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Eminem To Perform at 2010 MTV VMAs

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

The VMA veteran returns to the stage with eight nominations from his best-selling Recovery. By Gil Kaufman Eminem Photo: Michael Caulfield/ WireImage You can’t throw the year’s biggest party without inviting the artist with the best-selling album of 2010. Especially if that guy happens to be Eminem , whose history with the MTV Video Music Awards is long, legendary and full of the kind of eye-popping moments that make the VMAs the must-TiVo event of the year. Slim Shady will bless the show’s stage on September 12, where he is nominated for eight Moonmen for his smash comeback album Recovery, the best-selling non-country release of the year. Em joins an already star-packed roster of performers that includes Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Drake, B.o.B and Florence and the Machine, as well as in-house DJ Deadmau5 and host Chelsea Handler. The list of presenters already includes Ke$ha, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Trey Songz, Ashley Greene, Selena Gomez and Ne-Yo. Over the years, Eminem has given some of the most iconic performances of the modern VMA era, none bigger than 2000’s Night of the Living Shadys. During that show, Em began his run through Video of the Year-winning hit “The Real Slim Shady” out on the streets of Manhattan, surrounded by an army of clones dressed exactly like him. The brigade then marched into Radio City Music Hall as Em finished “Shady” and then busted into a visceral “The Way I Am.” Even when he wasn’t performing on the show, Eminem — who ranks sixth on the list of all-time VMA winners — has made his presence felt over the years, as he did in 2002 with his infamous run-in with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog . Viewers can vote for general VMA categories, including Best New Artist, by visiting VMA.MTV.com . In addition, text voting for Best New Artist is open to all wireless carrier subscribers by texting BNA to 97979. Voting continues through the show, live on September 12.

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Bozell Column: Sleazy Songs of Summer

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ever wonder what those teenagers are listening to while wearing those iPod earphones? Maybe you’d rather not know. You will be horrified. The Culture and Media Institute recently reviewed the top pop songs from May through July. To say that hedonism is in the air is an understatement. Of the 22 songs on the charts, a whopping 64 percent made at least one reference to sex, drugs or alcohol, or contained profanity. All 22 songs had music videos, and 68 percent of them featured sexualized dancing, alcohol, violence, or partying scenes. The “anthem” of the summer seems to be the song “California Gurls” by Katy Perry, the ex-Christian singer who kick-started her career with the hit “I Kissed a Girl (And I Liked It)” in 2008. She’s so “mainstream” this year that she hosted the Teen Choice Awards on Fox. Her “Gurls” song is catchy and raunchy, starting with the boast that she and her girlfriends are so hot “we’ll melt your Popsicle.” That phrase is hot slang. Please imagine 7-year-old girls learning and reciting the lyrics to these songs — because they do. Perry sings about “Sex on the beach / We don’t mind sand in our stilettos / We freak in my Jeep” to Snoop Dogg, who also raps on the song. Snoop calls out the men to “kiss her, touch her, squeeze her buns.” The boys hang out to “all that ass hangin’ out,” watching the girls in “bikinis, tankinis, martinis, no weenies.” Shakespeare he is not. Romantic sonnets are not in season. Getting sex quickly seems to be the only aim. The hottest new star is named Ke$ha, and her song with pop band 3OH!3 (No, I don’t understand it either) is called “My First Kiss.” It sounds innocent, but innocence isn’t allowed. The lyrics include a request for sex: “Lips like licorice, tongue like candy / Excuse me, Miss, but can I get you out of your panties?” Another song, “In My Head,” is sung by Jason Derulo and features the lyrics “Instead of talking, let me demonstrate / Yeah / Get down to business, let’s skip foreplay.” Would you like more song sheets for the kiddies? Rihanna is another princess of pop. Her song challenges a boy to make a move: “Come here, rude boy, boy / Can you get it up? / Come here, rude boy, boy / Is you big enough?” She also promises to “give it to you harder” and “turn your body out.” The video matches the theme, with Rihanna holding one breast, putting her finger in her mouth and constantly rotating her hips as she asks her beau to “take it, take it, take it.” Is this woman a singer or a stripper? Just one version of this song’s video has 90 million plays on YouTube — just in case you’d think no one really pays attention to these things. Rihanna also sings in “Rude Boy” that she likes the way “you pull my hair.” The most controversial song of the summer is her duet with the rapper Eminem called “Love the Way You Lie.” In between Eminem’s rapping, Rihanna repeatedly sings, “Just gonna stand there and watch me burn / But that’s all right because I like the way it hurts / Just gonna stand there and hear me cry / But that’s all right because I love the way you lie.” There is no shame in this industry. Consider that Rihanna was physically abused by fellow pop star Chris Brown. So she milked the attack to pump up her star power. But what message do young people take from this? The Chicago Sun-Times reported the video (starring actors Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox) shows “an ugly cycle of domestic abuse — graphically loving, fighting, drinking, shoplifting and ultimately burning down the house.” Burning down the house? That’s because Eminem raps, “I just want her back / I know I’m a liar / If she ever tries to f—ing leave again / I’ma tie her to the bed and set the house on fire.” Like most rappers making no attempt at anger management, Eminem loads his songs with profanity and dares the radio programmers to try and bleep them all out. On his first new single “Not Afraid,” Eminem used six F-bombs and three S-words in four minutes. That includes an “F-you for Christmas,” an “F the world” and an “F the universe.” That doesn’t include the bonus usages of countless other vulgarities. It’s clear that the major “music” companies, desperate to ring up sales as their market collapses due to technological change, are refusing to exercise any restraint of any kind on these “artists” they sell. It travels way beyond hipster rebellion into a dark, loveless, violent underworld.

