fundraiser, where she’ll likely point the way for countless imitators during the past year.
Whether you love or loathe Gaga’s fashion statements, you have to admit her outlandish and oddball fashion picks set the fashion pace in 09. (Further proof of her influence as a fashion trendsetter: dolls in her own likeness!) How did this happen? Simple: Stefani Germanotta never missed an opportunity to show off a new look, from the playful-and-puzzling outfits she wore while setting fire to her piano onstage to the head-scratchers she chose for working the red carpet. How could Rihanna, Fergie and other stars NOT pay attention?
Click through the gallery to see the clearest evidence of Lady Gaga’s influence on the stars of the past year — was imitation just a form of flattery? More »
10:05 AM on Mon Jan 11 2010 by Becky Bain
Andy Samberg is probably the luckiest guy on TV. First he
slithered up next to Beyoncé in nothing but a pair of tights, got to duet with
Rihanna, and on this past Saturday's
SNL, he made Alicia Keys say sweet, sexy nothings to him over the phone. Plus, the dorkier he dresses himself, the hotter the R&B stars get. Can't wait for Keri Hilson to eventually get on the show and be forced to straddle Samberg in a giant chicken suit. Til that happens, check out the sensual and seductive digital short "Booty Call" after the jump.
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8:07 AM on Tue Dec 15 2009 by Robbie Daw
Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg and his fellow “I’m On A Boat” Grammy nominee T-Pain extend their collaborative relationship with a new video posted to Funny Or Die.
In the clip, Samberg gets his Auto-Tune on by serenading a hermit crab (hot), using the I Am T-Pain iPhone application. The “Buy U A Drank” rapper then calls Andy up, and they make several references to “I’m On A Boat.” And scones. Pain then fronts like he didn’t even know there was an I Am T-Pain app.
Not sure if this latest effort falls under the “funny” or “die” category—in fact, T-Pain’s “Take Your Shirt Off” music video is far more of a knee-slapper—but hop below and judge for yourself. More »
10:30 AM on Mon May 11 2009 by Maura
Sure, the Christmastime setting of Justin Timberlake’s Saturday Night Live skit in which he dresses up as a cup of soup and retrofits “Shoop,” “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” and “Whoomp! There It Is” for the purposes of collecting cash for a charity–and out-hipping the sad-sack Salvation Army Santa who only knows moldy old carols–seems a bit odd, given that the calendar was just flipping to May 10 when it happened. But you have to admit that even while in instant-lunch drag, his performance doesn’t come off as foam-handed in the least. (EDIT: Oh, it did air in December; this is what happens when you watch TV via online “Recently Updated” lists, ha ha. The sequel clip, in which JT dresses up as a breast implant and invites people on down to “Plasticville”, is below.) Meanwhile, if you somehow didn’t have “Motherlover”–Timberlake and Andy Samberg’s Mother’s Day-themed sequel to “Dick In A Box”–e-mailed to you 10 times over the past 36ish hours, it’s after the jump. More »
9:45 AM on Mon Feb 16 2009 by Maura
The Valentine’s Day episode of Saturday Night Live was a somewhat painful affair, with the normally reliable Alec Baldwin locking his gaze with the teleprompter a lot, perhaps because he wanted to get awful skits like the “Wii makes you look like you’re jerking off” one* over as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, musical guests the Jonas Brothers suffered through the painful sound system during the sorta Andrew WK-ish “Tonight” and the jaunty “Video Girl,” and were apparently compensated by being allowed to appear in a few skits. Andy Samberg’s reimagining of the three Jonases as poofy-haired glam rockers called Property For The Queen was a treat, though, perhaps because the songs in the short had the advantage of being professionally mixed before they were broadcast. Clips after the jump.
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1:00 AM on Wed Feb 4 2009 by Dan Gibson
As a devoted fan of Hot Rod, it would seem like… More »
12:00 PM on Mon Jan 19 2009 by Maura
My favorite musical moment from the Saturday Night Live that aired 36-ish hours ago: A re-imagining of the 1992 chart-topper “A Whole New World” in which Aladdin and Jasmine, married 10 years, sing about how the thrill in their love life has gone away thanks to time, age, and the damn Genie wayyyy overstaying his welcome. Clip after the jump.
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3:00 AM on Fri Jan 9 2009 by Chris Molanphy
Over the holidays, Billboard’s song charts were, at least on the surface, pretty sleepy. On the Hot 100, most of the songs that were hot late last fall—Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” and “If I Were a Boy,” T.I. and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life,” Kanye’s “Love Lockdown” and “Heartless,” Taylor Swift’s “Love Story,” the unkillable Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold”—continued bumping around the Top 10 like lazy molecules.
But below the surface, a ton of music was being consumed. In particular, one song benefited massively from the annual iPod-filling digital megasale that hits iTunes every Christmas—and that song, Lady GaGa’s “Just Dance,” reaches No. 1 the very week Apple’s music store removes digital-rights management restrictions on all of its songs, making them freely copyable.
Does this mean we’re in for even more Lady GaGa than we’re enduring now, as kids trade their iTunes purchases like baseball cards? Unlikely: those who “share” music probably figured out their DRM workarounds years ago.
But the official start of the post-DRM era—and, more important, the changes to song pricing—could have some interesting effects on digital song sales, and the charts that track them.
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9:45 AM on Mon Dec 8 2008 by Maura
This weekend’s Saturday Night Live was full of… More »
8:53 AM on Mon Nov 17 2008 by Maura
Saturday’s episode of Saturday Night Live was pretty weaksauce overall, so one of the relative high points came with the above skit, which placed Justin Timberlake, Andy Samberg, and SNL’s new guy in a scenario where they, clad in leotards and heels, were B’s newer, spazzier, more penis-enabled dancers for her “Single Ladies” video. I guess someone in the writers’ room saw the Google numbers for “single man dances to single ladies” and acted accordingly. But I have a very important question: Where is Beyoncé’s Sasha Kruegerhand? I understand its absence during last night’s medley, but if there’s one thing I learned from years of comedy, it’s that lack of verisimilitude can make even the funniest joke deflate a little bit.
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