Hey folks, just a quick note to let you know we’ll be liveblogging the American Music Awards this Sunday night (ABC, 8/7central — we’ll be here for the Pacific time zone broadcast) so please come by as we bow down to/bitch about who won what, who blew whom off the stage and who ripped off Lady Gaga’s look most blatantly. A few things we should all reasonably expect to see: MORE »
Well, “Miley Cyrus Tour Bus Crash Kills One” is quite a startling headline to find first thing in the morning! ABC News reports that a tour bus belonging to the “Party In The U.S.A.” starlet overturned on Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie, Virginia—about 40 miles south of Richmond—around 8:15 a.m. Friday morning. MORE »
Perhaps Miley Cyrus should stick to rapping her public statements after all—she keeps stepping on landmines when she she attempts regular old interviews. One minute she’s admitting she didn’t really listen to a Jay-Z song in a cab, as she recounts in mega-hit “Party In The U.S.A.,” and the next she’s dissing Twilight—a scandalous act that has prompted Twi-hards to rattle off considerably more than seven things they hate about her.
So maybe it’s a good thing the Hannah Montana singer appears to be leaving younger fans behind in favor of a sexier image and more mature songs—like “We Belong To The Music,” her collabo with hit-maker Timbaland on his upcoming Shock Value II album. (Hear it below!) MORE »
Not really understanding the lyrics you’re singing is apparently another thing that falls under the rubric of “just bein’ Miley.” An interview with Billy Ray Cyrus’ spawn reveals that the lyric in her Velveeta-and-Miracle-Whip single “Party In The USA” about hearing a Jay-Z song while in a taxicab is, shockingly, not based on real events. Someone else wrote that lyric, and she just did her job and warbled it through eighty layers of post-production. In fact, she’s never heard a Jay-Z song! Because she doesn’t listen to pop music! At all! Wait, what? MORE »
This week’s installment in the sorta-halfhearted scuffle between songs that are biding time at the top of the Hot 100 until the Black Eyed Peas return to the No. 1 slot for the kajillionth week this year: Jay Sean’s “Down” reclaimed the top spot after last week’s No. 1, Britney Spears’ Real Dollish “3,” sagged in sales by 33% and fell to No. 5. (It’s gaining in airplay, though, so don’t count her out just yet.) Rounding out the top 5 is a trio of familiar tunes to any chart-watcher: Jason DeRulo’s “Whatcha Say” (No. 2), Miley Cyrus’ “Party In The U.S.A.” (No. 3), and the Jay-Z/Rihanna/Kanye collab “Run This Town” (No. 4). [Billboard] MORE »
The meta-ness of it is enough to make one’s head hurt: In a YouTube clip posted over the weekend, a heavily eyelinered Miley Cyrus released a JJ Fad-style rap explaining why she shut down her account on the microblogging service Twitter, basically rhyming her way through some musings on whether one should live their life or spend all their time just documenting it and missing things that were actually happening in the process. You know, in my day, bloggers didn’t have these sorts of Deleting Everything crises until they’d at least been doing what they did for 18 months or so! Clip after the jump. MORE »
The inevitable mashup between Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus’ relentlessly sunny “Party In The USA” and the Notorious B.I.G.’s 1993 track “Party And Bullshit”—called, of course, “Party And Bullshit In The USA,” and thrown together by a self-proclaimed pro skier who calls himself “Andrew Hathaway”—probably won’t make the spawn of Billy Ray come crawling back to Twitter. But swapping out her verses for those by the deceased hip-hop giant did make me appreciate the brighter-than-just-whitened-teeth musical bed put together by Dr. Luke a little more than I did on first listen, which is something, right? [YouTube via cameronr] MORE »
Sometime this morning, unstoppable tween force Miley Cyrus deleted her account on the microblogging service Twitter, just 48 hours after her fellow ’90s-pop spawn Francis Bean Cobain did the same. (The two are unrelated, but c’mon, someone had to draw the Billy Ray/Kurt parallel.) MORE »
Now that the summer has ended, and the Black Eyed Peas have reached the half-year mark at the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100, it’s time to start thinking about who could knock them off. While looking for insight on which artists could achieve this heretofore-impossible feat, I ran across a Newsweek blog post that was seemingly written by someone who hasn’t really looked at a copy of Billboard in months—i.e., a dude who really thinks that Mariah Carey’s D.O.A. cover of Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is” is going to burn up the charts, despite it sounding not so much “radio ready” as it is “ready for a time-travel trip to a 20th-century dentist’s office.” To clear things up a bit, Idolator’s resident chart expert Chris Molanphy and I took some IM time and tried to figure out which artists realistically had a chance of knocking off the Peas. Lady GaGa? Jason DeRulo? Britney? Nobody??? Our thoughts, after the jump. MORE »
The dime-store synthetic material that makes up Miley Cyrus’ new single “Party In The USA” is stretching to the track’s new video, which seems to be a combined tribute to two videos—Jessica Simpson’s “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” and Madonna’s “American Pie”—and that Chanel ad with Vanessa Paradis from 1992. (Also, strip clubs. Although I’m sure that’s totally unintentional.) If only someone had thought to incorporate a firehose—then she could have channeled another classic clip! Cyrus’ video after the jump. MORE »
