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.
Kris Allen and Adam Lambert both grace the cover of the November 28th issue of Billboard magazine, and you're either an Adam Lambert fan, a Kris Allen fan, or both, so here's the Kris Allen/ Glambert cover for your enjoyment... for you entertainment, even! The Billboard issue takes a careful look at the upcoming album releases by Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, and Allison Iraheta and the impact that Idol and their record sales could have on the music industry.
The 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show went down in New York City last night, and in case you're not familiar with the year event don't get it twisted -- the pieces modeled by famous hoofers like Heidi Klum, Miranda Kerr, Marissa Miller, and Chanel Iman aren't the stuff of Victoria's Secret mall locations. These ladies aren't showing off the polka-dotted cotton undies you stock up on at your location VS.
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, which will air on CBS on December 1, is always an over-the-top celebration of gaudy glitz and glam and beyond-perfect bodies. And the annual show is a guaranteed celeb draw -- Jay-Z, Russell Simmons, Jay Sean, Keri Hilson, the Kings Of Leon, Patricia Field, Zac Posen and Christian Siriano were in attendance this year -- but this year, the show's "Star Trooper" collection seemed to have stolen its style, or at least heavily borrowed some inspiration from Lady Gaga and the Haus of Gaga. Observe, won't you?
Selita Ebanks wears a gold-spiked white bustier that looks an awful lot like the gold-spiked dress Lady Gaga wore to the Y100 Jingle Ball in December 2008. And that white bustier leotard looks just like Gaga's outfit in Beyonce's "Video Phone" video.
Hm. This bubble dress SURE looks familiar...
The Pièce de résistance!!! Gaga's Nasir Mazhar orb outfit from the "Bad Romance" video is reinvented on the Victoria's Secret catwalk!
Sure, you can meet them on the equinox. But before you head over there, can you pick up some clippers on the way? Death Cab For Cutie, pictured above, were just some of the bearded boys marauding last night's mtvU Woodie Awards. Seriously, Jason McGerr and Ben Gibbard had the Death Cab Starter Beard, but Nick Harmer was rocking the straight-up new-school Colonel Sanders.
As if a don't-shave mandate went out two months prior to last night's Woodies, we saw everything from the "Captain Ahab"/"Robert Shaw from Jaws" (rocked by David Cross) to the "late-period, drugged-out Brian Wilson" -- demonstrated on the face of 3Oh!3's Sean Foreman, who later dressed up like Lady Gaga -- to the awesome evil beard, which Tech N9ne wore so right.
Christofer Drew -- also known as Nevershoutnever -- is amazing. Dude took the haphazard combination of Minnie Mouse sweater, wooden rosary beads, cheap bracelets, a bandana, and a pack of Camels -- and, of course, his signature Goldie Hawn/ Carol Brady shag -- and made it look 100% cool. That's not easy. But then again, he made the ukulele cool, so I shouldn't be surprised.
Christofer Drew also made winning a Woodie look super cool, as he kept his acceptance speech for the Breaking Woodie four words long: "Power to the people," channeling either Public Enemy or John Lennon, or probably both.
+ Check out more photos of Christofer Drew at the mtvU Woodie Awards after the jump, see who else won a Woodie, and watch the 2009 mtvU Woodies Friday, December 4, at 10 p.m. ET on mtvU, MTV, MTV2 and Palladia.
Though Lady Gaga herself wasn't at the 2009 mtvU Woodies, she did receive a picture-perfect homage when 30h!3's Nat and Sean, who presented a Woodie Award while dressed up like Lady Gaga at the VMAs.
Nat wore Gaga's red lace outfit, completely with red lace mask and red crown (maybe he watched the make-your-own Lady Gaga red outfit video and DIY'ed it?), while Sean got the frilly, feathery white birds nest. Nat shouted out something about wearing soiled panties on your face, and then hilariously teetered off the stage in wobbly Gaga heels.
+ Check out more photos from the 2009 mtvU Woodies, and relive Lady Gaga in the original outfits at the 2009 VMAs after the jump. And don't miss the 2009 mtvU Woodies on Friday, December 4, at 10 p.m. ET on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, and Palladia.
Yes! That isJoey Fatone rendered as an angel draped in Christmas lights. You are not having some sort of hallucinogenic reaction to your lunch.
