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- 'Hope For Haiti' Telethon Boasts 'Amazing Performances,' George Clooney Says
- Wyclef Jean Will Bring 'Creole 101' To His 'Hope For Haiti' Performance
- George Clooney Marvels At All-Star 'Hope For Haiti' Phone Bank
- Swizz Beatz Contemplates Tracks For Upcoming T.I., Shyne Albums
- MGMT's <i>Congratulations</i>: Fuzz, Dancing And Russian Surfing In 2010
- Madonna, Bill Clinton, Many More Join 'Hope For Haiti' Lineup
- Swizz Beatz Recalls How 'Stranded,' Jay-Z/U2 Haiti Benefit Song, Came Together
- George Clooney Urges Haiti Telethon Viewers To Help In 'Whatever Way You Can'
- Nick Jonas, Adam Lambert, Scarlett Johansson Work For Haiti Relief
- Lady Gaga Showered With Hometown Love At New York Show
| 'Hope For Haiti' Telethon Boasts 'Amazing Performances,' George Clooney Says Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:57 AM PST All-star telethon airs Friday at 8 p.m. ET.
Throughout the harrowing coverage from Haiti, one moment stuck out in George Clooney's mind as the most powerful, and music played a large role. "When you think about [music] and you watch the footage of that woman who was pulled out of the rubble after six days with her husband and she lays on the stretcher and she starts singing," Clooney told MTV News the day before the "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon, airing Friday at 8 p.m. ET. "It's always been a strong connection and particularly in tragedies. I must say, it's been pretty amazing."
Major artists are set collaborate for the first time during the charitable event, from Jay-Z and Rihanna taking the stage with U2's Bono and The Edge in London to a jam featuring Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock and Keith Urban in Los Angeles. Joel Gallen, who is producing the massive production, said the musical acts are at the heart of the benefit. "I just think music is a very strong way to help people begin the healing process," Gallen said. "And I think it's a way to reflect feelings, and a lot of these artists have a lot of deep-rooted feelings that we all share. This is a way for them to express themselves through song, many of which are songs that they didn't even write or that they never even recorded. It's a special performance of a song that they love, that really reflects the emotion of their feeling that hopefully will be an impactful performance that will entice people, motivate people to want to help and contribute." In addition to airing on MTV and various other networks, an album of the performances and video of the telecast will also be available for purchase in the days following the event via the iTunes Music Store. Songs can be purchased individually, as well, from iTunes, and audio will be made available on Amazon and Rhapsody. Clooney thinks the opportunity to purchase the music afterward will help to extend the shelf life of the relief efforts beyond the one-night broadcast. "We're gonna have 18 songs, and you're gonna get to hear Jennifer Hudson sing a song you never heard her sing before," he said. "John Legend is singing 'Motherless Child'; it's just great. We're gonna have some amazing performances, and I think that's gonna make it last a little longer than just a telethon." Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Join George Clooney and Wyclef Jean for MTV's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, airing commercial-free Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET and visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now. Related Videos Related Photos | ||
| Wyclef Jean Will Bring 'Creole 101' To His 'Hope For Haiti' Performance Posted: 21 Jan 2010 08:59 AM PST 'It's gonna be historic,' Wyclef says of 'Hope for Haiti' telethon, airing Friday at 8 p.m. ET.
NEW YORK — Since last week's devastating earthquake struck his homeland of Haiti, Wyclef Jean has been tirelessly rallying support for relief for the ravaged country via his Yele Haiti foundation and many public calls for assistance. And, as one of the organizers of Friday night's "Hope for Haiti" telethon, he plans to incorporate some of the country's traditional music into his set. "I'mma start with 'Rivers of Babylon,' " Wyclef told MTV News during a break from rehearsals for the event on Thursday (January 21). "Then, after that, I'm gonna go to a traditional Creole song, one of my songs called 'Yele.' Then we're gonna close it out with some Racine. Racine is roots music of the country. Everybody loves Haiti. I haven't heard too many people speaking Creole yet. That's the Haitian language in French. Tomorrow night on my set, I'm gonna teach y'all Creole 101."
