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Sean Penn has been called many things…now it’s time to add “hero” to the list. The actor has been in earthquake-ravaged Haiti for more than a month, helping out along…
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Sean Penn Is a Real Lifesaver
Sheryl Crow once crooned that “the first cut is the deepest.” For American Idol last night, the first four cuts were the most erroneous. Let’s analyze each below: Joe Munoz over Tim Urban?!? The latter might be cute, but did you see the look of shock on his face after Ryan told Tim he was safe? Did viewers really do Urban a favor by keeping him around and ensuring his weak vocal skills will be torn apart again and again until America comes to its senses? Tyler Grady over Jermaine Sellers?!? We weren’t fans of Grady’s 1970s-inspired gimmick, either. But he made a great point (which Simon acknowledged, if you read his lips) about the judges selecting him for the semifinals… but then jumping all over him for the same schtick that got him there. It would have been nice to have seen if Tyler had more to offer going forward, especially compared to the over-emotional nonsense that Sellers through our way this week. Janell Wheeler over Haeley Vaughn?!? Yes, Wheeler chose the wrong song. She’s not a rocker. But Vaughn comes across like some sort of frightening, dressed-up doll. She just looks awkward on stage and her rendition of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” wasn’t strong. Ashley Rodriguez over Lacey Brown?!? Brown was really bad and Ashley is really good looking. Come on, voters! At least we got to see Allison Iraheta and Kris Allen perform. And at least we can still look forward to Crystal Bowersox, Didi Benami and others next week. But this was a poor start for the viewing public. Did you agree with who was sent home? As you ponder that question, check out a few photos below from the first results show of season nine:
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The tune, which will debut during Thursday’s results show, is by ‘Pop Idol’ winner Will Young. By Katie Byrne Will Young Photo: Mike Marsland/WireImage “American Idol” is offering up some tough love to eliminated contestants this year with the new farewell song “Leave Right Now.” The tune is from Will Young, who was the inaugural winner of “Pop Idol,” the British show that inspired “American Idol.” The song will debut Thursday (February 25) on “Idol,” when the first four top 24 contestants get the boot. Aside from the results, the show will also feature performances from Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta and footage from Allen’s recent trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti . While the “Leave Right Now” title sounds pretty harsh (don’t let the door hit ya!), the chorus isn’t quite so severe, with the lyrics “I think I better leave right now/ Before I fall any deeper/ I think I better leave right now/ Feeling weaker and weaker.” Choosing Young’s song follows in the tradition of keeping the exit anthem in the “Idol” family. Last year’s song was Carrie Underwood’s cover of M
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‘I wanted to go over there and help,’ says Allen, who will perform on ‘American Idol’ and talk about his trip. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Jim Cantiello Kris Allen helps out in Haiti Photo: Fox Kris Allen’s “American Idol” appearance on Thursday (February 25) will not just be a homecoming for the show’s reigning champ, but also an opportunity for the 24-year-old to contribute to a worthy cause: the ongoing relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Allen traveled to the embattled island nation last week, and before he takes the “Idol” stage for the first time since his win last May, the singer spoke with MTV News about his experience in Haiti and what he hopes to accomplish during Thursday’s appearance. “It was a weird trip, because you get over there — everyone’s seen the pictures and stuff and the videos — it’s really bad,” he said. “It’s a lot of destruction. A lot of people have been affected by it. But there’s a lot of stuff going on.” Allen pointed to the relief efforts of organizations like the Salvation Army and the Red Cross, who have been working on the ground ever since a 7.0 quake nearly leveled the capital city of Port-au-Prince in January. During his visit, Allen stopped by an aid camp that opened the night of the earthquake and now is the temporary home for more than 3,300 Haitians, with more arriving every day. All these relief groups, the singer said, “have done so many amazing things for the Haitian people and gave that nation a lot of hope for the future.” The idea for the trip to Haiti came from “Idol” creator Simon Fuller. As soon as Fuller made the suggestion, Allen came onboard. He ended up handing out food, breaking up fallen concrete with a sledgehammer and clearing rubble with his hands, all the while working side by side with the Haitian people. Allen’s last stop took him to a tent where mothers come to breastfeed their babies and care for their children. During Thursday’s show, viewers will be asked to make online or text-message donations to the Idol Gives Back Foundation, with funds going to support the United Nations Foundation’s ongoing efforts in Haiti. “I wanted to go over there and help,” Allen said. “I felt like I did that in a little way. I think that me being on the show is going to be a bigger help than me going there with the little bit of manpower that I have.” Get your “Idol” fix on MTV News’ “American Idol” page , where you’ll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions. Related Videos Kris Allen Visits Haiti
