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- New Michael Jackson Song, 'This Is It,' To Debut Online Monday
- Soulja Boy Tell'em Arrested For Running From Police
- 'New Moon' Soundtrack Clips Hit The Web
- Taylor Swift Relives High School In New Video For 'Fifteen'
- 'Glow In The Dark' Book To Show Kanye West Behind The Scenes
- Alicia Keys To Release <i>The Element Of Freedom</i> In December
- Taylor Lautner Shows Off His Bod In <i>Rolling Stone</i> Shoot
| New Michael Jackson Song, 'This Is It,' To Debut Online Monday Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:04 PM PDT The track, from the upcoming documentary 'Michael Jackson's This Is It,' features backing vocals by MJ's brothers.
"This Is It," the first single from the upcoming documentary "Michael Jackson's This Is It," will debut online Monday at midnight. The new song, featuring backing vocals by the late pop star's brothers, will get its world premiere on MichaelJackson.com. The track will appear on a two-disc set due October 27 that features master versions of some of Jackson's biggest hits in the sequence they appear in the film. The movie will play a limited two-week engagement in theaters worldwide beginning October 28. "This Is It," which Rolling Stone reports was recorded during the sessions for Jackson's 1991 album Dangerous, will appear on the album in two versions. The collection will end with the recorded version of the song — which plays during the closing sequence of the movie — as well as an orchestral version, both previously unreleased. Another rarity, the recently discovered spoken word poem, "Planet Earth," will also be featured on the collection. Disc one of the set features the songs: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Jam," "They Don't Care About Us," "Human Nature," "Smooth Criminal," "The Way You Make Me Feel," "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)," "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," "Thriller," "Beat It," "Black or White," "Earth Song," "Billie Jean," "Man in the Mirror," "This Is It" and "This Is It (Orchestra Version)." Disc two has early demo versions of the classics "She's Out of My Life," "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' " and "Beat It," as well as "Planet Earth"; all the recordings on the second disc are previously unreleased. The collection will come with a 36-page commemorative booklet with exclusive photos from Jackson's final rehearsals. The soundtrack will complement the eagerly anticipated film, which was culled from more than 100 hours of footage of Jackson's final rehearsals for his planned 50-show comeback residency stint at the O2 arena in London. Jackson died on the eve of the residency June 25 of an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Soulja Boy Tell'em Arrested For Running From Police Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:35 AM PDT Rapper was allegedly filming a video in abandoned home outside Atlanta.
Soulja Boy Tell'em is out of jail after spending the night behind bars on Wednesday, following his arrest on a charge of obstruction. The rapper (born DeAndre Way), was detained when Georgia police responded to a report of juveniles hanging out in an abandoned home on Wednesday night in the McDonough area of Atlanta. According to Captain Jason Bolton of the Henry County Police, someone called in a report of individuals hanging out at an abandoned home. When officers arrived on the scene, they found around 40 people standing in a dark backyard behind the house. "You couldn't really tell what was going on," Bolton said. "But about half of the group ran from the officer on foot. He ordered, of course, for them to stop. ... There were several vehicles left at that location." Bolton said that when the officer tried to speak to the remaining individuals — who were not identified by police — to figure out what was going on, he was told that they had gathered for a video shoot. While investigating the scene, the officer figured out that one of the people who fled was Soulja Boy, 19, who eventually returned to claim his white Range Rover, which was left at the house. Upon his return, the officer charged the rapper with one count of obstruction, a misdemeanor, for running from police when he'd been ordered to stop. The rapper was released on $550 bond on Thursday morning and a follow-up court date was not available at press time. The Henry Herald reported that 18-year-old Latice Wayne Grier was arrested on charges of forgery in the second degree during the incident after cops found eight counterfeit $100 bills in his Dodger Charger, which was also at the scene. Grier was also released from jail on Thursday, on $10,050 bond. No additional arrests were made at the scene, though the Herald reported that police also found a 9mm handgun in a white Lexus on the scene but were unable to determine whose it was. A spokesperson for Soulja Boy had no comment on the arrest at press time. It was unknown what video the rapper, who frequently posts viral videos on his Web site, was shooting before the incident. Soulja hit Twitter on Friday (October 9) to move his fans' focus from the jail stint to Saturday's BET Awards. "To all my fans, I just wanna put this behind me!" he tweeted. "I'm not going back to jail!! Let's focus on the BET Awards! :)" [This story was originally published at 12:10 pm E.T. on 10.09.2009] Related Artists |
| 'New Moon' Soundtrack Clips Hit The Web Posted: 08 Oct 2009 11:29 PM PDT British Amazon site posts 30-second clips of all songs of soundtrack from second 'Twilight' film.
