Posted 1/7/09 6:15 pm EST by Pop Cultured in Celebrity, Music
If tabloid rumors are to be believed (and really, when AREN'T they?) then Katy Perry is suddenly single and, therefore, desperately in need of a new manz. And since we're nothing if not helpful, we've rounded up a list of semi-eligible bachelors for Katy to choose from! Read on for pics, stats and analysis of KP's post-Travis McCoy options.
Posted 1/6/09 1:25 pm EST by Pop Cultured in Buzz Bites, Celebrity, Music
+ Lily Allen to Katy Perry: Don't f--- with me, or I'll post your unlisted cell number on a non-elitist social networking site. (The Sun - UK)
+ Meanwhile, not only are Katy Perry and Travis McCoy not engaged — they’re not even together anymore! At least, that's what EVERYBODY's saying. (MTV News)
+ Beyonce gets a Golden Globe nomination for her uncanny portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records original song, “Once in a Lifetime.” (MTV News)
+ Lindsay Lohan denies splitting with her (finally confirmed!) gal pal, Samantha Ronson. (MySpace Celebrity)
+ We're not saying Aubrey O'Day took off her clothes and posed for Playboy. But hypothetically, IF she did, she allegedly took home $500K in exchange for the photos. Cha-ching! (Remote Control)
+ British singer/PETA enthusiast Leona Lewis is reportedly penning her memoirs. (Billboard)
+ Despite tearing Corey Hart to shreds in "So What," Pink says she's willing to "give him away at his next wedding." That is, assuming he hasn't sworn off marriage by then. (Seventeen, via Usmagazine.com)
+ Either some perv hacked into Britney Spears' Twitter account, or else she's the biggest oversharer since Jenna Jameson. (The Hollywood Gossip)
+ Today is both Hilary Duff Download Day AND the day Nancy Kerrigan got whacked in the knees at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit back in 1994! Ah memories! (Oh-Hilary.com)
Posted 12/31/08 12:46 pm EST by Pop Cultured in Buzz Bites, Celebrity, Music
+ Rumor has it Britney Spears has a new man! According to the U.K. tabs, Brit's dating "Womanizer" choreographer Sandip Soparrkar, a comely Indian fellow whom she's already nicknamed "Sandy." (The Mirror - UK)
+ Breaking: Nicole Richie occasionally sends her boyfriend sexy texts! Also, she apparently loves shoes. Jeez, who IS this girl? (ICYDK)
+ Christina Aguilera to maybe, possibly design her own line in the U.K.! Question: Are we 100% sure she's over that whole assless chaps phase? (Refinery29)
+ It's hypothetical New Year's Resolution time! Find out what we think Lauren Conrad & the Hillzies need to work on in '09. (Remote Control)
+ Meanwhile, Britney Spears' (actual) 2009 New Year's Resolution is to stop biting her nails. SAME AS US! Britney, call us! We'll go to an NBA (Nailbiters Anonymous) meeting sometime! Or, you know, just talk. (OK!)
