May 5, 2024

Review Category : TMZ Music News

Sporty Spice Totally Crashed Little Mix’s Video Party: Find Out How

Little Mix has traded in their high heels for tennis shoes in the group's video for their new single "Word Up!" During the gym-themed clip, the foursomes are found pumping iron, sweating it out in a spin class and dancing with former Spice Girl Mel C, a.k.a. Sporty Spice, who the ladies said was a huge surprise for them on set.

"We didn't even know she was going to be there. Literally, we were filming and then she come running out," Jesi from the group told MTV News when asked how Sporty Spice's cameo came to be. "It was so weird though, I was thinking, God, I was such a massive fan."

But it wasn't just Little Mix who were starstruck during the making of the music video. Apparently Mel C's 5-year-old daughter, Scarlet Starr, is an equal opportunity listener when it comes to girl groups.

"The fact that she comes over with her daughter and was like, 'My daughter is such a massive fan — Can we get a picture or something?' " bandmate Perrie squealed with excitement. "She doesn't hold back either, she just goes for it. She's amazing."

The song serves as an official single for Sport Relief, an organization that unites the worlds of sports and entertainment to raise funds for charitable causes in both the U.K. and other countries around the world. Every purchase of "Word Up!" is helps Sport Relief meet their goal of creating jobs and better chances for 150,000 of the poorest people in sub-Saharan Africa, giving them the means to lift themselves, ...

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Now We Know How Often Lena Dunham Vomits

Breaking news: We know a lot about Lena Dunham. Over the past three years, we've tuned into her HBO show, "Girls," most Sunday nights, we follow her on Twitter and we've basically already pre-ordered her book. But guess what? On the latest episode of comedian Marc Maron's podcast, WTF, we get to learn even more about Dunham in an hour-plus-long interview. (This is not a bad thing.)

Dunham not only revealed that she sometimes dreams about Harvey Weinstein chasing her with a mallet, but also her nicknames for boyfriend, musician Jack Antonoff, how often she barfs for one reason or another, her feelings on the Woody Allen scandal and more. Here are the most exciting things we learned about Dunham on the podcast.

You Don't Know Jack

"I call my boyfriend all kinds of s---," Dunham said of Fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff, whom she has been dating for more than two years. "Just like Bucket, Bumpy, Bubbles. Just anything that comes out of my mouth that sounds cute to me is his name."

She also called him "the most fun in the world." D'aww.

The Business Of Art

Though both of Dunham's parents are artists, you'd be hard pressed to find their older daughter at one of the galleries that she grew up in.

"I don't really go to anyone's art installations," she admitted. "Maybe in a reaction to my parents and the art installations I was forced to go to as a child, it's just very hard to get me to an art installation."

A Clean House

Though one might expect Dunham to live in a cluttered ...

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Cody Simpson Channels Beyonce On Swerving New Single, ‘Surfboard’

Cody Simpson has clearly been doing a lot of growing up since the last time we heard from him.

The 17-year-old Australian pop star dropped his latest catchy single on Tuesday (March 18). It starts out as a laid-back summer song, but with a little dub-step, it quickly flips the switch to an urban-pop jam.

Perhaps the best part about the song is when Simpson get's all Queen B on us as he channels Beyonce's hit "Drunk in Love" and sings, "she on my surfboard, surfboard, gonna ride it- surfboard."

MTV News caught up with the contestant, who told us that it was just coincidence that both he and Beyonce have a love for surfboards.

"Everyone was like, 'Beyonce did that' and I had the idea for a while. And then Beyonce's came out and I absolutely love that song, but when I heard it I didn't know if it was going to affect my idea at all," Simpson said, clarifying that he recorded the track before Beyonce's single dropped. "And at the end of the day I thought about it so much and I thought 'Hey it's a part of pop culture right now,' if I was going to release this song it would probably be the best time to do it, so I decided why not just go along with it now."

The single, which was inspired by his love for surfing and his girlfriend, model Gigi Hadid, is definitely a departure from his previous work. Simpson, who is hoping to release his third album this summer, ...

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The Westboro Baptist Church Remixed Lorde’s ‘Royals,’ And It’s Terrible

Have you ever wondered what Lorde's Lorde's "Royals" would sound like as an anthem for homophobic, likely deranged Christian zealots? Well, wonder no more, the Westboro Baptist Church has put their own sanctimonious spin on the chart-topping hit — and it's terrible.

