JUSTIN BIEBER LYRICS here: “Mistletoe” It’s the most beautiful time of the year Lights fill the streets spreading so much cheer I should be playing in the winter snow But I’mma be under the mistletoe I don’t wanna miss out on the holiday But I can’t stop staring at your face I should be playing in the winter snow But I’mma be under the mistletoe With you, shawty with you With you, shawty with you With you under the mistletoe Everyone’s gathering around the fire Chestnuts roasting like a hot July I should be chilling with my folks, I know But I’mma be under the mistletoe Word on the street Santa’s coming tonight, Reindeer’s flying through the sky so high I should be making a list, I know But I’mma be under the mistletoe With you, shawty with you With you, shawty with you With you under the mistletoe With you, shawty with you With you, shawty with you With you under the mistletoe Aye, love, the wise men followed the star The way I followed my heart And it led me to a miracle Aye, love, don’t you buy me nothing ’cause I am feeling one thing, your lips on my lips That’s a merry, merry Christmas It’s the most beautiful time of the year Lights fill the streets spreading so much cheer I should be playing in the winter snow But I’mma be under the mistletoe I don’t wanna miss out on the holiday But I can’t stop staring at your face I should be playing in the winter snow But I’mma be under the mistletoe With you, shawty with you With you, shawty with you With you under the … http://www.youtube.com/v/ffrEJf8mqXA?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Go here to read the rest: Justin Bieber – Mistletoe (Chipmunks – Chipettes Version) with Lyrics – marry Xmas 2011
Swedish House Mafia’s Ingrosso said he’s ‘so happy’ for his mentee and rising EDM star. By Akshay Bhansali Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastain Ingrosso Photo: MTV News When MTV News caught up with Swedish House Mafia ‘s Sebastian Ingrosso at Las Vegas’ XS Nightclub recently, the DJ/producer was beaming with pride. That’s because his mentee, Alesso, a young talent from Sweden , now stands as a formidable star on the rise. Having dropped a couple of healthy tracks and remixes in 2010, MTV News first previewed the young Alesso’s capabilities when SHM launched into his thunderous “Nillionaire” at their beachfront Masquerade Motel party over Miami Music Week last year. Since then, Ingrosso and the SHM camp have personally cultivated the young star into a hit-making wizard — seemingly cooking up undeniable hits with each release and remix. “Nillionaire,” “Dynamite,” “Raise Your Head,” and the popular DJ set staple “Calling” with Ingrosso remain Alesso’s original bombshells of 2011. His remix game is seemingly unparalleled. With his remixes of David Guetta’s “Titanium” and SHM’s “Save the World,” Alesso struck gold. But with his rework of Alex Kenji, Starkillers and Nadia Ali’s “Pressure,” he created one of the most far-reaching EDM anthems of the year. In 2012, his continued trajectory seems almost cemented: “Calling” will have a vocal version, and it looks like Alesso, Seb and SHM’s Steve Angello will have a hit on their hands with their “Eclipse (Why am I Doing This).” “I’m so proud of him, and what we’ve worked on,” Seb told MTV News. “The last couple of years have been just crazy. I told him just before the EDC show in Vegas [Electric Daisy Carnival last year], ‘I’m going to change your life tonight. Just so you know that.’ And he was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And I said, ‘Watch and see.’ ” “And after that, it’s just been mayhem,” Seb continued. “He’s been doing so much great music and so many big shows. I’m just so happy for him. I’m like a proud father, you know. I’m just so happy for him.” It seems like fans of Alesso will have plenty of new music to look forward to, and soon. Alesso tweeted Friday (February 3), “I have so many new tracks coming out 2012! So f—ing excited to play them this year!!! Hope you guys are ready!!” What are you hoping to see from Alesso this year? Leave your comment below! Related Artists Swedish House Mafia
Happy Super Bowl Sunday, everybody! Whether your team is in the Big Game or you’re just in it for the chips, dip, and nip slips (and Madonna ‘s performing this year, so anything is possible), Mr. Skin’s got an all-star lineup of gridiron girls ready and willing to put the punt in your pigskin. More after the jump!
