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Miley Cyrus' Marriage Equality Finger Tattoo Causes Controversy

Posted 8/1/11 1:15 pm EST by in Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Tweet Beat

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Miley Cyrus is causing a bit of a ruckus on Twitter after posting a picture of her new tattoo. The pop star’s latest ink is a small equal sign on the inside of her right ring finger that she got in a show of support for gay marriage. She tweeted a photo of the tattoo with the message “All LOVE is equal,” which ignited a storm among Cyrus’ more conservative fans.

Cyrus has long been a vocal supporter of gay marriage and did not back down from her stance (GO GIRL!) when fans began criticizing her choice. “Where does it say in the bible to judge others? Oh right. It doesn't. GOD is the only judge honey. GOD is love," Cyrus tweeted at one upset fan. She later tweeted the quote, “if u don't stand 4 something you'll fall for anything.”

We dig Miley’s simple new ink (and the message behind it), which got us thinking about other celebs who let their fingers do the talking. From Beyonce to Rihanna, quite a few celebs have tattooed their digits. Read More...

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From Beyonce To Britney Spears, Is It Ever A Good Idea To Be Managed By A Parent?

Posted 7/13/11 4:30 pm EST by in Beyonce, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan

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By Morgan Schwartz

Father knows best. Or at least that’s what celebrities sometimes tell themselves when hiring one or more of their parents to help out with their careers. But does being a good mom or dad necessarily translate into being a stellar manager?

Beyonce is just the most recent star to experience some of the trauma that comes along with hiring a parent to help shape a career. Bey, who made it big with Destiny’s Child before branching off and becoming a superstar solo artist, enlisted the help of both her mom and her dad from the start. Mom Tina took on the role of “stylist,” while dad Matthew stepped in as her manager. While things were seemingly going well, it was announced in March that Beyonce and her dad had “parted ways amicably” (she continues to work with her mother). Now, speculation has surfaced that the separation may not have been as friendly as previously reported.

Although we can’t really speak to the situation – neither Beyonce’s camp nor Live Nation are commenting – it has given us inspiration to look back at other celebrity/parent working relationships to help us decide whether or not hiring a family member is a good or bad idea in showbiz.

Lindsay Lohan

Let’s start with Lindsay Lohan. It’s no secret that drama follows this girl wherever she goes, so it should come as no surprise that her working relationship with her mom Dina is known to be somewhat of a disaster. Dina has worked as Lindsay’s manager despite constant criticism about the way she interacts with her eldest daughter. The Long Island native was known to constantly party with Lindsay, speak publicly about LiLo without her permission, and act as an enabler for the bad behavior we know Lindsay loves to get up to. Lindsay’s dad is also notorious for riding on his daughter’s coattails and making statement after statement about her wrecked reputation. Although never officially employed by Lindsay, Michael Lohan has managed to impact her career (probably for the worse).

Read on for our verdict on Lindsay’s working relationship with her parents as well as our thoughts on the Kardashians, the Simpsons and Britney Spears. Read More...

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Beyonce Avoids Pop Star Runaway Bride Syndrome In 'Best Thing I Never Had' Video

Posted 7/11/11 2:00 pm EST by in Beyonce

By James Dinh

It isn’t exactly a secret that Beyoncé shies away from talking about her personal life, including her marriage to Jay-Z. But that doesn’t mean the pop megastar won’t bring life’s most intimate moments to life with her music. In the visual for her latest single, “Best Thing I Never Had,” Bey takes fans behind the doors of her dressing room and off to her wedding ceremony as she shows off her stunning figure in a lacy lingerie get up and an elegant princess gown.

While King B isn’t the first to head to the alter for a music video, she’s clearly one of the calmer video brides. MTV Newsroom appreciate seeing a happy-go-lucky wedding actually pull through, but for those who enjoy a little more drama, take a look at our list of pop stars who have caught a bad case of the runaway bride syndrome.

