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- Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson Big Winners At American Music Awards
- Exclusive: Lupe Fiasco Dropping New Mixtape On Thanksgiving
- Adam Lambert Delivers On Promise Of 'Sexy' AMA Performance
- Are You Britney Spears' Biggest Fan? We Want You!
- Lady Gaga Shatters Glass, Braves Flames At American Music Awards
- Britney Spears Left 'Very Little To The Imagination' In 'Toxic' Video
- Lady Gaga Gets 'Dark' On <i>The Fame Monster</i>
- Eminem And 50 Cent Deliver Knockouts At American Music Awards
- Adam Lambert, Nicole Kidman Are Best Dressed On American Music Awards Red Carpet
- Jay-Z, Alicia Keys Rock American Music Awards With 'Empire State Of Mind'
| Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson Big Winners At American Music Awards Posted: 23 Nov 2009 09:31 AM PST Whitney Houston also took home the International Artist of the Year trophy at the ceremony.
Taylor Swift took home five awards, including Artist of the Year, at the 37th American Music Awards on Sunday night (November 22), but the evening was truly dominated by a series of memorable performances from some of the biggest names in the business. During the three-hour live show at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Eminem, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, Shakira, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Lopez, Green Day and Adam Lambert all took the stage. Beating out the likes of Michael Jackson, Gaga and Eminem for Artist of the Year, Swift accepted her award via video link-up from London, where she was in the middle of a late-night rehearsal. "Music has never been openly about competition and to even be mentioned in a category with Michael Jackson, who will be missed and loved forever, is an unimaginable honor," she said. Michael Jackson won in the Favorite Male Artist Soul/R&B and Favorite Male Artist Pop/Rock categories among his four wins for the night. Wearing a single sparkling glove, his brother Jermaine accepted each award, stressing that his late brother's message was just as important as his music. "The message that Michael had will live on forever," he said. "He saw good in everyone and he wanted everyone to do good. He always started with love." One of the more eye-popping performances of the night belonged to Lady Gaga. Starting off with her newest single, "Bad Romance," the singer matched a flesh-colored bodysuit with flashing white accessories that mimicked a rib cage and some sort of arty antlers, which she soon ditched to let her blond locks free. She then picked up her mic stand and smashed open a glass enclosure housing a piano. She climbed up, sat down and played "Speechless" while flames enveloped the wooden instrument and she smashed empty liquor bottles against the keys.
Rihanna began "Wait Your Turn," the second single off her album Rated R, strapped to a rotating metal frame that turned her upside down. Unstrapped by some helpful dancers, the white-body-suited singer sauntered across the stage, showing off some spiky shoulder pads in the process. Jay-Z and Alicia Keys were on hand on the West Coast to present current Billboard Hot 100 topper "Empire State of Mind." Keys began with a little ode to the iconic song, "New York, New York," as Jay stood by her piano in a white tux. By the end, both stars were standing together as the crowd waved their hands in the air. Keys returned to the stage later for a solo performance of "Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart." Even later, Jay got another turn as well when he won Favorite Male Artist, Rap/Hip-Hop. Well into the show's third hour, Eminem and 50 Cent arrived for bleep-heavy versions of "Crack a Bottle" and "Forever." The Black Eyed Peas put on a laser light-assisted medley of songs including "Meet Me Halfway" and "Boom Boom Pow." Will.I.Am sported a futuristic outfit and strapped a huge white keytar to his body. Half an hour before, the band beat out Kings of Leon and Nickelback for Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo or Group, a category in which they also triumphed in 2005. Swift's other AMA wins included Favorite Female Country Artist (over Reba McEntire and Underwood) and Favorite Female Artist Pop/Rock (beating out Lady Gaga and Beyoncé). Introducing the latter award, Aerosmith's Perry complimented the nominees chart-topping hits, saying, "That's as high as you can get." "Wanna bet?" deadpanned fellow presenter Snoop Dogg. Dolled up in a short gold outfit, Underwood sang "Cowboy Casanova" as dancers vamped around her and the country star stood on an illuminated platform. Shakira came out with a fierce stomping routine to accompany "Give It Up To Me," a rendition that had her dancers sashaying through the aisles and