'Clef will be surrounded by family and loved ones during his set on Friday. "It's gonna be historic," Jean said. "I have my sister with me, Melky, my cousin with me, Jerry. I have [producer/musician] Papa Jube, he's in charge of those traditional horns that you see. It's definitely a family vibe you'll see tomorrow." George Clooney, who helped to organize "Hope for Haiti," said the telethon was spurred into action by a call from Wyclef. "I was in New York the evening it happened," he told MTV News on Thursday. "It happened at four or five o'clock, and I got a message from Wyclef that he's gonna go into the Dominican Republic and that it was much worse than what's initially been reported. We knew it was bad, but who knew how bad? And he said, 'Is there anything you can do?' So the next morning, I woke up and called Judy McGrath at MTV, and Judy said, 'We were thinking about doing something too,' so I said, 'Let's do it.' " On Wednesday, Wyclef appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and talked about the devastation in Haiti. "It's just like the seventh hell, and walking [around] there's two things: There's what you see at the airport and then there's inside the belly of the beast," he said. "The best I can explain it is for you to walk into a city and the entire city feels like walking into a morgue. For every two blocks, [there are] 15, 16 bodies on the floor — no plastic. People running through the city, babies in their hands, while their baby is dead. They're out of [medicine] at times. People are saying, 'My baby's gonna die,' not knowing their baby's already dead." "Hope for Haiti Now" will air commercial-free on MTV and many other networks on Friday at 8 p.m. ET. Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Join George Clooney and Wyclef Jean for MTV's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, airing commercial-free Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET and visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists | ||
| George Clooney Marvels At All-Star 'Hope For Haiti' Phone Bank Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:50 AM PST 'They're all coming up not to be on TV, but simply to answer the phones,' he says of telethon, which airs Friday at 8 p.m. ET.
It's not a complicated process. Donors simply call into the telethon and pledge various financial contributions to the person on the other end of the line. But instead of an everyday volunteer, "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief," which airs Friday at 8 p.m. ET, will feature some fans-favorite entertainers soliciting funds. "It'll be the biggest bank of faces that you recognize answering the phones," George Clooney told MTV News. "And that will be streamed live on the Web the entire time. So if you call and you get Daniel Day-Lewis on the line, you can wave at him, and you'll see him. It'll be kind of funny, actually. I told everyone to say they're Daniel Day-Lewis."
Clooney is hoping the star power will help the charitable effort reel in much-needed money for the survivors in Haiti. Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Madonna and Bruce Springsteen are among the superstars set to perform at the event, while President Bill Clinton, Will Smith and Muhammad Ali are some of the notable names who will make appearances. Clooney is thankful to all the stars who have volunteered their time in one way or another. He was particularly excited about those who will be manning the phones. "You got about 130 to 140 actors, athletes, singers and television hosts, and they're all coming up not to be on TV, but simply to answer the phones," he marveled. Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Join George Clooney and Wyclef Jean for MTV's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, airing commercial-free Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET and visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now. Related Videos Related Photos | ||
| Swizz Beatz Contemplates Tracks For Upcoming T.I., Shyne Albums Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:50 AM PST Super-producer tells Mixtape Daily he wants to make the 'best records' for his friends after their jail time.
Behind the Beats: Swizz Beatz, Part 2 Swizz Beatz's commitments are even more hectic than the last time we featured him in this section — the guy only touches U.S. soil for a brief stint these days. Luckily he stopped by our offices before jetting off to Paris and told us a bit about the next Jay-Z album. Swizz has huge things on the horizon, including a song for Haiti with Jigga and U2, a top-secret movie score, high-end art, clothing design and crafting a new, worldly sound for himself and other artists.