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Dr. Frank Ryan’s Fatal Crash Reignites Texting-While-Driving Debate

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘It has stopped being an oddity when we hear that someone was texting and has a wreck,’ an emergency physician tells MTV News. By Mawuse Ziegbe Dr. Frank Ryan Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images In a case of multitasking gone horribly wrong, plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan was apparently sending out a tweet before his car fell off a cliff Monday. The surgeon, best known for performing several surgeries on “The Hills” starlet Heidi Montag, was apparently typing about his border collie before his Jeep Wrangler plummeted from Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway. The accident demonstrates the very real danger of texting or tweeting while driving, an activity that has reportedly spiked in recent years. “I hear, almost daily, accounts of people who are injured while texting,” said Dr. Angela Gardner, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians . Gardner, who is also an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, told MTV News that sometimes, linking an accident to texting is difficult if the phone is destroyed or tossed from the scene of the incident. However, Gardner did say texting-related accidents are becoming commonplace. “[There is] definitely an uptick and a noticeable one,” she said. “It has stopped being an oddity when we hear that someone was texting and has a wreck. Now it’s more of a fairly common occurrence.” While sending out a status update during a leisurely drive may seem innocuous, Gardner said it only takes a moment for distracted drivers to become vulnerable. “There’s two things [that can lead to accidents]: The obvious one is that one hand is off the wheel if you’re holding a phone. The other thing is that, as fast or as good as you are at texting, it still takes that microsecond of looking away from the road, and that microsecond is when accidents occur,” Gardner said. “The theory is that people look away for a minute, and then they realize the car is going off the road, and they jerk the car back. It’s the compensation movement that can cause a car to roll over.” Several states have laws in place curtailing cell phone use while driving, and many, including, where Ryan died, have outright bans on texting while on the road. A 2009 study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute revealed that truck drivers were more than 20 times as likely to be involved in a crash while texting. The study indicated that sending messages in particular was significantly more dangerous than dialing or talking on the phone. “People don’t realize — and it’s not just young people, it’s everyone with a cell phone — that moment that you look away from your phone is the moment it could take to have a wreck,” Gardner said. Gardner noted that people often have an “irresistible urge” to respond to a text or tweet but offered a straightforward suggestion for drivers who feel tempted to type while still on the road. “My advice is put the phone away,” Gardner said. “Put it in your pocket, put it in your purse. Put it away until you’re done with your trip.”