+ Vacay time! Katy Perry rocks the green bikini/weird hat look in the dunes of Mexico while Lily Allen goes topless in Jamaica. (Yeeeah)
+ John Mayer finds a way to ruin Mariah Carey's already-cheesy Christmas classic. (IDLYITW)
+ And in other Mimi-related news, speculation over her maybe-pregnancy runs rampant after her hubby orders himself a lame-o virgin daiquiri. (Scandalist)
+ Kanye West takes to the blogosphere to clear up rumors that he'll be partying it up tonight. His actual New Year's Eve plans? Sit at home and watch some hoops. (Contact Music)
Posted 12/18/08 5:15 pm EST by Pop Cultured in Buzz Bites, Celebrity, Music
+ According to Us Weekly, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's marriage is on the verge of disintegrating. According to People, they're more in love than ever. Tabloids ... can't live with 'em, can't not look at the pictures. (Usmagazine.com)
+ Katy Perry takes to her blog to shoot down the Daily News' report that Travis McCoy popped the question. "NOT engaged!" she wrote on her Tumblr. So what about the rock? Just a promise ring, Perry insists. "But thanks for the free press, New York Daily News!" (Katy Perry's blog)
+ Lily Allen's in deep shiznit with her record label. (Something about leaking her cover of Britney's "Womanizer" online?) Fortunately, Lily's a big girl and she's willing to step up and take responsibility -- by placing the blame squarely on Mark Ronson's shoulders. (AceShowbiz)
+ Here's your official 2008 JoBros recap! And as an extra special bonus, we'll even throw in our fave memories from the weekend we actually got PAID to hang out with our most favorite band ever. (Jonas Brothers Fan)
+ And speaking of recappage packages, revisit the craziest (and most cringeworthy) moments from Season 4 of The Hills in preparation for Monday night's finale! (Remote Control)
+ Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy may (or may not!) be married! Either way, they're crazy in love. (Hollyscoop)
+ Taylor Swift isn't gonna to let a little thing like having her wisdom teeth (painfully!) extracted keep her down. At least, not for long. (Celebrity MySpace)
+ Akon is way too diplomatic accuse Christina Aguilera's of stealin' Lady Gaga's style. But he's not above pointing out a few (ahem) latent similarities. (Rap-Up)
+ Super snaps to Santogold and Janelle Monae for helping to push the Afro-Punk movement into the mainstream. (MTV News)
Posted 12/15/08 10:44 am EST by Erica in Buzz Bites, Celebrity, Music
+ Lily Allen (aka "fat" Katy Perry) is, perhaps, a little jealous of all the attention Britney Spears' #1 single "Womanizer" seems to be getting. So, what better way to steal some of the Pop Princess's thunder than to do a remake! Of Britney's two month old song! What the ... ? (Evil Beet)
+ Speaking of Katy Perry, she's very, very, very sorry for calling Lily Allen fat ... she meant "pleasantly plump." (Pop on the Pop)
+ Who was naughty and who was nice at New York radio station Z-100's annual Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden on Friday night? By our count: Rihanna and Chris Brown = def naughty (treating the crowd to some playful PDA). Kanye West, Ne-Yo, Lady GaGa, Brandy and Leona Lewis = def nice (that is, if "nice" means not making out with anyone else on stage during their performance). (Celebuzz)
+ Kanye West was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Some people ... uhm ... wish that he wasn't. (D Listed)
+ In case you're keeping track, here's our up-to-the-moment status on bump watch '08: Avril Lavigne = not preggo. Janet Jackson = maybe preggo. Mariah Carey = *probably* though no confirmations yet preggo. (Jewssip)
+ It's a Christmas miracle! Guy Ritchie and Madonna decided to make nice-y with each other so the whole fam could be together for the holidays. Guess A-Rod's stuck lightin' the menorah on his own now. Oy. (Jezebel)
+ Diddy helped Jamie Foxx celebrate his 41st birthday on Saturday night at TAO in Las Vegas. No word on whether or not he was wearing his new cologne I Am King ... you know, the one that was inspired by his own breath? (Rap-Up)
+ Nicole Richie is apparently hard at work on a new album, and she's bringing in Rihanna and Kelly Osbourne to collab. Guess Paris was too busy with her new BFF. (Perez Hilton)
+ Here's an evil collection of songs that will mos def get stuck in your head (S-O-R-R-Y!) (Buzzfeed)
Posted 12/9/08 6:25 pm EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity, Music, Videos
After a brief hiatus, British grime MC Lady Sovereign's returning to the scene with her new electro-dance track, "I Got You Dancing," (listen here) from her upcoming album, Jigsaw, due April 7, 2009. But there's already another Lady on the "Dance" floor, and that's Lady Gaga, whose single, "Just Dance" is a ubiquitous hit. So is there room for just one "Lady" on the scene, or do we detect a Lady-on-Lady melee?
So let's examine the similarities and differences that could either unite Lady Gaga and Lady Sovereign to a common cause or create the biggest entertainment industry battle since Arsenio Hall and Roseanne Barr!
