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Joe Jonas Recalls The Worst Day Of His Life (Video)

Posted 5/17/12 5:00 pm EST by in Jonas Brothers, Video


Joe Jonas recently sat down with MTV News, and in the middle of the conversation, he recalled what had to be one of his worst days ever. It was a day that included a stolen bike, a ruined ice cream cone and a loss for his favorite baseball team, the Yankees.

Here's the tale of woe, straight from the source. He said, "All the time [I go biking]. Actually, my bike was stolen – it really was. I had a bike; literally it was my best friend. I rode it everywhere and in the middle of the day, it was sunny out me and Nick were shopping in SoHo. I locked it up on Prince and Mercer, so it’s a pretty busy street.

"Locked it up, a good lock, I mean it wasn’t a heavy duty lock," he continued. "And I came back ten minutes later and it was gone ... it’s really tough. I’m OK now, but at the time I was pretty depressed."

Nick, being the good baby bro he is, tried to cheer him up. "Then Nick was like, 'Let me buy you ice cream. It’ll make you feel better,' cause ice cream makes anyone feel better for that five minutes and then you feel like crap afterwards. But then I dropped my ice cream cone on the ground and everybody around me was literally like, 'Awww.' It was so sad."

But, it gets worse. "And then I went to a Yankees game and the Yankees lost horribly," he added. "It was the worst day ever. I was [like], 'Can I just go to bed now?'"

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Cobra Starship Rock Some Fake Tattoos On First Date With MTV Newser (Video)

Posted 4/23/12 1:13 pm EST by in First Date, Video


By Rya Backer

Back in early '09 when First Date was just an idea, I put together a list of dream dates – of which there were a lot. One of them was a band that featured the dreamy lead singer of Midtown, who sang that awesome catchy song with Blair Waldorf that I couldn’t get out of my head all summer. But then other things got in the way – their fame skyrocketed, I continued to date other eligible bands I liked in need of a big break, and that’s just how we left it. But I don’t like unfinished business.

I first worked with the guys in Cobra Starship during VMA weekend in 2011. They played the pre-show and I shot an interview with them and produced a sketch in which "Dick Bagwell" and "Vincent Twice (Vincent Twice)," better known as the band’s Ryland Blackinton and Alex Suarez, respectively, donned fake accents, mustaches and Hawaiian shirts to handicap the nominees for our big show. They were hilarious, genial and, most of all, game. They were willing to go there for the laugh and played to the camera. In other words, they were a producer’s dream, and I wanted more than ever to take them out classy. Calls were made, pitches were sent and just a few weeks ago, fate was sealed.

The Village Party Store was the choice location for a lot of reasons. Sure, it’s a pretty atypical spot for a date (but so is going out with two dudes at once, right?), but I knew there was fun to be had in it, and there would be room to play. Also, my ENT doctor is a block away, and when I got delivered some lame news the other day that I needed my deviated septum situation sorted out ASAP, I went in there before heading into the office to perk up (it worked). In any case, fun was had, flamingo balloons were bought, and next time, we’re getting food.

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Madonna's Tour On Track 'To End Up In The Top 10 Tours Of All Time'

Posted 4/20/12 12:05 pm EST by in Madonna, Tour Dates, Video


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There's been a bit of shizz slinging of late regarding Madonna's new album, her world tour and whether we should be calling either a success.

After earning positive reviews and debuting strongly at #1, MDNA, experienced a sharp sales decline in its second week and a majority of her US tour dates have yet to sell out. Those two facts taken together sent a few music writers down the rabbit hole, with some going so far as to say Live Nation, which signed Madonna to a $120 million 360 deal with in 2007, was concerned over both her album and concert ticket sales given the size and length (10 years) of their commitment to the Queen of Pop.

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Yesterday, Madonna's manager Guy Oseary hit Twitter to address the rumors and now Arthur Fogel, Chairman of Live Nation Global Touring, talked to Billboard, saying that not only is business brisk for Madonna's tour but it is actually "on track to end up in the top 10 tours of all time."

First, what many of the reports fail to mention is that Madonna's last tour, 2008-09's "Sticky & Sweet" jaunt, was actually her first venture under her Live Nation deal, and it's enormous success ($408 million in grosses, making it the third highest grossing tour ever and the most successful by a solo artist) most certainly offset a great deal of M's sign-on cost. Merchandising is also a major factor in Live Nation's revenue stream and it controls all of that for Madonna's tours, creating another significant source of revenue for the concert promotion giant.

Perhaps most importantly with regard to MDNA's sales, Madonna's 360 deal is, at its core, touring and merchandise-driven, so talk that the company will take a loss on the album if it doesn't sell 15 million copies (as has been reported) is a bit of a reach. (Quick, name the last album by any artist to sell 15 million copies…)

Talking to Billboard, Fogel said, "To say this tour is not performing is so off base I don't even know what to say. When this tour is said and done, combined with 'Sticky and Sweet,' you're talking $750 million in gross ticket sales. That sounds pretty impressive to me."