"I get the pressure cookers," Swizz says about record execs and artists calling him for must-need smash singles. "It's cool, because I been trained like that since day one. I came from that pressure with my uncles and everybody needed the singles not now, but right now. I'm there getting carpal tunnel in my hand, going in. That [work ethic] never leaves you." Current Greatness On Jay-Z's "On to the Next One": "That song was the last one of the album. I [originally] fell back off The Blueprint 3 because there were rumors about Timbaland working on the whole thing, rumors about Kanye working on the whole thing. I respected that. If they want to do that, I respected that. I'm on to the next one. I gotta respect Jay's creativity. If he wanted to have Kanye produce that whole record, let them have that. I know the next album we can hook up or whatever. [Me and Jay] got 11, 12 years in together — that's the homie. Since other people was on the album, I came in the loop at the last minute. [Jay] got on the phone like, 'I need one of them things.' I said, 'I'mma send you something. I don't have a whole bunch of joints I wanna send you. I got this one particular that I wanna send you.' I sent it to him. That was 'On to the Next One.' He said, 'That was crazy. It's "Drop It Like It's Hot" crazy.' I was super excited because I threw one dart and that dart hit the bull's-eye. That's amazing, being where I'm at in the industry where you can throw darts like that." Next Wave Of Flav On Young Jeezy's Upcoming Thug Motivation 103: "He just needs that thing to come out the gate like he never left. That's my job. I'm sure he's got some amazing joints. The songs I heard, they're Jeezy joints, but it's like, 'Hmmm, do I throw him on some Fela [Kuti] vibe with some crazy 808s and let him take a risk? Is it too much of a risk? Or do I play safe and do the easy hit that I know they gonna love?' But I can't keep doing that. It's getting me nowhere. The feeling, I'm numb. I want something I can feel, like, 'This joint I got coming out with Jeezy with the African bongos and the Indian instruments, the hook doing this right here — it's gonna change the game.' That's how I'm trying to walk in 2010." On DMX's Comeback LP: "It's still love. At the end of the day, it's about scheduling, timing — if it was just about going in the studio, we would have 50 albums done. But it's not about that; it's about a lot of personal things. I'm on this side of the world, he's on that side of the world — how do we come and meet?" On Drake's Debut Thank Me Later: "For Drake, I'm like, 'What you want? A party joint or you want another story joint? What you wanna do?' He said the smartest thing: 'We could shoot for a club thing but don't leave out anything else.' I like that. He's being open-minded, 'cause that means I'm comfortable with surfing in different areas musically. We could surf there, surf there, but don't box me in a corner, like, 'I need that #1 club smash right now.' " On T.I.'s 2010 Album: "That's the homie. I don't have nothing for him yet. His mind and his thought pattern before he went [to jail] is gonna be different from when he gets out. That man has been in the penitentiary at a time that was the height of his career — he might come out and not wanna use curses no more. He might come out and use more curses. I don't know. I can't create the sound for Tip that's based on 'Swing Ya Rag' and 'Bring Em Out' and all these things we've done unless it's his plan. He's gotta come out, [I] sit down with him, chill how we chill. I gotta do a couple of records with him. I can't be the first thing coming out." On Shyne's Comeback LP: "I'm rocking with Shyne. I need him to find himself a little bit. Not to say he don't know who he is, I just need him to vibe off a couple beats and be like, 'Swizz, these are four joints right here I been rocking with, me and Scott Storch or whoever. This is the lane I wanna go with.' Then I could digest those things and then I can come up with the best records for Tip, Shyne, for everybody. These are different techniques so I can use those darts." For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines. Related Videos | ||
| MGMT's <i>Congratulations</i>: Fuzz, Dancing And Russian Surfing In 2010 Posted: 22 Jan 2010 03:50 AM PST The group returns with a new album this year, but without any single releases.
It's hard to believe that Oracular Spectacular, the breakout album from Brooklyn psychedelic dance duo MGMT, originally came out way back in 2007, simply because it still remains inescapable today. Andrew Van Wyngarden and Ben Goldwasser have spent the past few years riding the wave of their infectious, fuzzy grooves to platinum success, and the irresistibility of the smash singles "Time to Pretend" and "Kids" has brought them major spots on high-profile festivals, a pair of Grammy nominations and praise from bloggers and soccer moms alike.