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Jay Electronica Says Act I Sequel Will Be ‘Finished Soon’

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

MC wants to drop heavily anticipated follow-up to Eternal Sunshine mixtape on September 19, his birthday. By Jayson Rodriguez Jay Electronica Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images Jay Electronica is on what can best be described as a world tour. Stationed now in London after making stops in Egypt and Jordan, the New Orleans rapper says he’s overseas both out of curiosity and for work purposes. Electronica is wrapping up Act II, the follow-up to his much-heralded mixtape Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge). His next tape will feature the breakout track “Exhibit C” and mark the first offering from the nomadic MC since he premiered the Just Blaze-produced single earlier this year on Eminem’s SiriusXM satellite radio station, Shade 45. “It’s gonna be finished soon,” Jay Elect told the UK’s DJ Semtex about Act II during a recent interview . “I want to release it on my birthday, that’s September 19, and I’m pushing toward that.” Electronica has raised his profile over the past year or so, from live tweeting the birth of his and Erykah Badu’s child to delivering stellar live shows. He’s also dropped a select sampling of bangers, including “The Birth of Christopher Wallace.” In addition to “Exhibit C,” “Dear Moleskin” is expected to be featured on Act II, as well as collaborations with Nas; production duties are shared by Just Blaze, Dilla, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Mr. Porter and the rapper himself. “I never got a moment where I feel I made it, victory, completion,” Jay told Mixtape Daily back in February. “I’ve had moments of excitement. I can’t believe people are responding like this. It’s an overwhelming thing — even though it’s something you planned for, it’s a surprise.” Are you looking forward to Jay Electronica’s next mixtape? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Jay Electronica

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Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream: The No-Concept Concept Album

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Bigger Than the Sound wonders: Does Perry’s latest mark the death of the album? By James Montgomery Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream Photo: Capitol Records Conventional wisdom these days seems to hold that the album is dead, singles are the lifeblood of the music industry, and people prefer their music as bite-size chunks, in whatever bit rate available and on their phones whenever possible. This is conventional wisdom, of course, because it is probably true. Just look at the carnage on the Billboard albums chart for proof. It would seem that nobody buys albums anymore (unless they have Eminem’s name on them) and that we’re all just a few short years away from the complete extinction of the medium. That is not as farfetched as it might seem. In fact, it’s basically a certainty at this point. Still, perhaps you continue to believe in the power of the long-player, in the majesty of the deep cut. Perhaps you are holding out hope for the return of the 80-minute magnum opus or the darkened-room, double-disc experience. Who’s to say you are wrong? Well, I am. And so is Katy Perry. Because next Tuesday, she’ll release Teenage Dream, 44 minutes of shimmering, pitch-perfect pop music that may very well signify the end of the album as we know it. Sure, it will undoubtedly top the Billboard albums chart and will almost certainly go platinum many times over, but really, Dream is an album in theory only. There is a cover, and a track list and a lengthy list of songwriting credits attached to it, but those things all seem like formalities. This is a collection of singles, a Whitman’s sampler of pop tunes, with seemingly no thought given to cohesion or sequencing. It is a no-concept record; there are no through lines or plot points or so-called “album tracks.” You can listen to it in any order and have roughly the same experience. In fact, it’s almost better that way. This is perhaps the first album in history that lends itself to the shuffle function on your iPod, which is sort of ingenious when you think about it. And none of that is meant to suggest that Teenage Dream isn’t a genuinely rousing success (in parts, it definitely is), but rather, I mention it because it makes writing about Dream as an album rather pointless and unfair. Because as an album, it’s sort of a mess. Sequentially, it jumps from a sweeping ballad (“Firework”) to a song about dudes with big dongs (“Peacock”) to an angry breakup tune (“Circle the Drain”) to a sweetly voiced lament on lost love (“The One That Got Away”). It’s the kind of arranging only R. Kelly is crazy enough to try — check his 2007 album Double Up, on which he follows a song called “Sex Planet” with “Rise Up,” a tribute to those slain in the Virginia Tech shootings — and it’s jarring, to say the least. And then there’s the matter of Perry’s emotional range, which, on the album, seems limited to just two extremes: starry-eyed ing

