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Pete Wentz Determined To Remaster Parenthood

No matter how cool you are, or how many hoodies you own, parenthood is a pretty big deal. Sometimes it overcomes people in such a way that they feel compelled to make absurd analogies, such as "parenthood is like making a record," a tidy nugget of wisdom for you to sew onto your next throw pillow courtesy of soon-to-be dad Pete Wentz. "You're going to mix it for 18 years," he adds, further digging his own grave. More »

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Maybe Pete Wentz Did Bring The Music Video Back

Another Friday, another installment of FNMTV starring our pal Pete Wentz. This week, there are mysteriously only three new videos (T.I., No Age, and Day 26) to go with two live performances (Rihanna and Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna). I wondered what effect the program had on the number of videos played on MTV, and there's good and bad news. The good (?) news: MTV is certainly devoting a larger amount of its airtime to music videos. The bad news: I hope you like Boys Like Girls. More »

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Pete Wentz Brings Music Back To MTV, Keeps Network's Celebrity Glorification Quotient Intact

After a lot of buildup that stretched all the way to an Idolator reader poll, I watched Pete Wentz's effort to bring videos back to MTV, FNMTV Premieres, on DVR-delay Saturday morning. And it was... OK. Friday night's premiere didn't result in ground-breaking TV by any stretch, but it wasn't completely awful despite the musical presence of both will.i.am and the Pussycat Dolls. The biggest complaint I had, really, was that the show was full of filler; Anthony's prediction last week that the hourlong show would air seven videos in toto was actually over the night's tally by three. (A few older videos got a bit of screen time, but most of the music within was papered over by Wentz's explaining the clips and the collective "whooooo"ing of the well-manicured crowd.) More »

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What Purpose Do Music Videos Serve In 2008?


"Let's Get Really Meta About Everything Because It's Hot Out Week" continues on Idolator, with the attention paid to music in the present day and the willingness of people to experience concerts without obsessively documenting every second giving way to the meaning of music videos in 2008 via a thinky piece by James at Shots Ring Out. He points out that the medium has effectively been exiled from most programming hours, garnered the dubious currency of "Internet-attention money" for YouTube hits, and become a "loss leader for a loss leader" in the minds of record executives—in other words, their previous status as a promotional tool for albums is hurting them, since physical product once made money on its own but is now seen by many people (at least, the people who think about music instead of bilssfully ignoring it) as promotional material for touring, merchandise, and other unpirateable things. More »

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Mr. Wentz, We Have Your Video

We're excited to announce the winner of Idolator's first "What Should Pete Wentz Play On His New MTV Show That Apparently Is Going To Be Better Than The Press Release Or The Title Made It Sound?" poll. First of all, thanks to Pete for sending some traffic our way with his blog post reminding people to vote. Secondly, thanks to the eighteen people who had the good sense to vote for "Fish Heads." I thank you, America thanks you, Barnes & Barnes thank you. And now, our winner... More »

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Helping Pete Wentz, Part Two

Well, the polls have closed, and we have our nominees for Idolator's suggested "vintage video" for airing on F'NMTV, Pete Wentz's attempt to bring music videos back to MTV's prime-time programming hours. We did get a few suggestions, some of which could have been, well, a little better. (No offense intended to the suggestee, but really, "Cantaloop"?) More »

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Pete Wentz Wants Our Help

Earlier this week, I apparently upset Pete Wentz a little bit when I posted about his new MTV show, which upset his posse (my favorite comment: "ps. dan gibson = a bitch, perez hilton = amazing, pete wentz = my hero"). I certainly hope that he and I can get past this difficult stage in our relationship, so I'm going to assume his original "MTV doesn't play videos, man" post was sincere, and that, as he mentioned in his blog, he really does want our help picking a "classic" video. So let's give him all the help, hugs, and love that Idolator is known for. More »

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Do I Want My "F'N MTV" Hosted By Pete Wentz?

As a follow-up to the already extensive coverage of Pete Wentz's music-saving MTV program, we can now reveal that the show has a name (albeit a terrible one, "F'N MTV"), a time slot, and a network-wide initiative behind it (at least for the summer). More »

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Pete Wentz Is The Most Powerful Man In Music

When Pete Wentz blogs, people pay attention. According to his always fascinating, yet capitalization-challenged blog, "mtv has greenlit an hour long show to be aired live once a week this summer." The show will apparently feature a number of video premieres, a classic video, and a live performance. Pete mentions the show is scheduled for the summer, which means the show may not be around once another Real World/Road Rules Challenge is ready to air, but we'll take what we can get. (Right, Pete?) Also, he would like everyone to know he likes s'mores. Oh, to be a below-average bassist in a somewhat enjoyable band! [a boy's life]

