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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.
Britney Spears' Twitter followers (all 3,756,910 of 'em) are usually treated to relatively tame announcements and insights such as, "Can't wait for ya'll to see my new video tomorrow morning. I think you're really going to like it!"
So it probably came as quite a shock to the system last night when Britney started Tweeting about the dark prince Lucifer, sometimes known as Satan, but best known to his pals and associates as The Devil.
Despite her past run-ins with instability, Britney was not getting her kicks on Route 666. It seems some crafty hacker got into her Twitter account and took the opportunity to give "glory to Satan!"
This was all cleared up by morning, with Le Brit's Twitter page scrubbed of any pentagrams and Illuminati references (you can see all the pagan imagery here). An explanation was posted that stated, "Britney's Twitter account was just hacked. The situation has been resolved and we apologize for any offense the hacker's messages caused." (Phew! That was close!)
Sliimy's version of Britney Spears' "Womanizer" has been something of a calling card for the quirky French pop singer. While his Paint Your Face album has plenty to recommend about it -- lovely singing, lush arrangements, and off-kilter melodies -- Sliimy's still best known for his unique, lilting cover of Britney's kiss-off to a bad boy. So it's only fitting that the video for his "Womanizer" cover, which Sliimy posted to his Myspace, is as idiosyncratic and original as the performance itself.
Sliimy had a series of Los Angeles denziens hold paper cut-outs of him, syncing the stop-motion mannerisms to the song. The result is something incredibly slick, while still retaining a homemade feel. Not unlike Sliimy's music.
As Lady Gaga's The Fame: Monster's official release date looms on the horizon (the re-issue of Gaga' 2008 album, peppered with new tracks is due on November 23rd), it's only natural (given the way things are these days) that bits and pieces will start leaking.
We've already consumed and processed "Bad Romance," a reunion of Gaga and her go-to producer RedOne ("Poker Face," "Just Dance"). Now we get "Dance In The Dark, produced by Fernando Garibay (who's worked with Britney and Will.I.Am).
I am no Nostradamus/Amazing Kreskin, but this joint has "batten down the hatches; we've got a hit" written all over it. It's got a crunching techno beat with rough keys draped all over it. But more importantly it's got one of those patented Lady Gaga mantra-style hooks (especially the pre-chorus chant of "She's a mess/She's a mess/She's a mess")
Ke$ha is a bad girl gone worse. Last night's makeup and glitter still liberally applied to her face, she's putting off the morning after by charging right into the next night.
Ke$ha (real name Kesha Sebert) is a California girl. With a musical family, she was probably bound to wind up on stage and in front of the camera but, credit to her, her rise has been hard-earned.
Now she's on her own, and by the looks of the video for her debut single, "Tik Tok," she plays as hard as it works. It's a down-and-dirty electro jam with Auto-Tune flirtations. Check out Ke$sha's "Tik Tok" video below, and watch Ke$ha's live MTV UK video performance.
Watch Britney's performance from the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards, and stay tuned to Buzzworthy for lots more from tomorrow's 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin!
Britney JUST dropped her brand-new video, "3," and it's like she went to the sexy Olympics and took home the gold medal. Thanks, Brit, for skipping the sexy-cute dress-up antics of your "If U Seek Amy" and "Womanizer" videos and going back to your dance roots in your hottest video since "I'm A Slave 4 U."
Watch Britney's "3" video, directed by Diane Martel, now.
Now that a handful of hot shots from Britney's new "3" video have emerged, I'm already plotting ways to steal Britney's style. Britney's body? I'm far too lazy for that. (Moar pizza? Don't mind if I do!) But Britney's black textured, patterned tights? That I could certainly do.
Check out two pairs of Halloween-ready, net-and-lace tights inspired by Britney's "3" video.
Britney Spears' brand-new single, "3" -- from her upcoming The Singles Collection, due out on November 24 -- shot to the No.1 spot of the Billboard 100 yesterday. And now Britney's keeping us guessing what the "3" video will look like, revealing only a few shots from the "3" video set.
Now that you've had time to watch... and re-watch Miley Cyrus' latest video, "Party In The U.S.A," here are five things -- from Britney Spears in school to Rihanna to Lenny Kravitz -- you might not know about the addictive track.
1.) The video was directed by Chris Applebaum, which you probably know, but Chris Applebaum also directed Rihanna's legendary "Umbrella" video, Paris Hilton's spooftastic Carl's Junior commercial -- which got banned after being called too porny -- as well as Britney Spears' "Overprotected" and "I Love Rock 'N' Roll" videos. Unsurprisingly, Miley shouts out Britney in the lyrics of "Party In The U.S.A," celebrates her Southern heritage, and took to Twitter to thank her fans for the Britney comparisons when they came pouring in after her pole-tastic performance at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards.
2.) Miley's "Party In The U.S.A" video isn't the first video to use a dusty road the American flag as a backdrop. Lenny Kravitz did it exactly 10 years ago in the 1999 video for his Grammy-winning single, "American Woman."
3.) Miley's "Party In The U.S.A." video was inspired by the movie Grease. Grease, which is one of Miley's favorite movies, starred John Travolta, with whom Miley worked with in the movie Bolt 20 years after Grease's release. The Grease song "Hopelessly Devoted to You" was nominated for a 1979 Academy Award for Best Music - Original Song. Bolt was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature but lost to WALL•E.
4.) The party in "Party In The U.S.A." takes place in Hollywood, and while the Grease-inspired "Party In The U.S.A." video is set in the South of Miley's upbringing, one of the high schools where the movie Grease was filmed was Venice High School in Los Angeles. Not only were the movies Pretty In Pink and Heathers filmed there, but Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" video was filmed there too.
5.) Miley's "Party In The U.S.A." video is also centered around a drive-in movie, if you can believe such a concept ACTUALLY existed. (No, they didn't just exist in the movie Grease.) Apparently when they were first dating, Miley's parents, Billy Ray and Tish, frequented a drive-in theater in Kentucky. To date, there are approximately 11 drive-in theaters in Kentucky and about 15 in Miley's home state of Tennessee.
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