graphics of the trendiest military march imaginable on screens behind the singer. Just minutes before, Daughtry played "Life After You," a slow-burning single off the band's Billboard chart-topping second album, Leave This Town. Green Day contributed one of the night's hardest rocking performances with "21 Guns," tempered by liberal use of acoustic guitar and piano solos. Jennifer Lopez enlisted a boxing ring announcer for her new song "Louboutins," complete with actual boxing ring, championship belt and dancers dressed as fighters. Earlier, accompanied by a small contingent of string instruments, an elegant Kelly Clarkson sang a stripped-down version of "Already Gone" that built in intensity as her band kicked in and the "American Idol" winner stood in a black velvet and crystal-adorned gown. A couple commercial breaks later, Mary J. Blige performed "I Am." Whitney Houston was honored with the International Artist of the Year award, joining only six other winners — such as Michael Jackson — in the history of the AMAs. The diva then took the stage in a floor-length white dress to sing a powerful version of "I Didn't Know My Own Strength." Janet Jackson kicked off the evening with a nearly eight-minute medley, bounding across the stage with choreographed moves alongside backup dancers to snippets of "Control," "Miss You Much," "If," "Together Again" and her new single, "Make Me." "American Idol" star Adam Lambert closed the show with provocative — to put it mildly — version of his single, "For Your Entertainment," in which he danced within an enormous picture frame and showed off the vocal dexterity that made him a star on the TV talent show earlier in the year. Presenters included Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, Kate Hudson (who seemed to be worried her silver dress would lead to a wardrobe malfunction), Nicole Kidman, Kristen Bell, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Kris Allen, Ne-Yo, Perez Hilton, Drake, Kid Cudi, Samuel L. Jackson, Leona Lewis, Seth Greene and Ryan Seacrest. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Exclusive: Lupe Fiasco Dropping New Mixtape On Thanksgiving Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:02 AM PST 'It's really to get that status and lock it in,' he tells Mixtape Daily of yet-untitled tape.
The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive Our Main Pick of the week had t be pushed back to Tuesday. Lupe Fiasco dropped a jewel to the Mixtape Daily famo on the red carpet of Diddy's 40th birthday bash. Lu is putting out a mixtape Thanksgiving night. Damn, Giants football and a Lupe mixtape after dinner? If only Vince McMahon still put on the Survivor Series on Thanksgiving too. Guess you can't have it all. Back to Lupe. He told us he was inspired by the MTV News' Hottest MCs in the Game list, and he's about to go ham on the industry.
"The last six months, it's been like, 'I gotta really, really go out there and show that I'm nicer than all of them,' " Lupe said. "It's like, 'All right, so be it. If it takes three more albums to do it, then so be it.' That's what I got left with Atlantic. Three more after Lasers. I'm already done with two. The mixtape is coming Thanksgiving. It'll be another mixtape after that and an album after that. It's really to get that status and lock it in and [and have people] be like, 'Look at this positive dude, the underdog. The positive one who came and murdered all these dudes. And he's there, and he's good.' " Lupe said he isn't concerned about what he has to do — he's going to prove he's the best. "I'm finnin' to house every single mode and arena I can get into," Fiasco promised. "If y'all had somewhere where it's live performances, I'm finnin to have the best live performances. If it's mixtapes, I'm finnin' to have the best mixtapes. If it's albums again, it's gonna be the best verse. If it's the best dressed, I'm going hard as well." Lupe said the yet-untitled mixtape will be him going in over other MCs' beats. "I got four days to figure it out," he said about the title. "I've been dabbling with some names. I don't know yet." Concerning the production, Lupe said he's not going to let any original production go. "Why waste it?" he said. "I still got my plan. I'm not finnin' to diverge off my plan and my career and how I wanna roll my music out." For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines. Related Videos |
| Adam Lambert Delivers On Promise Of 'Sexy' AMA Performance Posted: 22 Nov 2009 08:50 AM PST 'American Idol' star slinks through 'For Your Entertainment.'
With Lady Gaga smashing glass and wearing complicated headgear, Rihanna taking a sci-fi trip to the dark side and Jay-Z and Alicia Keys earning a key to the city with their homage to New York, what's a poor glam-rock boy to do?
