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New Video: O'Neal McKnight, 'Check Your Coat'

Posted 4/16/08 10:49 am EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Videos

If you've been to the club like, recently recent, or caught TRL yesterday, then you may've heard this synthed-out, retro-electro R&B banger from O'Neal McKnight, a man with two last names and no first name, who's styled Usher (he's responsible for the iconic 8701 album cover), Diddy, Snoop and Robin Thicke, is now taking his turn as a quadruple-threat soloist.

Entitled "Check Your Coat," this unholy brew of vintage Michael Jackson, celebrity cameos (peep Swizz Beats and Russell Simmons) and Back to the Future (speaking of cameos, you can't miss the DeLorean or Christopher Lloyd) sub-plot just screams "I can't believe it's not '80s!"

But it's not '80s, and that's what makes it so decidedly fresh; O'Neal McKnight manages to pull off the trick of sounding so old-school it's futuristic. Attention Neo-soulsters and throwback rappers: you are now on notice.

Tags Celebrity, Diddy, Music, O'Neal McKnight, Robin Thicke, Snoop Dogg, Style, Usher, video, Videos

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Exclusive Interview: Pete Wentz Is Still A Member Of Fall Out Boy

Posted 4/15/08 5:04 pm EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Interviews, Videos

Regardless of whether Ashlee Simpson is slightly pregnant or maybe isn't pregnant, Pete Wentz still has a wedding to plan, and Pete Wentz is still in Fall Out Boy. And Fall Out Boy just put out a new live CD/ DVD, entitled **** Live In Phoenix.

The double-disc package features a full-length Fall Out Boy concert -- including their rendition of "Beat It" with John Mayer -- and lots of behind-the-scenes footage of a band that spends their downtime Punking themselves, producing albums, and working out.

So, naturally, we had some questions… like what's up with the asterisks? And why the hell don't we see much of Andy?

Watch Buzzworthy's second exclusive interview with Pete Wentz, catch up on the first clip, and watch "Beat It."

Tags Ashlee Simpson, Celebrity, Fall Out Boy, Interview, Interviews, Music, Pete Wentz, video, Videos

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Buzz Bites -- 4/15/2008: Beyonce Retiring(?), Britney, Christina Milian & More

Posted 4/15/08 2:45 pm EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Videos

+ Is Beyonce retiring from recording to scout talent for her husband? Wait, Beyonce and Jay-Z are a couple, right? (NY Daily News)

+ OHHHHH my blog. Pretty On the Outside reimagines Pete Wentz as The Pregnant Man.

+ Is Britney releasing "explosive" home videos chronicling the past six months of her life? We hope not. (And we also hope YES!) (Female First)

+ Amy Winehouse is not Met material. (NY Mag)

+ Christina Milian is "overexposed." (The Bastardly)

+ Perez sez: Mariah and... Nick Cannon??? Uhh... Really?

+ Miley Cyrus and her dad are BFFFAE. (ICYDK)

+ Someone on Rock the Cradle put the hurt on their dressing room. Tsk tsk! (Remote Control)

+ Got four, if not more, minutes? Write a four-line poem for a chance to win two tickets to see Madonna from VH1. Here's ours:

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(Don't steal that!)

+ Relevant video we just remembered: Christina Milian, "Dip It Low."

Tags Celebrity, Music, News, TV Shows, Videos

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New Video: Taylor Swift, 'Picture to Burn'

Posted 4/15/08 12:19 pm EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Videos

Oh, Taylor Swift. You are made from the finest corn, sunshine, glitter and tulle in all of America. Your hit, "Our Song" -- which you wrote for a 9th grade talent show -- went platinum and just earned you two CMT Awards last night. And when you picked up them up, you wore no shoes because Faith Hill told you it was ok.

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New Video: Nelly, 'Party People'

Posted 4/15/08 11:29 am EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Videos

Party people, consider your dreams fulfilled -- at least those dreams involving Nelly in the role of muscle man and Fergie swinging from the ceiling in a top hat a la Moulin Rouge (and sort of like Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" but less pervy.)

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Exclusive: Jared Leto Was 'Ready For A Fight' Over 'A Beautiful Lie'

Posted 4/14/08 5:27 pm EST by MTV in Celebrity, Interviews, Videos

The first time we saw the video for "A Beautiful Lie," we thought there was no way the guys from 30 Seconds to Mars actually went to the Arctic Circle to shoot it. But they did. Yup, that's really Jared Leto standing on a glacier in the company of polar bears and Eskimos and stuff. Kinda crazy, right? Well ... this is the band that put their own spin on the horror classic The Shining and was the first American rock group to shoot a video in the People's Republic of China. This time around, though, they didn't want to film just another cool-looking video, they wanted to raise awareness about global warming.