It's not a leak, but the site British Amazon.com has given fans an unexpected preview of the hotly anticipated "New Moon" soundtrack (which hits stores on October 20) by posting a 30-second snippet of each song on the album. Which means that, if you were wondering what Thom Yorke's "Hearing Damage" or the Killers' "A White Demon Love Song" sounds like, you're in luck! (BTW, the answers are "An outtake from The Eraser" and "Lou Reed," respectively.) Based on these clips, Lykke Li's "Possibility" evokes a hazy fever dream, Muse's "New Moon" remix of "I Belong to You" (the original version of which appears on their just-released album The Resistance) is a stately minuet, Bon Iver and St. Vincent's "Rosyln" is hushed and churchly, and OK Go's "Shooting the Moon" — with its weird sound effects — reminds us a whole lot of a Flaming Lips track. The Friday unveiling of snippets from the "New Moon" soundtrack is a fitting way to cap off what's already been a pretty huge week for members of Twilight Nation. On Wednesday, after months of hype, the video for the first single off the album — Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me on the Equinox" — premiered on MTV, and fans of the series responded with gusto (though they would've preferred more shirtless Robert Pattinson, to be honest). And MTV News will have lots more about the soundtrack in a series of articles that begin publishing on Monday! The Amazon preview only appears on the United Kingdom version of the site; at press time, the U.S. site did not contain any snippets of songs from the soundtrack. Related Photos Related Artists |
| Taylor Swift Relives High School In New Video For 'Fifteen' Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:44 PM PDT The clip debuts Friday night on CMT special 'Fifteen Swiftly-Made Videos.'
Taylor Swift is "Fifteen" all over again in the new music video for her song of the same name. The video will make its official debut Friday night (October 9) on CMT after a special about the singer titled "Fifteen Swiftly-Made Videos." The 90-minute special will include Swift's entire video collection, including fan favorites like "Teardrops on My Guitar," "Love Story" and the VMA-winning "You Belong With Me." It will also include performances from other CMT specials like "Studio 330 Sessions" and "CMT Crossroads: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift," reports JustJared.com.
The "Fifteen" video, however, has already found its way online. In it, Swift, in her signature curls, a little white dress and barefoot, travels through a dreamlike montage of scenes from high school. The video also includes her friend Abigail, who much of the lyrics are about, as they go through various situations of teen life, including having your heart broken by a boy. Throughout most of the video Swift plays her acoustic guitar, moving through fields and through various surreal scenes of high school life while singing about how in high school you think your first boyfriend is so important until you realize you want to do other things with your life. It ends with Swift in the real world, all grown up, looking at the student she once was. Swift plans to re-release Fearless, the album that "Fifteen" is on, later this month; the re-release will include several new songs. When she originally put out the LP last November, she spoke to MTV News about how the songs were inspired by her own life. "I like to write personal songs," she said. "I like to write songs that are very obviously about people. It's kind of hard to change your stripes. I like to write songs about love, and I like to write songs about relationships, and I like to write songs about boys." Related Artists |
| 'Glow In The Dark' Book To Show Kanye West Behind The Scenes Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:53 AM PDT 'I really wanted to show Kanye as a person,' collaborator Nabil Elderkin says of upcoming photography tome.
Kanye West's frequent collaborator, photographer and video director Nabil Elderkin, is excited for fans to see what went on behind the scenes of the Glow in the Dark tour. A little over a year and a half ago, West embarked on the most ambitious hip-hop tour in history, an effort that would make him one of the biggest stars in music. Soon the famed Glow in the Dark tour will be making a comeback, albeit in the form of a 288-page book, accompanying live music CD and a Web-based art video. On Friday, Kanye took to his blog with stills of the upcoming project, saying, "This is the photo book from the Glow in the Dark Tour. Nabil captured the experience like crazy! When I look at the photos it brings me right back to that time! It's very emotional for me because I didn't want to have to tour but my pain brought my greatest creation to date. Thank you to everybody who came to the shows and experienced this moment in time with me!" The book will be a sequential journey through the trek, made up of initial set-design sketches by West himself with behind-the-scenes and performance photos by Elderkin, the director behind West's "Champion," "Welcome to Heartbreak" and "Paranoid" videos. "He was like, 'Hey, Nabil, check out what I'm doing,' and me just going, 'Wow! This is crazy,' " Elderkin said of Kanye's invite to join the project. "I mean, it was a bold move — just him onstage and the lighting. He was scoring the music specifically for the tour so you were being put through an orchestral journey. He took it musically beyond anything that's ever been done." And so he set out to capture this spectacle, shooting six or seven shows' worth of material at various points on the tour. But what Elderkin found to be most telling was capturing Kanye the person, the man he is offstage. "There is a lot of really cool behind-the-scenes stuff that I think people will really appreciate," Elderkin offered. "Apart from these beautiful stage shots, I really wanted to show Kanye as a person. He eats. He goes for jogs. He shoots hoops. He does a lot of things." While most of the media focuses on Kanye West the music icon, Elderkin said images capturing West's humanity would prove to be the most revealing. "There is one of the stills which is him at Sydney Opera House — this is right after his mother passing — he still had his 'Mama' inscription in his hair, That was one of those moments where he's just reflecting," Nabil recalled. "And then two minutes later he grabbed my skateboard and went for a skate!" In addition to the photographs, Elderkin is working on an accompanying video to be released on the Web. "I'm putting together a little art video that goes along with this book that's gonna be on the Web in the next couple of weeks. It's gonna be like the book in motion. It's gonna have a 3-D model book that I made. It will be kinda like a music video to the tour. It should be really cool." "Glow in the Dark" will be available October 20. Related Artists |
| Alicia Keys To Release <i>The Element Of Freedom</i> In December Posted: 08 Oct 2009 11:40 PM PDT 'The music is really strong ... but my voice is vulnerable and delicate,' Keys says of her As I Am follow-up.