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‘It was just like when I was 7, and it was amazing,’ one fan says after Tuesday’s premiere. By Joel Hanek Michael Jackson in “Captain EO” Photo: Disney After being sealed away in the Disney Vault for 13 years, Michael Jackson’s “Captain EO” saw the light of day on Tuesday at Disneyland. Disney surprised Jackson fans earlier this week when it issued an announcement that the 1986 film would be returning to the Tomorrowland Theater. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by George Lucas, the 17-minute 3-D film reportedly cost $30 million to make — setting a record at the time for the most expensive short film ever made. The story follows EO (Jackson) on a journey with his fuzzy alien friends to deliver a gift to the evil Witch Queen (Anjelica Huston). The feature originally ran exclusively in Disney parks from 1986-1997, just four years after the pop star was first charged with child molestation allegations. Interest in the futuristic sci-fi film was reinvigorated after the sudden passing of Michael Jackson last June, when fans began campaigning on Facebook for the movie’s return. According to Disney , more than 500 people (some in EO-inspired costumes) lined up to catch Tuesday’s 10 a.m. premiere. Some had even spent the night outside the gates in order to see the first screening. “I loved it,” one fan commented. “I grew up on it, so I’m so excited that it’s back.” Some of those who enjoyed “Captain EO” during its original run said they were excited to share the experience with a new generation. “I absolutely loved it,” said one parent. “It was just like when I was 7, and it was amazing. I’m so glad I could bring my little one. She’s 3, and she loved it too — huge Michael Jackson fan!” While Disneyland says “Captain EO” is running as a limited engagement, a spokesperson told KTLA that it will continue to play as long as it’s popular. For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Artists Michael Jackson
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‘I know it’s a diva moment,’ singer jokes as she summons hair and makeup people onstage. By Ryan J. Downey Mariah Carey performs at L.A.’s Gibson Amphitheatre on Tuesday Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images UNIVERSAL CITY, California — Early into her set, Mariah Carey smiled widely as she surveyed the packed Gibson Amphitheatre on night one of a two-night stand. “You sound very, very festive,” she told the audience. She picked up a glass from a table full of beverages. “This is water — don’t get it twisted, please. Now that’s not to say there aren’t other things on the table. This is L.A. And I have been known to have a sip or two in L.A.” Mariah Carey On Tour It was one of several moments of feisty self-effacing humor from the chatty singer. Throughout the night, her between-song banter felt light, honest and steadfastly lucid, in stark contrast to recent well-publicized bouts of public babbling . Her intimate connection with her fans was palpable from start to finish. The evening began at 9 p.m., right on schedule. “I’m usually much more late and people criticize me for that,” she pointed out later in the show. “But tonight, in Los Angeles, was I on time?” The crowd roared in the affirmative. A rousing rendition of “Shake It Off” set the tone for what felt like a celebratory evening. The band and backup singers stood toward the back of the stage on high platforms, resembling a 1950s dance-show set, which kept the focus on Carey. The crowd sang the “I will hunt you down” refrains back to her, loudly, during “Touch My Body” and kept the participation going throughout the night. Backup dancers disappeared and returned in varying configurations throughout the show. “I had forgotten about this song the whole tour and I don’t know why. Funny I should forget it considering the title,” she laughed as she introduced “Don’t Forget About Us.” She stayed dressed in a form-fitting short dress with a flared, tutu-like bottom for the first portion of the night, occasionally using a white mic stand. There were a couple of wardrobe changes into other form-fitting attire. Mariah took a gulp of champagne (and later shilled for her own upcoming brand) while lying seductively on a chaise that seemed to have been brought out expressly for that purpose before singing “Always Be My Baby.” It was the most symbolic moment of the evening, somehow embodying the many facets of her appeal in a single action: beauty, sexiness, luxury, playfulness and talent. At one point she complained about a chair being placed too far from the fans — the electric fans. “Don’t you know that my hair naturally blows just like in all of the videos? That’s real,” she joked. She asked for hair and makeup people to come onstage and touch her up, saying, “I know it’s a diva moment, but I don’t care.” But the vibe of all of the antics was coy and knowing, like a joke within a joke that all of the crowd is in on. “I went to beauty school, so I can do this, too. Five hundred hours! The teacher hated me.” A few tasteful and well-timed moments of seriousness notwithstanding — “Fly Like a Bird” was dedicated to her late bishop, “Angels Cry” to the people of Haiti — the evening rolled out with a relaxed vibe and the hits kept flowing, including “Make It Happen,” “It’s Like That” and “Up Out My Face.” A male backup singer took over for a cover of Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body.” “The ‘Heartbreaker’ remix was my favorite part of the night,” a 20-year-old fan named Manny told MTV News. “I wrote it for my husband, who is not here tonight because he had business,” Carey said before “The Impossible,” the night’s only reference to Nick Cannon. “Whatever. Maybe he’ll surprise me one night.” Mary J. Blige was also absent for the text-message-drama song “It’s a Wrap,” which didn’t stop Carey from belting out the entire number herself. “Give it up for the jet skis in the video!” she shouted during “Honey.” Carey thanked Jermaine Dupri for co-writing “We Belong Together,” which she said he told her was Billboard ‘s Song of the Decade. It also holds a high honor in the heart of at least one concertgoer, Tiffany, 21. “It’s my favorite song from Mariah. It’s my favorite song, period,” she told MTV News. Carey returned for an encore, “Hero,” before unleashing the crowd into the night to fend off bootleg T-shirt vendors as they wandered Universal City Walk. A remixed version of Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, called Angels Advocate, was due in stores this month but pushed back to March . Carey mentioned during the show that it might be pushed back again. Related Photos Mariah Carey On Tour Related Artists Mariah Carey
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However, a radio hit was presumably not a paramount goal for the song: raising money and awareness was. By Jayson Rodriguez, with additional reporting by Gil Kaufman Wyclef Jean, Kanye West and Jennifer Hudson perform at the “We Are The World 25 Years for Haiti” Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage When the original version of “We Are the World” was released 25 years ago, the all-star benefit song was a nearly inescapable presence — on radio, on MTV and on T-shirts. Thanks to the groundwork laid by England’s Band-Aid fundraiser “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” audiences were primed for a new kind of fundraiser that not only helped famine victims in Africa, but also provided a keepsake featuring some of the planet’s biggest musical acts singing a heartfelt anthem co-written by the then-biggest pop star on the planet, Michael Jackson. Fast forward a quarter century to last week, when the video for the “We Are the World: 25 for Haiti” debuted to a huge audience at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. However, the song struggled to gain a foothold at radio in a media environment that is worlds away from the one that greeted the original in 1985. While “We Are the World: 25 for Haiti” landed at #2 on Billboard ‘s Hot 100 chart last week (powered primarily by digital sales), lagging behind only newcomer Ke$ha’s breakout hit “Tik Tok,” more than a week after its release, the single’s airplay numbers aren’t nearly as strong. According to Media Base, a company that tracks radio data, only five stations have added the track into their rotation in the past seven days, including Los Angeles’ KIIS-FM, one of the largest Top 40 outlets in the country. (By contrast, Rihanna’s latest, “Rude Boy,” was added by 48 different radio stations in the same period.) “Personally, I came into work on Saturday (February 13) and purchased the track on iTunes and played it all weekend,” KIIS music director Julie Platt told MTV News in an e-mail. “KIIS-FM added it into regular rotation on Tuesday (February 16).” Platt, however, noted that the record isn’t being pushed like a traditional new release. “It doesn’t have a record label distributing it or helping get the word to programmers like a normal single release,” she explained, noting that she didn’t receive a scaled-down radio edit of the eight-minute anthem until days after it was released. In total, the song was played across the country 987 times in its first full week since it premiered, according to Media Base. Again, by comparison, “TiK ToK,” the most-played song in the country, received