Drizzy says that while a lot of Take Care was down, he will switch up the tempo for his next album. By Rob Markman Drake Photo: John Shearer/ Getty Images Since he dropped his breakout tape So Far Gone in 2009, Drake has been consistently going through changes. With each music project, he documents his ever-evolving life, so fans shouldn’t expect that to change when he finally releases his third LP. Drizzy didn’t want to give too much away, but from the sound of things, it’ll be much different from his sophomore effort Take Care . “I think that my mood will be reflected in the tempos that I choose for the music,” Drake said of his next LP during a press conference call Tuesday. “A lot of Take Care, it’s down, a lot of it’s down and I think a lot of that had to do with being back home in Toronto and getting reacquainted with the life I had before and the difficulties of that, but at the same time trying to express excitement and trying to express joy.” Though he still keeps a place in his native Toronto, Drake has recently moved to L.A. The relocation has already sparked musical ideas for the Young Money star. “There’s just so much going on for me in the U.S. that I recently made the move to L.A.,” he said. “It’s a new atmosphere, getting to know new people. It’s going to be a very interesting album.” Drake told MTV News that with Take Care, he was telling a story inspired by his 2009 track “Houstatlantavegas.” On the song, Drake created a fictional world, describing a love affair with an ambitious stripper who can’t quite get out of the life. “It was a world that was very much real to me, but I created it in my mind. It was a world that, being a kid from Toronto, I used to look at from the outside and I used to be like, ‘Man that looks crazy,’ ” he told us. “All those strip clubs and all those nightclubs and the drinks and the girls and the fame.” Things have evolved in the months since he released Take Care. “Now I’m kind of in a very, very, very, very different place than I’ve ever been,” Drake said. “I think it will be conceptually one of the best projects that I’ve ever worked on because there’s so many new things going on in my life. Everybody knows when it’s new, that’s when I thrive.” What is your favorite Drake mixtape or album? Tell us in the comments! Related Photos Drake’s Style: From A To Drizzy Related Artists Drake
We know Zac Efron is having sex these days. The actor accidentally proved by dropping a condom at the premiere of The Lorax last month. But what would prompt him to go from intercourse to all-out commitment? Women’s Health asked the star what makes a woman “marriage material” in its latest issue. “A sense of ambition and a sense of freedom, which is a careful mix,” The Lucky One actor said. “You have to balance those two. I haven’t exactly found it yet. Among other Q&A topics for Efron: What are his feminine qualities? Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It’s not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match. What is his favorite pickup line? So do you like High School Musical ? I’m kidding! If the situation’s right, buy someone a drink. Think on your toes, use what’s around you, and come up with something organic and fun. How does he know a date is going well? I think when it ends up going on longer than planned… and you don’t even realize it. You don’t want it to end. What’s the best compliment he ever received? A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, “You’re one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met,” and I was like, Wow. I’m still high on that one.
Stacie Halas aka Tiffany Six… Stacie Halas, the Southern California teacher who blew the mind of every eighth-grade boy ever, is sadly, out of work. The Oxnard School District’s board of trustees tonight decided to can Halas following last month’s revelations that she starred in Big Sausage Pizza and other fine adult videos produced in San Diego about six years ago. Oxnard superintendent Jeff Chancer told the Ventura County Star that knowing Halas’ past would just be too much for some of those boys. (But lord knows their antennae would be tuned into teacher): We’re dealing with the disruption that we believe it would cause our district and the schools in our district if she were to return back to the classroom. The Oxnard teacher’s story is wild: She almost slipped through cracks after some students discovered her body of work. School officials couldn’t track down the video in question, apparently, because of the campuses’ adult-site filters. A few enterprising teachers reportedly figured out a workaround, however, and soon top district leaders were aware of how Halas hollers. San Diego-based producer Peter Romero apparently discovered her. He says she was “one of my favorite models.” Poor thang. Source More On Bossip! Dirty Dog Diaries: MORE Women Come Forward Telling Royce That Her New Boo-Thang Dezmon Briscoe Been Tryna Chop Them Down Too! Single And Ready To Mingle: The 10 Best Cities To Meet New People And Get Freaky! Cheaper To Chop Her: Men (And Women) That Got Caught Trying To Pay For That Poon Ain’t That A B–?! Dirty Dogs That Faced Bad Karma For Their Dirty Dog Ways
