Judges prefer his potential winning single to Jessica Sanchez’s bland ballad. By Adam Graham Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez on “American Idol” Tuesday Photo: FOX Advantage: Phillip Phillips. The “American Idol” final two duked it out onstage at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Tuesday night (May 22), battling for the 11th-season title. And Phillips — the Dave Matthews-type from Leesburg, Georgia — was a clear favorite over 16-year-old Jessica Sanchez, who appeared defeated by “Change Nothing,” the ironically titled song she was given for her potential winning single, which didn’t match up with her sassy, Beyonc
Dutch singer also teases the song’s ‘mad’ video to MTV News. By Jocelyn Vena Eva Simons Photo: MTV News For his song “This Is Love,” will.i.am enlisted Dutch singer Eva Simons to add some powerhouse vocals to the raging party track. The searing dance production is highlighted by Simons’ diva-tude as her voice soars over will’s creation, full of big chants, bumping beats and dirty synths. Simons had already proved she had hook potential appearing on Afrojack’s 2010 dance-floor anthem “Take Over Control,” and given will’s history of enlisting female pop singers to add a bit of sexy flair to his songs, Simons was a perfect muse to help shape his latest dance-pop track. “He is super creative, and we kind of have the same energy: We can’t sit still. We were in the studio, and he had this track,” Simons recalled to MTV News about working with the Black Eyed Peas mastermind. “And he’s like, ‘Yo, Eva, would you like to do this song with me?’ And we had been recording a couple tracks before, so he knows what I’m capable of and he trusts me, and we don’t really know each other for that long, but he trusts me. “I recorded it,” she continued. “And he mixes it straight away from his laptop … and it’s done. That’s so beautiful — not only is he super creative and knows what he wants, but he also sees when other people are creative as well. He’s not afraid to collaborate.” This particular collaboration also included Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello. “It’s really a club-banger,” Simons said, adding that will included “some piano intro in there and violins. … He’s always creative. It doesn’t [just] work for the clubs, it works for the radio, it’ll also work on a big festival, like him on the piano, some strings, some live drums.” will and Simons recently shot a video for the track, and she had this tease for fans when asked to give some hints: “Fireworks. Just like, ‘What world is this? Like, where are we?’ and ‘What season is this?’ ” she said. “It’s mad. It’s pretty awesome.” Much of that awesomeness, she adds, stems from will directing the clip himself. “I’m just surprised. I’m not surprised, actually, ’cause that’s him,” she said. “He is also a super-geek. I’m a super-geek. I love technology, and he was like, he was directing the video and he was doing the motion-control of the camera and everything. He knows his stuff. It was pretty awesome to see.” Simons continued that it was refreshing to see that even with all his years in the industry, he still loves to do it. “I just admire him,” she said. “After all those years he still has that fire, and that’s just beautiful. But I feel like — ’cause I was big fan of the Black Eyed Peas, and I still am — and he seems like he’s the same guy still that I see before.” Their song is expected to appear on will’s long-teased solo album, #willpower, which also features Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Mick Jagger and Nicole Scherzinger. No release date has been set for the album. Related Artists Eva Simons Will.I.Am
The ice is breaking between Kimmy Cakes and BeyBey… Jay-Z Invites Kim Kardashian To London Bash For TyTy There’s been a lot of talk that BeyBey ain’t really feelin’ Kimmy Cakes too tough, but this weekend in London it looks like she’ll have her shot to rub shoulders with rap royalty Jay-Z and the Queen Bey herself. The UK Sun reports : JAY-Z is throwing a monster London bash on Saturday for his manager Ty Ty’s 40th birthday – and the guest list of 150 attending include Kim Kardashian, her brother Rob and his girlfriend Rita Ora, plus Gwyneth Paltrow, Rihanna, Jay’s wife Beyonce and Kanye West – who is touring the UK with Jay. A source said: “It’s at a top city venue after Jay and Kanye’s O2 show. “There will be a dinner first cooked by a chef flown in from New York and then a huge party. “Security is going to be tight.” Hopefully Kim allows Yeezy to stay and have a good time, according to the same tabloid , she dragged him from a power dinner at London’s Zuma restaurant, where The Jigga Man had hired a section for a party. A source said: “Jay expected Kay and Kim to mingle. “But as soon as Kim whispered in Kanye’s ear, they left.” The pair were up early yesterday for a Radio 1 interview, then last night went hand in hand to the Fifi Awards at The Brewery in London. Kim’s signature perfume was up for the Best Celebrity fragrance award but lost out to Justin Bieber. Keep your eyes on the prize Kimmy Cakes… Eyes on the prize! Best friendship with BeyBey! Hit the flip for more photos of Kim and Yeezy headed to the FiFi awards and for a promotional appearance at Selfridges Continue reading →
