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Sorry, Stans: Jay Z And Beyoncé’s “Run” Video Director Melina Matsoukas Says “Coming Never” Means Just That! Never!

You mad , or nah? Melina Matsoukas Describes The Creative Process Behind “Run” Music Video The world came to a momentary standstill when an A-list cameo laden video “trailer” for Jay Z’s and Beyoncé’s Magna Carta love song “Part II (On The Run)” hit the net. After weeks of speculation on whether or not we would actually see a full-length feature to the provocative clip, director Melia Matsoukas puts the rumors to rest. Via ELLE This ‘Run’ video was straight-up epic. Take me through the process of how it came to life. Obviously I’ve worked with Beyoncé quite a bit; I know Jay through the years. We’ve been trying to work together for a couple of his albums and it just never came to fruition. I’d been dying to work with him and I love working with her, so it just felt like the perfect combination. With this song, it’s actually a music video—I know everyone’s calling it a trailer, which I guess it is as well. But it’s a music video for his song “Part II (On The Run).” I feel like [at this point] in Jay’s career he doesn’t want to just do a normal music video. So we were trying to come up with a way to visualize the song that wasn’t something that we’ve seen before. So I came up with this whole movie trailer idea and it just kind of progressed from there. We were talking about trying to hide the fact that it was a music video, and the idea was to release this trailer for this blockbuster that you’ll never see. It sounds like the idea was largely yours. How did Bey and Jay feel about it when initially pitched on it? Beyoncé was definitely really excited. Jay was a bit skeptical, but we were able to kind of force him into it. He’s always interested in doing something different so I think that part was exciting to him. I think he was hesitant about ‘Oh, now I have to be an actor.’ I was like, ‘If it works, great. If not, then we’ll cut around it and make it a more typical video.’ Flip it to read details about how all the A-list cameos came about Image via YouTube

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Sorry, Stans: Jay Z And Beyoncé’s “Run” Video Director Melina Matsoukas Says “Coming Never” Means Just That! Never!

An Atheist Billboard in Brooklyn

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American Atheists have unveiled a billboard directed at Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s extremely devout Hasidic Jewish community with the provocative statement, “You know it’s a myth. And you have a choice.” Reason TV correspondent Kennedy braved the ‘Burg to ask the locals how they feel about atheists prosthelytizing from signs in the sky. Later, Kennedy had a feisty conversation in an active junkyard with… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Reason Magazine – Hit & Run Discovery Date : 23/03/2012 12:30 Number of articles : 2

An Atheist Billboard in Brooklyn

Crystal Harris Playboy cover

The couple announced Tuesday that their wedding, originally scheduled for Saturday June 18, is off. On Wednesday, Lifetime canceled their special coverage, Marrying Hef. But Playboy, which went to print before the news, hits stands Friday featuring Harris, 25, on the cover as “America#39;s Princess: Introducing Mrs. Crystal Hefner.” Looks like Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris called off the wedding a bit too late. In the provocative shot, Harris sits (sans panties) in a leather chair with their

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Steven "Boston" Colver and Tylar Photo

Colver, now 21, and Tylar, now 16, blamed each other for stabbing Witt 20 times as she was lying in bed in her upscale El Dorado Hills, Calif. home. It took a Northern California jury only a few hours Wednesday to convict Steven “Boston” Colver of murdering Joanne Witt for opposing his relationship with Witt#39;s then-14-year-old daughter, Tylar. Colver#39;s mother, Jan Colver, wept as the Placerville, Calif. jury convicted Colver of first-degree murder and found true the special circumstances

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Bret Michaels Defends Miley Cyrus’ Part In ‘Nothin’ To Lose’

‘It has no reference to her and [me]. It’s not even a duet,’ Poison frontman says of provocative collaboration. By Jocelyn Vena Bret Michaels Photo: Michael N. Todaro/ Getty Images We already knew that Miley Cyrus and Bret Michaels were in a mutual fan club, but fans have been taken aback by the provocative nature of their collaboration “Nothin’ to Lose,” which hit the Internet on Thursday. The Poison frontman was quick to defend the ballad, in which the rocker and the teen queen sing about love and sex. “We both know better than this/ Still we can’t resist/ Slowly get undressed/ Won’t you fall down on me/ So close I can feel you breathe,” they sing in the chorus. But Michaels told UsMagazine.com that he didn’t even take into account the suggestive lyrics when they laid down their vocals. “It’s blown out of proportion,” he said, adding that he had gotten a number of texts about it. “I was like, ‘What the f— is going on?’ Everyone’s going nuts!” The song, which he said he wrote and recorded years back without Cyrus, got the 17-year-old’s attention while they were recording her cover of his tune “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” for her next album. Michaels said Cyrus’ mother was with them in a New York recording studio when he played “Nothin’ to Lose,” which he says will appear on his album due out in June. “[Miley’s] like, ‘This is an incredible song, it’s beautiful. Maybe I could [add] some stuff to it, some harmonies.’ I said, ‘That’d be killer!’ ” he said. “She was excited that she didn’t have to follow any rules. I never sat down and said, ‘Look at the content. Look at the lyrical content.’ “The part where it says she slowly gets undressed, Miley says, ‘Yeah, she does,’ ” Michaels continued. “It has no reference to her and [me]. It’s not even a duet. As God is my witness, there is nothing I have to be defensive about. I’m a good dad. I just thought it was a beautiful song. ” What do you think about “Nothin’ to Lose”? Tell us in the comments below! Related Artists Poison Miley Cyrus

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