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.
Jonas Brothers bros' and (Buzzworthy besties) Honor Society just premiered their brand-new video for their track "Over You." As the lead-off song on their debut full-length Fashionably Late, "Over You" is a bouncing, sleek jam.
Color this song maroon, as in Maroon 5; it's got that same crisp beat and stylish/sexy singing, with a slightly more pop feel.
In the video for "Over You," directed by Shane Drake (who directed Paramore's "Decode" video and "crushcrushcrush"), Honor Society kicks out the jams in the dining car of a train while Michael Bruno chases down a lady in red who's caught his eye. Come on, girl! He wants to buy you extra toppins at Pinkberry!
+ Today we mourn the loss of Ozzy Osbourne's dog Little Bit, who was shredded to, um... bits by a coyote. (Sleaze Roxx)
+ Kelly Rowland has bean tearing up the charts both overseas and stateside recently, with the rise of her new single "When Love Takes Over." Tonight we'll get to see her perform it live on the So You Think You Can Dance results show with French DJ David Guetta. Can't wait! (Neon Limelight)
+ American Idol winner Jordin Sparks just dropped her next single "S.O.S." and, thankfully, it's a DANCE track (all the gays say "Ay-ohhhhhh!!!"). What makes it even more awesome is that it samples the old freestyle song "Let The Music Play." Love it. (Perez Hilton)
+ Rapper Bow Wow seemed to be a little down in the Twitter dumps, as manifested in this Tweet from yesterday. (Bossip)
+ Man, I am craving some Toblerone after hearing that Maroon 5 are heading to Switzerland to work on their third album with Mutt "You're-an-idiot-for-cheating-on-Shania-Twain" Lange. (NME)
I mean WHO? WHO? In their RIGHT OR LEFT MIND would LEAVE David Cook? SHAME ON YOU, Sarah Roemer, even though you're just PORTRAYING David Cook's lost love. Also, David, you are PHENOMENAL at playing piano in reverse and hailing a cab in the middle of the woods. (I can hardly get one in Times Square!) That takes SKILL! And, as always, David Cook, your soulful scruff is the picture of perfection!
Ever secretly wanted to be a fly on the wall during someone else's breakup? (Wait, you have?? Um, CREEPY alert!) Look, we're all in favor of voyeurism (in moderation) but we can't think of anything less fun than getting in the middle of someone's Horrifically Awkward Life Moment.
But good news for those of you who actually like seeing two people's once-blossoming romance disintegrate right before your very eyes: Maroon 5 just made an awesome new video that lets you watch lead singer Adam Levine's romance go from lovey-dovey to mopey, post-breakup pouty in four minutes flat!
So check out "Goodnight Goodnight" (the new video off M5's It Won't Be Soon Before Long), admire the litheness of Adam's "In Bed Alone ... Again" body and ask yourselves why he'd ever choose moody, sullen isolation over making out with a hot Gisele Bundchen lookalike. (Also, what's up with all those band before-and-afters? We know, it would have been weird to leave them out of the video entirely but, c'mon, how frickin' upset are they gonna be over some other dude's ex-girlfriend?)
