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.
Need a break from all that Kanye Kraziness? (Wait? Did you make your own Kanye apology via the Kanye Apology Generator yet? OMG! Do it!) Check out this photo of Lady Gaga backstage at the 2010 Marc Jacobs Spring show at the NY State Armory in New York City onSeptember 14. Gaga's jeweled mask and fluffy colored wig are fully and fearlessly Dame Edna!
I've been super into Via Tania lately: the Chicago-by-way-of-Australia singer-songwriter just released her second album, Moon Sweet Moon, and it's full of dreamy-yet-substantial, bliss-and-wonder-filled tracks -- "The Beginning" is an absolute gem -- with some guilt-free disco thrown in to marvelous effect. Fans of Kate Nash, Feist, and even Kerli, start downloading.
But, most interestingly, it's obvious that Via Tania (born Tania Bowers) has been visiting Natasha Khan's Bat For Lashes School of Beauty, right down to the feathers and penchant for primary colors.
+ Watch Via Tania's "Wonder Stranger" video, and find out more about Bat For Lashes' new album, Two Suns.
If you're seeing double, you're not alone. Above, the freakishly similar (blond-haired, dimply-cheeked) faces of Brittany Murphy -- the girl from Clueless who dated Ashton Kutcher! -- and Chelsea Staub -- the Disney wunderkind who played the beeyotch in Bratz: The Movie. (Seriously, it's like looking into a mirror -- a really weird mirror that shows you pics of moderately famous people with nearly-identical pointy chins instead of yourself.)
'Course, in addition to looking uncannily alike, Britney and Chelsea also seem to share the acting bug. But while Brit's been staying under the radar since 2006's Happy Feet, 20-year-old Chelsea's on the verge of blowing up Demi Lovato/Selena Gomez style! Girl just landed herself the role of Stella Malone in the new Jonas Brothers' TV series J.O.N.A.S.! (Love the name, guys!)
Oh, and in case you weren't jealous enough of Chelsea already? The Phoenix native -- who also kinda looks like Ashley Tisdale-slash-Stacy Keibler? -- is rumored to have recently dated Joe Jonas. There's no solid proof, natch, but there IS solid circumstantial evidence (in the form of reports that the "couple" once "shared a bag of potato chips" and briefly held hands) which, if you ask us, is more than reason enough to hate her/wish you had her life.
Welcome to Hollywood, Chelsea. You'd better believe we'll be watching you...
There's nothing weirder than discovering that two people with opposite personalities look exactly alike. Which is why we're freaking out over the realization that li'l Savannah Outen could pass for Lauren Conrad's BFF on The Hills. For now, we're willing to write this off as bizarre coincidence. But if Lo suddenly drops an amazing Taylor Swift cover, or Savannah starts frequenting Area nightclub (and throwing down with Audrina) we're gonna start getting all goosebumpy. Meanwhile, we can take comfort in knowing the two lookalikes are on opposite coasts. At least, for now...
You probably know Blake Lewis as the spiky-haired blond guy who might've won American Idol -- you know, if it hadn't been for a little lady by the name of Jordin Sparks. But you might also (wrongly!) remember him as the man behind Secondhand Serenade: John Vesely. And if you do, we completely get where you're coming from.
Okay, granted the guys aren't exactly musical twinsies -- Vesely is all about soft, tender emo love while Lewis is all flashy, loud and "Look Ma, I can beatbox!" -- but we're willing to bet you'd have trouble differentiating between the two singer-songwriters if, say, it was kinda dark outside and you were squinting 'cause you forgot your glasses.
So marvel at the similarities between the two (The baleful stares! The side dimples! The matching "Dennis the Menace" 'dos with the asymmetrical frosted-tips!) and then prove to yourself that they are, in fact, different people, by checking out samples of each fellow's work.
Oh, and when you're watching Blake's video, you may want to keep those glasses off. Like the controversial 2012 Olympic mascot, the video is so fast and crazy and full of flashing colors it just might trigger a seizure. And no one needs that.
Do you think when Christina Aguilera scrubs off her primer, concealer, bronzer, highlighter, foundation, tinted moisturizer, powder, Sharpie eyeliner, false eyelashes, and patent pink lipstick, she becomes Anna Faris?
Watch Anna Faris and the cast of the The House Bunny tolerate Christian Siriano on the gold carpet at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards. Check out Christina's new Keeps Gettin' Better fembot style, and then take a look back at Christina in her 2003 video, "The Voice Within," during a time when her style was a bit more, er... "stripped" down.
Close your eyes and mentally picture a bendy, paper doll version of singer/actress Zooey Deschanel. (Or, better, yet, just check out the image above).
Got it? Rightyho! Now grab your Zooey doll, douse her with liquid eyeliner, remove her bizarro tambourine and replace her peachy-colored lip gloss with a rosy red lipstick. Next, liberally bedazzle her bust region, brush her bangs out of her face (and swap that weird, rose-shaped scrunchie for a giant, glittery butterfly barrette) then tilt her head forward until she's staring directly at you, wondering WTF is going on. Then pat yourself on the back: you're just officially recreated Katy Perry's vamped-out disco queen look from the 2008 VMAs.
Granted, Katy and Zooey have always had that dark-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned lady of leisure thing going on, but it wasn't 'til Katy winked at us in her costume-y, Xanadu-inspired two-piece last Sunday that we came to an important realization: Katy and Zooey MAY ACTUALLY BE THE SAME PERSON.
The Cab's Alex DeLeon and Chad Wolf of Carolina Liar are freaking us out with their eerie separated-at-birth-ness. Alex just needs to exercise his right to grow some excess facial hair and get a couple highlights, and the two of them could easily pull some hi-larious Parent Trap hijinx.
We almost smacked ourselves in the forehead -- in that way that people only ever do in the movies -- when we FINALLY realized -- after all these years of realizing things about Pete Wentz -- that he looks like Dean Cain. In case you're unfamiliar with the big D, he's the former Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star, whom Teri Hatcher totally left in the dust after she went on to became way more famous (and started morphing into Lara Flynn Boyle) on Desperate Housewives.
Looking at both of them together affords you the unique, uncanny, and vicarious opportunity to experience what it must be like to be Pete Wentz looking at yourself through a crystal ball and discovering what you're gonna look like in 12 years, plus a couple of burgers and power squats. Dude's got excellent hair though, so you could definitely do worse. Oh, and little-known Dean Cain fact -- he was engaged to Mindy McCready. Wonder why that ended...
