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- Lady Gaga Wants Fans To 'Feel Alive' During Monster Ball Show
- Black Eyed Peas' Fergie Picks Her Favorite Artists Of 2009
- Pussycat Dolls Hope To Work With Fergie On Next Album
- 2009 In 60 Seconds: Relive Lady Gaga's Breakout, 'New Moon' Fever, More
| Lady Gaga Wants Fans To 'Feel Alive' During Monster Ball Show Posted: 23 Dec 2009 06:54 AM PST Singer says fans 'don't leave loving me, they leave loving themselves.'
With her far-out costumes and jaw-dropping performances, Lady Gaga probably strikes many people as nothing more than a character. But the singer, currently out on her Monster Ball Tour, tells MTV News that her vision for the tour goes far beyond being eye candy and revolves entirely around her fans. She says she ultimately wants nothing less than to change the lives of her audience.
"No, it's not a character, but what it is ... it's a devotion and a loyalty to the music, and preparing myself for the moment so that I may fully be free and fully give myself to the audience," Gaga told MTV News. "There's so many things that we have to do," she continued, explaining her pre-show mindset. "We have to free our insecurities so that we can be strong and powerful; we have to be centered. Our throats have to be cleared so we can speak eloquently. My voice must be warmed up; my mind has to be rested and focused so that I don't fall off the stage, or I don't lean the wrong way." Whether onstage or off, the singer hopes to continue to create a connection that'll make fans "feel alive." "What I do is, in essence, create an atmosphere for my fans where they don't leave loving me, they leave loving themselves," the singer explained. The theme of Gaga's Fame Monster is a big part of helping her create that performer/ audience relationship. "When I say things like, 'Do you love me? Do you want to f--- me? Come on, Hollywood, take my picture,' it's the ultimate epitome of what that fame monster is," she said. "And somehow, if you make fun of it or you make it a bit more tangible, fame is something that my fans can have for themselves. It's not quite so poisonous." Gaga noted that her onstage progression provides the narrative to the tour, which hit San Diego earlier this week. "I'm evolving through time. As a fashion story, the clothing begins in the sort of warbly, blue amoebic state, with lots of light, and it's kind of spacey, and then I grow bones, and then I grow hair, and then I grow horns, and then I become a sexy, full-bodied woman in a world full of war and military," she described. "And then I become myself, by the end of the show, and it's this sort of apocalyptic rebirth when I appear in the orbit and I've done it again." The Monster Ball Tour is currently being revamped, and the new show will hit the U.K. in February. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Black Eyed Peas' Fergie Picks Her Favorite Artists Of 2009 Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:12 AM PST The first lady of the six-time Grammy nominated group shares what she's been listening to.
The Black Eyed Peas had a positively colossal 2009, and that's putting it mildly. They topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 26 consecutive weeks with back-to-back singles "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling," breaking a record that had stood since the mid-'90s. Their album The E.N.D. debuted at #1 on the Billboard albums chart, has sold more than 1.5 million copies to date and, as the year drew to a close, earned them six Grammy nominations. Over the past few weeks, MTV News has been asking some of the biggest names in music to name their favorite artists, songs and albums of the past year, and it isn't exactly surprising — given their general largesse in '09 — that pretty much everybody has mentioned the Peas. They were inescapable — and the music industry definitely noticed. And while they've earned tons of praise from their fellow artists, the Black Eyed Peas are quick to return the props. You'd think, given the hectic year they had, that the Peas wouldn't have had time to discover any other acts, but you'd be wrong — something we found out when we caught up with the group's first lady, the lovely Fergie, and asked her to name some of her faves of 2009. She only had a minute (it was on a red carpet, after all), but she still managed to name quite a few. Artists of the Year For the year's top artists, movies, shows and even fights, head to MTV's Best of 2009. And make your voice heard by submitting your own year-end lists to Your.MTV.com! |
| Pussycat Dolls Hope To Work With Fergie On Next Album Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:12 AM PST Group founder Robin Antin says another Snoop Dogg collaboration is also possible.
The Pussycat Dolls may be looking for a few new faces to join Nicole Scherzinger and co., but they're also looking for a few big names to collaborate with on their next album. Work is already under way on the group's follow-up to their 2008 album, Doll Domination, and the group's creator, Robin Antin, admits there's one Black Eyed Pea she'd love to get on board for a song or two. "As far as women, I'd love to do a collaboration with Fergie," Antin told MTV News. "I think having her on an album would be incredible and something I've always wanted to do."