As the wait for the superhero flick grows more agonizing, the age-old debate crops up again: to spoil or not to spoil? By Josh Horowitz “Avengers” Photo: Marvel Over the weekend I was getting the shakes. And Tony Stark is to blame. I knew a whole bunch of folks had seen “The Avengers” last week (Los Angeles was host to its premiere last Wednesday) and, well, that wore on me. I don’t know why. I’d get to see it myself soon enough. And frankly, seeing it without knowing whatever Easter eggs were planted would probably only add to my eventual enjoyment, right? But it gnawed on me. Since I have little to no will power, it only took me a few minutes of searching the interweb to get just about every plot point ruined forever. Do I have a problem? Is it a problem? I’ll say this to those who say they want any and all movie spoilers kept from them — fearing the house of cards will come crashing down if they know the kid can see dead people or whatever: Spoilers can’t (or shouldn’t) ruin a film. Any film that rests on a third-act twist and the surprise it causes just isn’t all that great a film. Let me bring to mind another M. Night Shyamalan film, “Unbreakable,” a movie that blew my mind with a third-act revelation the first time I saw it. Now that I know what’s coming, does it make me love the movie any less? No. Another case in point, let’s journey back to 1983 and visit the 7-year-old version of me (shorter, that’s about the only difference) reading the comic adaptation of “Return of the Jedi” (back before the Internet comics and novelizations were the best bet for the spoiler-minded). Yup, I was the guy who knew every twist in the culmination of the greatest saga of my youth before stepping into the theater. Did I enjoy the film at all less than I would have going in blind? I truly don’t think so. My only regret actually is ruining the film for my brother in advance and that’s just because he hit me really hard as a result. Look, I know a lot of you disagree with me and trust me, we discuss spoilers an awful lot over here within the movies team at MTV. We know a lot of you want to enjoy a movie fresh without a third-act twist weighing on you throughout the flick. But we also live and breathe on breaking news, and if a certain A-list actor is going to appear in “21 Jump Street” (see, I’m being careful), it’s hard to ignore that. That’s news. So it’s a bit of a conundrum we face every single day. It’s probably the same for you if you’re reading this. You want to know just enough, am I right? But some of you are like me and wouldn’t mind knowing it all. Lately I’ve been wondering if we’ve become a society that’s more anxious for spoilers than ever. If I had to guess, the easy access to virtually any information on whatever mobile device is probably a big reason. Has the Ming dynasty come up in conversation again? Why, it’ll just take you about 10 seconds to find out what century it began in (the 14th, duh). We’re a culture that has now been conditioned to believe we can and should know anything. How much did “The Hunger Games” make in Nebraska last week? Hold on a second. I got that. How does Rihanna look on a beach when she’s hanging with friends? No problemo. What happens at the end of “The Avengers”? What do you mean I can’t know right now? Secrets are hard to keep in 2012. Which is probably why films like “Prometheus” and “The Dark Knight Rises” are my two most anticipated flicks at the moment (and I know I’m not alone). Take the final installment in the Batman trilogy for example. Despite being shot out and about on the streets of several major cities, I’d guess the number of folks who actually know how Christopher Nolan’s next film ends numbers in the dozens. OK, maybe a couple hundred. So I’m conflicted once again. I desperately want to know everything and yet I know it will be all the more satisfying to know nothing. Damn, I’m in the wrong business, aren’t I? Check out everything we’ve got on “The Avengers.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos Assemble Yourself For ‘Avengers’ Sneak Peeks Related Photos ‘Avengers’
