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.
+ Project Runway winner Christian Siriano just launched a new makeup line for Victoria's Secret Beauty and he wants to give you a downtown makeover, and not in the hot-tranny-mess way. (NYMag)
+ Kylie Minogue, touring North America next month, is looking (what'd you say, Christian?) fierce on the cover of Instinct magazine. (We Are Pop Slags)
+ Big Boi is coming out with another solo album, but Andre 3000 fans don't fret. Outkast will also release another album of crazy soon after. (AllHipHop)
+ Hip-hop power couple Ashanti and Nelly called it quits this week. Truly a sad day. Even more sad than Michael Jackson not being buried for the last two months, though that comes in at a close second. (Rap-Up)
+ Just another caaaaaasual travel day for Lady Gaga, wearing nothing more than a g-string onesie. Comfy and caaaasual. (Bossip)
+ Mariah Carey has covered Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is" and is releasing it as the official first single off her forthcoming album "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel." (Neon Limelight)
I know the point of this photo is that Kylie Minogue symbolically turned on the lights of the Empire State Building today in honor of the third annual Coty-DKMS Linked Against Leukemia Gala. (DKMS is the world’s largest non-profit bone marrow donor center.) But can we just discuss for a second how unbelievably radiant girlfriend looks?
+ International Euro-dance super-sprite Kylie Minogue just announced that she will embark on her first-ever North American tour later this year. We can't wait to go to the NYC show and then report back on what costume ideasBeyonce will gank for her tour in 2015. (Popnography)
+ It's a real effin' shame that we don't have a unitard fetish or we'd be all over Katy Perry's new "Fashion Against AIDS" campaign for H&M. (PopCrunch)
+ Christina Aguilera will make her feature film debut as a burlesque dancer in the forthcoming movie titled -- yup, you guessed it -- Burlesque. (Star Magazine)
+ The jury is still out on Michael Jackson's "comeback" with doctors now saying he's too frail to perform in his current state. (Monsters and Critics)
+ Even while dressed like she's going to a Jazzercize class taught by Helena Bonham Carter, Lady GaGa's managed to take a ride on some guy named "Speedy's" disco stick. Seriously, what is UP with those LIPS?? (Socialite Life)
+ In real life, however, Fergie Fergs looks like she needs to hit the Nioxin bottle a little harder than she has been. Get you a Topsy Tail, girl! WORTH. IT. (Star Magazine)
+ Tuesday LOLz courtesy of card-carrying Mensa member Kim Kardashian, who fell asleep in the sun with ski goggles on. See for yourself. (The Blemish)
+ Eminem's new album Relapse features a likeness of the rapper from pills doled out by Dr. Dre. Sweet. (XXL)
+ Back on May 5th with more "teaches," far-from-moldy Peaches discusses her new album (aptly titled I Feel Cream) and the electro-clash movement she helped to build. (Pop.nography)
Nite Jewel is an L.A. lady who plays disco songs with the music and the energy turned all the way down. The resulting half-yawned clap-track slacker jams have the sound and feel of summer without any of the heat.
It's like, you know how nice the mall is when it's hot out? It's like this alternate universe because it totally dismantles all the rules of the outside world, replacing oppressive humidity with comfortable air conditioning and stressed out summer street noise with dulcet tones and ventilator hum.
Nite Jewel's songs are kinda like that. Disorienting in the way that they totally reject all of the mainstream rules to the point that they're not immediately recognizable as music. They're all homemade -- cobbled together on junky keyboards and 4-track recorders. But they're disorienting in this way that's totally, undeniably pleasant. And I don't mean pleasant like, "OK." I mean pleasant like, "really good." Like a really mellow Kylie Minogue.
Nite Jewel's far-out ways are rooted in a Los Angeles art collective called Human Ear. Home to fellow experimentalists like Ariel Pink and Geneva Jacuzzi, Human Ear is single-handedly making L.A. a more interesting place to live. Here's Nite Jewel performing live at an event thrown by The FADER. Watch it after a jog and see if it doesn't cool you off.
Tokio Hotel is up for a Bravo Otto Award in Deutschland! First, if you're NOT a TH fan, you're probably all, WTF's a Bravo Award? No, it's not the same as the network that beams The Real Housewives of Orange County and Top Chef into your home. This Bravo is a German teen magazine that's been around for over 50 years (it originally featured Elvis on the cover, to give you an idea how old it is), and it's spun off into a variety of pop-culture mags, a TV show, and the Bravo Awards, which Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, and David Hasselhoff have all received.
Acknowledging that Best Superband is a superlatively AWESOME category, one far more interesting than, say, Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, and one that an American awards show REALLY needs to adopt (you listening, VMAs peoples?) -- tell me this: Which award, real or otherwise -- should Tokio Hotel should be nominated for next?
Well, she at least showed up to last night's 2008 Brit Awards. And at this point, showing up is half the battle. She didn't walk away with any awards, but she did perform two songs -- "Love Is a Losing Game" and "Valerie" -- with Mark Ronson, who picked up an award for Best Male Solo Artist (an award second in importance only to the unofficial MTV Buzzworthy Obsession of the Year award), but unfortunately he did not strip on stage to celebrate his win. (Boo!) Instead, he accepted the award by saying "I've never felt so British or so male before in my life."
Nite Jewel