But, good to his word, Adam Lambert — the man with the silver nail polish and the golden glint in his eyes — brought the "sexy" vibe he promised at Sunday night's American Music Awards. "It's gonna be sexy, I think," he told MTV News last week about the event, praising the wardrobe (barely) worn by his five male and female dancers. Backed by his "For Your Entertainment" video band, Lambert didn't just borrow them for the performance: He made them a centerpiece to his homage to the Ray Kay-directed video for the song. In the process, the "American Idol" runner-up presented what might be the most NSFW performance in the history of the AMAs, one that frequently crossed the border from sexy to rather graphic, and which put some previous provocative awards-show appearances by Madonna to shame. His named emblazoned in giant letters on the screen behind him, Lambert, hair thrust up in a towering pompadour and dressed in a shiny silver suit with spiky studs on one shoulder and studded gloves, wailed through a moody gothic piano intro that ended with one of his signature rebel yells. And then the dance beats kicked in. Spinning a female dancer around and then dragging her across the stage as he swiveled his hips suggestively, Lambert closed a night of eye-popping performances with a few sights that have likely never been seen on the AMA stage. At one point, he slunk along to the song's throbbing beat and dropped the line, "Don't be afraid, I'mma hurt ya real good," while walking two scantily clad male dancers across the stage.
And then there was the bit shortly after where he grabbed another male dancer's head and thrust it into his gyrating crotch as the camera quickly cut away. A female dancer got the same treatment on the way up a staircase for a sprawling, shiny silver set that resembled a post-apocalyptic "Hollywood Squares" of the future, and another placed her hand on his privates before Lambert did a tuck-and-roll across the scaffolding and grabbed a cane for no apparent reason. Lambert was then surrounded by female dancers wearing various kinds of barely there fishnet and leather outfits, who crawled across the stage suggestively while he sat on a giant chair/stripper-pole throne and forcefully fondled the leather outfit painted onto the pole dancer. There were a few more tongue-wagging yelps, a half dozen more hip-level gyrations, a back-of-the-head-grabbing kiss with a male keyboard player, some fireworks, another lung-busting scream — and then Lambert, panting, stared into the camera with a look that mixed defiance with exhaustion. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Are You Britney Spears' Biggest Fan? We Want You! Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:02 AM PST Winner gets a copy of Britney Spears: The Singles Collection!
Are you Britney Spears' biggest, most enthusiastic fan? Want to prove it? Want to win a copy of Britney Spears: The Singles Collection? Of course you do! Well, we here at MTV News are giving you the chance to prove that you are her fan numero uno. How? Submit a short video demonstrating why you are Britney's biggest fan. Shoot the videos on your phone or webcam or whatever, and submit them — by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, December 7 — to Your.MTV.com. Videos should be approximately 30 seconds long and must include contact information, but beyond that, all bets are off! Make up a dance or a song (remember, you can't use copyrighted songs!), paint a picture, tell a story — get creative! We'll take a look at all the videos, and if you manage to convince us that you're Britney's biggest fan, you'll win your very own copy of Britney Spears: The Singles Collection! The album includes all of her biggest hits, including " ... Baby One More Time," "(You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!)," "I'm a Slave 4 U," Toxic" and "Oops! ... I Did It Again" and many more, including her latest single, "3." We'll announce the winner at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, December 8. So put on your thinking caps, turn on your cameras, show us why you love Britney — and the prize can be yours! Good luck! With the release of Britney Spears: The Singles Collection, MTV News is looking back on the pop star's career through interviews with video directors, music-industry insiders and Spears herself, as she reflects on some of her greatest hits. Keep coming back for all things Britney, and let us know your favorite Brit songs, videos, memories and more in the comments below! Related Videos |
| Lady Gaga Shatters Glass, Braves Flames At American Music Awards Posted: 22 Nov 2009 07:18 AM PST Singer does all her own stunts during daring performance.
If you weren't aware of the fact that Lady Gaga's performances tend to be rather, well, over the top, her Sunday night (November 22) showcase at the American Music Awards certainly did the trick. Gaga brought the audience to its feet with a fiery, fierce performance of a pair of songs from her upcoming The Fame Monster album (don't call it a reissue) that saw her dance, strut, smash and very nearly suffer third-degree burns to her lower extremities.