+ Lady Sovereign came from the humble beginnings of a housing project. Gaga attended New York City's Convent of the Sacred Heart -- where Nicky Hilton matriculated -- and attended NYU's Tisch. Lady Sovereign went to the school of hard knocks while Gaga's got a song called "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich." Do we smell socio-economic tensions? Advantage: Lady Sovereign for her in-tact street cred and street smarts.
+ They both have normal-people names: Lady Gaga's is Stefani, and Lady Sovereign's is Louise Amanda. Advantage: Tie! Though if we had to pick a normal-person name, we'd go with Stefani for sure.
+ Lady Sovereign dresses slightly like M.I.A., while Gaga dresses slightly like a tranny. Fightin's not easy in six-inch patent-leather Marni booties. (Also, since she's usually in some form of David Bowie war paint, we've never even seen Lady Gaga's real face.) Advantage: Sovereign, who's almost always seen in sneakers. Or "trainers," if you will.
+ Sovereign kept company with Jay-Z, who signed her to Def Jam in 2005, while Gaga hangs out with Colby O'Donis. Advantage: Sovereign, obviously.
+ Sovereign toured with Gwen Stefani, while Lady Gaga's often compared to Gwen Stefani. Advantage: Sovereign. Unless you are smoking wackycracky, you should not be comparing Gaga and Gwen. Seriously, are you high?
+ Lady Sovereign favors crimped hair and has partially upgraded to a more sophisticated, Lily Allen 'Q4 '08 blunt cut. Gaga's still rocking the blunt-cut Janice Muppet wig. Advantage: Nobody wins. Fail.
+ Lady Gaga's been nominated for a 2008 Grammy, but Lady Sovereign's been compared to Eminem. Advantage: Lady Sovereign. Eminem comparison crushes Grammy nom!
Winner: Should a Lady Sovereign-Lady Gaga kerfuffle scuffle ensue, we've got ten pounds on Team Sov.
Watch Lady Sovereign perform "Love Me Or Hate Me" live at MTV.
Posted 12/9/08 12:18 pm EST by Tamar Anitai in Buzz Bites, Celebrity, Music
+ Amy Winehouse's soon-to-be ex-husband wants $1.5 million for his troubles, or else he's threatening to write a tell-all book about their relationship. Um, he can write? Also, wow, didn't see this coming. But I'd have NEVER GUESSED Britney and Kevin weren't going to make it either, so I should probably give up my side job as a fortune teller. (AM NY)
+ Rufus Wainwright compares Amy Winehouse (who's still in the hospital for a "bad reaction to drugs") to the late Judy Garland: "I mean, there’s so many correlations. They both have such an amazing voice and an amazing drug problem." (Rolling Stone)
+ Lynn Spears to Britney Spears: my bad. (MTV News)
+ Reasons why you probably shouldn't expect a Lily Allen-Katy Perry collaboration in the future: "When I met her I was a bit frosty with her because someone asked her to describe herself. She's like, 'Aha, I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinner version of Lily Allen!'. It's like, you're not English and you don't write your own songs, shut up!" -- Lily Allen on Katy Perry. (Contact Music)
+ Reasons to have a baby: look at Ashlee Simpson-Wentz! (Popsugar)
+ Akon's not sorry for the rapper-singer trend. But he should be. (MTV News)
+ Mariah Carey's potential pregnancy? Coyly, vaguely, deflect, deflect deflect. (Socialitelife)
+ Molly Sims jumped at the chance to help SNL's Andy Samberg cream his jeans. (E! Online)
+ Return those presents you bought, because Christmas is officially canceled. Thanks, Twisted Sister. (Best Week Ever)
Posted 12/3/08 5:53 pm EST by Tamar Anitai in Celebrity
Look at you, just sittin' there, wishing with your wishes and wants, making your Kwannakamus list, wishin' for a pretty pony, and the new Britney album, and the new Lily Allen album (it's not ready already!), and "Wii Music," and a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
Well add Trovata's "Lovers Love Life" t-shirt to your list. It's just $29.99 (you're welcome, Mom), and all of the proceeds go to the Staying Alive Foundation, which funds global HIV/AIDS awareness, education and prevention campaigns.
