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dispatches from the trl front lines

Tokio Hotel: The Future Of Music, Whether You Like It Or Not


Watch this performance very closely, because it may contain clues as to what comes next in the "rock that sets the TRL contingent's dialing digitals aflame" pantheon. German band Tokio Hotel, who Kate had a run-in with a few months back, made their American TV debut yesterday, and if anything, they're instructive in the way that they're something of a MySpacian melting pot, visually: the Shotgun Messiah haircare aesthetics on the lead singer, the laid-back Abercrombie-bro style exhibited by that other guy, and the dreads worn by the lead singer's brother combine to turn the band's visual profile into some sort of ragtag comic-book army. And their shyness in interviews should serve as some sort of camouflage for an unrelenting musical assault, right? More »

5:15 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by n/a: I adore Tokio Hotel, but I know this performance was terrible. I cringed everytime the chorus started. But it's hardly their fault. Honestly, it's unfair judging Bill directly after vocal surgery. Pre-surgery shows were phenomenal. Their music may not be more »

Right now Flo "Don't Forget That The 'I' Is Long" Rida is on TRL performing his inescapable—and terrible—No. 1 song "Low," and not only is T-Pain not even there, dude was apparently rapping along with the track. Which would be fine, if a little embarrassingly low-tech, if not for the fact that he keeps falling behind his taped twin, and I'm pretty sure that at one point he just sorta gave up and let his DJ take over rapping duties. I'll admit that I probably wouldn't mind the trickery as much if the song wasn't such a piece of garbage. It's going to be No. 1 for the rest of the year, isn't it? Blegh. [TRL]

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Today's TRL is being shot in a smaller-than-usual studio, resulting in many moments that are almost as cramped/chaotic as the Video Music Awards (here come the flashbacks!); right now, three young ladies in the audience are getting ready to compete for the title of "Soulja Girl," and they started off by, as Kate put it, "standing up there sort of not talking directly to him but listing all his great qualities." It's like VH1's dating shows, only with training wheels (and vision-obstructing glasses). [TRL]

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dispatches from the trl front lines

Ashley Tisdale's Hot Mess Confuses Me To No End


Today's episode of TRL featured the MTV premiere of the above video, which is apparently High School Musical alumna Ashley Tisdale's attempt to break into the "grown-ups" market without having to subsequently send out apologies to her current fans. The video itself, while being visually boring, was actually pretty riveting TV, but for all the wrong reasons. More »

5:10 PM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By mjohnston
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Because I can't seem to get enough MTV today, I'm subjecting Jess to TRL, which is on at 3:30 p.m. ET this week—then moving back to its summer time slot of 1 p.m. ET next week, or "just in time for the target demographic to be fully in the thick of school." So is this the beginning of the end for the show, or is MTV just reworking the show and targeting the always-desirable "unemployed layabout"/"easily distracted blogger" demographic? [MTV.com]

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It's "Bury The Music" day, in which the teenagers of America get to disown their Baha Men and Lou Bega CDs. (When it was announced yesterday, I thought it was going to involve a mass disposal of CD collections in favor of going completely digital—which would be much more of the moment than a weak "Mambo No. 5" joke.) Extra gas-face points to the guy who threw Eiffel 65 into the MTV-provided coffin, but sang a few bars of "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" before ditching his disc. [MTV.com]

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Today on TRL: Music videos, nay! A "viral" video of a fat guy falling off a chair, a contest in which bratty girls have fake Sweet 16-related tantrums, and a clip where the humor is based around the repeated saying of the word "vagina" by—not kidding—a fart, yay! Also: Aly and AJ are starting to reach Brooke Hogany levels of creepiness. [MTV.com]

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