And now, a little late, this is Britney's performance of Till The World Ends on Jimmy Kimmel from earlier in the week.
I'm usually pretty Team Britney...but she looks here like she kind of needs to work on her dancing, and outfits, and stage presence...and...stuff. Maybe more props?
Here's Katy Perry's video for E.T., featuring Kanye West.
The song is currently No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Katy her fourth No. 1 off the album Teenage Dream.
The video was directed by Floria Sigismondi who has directed about a bajillion music videos for people like Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, The Cure, Christina Aguilera, Sigur Ros and Muse. She also wrote and directed the Runaways biopic that starred Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning.
It's colourful! And pretty! And it's got Kanye West rapping the line, "Imma disrobe you, then Imma probe you." So, really, there's nothing not to love here. I admit, she's grown on me.
Carson Daly is peeved at Britney Spears' management and has decided to air his grievance on Twitter.
If you follow Brit's career at all, it has likely occurred to you that her PR is being verrrrrrry carefully managed ever since her 2008 public meltdown and the unfortunate coverage that led up to it. In fact, since she lost custody of her kids and control of her finances, it seems probable that Britney controls virtually nothing of her own life.
So, an election is going down on May 2. And you know what that means: time for baby kissing and playing John Lennon songs on the piano with recently discovered YouTube sensations.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid a visit to Maria Aragon's Winnipeg home while on a campaign tour this week.
Lady Gaga celebrated her 25th birthday on Monday (March 28) with her Little Monsters and a Mariachi band.
The pop star was reportedly enjoying a birthday dinner at Los Angeles' El Cielito when the restaurant's house band Jose Hernandez and his Mariachi Sol de Mexico broke into a mariachi version of her own Born This Way. Gaga joined in, but I was kind of enjoying it more without her.
Then, during a show at the Staples Center, Gaga was presented with a birthday cake and serenaded by her fans. Videos (found via Billboard) below.
Remember Paris Hilton? She was the original Lindsay Lohan but without the successful acting career. I mean that rather affectionately, I kind of like Paris and think she is the object of far too much derision. But it's true, she does have a bit of an Attention Deficit Disorder - by which I mean she always seems to need more of it (Did that work? I don't know if it worked...). Then there was all that drinking and driving - though it hardly seems fair to single her out for that in Hollywood, where, from this vantage point, it looks like everyone might as well be glugging tequila and drag racing.
It kind of sort of maybe looks like Charlie Sheen might have gotten Snoop Dogg to record something with him.
The actor – who recently collected millions of Twitter followers in a seriously short amount of time – has posted a TwitPic of himself and the veteran rapper sitting in the studio together with the following message. "Warlock meets his makers-music makers that is @SnoopDogg @robpatterson666 get ready to rock the Sheenius within!"
Convinced your dreams of rock stardom turned dusty alongside your Appetite for Destruction long-player? Have access to a half-decent Internet connection?
Well, save your illusions. There is a way to keep your axe-shredding dreams afloat.
Guns N’ Roses guitar hero Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal is offering up individual instructional jam sessions via Skype. Everyone’s a customer, regardless of race, gender, or creed.
“One-on-one lessons, any age is welcome, any skill level is welcome – if it’s your first time picking up a guitar, that’s OK,” Thal pitches on his website. “Lessons are about what you need, what you want, it’s different for everyone.”
There’s one small catch. Before the rocker engages the web-linked fanboys in a little fret-board roulette, he requests that hopeful students e-mail him some background info: “Tell me about yourself – where you’re from, how long you’ve been playing, the kind of music you like, if you’ve played with a band or just in the bedroom, what your strengths are, what you want to get better at, what you want to learn specifically.”
Lessons cost $1.50 per minute and the student can contact Bumblefoot to arrange a Skype party. For Thal’s full advertisement, click here.
If you missed last night's Juno Awards, you missed a suprisingly good show.
Also somewhat surprising: I think a lot of folks were also a little flabbergasted to see Neil Young win Artist of the Year over the other young-up-and-comer nominees, but it would have been even weirder if Justin Bieber had beat him, no?
Any metalhead worth his Dokken tee has watched and savoured Heavy Metal Parking Lot, probably repeatedly. The 1986 documentary short captures the enthusiasm and hair farming of heavy metal fans tailgating in the parking lot outside of the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, before a springtime Judas Priest concert, and it grew to become a cult classic. Bootleg VHS copies of the 17-minute lo-fi masterpiece were passed from friend to friend, and the doc was reportedly a favourite on Nirvana’s tour bus.
Now, 25 years later, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn—producers of the original—are screening a sequel. That’s right, kids. Heavy Metal Picnic is coming to a town near you (and will take Beta VHS DVD form later this year). Word is, the devil-horned eggs melt in your mouth.
According to heavymetalpicnic.com, “the film focuses on the 1985 Full Moon Jamboree, a weekend field party bacchanal that took place at ‘The Farm,’ home to a cast of colourful characters who lived and partied alongside unamused neighbours in the McMansions of Potomac.” The Jamboree was “an affair so raucous that it made the evening news, was the farm party to end all farm parties, and much of it was recorded using a home video camera and a stolen CBS News microphone swiped from the Reagan Inauguration earlier that year.”
Check the trailer below, and behold the mayhem, bikinis, mustaches, and gross deficiency of shirts that ruled Maryland in ’85, “when heavy metal was king!”
February 2011