‘Monday proved for sure is this is the show where he belongs,’ writes one critic about Stern’s debut on ‘America’s Got Talent.’ By Gil Kaufman Sharon Osbourne, Howard Stern and Howie Mandel Photo: NBC Prepare for the worst and the results can only be better than you expected. That’s the lesson naysayers learned on Monday night when radio talker Howard Stern made his long-awaited debut as the new judge on “America’s Got Talent.” Stern, a huge fan of the show who has been talking up his new gig for months on his SiriusXM satellite radio show did exactly what he promised : he was a fair, sometimes silly, sometimes harsh judge with a heart of gold and a soft spot for sappy stories. Hell, the notoriously Purell-addicted germaphobe even lumbered up onto the stage to huge a particularly sweaty, not-so-great singer after giving him a second chance at fame. After dismissing the pre-debut hand-wringing by the Parents Television Council that Stern’s penchant for R-rated humor might leak over into the family-friendly show as “a foolish presumption,” Los Angeles Times writer Robert Lloyd wrote that such fretting, “sells short the show’s producers and misreads Stern, who has shown himself perfectly capable of good behavior on other people’s turf.” Despite an introductory montage set to the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” that set up his bad-boy reputation and a joke about how NBC execs must be “out of their mind” for taking a risk on him,” Lloyd said it was quickly evident that, “like fellow judges Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel, he [Stern] meant to play the game the way the game is meant to be played, because, to a deep degree, he believes in it.” In a headline in which it said the shock jock, “becomes a beloved uncle,” the Washington Post ‘s TV reviewer mixed the sweet and sour in offering backhanded praise to the radio veteran. “Somewhere along the way to the collapse of Western civilization, pioneer shock-jock Howard Stern became a sweet old man, perhaps staving off our multimedia Armageddon,” wrote critic Hank Stuever. “At least that’s the story line presented along with Stern’s canny decision to join — at a reported fee of about $20 million — NBC’s goony amateur performance competition, ‘America’s Got Talent,’ as its newest judge.” Stuever yawned at Stern’s rehashing of old bits about his looks and the size of his manhood, and said he did “dish out a tiny bit of brutal honesty,” but mostly came to “bask in the show’s trademark combination of awkwardness, ingenuity and love” and delivered “apple-pie pronouncements more typical of presidential candidates.” The embrace was slightly warmer at the New York Daily News , which explained that, “to appreciate Howard Stern’s debut as a judge on ‘America’s Got Talent’ Monday night, just remember this: Inviting Stern on ‘AGT’ is not like inviting the Sex Pistols to crash ‘La Traviata’ at the Met. ‘America’s Got Talent’ didn’t hire Stern to inject outrageous and wacky. It didn’t need to. It has ’em already.” Critic David Hinckley said that Stern settled in quickly and comfortably on the show, praising him for being honest and getting caught up in the show’s “figurative group hugs and four-handkerchief moments.” The question remains of how Stern will deal when the goofy acts are gone and he has to make tough decisions between talented acts with widely differing skills. “There was no indication he can’t do it. But all Monday proved for sure is this is the show where he belongs.” People magazine seconded those emotions, writing, “Stern showed a lot of heart and proved he’s got talent — for judging!” What did you think of Stern’s debut on “America’s Got Talent?” Let us know in comments below.
Katy Perry is photoshopped in Latex….and when her skin looks clear and lovely for a change…she’s still annoying as fuck….but at least she has tits…tits that took her places she didn’t deserve to go…by taking focus away from her flaws like her dumpy ass…the fact she can’t sing or dance…and getting her on the radio making music we all hate but know the words to cuz her shit is programmed to brain wash us by the record label…I saw Josie and the Pussycats…I know how the industry works….she’s a busty pawn I can’t stand…but unfortunately…like every other dude…I’m won over by the tits…tits is all it really takes to get by and here she is in some latex.
