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.
It's hard to imagine there was ever a time when Foo Fighters would freak out over hearing their song on the radio. It's not like Dave Grohl was any stranger to musical super-stardom when the band started out -- ever hear of Nirvana?
That's why, watching the clip below, you have to wonder what exactly has Foo Fighters so worked up. Could it be... something... liquid? Who can say?
Return to the year 2000, where Grohl, Taylor Hawkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer (/Will Ferrell dead-ringer) Chad Smith are introducing an MTV segment from outside a bar when "Learn To Fly" comes on over the speakers inside. All three of them completely lose it.
Follow them back into the bar for floor spins, freakouts and impromptu karaoke (mostly by Smith who, again, might as well be Will Ferrell). When that's over, check out the incredible official video for "Learn To Fly" after the jump. You really can't ever see it enough times.
It's all true. You saw it in the header. We are just obsessed with Band Of Skulls over here. Here's why: the Southampton U.K. rockers sound kinda like Blondie having a threesome with Flea and Tony Kiedis (no offense, Chad Smith and John Frusciante) in a White Stripes mosh pit. Whoa. Gross! Sorry! But no, for real, it sounds exactly like that, minus weird kissing noises.
Also heavily present in this snarling Brit rock snakepit is the steel-gargling spirit of Jimi Hendrix, adding a witchy wobble to the sunburnt Jack White guitar crunch. Or wait, do we owe that witchiness to Ms. Emma Richardson, whose throaty vocals make it easy to forget that she's holding the whole ramshackle rock show together on bass? In other words, holy s*** does she wail.
Can we also blame Emma for the album title, Baby Darling Doll Face Honey? Going only by the sound of her voice, I wouldn't be surprised if she was all four. Either way, that title tells me unequivocally that Band Of Skulls are some freewheeling badass joker punks. Right? These freaks are definitely in on Pete Doherty's mission to revive the careless f***-all attitude that Brit-rock lost when Oasis got "better than The Beatles." Listen. Get infected. Band Of Skulls.
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!
+ Are Katy Perry and Travis McCoy officially engaged? No. Unofficially? Yes! And get this: Travis reportedly popped the question by smooching his lady-love -- with a diamond ring in his mouth! (Eeeee!!) Here's hoping he polished it first ... (MTV - UK)
+ OMG, don't you just HATE it when people keep asking you about the time you made out with a gorgeous megastar? So annoying, right?? Anywho, Demi Lovato (who swears she never, ever kissed a Jonas!) totally feels your pain. (Seventeen, via Usmagazine.com)
+ Pete Wentz (over)shares some intimate deets about his "amazing" sexcapades with wife/personal lapdancer Ashlee Simpson. (MTV News)
+ Meanwhile, poor, misunderstood Hilary Duff sez she doesn't even know HOW to do a lapdance. She does, however, know a thing or two about crouching seductively on the cover of this month's Maxim magazine. (Maxim)
+ Scarlett Johansson has announced that she might be releasing a follow-up to her debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head. Which brings three immediate questions to mind: Why? How? And, most importantly, WHY????? (MTV News)
+ Rumor has it the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis is battling kidney disease. If so, we wish him all the best and hope he gets healed up real soon! (NY Daily News)
+ Lil Wayne admits he's starting to like the view from on top. As comedy legend Mel Brooks (who??) once said, "It's good to be the king." (MTV News)
+ Forget about boxers or briefs. Now, thanks to Usher, guys may soon have another option! "I might be launching a lingerie line for men and woman," Usher revealed. Guess that's one way of breaking down the gender lines. (Hollyscoop)
+ The long-awaited new album from Guns N' Roses was never meant to happen. Which totally explains the oxymoronic title: Chinese Democracy. (MTV)
+ Class is officially in session! Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is pulling a Billy Madison and going back to school to brush up on the fundamentals of music structure. (NME)
+ Not all of Kim Osorio's old friends are thrilled about her new tell-all. Her former colleagues from Source magazine say Osorio used her position as editor-in-chief to bed rappers like Nas and 50 Cent. (SOHH)
+ Clear your schedules and grab your lighters -- Phish is making beautiful music together for the first time in over four years! (Rolling Stone)
+ New reports say Janet Jackson was released from the hospital within two hours of her arrival. The singer is now said to be "recuperating," although her reps are still keeping everything hush-hush. (Billboard)
+ T.I. doesn't need reinforcements -- but he's not gonna turn away Jay-Z when the Jigga man drops by to help him work on his "Swagger." (MTV)
+ And speaking of Jay-Z, ever wanted to walk a mile in his shoes? Well, now you can! The rapper new "signature boots" are now available at an online store near you. (The Hip Hop Chronicle)
+ We'll bypass the low-hanging fruit that is the "no, no, no," intro and go straight for the drug jokes -- San Francisco, fire up your bong/pipe/t-shirt gun filled with grain alcohol, and gird your loins, because Amy Winehouse is coming to town. (Hollywood Backwash)
+ Ever wonder what the inside of Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis' Hollywood Hills house looks like? (Really, we're the only ones? We're probably also the only ones who read his autobiography, but clearly we have no problem admitting that, which is maybe sort of a problem.) It's on the market for a spicy seven mil, and you can check out the interiors and exterior here. (Via Pop Candy)
+ Ever wonder what Mandy Moore would look like as a floozy booze hound? BuzzSugar's got a clip of her walk-on on the season premiere of "How I Met Your Mother," where she plays a trashy bar fly -- a fun role for the otherwise clean-cut pretty princess. The show airs September 24.
+ Ever wonder what you'd look like as a monkey? (Must... resist... Bush joke...) MonkeyMuseum.com can show you for under $100. Not quite cuteoverload levels of cuteness, but still very cute nevertheless.
It's hard to imagine there was ever a time when Foo Fighters would freak out over hearing their song on the radio. It's not like Dave Grohl was any stranger to musical super-stardom when the band started out -- ever hear of Nirvana?