Singer’s “Firework” is up for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. By Jocelyn Vena Katy Perry Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage Katy Perry will take the stage at the Grammy Awards on February 12. The two-time nominee was announced as the latest performer on Wednesday (February 1). The currently blue-haired pop star is up for Record of the Year for her feel-good empowerment track, “Firework.” The Teenage Dream single is also up for Best Pop Solo Performance. This is hardly her first time performing on the show. At the 2011 Grammys , she performed her songs “Not Like the Movies” and “Teenage Dream.” The Valentine-themed performance also included the debut of footage from her wedding to her now-estranged husband, Russell Brand. In 2009, Perry performed her breakthrough hit “I Kissed a Girl” surrounded by giant, glittering pieces of prop fruit. And in 2010 she took the stage at the Grammy Nominations show and sang her ubiquitous candy-coated track, “California Gurls.” The same day that Perry was announced as a performer, fellow nominee Drake was announced as one of the night’s big presenters, along with Gwyneth Paltrow, Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley. Adele announced her long-rumored Grammy performance on Tuesday. It marks her first performance since a November vocal surgery. “I’m immensely proud to have been asked to perform at this year’s Grammy Awards,” Adele said. “It’s an absolute honor to be included in such a night and for it to be my first performance in months is very exciting and of course nerve-racking, but what a way to get back into it all.” Rihanna, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars, Kelly Clarkson, Jason Aldean and Nicki Minaj are also confirmed to perform live at the 54th annual awards show, which will be hosted by LL Cool J. What performer are you most excited for at this year’s Grammy Awards? Leave your comment below! Related Photos 2012 Grammy Performers Katy Perry’s First Performance As A Newly Single Girl Related Artists Katy Perry
Singer’s “Firework” is up for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. By Jocelyn Vena Katy Perry Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage Katy Perry will take the stage at the Grammy Awards on February 12. The two-time nominee was announced as the latest performer on Wednesday (February 1). The currently blue-haired pop star is up for Record of the Year for her feel-good empowerment track, “Firework.” The Teenage Dream single is also up for Best Pop Solo Performance. This is hardly her first time performing on the show. At the 2011 Grammys , she performed her songs “Not Like the Movies” and “Teenage Dream.” The Valentine-themed performance also included the debut of footage from her wedding to her now-estranged husband, Russell Brand. In 2009, Perry performed her breakthrough hit “I Kissed a Girl” surrounded by giant, glittering pieces of prop fruit. And in 2010 she took the stage at the Grammy Nominations show and sang her ubiquitous candy-coated track, “California Gurls.” The same day that Perry was announced as a performer, fellow nominee Drake was announced as one of the night’s big presenters, along with Gwyneth Paltrow, Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley. Adele announced her long-rumored Grammy performance on Tuesday. It marks her first performance since a November vocal surgery. “I’m immensely proud to have been asked to perform at this year’s Grammy Awards,” Adele said. “It’s an absolute honor to be included in such a night and for it to be my first performance in months is very exciting and of course nerve-racking, but what a way to get back into it all.” Rihanna, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars, Kelly Clarkson, Jason Aldean and Nicki Minaj are also confirmed to perform live at the 54th annual awards show, which will be hosted by LL Cool J. What performer are you most excited for at this year’s Grammy Awards? Leave your comment below! Related Photos 2012 Grammy Performers Katy Perry’s First Performance As A Newly Single Girl Related Artists Katy Perry
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~Charles Richards Don’t waste your life doing something you don’t enjoy. If it doesn’t make you happy, its not worth it. As we remember the life and contributions of Don Cornelius today, lets not forget to make the most of every moment we are blessed to live.