Don't you just love how the mod lettering says "I'm stylish" while subtly encouraging the use of a connie? 'Tis the always season to get tested, after all!
Pick up a limited-edition tee at Urban Outfitters or the MTV Shop, and check out Buzzworthy crush Kid Sister, with Trovata creative director John Whitledge at a launch event for the collabo.
Posted 11/20/08 4:50 pm EST by Pop Cultured in Buzz Bites, Celebrity, Music
+ Completely unknown person International tween sensation Miley Cyrus says she wants to shake things up a little by going on MTV's The Real World! "I just want to be in a really nice house with cameras following me around," she says. Wait, that's not already her life? (Remote Control)
+ Madonna and Guy Ritchie are finalizing their divorce tomorrow in London, which means it won't be long until pinch-hitter A-Rod (Madge's rumored new squeeze) is officially in the starting lineup. Yay, baseball metaphors! (MTV News)
+ Justin Timberlake only agreed to dance around in a black leotard (and tights) on SNL after he secured a sweet deal guaranteeing him a cut of the residuals. (Gay Socialites)
+ Lily Allen's patented man-meeting strategy involves drinking too much, fibbing and taking off all her clothes. "That’s the only way I can ever get together with people," the chronically singer lamented. (Nylon Mag, via Scandalist)
+ Find out what happened to the hottie leading men in Britney Spears' old music videos! Like that promising K-Fed fella, who "has attempted rapping and acting" since appearing in Brit's "My Prerogative" (2004) and landed cameos on CSI and One Tree Hill, where he dug deep to play (ahem) "a wannabe musician." (MTV News)
+ Omigod, remember that time David Archuleta, like, totally DIDN'T win American Idol? Yeah, he's pretty much moved on. Unfortch, we can't say the same thing about these traumatized-for-life tweenage girls ... (Best Week Ever)
+ 'Member when Dr. Pepper promised everyone a free soda if Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy ever got released? Well, the album's almost out ... free carbonation for all! (Dr. Pepper)
+ And speaking of GNR, don't be surprised if their new LP beats Kanye's 808s & Heartbreak in first week album sales. Oh, and did we mention that Axl Rose isn't above cheating? (MTV News)
Posted 11/14/08 4:55 pm EST by Pop Cultured in Buzz Bites, Celebrity, Music
+ Joe Jonas takes to the Jo Bros' MySpace page to present his side of the well-publicized split from Taylor Swift. "Maybe there were reasons for a breakup. Maybe the heart moved on," he suggested. And maybe the 27-second-long breakup wasn't 100% his fault. "Phone calls can only last as long as the person on the other end of the line is willing to talk," Jonas points out. (People)
+ Is Kanye West really back to waging war against the paparazzi? Or are fame-hungry photogs just starting to see the hot-tempered rapper as a human dollar sign? (MTV News)
+ Meanwhile, 50 Cent and 'Ye won't be going head to head with album sales this time around. West's LP, 808s & Heartbreak, hits stores November 25th, while Fiddy's record, Before I Self-Destruct, won't be out 'til early '09. (Rolling Stone)
+ Rumor has it Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony love the pitter-patter of little feet so much they're ready to do the parenting thing all over again. (I'm Not Obsessed)
+ Who wears short shorts smack dab in the middle of winter? Amy Winehouse, of course! (DListed)
+ Paramore's Hayley Williams reveals her favorite Twilight characters. (MTV News)
+ Jessica Biel will be designing a collection of limited-edition handbags for Justin Timberlake's William Rast clothing line. No tiny backpacks, please! (PopCrunch)
+ Lily Allen's new hairdo looks like a bizarre combo of Katie Holmes' Anna Wintour cut ... and the late, great Dudley Moore. Kidding! Sort of! But seriously, go check it out. Um... (Seriously? Omg! WTF?)
+ Travis Barker is on the road to recovery. Yay! (MTV News)
+ Justin Timberlake thinks New York City is "the greatest city in the world." Good thing, too, since he reportedly just bought a condo in downtown Manhattan for $5.25 million. (People)
+ A sneak peek at Britney Spears new album, Circus? Yes, please! (MTV News)