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mike myers resplendent

"The Love Guru" Soundtrack Loaded With Campy Tracks And Racist Bullshit

Deepak Chopra's claims aside, Mike Myers' upcoming The Love Guru looks like a disgusting, unfunny attempt to josh on the Maharishi, which might have at least made sense if the film was made 40 years ago or if this racist caricature was originally meant as a whimsical side note in a fourth Austin Powers movie. Multiple songs from the soundtrack are up on the movie's MySpace page, so we can all yuk it up at Bollywoodized covers of "The Joker" and "9 To 5" (oh wow, sitars and funny accents!! Boing!!). Fans of The Apple should note that the composer of that film's music, George S. Clinton, is responsible for the instrumental "Guru Vindaloo." Justin Timberlake (seen above) doesn't perform on the album, but Telma Hopkins of Dawn and Family Matters fame does. More »

2:30 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Anthony Miccio
972 views, 26 comments

Latest by the earl grey: cool he brought back 'cest la vie' more »

branding

Madonna And Justin Timberlake To Remix Their Own Damn Hit For Verizon

Madonna, Justin Timberlake and "Verizon Mobile Producer In Residence" Timbaland have teamed up to make a remix of "4 Minutes" by... Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Evidently the trio went into Verizon Wireless' mobile recording studio after the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony and created this "Underground Remix" of their Top 10 hit for the mobile-phone company. If you take the effort to buy this remix, you'll also get footage of the trio holding hands and dancing around a mic while chanting "Can you hear me now?" More »

3:00 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Anthony Miccio
676 views, 2 comments

Latest by Manator Is Sorry: @HONEYBFLY: Something about sex and grooving? I'm just guessing. more »

videodrone

Madonna's New Video Reveals That She Isn't Afraid To Go After Britney's Sloppy Seconds (And Neither Is Justin Timberlake)

Madonna's video for "Four Minutes"—featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, and bearing a title that's been chopped down from "Four Minutes To Save The World," presumably for national-security reasons—debuted on the Internet this morning, and its extended JT-and-Madge mating dance not only squicked me out at a way-too-early hour, it had even more indications that Hard Candy will be Madonna's "I'm out of ideas because the whole idea of 'subculture' has bubbled away in the social-networking era" album. The video, and five conclusions to take away from it, after the jump. More »

8:30 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
3,081 views, 26 comments

Latest by HomefrontRadio: Wow. I thought 'Die Another Day' was the hook-freeiest song i've ever heard. You'd think with three people writing a song one of them would stumble across something resembling a melody, even by accident. more »

Justin Timberlake is spittin' mad that the barbecue is not up to snuff at his NYC restaurant, but he's apparently psyched for the new "Jack Daniels sweet potato pie," which I guess makes T.G.I. Fridays' Jack Daniels menu the "Usher" here? [NY Mag]

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Vitamin B12 aficionado Justin Timberlake will be hosting the ESPY Awards on July 20. "I'll do my best to deliver a great show, as I do not want to be roughed up backstage by these athletes who are bigger, faster and stronger than me," said Justin. Rrrrrright. [AP]

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leak of the weekend

Madonna Stops The Clock

ARTIST: Madonna (ft. Timbaland and Justin Timberlake)
TITLE: "Four Minutes To Save The World"
WEB DEBUT: Feb. 29, 2008

10:30 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,035 views, 1 comment

everything must go

If You Want A Piece Of Lou Pearlman, You Can Find One On eBay

Pervy boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman, whose trial on federal bank fraud charges is set for April, has told friends that he's thinking about copping a plea on those charges that would result in him going to the federal pen for up to 25 years. But that doesn't mean he'll be free from jail after that; charges related to the huge investment scheme that he ran through his company Trans Continental Airlines have yet to be filed, and that'll probably add to his sentence if he's found guilty. What's more interesting: The "friend" who told the St. Petersburg Times this little bit of news is now reselling Pearlman's possessions—which he bought at Pearlman's two bankruptcy auctions—on eBay, under the username a-v sales. Among the items on offer are an actual MTV Moonman (bidding currently at $560); other highlights—including an award bestowed upon Pearlman by Mikhail Gorbachev—after the jump. More »

10:30 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Maura Johnston
519 views, 7 comments

Latest by the rich girls are weeping: Dude. I just bid on a bunch of the blimp stuff. Woah. more »

Hey, the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductions are happening in a week and a half! Can't you feel the excitement oozing from the Waldorf-Astoria in New York? Well, get ready to get even more psyched—they're going to double as a promotional stunt for Madonna's new album, which features Justin Timberlake, because Justin is going to present her to the crowd! Yay, music industry! Don't fall over from reaching too far to pat yourself on the back there, now! [In Touch Weekly]

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Madonna Plays Master And Servant With The Two Timbs

Sure, British tabloids exist to exaggerate, but even accounting for a purple-tipped editing pen being used to punch up these rumors straight from the London set of Madonna's next video, we're already a little wary about the premiere of the final product. But maybe you've long harbored secret fantasies about engaging in S&M with bodybuilding pop superproducers? More »

1:10 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Jess Harvell
878 views, 12 comments

videodrone

Is The Sight Of A Justin Timberlake Ball Shot Going To Make America Embrace Legal Downloading?