‘All these articles talk about how I’ve changed and I’m like, ‘Good, I hope I’ve changed,’ ‘ Stern says about his bad-boy reputation. By Gil Kaufman Howard Stern Photo: MTV News Settle down, America. Regardless of what you think of segments like “Hottest Chick with the Oldest Dude” or the “Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant,” new “America’s Got Talent” judge Howard Stern is not going to bring his X-rated antics to prime-time television. Stern starts his run as a judge on the popular reality competition show on Monday (May 14) night and before viewing even one minute of his family-hour act some critics have already decided he’s going to turn the 8 p.m. hour into a non-stop cavalcade of strippers, four-letter words and bathroom humor. If you’ve listened at all to Stern’s SiriusXM radio show over the past six months, the original radio rebel has made it clear that he has only one intention: to be the best, most honest judge on TV. Stern is an obsessive about many things: his career-long nemesis Don Imus, his quirky bathroom habits, babysitter porn, the weight gains and losses and internecine feuds among his staff members and, yes, judges on reality series. As much as he’d love to find better uses for his time, Howard is drawn like a magnet to “American Idol,” “Dancing With the Stars” and various other shows where, frankly, he thinks the judges are lousy, lazy, dishonest and just kind of lame. “AGT” is Stern’s chance to prove that he is willing to put up or shut up. This is the man, you may recall, who has spent decades trying to convince America that he is a poorly endowed, paunchy lover who has never satisfied a woman. How much more honest can you be? He knows better not just as a father of three seemingly well-adjusted adult daughters, but as a professional broadcaster and 30-plus year veteran in the game. There’s a time and a place for everything and “AGT” is not the forum for the Wack Pack and the adult word of Stern. This is a guy, after all, whose first movie was a hit, but who has spent the ensuing 20-plus years reading scripts and discarding them because they didn’t ring true or feel right for him. Every move he makes is meticulously dissected, over-thought and ruminated over both on and off the air. The neurotic, locker room Howard Stern character of the radio is not the same Howard you are going to see on TV. Because who in their right mind would humiliate a child on TV as some have suggested Stern might do? If anything, given his moral compass, Howard is more likely to go after the greedy, self-involved “Toddlers and Tiaras”-style parents that put their children up to audition for transparently selfish reasons. And who could argue with that? That’s not even mentioning the fact that “AGT” picked up the entire production and moved it to New York to accommodate Stern’s radio show. Combine that with a reported $20 million payday, and, let’s assume, an iron-clad morals clause, and there’s virtually no incentive for Stern to go off-script and try to tank the show by crossing streams with his more sordid radio world. Why would Stern spend his life building a brand, only to go on TV and pull some kind of Andy Kaufman stunt and blow it apart just to be shocking? That’s not shocking. That’s self-destructive, bad business and frankly, just stupid. If there’s anything I’ve learned after listening to Stern for the past two decades it’s that he will pick fights with management and complain and lash out, he will stomp his feet, vent his spleen and complain ad nauseum about being treated poorly, but he will not embarrass himself or do anything that could tarnish the legacy of what he’s so painstakingly built for himself and his audience. (Okay, Fartman was not his best moment, but still, c’mon, it was still pretty hilarious.) He wants you to love him, needs you to love him and after hit radio shows, movies, books and television production credits, what better way to do that than to once again prove his detractors wrong and conquer the one medium he’s got left on his bucket list: star of prime time TV? Plus, he loves to win, lives to win, and he knows that with this move he can’t lose. There’s little or no competition from other big-name shows in the summer months, the program already has a huge ratings base and any drop-off from the Stern Effect will easily be made up by his millions of fans. The curiosity factor alone (not to mention a huge, full-court ad campaign that had the normally press-averse Stern doing talk shows and New York Times interviews) will surely give the first few weeks a major ratings boost. After years of experiments, plugging a celebrity judge into a panel is a mixed blessing at this point. Steven Tyler was kind of fun and quirky on last year’s “American Idol,” but by this season he was merely irritating and mostly just a peacocking place-filler who offered little or nothing of substance to the contestants. Howard’s watched this, studied it and has promised that he will be a different kind of judge. “All these articles talk about how I’ve changed and I’m like, ‘Good, I hope I’ve changed,'” Stern said on his satellite radio show on Monday (May 14) about his bad-boy reputation. He’s less angry, jealous and resentful these days, but he’s also more keenly aware of what it takes to entertain and I have a feeling that, love him or hate him, if you tune in tonight you’re going to be surprised. And I guarantee you will be entertained. Do you think Howard Stern will be a good judge on “America’s Got Talent” Let us know in comments below.
