Here we have Nicki Minaj looking like a dazzling vision in pink, outside of "The Wendy Williams Show" in New York City. Inside the studio, Nicki was apparently very open with the talk show host, chatting about her childhood and home life, the power behind the idea of being a Barbie and a lot more.
What we really wanted to point out is how a) awesome Nicki looks, and b) how subtly practical her ensemble is. We think it's pretty incredibly how her hair is dyed pink at the bottom to match her scarf. But it's equally impressive that given everything she's wearing, girl is really layered up! And she should be! Those New York Novembers can be pretty cold!
Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday drops next Tuesday, Nov. 22. Head over to MTV's RapFix for more on Nicki's interview with Wendy Williams. And watch a sneak peek of Nicki Minaj's MTV documentary, My Time Now, before it airs Sunday, Nov. 28. Check out another pic of Nicki Minaj at "The Wendy Williams Show," below.
Along with producer Rich Harrison, Amerie's been responsible for concocting a potent form of modern R&B, with songs like "Dangerous" and "Gotta Work," along with "1 Thing," creating some of the best R&B/soul tracks of the last 10 years.
Now, with her new song, "Outside Your Body" and her forthcoming Cymatika Vol. 1 album (due out next year), Amerie is taking a trip to the dance floor, with a sound that references house and trance. Anyone who's ever been clubbing knows that dancing is an international language. And with that in mind, Amerie tacks a huge chorus onto this track, one that reads like a travelogue: "Let me take you to London town and Paris, yeah. Tokyo and Seoul" (big it up to her Korean roots!)
Take a spin with this new Amerie track, "Outside Your Body." Cymatika Vol. 1 is due out next year.
It's been more than a year since Brokencyde broke Buzzworthy's Tracey John. She went into their "Freaxxx" video with an open mind and promptly had that mind shattered by all the New Mexico crunkcore she could handle.
So it is left to me, your fearless music blogger, to stare my own mortality in the face and do battle with the latest clip from one of the craziest bands to ever combine Limp Bizkit and Lil' Jon. It's time for Brokencyde's "Da House Party" video.
Times have changed, and Brokencyde have changed with them. With that in mind, "Da House Party," the new single off of Brokencyde's Will Never Die album, employs some Jason Derulo/ "Glee"-esque AutoTune pop in the beginning of the song. This track wouldn't sound out of place on an LMFAO album or in Ke$ha's subconscious, until the bridge, when the shredding goes down.
As for the video, it's a pretty literal, if unhinged, representation of the song's title. There's someone dressed up as a giant pig playing beer pong, some mud wrestling, some backyard boxing. Pretty much what you'd expect from these urbane scholars.
Could this be a kinder, gentler Brokencyde? Might we be in for a Brokencyde Play Sensitive Acoustic Songs About Rain Forests album soon? Probably not. Where would be the fun in that?
Check out Brokencyde's "Da House Party" video below. Brokencyde's Will Never Die album is out now.
One of the appeals of Nicki Minaj's music is its everything-at-onceness. Whether its her multiple personalities or the multiple genres of music that pop up within the same song, Nicki's music is kind of like a dizzying carnival of sound. You never know what you're going to hear.
Case in point: Nicki's new track, "Blazin,'" from her forthcoming debut album, Pink Friday. It features not only Kanye West but also a big dollop of Brat Pack (shouts to Ally Sheedy!), sampling "The Breakfast Club" soundtrack classic, "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds.
"Blazin'" is dizzyin'; Minaj raps at a breakneck pace, with the beat a skittering tumble of sounds featuring the iconic melody and "hey hey hey hey" from Simple Minds.
Kanye comes in and makes it work, lyrically, stating: "I think I'm Marc Jacobs," referencing Rick Ross' famed "I think I'm Big Meech" line from his hit "BMF."
We admit that here at Buzzworthy we're kind of into (read: totally obsessed with) cats because of all the LOLZ they bring us, but this time we're not talking about that kind of kitty. We're talking about Kitten, an indie pop-rock foursome out of Los Angeles. They've been getting a ton of hype, and they deserve all of the hype they've been getting.
If The Killers, Paramore and Cat Power spawned a lovechild, or if the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had a little sister, it would probably sound a lot like Kitten. Their sweeping sound and bold vocals are impressive on their own, but they're even more impressive when you discover that lead singer Chloe Chaidez is only 15 years old. (That's younger than Justin Bieber, folks.) Chloe can't even drive a car yet, but she penned Kitten's beautifully eerie "Kill The Light," a weighty song about death. They sure don't make teenagers like they used to.