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Justin Bieber On VMA Promo: ‘I Like Girls Chasing Me’

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘I’m kind of like the Beatles running, and there’s girls chasing after me,’ he tells MTV News of ‘Hard Day’s Night’-inspired promo. By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber Photo: Michael Loccisano/ Getty Images Justin Bieber is up for a Best New Artist VMA at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards , and in an upcoming promo for the September 12 show, the Biebs is tailed by his rabid female fans. “I’m kind of like the Beatles running, and there’s girls chasing after me,” he told MTV News of the “Hard Day’s Night”-style teaser. Given that girls chasing him is a standard day on the job for Bieber, he admitted that faking it wasn’t all that hard to do. “Everything’s been going pretty smooth,” he said. “I like girls chasing me, so it’s good.” This isn’t Bieber’s first time in an MTV awards-show promo: He very hysterically appeared in a Movie Awards teaser earlier this year with host Aziz Ansari and “Hurt Locker” star Jeremy Renner. While the shoots were equally fun, the tone of this promo is a bit different. “Aziz was really fun to work with,” he said of the Movie Awards promo. “It was really funny, and this is kind of more serious.” When Justin looks back on past VMAs, one of his fellow nominees stands out as a highlight. “All-time favorite moments of the VMAs? Probably when Eminem performed,” he said. “I’m just a big Eminem fan, and I remember turning on the VMAs and seeing Eminem perform.” Who would he like to see take the stage this year? “I’d love to see Beyonc

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Eminem’s ‘Lie’ Video Shoot Was Like An Acting Workshop, Director Says

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Joseph Kahn says Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan didn’t have an easy job on ‘Love the Way You Lie’ set. By James Montgomery Joseph Kahn Photo: MTV News Given that he’s one of the biggest names in music videos and his latest project featured both Eminem and Rihanna, Joseph Kahn should have had no problem casting the two leads for the “Love the Way You Lie” video . And yet, he considers himself “incredibly lucky” to have landed both Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox for the clip. “Megan is one of those choices, like, whenever you write a music video, you go, ‘I want a girl like Megan Fox,’ ” Kahn told MTV News. “I guarantee, like, 95 percent of music videos, they write, ‘I would like a girl like Megan Fox.'” Kahn said Fox is so popular, he didn’t initially consider her participation a possibility. “We were actually looking around for some other actresses, and then, midway through, I just thought, ‘Why don’t I just try this?’ ” he said. “I mean, I have the biggest artist in the world, with the hottest song on the planet, with the hottest female artist … and it’s a meaty role. It’s not like you’re just slipping in there and looking pretty.” Fortunately for Kahn, Fox is an Eminem fan, and she loved the song and the role. “So, she said ‘yes,’ ” he said. “I was blown away.” On the other hand, the director said he considered courting Monaghan right away. “I wanted him because he’s an actor who can bury himself [in his roles],” Kahn said. “You can do anything with him, and essentially, he’s a villain through all of [the video], and I think he did a great job.” So, with two big-name actors on set, and only two days to shoot the entire video, Kahn had his work cut out for him. Monaghan and Fox were going to need to channel conflicting emotions — anger one second, passion the next — and do it quickly. As the director, it was up to Kahn to help them harness all of that — often at a moment’s notice. Luckily for him, he had two of the best to work with. “I just told them: This is not like a normal film. We have two days on set, and we have to think of it as an acting workshop, because you’re going to have to ramp up into emotions in two seconds, you’re not going to know what the story is, and you’re going to have to trust one another,” he explained. “I’m asking them to go from zero to 100 in two seconds, so they were using all their techniques as actors. Dom would be calling her names, she’d be calling him names … to see them turn it on like that, it was really a fascinating acting study.” Related Artists Eminem Rihanna