over 11,000 spins during the same time span: One doesn’t need a math degree to see that’s more than 10 times the spins. Radio spins, physical sales and digital downloads together to account for the metrics used to determine a song’s success when it comes to the Hot 100 chart. While “We Are the World: 25 for Haiti” has fared better on the charts so far than the original version of the song (which debuted at #21 in 1985 before gradually rising to #1), the comparison isn’t a fair one, given that radio charts moved much more slowly 25 years ago: Songs often debuted low and gradually rose higher, almost the complete opposite of charting behavior today. “This [song] is not about airplay, which it won’t get a lot of. It’s about creating a viral hit on YouTube and Vevo, and maybe getting some traction at a few top 40 stations,” Keith Caulfield, the Senior Chart Manager/Anaylst for Billboard magazine, explained to MTV News. Caulfied said because of the splintered nature of radio today and the abundance of niche markets, an ambitious song that seeks out to reach a large audience wouldn’t fare as well today as it did in the past. The new song, for instance, was played on a Top 40 station in Kansas City, a “Rhymthic” station in Denver and an Alternative station in the Washington, DC, according to Media Base. Those spins, however, were extremely limited, with only 32 stations playing the song more than 10 times last week. In New York, for example, “We Are the World 25: For Haiti” was played only a total of six times across various stations. Hot 107.9 in Indiana played it the most, spinning the song 44 times. SiriusXM, the subscription radio service, played the song just once within the last week. Those numbers hardly qualify the “We Are the World” update as a radio hit. However, that was presumably not a major goal of the song’s organizers. While reps for the song’s organizers had not responded to MTV News’ requests for comment at press time, the purpose of the new song was to raise money, Sirius radio show Shade 45’s senior producer Rob “Reef” Tewlow emphasized. And by that scale, he said, the new song is a success, radio spins or not. “It’s for a great cause, you want to see it raise a lot of money, raise awareness, and help a lot of people, because that’s ultimately the goal,” Tewlow told MTV News. “It doesn’t have the same momentous impact as the original, nothing like that had ever been done before. And you had some of the biggest artists, Michael Jackson, first and foremost, as part of the track. Is this one something that everyone is talking about? Maybe not. But people are making contributions and downloading the song.” Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti , and for more information, see Think MTV . Visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now. Related Videos Behind The Scenes Of ‘We Are The World’ Related Photos ‘We Are The World 25 For Haiti’ Recording Session Related Artists Michael Jackson
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Iraheta will perform ‘Scars’ on the show; Allen will perform and show footage from trip to Haiti. By Gil Kaufman Kris Allen Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images “American Idol” has a long tradition of inviting former finalists back to grace its stage, and on Thursday two of last season’s top finishers will join that club. According to a spokesperson for the show, last season’s fourth-place finisher, flame-haired rocker Allison Iraheta, will perform her latest single, “Scars,” on the one-hour broadcast. She’ll likely be a ray of sunshine on an otherwise tense 60 minutes during which four of the top 24 finishers will see their dreams of stardom dashed as the first two men and women semifinalists will be sent packing. The performance will make Iraheta’s first trip back to the “Idol” stage since she was eliminated last spring. It could also provide a boost for the sales of Iraheta’s modestly selling debut, Just Like You, which debuted at #31 in December before sliding out of the top 200 just five weeks later, with sales to date totaling less than 100,000. Thursday’s elimination episode — which will follow Tuesday night’s performances from the top 12 female finishers and Wednesday night’s turn by the top 12 males — will also see the return of 2009 champ Kris Allen. The Arkansas singer will perform and also share some of the footage he shot on a recent trip to Haiti in an effort to raise awareness of the United Nation Foundation’s work in the Caribbean nation in the wake of last month’s devastating earthquake. The Foundation is one of the organizations that will benefit from this year’s “Idol Gives Back” special (April 21) and viewers will be asked to make donations online or by text during the episode. Get your “Idol” fix on MTV News’ “American Idol” page , where you’ll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions. Related Photos The ‘American Idol’ Season 9 Top 24 Related Artists Kris Allen Allison Iraheta
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