Mariah Carey, “We Belong Together”

In the video for her mega-successful sing-a-long ballad “We Belong Together,” Mariah preps for her special day as she undecidedly belts her heart out about a broken relationship. Walking down the isle, the big-voiced diva catches a glimpse of a mysterious man (played by Wentworth Miller), who gave her a rose in her previous bachelorette party-themed video for “It’s Like That.” Mimi deals with a love struggle as she’s caught between choosing her husband-to-be (Eric Roberts) and the other man. As expected, the songstress makes a dramatic exit by running away from the alter and into the arms of the latter.

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Are The Women of Destiny's Child Competing With Each Other This Summer?

Posted 7/7/11 4:40 pm EST by in Beyonce, Kelly-Rowland, Music

By Danielle Genet

It’s no surprise that the world still misses Destiny’s Child. After all, the post-Destiny’s Child career successes each lady has experienced are a testament to the fan favor the women created. Now, the women who used to work as a harmonious trio (and remain real-life friends) are about to battle it out on the charts.

This past week, Michelle Williams dropped the single “Love Gun,” which is said to be the first single off her forthcoming, still-untitled fourth studio album. Williams, according to her Broadway Playbill biography, was “the first member of the group to explore solo terrain,” focusing on focused on gospel music with Heart to Yours (2002) and Do You Know (2004).

Gospel music came naturally to Williams, who first started singing in church as a child. Williams moved in another direction with the release of her third studio album, 2008’s Unexpected, and its lead single “We Break the Dawn” had a nice run on the Hot Dance Airplays chart. Throughout her music career, Williams has also acted on both television and on stage in Broadway musicals like Aida, The Color Purple and Chicago and, most-recently, in the play What My Husband Doesn’t Know. Williams is also a minority owner of the WNBA team The Sky.

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Alternate Version of Beyonce’s ‘Run The World (Girls)’ Video Shows Up Online

Posted 7/1/11 10:45 am EST by in Beyonce, Music, Video

The lead single from Beyonce’s 4, “Run The World (Girls),” already has a perfectly awesome, Francis Lawrence-directed video, but it seems Queen Bey shot so much footage out in California’s Mojave Desert that an alternate version of the video, which surfaced online this week, features almost entirely original content.

The new clip has Beyonce grooving atop a car and features some killer dance sequences courtesy of the French dance duo Les Twins (Laurent and Larry Bourgeois), who have been performing live with B recently, including at her blockbuster headlining gig at the Glastonbury music festival in England.

Check out the alternate version after the jump. Read More...

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Beyonce’s Videos: High-Concept And Cutting Edge Without Being Pretentious Art Pieces

Posted 6/30/11 11:31 am EST by in Beyonce, Music, Video

This is Beyonce’s week. Her new album 4 dropped on Tuesday, earning positive reviews and buzz that it will debut at the top of the charts. Tonight at 7pm, MTV will air a special, "Beyoncé: Year of 4,” that takes fans behind the scenes of the new album. So she’s basically everywhere, and all morning her videos were pumping through the MTV Newsroom.

Which leads us to the most terribly obvious statement we will make today: Beyonce makes great videos. Duh! But more than that, she makes extremely high-concept clips that go far beyond the usual bump and grind of many R&B and pop videos to deliver something truly artful without coming across as an art project. It’s a fine line she never crosses.

Take, for example, the somewhat dark “Why Don’t You Love Me,” which features the typically clean-cut Queen Bey as a jilted, smoking, martini-swilling pinup vixen with her eye makeup running down her face.

Beyonce comes straight out of the Madonna/Michael Jackson school of seeing music video as an art form. She’s used it as a venue to do something unique and interesting. Another prime example of this is the continuous, single-shot style of her legendary “Single Ladies” vid. Read More...

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Taylor Swift's '13' vs. Beyonce's '4': Why Do They Love Those Numbers?

Posted 6/30/11 10:21 am EST by in Beyonce, Taylor Swift

It seems that two of the biggest female stars in the world are obsessed with the same thing. Beyonce and Taylor Swift are both quite into and superstitious about their birthdays.

Swift, born December 13, can often be seen wearing the number 13 on her hand or tweeting about the importance of that number to her life, while Beyonce has referenced her birthday (September 4) in videos and album titles (like her most recent 4).

Swift has listed her reasons for that number's importance and it seems that when she says, "Basically, whenever a 13 comes up in my life, it's a good thing," she's not wrong.