We sat down with Jared to find out what it was like to bundle up and head to the Arctic Circle and why he decided it was time to champion a cause. See what he said and then watch the video (and be amazed by how he manages to look so good in subzero weather).

Watch more of our exclusive interview with Jared here.

Tags 30 Seconds To Mars, Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Videos, Videos

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New Video: Kanye West, 'Homecoming'

Posted 4/14/08 12:20 pm EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Videos

"Do you think about me now and then? Do you think about me now and theeeeeen?"

Of course we do, Kanye. How can we not when A) your latest album is an all-around banger, and B) you keep putting out videos featuring out-of-this-world B-sides or other superstars like T-Pain, Daft Punk or Chris Martin. Seriously, who among us can resist such a continuous stream of flesh and celebrity-flavored cocktails?

No one can. No. One. That's why you'll be seeing this piano-laden, black-and-white clip for Kanye West's homage to Chi-City, "Homecoming," until Mrs. O'Leary's cow comes home to pay for all the damage she caused.

A seriously Bromantic™ duet between Mr. West and that guy from Coldplay who Gwyneth Paltrow married, it's three minutes and 23 seconds of deft metaphors, silhouettes, falsettos and Kanye doing his thing on a the back of a flatbed truck all throughout downtown Chicago. Paging Ferris Bueller.

Tags Celebrity, Coldplay, Kanye West, Music, video, Videos

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Britney: The Rearview Mirror Is Not A Make-up Mirror

Posted 4/14/08 11:03 am EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Videos

(Credit: PopSugar)

When you learn to drive on your daddy's lap and not via actual driver's ed, you probably don't learn important behind-the-wheel lessons, like the rearview mirror is not actually a make-up mirror. Britney found that out that the hard way -- apparently she was applying make-up when she was involved in a minor fender bender this weekend.

For her own good, the good of California drivers, and the good of that lipstick, please, someone, take away her car keys once and for all.

+ Relevant videos:

Tags Britney Spears, Celebrity, Music, News, video, Videos

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Artist Of The Week: Mariah Carey

Posted 4/14/08 12:01 am EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, MTV Featured Artist, Photos, Videos

(All photos, credit: Danika Singfield)

Even back in the early ‘90s, when she was just a curly-haired Long Island girl in cut-offs and a hoodie, Mariah Carey -- the youngest daughter of a struggling, middle-class broken home -- was that chick, destined for a luxe life of Louis Vuitton luggage and Louboutin heels. That larger-than-life voice soared out of our Sony Sports Walkman (remember the banana-yellow ones?) like a supernatural force, and nearly two decades, five Grammys, 11 studio albums, and 18 #1 singles later, that chick's still rocking iPods and MTV.

With that logic-defying range that glides from whisper-soft-sexy-sweet to match-in-a-gas-tank explosive, Mariah went Unplugged, got animated for Christmas, and took down a cheating Jerry O’Connell at a matinee. She went undercover on a Jet Ski, fled her symbolic wedding, cruised Paris with Pharrell, and lived out a computer geek's fantasy with a unicorn at her side. She debuted more #1 singles than any other artist in chart history, and she spent more time on the charts and broke and sold more records than half her peers combined.

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New Video: Carolina Liar, 'I'm Not Over'

Posted 4/11/08 6:42 pm EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Videos

With Spencer now out of the apartment and She-Spencer partying with Lauren, the latest Hills drama involves Heidi encroaching upon the sacred ground that is Audrina and Lauren's apartment -- dudes, Audrina needs to learn that home turf is sacred and you don't let the enemy in on sacred ground. (Even if they do just need to pick up their cheesy photo box and gilded mirror.)

Lauren might argue that where Heidi goes, deceit isn't far behind ('specially if Spencer's right behind Heidi). So, it almost makes too much sense that the song playing during that scene where Audrina and Lauren discuss Heidi's visit (so tense! so awkward!) was written by a band with a shady-sounding name -- Carolina Liar. (Hills music supervisors, you done did it again, you dirty dogs, you!)

Carolina Liar is South Carolina-born roots rocker Chad Wolf (pictured above), who played L.A. coffeehouses (not unlike the ones where Lauren's constantly picking up those iced coffees) for years before a chance encounter with Swedish power-producer Max Martin, who booked him on a flight to Sweden, which led to Wolf's forming a band backed by impeccably dressed Swedes, which found them all back in an L.A. house, where Wolf and co. wrote and recorded an album's worth of introspective yet accessible modern rock songs (think a grittier Maroon 5) several of which have landed on The Hills.

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