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Francis And The Lights Call Drake Co-Sign ‘Overwhelming’

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘I accept the challenge that it brings,’ frontman Francis Farewell Starlite says of tourmate Drizzy’s support. By Jayson Rodriguez Francis and the Lights Photo: MTV News Francis and the Lights opened up for Drake more than 30 times during the Toronto rapper’s Away From Home Tour , but in the lead-up to what should be a somewhat smaller show at S.O.B.’s on Thursday (August 12), the band says expectations have made it seem like anything but a regular gig. “I really feel like it’s my debut show in New York, even though it really isn’t,” frontman Francis Farewell Starlite told MTV News. “I feel like some aspect to it … I’d be lying if it didn’t have something to do with the idea of who is gonna be there — press- and music business-wise. But I also can’t have any expectations of that. But that would be exciting, if it was blown up in that way.” The show is in support of their newest effort, It’ll Be Better, the band’s third, and most ambitious, project to date. After two EPs, Francis, a veteran of the New York City performance circuit, set about working on Better, a collection of stripped-down tracks and searing vocals. In addition to Drake, Ryan Leslie is another champion of the singer. And Kanye West posted the singer’s cover of “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” on his last year. Francis called the support, particularly from Drake, “overwhelming.” But, he added, he’s completely prepared for all of the attention that often comes with such a heavy co-sign. “It’s humbling in that way,” he explained of Drake, who he collaborated with on Thank Me Later ‘s “Karaoke.” “It’s someone whose work you admire and it means something to you. In that way, it’s almost overwhelming. I think that’s the word for the amount that he has brought me to the forefront. It’s overwhelming. But at the same time, I’m ready for it. And it feels right to me. And I accept the challenge that it brings.” What do you think of Francis and the Lights’ latest album? Share your reviews in the comments! Related Artists Francis and the Lights Drake

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The Arcade Fire: Rock And Roll Champions Of The World

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Their #1 album and Lollapalooza-closing set solidified their position atop the rock heap, in Bigger Than the Sound. By James Montgomery Win Butler of The Arcade Fire performs at Lollapalooza Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images On Wednesday morning (August 11), the long-vacated Rock and Roll Championship belt finally found a new home: around the waists of multi-hyphenate Montreal rockers the Arcade Fire (it’s a pretty big belt). With the rather startling #1 debut of their sublime third album The Suburbs here in the U.S. (and its slightly less startling #1 debut in the U.K. ), they are now, officially, the heavyweight champions of the rock world. At least until Radiohead put something out. Of course, this doesn’t mean they’re the biggest band in the world (because they’re not), or the best (because that’s purely subjective). It merely means they’re the standard-bearers for “important” rock, for globe-uniting, stadium-packing sentiment, for the betterment of mankind. They are the band that magazine editors slap on the cover along with the headline “Can _____ Save the World?” And while a #1 debut certainly helps, being champion of the rock world is less about album sales (because then, like, Nickelback would be the champs) than it is about mystique, about power, about intangibles. It is not easily definable, but you definitely know the Rock and Roll Champions when you see them. And for me, that moment occurred this past weekend, during the Arcade Fire’s festival-closing set at Lollapalooza . Pitted opposite the reunited Soundgarden (themselves former holders of the belt), AF blew me away — along with the 50,000-something folks who packed in with me — with a set that was as hard-fought and far-reaching as it was grandiose. Sure, their older stuff packed a wallop, but the soaring choruses of songs like “Neighborhood #2 (Laika)” and “Wake Up” are tailor-made for huge crowds and even huger expanses. What impressed me the most was the way the band — and the husband/wife tandem of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne — translated the quieter, more personal sentiments of the songs from The Suburbs into universal, crowd-uniting statements. Songs like “Ready to Start,” “Rococo” and especially the title track are all deeply muted, winsome tragedies (the kind of uniquely suburban angst that plays out in most of our hearts and minds), and yet, on Sunday night, in Chicago’s Grant Park, they too became life-affirming, chill-inducing sing-alongs. It was cathartic: 50,000 people releasing their inner demons. And during all that, I realized that the Arcade Fire had ascended to the heights of former champions like Radiohead and prime-era U2 and probably even Coldplay. Their shows had become events. Spiritual things. And yet, much like Radiohead (and unlike U2 or Coldplay), there was still an aura to them, a well-cultivated mystique. They emerged in silhouette at the beginning of their set, spoke very little during it and departed with a series of simple waves and bows. You don’t know very much about them, and they prefer to keep it that way. They seem genuinely unnerved by the attention they receive. This is the crucial part of any championship band: the mystery remains intact. And it’s from that mystery that the magic emerges. That is why the Arcade Fire picked up the belt vacated by Radiohead sometime in 2007 (post- In Rainbows ). They have the mystique of a champion. And while, using the WWE scale, the Rock and Roll Championship is sort of comparable to the Intercontinental belt these days (the Pop Championship would probably be the heavyweight division, which makes Lady Gaga Kane , and the Hip Hop Championship — currently held by Eminem or maybe Rick Ross — would be the WWE title), it’s nice to have a champion again. How long they hold the belt is anybody’s guess, but for now, it’s theirs to run with. Rock and roll is important again. And who knows? Maybe the Arcade Fire will be the band that finally figures out how to save the world. Long may they reign. Do you agree, or would you give the Rock and Roll Championship belt to a different band? Share your thoughts in the comments! Related Artists Arcade Fire

