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popping the bubble

Idolator Live-Blogs The "TRL" Finale: 1-800-DIAL-MTV, We Knew Ye When

Tonight brings us the finale of MTV's daily countdown show TRL, and MTV is pulling out a few stops to celebrate its end: A few live performances, a few interviews, a return to hosting duties by TRL OG Carson Daly. In some ways, this denouement was inevitable: The fizzy, sheeny, ever-expanding America that was epitomized by the rise of both the first Britney era and TRL some 10 years ago is all but over, what with a seemingly neverending bust ensuing and the concept of "popular music" being less popular than ever. But that doesn't mean we can't eulogize it, right? Full coverage begins after the jump. More »

7:45 PM on Sun Nov 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,161 views, 93 comments

Latest by derby: the show was awful when it premiered and remained awful for ten years. i applaud the show's commitment to treacly entertainment. more »

mariah's bringing ice cream

The "TRL" Finale Will Mark The End Of Pop Culture As We Know It

We've already mentioned the imminent TV return of Jesse Camp thanks to this Saturday's TRL finale, but somehow this momentous occasion keeps getting bigger and better—so much that the network tacked on another half hour to the program. (Be bold, MTV! Make the TRL finale one of those 24 hour long programs you were so fond of for awhile. Carson Daly, Fred Durst, and Taylor Swift all holed up in your Times Square studio—what's not to like?) MTV has announced that the show will feature a one-time-only (for now) performance by Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Nelly, as well as music from Beyoncé, 50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, and the Backstreet Boys. Still, perhaps the most exciting announcement is that both Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez are scheduled to appear. We're two-fifths of the way there, MTV—call the other three guys and history will be made! Lance and Chris are probably over that whole "bad dancer" thing by now. [MTV]

4:30 PM on Tue Nov 11 2008
By Dan Gibson
1,513 views, 13 comments

Latest by Halfwit: @Tauwan: Way late, but still... Next. Next. Next. more »

news you probably cannot use

(The Return Of) Presented Without Comment: Nelly, Taylor Swift, And Even More Web 2.No Action

Forever ago (ok, March), Idolator featured links to selected news items that seemed to merit attention, but perhaps not a post of their own. Playing into recent criticisms of the music-blog format, here are three press releases that seem notable, yet not notable enough to blow out into its own post. More »

4:00 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Dan Gibson
313 views, 2 comments

on tv tonight

Now That Katy Perry Is Gone, I Can Watch "FNMTV" Again

The Pete Wentz project FNMTV promises a world of entertainment this week for those of you who aren't seeing Mission of Burma tonight (grrr). This week's all-over-the-place lineup of videos is rather charming—save the inclusion of the madness called Shwayze. More »

12:00 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Dan Gibson
1,086 views, 9 comments

what have you sung for us lately?

Five Singles Janet Jackson Shouldn't Bother Relearning For Her Tour

Janet Jackson has some ambitious plans for her upcoming tour. "My true goal is to try at least do every single that I've ever had. So, I've got to figure out a way to fit this in two hours, and yet give them enough of each song so that they don't feel hungry for more of that song in particular." Wow! If we generously qualify "single" as songs with American-released videos (and ignore some airplay-charting B-sides), that's still more than 30 tracks. Seeing as how she's probably too proud to just ignore everything she's done since the wardrobe malfunction, I've got five post-Rhythm Nation 1814 (the singles on that and Control are unfuckwithable) songs that she might think about just yelling the title of in the middle of a medley. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,105 views, 8 comments

Latest by KikoJones: "When I Think of You" is hands-down, the greatest of all of Janet's singles. Word. more »

videodrone

Nelly, Ciara And Jermaine Dupri Fondly Recall Sneakers


There are two types of raps about sneakers: labors of love like "My Adidas" and corporate shilling, like The Game making sure to mention Nike on almost every track on The Documentary. "Stepped On My J's" is probably the latter. Nelly's rap (which rhymes "what now?" with "what now?" and "crib" with "crib" and "crib") is mere filler before he can awkwardly segue to the Do The Right Thing-quoting chorus, and Ciara (who sounds the best of the three) focuses on her beauty, but Jermanie Dupri plays the good spokesperson, describing the joy a young man feels when he dons his first pair of Jordans, and how one should collect them all. In the video, he even dresses up like Mars Blackmon. Ah, when ads were ads. [YouTube]

9:00 AM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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awards

The BET Awards Promise Big Stars, Big Hits And The Word "Feat."

As the MTV Music Awards become clumsier with every passing year in a less-than-subtle expression of how much acknowledging musical accomplishments has become an annoyance for a network that would much rather chase teenagers around with cameras, the BET Awards stand as the only place where you'll see the biggest acts in pop music (Lil' Wayne, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey and Nelly are already scheduled to perform) presented with production value and professional competence, acknowledging elders (Al Green and Quincy Jones will respectively receive lifetime achievement and humanitarian awards) without turning into a hoary grandpa fest. "Best Group" seems a little duo heavy, and it's funny to see T-Pain lead the nominations solely on guest spots, but it's refreshing to see a "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist" category. A list of the awards and nominees below. More »

2:00 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
514 views, 12 comments

Latest by StuntKockSteeev: I don't know how they decide the winners, and I don't normally encourage the fixing of awards shows, but if they don't rig it for UGK to win best group, they've managed to completely fuck the dog on a golden more »

or perhaps a song-by-song recreation of 'nebraska'

Itinerant Bruce Springsteen Eludes A Collabo-Hungry Nelly

Bruce Springsteen, not unlike Carmen SanDiego, is hopping from continent to continent, always one step ahead of Nelly, who still dreams of finding the wily rocker and forcing him to collaborate on a song that would hopefully be titled "Over & Over Again & Again." "I was really trying to get The Boss, but The Boss is all over the world," said Nelly at the Kids' Choice Awards last night. "It didn't really work out. I know he's interested in doing it. And I'm interested in doing it." But there is still hope. "We still might get a chance to get it off. We're saving it. We might repackage it for the holidays." Perhaps a snap remix of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," then.
Nelly wants Springsteen Collaboration [Yahoo via AP]

2:20 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Anthony Miccio
185 views, 4 comments

Latest by Mick Kraut: Must be the money... more »

Will We See Chinese Democracy Before The Next Nelly Record?

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no, the nelly that raps

Nelly Is The New Boredoms

Making me dreadanticipate Idolator's BET Hip-Hop Awards live-blog even moreso than I was already—and finally bringing together early '00s pop-rap and ladies who play the tympani—Nelly is "holding open auditions for an all-girl drumline for his performance at the awards on October 13" according to XXL. Interested parties "should know how to play the trumpet, tuba, snare drum, bass drum or tri toms and be able to march with their instrument." Perhaps they will then use his head as a drum in retaliation for the "Tip Drill" video.

Nelly Holding Auditions for All-Female Drumline [XXL]

2:31 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
By jharv
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Nelly is about to debut Pimp Juice Purple, an upgrade of his "popular" energy drink with "a mixture of pomegranate, acai, prickly pear and other flavors." Prickly pear! Speaking of upgrades, he's also got another round of his Pimp Juice P.I.M.P. "Upgrade Your Life" scholarship contest in the works? Was it too gauche to just call it "Pimp Your Life" or what? [XXL]

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