With the single "Doesn't Mean Anything" already out, Alicia Keys is set to release her fourth album, The Element of Freedom, on December 1. For the follow-up to 2007's As I Am, the singer worked with longtime collaborator Kerry "Krucial" Brothers along with Grammy-winning producer Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West, Jay-Z). "The music is really strong, and the drums are really aggressive, but my voice is vulnerable and delicate," Keys said in a statement, adding that the album sum ups her process of "eliminating all of the boundaries and all the limitations, so that you can feel your freedom and express your freedom in every way you possibly can, and that's what I did with this album." When MTV News caught up with Keys last month, she hadn't yet pinned down a name for the album but spoke openly and enthusiastically about its lead single, the video for which will premiere on PerezHilton.com on October 16 before hitting other sites the next day. "The sound of it is very different — it almost feels like you're flying," she said of the track. "It takes you there. It has that piano, heavy-drum feeling. But the song touches you in this way. You dream of having all these things, you dream of going all these places. But what's the point of doing that, having that, if the one you want to be there isn't with you?" Keys said the album is diverse but has an overarching pattern. "There's a feeling theme," she explained. "And I think somewhere in there, there's a balance. It's like one side is strong and one side is vulnerable. So that's the theme throughout the album. It has this kind of strong, edgy feel. But it's also intimate and vulnerable and delicate." The singer can currently be heard on Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 track "Empire State of Mind." Related Artists |
| Taylor Lautner Shows Off His Bod In <i>Rolling Stone</i> Shoot Posted: 09 Oct 2009 09:33 AM PDT Photos show 'Twilight' star shirtless on the beach.
Earlier this week, "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner, who packed on some Popeye-style muscles to hang onto the role of Jacob Black in "New Moon," admitted that showing off his new bod on the big screen and in shirtless photo shoots has become uncomfortable. "It's embarrassing for me," Lautner told BoxOffice.com. "And I'm sure it's awkward for [my family]. I'm hoping that [I don't get teased by my family] because I'll start blushing."
It seems like the teasing might start soon. Pictures of Lautner's flesh-baring Rolling Stone photo shoot have surfaced on the Web in advance of their publication in the magazine. Snapped by renowned photographer Mark Seliger (who shot Megan Fox's October RS cover), the photos show Lautner shirtless on a beach, a white T-shirt tucked into his back pocket, a leather football in his hands. Other photos show him straddling a motorcycle parked on the sand and running through waves with the pigskin tucked under his arm. There are also several photos of the actor flipping through the air, a pose he's shown off on the "Eclipse" set in Vancouver. In August, "Eclipse" director David Slade posted a pic to his Twitter account of Lautner — shirtless again — executing a flip in the middle of a forest. The motorcycle also fits into the context of the "Twilight" universe: In "New Moon," Lautner's Jacob teaches Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) how to ride one. With "New Moon" hitting theaters on November 20, the opportunity — or the requirement — to doff his shirt and bare his abs in the name of movie promotion won't be going away. According to Lautner, though, Robert Pattinson deserves a couple of revealing photo shoots as well. "Rob, he's getting some muscle," Lautner told MTV News in September, adding that his co-star is in no need of workout advice. "No, he definitely doesn't need any pointers at all. He's got it covered." Check out everything we've got on "Twilight: New Moon." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Related Photos |
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