Traveling with the GOP presidential hopeful, you will hear the words to ‘America the Beautiful’ … a lot. By Gil Kaufman Mitt Romney talks to supporters in Florida Photo: Gil Kaufman/ Getty Images DUNEDIN, Florida — “How many times have we heard this song already?” That’s what a beat reporter who’s been traveling with the Mitt Romney campaign said Monday afternoon (January 30) at the day’s second campaign stop in Florida. With less than 24 hours to go before Tuesday’s primary , Romney was about to take the stage to the strains of one of his signature warm-up songs, Toby Keith’s “Made in America,” and the press corps knew what was going to happen next with their notebooks closed. “I’m gonna wake up in the middle of the night singing it,” the reporter sighed as the crowd in Pioneer Park filed in on a picture-perfect winter day. But for the writers and camera people slogging it out on the trail, it was “Groundhog Day” all over again: new town, same routine. While the patriotic country tune kept pumping, the crowd of several hundred suddenly turned around en masse as Romney’s bus pulled up about 15 minutes late. It seems that like college parties, for presidential candidates, it’s all about showing up just a bit late — and making a cool entrance. Fittingly, Romney referred to the Obama administration as the “groundhog presidency,” because, the former Massachusetts governor said, “He keeps saying the same thing, but nothing ever changes.” Romney talked about the trips he used to take with his family as a child — including a visit to Florida’s Cypress Gardens — but you could feel the press tuning out as they waited for the obligatory recitation of the candidate’s favorite lines from “America the Beautiful.” Following a loss in South Carolina last week, Romney was making his final appearances before Tuesday’s crucial Florida vote and he seemed loose and spirited, perhaps thanks to the comfortable lead he opened up against rival Newt Gingrich in the polls as the primary approached. He left the audience with a stark message about the man he wants to ensure is a one-term president. “He didn’t cause the recession,” Romney said of President Obama. “But he made it worse.” MTV is on the scene in Florida! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage of the primaries and stick with PowerOf12.org throughout the 2012 presidential election season. Related Videos Florida Primary: The Race Is On!
‘The rules are setting up minority and young voters to fail,’ University of South Florida NAACP President Vanity Shields tells MTV News. By Gil Kaufman Vanity Shields Photo: MTV News TAMPA, Florida — It’s fitting that 20-year-old University of South Florida junior Vanity Shields, 20, chose to speak to MTV’s Power of 12 in the shadow of her campus’ Martin Luther King Jr. memorial reflecting pond. Nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory laws that disenfranchised black voters thanks to the tireless work of the civil-rights giant, Shields is preparing for another voting-rights fight in her state. The president of the NAACP chapter on the USF campus and first-time voter is concerned that a new Florida law , ostensibly aimed at cutting down on voter fraud, might leave many young and African-American voters off the rolls this presidential election year . “I personally feel that the rules are setting up minority and young voters to fail,” the health sciences major said of the new law, which carries heavy penalties for third-party organizations trying to register new voters if they fail to comply with the sometimes-byzantine rules. “Now they have 48 hours to fill out this massive amount of paperwork.” A portion of the new law includes restrictions on community-based voter-registration drives that require anyone registering new voters on behalf of organizations such as Rock the Vote or the League of Women Voters to turn all forms in within 48 hours of obtaining a signature or face unspecified civil penalties. Those two groups have been forced to suspend their voter-registration efforts in Florida this year because, according to a press release announcing a lawsuit seeking to block the new provisions, they “include burdensome administrative requirements, unreasonably tight deadlines for submission for completed forms and unnecessarily harsh penalties for even the slightest delay or mistake.” Shields said the USF NAACP chapter has been very active on the issue and planned a general body meeting called “The Colors of Justice” on Monday (January 30) to discuss the new rules and raise awareness about them. There will also be a voter-awareness rally soon, though she said efforts such as the NAACP’s get-out-the-vote “Souls to the Poll” action from years past has been canceled this year because of new restrictions on registering voters on the Sunday before an election. “I am originally from New Jersey, and Hillsboro County in Tampa is a pre-clearance [area]. … What that means is that people who were previously registered are still able to vote, but with this new law, if Hillsboro County were not pre-clearance, I would have to go back to New Jersey to vote,” said Brianna Simms, 20, the second vice president of the USF NAACP chapter. “As a college student, I don’t have the funds or the time to do that, so that would limit my impact on the country in choosing our next president.” Shields said awareness of the voting issue is pretty low at the moment, but she plans to start posting about it on Twitter and Facebook, distribute fliers and ask her fellow students if they know about the changes. “I feel that our demographic is being targeted and that they’re trying to silence us, but we will not be silenced,” she said. “We will speak our minds and keep our right to vote.” MTV is on the scene in Florida! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage of the primaries and stick with PowerOf12.org throughout the 2012 presidential election season. Related Videos Florida Primary: The Race Is On! Barnstorming The Iowa Caucus With Andrew Jenks
