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- Wale Plays The Gentleman In 'Diary' Video
- Trey Songz, Khloe Kardashian, Perez Hilton Dish Secrets On 'When I Was 17'
- Silversun Pickups Revive The '90s With 'Royal We' Video
| Wale Plays The Gentleman In 'Diary' Video Posted: 03 May 2010 03:52 AM PDT Rapper gets the girl in new video, which premieres on MTV Jams May 31.
Wale partied and showed off his Washington, D.C., roots for his breakout video "Pretty Girls," but in the rapper's new clip for "Diary," he plays more of the gentleman type. "What he wanted to do was kind of show that we, as men, when we approach a girl, we don't always know exactly what her past was," Rik Cordero, who helmed the shoot, told MTV News. "Whether she was angry or felt a sort of way because another dude made a mistake that we have to pay for, that was the message Wale wanted to get across in this video."
In the opening scene of "Diary," Wale is shown passing out flyers for an event and then approaches a group of girls, going directly up to the one in whom he's interested. The woman, though, isn't too impressed with Wale and quickly rebuffs him, telling him she's not really interested. "You didn't even give me a chance," he shoots back before she walks away. "It's like that," Wale adds. Through a series of flashbacks, though, viewers see what happened to the female protagonist leading up to her brief encounter with Wale. She had discovered her boyfriend was cheating on her, and after she approached him, she was confronted by his "other woman," leading her down a path of pain and confusion. The film was shot in New York in and around Sputnik, a local bar and lounge in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The venue is featured prominently in the last scene, which involves a poetry night in which Wale's last verse addresses his leading lady's hardships. His inspirational lines, delivered in a spoken-word-like soliloquy, hang in the air as she makes her way into the club, surprised to see Wale behind the microphone onstage. "Diamonds, a girl's best friend, is what they say, but believe me, with the right allegiance, you gonna shine anyway," he says, as he connects eyes with her and she finally smiles back. What do you think about Wale's "Diary" video? Let us know in the comments! |
| Trey Songz, Khloe Kardashian, Perez Hilton Dish Secrets On 'When I Was 17' Posted: 02 May 2010 06:52 AM PDT 'I remember I messed my homeboy's head up so bad,' Trey Songz recalls of his hairdressing days.
Did you know that Khloe Kardashian was once a car thief? That Perez Hilton used to be an international gay-porn smuggler? That Trey Songz went to beauty school, where he learned to wax, pluck and otherwise beautify the opposite sex? Well, now you do, because during the premiere episode of MTV's celeb-secret-revealing new show "When I Was 17" (airing Saturdays at 11 a.m.), these three stars proudly dish on outrageous stories from their pasts. Songz laughed about how he enrolled in a program to obtain a barber's license because he thought he'd get out of class early. Only problem was that he was then stuck cutting, moussing and Jheri curling for hours.
"I actually used to arch my girlfriend's eyebrows," he laughed. "Don't judge me! But it got me 'cool' points!" Come prom season, he also hooked his friends up with free cuts. But things didn't always work out so well. "My clippers got so hot, I remember I messed my homeboy's head up so bad," he recalled, smiling. "He had scars for, like, the next two days. All that. My bad." "My bad" is exactly what Kardashian was thinking when, at the age of 17, she decided to steal her mom's brand-new Range Rover and go out partying on the town. "I was a bad, bad girl," she said. "I drove to a party in Marina del Ray, took my car, valeted it," she continued. "I'm good to go, I'm inside partying, living it up. We get a knock at our door. It's valet, frantic, yelling. We didn't understand what the guy was saying. We were all kind of like, 'Something's on fire!' I remember we saw this car on fire and we were like, 'Whoa, that person is screwed!' And then I was like, 'Sh--, that's my car!' " It turned out that a jilted husband lit his philandering wife's car on fire, and guess whose ride was parked next to it? Khloe's mom's $80,000 SUV. "I was grounded like I've never been grounded before," she said. While Kardashian told a story about getting seriously busted, Hilton cracked up about one experience where he luckily escaped getting in trouble. At the end of a school trip to Spain, Hilton had some money left over. "I used all that money to buy gay porn," he said. "And then I remember being so petrified that customs or immigration would search my luggage and somehow I'd be found out. I was willing to take the risk. And then I was really disappointed when none of those tapes worked because they were all PAL and not VHS. I was like, 'I wasted all this money on gay porn that doesn't work!' " Don't miss "When I Was 17," airing Saturdays at 11 a.m. on MTV! Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Silversun Pickups Revive The '90s With 'Royal We' Video Posted: 03 May 2010 03:52 AM PDT Directed by famed photographer Matt Mahurin, clip features angsty, out-of-focus close-ups of the band and scenes of outstretched hands and skylines.
You may have to take my word for it, but the 1990s were a totally insane decade. Especially when it came to music videos. It was a time when basically every artist got to do whatever they wanted when it came to making videos, no matter the cost, which meant that, sure, we got lots of super-epic "November Rain" types of clips and the occasional iconic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" kind of thing, but mostly, we got lots and lots of introspective, not-entirely-in-focus mood-pieces.
Which wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I have fond memories of watching hours and hours of angsty, obtuse videos featuring shadowy dudes peering ominously off into space, or brightly lit (yet totally blurry) actors doing things that were supposed to be "deep." White flashes were frequently used between cuts. There was usually water involved. Or spooky trees. Billowing fabrics with images projected onto them. Grainy, purposely scratched film. Symbolism. Animals running in slow motion. It was all pretty amazing, in retrospect. The reason I'm bringing all of this up isn't to kick-start your week with a dose of nostalgia, but rather because the Silversun Pickups — a band who are frequently compared to '90s mainstays the Smashing Pumpkins — have just unveiled their brand-new video for the song "The Royal We," and, wow, is this thing airlifted right out of the Clinton era. Directed by famed photographer Matt Mahurin (who made a whole lot of these types of videos in the 1990s for acts like Metallica, Bush, Soundgarden and Blind Melon), "Royal We" is like a four-minute walk down memory lane. Angsty, out-of-focus close-ups of the band (or, alternately, angsty, in-focus-yet-shiftily-lit close-ups.) Blurry, brightly colored scenes of outstretched hands and skylines and dudes sprinting towards something. Bizarre, presumably symbolic shots of stuff like a torso with a crumbling tower for a head. Oh, and as an added bonus, Mahurin makes most of the footage skip and stretch, sort of like you're watching the whole thing on a VCR (adjust the tracking, stat!). Seriously, this thing made me feel 13 again. And that's what I like best about it. I'm guessing that the guys — and gal — in SSPU are about the same age as I am, which means they undoubtedly grew up watching the exact same videos I did ... which means that this is sort of a dream come true for them. It's exactly the same kind of video I'd make, had I the budget or wherewithal. Perhaps it will inspire a '90s revival, and I'll get to enjoy even more really weird videos. My inner 13-year-old can still dream, can't he? |
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