So what will the pair do for an encore? It's called Congratulations and, according to Van Wyngarden, it's in the can and waiting to be unleashed on the masses (which will be sometime in the spring). "It's definitely going to shock people," Van Wyngarden told Spin. "In a weird way, it's like a soul record." The group promises that it will be a more complete album — in fact, they are so confident in its existence as a whole that they won't be releasing any singles from it. "There definitely isn't a 'Time To Pretend' or a 'Kids' on the album," Goldwasser told NME. "We'd rather people hear the whole album as an album and see what tracks jump out rather than the ones that get played on the radio." Like Oracular Spectacular, the new album got a healthy dose of production help from David Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, OK Go), and this time around they brought in Spacemen 3 co-founder Pete Kember, who will no doubt lend even more fuzz and exploration to the proceedings. As for the lyrics, there are plenty more explorations of the psyche (and the chemical effects thereof), but there's also a healthy bit on surfing. In Brooklyn? "When we were making the first record, I didn't surf," Van Wyngarden told Spin. "But for whatever reason, I was dreaming about waves and surfing for about a year straight — so that made it into the lyrics and the imagery of the record. Then about a year ago, when we were recording Congratulations in Malibu, I started surfing. It's definitely a theme. There's one song called 'Siberian Breaks' and it's about 12 minutes long. The general theme is about surfing in the Arctic Circle by Russia." All that, and you can dance to it? Sounds like a recipe for spaced-out, head-nodding greatness, which is why we think Congratulations will be one of the key rock releases of 2010. It's Rock Week at MTV News, and to celebrate, we're taking a look at some of the most-anticipated new albums and bands of 2010. Stay tuned all week for more! Related Videos | ||
| Madonna, Bill Clinton, Many More Join 'Hope For Haiti' Lineup Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:15 AM PST Participants include President Bill Clinton, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Robert Pattinson, Tom Hanks and Will Smith.
Madonna, President Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Muhammad Ali have joined "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief," which airs Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT and 7 p.m. CT on MTV and many other networks.
In addition to musical performances, Wyclef Jean in New York City, George Clooney in Los Angeles, and CNN's Anderson Cooper reporting from Haiti, "Hope for Haiti Now" will also feature Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jon Stewart, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Samuel L. Jackson and more than 100 of the biggest names in film, television and music. Madonna (performing in New York) and Haitian artist Emeline Michel (in Los Angeles) will join the previously announced lineup of musical performances: Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira and Sting in New York; Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift and a group performance by Keith Urban, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow in Los Angeles; and Beyoncé, Coldplay, and a group performance by Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna in London. "Hope for Haiti Now" will begin accepting donations at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT on Friday via the following methods: » Online: www.hopeforhaitinow.org Music performances from "Hope for Haiti Now" will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store. Beginning on Friday, iTunes customers will be able to exclusively pre-order both the Hope for Haiti Now full performance album ($7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast ($1.99). Pre-orders will be delivered in the days following the telethon. Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for 99 cents each in the days following the telethon. Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by "Hope for Haiti Now" charities.
"Hope for Haiti Now" performances will also be available for purchase on AmazonMP3 and Rhapsody, with distribution provided by INgrooves. Proceeds from those purchases will also benefit Haiti relief funds managed by "Hope for Haiti Now" charities. "Hope for Haiti Now," will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, Yele Haiti Foundation and the newly formed Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation. Proceeds from "Hope for Haiti Now" will be split among each organization's individual funds for Haiti earthquake relief. With the exception of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, each partner organization was selected for its history of operation and collaboration within the NGO community in Haiti. "Hope for Haiti Now" will air across ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, Planet Green, CNN en Español, HBO Latino, and Canadian networks including CBC Television, CTV, Global Television, and MuchMusic. The event will be live streamed online globally across sites including YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com, CNN.com, MTV.com, VH1.com, and Rhapsody and on mobile via Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and FloTV. "Hope for Haiti Now" will also air internationally on BET International, CNN International, National Geographic, and MTV Networks International, which is available in 640 million homes worldwide. "Hope for Haiti Now" will be available non-exclusively to all terrestrial radio stations around the globe and SIRIUS XM Radio as a one time only radio broadcast via the MTV Radio Network and Westwood One. "Hope for Haiti Now" is produced by Joel Gallen and Tenth Planet Productions, in collaboration with Viacom's MTV Networks and George Clooney. Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Join George Clooney and Wyclef Jean for MTV's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, airing commercial-free Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET and visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now. Related Videos Related Artists | ||
| Swizz Beatz Recalls How 'Stranded,' Jay-Z/U2 Haiti Benefit Song, Came Together Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:19 AM PST Charity single, which also features Rihanna, will debut during MTV's 'Hope for Haiti' telethon.
