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:: Willow Smith has picked up a habit from her "Fireball" pal Nicki Minaj — wearing outrageous wigs to go shopping. Let's just hope she doesn't start aping all Nicki's alter egos too — 'cause Roman Zolanski has no business popping up in an 11-year-old-girl's body. [Just Jared]
:: Lana Del Rey says the leaked versions of "National Anthem" and "This Is What Makes Us Girls" are demos and "sound nothing like they do on the album." Which is a pity, since they were awesome. [Twitter]
:: Ah, they grow up so fast. Boyz II Men had the late-night equivalent of a bar mitzvah when Jimmy Kimmel bestowed upon them a more age-appropriate band name: Men II Menz. [Rap-Up]
:: Wondering what ridiculously posh gift to get Beyonce and Jay-Z as congratulations for the birth of their baby? Best Week Ever has you covered. [BWE]
:: Instead of going on tour, Björk will be doing a ten-night residency concert in New York City to showcase Biophilia. Huh — it's so unlike her to do things differently than everybody else! [MTV]
After the jump, find out which acts you can find on the tube today. More »
Posts Tagged ‘Bjork’
The Morning Mix: Bjork Reveals ‘Biophilia’ Album Cover
Thu Aug 18 2011 by Idolator Staff
Did You Hear?
:: Boundary-pushing pop auteur Björk looks like a cosmic Pointer Sister on the cover of her new album, Biophilia. [Pink Is The New Blog]
:: Neon Hitch has followed up her Wiz Khalifa cover by tackling Mac Miller's viral hit "Donald Trump". [Arjan Writes]
:: AC/DC release their own wine collection - please drink responsibly while driving the Highway to Hell. [Pop Dust]
:: "Witches' Brew" songstress Katy B shows why she we nominated her as one of 2011's leading ladies of pop with a killer Live Lounge set. [Music & Lyrics]
:: Lil' Kim pays tribute to Michael Jackson by donning a white glove and grabbing her crotch. [Rap-Up]
After the jump, find out which music acts will be appearing on the tube today. More »
:: Boundary-pushing pop auteur Björk looks like a cosmic Pointer Sister on the cover of her new album, Biophilia. [Pink Is The New Blog]
:: Neon Hitch has followed up her Wiz Khalifa cover by tackling Mac Miller's viral hit "Donald Trump". [Arjan Writes]
:: AC/DC release their own wine collection - please drink responsibly while driving the Highway to Hell. [Pop Dust]
:: "Witches' Brew" songstress Katy B shows why she we nominated her as one of 2011's leading ladies of pop with a killer Live Lounge set. [Music & Lyrics]
:: Lil' Kim pays tribute to Michael Jackson by donning a white glove and grabbing her crotch. [Rap-Up]
After the jump, find out which music acts will be appearing on the tube today. More »
Bjork And Michel Gondry Take A Trip To The Moon In “Crystalline” Video
Tue Jul 26 2011 by Becky Bain
We're apparently having a late 90s revival this month — the Beastie Boys reteamed with frequent music video collaborator Spike Jonze for their playtime spy romp "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win", and now fantastical director Michel Gondry is back with his longtime muse Bjork for the new video "Crystalline", off her forthcoming album Biophilia. Behold some majorly trippy imagery (like you'd expect anything else from these two) below.