Audience members sat on one another’s shoulders festival-style despite the ‘snazzy venue.’ By Nadeska Alexis Florence Welch Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ Getty Images NEW YORK — Despite a lack of sleep, which she credited to having a very eventful stay in New York, Florence Welch still tapped into festival-level energy for her sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday night. In the time that’s elapsed since the release of her 2009 debut Lungs, the 25-year-old English musician, stylized with her band as Florence and the Machine , has blossomed into an international star and a world-class performer. That much was reflected in her ability to command the audience’s attention, keeping them on their feet throughout an hour-long show in a venue that afforded the option of seating. The show was live-streamed on Fuse TV, and maybe because of this, Welch performed a set that was heavy on material from her most recent LP Ceremonials, breaking only to backtrack with Lungs singles “Dog Days Are Over,” “Cosmic Love” and “Rabbit Heart.” Opening up with the new album’s intro track “Only If for a Night,” Florence got her vocals warmed up, easily hitting the rapturous notes on “What the Water Gave Me” and “All This and Heaven Too,” with her energy level steadily rising with each song. With the vibe finally established and the crowd engaged, Florence took a few extra moments to get her audience prepared for “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up),” by encouraging men in the crowd to hoist dates on their shoulders, summer festival-style, despite Radio City being “quite a snazzy venue.” It didn’t take much prompting. Immediately, girls in the crowd began to pop up on shoulders, and Welch gleefully tallied the number of fans who were happy to oblige, before launching into the song. “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)” was one of the highlights of the set, complete with an extended break allowing the audience to clap along to the percussion, while Welch skipped from one end of the stage to the next. Her sheer, billowing jumpsuit, which gave her the appearance of a fairy as she sauntered across the stage, was also mesmerizing when she stood still, arms spread, letting her vocals fill up the empty space in the auditorium on songs like “Spectrum.” Her disarming interactions with the crowd made it easy to swoon over her, and performing “Heartlines” after admitting that New York feels “more and more like home” didn’t hurt either. “Dog Days Are Over,” one of her biggest singles to date, was an obvious smash with the audience, and the encore found her delivering two final cuts from Ceremonials. “Never Let Me Go,” came with a dedication to a fan’s mother who had just passed away and “No Light, No Light” was her final number before disappearing for the night. Related Videos Unplugged: Florence + The Machine Related Artists Florence + the Machine
‘It was a song we did, kind of like a funny, kind-of-a-joke song,’ Diplo tells BBC Radio of B’s 2011 single, which sampled his Major Lazer song. By James Montgomery Beyonc
March 26th, is a day I will NEVER forget. It started off on Friday March 23rd. I woke up at 6am, getting ready for school. My mom was late to work, and at 6:30 the radio automatically turns on, so my mom heard on the radio on kiis fm, “Do you wanna have breakfast with Justin Bieber? Submit me an email saying why you should meet Justin Bieber! I’ll pick out some of the biggest beliebers out there! Only a few will win!” My mom was like, “Nia you better email Ryan Seacrest if you wanna win breakfast with Bieber!” I was like OMFG. Imagine, having breakfast with him. I couldn’t, it seemed unreal. I told my mom that I didn’t have time to email him, so my mom volunteered to email it for me at work, so she did. I went to school, forgetting about the breakfast with Bieber thing because really I knew that I could never have breakfast with him, and whoever won breakfast with him would be SUPER lucky. I was in my science class, and I was listening to my ipod while working when my mom texted me saying, “OMG NIA YOU WON!!” I was like what, she’s joking right? Then she sent me a picture of Ryan Seacrest email saying “Congrats you’ve won the chance of a lifetime! etc.” I was freaking out so much in class, I wanted to scream. My mom even called my teacher! I wanted to cry so badly but, it still felt unreal, you know? I skipped school March 26th , I woke up at 4am and we got there around 6am. Me and my mom were the first people there. Justin was on the radio that day so first he went to the interview, then came to meet us. We didn’t get to actually have breakfast with him, they provided us with breakfast, then he would show up and then we would have a private meet and greet . There were 5 winners, and they got to bring 2 people, so total there were only 10 of us, which is really small considering that there are like MILLIONS of beliebers out there. When I saw Justin come out of his car, I seriously still didn’t believe it, it was all happening to fast. First was Kenny, then Alfredo, then Justin’s crew, then Scooter, then him. I freaked out like crazy. Justin went to his interview and stuff, and we got to go see him do his interview. He waved hi to me and I fangirled like no tomorrow. After that we went into a private room to meet Justin. Justin came in the room saying, “Heeeeeeeyyyyyy wassssuppp!!” I was like omg, he is the most adorable thing on earth. We got our pictures and stuff, and Justin looked right into my eyes and said, “It was really nice to meet you” I almost died. When he kissed my cheek, he let go slowly, so when he let go it made that kissing noise, I will never forget that noise. I asked Kenny and Alfredo for a picture too, they really are really funny and nice. Scooter even let this girl’s mom in because she was waiting outside. Scooter said that if he ever saw us again, he’ll get us close up seats for the Believe tour. I even took a video so that if I ever see him again I’ll show him. When he left, he gave us all high fives. There were like 2 little girls, 2 moms, me and my mom, this girl about like 14 or 15, her uncle, and these other 2 girls who were like 18 or something. It really was an amazing day. It still feels unreal. I never thought that I would be able to meet him. Every belieber WILL meet him, just wait for the right moment. Never say never. -@ TheNiaBieber More here: March 26th, is a day I will NEVER forget. It started off on…
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