Don't believe us? "I was born on the 13th. I turned 13 on Friday the 13th. My first album went gold in 13 weeks. My first No. 1 song had a 13-second intro," she's explained to MTV News. "Every time I've won an award I've been seated in either the 13th seat, the 13th row, the 13th section or row M, which is the 13th letter."

For more on Beyonce’s connection to the number 4, read on. Read More...

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Beyonce Talks Babies!

Posted 6/29/11 3:15 pm EST by in Beyonce, Jay-Z, Television

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From MTV RapFix:

Has Beyonce finally folded to the Jigga Man's hopes to deliver a little Sean Carter? After months and months of (false) reports that R&B diva Beyonce had a bun in the oven for the first time, B is speaking out confirming that kids are in her very near future.

In one of her only sit-down interviews with CNN, Beyonce touched on her relationship with husband and rap superstar Jay-Z and the anticipation to become a mom in the coming years.

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Beyonce And Leo In ‘A Star Is Born’ And Other Superstar Director-Musician Pairings We’d Like To See

Posted 6/28/11 4:00 pm EST by in Beyonce, Celebrity

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By Stefan Doyno

What's crazier than Clint Eastwood directing a musical? Well, not much – except if in that same film, Leonardo DiCaprio co-starred opposite Beyonce. That would really get people talking.

Well, it might be happening. Eastwood and DiCaprio got along so well on the set of J. Edgar, the upcoming biopic of infamous FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, that DiCaprio is in discussions to join Eastwood’s remake of the musical A Star Is Born. Eastwood and DiCaprio are tremendously talented and Beyonce has since proven her acting chops with Dreamgirls and Cadillac Records, so maybe this will turn out to be really interesting.

Here are some other director-musician superstar pairings we'd like to see happen.

Martin Scorsese and Eminem

One word comes to mind: violence. These two could make a killing (pun intended) at the box office.
With Eminem's talent in both the music and acting fields (he was amazing in 8 Mile) and Scorsese's brutal direction, these two would definitely make an action-packed Oscar winner.

Steven Speilberg and Justin Bieber

Hello, an E.T. remake, anybody? Ok, maybe not, but there is something about this team that kind of screams blockbuster. All we need is an alien and we're good to go.

David Lynch and Lady Gaga

Just imagine what these two could throw together. On second thought, don’t even try; whatever it would be is probably unimaginable. Lynch and Gaga's strange and intriguing imaginations could create something beyond comprehension and truly mind-blowing. Everyone would go to see it … and then spend three days trying to understand it.

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Why Does Everyone Want Beyonce To Sing ‘Single Ladies’ Over And Over?

Posted 6/28/11 11:04 am EST by in Beyonce

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Beyonce’s hot new album 4 is out today and is expected to top the Billboard charts. The reviews have been solid (some rave) but a recurring theme has cropped up again and again that deserves a little discussion: the criticism of the amount of ballads and slow jams on the album.

NME seems to miss the upbeat tunes the most, writing, “Beyonce making million-miles-an-hour in-yer-face pop singles: amazing; Beyonce doing schmaltzy R&B ballads: nowt to write home about. So it’s with great, great disappointment that we are forced to report that Beyonce’s fourth album is comprised almost entirely of the latter.”

EW, in a still mostly positive review, isn’t much kinder, saying, “Why does it feel like Beyonce is struggling so hard to prove herself on 4? The album is an every-song-for-itself welter of conflicting ambitions: It wants to be cutting-edge but familiar, accessible but artistic, hot-blooded but strictly impersonal. Those tensions hurt most in its lumbering first half, a defiant bird flipped at anyone expecting out-of-the-box radio killers. Instead, we get a sleepy recital of ballads.”

But we think these reviewers are missing the point, making a broad generalization that the volume of the slow songs is a bad thing regardless of their quality (we think most are very good), and are borderline suggesting something they’d otherwise chastise – that Beyonce keep releasing the same pounding, radio-friendly dance track over and over again and not mature as an artist or attempt anything outside the box. We love Beyonce’s up tempo tunes as much as the next guy, and it’s worth noting that there are more than a few to chose from on 4, but why is it a bad thing that she chose a different direction for her new album? Read More...

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