Dropped calls usually don't lead to productivity. But after Swizz Beatz accidentally hung up on Jay-Z while trying to conference the rapper into a conversation he was having with Bono, the producer and the U2 frontman used the extra time to come up with the chorus for their forthcoming Haiti charity single.
The song, tentatively titled "Haiti Mon Amour," a.k.a. "Stranded," also features The Edge and Rihanna and will debut Friday during the George Clooney and MTV Networks telethon "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief," airing at 8 p.m. ET/PT. "The idea of the song is 'We're not gonna leave you stranded,' and that's what the chorus is," Swizz Beatz told Rolling Stone on Thursday (January 21). "So me and Bono started going back and forth with ideas, and he was like, 'You know this word stranded keeps standing out to me,' and I asked him to sing it, and he put me on hold, 'cause he's recording the ideas on a Dictaphone — so he did it there and then on the phone." The composition came to life as they played phone tag trying to get Jay back on the line. The Edge co-produced the record, then Jay-Z handled the verses. Meanwhile, Swizz said Rihanna was added onto the song to give it a "caring" quality. "I knew that Jay would be able to tell a story and that Bono would be able to sing and bring it home," he said. "The last component that I added was Rihanna, and she's kinda like the angel that's on the track, softening it up and giving it that caring feeling, because this hook is so powerful." Rihanna also confirmed that the song will premiere on Friday during a radio interview Thursday in Norway. The singer, a native of the Caribbean island of Barbados, said, "In the Caribbean, we think of ourselves as one big family, one country. We're all together. We all represent each other. It's like [the earthquake] happened to Barbados." According to The Edge, Swizz and Jay-Z came up with the idea to contribute a song after the earthquake ravaged the small country. The Edge said the two hip-hop stars reached out to Bono, and the ball got rolling. Swizz told MTV News recently that he and Bono had become musical and philanthropic allies, which made the collaboration a natural pairing. "Me and Bono, he's a music lover," Swizz said. "I'm a music lover. We knew each other for a while through [Interscope chairman] Jimmy Iovine. He's with Jimmy. We share a lot of mutual friends though the art world. Enrico Navarra, which is one of my art mentors, is one of his art mentors. We always hook up in France. I go to his crib, we go to Enrico's crib. He does art. It's like a musical/art/philanthropic relationship that's there. He's an amazing guy. He has an amazing family. He embraced me and my people with open arms. He's a brother." Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Join George Clooney and Wyclef Jean for MTV's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, airing commercial-free Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET and visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now. Related Videos Related Artists | ||
| George Clooney Urges Haiti Telethon Viewers To Help In 'Whatever Way You Can' Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:56 AM PST MTV's 'Hope for Haiti Now' telethon airs Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Whether the cause was 9/11 or genocide in the Sudan, George Clooney has extended a helping hand to those in need during times of trouble. Now, the actor hopes to pass along that compassion and call to action to Americans as they watch "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief," which airs Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
"I think it's the same message that everybody does, that churches do, that communities do — which is everybody participate, help out, whatever way you can," Clooney told MTV News in Los Angeles on Thursday (January 21) during rehearsals for the star-studded telethon. "If it's clothing, give clothing. This is designed for money. And it can be anything. Five bucks — it can be anything, whatever way you can help out, but be involved. It's a big world out there, and we all have a lot of responsibility to look out for people that can't look out for themselves." Clooney partnered with MTV Networks for the event, which will feature the actor leading the affair on the West Coast, while Wyclef Jean and CNN's Anderson Cooper appear in New York and Haiti, respectively. The actor has a history of taking the reins in situations like this, having had a hand in putting together benefits in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. For "Hope for Haiti Now," the production began when Wyclef contacted Clooney the same day as the earthquake affected the country and came together the next morning through a call to the MTV Networks CEO. Within hours, Clooney said, the charitable endeavor took on a life of its own. "I was in New York the evening it happened. It happened at four or five o'clock, and I got a message from Wyclef that he's gonna go into the Dominican Republic and that it