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‘Love The Way You Lie’ Video Is ‘Not About Eminem Or Rihanna,’ Director Says

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘These are fictional characters,’ Joseph Kahn says of abusive couple played by Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox. By James Montgomery, with reporting by Matt Elias Joseph Kahn Photo: MTV News Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie” video has already raised eyebrows and sparked debate with its frank depiction of domestic violence, and given the history both artists have with the subject, many are now wondering if the clip is meant to be biographical. After all, the “Lie” video goes to great lengths to show the depths of violence in a relationship, something Em has rapped about innumerous times in the past, and it’s something Rihanna knows about all too well, after then-boyfriend Chris Brown assaulted her in 2009 . So the question most seem to be asking is: Are the clip’s two characters — played by Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox — actually meant to represent Em and Rihanna? To find out, MTV News went directly to the man responsible for the video (and its concept), director Joseph Kahn, who told us in no uncertain terms that, while there’s a message behind “Lie,” it has nothing to do with what’s gone on in either artist’s personal life. “There are definitely things in both Rihanna and Eminem’s [lives] that we have to be very sensitive about when we were making this video, [but] it’s not a story about Eminem or Rihanna,” he said. “It’s a specific thing that I created for Dominic and Megan to play two people with very specific story lines to each other. These are fictional characters in my head but obviously based on real human beings.” So while he denies that Monaghan and Fox are playing Eminem and Rihanna in the video, Kahn said he can understand why fans might think that. After all, not only does the clip deal with an emotionally sensitive issue, but he happens to have a rather unique perspective on the lives of his musical stars. “The subject matter is some of the most complex stuff I’ve ever handled … [and] obviously there are parallels, in terms of the song, with Eminem’s personal life and Rihanna’s personal life,” he said. “And I had actually, like last year, been working with Chris Brown … so I’m in the middle of all this stuff, and I have to be very, very careful with how I tread. But ultimately, if you really look at the video, it’s not about anybody in particular. … It’s a story specific to two characters I created.” Did you think the “Love the Way You Lie” clip was about Em and Rihanna? Let us know in the comments. Related Videos An In-Depth Look At Eminem’s ‘Love The Way You Lie’ Related Photos The Evolution Of: Eminem Related Artists Eminem Rihanna

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