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The Morning Mix: Malaysia Censors Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”
Fri Mar 18 2011 by Becky Bain
:: Radio stations in Malaysia are censoring the pro-gay lyrics in Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" (particularly the lyric "No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life") to avoid being fined by the Malaysian government. Why play the song at all if you don't like it's message? [EW Music Mix]
:: Joe Jonas is single again after splitting with Twilight actress Ashley Greene. Are there any starlets left in Hollywood for him to date that haven't already dated his brothers? [Pink Is The New Blog]
:: The Warblers on Glee don't have the market cornered on a capella Katy Perry covers, apparently - listen to one guy's instrument-less take on "Firework". [Vulture]
:: Gorillaz must have kicked off a trend - Bjork is preparing her own iPad album, Biophilia. [Consequence Of Sound]
:: Casey Abrams might be our favorite Idol contestant, even though he tore apart our eardrums while singing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and traumatizing us with his devil faces. [Best Week Ever]
After the jump, find out which music acts are performing on the tube today. More »
PHOTOS: Oscar Red Carpet Triumphs And Disasters
Fri Mar 5 2010 by Erika Brooks Adickman
It’s that time again. That weekend when when Hollywood pats itself on the back for three-to-four often excruciating hours while the rest of us nestle into our couches, munch popcorn and sit in judgment on stars as they parade across the red carpet. And while most are focused on this year’s big change (the expansion of the Best Picture category to 10 contenders), we’d rather weigh in on Oscar red carpet moments from years past. Relive some of the best and worst pop star decisions from Oscars gone by—and we’re not just talking fashion (ahem, J.Lo and Ben Affleck). Check out our favorite triumphs and disasters from the Academy’s red carpets of yore. More »
MTV Panders To The “Remember When MTV Showed Music Videos” Crowd With Throwback Video Music Awards Category
Tue Aug 4 2009 by Maura
Perhaps realizing that a good chunk of the people who still care about its brand wouldn’t know a 3OH!3 from a GaGa, MTV has added a new, retro-tastic category to this year’s Video Music Awards: Best Video That Should Have Won A Moonman, in which an overlooked clip from years gone by gets its space-statue due. (I do wonder if the presentation of said award will be shown on VH1, if only because it can then be blown out into an hour-long special about Loving The Videos That Lost At The Video Music Awards or somesuch.) There are 10 clips up for this honor, and they hail from eras as long-ago as MTV’s earliest days and as recent as the YouTube Age. My biases in this category are probably given away by the above screen grab, but you might think* differently! More »
Solange Gets Oh So Still
Wed May 6 2009 by Maura
Solange Knowles let slip that she’d performed a “gospel version” of Bjork’s “It’s Oh So Quiet” while on tour in Europe earlier this week, and her take on the song–a slower take that plays up the song’s waltziness and allows her background singers to shine–has made it to YouTube. Check out the octave-jumping she does at the end! Anyway, I’m sure that Bjork-fan “purists” out there will find something to complain about with it, because the Internet was made for complaining. So why not peep the original versions of the song after the jump? More »
April F-F-F-Foolin’: The Following Stories Are Not True, So Don’t Fall For Them (Not That You Would, You Smarty Pants)
Wed Apr 1 2009 by Maura
Aside from holidays where major news events happen, thus disrupting one’s chance to actually get away from her laptop and have a life, April Fool’s Day is probably the most annoying 24-hour stretch on the professional blogger’s calendar, thanks to everyone on the Internet thinking they’re funny. Despite that not really being true! After the jump, a running tally of pranks from various music-related entities; it’ll be updated throughout the day, because Lord knows I need to do something with all the “comedy” clogging up my RSS reader right now.
Kristen Wiig’s Bjork Much More Tolerable If You Close Your Eyes
Sun Feb 8 2009 by Maura
Last night’s sorta-oddly music-heavy Saturday Night Live featured an appearance by “Bjork,” who was really Kristen Wiig doing that hands-covering-awkward-facial expressions thing that she does in way too many sketches while talking about Iceland’s economy. So annoying! But… if you didn’t look at Wiig’s mugging (or very unfortunate “weird” outfit that looked like it was a leftover from a 1993 sketch about Contempo Casuals), she actually kind of sounded like the bewitching singer at points, especially at the beginning of her musical ode to the country’s recent fiscal woes. Clip after the jump.
Thom Yorke’s Taste In Music Gets Made More Mainstream By The Man
Mon Jan 19 2009 by Maura
So, a new version of Thom Yorke’s Grammy ad, which crafts a mosaic of the Radiohead frontman’s face from the titles of various songs that have influenced him, is out there, and keen-eyed viewers will notice a few key differences between the initial print (at left, as sourced from Pop & Hiss last Tuesday) and this iteration, which is being rolled out with a TV spot in which Yorke talks about his dreams of becoming David Bowie someday. Let’s play a little game of “catch the edits,” shall we?