was much worse than what's initially been reported," Clooney explained. "We knew it was bad, but who knew how bad. And he said, 'Is there anything you can do?' So the next morning, I woke up and called Judy McGrath at MTV, and Judy said, 'We were thinking about doing something too,' so I said, 'Let's do it.' And I flew back to L.A., and as soon as I landed we got the other networks involved. And now it's every major network, every single one. At some point, it got to a place [when] you couldn't be the network that didn't [join in]." As the aftermath of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake stretches into its second week, more and more organizations are in need of financial donations over canned goods, clothing and the like. Money is needed to buy the proper materials that can ensure the safety and recovery of the survivors in Haiti. Clooney is adamant that this telethon's main goal is to raise cash. "Just first and foremost that we can raise a lot of money," he said of the desired result. "If I thought that we could all pick up shovels and go in there and not be in the way, I think a lot of people would do that." Since that's not the case at the moment, Clooney is hoping for a big financial push as a result of the production. "Raise money, period," he said. "That's it." Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Join George Clooney and Wyclef Jean for MTV's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, airing commercial-free Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET and visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now. Related Videos | ||
| Nick Jonas, Adam Lambert, Scarlett Johansson Work For Haiti Relief Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:33 AM PST 'We can all do something whether it's a little bit or a lot,' the Jonas Brother says.
Every day more and more celebrities are working to raise money for the victims of last Tuesday's devastating earthquake in Haiti. CNN hosted a telethon earlier this week, and George Clooney, Wyclef Jean and MTV have joined forces with a number of entertainers for Friday's "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief." Now, Adam Lambert, Scarlett Johansson and Nick Jonas are also encouraging fans to donate to relief efforts.
Lambert appeared on "Entertainment Tonight" on Wednesday, urging viewers to give to the Red Cross. "The people of Haiti need your help," he said. "The images are heartbreaking, the loss of life devastating, but tonight you can help. ... Do something that will change a life, do something that will make a difference. Don't just let the images on television fade to black. Reach out and help Haiti today, tomorrow and every day until they are out from under the rubble. Your donations will make a difference. Your generosity, no matter how small, can help pull them out of this horror." Scarlett Johansson, who is currently appearing on Broadway in Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," is working with Oxfam to auction off four tickets to the opening night of her play and a chance to meet the actress after the curtain call this Sunday (the same night Lady Gaga is donating proceeds from her tour to charity for Haiti). As of press time, the winning bid on the eBay auction stood at $2,225. When MTV News spoke to Nick Jonas on Wednesday, he revealed that he was "working some things out right now" to be a part of the Haiti relief effort. "Because it's not confirmed, I can't necessarily share it just yet," Jonas said on the phone from his Administration tour. "I think that the main thing to remember is we can all do something whether it's a little bit or a lot. I'm willing and ready to help if I can in any way. I definitely feel for the people in Haiti." And like his brother, Joe, Nick would like to visit the suffering country. "If an opportunity does come up for us to be able to go visit, I think that would be an amazing trip," he said. "But I think it's about taking it one step at a time and trying to do what we can here first." Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Join George Clooney and Wyclef Jean for MTV's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, airing commercial-free Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET and visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists | ||
| Lady Gaga Showered With Hometown Love At New York Show Posted: 21 Jan 2010 06:09 AM PST Gaga gave her monsters her glittery, bloody best in the first of four shows at Radio City.
NEW YORK — Amid her signature head-swimming whirl of masks, barely there leather and feather outfits, complicated headgear, and lurching dance moves, Lady Gaga proved one very simple point at Wednesday night's kickoff of her sold-out four-night Monster Ball stand at historic Radio City Music Hall: You can go home again. For nearly two hours, Gaga put on an eye-popping clinic of perverse dance theatrics in a grand hall that was miles away, literally and figuratively, from the grimy clubs where she got her start playing to a handful of people just a few years ago.
