Obsessively blogging about pop music, pop videos, pop stars, and pop culture from inside the MTV headquarters in Times Square. We also have a slight Jonas Brothers problem. And a little fixation with Tokio Hotel.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present Lykke Li vs. one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking songs of all-time.
On this lovely cover of the Carol King/Gerry Goffin-penned classic, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," the Swedish singer strips The Shirelles' original bare of its chiming guitar stabs and girl group backing vocals, reducing the affair to simple voice and piano; emphasizing the wary vulnerability at the song's core.
How about a heaping pile of WTF to start your pre-turkey Tuesday? Here we have the return of the electro-dancehall mavens Major Lazer (better known to their friends and family as Diplo and Switch).
Major Lazer's video for "Hold The Line" was a spaghetti western/reggae rave-up, which featured animated zombies, demons and robots (oh my!).
But this new clip for "Keep It Goin' Louder" is on a whole other level. Directed by Eric Wareheim (from the mind-boggling Adult Swim show Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), this video features Nina Sky and some of the most disturbing face-morphing since the hallowed days of Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham's "Come To Daddy."
Proceed with caution. This mind-blowing vid is technically safe for work, but I don't know how safe it is for life.
From an outsider's perspective, it's easy to say what should and shouldn't matter to a pop star. We note the awards, special performances and chart positions. But what matters to the star, themselves? We posed this very question to the incomparable Lady Gaga.
In this very special Spankin' New Music Week edition of "The 5," as The Fame: Monster is finally officially released, Lady Gaga takes us through the five most amazing moments in her career. It's a deeply personal list that touches on the socio-political causes that are close to her heart (marching on Washington, D.C. for gay rights) as well as the small, personal pleasure of having her little sister dress up as her for Halloween.
Watch Gaga explain her top five career highlights in this exclusive MTV Buzzworthy Blog video, and get an up-close-and-personal look at the human side of Lady Gaga.
Happy birthday, Miley! 17 rules. Oh, also I heard you had an awesome girls-just-wanna-have-fun-style '80s birthday party in the U.SA. -- specially an '80s party right here in New York City. Guess my invite got lost in the mail. Anyway, hope you get everything a girl born Destiny Hope could have coming her way.
Oh wait, what would I get Miley Cyrus for her birthday? Even though I didn't get invited to her birthday party? Well for starters, I think it's time for Miley to FINALLY get into Twilight. So I'd get her Twilight. And maybe also a vampire t-shirt.
Spankin' New Music Week is coming to MTV November 23 through 27. It's a celebration of five new mega-albums that are all being released in one big mega-week.
Beyonce has the Deluxe Edition of I Am, and on Tuesday, Britney's releasing the Deluxe Box Edition of The Singles Collection.
So what's in store? We have interviews with Gaga, Shakira and Rihanna, MTV News sat down with some of the girls as well, and we'll have performances, videos, and more. It's an unofficial "ladies week," but because we're not biased we're not forgetting that 50 Cent also recently dropped his fourth LP, Before I Self Destruct and we sat down and talked to him too.
Check in next week for more Spankin' New stuff on MTV, and, until then, watch Rihanna's "Wait Your Turn" video.
In today's Buzzworthy Blog fan Q&A with Tokio Hotel, Tokio Hotel's asked how they deal with a broken heart, while Bill Kaulitz matter-of-factly points out that the upside to not having found true love is not having his heart broken! You'll also find out which member of Tokio Hotel is the biggest heartbreaker (if you couldn't already guess), plus, Tokio Hotel tells you about the prospects of a Bill-and-Tom-Kaulitz twin collabo fashion line. Because dreams can come true.
Introduced by David Cross -- one of the many bearded bros at the Woodie Awards -- Death Cab plows through the song as if it'd been a staple of their live sets for years. I wonder if guitarist Chris Walla was thinking about his favorite Twilight character (Bella's dad!) while he was jamming away there.
Watch the 2009 mtvU Woodies Friday, December 4, at 10 p.m. ET on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, and Palladia.
It should come as no great shock that Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" video was a massive undertaking. Directed by uber-stylish feature film director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine), the video has the high-end production value of a blockbuster movie.
In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," you'll see just how significant an endeavor the whole thing was. Francis Lawrence talks about CGI diamonds raining on Gaga, while dancers praise Gaga's relentless work ethic. And the swarthy, gold-face-masked Russian gangster at the center of the video gives some insight into his "character."
It's a fascinating look at what is, arguably, the video of the year.
It's been a minute (a few minutes, really) since we had a Kid Sister video to enjoy. The Chicago MC broke out two years ago with the Kanye West-assisted "Pro Nails," with a video directed Zombieland auteur Rueben Fleischer.
Now, with her album Ultraviolet finally on shelves and in stores, Kid Sis is back on disc, wax, tape, and, for our purposes here, on screen.
"Right Hand Hi" is a fab piece of J.J. Fad electro-hop, with a half-dozen hooks crammed into a tight, burst of a jam. The video has some flashing lights, some flashy choreography, and a projected Kid Sister doing her thing on building walls.
How do you cure a broken heart? Well, according to this brand new Alicia Keys video for her song, "Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart" -- from her upcoming The Element of Freedom album -- you help the less fortunate.
In this Syndrome-directed clip, Keys takes on a rather messianic/martyr pose, healing wounded puppies andzooming around NYC on a motorcycle that shoots out purple, Tron-like exhaust from its pipes.
Can Super Alicia (who can fly in this video, BTW) cure her own relationship woes in the same fashion that she heals ailing canines? You'll have to watch to find out.