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Lady Gaga And Britney Spears Tweet Love For Each Other

Posted 4/19/12 8:48 am EST by in Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Tweet Beat, Video


We love it when celebs use Twitter for good instead of evil, and last night, two of the biggest pop stars around hit the site with a whole lot of love for each other.

Lady Gaga has never made her Britney Spears fandom a secret. During her MTV First (after the jump), she confessed that she used to call in to vote for Brit Brit on "TRL," saying that on the days she couldn't make it to Time Square to join in the fun she "would lay in bed and I would be speed dialing for Britney to have the #1 video." And last year when she presented Spears with her Video Vanguard VMA the two had a near-miss kiss that got everyone talking.

So it's no surprise then that Gaga, who leaves for South Korea today to prep for the April 27 kick off of her "Born This Way Ball" in Seoul, hit Twitter last night with a packing list and high up on it was her Britney thermos (below).

Lady Gaga, Twitter

After seeing Gaga's tweet, Britney responded with a bit of curiosity ("Wonder what @ladygaga keeps in the thermos?") and what seems like a promise to see Mother Monster on the road ("Can't wait to see you on tour. MISS YOU!").

While their stand may sometimes battle it out online, it's fantastic to see that these two seem to have a lot of love and respect for each other. Check out Lady Gaga talking about Britney and her "TRL" fan days below! Read More...

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Johnny Depp And Natalie Portman Slammed For Using Incorrect Sign Language In Paul McCartney's 'My Valentine' Video

Posted 4/18/12 10:56 am EST by in Movies, Music, Video


Well, at least we can assume that everyone involved had the best intentions.

Paul McCartney directed the video for his latest single and based on pure aesthetics and originality, it's a lovely clip. Shot in black and white, "My Valentine" features Oscar winner Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp, star of one of our most anticipated summer movies, "Dark Shadows," emoting heavily while using sign language to perform the song's lyrics.

So that's cool and interesting and Depp and Portman really do have two of the most compelling faces in the world. But as Spinner reports, they maybe didn't have their signing down quite as well as they should have when the cameras were rolling.

Deaf music fans, including the British Deaf Association, have pointed out that at one point in the clip Depp signs the word "enemy" while attempting "valentine," and later both he and Portman make a mildly embarrassing error, signing the word "tampon" instead of the word "appear."

A spokesperson for the Association said, "The sign for tampon does seem to come up from both Johnny and Natalie, which causes some confusion, especially as American and British sign languages are different."

To be fair, sign is a very subtle-but-specific language and even the slightest changes in motion and/or facial expression can dramatically alter the meaning of something. The organization laments that McCartney did not use actual deaf performers for the clip, but is effusive with praise, regardless of the minor problems, for McCartney, Depp and Portman for "highlighting the use of sign language" in what the org sees as "more a poetic expression" than a sign lesson.

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Check Out Skrillex And Kaskade's New Clip For 'Lick It' (Video)

Posted 4/17/12 2:47 pm EST by in dance, Music, Video


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We have a soft spot for EDM in the MTV Newsroom (see below), so we were super excited that two of our favorites, Grammy-winning phenom Skrillex and Kaskade, have teamed up to produce a killer video for their collab track "Lick It" from Kaskade's red hot (but definitely way cool) album Fire & Ice.

The clip comes courtesy of our good pals at MTV Buzzworthy, who premiered the clip earlier today.

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In the video, a freaked out rave refugee covering her blood-squirting ears searches for a little assistance out in a rural frozen wasteland. Through some tricky backwards photography, we see our heroine to find her salvation.

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Katy Perry Says New Album Will Be 'Real F**king Dark,' Was Set To Appear In 'The Help'

Posted 4/10/12 12:10 pm EST by in Katy Perry, Video


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By Zachary Swickey

Many fans have been curious about what pop star Katy Perry’s next record will sound like – especially considering her much-publicized divorce from comedian Russell Brand and the heavy recent single "Part of Me." Well, Perry herself will tell you: “real f**king dark.”

Talking to The Sun, the singer was rather blunt about her feelings toward her failed marriage, saying, “I’d like to use a time machine and go back to a specific date, please.” (Ouch!)

“My music is about to get real f**king dark. You'd never see my face because my hair would be in it,” she continued.

In other Perry news, the singer has yet to dive into the acting game (outside of cameos and voicing a Smurfette last year), but she’s revealed that she almost got a bit part in last year’s Academy Award-winning film “The Help.”

"There was a time when I was going to be involved in 'The Help' - just a small part, I wasn't going to be Emma Stone or anything - but I couldn't because the shooting schedule conflicted with the release of my record,” she lamented to Teen Vogue.

"And I was upset about that; I knew it was going to be an important film,” she continued.

Although, she didn’t get to appear in “The Help,” Perry has her very own 3D film coming out this summer (and no, it’s not “Piranha 3DD”), “Katy Perry: Part of Me,” which will be a documentary as well as a live concert film much in the vein of Justin Bieber’s “Never Say Never."