Antin would also like to see Snoop Dogg, who worked with the group on past singles "Bottle Pop" and "Buttons," rejoin the ladies to see what kind of chemistry they can cook up this time around. "You never know, maybe Snoop will come back," she said. "He's always someone we love." Although the record is still in its early phases, Antin said fans will be pleased with the direction the group's sound is taking. "A couple of the songs right now that we're working on are absolutely incredible," she said. "Fun and definitely like a cool, unique sound. It's definitely new and fresh, and I think everyone's going to love it for sure." The album's feel isn't the only thing that will be "new and fresh." Antin also revealed that the group's lineup will have a few shakeups. "It's Nicole and ... a couple new faces. Some of the girls want to go and do their own thing. We're moving on. We're excited," she said. "We're looking at new girls. It's phase three of the Pussycat Dolls because we did our first album, our second album, and now we're going on to our third. We're touring. ... A lot is coming up." |
| 2009 In 60 Seconds: Relive Lady Gaga's Breakout, 'New Moon' Fever, More Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:12 AM PST MTV News' Jim Cantiello squeezes a year's worth of WTFs into one minute.
Summing up 2009 in one minute is kind of like trying to convince Lady Gaga to go to dinner in flats, jeans, a ratty T-shirt and no makeup: virtually impossible, but so totally worth trying. This was, after all, a year that began with the inauguration of the real Man From Hope, the country's first black president, Barack Obama, who took office promising lots of change and a whole new attitude in Washington. And while he hasn't yet gotten us out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and is still working on pulling us out of a gargantuan economic tailspin, we can at least take solace in the fact that those old fogies the Jonas Brothers were replaced by another New Kid on the Block, riot-causing tweener Justin Bieber.
At least that's how MTV News' Jim Cantiello sees things, and he should know, because he spent the year summing up just about every major event — from the inauguration to "American Idol" and the VMAs — in, you guessed it, 60 seconds or less. We waved goodbye to a lot of celebs this year: DJ AM, Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett and, of course, one of the most shocking passings in recent memory, the June death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Reality got extra real, and at times surreal, over the past 12 months, as we watched America's most hated couple, the Gosselins, break up in public, fretted for a few hours over whether Balloon Boy was in his dad's backyard spaceship, and couldn't get enough of the myriad remixes of Christian Bale's F-bomb-tastic on-set rant. Our short attention spans were tried by the ultimate ADD accessory, Twitter, which is where we first found out about everything this year, until some celebs (Miley Cyrus, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne) realized we were learning too much and pulled the plug on their accounts. It was also a year of comebacks (Britney, Whitney), fake-outs (Eminem getting a backwards greeting from Bruno) and redemption (the Mike Tyson documentary, "Tyson"). And while nobody was looking, Sandra Bullock become a box-office giant once again. While two of her flicks did surprisingly well, the real focus for most of the year was on the record-setting "Twilight" sequel, "New Moon," and "Titanic" director James Cameron's 3-D fantasia, "Avatar." On TV, "Project Runway" crashed, and Jay Leno dropped an atomic bomb on prime time when his five-nights-a-week talker sizzled for a few days and then flopped faster than an "American Pie" sequel. But the big news, of course, was "American Idol," where new judge Kara DioGuardi didn't totally ruin the show (but didn't really add anything either) and sometimes made it run way over schedule. The soft-spoken kid from Arkansas, Kris Allen, won out over season-long favorite Adam Lambert, the flamboyant crooner who has since announced the obvious (he's gay), shocked middle America at the AMAs (think men on leashes, man-on-man kissing) and beat his rival on the Billboard charts. Oh, and loopy judge Paula Abdul left the show, announcing her departure on — wait for it — Twitter, of course. Despite being a complete unknown when the year started, "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up Susan Boyle took the gold on the charts, as her debut album rang up nearly 2.5 million sales in the U.S. in its first month alone. Otherwise, though, the year (and the charts) belonged to country cutie Taylor Swift, who grabbed nearly every award there was, including the one Kanye West tried to take from her at the VMAs. MTV's Woman of the Year was Lady Gaga, who brought art and pop music together with theatrical masks, booty shorts and awards-show performances that featured blood, broken bottles and bubble dresses. On top of that, in the sports world, Olympic hero Michael Phelps was caught smoking a bong months after winning a record eight gold medals, and formerly squeaky-clean golf legend Tiger Woods was caught allegedly cheating on his wife with more than a dozen other women. Top that, 2010. Related Videos Related Photos |
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