It ought to be no fun watching characters you came to know as randy, unruly high school students turn into grown-ups with jobs, families and crappy sex lives. That’s what happens to real-life people; why subject fictional characters to it? But somehow American Reunion — the third movie sequel to Paul and Chris Weitz’s hall-of-fame teen sex comedy 1999 American Pie — makes the harsh reality jolt almost painless. The picture is devilishly entertaining, not least because it’s laced with just the sort of dumb raunchy jokes you hate yourself for laughing at. But it also preserves, to a degree, the elemental sweetness that made the original (though not the two subsequent sequels) so distinctive: In the first movie, embarrassment and awkwardness over sex results not just in a mess in the kitchen, but in painful and unbridgeable rifts between people. In American Reunion , that awkwardness may have lessened somewhat, but it hasn’t completely gone away. You can think you’re trading old problems for new ones, only to find that the old ones are perennial – they just find different ways to flourish in your life. That’s a discomforting idea in the midst of a picture that trades mostly in gags about tube socks’ being used for illicit personal business, nostalgia for the mind-blowing oral sex of yore (meaning high school) and men who, as they near middle age with all its attendant spare tires and love handles, can’t help looking hungrily at the nubile teenage babes they used to be able to attract. Directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (the masterminds behind the always-silly but also surprisingly progressive Harold and Kumar franchise) are perhaps more comfortable dealing with ridiculous sex jokes than they are with raw human feeling. Still, American Reunion chugs along with brash confidence, unembarrassed about how crude and goofy it is. Dumb cheerfulness – in the face of life’s big quandaries, no less — is its big selling point. Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan are back as Jim and Michelle; they’ve managed to survive a few years of married life and now have a toddler son, which means, of course, that their sex life has taken a nosedive. Still, they’re looking forward to getting away from it all at a weekend reunion with the high school old gang: Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is now a stay-at-home architect whose life is ruled by his significant other; Oz (Chris Klein) is a smooth TV sports analyst with a pneumatic blonde girlfriend; no one even knows where Eddie Kaye Thomas’s Finch is (though he makes the most glamorous entrance of the bunch, perched on a motorcycle and swathed in mystery); and Stifler (Seann William Scott) is still being vulgar, horny, annoying Stifler, so much so that he hasn’t even been told about the reunion. That doesn’t stop him from showing up, and he proceeds to work all kinds of satyr-like mischief. The girls show up too, and characteristically, they seem to have evolved further than the guys have. Oz’s old squeeze Heather (Mena Suvari) arrives on the arm of her surgeon-boyfriend, only to realize she’s still captivated by her ex-boyfriend’s luminous guilelessness (which he’s held onto even though he’s now a show-biz guy). And Kevin melts at the sight of Vicky (Tara Reid), even though he’s clearly happy with his bossy wife. Meanwhile, Michelle bemoans her moribund sex life, and a new character, Selena (Dania Ramirez), arrives on the scene to serve as a love interest for one character who truly deserves one. The sordid silliness that ensues includes Jim’s being seduced by the now-comely young woman for whom he used to baby-sit; Stifler showing up in full party regalia, an “Orgasm Donor” T-shirt; the marvelous Eugene Levy, in an array of short-sleeved dad shirts, attempting to re-enter the dating game (he has a great moment where he asks, earnestly, if a “vadge” is half a vagina); and Jennifer Coolidge as the legendary vixen known only as Stifler’s Mom, who spends her few small scenes relaxing (and almost audibly purring) on a divan as she waits for her next victim to enter her lair. It’s all as ludicrous as you’d expect, but everybody goes away having learned a little something about life, love and assorted unorthodox sexual practices. The plot takes a few missteps: Eddie Kaye Thomas’s Finch – who, in the first movie, was a debonair misfit high-schooler in an ascot – is given a cool backstory that’s ultimately taken away from him, a grave mistake. But mostly, Hurwitz and Schlossberg (who also wrote the script, based on Adam Herz’s original characters) allow everyone the appropriate amount of dignity – and remember, these guys don’t need much. Least of all Scott’s Stifler, who, in all his wickedness, really is the movie’s heart and soul, so pure in his Stiflerness that it’s impossible to revile him without loving him too. At one point he flips through the yearbook and reminisces about a favorite sexual conquest: “She was the mouth that got away!” he says wistfully. But he too is forced to reckon with some mind-blowing realities: The look on his face when he learns that two – or more! – of his fellow lacrosse-team members are gay is that of a kid who’s just seen Santa Claus getting it on with mom. His disbelief is so pure and naïve that it’s almost not funny — but in the end, of course it is. And the movie gives him, and his lacrosse-player pals, a clever and welcome moment of grace. American Reunion is suitably generous toward its characters. For those who are turned off by such blatant displays of humanity, there are also dick jokes. You see, everybody wins.