Even with conservatively dressed VIPs in the house like Donald Trump, a quick scan of the glitter-blasted crowd provided definitive proof that you'd entered Gagaland. From the couple rocking Batman wings to lovingly re-created replicas of Gaga's red lace headdress and bow-tied hairpiece, the lobby of Radio City was jammed with a galaxy of girls tottering giraffe-like on impossibly high heels, couples wearing matching silver-spangled tops and hot pants, and enough feather boas to make ostriches fear for their lives. In Gaga's first show since canceling and postponing a string of gigs due to exhaustion last week, she was seemingly back at full tilt, opening the spectacle wrapped in a suit made of Christmas tree lights and moving mechanically behind a screen covered in a "Tron"-like green grid. Gyrating on the fog-shrouded stage to the strains of "Dance in the Dark," she was surrounded by a group of backup dancers sheathed in white body stockings with throbbing neon green chin guards that gave their faces an otherworldly glow. She reappeared soon after, inside a glowing green box, and levitated 20 feet into the air on a white column while wearing a mirrored catsuit and playing the thumping strains of "Just Dance" on a shimmering keytar. You could definitely believe the cabaret-singer-turned-international-pop-diva when she said she didn't care about money, as nearly every song was accompanied by another outrageous outfit and space-age set piece. The intro to "Love Game" found the stage exploding into a sea of psychedelic fractal images while her dancers writhed, Gollum-like, to a video of a raven-haired Gaga purging green liquid onto the white dress of a more demure Gaga. When the singer finally emerged, she had changed into a black metallic dress with a gauzy white skirt accented by a glowing scepter and towering black turban. Looking very Material Girl in a silver leotard and blonde Marilyn Monroe wig, she welcomed the crowd to her Monster Ball and ordered, "Now dance, mother----ers!" Her third costume change in the first half hour found Gaga slipping into a raven black horsehair dress while her gothtastic backup crew did a vigorous "Thriller"-esque workout to the cannibalism fetish song "Monster," complete with bloody jowls. Claiming she would perish without her fans' love, Gaga splayed out on the stage coyly and screamed, "Do you want me to die?" as the crowd roared in response. "Teeth" thumped like a Bobby Brown classic as Gaga sashayed back to her deconstructed, post-apocalyptic baby grand piano, which, of course, belched purple smoke. She then reminisced about growing up in Manhattan, thanked her fans sincerely and gave a shout-out to her dad — who was in the house — during "Speechless." Gaga performed the touching, cell-phone-waving ballad from behind billowing black feather shoulder pads and a black mask, stopping mid-song to pay tribute to the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti. "There's a lot of people in the world right now who need our help," said Gaga, who is donating all proceeds from her Radio City finale on Sunday (January 24) — as well as merchandise sales from that night and online merchandise sales that day — to the quake victims. "Sing this so God can hear us. ... Sing this for the people of Haiti!" "I bled to death on domestic television right here to show you how much I love you," she said during her beer-hall version of "Poker Face," recalling that it was at Radio City where she feigned suicide at last year's MTV Video Music Awards. Then, to really show her love, she pointed a machine gun at the crowd and pulled the trigger, emitting a stream of explosive sparks before sitting back down to end the song by shouting, "I love my hometown!" For the club anthem "Boys Boys Boys," Gaga left little to the imagination, donning a barely-there red leather bikini, matching sparkly captain's hat, red raccoon-eye makeup and black boots for a raucous shout out to her very vocal gay fanboys. Moving stiffly against a starry background, the frenetic singer saved her most outrageous getup for "Paparazzi," during which two male dancers led her stiffly around by a black pole that was attached to her hair by two giant silver rings. She freed herself at song's end and was carried off the stage to shouts of "Gaga! Gaga!" The show ended with Gaga trapped inside her signature spinning set of planetary rings, wearing white pants and a mirrored bra and top with towering heart-shaped shoulder pads, rotating slowly to the Caribbean synth rhythms of "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)." For the finale, "Bad Romance" started out a cappella before going supernova into a throbbing, ecstatic disco inferno propelled by white-clad dancers doing a vogue-y zombie dance in a sea of fog. It was a dreamlike triumph for the self-proclaimed former freak, who wound up the night center stage appearing on the verge of tears, grimacing and flashing the universal symbol of the Gaga Nation, the monster claw, as her beloved beasties roared right back and held up their gnarled fists in solidarity. Related Photos Related Artists |
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