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30th 2009
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Brand-New ‘Twilight: New Moon’ Clips
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October
30th 2009
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MTV News Extended Play: Ulalume Edition
Check out these backstage interviews with Paramore, Kid Cudi and Dead by Sunrise from mtvU’s Ulalume Festival.
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30th 2009
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‘It’s beautiful … beyond explanation,’ the MC says of Yankee players using his songs for at-bat music.
By Shaheem Reid
Jay-Z
Photo: MTV News
Before his World Series performance of “Empire State of Mind,” Jay-Z got to play the field — literally. Hov told ESPN’s “Mike and Mike in the Morning” that he got a chance to roam the green and imagined catching a ball and doubling a guy out at home plate.
“I felt like a kid,” he said. “The field is beautiful. I’ve never been that close to the field. Walking around, I jumped over the center-field fence and everything, like I was catching a home run.”
Talking to MTV News earlier in the week, before Thursday’s performance with Alicia Keys, Hov noted he loves attending games at Yankee Stadium and hearing his music.
“Jeter plays ‘Empire State’ every time he’s at bat. A-Rod does ‘Already Home’ and ‘Reminder,’ ” Jay said. “[Robinson] Cano does ‘Run This Town.’ It’s like the Jay-Z compilation at the stadium. It’s beautiful.
“Incredible,” Jay added. “Beyond explanation. Just the whole fact, being in Yankee Stadium, really interacting, knowing the players. I grew up a fan of he Yankees — Reggie Jackson, Mickey Rivers, Chris Chambliss, God bless Thurman Munson, all these guys. To be there and interact with all these guys [the current Yankee team], they’re throwing the Roc sign up — it’s fantastic.”
Ironically, Jay couldn’t stay for the show. He jumped in his Maybach and was driven out of the stadium just minutes after his performance with Alicia Keys, as he had a flight to catch for a show in Canada. Hov did keep abreast of the game, though, noting that his beloved Yankees won 3-1.
“It’s a fantastic series,” he told “Mike and Mike.” “I figured the Phillies are going to be tough and we’ll take it in seven.” And you know Hov does not lose.
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30th 2009
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New track will appear on The Singles Collection, out next month.
By Jocelyn Vena
Britney Spears in “3″
Photo: Jive
After a series of sneak peeks and teases on her Web site and Twitter, Britney Spears officially debuted the music video for her hit single “3″ on Friday (October 30). The sexy, fast-paced clip for the song, which will be included on The Singles Collection when it’s released next month, made its big debut on her site.
The video, shot by director Diane Martel earlier this month, is a series of glamour shots and dance breaks. The video opens with Britney in a sparkly little black dress, spritzing herself with perfume and putting on mascara. Then it cuts to a shot of her holding her hair up provocatively and singing the song’s sexy opening lines: “1,2,3/ Not only you and me/ Got 180 degrees/ And I’m caught in between.”
The video quickly becomes a montage of Britney doing what she does best: being sexy. Shots of the singer in black and white, wearing a halter-cut leotard in a steam-filled room, are cut with images of just her legs in lacy tights walking across the screen.
Britney also does a lot of dancing in close-up shots, where you can’t fully see her whole body. In some of the dance sequences she’s flanked by male dancers or standing in a lineup of sexy women who do acrobatics on a raised ballerina bar as she sashays around. There are a few moments in the video where Britney’s personality shines. She smiles at the song’s tongue-in-cheek lyrics, particularly when she finishes the song’s bridge about loving multiple people at once.
The video ends with Britney looking directly into the camera before it fades to black. Late Thursday, before the video premiered, she tweeted, “Can’t wait for ya’ll to see my new video tomorrow morning. I think you’re really going to like it!”
See what Britney fans had to say about the video here. And share your own reviews of “3″ in the comments section below!
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30th 2009
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The MC had 11 hours to pen the tune for Rihanna’s LP.
By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by Matt Elias
Soulja Boy Tell’em
Photo: James Lacsina/ MTV News
Talk about an awesome — if awkward — honor. Soulja Boy Tell’em revealed to MTV News this week that he will have the unique distinction of appearing on the upcoming albums by both Chris Brown and Rihanna.
“With this particular project [it was] like, ‘Whoa!’ because it was like, ‘Yo, I need you to do something for Rihanna’s album. You got 11 hours. Go,” Soulja Boy said about the last-minute call to work on an unspecified track from Rihanna’s upcoming Rated R disc.
“It was like, ‘What?’ ” The challenge, he said, was how to cook up some verses that would help make a #1 hit in such a short time. Luckily, he had plenty of experience with working fast, thanks to the 30 minutes he said it took him to write his breakthrough hit, “Crank That.”
The pressure was not as intense when he got the call to guest on a track from Rihanna’s ex, Brown. “I got nothing but love for Chris, that’s my homeboy,” said Soulja of the singer, whose Graffiti will be his first release since his assault on Rihanna in February. “He called me up and he was like, ‘Yo, I need you on this song for my album. Will you come through?’ ”
The answer, of course, was yes — and the result is a tune titled “She’s Bad.”
“My approach to it was, if me and Chris Brown ever did a song together it got to be the best song ever,” he said. “When people hear it, it gotta be automatic, be in all the kids’ heads, all the girls definitely gotta love it, all the females gotta love it. That was my approach to it. I was just thinking, ‘What is the slickest lines I could say to a female to make them fall in love with this record?’ ”
Fans can hear the results when Rated R drops on November 23 and Graffiti is released three weeks later.
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