You know, all in a night's work. Gaga started things off with "Bad Romance," wearing a glittering, H.R. Geiger-inspired headpiece and a nude bodysuit, flanked by six pansexual dancers who cavorted and whirled around her. She belted out the high notes, then cast the headpiece aside to get down to some herky-jerky dance moves (no doubt inspired by the "Romance" video), then collapsed to the floor while her dancers crawled behind her. Suddenly, the music stopped, the crowd squealed with delight and Gaga smiled. The she grabbed her mic stand, walked over to her piano (which was encased in glass) and proceeded to smash her way inside. Surrounded by shards of glass, she straddled the piano bench and began playing the opening refrain of the somber "Speechless," all while her piano erupted in flames. Unfazed, she kept playing as a pair of gas-mask wearing violinists (also encased in glass) added accompaniment. As the song reached its crescendo, Gaga grabbed for a slew of bottles and, to add to each stab of the violin, she smashed them on the piano. The crowd whooped with delight. The song ended with Gaga striking a pose, her piano still flaming, her body covered in pieces of glass. Naturally, she got a standing ovation. Amazingly, she wasn't seriously injured. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Britney Spears Left 'Very Little To The Imagination' In 'Toxic' Video Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:02 AM PST 'Britney said she wanted to shoot a scene wearing diamonds and nothing else,' director Joseph Kahn recalls.
When Britney Spears shot the video for "Toxic" in 2003, she had already started to play with her image and was emerging as a pop vixen. When the clip for "Toxic," the second single from In the Zone, was released, fans saw Spears as a spy out to seek revenge on her lover. "It's basically about a girl addicted to a guy," Spears told MTV in 2003. "I really like 'Toxic.' It's an upbeat song. It's really different, that's why I like it so much. This villain girl, she'll do anything to get what she wants. She goes through different obstacles."
For the video, Britney seems to be a flight attendant, but she's actually a secret agent in disguise. "The plot is pretty nonsensical," director Joseph Kahn told MTV News. "It's just fun. [It's like] James Bond flicks and sex." That combination only got better when Britney appeared in a suit made of nude material covered in diamonds. "Britney said she wanted to shoot a scene wearing diamonds and nothing else, and I'm like, 'How do I make this work?' " Kahn said. "She said she wanted to dance. I didn't like the bikini she was wearing." Instead, the pair opted to leave very little to the imagination. "Joseph's very ambitious. He's a professional," Britney said. "I came up with the concept and threw it out there. ... There are jewels all over my body. There's nothing actually underneath." With the release of Britney Spears: The Singles Collection, MTV News is looking back on the pop star's career through interviews with video directors, music-industry insiders and Spears herself, as she reflects on some of her greatest hits. Keep coming back for all things Britney, and let us know your favorite Brit songs, videos, memories and more in the comments below! Related Videos Related Photos |
| Lady Gaga Gets 'Dark' On <i>The Fame Monster</i> Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:02 AM PST 'It's yin and yang,' singer says of the mood of the first album compared to Monster.
Lady Gaga may have been obsessed with fame on her first album, The Fame, but on The Fame Monster, she's stepping back a bit. She's already achieved supreme fame and is now looking for something more — a taste of the life she had before she took over the pop world. When she sat down to create the concept for the album, she wanted to make sure the look was darker and edgier than anything she'd done before. "I had lots of arguments with my record labels about my album covers because they were sort of classic and simple," she told MTV News. "And there's this one image of me with very dark hair, crying, and they're like, 'It's so dark and nobody's going to understand.' "
However, Gaga knew that her fans would get it. "I said, 'I don't want to do a really glamorous photo of me rubbing myself like every other blond girl.' I want my fans to see this image and say, 'I feel just like she feels." ' " So why go from glossy blond to weeping brunette? It's simple: "It's yin and yang. It's 'This is how I feel. I feel divided. I feel a dichotomy within myself. I am ready for the future, but I mourn the past,' " she explained. "And it's a very real rite of passage — you have to let go of things. You have to mourn them like a death so that you can move on, and that's sort of what the album is about." Related Videos Related Photos |
| Eminem And 50 Cent Deliver Knockouts At American Music Awards Posted: 22 Nov 2009 08:04 AM PST The two hip-hop heavyweights share the AMA stage.
Emimen strode out onto the American Music Awards' stage on Sunday night (November 22), looking very much like a prizefighter ready to deliver a knockout. "In this corner, weighing 175 pounds, with a record of 17 rapes, 400 assaults and four murders," Em shouted, channeling his inner Michael Buffer, "The most diabolical human in the world ... Slim Shady."