Khaled promises another ‘Ye collaboration on upcoming Kiss the Ring . By Rob Markman Kanye West Photo: Don Arnold/ WireImage Whenever hip-hop is in need of an unforgettable moment, Kanye West always seems to have the remedy. The Louis Vuitton Don unexpectedly wowed fans Wednesday night when he gave DJ Funkmaster Flex the go-ahead to premiere “Theraflu,” his new Hit-Boy-produced single that features both DJ Khaled and DJ Pharris. Hit-Boy estimates Kanye recorded the single a little more than a week ago, but initially he didn’t even intend for Yeezy to be part of the record. “I actually had sent that beat to Khaled, and Khaled gave it to ‘Ye,” the G.O.O.D. Music producer told MTV News on Thursday (April 5). “It was supposed to be for Khaled’s album, and ‘Ye was just like, ‘This needs to be out now; this is an urgent record.’ ” DJ Khaled, who is overwhelmed by the record’s response, said it’s been an exciting 48 hours, but he promises that there is more in the works. “I was in the studio with ‘Ye, and I was like, ‘Let’s do something for your album, and let’s do something for my album,’ ” Khaled told MTV News over the phone. The charismatic DJ, who intros “Theraflu,” has even higher hopes for the pair’s next single. “Just use your best imagination on how I’ma deliver. I’m not playin’,” Khaled teased. He wouldn’t say when their next collaboration would drop, but he did reveal that the two already recorded a song that will appear on Khaled’s upcoming Kiss the Ring LP. “When we get together, we just make some amazing music,” he said. Lyrically, Kanye delivered a fiery performance on “Theraflu,” baiting PETA on the hook with “Someone tell PETA my mink is draggin’ on the floor.” He also once again addresses his ex-flame Amber Rose, her fianc
The (musical) couple reunite in eagerly anticipated video to premiere Friday at 7:56 p.m. ET on MTV. By Rebecca Thomas Drake in his video for “Take Care” Photo: Universal The last time Drake and Rihanna got together, a quick grocery run for a carton of milk turned into a fun, romantic date over white wine in a sun-drenched Manhattan loft. The cross-genre couple is sharing the screen again, following up Rih’s “What’s My Name?” with the video for Drake’s “Take Care.” But trust us: The mood is different this time around. While you’ll have to wait until Friday at 7:56 p.m. ET for the eagerly anticipated MTV video premiere, MTV News has your exclusive preview! The black-and-white teaser opens with Drake, dressed casually in black tee and matching jeans, looking introspective as he spits the first verse of the moody title track: “I’ve asked about you and they’ve told me things/ But my mind didn’t change/ I still the feel the same, what’s/ A life with no fun, please don’t be so ashamed/ I’ve had mine, you’ve had yours, we both know.” As Drizzy raps, the (rather majestic) horns of an animal — an ox, a bull? — slide into the foreground, before Rihanna comes into the frame. Seen only in profile, the Elle magazine cover girl sports some sexy bedhead and a shoulder-baring sweater before those sweeping horns flash back once again. The 15-second preview closes with an expansive view of a snow-capped hillside, which seems to mirror what director Yoann Lemoine said fans could expect. “It pays tribute to nature,” he told MTV News in February. “When I listened to the track, I was seeing a landscape … involving animals and massive landscapes.” Lemoine added cryptically, “It’s not narrative at all, it involves animals.” Although we don’t actually see Drake and Rih together in the teaser, the director behind Katy Perry’s “Firework” said he wanted to play up the pair’s natural chemistry in the clip. “They seemed to be super close and that’s what I wanted for the video,” he explained. The title track from the Young Money star’s sophomore effort is a moody interpretation of Jamie xx’s own collaborative reimagining of the late poet Gil Scott-Heron’s incomparable “I’ll Take Care of You.” Drake’s go-to producer Noah “40” Shebib programmed the trance-like drums that kicks in after a dreamy hook from Rihanna, which is complemented by residual vocals from Scott-Heron’s track. When we asked the Toronto MC late last year what he had in mind for this video, he said only that he wanted to “make it perfect, like, the best video I’ve done to date, so just taking my time.” Sound off on the “Take Care” teaser in the comments or on our Facebook page! Related Artists Drake Rihanna
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Refresh your memory with the upcoming True Blood marathon. Starting on April 5th at 9PM, catch back to back episodes of Season 4 of True Blood on HBO. Tune in to a new episode every Thursday night at 10PM. For more info check your local listings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLvZW0IiVM0 Like Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Vault Discovery Date : 04/04/2012 16:50 Number of articles : 2
If you’re terrified of clowns, nuns or hallucinogenic experiences, you may want to stay far, far from Steve Aoki, Kid Cudi and Travis Barker’s video for “Cudi The Kid”. Everyone else — you’re in for a psychedelic treat! Three youngin’s stand in for our trio (though Aoki and Barker appear in other mind-bending parts of … More » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Idolator Discovery Date : 04/04/2012 17:00 Number of articles : 2