MTV News takes a closer look at legislation passed last year in the state that has voter-registration groups up in arms. By Gil Kaufman Mitt Romney campaigns in Dunedin, Florida on Monday Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/ AFP/ Getty Images TAMPA, Florida — It’s a teenage rite of passage up there with learning to drive and attending prom: your first time voting . But according to some longtime voter-registration organizations, that right could be threatened this year in a number of states due to new laws that make signing up new voters more difficult. The issue has come into sharp relief this week in Florida, which holds its presidential primary Tuesday. A bill passed last year in the state includes a number of new rules for how civic organizations can register new voters, as well as ones that reduce the number of early voting days from 14 to eight and prohibit early voting on the Sunday before an election . The part of the new law that has troubled groups such as Rock the Vote and the League of Women Voters the most, though, is the one that forces such third-party organizations to submit voter-registration applications within 48 hours of receiving them, instead of the 10 days as provided by the pervious law. These groups — which are among several who have suspended their voter-registration drives in Florida this year because of a lawsuit over the changes — say the fines and threats of potential civil lawsuits have put a chill on their get-out-the-vote efforts. “We are outraged at these new laws that will prevent opportunities for youth civic participation,” Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit in early December. Attorneys for the groups claim Florida’s new voter laws violate the U.S. Constitution and federal laws by violating their constitutionally protected rights of speech and association and failing to give individuals and groups fair notice of how to comply with the laws’ “confusing and unclear mandates.” They also argue that the laws breach the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, a federal law designed in part to “encourage community-based voter-registration activity.” Supporters of the law say it will save money by eliminating extra voting days and is a bulwark against voter fraud, which its supporters argue is a constant threat to the democratic process. Some Democrats, however, have accused Republicans — Florida is among the half-dozen states with GOP-led legislatures that passed new voting laws last year — of using the provisions to disenfranchise some traditionally key Democratic voting blocs, including racial minorities, the poor, the young and elderly voters. There were 31 cases of voter fraud referred to Florida authorities between January 2008 and 2011, and only two resulted in arrests out of the 8.1 million votes cast in the 2008 election. A hearing was held in Tampa, Florida, on Friday, led by U.S. Senators Bill Nelson of Florida and Dick Durbin of Illinois, in which the men described the bill as a “voter suppression act” and vowed to have the courts address what Durbin sees as a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. MTV is on the scene in Florida! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage of the primaries and stick with PowerOf12.org throughout the 2012 presidential election season. Related Videos Florida Primary: The Race Is On! Barnstorming The Iowa Caucus With Andrew Jenks
What, ya didn’t know rapper/personality Ed Lover was a closet cinephile-slash-Oscar pundit? To borrow from the man himself: “C’mon, son!” In a searing video rant over at NextMovie, he reacts to this year’s batch of Oscar nominees and glaring snubs (what, no Drive , Harry Potter , or “Dame Julie Dench?”) and pretty much takes the words out of my mouth. “They had the Academy Award nominations the other day at like 7 o’clock in the damn morning… C’mon, son!” Among the salient points from Lover: – The three nominees of color this year (Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, and Demián Bechir) played minorities in servitude of some sort or another. – “Janet McWho?” – What about Ryan Gosling in Drive ? – “So, Academy: You’ve got 9 mothaf***in’ nominees, and you can’t find room for Harry Potter ?!” Props to NextMovie for this bit of Oscar race brilliance. Ed Lover drops his “C’mon Son” knowledge here . Meanwhile, check out S.T. VanAirsdale’s ongoing Oscar musings in Movieline’s Oscar Index . [ NextMovie ]