Pepsi is sure hoping so, based on the Pepsi/Amazon MP3 ad above, which shows Justin Timberlake being driven out of his restaurant and through the streets of New York and its suburbs... thanks to the power of Pepsi's points program that will allow people who drink lots of carbonated sugar water to get "free" MP3s by Justin and other music stars. There's also an odd Andy Samberg cameo, the ball shot (it involves a mailbox), and a big honking ad for Justin's restaurant, because, you know, that's the only place where he hangs out when he's in town. Ugh, this isn't even as good as yesterday's ultra-dopey Haddaway-themed ad, which is why I'm wondering just how much time will elapse between the Super Bowl's final second and Pepsi kicking its ad agency to the curb. [Dailymotion via TDS]

8:53 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Maura Johnston
680 views, 13 comments

Latest by cassidy2099: "Hey to you" redeems much of what I didn't like, i.e. Samburg. more »

call the wahhhmbulance

Record Executives In "Maturity Of A Six-Year-Old" Shocker

I was all set to write a story about Pepsi's latest "buy a lot of soda and we'll give you something of much lesser value for the bottlecaps" promotion, which is going to allow users to swap their tops for MP3s at Amazon's digital-music store and be advertised via a Super Bowl commercial featuring Justin Timberlake (what, no Janet Jackson?), and how maybe using Timberlake to promote this when he hasn't put out an album in nearly a year and a half isn't exactly the best way to get people excited about expanding their digital-music libraries. But flogging nearly dead horses is the least of the music industry's problems, as evidenced by this quote hidden deep in this Times story on the Amazon-Pepsi alliance: More »

8:43 AM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By mjohnston
866 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm still waiting for all of the Faygo I drink to net me some ICP mp3's. more »

leak of the weekend

Timbaland Uses Madonna As A Prop

100 and single

"No One" Here Gets Out Alive: Sales Malaise Spreads to the Hot 100

Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latest installment of "100 And Single":

If you, current pop act, are not an Oprah-anointed permhead with a name rhyming with "Lohan," you are not having a fun week: A mid-holiday-season malaise has settled over the Billboard charts. That's clear from the current results on the Hot 100, where Alicia Keys holds on to the top spot for a third week even as her sales fall considerably.

6:00 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Chris Molanphy
909 views, 1 comment

"Justin Timberlake is getting his own golf tournament...Timberlake becomes the 14th celebrity to host an event, joining notables" including Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Clearly this means that a series of comedy road-trip flicks staring JT and Timbaland is right around the corner. [AP]

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Now that the sixth single from FutureSex/LoveSounds has broken the Billboard Top 40, Justin is "the first solo male artist this decade to spawn six top 40 hits from the same album," tying him with Shania Twain's six from Come On Over and keeping him just behind Michael Jackson's seven for Dangerous. But please don't release the song about the crackhead as a single in order to catch up, okay? [Billboard]

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In an effort to distract from other two word combinations currently making America feel very bad about its complicity in its own culture—"Britney Spears," "50 Cent," "Kanye West," "popular music," etc.—here's one that you probably hoped to never, ever hear again, just to take your beleaguered minds off 2007 for a minute: "wardrobe malfunction." Yes, a court in Philadelphia is about to rule on whether or not the FCC overstepped its bounds in fining CBS $550,000 for the scarring mammary exposure that forced an obviously damaged Janet Jackson to release both Damita Jo and 20 Y.O. and affected Teflon devil Justin Timberlake not a happy-go-lucky whit. [BBC]

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With all the drunken rubbernecking last night and its painful, painful (no, really) aftermath this morning, we missed the weekend's most important award: Justin Timberlake won the Emmy for "Dick In A Box." He has now truly earned that "Quadruple Threat Of The Year" moon man. [AP via Yahoo]

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not liveblogging

Justin Timberlake Mugs A Lot In New York City, And You Are There (Several Hours Later)

Following mucho viral-style hype (unless you somehow missed the ads blanketing this very Web site last week), last night was Justin Timberlake's "FutureSex LoveShow" on HBO, which was taped at Madison Square Garden in August. We briefly thought about liveblogging it (i.e. about 20 minutes before the show started), but realized we had made the right decision in being lazy drunks when one Idolator turned to another and said "Wow, I'm kinda glad I didn't bother trying to get tickets for this."

Yes, sadly the LoveShow was just NotThatExciting, a neon-lit arena show headlined by possibly the biggest male pop singer on the planet at the moment, a manboy who hasn't quite figured out how to command that stage without resorting occasionally to cheesy Mickey Mouse Club tricks, and a musician whose excitement at being able to show his multi-instrument dexterity sometimes sacrificed the immediacy of his best songs for "stretching out" on his keyboard with double the guitar solos. Still, for those of you who missed it, here's Idolator's post-JT wrap-up. (Is "postblogging" a word yet?)

9:35 AM on Tue Sep 4 2007
By jharv
1,806 views, 16 comments

Latest by phaballa: I saw the show live in Houston back in March, and again on Sunday night in Vegas, then watched the HBO special on Monday night and I have to say--HBO tried really hard to capture the excitement of it, but more »

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