Kitten has already performed at South By Southwest and CMJ, and just last week they made an appearance on MTV's "The Seven." All of that under their belt and they've only released their new EP, Sunday School--we can't wait to see where Kitten's headed next.
We're writing this letter because we love you and we care about you, and we're fans. But we need to talk about your nerd glasses. At first, we understood. Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z were doing it. Everyone was doing it...
And besides, you're young. You can't be blamed for what comes into style and what doesn't. But you kept persisting, wearing them even when you obviously didn't need them. (Except maybe in the case of walking into revolving doors.)
So now it's time to say something. It's gone too far. It's time to have a nerd glasses intervention.
We tried to make this more subtle, hoping you'd pick up on the changing public opinion. But now we're going to be explicit: Those glasses are silly, and they are too big for your still-growing head! Jay-Z? He can wear them because he's Jay-Z and nobody is going to tell him what to do and because he's older than you and might very well need glasses.
But you? You're young? You're leaping around in 3-D. It's your world! So isn't it time you saw your world through honest eyes? And not behind the giant, blocky, prescription-free lenses of your silly nerd glasses?
Here we have Katy Perry exiting her Manhattan apartment, inexplicably covering her face from the prying eyes of the paparazzi. I say "inexplicably" because usually Katy is more than game to get her picture taken.
What could Perry be hiding? Here are some guesses:
1. Katy Perry is the girl with the dragon tattoo, and the dragon tattoo is on her FACE!
2. She's wearing nerd glasses but just realized, as she was walking out the door, that they were totally over.
3. What's the point of having a cool hood if you're not going to put it up?
This is truly a mystery that will confound scientists and Katy Perry scholars for decades to come. What do you think? Why was Katy Perry hiding her usually very visible face from the cameras? Let us know in the comments!
+ According to Akon, Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way, will be a "notch up" from her debut. (MTV News)
+ Rihanna has some interesting opinions about blogs that have negative opinions about Rihanna: "It’s a community for people who don’t have anything else to do and hate themselves." (Celebuzz)
+ Nicki Minaj performed her crossover hit, "Right Thru Me" on "The Wendy Williams Show" yesterday. (Idolator)
My Chemical Romance's "Sing," off of the group's upcoming album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, is a hopeful, heartfelt, living, breathing anthem. But when the curtain rises on the "Sing" video, we find a situation that doesn't feel too hopeful at all. Especially if you're a Killjoy.
After narrowly escaping Better Living Industries' evil hit man Korse in their "Na Na Na" video, the Killjoys return to the company's Battery City headquarters, and the stage is set for the theater of war.
As "Sing"'s chorus builds and swells, so does the video's fight scene. And while the Killjoys may be fabulous and they may have heart, they're severely outnumbered, completely underarmed and wholly unprepared to do battle against an axis of evil of this magnitude.
"Sing," My Chemical Romance's most dramatic and cinematic video to date, is a somber, ominous affair and one that doesn't end well for the band on this most dangerous of days. But we've got a feeling Killjoys never die.
+ Watch My Chemical Romance's "Sing" video, directed by Gerard Way and P.R. Brown.
Most artists don't have MTV knocking at their door to shoot a documentary before they've even released their first album. But most artists aren't Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj's rise to fame has been nothing short of meteoric. Taylor Swift may have sold albums like hotcakes this year, and Lady Gaga may be keeping paparazzi shooting around the clock, but Nicki Minaj, whose Pink Friday album has been in the works all year, has had the Internet, the music industry and her legion of Barbies going nuts. (Those Barbies, by the way, seemed to fall for her lightning-fast delivery and outrageously wry lyrics almost overnight.)
On Sunday, Nov. 28, just days after the Nov. 22 release of her intensely anticipated debut album, Pink Friday, MTV will air My Time Now, an exclusive up-close-and-personal look at Nicki Minaj's life after three months of following her every public and private move, from the 2010 MTV VMAs to her first visit to Trinidad in seven years. We'll show you the Nicki Minaj you know--pink-haired, face-pulling Young Money member of a million voices--and the Nicki Minaj you may not know: Nicki as a hard-hitting businesswoman and soft-hearted family member.
Watch the trailer for a sneak peek at Nicki Minaj's MTV documentary and don't miss Nicki Minaj's My Time Now MTV documentary when it airs on Sunday, Nov. 28 at 10 p.m. ET.
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