The above angel-Joey image, from this oldie-but-goodie post on Buzzfeed, documenting the most grievous acts of boy band fan art gone wrong, is an illustration (hawhaw) of the fine line between fan and fanatic. Here are a few of the more disturbing, inexplicable and weird artifacts:
I seriously just spent an hour of my trying to figure out the connection between Littrell and Luke Skywalker's sister. So at the very least, this one was thought provoking.
Other Backstreet pieces from this collection tend to go for the more celestial angle. For instance, Kevin Richardson as a baby-angel:
What in the name of I don't know even know what is going down on the set of Adam Lambert's "For Your Entertainment" video? Whatever went down on the set of the "For Your Entertainment" video looks 1000 times more wack than the "For Your Entertainment" cover itself. Also, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THAT ONE GUY'S NIPPLES!!?!?!?
Just Jared has the pics of this car crash of sensibilities. Above, we have Glambert avec GOLDEN PIMP CANE. So that's happening. Oh, he's also rocking gold-rimmed aviators. But this almost seems tame in comparison to the cross-section of humanity that he's invited to participate in the first vid from his debut album (also called For Your Entertainment).
We've got random bro in rocking the always classy no-shirt, no-shoes, no problem look.
Then we have this lovely couple who seem to have gotten dressed for a Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior convention but found themselves at Burning Man instead.
And finally we got Adam, himself, rocking a multi-fingered ring and a very Freddie-Mercury-joins-The-Hells-Angels look.
Based on these pics we expect nothing but a heartbreaking work of staggering genius from the video. Adam Lambert's debut album, For Your Entertainment, is out November 23rd.
(And PLEASE don't miss the loincloth guy after the jump. Gah!)
What makes Lil Wayne so damn good at rapping? It's a question that will haunt scientists, scholars, and historians for ages. But perhaps the answer is right in front of us.
The answer might just lie in the bottom of Weezy's ubiquitous Styrofoam cup. Who says? No less an authority on the subject than Weezy F. Baby (don't forget the Baby), himself.
Wayne told popular British DJ Tim Westwood, "Whatever the hell was in my cup the only reaction I made was I got more popular, more successful, did a lot more things than I’ve ever done..."
This is true! He made some jaw-dropping mixtapes (like Dedication 2) and a stupendous album (like The Carter III) and some absurdly dope videos ("Got Money" to name one of a dozen). Now with success comes consequences (or so I've been told). And as Wayne mentioned to MTV News, his cup, more often than not, contains an illegal, not-good-for-your-longevity mixture of cough medicine and fountain soda commonly known as syrup. But Weezy has a different name for it.
Speaking to Tim Westwood about himself in the third person, Wayne said, "Whatever he was drinking must be a m-f’in success potion."
So let's call it that. A success potion. And let's just hope he doesn't overdo it on the success. (It may or may not be hard to do in jail.)
Gaga performed her new song, "Speechless," wearing a Prada fully bejeweled Prada chandelier skirt and a headpiece by Frank Gehry, at a pink, Damien-Hirst-designed piano (which happened to rotate, naturally... why have a pink piano if it's not going to move, right?), with dancers from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet in tow. She was part of a piece by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli called Ballet Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again).
We got a sneak preview of her look for the show in the Italian Vanity Fair photos we posted last week. But needless to say, it seems like it was a performance that needed to be seen to be believed. These snaps from the night will have to suffice.
What do you think? Is the Italian-matron-meets-Russian-dancer-meets-Geisha Gaga's boldest, baddest look yet? Or did Gaga's bloody show at the VMAs trump all?
Ohhhh Kristen Stewart. Can we talk? You have "such a pretty face," as they say. So WHY the mullet? Por que the fe-mullay? The mullet made an appearance in Paris, Madrid, and the UK, and there's no sign of relenting. I know you're still growing it out after playing Joan Jett in The Runaways... And while I haven't played Joan Jett in a major motion picture, I've been there during that awkward in-betweener growing-out phase. It's THE WORST. It's that past-your-shoulders-but-not-long-enough-for-a-ponytail conundrum. It's annoying on a daily basis. But Kristen, that's what extensions are for. Just ask Jessica Simpson or Paris Hilton. The choppy upper-deck layers and dead-fish bangs are not how a woman lives her "Best Life," as Oprah would say. And like Oprah, I just want what's best for you. That's all. Don't worry. I'm still seeing New Moon.
