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Mac Miller Counts BSP Fan Support As 2011 Highlight

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Be sure to watch Mac Miller perform live on ‘NYE in NYC 2012’ on December 31 at 11 p.m. ET on MTV. By Rob Markman Mac Miller Photo: MTV News Mac Miller has had a hell of a year, and the rising rap star from Pittsburgh will cap it all off in Times Square when he rings in 2012 performing on MTV’s “NYE in NYC 2012,” airing live at 11 p.m. ET/10 p.m. CT on December 31. There are only a few more days left in 2011, and yes, anything can happen, but when reflecting back on the year in which he became a star, Mac has one event in particular that he considers a highlight: his November 8 debut album release and the fan reaction that landed him atop the Billboard albums chart a week later, after selling more than 144,000 copies. “The whole album coming out was probably the #1 highlight,” Mac told MTV News of his independently released Blue Slide Park . “I remember putting out the album and being really curious about what critics had to say about it because I felt like I made this album from the heart and it was by far my best work.” Unfortunately for Mac, the album reviews did not satisfy his expectations. To him, it seemed that the critics just didn’t get it, and he began doubting whether or not he put out the right album. That was until his fans reassured him that he made the right move. “All people of all different ages everywhere coming up to me and genuinely telling me how much they like the album,” Mac recalled. “That’s definitely the highlight, seeing this music that I’ve created and just seeing how much more powerful people are than publications. That’s who I make music for.” Watch MTV’s “NYE in NYC 2012,” featuring Mac Miller, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and more, live on December 31 at 11 p.m. ET/10 p.m. CT on MTV! Head over to NYE.MTV.com for more info.

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Linkin Park’s ‘The Catalyst’ Video All About Contradiction

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The clip conveys ‘something can be beautiful or it can be destructive,’ Mike Shinoda tells MTV News. By James Montgomery Mike Shinoda on the set of “The Catalyst” Photo: MTV News Linkin Park’s much-discussed A Thousand Suns will finally see the, uh, light of day on September 14, bringing to close a nearly two-year process that saw the band push themselves in ways they never thought possible. And, as is the case with most grand projects, things were still being worked out up until the very last minute. Case in point: The video for the album’s first single, “The Catalyst,” which the band shot back in June. In keeping with tradition, the clip was directed by the band’s DJ, Joseph Hahn, but aside from who would be sitting in the director’s chair, there were still plenty of details to sort out including just what they were going to call the song itself. “We are deciding the title as we speak,” LP’s Mike Shinoda told MTV News on the set of the video back in June. “We came in with a title in mind, and changed our minds, and probably by the end of the day, we’ll have a new name for the song.” And while they were still unsure of the song’s title a few months ago, the boys knew exactly the kind of emotions they wanted to convey in its video. Much like the album itself, they were gunning for big, often-contradictory themes: power and grace, destruction and salvation, ugliness and beauty. “The concept to the video: It kind of comes from the idea of, like, if you could imagine when nuclear fission was invented, or a moment in time when something can be used for positive or negative,” Shinoda said. “Something can be beautiful or it can be destructive. Or even, you know, if you’ve ever seen a dangerous fire from far away, it’s devastating up close, but from far away, it can be beautiful. Those are the kind of themes that run throughout the album, and they’re also themes that you see in the video.” “The Catalyst” video premieres at midnight August 25 (technically, the 26th) on MTV.com and VH1.com, and then on MTV, VH1, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Hits, MTV Tr3s and all MTV international territories at 8 p.m. ET/PT on August 26. Are you looking forward to seeing what kind of video Linkin Park created? Tell us in the comments! Related Artists Linkin Park