"I wanted to show people this parade that surrounds me, I wanted them to see the engine. I wanted people to be able to experience the tour and all the joy it brought, which is why we shot it in 3D,” she said about the film.

“Katy Perry: Part of Me” is expected to hit the big screen this upcoming Fourth of July weekend.

Check out Katy telling MTV News' James Montgomery that the concert film is meant to end her Teenage Dream era, after the jump! Read More...

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Helena Bonham Carter Plays a Kinky Librarian In New Rufus Wainwright Clip (Video)

Posted 4/5/12 1:01 pm EST by in Music, Video


Indie-ish singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright is prepping the release of his new (Mark Ronson-produced, swoon!) album Out of the Game and has enlisted the services of his real-life friend "Dark Shadows" actress Helena Bonham Carter to bring her signature strangeness to the video for the album's titular lead single.

The video is set in a library overseen by Bonham Carter, who lip-synchs the lyrics to Wainwright's track while pacing around lamenting what must be a sad, strange life. (Girl can emote! She deserves an Oscar for her performance in this video alone, y'all!)

It's a weirdly transfixing video. Wainwright appears as three different library patrons who end up in a creeptastic make out session with each other, and by the clip's end, Bonham Carter has come undone both figuratively and literally. The closing shot features the Oscar nominee clad in just lingerie reading the book "The Way We Live Now."

Interested now? Check it out below. (Note: We're also really kind of loving the song too. Welcome back, Rufus.)

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Young The Giant Talk Making It Big Over Pizza Slices On First Date

Posted 4/4/12 2:45 pm EST by in First Date, Music, Video


By Rya Backer

Young the Giant first crept up on my radar around the same time they did for most of you: at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.

There, at our annual Super Bowl of music and spectacle, sandwiched somewhere between Lady Gaga’s (I mean, Jo Calderone’s) monologue and Lil Wayne’s shreds were a group of young guys from Irvine, Calif., making their television debut with a whole gang of fans bused in from their fair city to cheer them on.

Young the Giant steamrolled through their standout single, "My Body," making the whole of the room (and those watching at home) believers in their mission of delivering anthemic rock, heavy on melodies and choruses you’re itching to sing along to (listen to their other single, "Cough Syrup" for further reference).

I’d wanted to talk to them further ever since I saw that performance, replete with frontman Sameer Gadhia’s well-choreographed falls into the crowd. And I’m so happy I was able to, as these five guys are much more than a band. They’re best – and I mean best – friends, even admitting to having lived together for the past five years in various houses. Their last one also housed a Jacuzzi tub that some members embraced and others (namely, guitarist Jacob Tilley) very vocally avoided – a fact I only know because offering the five some downtime to just be themselves rendered a lightning in a bottle/secret sauce concoction that was so exciting to watch. They were honest, open and so excited to sit down and share some slices before soundcheck. Not unlike the fans in the audience on VMA night, I was so happy just to be there.

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Kids These Days Stand Up For Music Programs In Schools (Video)

Posted 4/3/12 10:03 am EST by in Activism, Video


By Vaughn Schoonmaker

In today’s world of music entertainment, it's often easy to associate musicians and bands with a genre, even if the artists like to mix it up every now and then. Kids These Days, a seven-member band of teenagers from Chicago, have defied my ability to do this.

Three of the band's members dropped by MTV News recently while in town for a show to give us a chance to understand what lies behind their unique jazz-meets-alternative rock-meets-funk-meets-soul-meets-hip-hop-meets-pop sound.

"Traphouse Rock" vocalist and keyboardist Macie Stewart specified. "That's what we call our music. We just started jamming in [guitarist] Liam's basement. I don't think we ever consciously said let's put this all together, jazz, soul, rock. I think it just kind of came through because that's what we listen to, that's what we're a part of, and that's what came out in our playing."

I found myself contemplating how this group of kids found themselves in a band together in the first place. The members include a trombone player, a rapper and both a male and female ready to take over the vocal load. Besides all being from Chicago, I wondered, what was the connection between these seemingly unconnected kids?

"A lot of us come from a jazz background," trumpet player Nico Segal explained, referring to a genre where improvisation and jamming sessions are considered the norm. "A lot of us come from Chicago-sponsored after school programs where we got to play music."

A big part of the band's "message," as Nico put it, is to keep the spirit behind such programs in Chicago (and the rest of the country). "A lot of arts programs are getting cut all over the United States," he cautioned. "Music is always the first thing to go in these schools that don't have what they need. That's a big part of Kids These Days is to stand up for that."

The Kids have played all over the country and opened for all kinds of bands, but their biggest highlight so far was playing Lollapalooza last August.

"We've got some really dope stuff coming up," assured the rapper of the band, Vic Mensa. "We're playing The Roots' Block Party in June. That's a dream come true for us."

If you're curious about the band's unique, almost collective approach to music, then check out the video for their latest single, "Summerscent," to see just how well they pull off their different sounds and talents when they come together as one.

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