He then launched headlong into a hulking version of "Crack a Bottle," delivering lines like body blows, bobbing and weaving across the stage, his face covered by a hood. Em spit with fire and hunger, and the crowd nodded their heads with the beat and went nuts when Em welcomed a very special guest to the stage: none other than another heavyweight brawler, 50 Cent. The two exchanged daps in the middle of the stage and then 50 got to work on his verse, looking lean and mean in a stocking cap and bubble vest. 50 disappeared just as quickly as he'd arrived, and Em's DJ cut "Bottle" short, flipping instead into the chorus of Drake's massive hit "Forever." The crowd threw their hands in the air and Eminem, now with his hood removed and his eyes scanning the audience, dove into his verse of the song. The censors got on most of his lines, but there were sill jokes about macadamia nuts and fromunda cheese (we told you he was hungry). Then, at the end of his tight verse, he thrust his fist into the air as the crowd cheered wildly, further proving he's still the champ. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Adam Lambert, Nicole Kidman Are Best Dressed On American Music Awards Red Carpet Posted: 22 Nov 2009 07:14 AM PST Rihanna, Shakira, Fergie also make bold statements on Sunday night.
Any good music awards show should give its musicians the chance to show off their very individual styles. And when the stars showed up at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night (November 22), there were a few standouts who chose to express themselves on the red carpet as much as they do in song.
Adam Lambert loves to go glam every once in awhile (or always). And the singer's sleek, chic Elvis throwback look, complete with the King's hairstyle and a sharp suit, showed Lambert's cool sense of self. Nicole Kidman, there with husband Keith Urban, represented for the non-musicians and looked absolutely stunning in her pink-and-taupe tiered Balenciaga gown. She was Hollywood in the sea of rock and pop stars. Maybe that wasn't the point, but it worked. Rihanna took a risk with a black-and-white dress with an unusual hemline, stiff neckline, and rosette cutouts. In many ways, it wasn't very Rihanna — it almost felt too girly. But then again, there isn't one specific Rihanna look, and all she has to do is smile with confidence and she pulls it off. Honorable mentions go to Shakira, who dazzled in a sassy yellow dress, which fit her well, proving the importance of tailoring in a red-carpet look. Fergie's dress may have been reminiscent of the one Shakira and Pink wore to the VMAs earlier this year, but it looked so amazing on her that it's worth repeating. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Jay-Z, Alicia Keys Rock American Music Awards With 'Empire State Of Mind' Posted: 22 Nov 2009 06:35 AM PST Keys begins song with excerpt of 'New York, New York.'
The #1 single in the country got a royal introduction Sunday night (November 22) at the American Music Awards. New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez had the honor of telling the audience that Jay-Z and Alicia Keys were taking the stage. "It's been a great year for New York," A-Rod said. "We took the World Series ..."
Some people in the audience started to boo — after all, the awards are taking place in Los Angeles, Dodger and Angel territory, and the Bronx Bombers defeated the Angels on their way to their World Series championship. "I'm proud to present one of New York's finest, my friend Jay-Z and Alicia Keys." After the intro, Keys was on the main stage, accompanying herself on the piano while she sang "New York, New York," the classic made world-famous by Frank Sinatra. Meanwhile, the man who says he's the the modern-day version of Ol' Blue Eyes leaned on the piano, wearing a white tux jacket, black pants, a bow tie and sunglasses. After a few moments, the beat for "Empire State of Mind" kicked in and most of the audience rose to their feet. Mary J. Blige, Perez Hilton, Whitney Houston and many others were seen dancing in the audience. "Concrete jungle where dreams are made ..." Meanwhile, Jay remained as cool as family of polar bears, rapping most of the song with the mic in his right hand and his left in his pocket. "If Jeezy is paying LeBron, I'm paying Dwyane Wade." The words "New York" scrolled across screens on the stage, while a battery of men and women dressed in elegant finery played grand pianos. As the song came to an end, Alicia joined Jay at the front of the stage. She wore an all-black ensemble that revealed most of her back. As Keys hit the song's last notes, she threw up the "I love you" sign while Jay stood with both arms outstretched. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
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