The Hype Williams-directed video for Jamie Foxx’s ode to the deleterious effects of alcohol, “Blame It,” seems to focus on two things: the color red and bizarre celebrity cameos. In the credit sequence (yep), Jarhead costar Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Ron Howard, and Jamie Foxx are highlighted, but there are plenty more to come. Wait. Ron Howard?! Yep, Opie Cunningham himself. MORE »
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Jamie Foxx Gets Drunk With A Little Help From His Friends
putting the pseudo in pseudo-event
As sorta-predicted in this space Friday, MTV is using the Best Pop Video category in this year’s Video Music Awards to promote a big showdown between the morose Germans of Tokio Hotel and the fresh-faced American boys that make up the Jonas Brothers. Thanks to the online efforts of their fanbases, both bands have clips nominated in the Best Pop Video category, where they’ll do battle with the previously nominated Britney Spears, the shrillly omnipresent Danity Kane, and the more popular than their Soundscans might indicate Panic At the Disco. MTV has also announced the nominees for Best Hip-Hop video, and among them are the earth-shattering collaboration between Kanye West, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and Hype Williams and Flo Rida’s deathless “Low.” (Click on the moonman for the two categories’ full slates.) MORE »
putting the pseudo in pseudo-event
As sorta-predicted in this space Friday, MTV is using the Best Pop Video category in this year’s Video Music Awards to promote a big showdown between the morose Germans of Tokio Hotel and the fresh-faced American boys that make up the Jonas Brothers. Thanks to the online efforts of their fanbases, both bands have clips nominated in the Best Pop Video category, where they’ll do battle with the previously nominated Britney Spears, the shrillly omnipresent Danity Kane, and the more popular than their Soundscans might indicate Panic At the Disco. MTV has also announced the nominees for Best Hip-Hop video, and among them are the earth-shattering collaboration between Kanye West, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and Hype Williams and Flo Rida’s deathless “Low.” (Click on the moonman for the two categories’ full slates.) MORE »
1:45 AM on Mon Aug 4 2008 @bcapirigi: Soulja Boi shoulda been nominated for this video:
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Coldplay’s Extra-Credit Ploy Revealed
Not content with the fact that the title track from Viva La Vida already kind of has a video–albeit one that’s for a truncated version of the song–the gents in Coldplay have commissioned not one, but two videos for it. And they got big-name directors, just to show the world that they’re that good: Hype Williams was behind the camera for the above clip, which swaps Williams’ normal fisheyed worldview for Photoshop’s “cracking paint” filter; Anton Corbijn took charge for the clip after the jump, which references a video that will probably be familiar to most of the Idolator demo. (I suspect that also may be why it’s the “alternate version.”) MORE »
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