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Pete Wentz Has A Dream

According to some of our commenters, showing music videos on television is a dead scene. However, one man is willing to stand up against the forces of commerce and targeted market research and make the contention that music videos should make a triumphant return to the screen. That man is Pete Wentz. More »

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A YouTube Tribute To Ashlee Simpson & Pete Wentz

Despite the attention their weekend nuptials received, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have left most of the quote-feeding to the anonymous sources who tip off the tabloids. Aside from that glorious "rock n' romance" interview for People—in which Pete revealed that Ashlee without makeup reminds him of when he was little in the summer, back when he had a boner for Jessica Rabbit—there hasn't been much chatter from the couple themselves as to what makes their union so magical, so worthy of our attention. So here are five clips that help capture the essence of the Hot Topic generation's romance for the ages. More »

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Seventeen Magazine Lets You Openly Judge The Taste Of The Stars

Seventeen (which the idea of my infant daughter reading someday fills my heart with dread already) is rolling out widgets that are complete with animated somethings and interactive whatsits, which play tracks selected by today's biggest pop stars with sizable teen audiences. Apparently, if you are in fact a teenage girl, you could express your fandom for your favorite artist by embedding this sort of thing on your Facebook page. Instead, let's just take a look at the artists' choices, and validiate our existing feelings about their artistic output! More »

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Fueled By Ramen Is Ready To Suck You Into Its Revenue Stream

If you want to learn how to market your band/club/burgeoning multimedia empire in the late oughts, make time to read this New York Times profile of Fueled By Ramen, the label that, according to the Times, "has its acts promote one another as well as the company itself." And they aren't kidding on that last point—flip on TRL right now and you'll see that a bunch of the label's bands, including Panic At The Disco, Cobra Starship, and Gym Class Heroes, are being interviewed by Snoop Dogg and that Aussie VJ who can't convincingly read a cue card to save her life. But it gets better: The show will culminate in ramen-eating contests between members of the bands and some of their fans. Not only is that some great branding-reinforcement (what other label could have an equivalent contest? "Get a K Records tattoo faster than your favorite band can" just doesn't have the same amount of flair), all this coordinated sucking up of noodles is inevitably going to launch thousands of bandom stories. We'll have Kate report on those ASAP, don't worry. [NYT]

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Pete Wentz: A Lover And A Fighter

Pete Wentz is being sued for a beatdown he helped security give a heckler that we reported last June. One wonders what could make such a pleasant, sensitive man like Wentz open a can of whup-ass on someone, and the answer appears to be mocking Ashlee Simpson. If you want proof of how googly-eyed Wentz is for his future wife/babymama, you need look no further than the interview People's Most Beautiful Couple of '08 gave the mag about their "Rock'n'Romance." Warning: The following quotes are not for easily queased. More »

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Pete Wentz Hacked By Nicest Nerd In The World

No, really. Instead of using a bug lurking in the content-management system of the bassist/entrepreneur's newest blog to post e-graffiti like "LOL FOB SUX" or "Bittersweet World > Infinity On High," some anonymous hacker merely used said glitch to let Pete and the world know that maybe it was time for a system upgrade. And s/he fiddled with the site's RSS feed so that it actually works now, too! Whoever it is claims to be a member of the Scientology-baiting "void of human restraint, such as pity or mercy" Anonymous, which just goes to show you that Internet philanthropy can sometimes come from the weirdest places. [a boy's life / Photo: AP]

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This Man Would Like You To Trust Him With Your Hair

Sometimes there's news that hits the wire that seems like it merits some sort of bloggo remark or more appropriately, should be broadcast as widely as possible to warn the populace. So here, the first (and likely last) appearance of a "feature" entitled "Presented Without Comment": More »

Maybe I'm just showing that I'm suffering from severe celebrity-baby-bump fatigue, but this clip of Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson saying they're going to do their part for the world by bringing a Cheeto-soaked infant into it—in part because "you can't download a baby"—made me giggle quite a bit. (Also: How many irony-challenged gossip blogs do you think are going to take this clip as an admission that Ashlee is pregnant by day's end? I'm going to put the over/under at 10.) [friendsorenemies.com]

Pete Wentz is no stranger to blogging and was not very happy with this year's Grammy nominations, so it's probably unsurprising that he watched the Grammy Awards from his couch and then posted his reactions to the Internet afterward. Too bad, though, that we didn't get his take on Alicia, dead Sinatra, and Herbie Hancock in real time! Maybe next year? [MTV]