+ The Rolling Stones are suing rapper Lil Wayne for copyright infringement -- and for putting out a much, much worse version of their '65 classic "Playing With Fire." (MTV)
+ Meanwhile, we've always thought "I'm a venereal disease" was up there with Lil Wayne's most questionable line. But that was before we remembered this gem: "Listening to Lil Wayne is like picking up a Bible." Amen, brother. (Spinner)
+ Metromix NY draws a highly editorial parallel between Maroon 5's Adam Levin and Counting Crows' Adam Duritz, and it's not just their first name. (Metromix NY)
+ Meanwhile My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has announced he's got a "pretty freakin' cool" Bob Dylan cover track on the way. (NME)
+ David Cook's reportedly been sporting an "I Love David" bracelet on the American Idol tour. The weird part? It's really in reference to Idol runner-up David Archuleta! "I'm actually a pretty big Archuleta fan," Cook admits. (Billboard)
+ 50 Cent changes the lyrics in "My Life" to something that doesn't scream "I hate Eminem." (MTV)
+ Simon & Schuster sues Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown for taking hefty book advances without ever delivering the books. (Idolator)
+ Apparently, not everyone enjoys getting clocked by Amy Winehouse. And her latest victim isn't pulling any punches in today's tabloids. "She was in front of me at the bar and suddenly turned and walloped me three times across the face. It really stung," says 29-year-old Wayne Lindsay of the slap-happy singer. Meanwhile, a "source" close to Winehouse counters: "She's not a shrinking violet and isn't afraid to stand up for herself." Well, obviously. (Mirror)
+ If you thought Usher was serious about his music, wait till you hear what he has to say about fatherhood. (Essence)
+ Maroon 5's frontman Adam Levine proves he's not exactly the outdoorsy type by suggestively gripping a garden hose. (Popwrap)
+ Without the thesaurus-wielding Tim Gunn on hand to guide her, rocker-turned-designer Avril Lavigne has trouble "making it work." (Idolator)
+ You may have already known that Taylor Hicks (a.k.a. the prematurely grey-haired American Idol winner) just landed a plum role in the Broadway production of Grease. But here's something you probably didn't know: Hicks says the inspiration behind his costume came from "doing séances to channel Elvis, [who] told me that I needed to wear a midnight-blue, rhinestone-studded suit." Okay then! (MTV)
That random little cell repository in our brain that can't even recall what we had for breakfast (did we even have breakfast?) somehow triggered the memory of the early-2001 hip-hop single, "Cross the Border" by Philly's Most Wanted, whose name was only half accurate -- they were indeed from the Illadelph, but they faded into relative obscurity after their next joint, "Please Don't Mind."
"What I didn't like is how people tried to pull the s--- off records. I don't know where they got the "bubble gum" [label] from. Like if you really listen to 'em, we were talkin' 'bout getting p---- and moving weight cross the border, bricks of cocaine."
Very well then. Check out the video. It features everything a hip-hop track should: Spanish guitars, margaritas, Neptunes beats, surveillance cameras, Kelis on the hook, and sexy stewardesses -- it's the video Maroon 5 WISHES they'd made! If Maroon 5 wrote songs about drug muling.
Not that Maroon 5, T.I., No Age, Day26, and host Pete Wentz aren't special, but we definitely don't need to see any of them in strappy stilettos and a halter dress, nomesayin?
Check out exclusive photos from this week's FNMTV rehearsal -- don't miss the sweet shots of Rihanna and Ashlee Simpson hugging, Pete Wentz and new puppy/ practice baby, Rigby, the always-phenom Kid Sister, who's on this week's panel with James Montgomery and Tim "Hollywood" Kash, the wide-eyed boys of No Age, and lots more after the jump.
If week one of FNMTV was all about Pete Wentz and videos, then week two was all about Pete Wentz, videos AND LIL WAYNE, who nearly blew out all the electricity in the greater Los Angeles area with his explosive, awe-inspiring rendition of "A Milli," which he performed nearly minutes after it was announced that his new album sold a million copies its first week out. Nice timing, baby!
We'd have Wayne back for if we could, but he's gotta get back to the studio to exercise some more of that lyrical genius. So, on tomorrow night's installment of FNMTV -- tune in Friday, June 27, at 8 p.m. ET/PT -- you'll see live performances by Rihanna and Maroon 5, plus guest appearances and video premieres, including:
T.I. - "No Matter What" No Age - "Eraser" Day26 - "Since You've Been Gone"
+ After the jump — highlights from last week’s show.
Time is money, people. And since we didn't feel like spending our weekend watching a James Bond DVD set (or waste our one and only Netflix rental on Miami Vice) we figured we'd save ourselves the effort by checking out the newest Jonas Brothers video instead.
"Burnin' Up," the first single off JB's third album, A Little Bit Longer, gives the Jo Bros -- whose new movie, Camp Rock, premiered this past Friday -- the opportunity to pay homage to Oceans 12and dress up like The Karate Kid, all while doing an impressive Maroon 5 impression.
And that guy who clearly isn't a Jonas Bro? That's Big Rob, who was once Britney Spears' bodyguard. He's now gainfully employed as both the Jo Bros' bodyguard and the group's unofficial fourth member. Also of note -- Joe Jonas, rocking the Chris Martin-Gerard Way military man look!