The fundamentalist group — the very people who protested at the funerals of the likes of Steve Jobs and Michael Jackson — have picked the New Zealand-born singer (along with Young the Giant) as their next target, planning to picket her March 21 show in Kansas City, Missouri, in an effort to "warn the living."

By now, we've all learned to ignore them, and their claims that Lorde, whom they say has been elevated to idol status, "has NO wisdom worth having" and "doesn't have enough sense to put in a thimble." Even Lorde herself has found the whole thing rather hilarious, brushing it off sarcastically on Twitter.

But their remix to "Royals" cannot be ignored — simply because of how truly atrocious it is.

It takes her lyrical denunciation of pop culture and takes it five miles farther, as a warning of the apocalypse, and a look into the hell-bound future to sinners like Lorde.

Here's the full lyrics, in all their glory: We're coming to the end of all the flesh
We warned with pickets signs and songs and the movies
Shouldn't be proud you made this mess
You hear the trumpets sound, you'll feel God's envy

'Cause every song sings bare teeth ragin; sinning in the bedroom
bloodless coffin trashin your creator

You don't care
You're really badasses in your dreams
But in reality Christ ...

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‘Star Wars: Episode VII’: Details About New Characters Revealed

When it rains in a galaxy far, far away, it pours, I guess.

After months of official radio silence, a Disney investors call opened the flood gates on small updates about "Star Wars: Episode VII." While the info isn't exactly earth-shattering, it does have some serious implications for the upcoming installment.

It's not casting news, but I'll take what I can get. This is everything we learned about "Star Wars: Episode VII" today.

30 Years After "Return of the Jedi"
It was something that many fans just took as a given, but we now know for sure that the storytelling frame has jump forward in real time. The best part of this news is probably that there won't be any (or much) terrible aging making Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford backward or forward — if they actually appear, that is. Their children are said to be the focus of the story, and based on the casting lists so far, the 30-year leap forward works with that theory.

A Trio of Young Leads
That's right. There will be three new, young characters at the center of this trilogy, in addition to whoever comes back from Episodes IV, V and VI. From what the public has been able to piece together from casting rumors, my guess is that these roles are the parts that Jesse Plemons is up for, the one Saoirse Ronan met about and the one Lupita Nyong'o is being considered for. But there's room for error within that, like if Ronan and Nyong'o audition for the same part, or the Ronan role ...

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Zedd’s ‘Find You’ Video Finds Love In A Hopeless Place

MTV News caught up with Zedd last month on the set of the video that he said was his biggest, most elaborate production to date. And he wasn't kidding.

Working with a treatment cooked up by "Clarity" director Jodeb, the "Find You" clip mixes the real world with a surreal one, much of it shot in front of a green screen with the EDM star at his keyboard on a rotating platform. "It's ... very similar to the way I approach my live shows," Zedd said of the futuristic feel of the song from the 
. "I'm usually in the middle of a big image which is visuals and impression that you get, surreal stuff and beautiful colors."

The video opens in a sleek white house with lots of windows, with singers Miriam Bryant and Matthew Koma performing their parts in front of plain backdrops pulsing with geometric line drawings. But things get very colorful when the song's beat kicks in, as a riot of reds, yellows and orange burst onto the screen and the house's windows fill with flickering light pulses.

The soft-spoken star wasn't afraid to say that filming his biggest video to date made him a bit nervous. "I want it to be amazing."

And, well, it kind of is, especially when the action shifts to a concert, where the video's sad-eyed star catches a glimpse of a fellow hot female club goer and chases her on a BMW motorcycle while being trailed by a murder of crows.

The good news is she finds her in a snowy cave and ...

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Jason Derulo Gives Us ‘Everything’ On New Album <i>Talk Dirty</i>

In early 2012, Jason Derulo suffered a "near death experience," fracturing his neck while rehearsing for an upcoming tour.

Thankfully, he recovered, and though he'd end up canceling all his dates, he still managed to release a new collection of songs last year — Tattoos, which was paired down to an EP here in the U.S.

Now, fully healed, he's just announced plans for a brand-new album, which shares its name with his biggest hit, But most importantly, after his accident, he's got a whole new outlook on life, one that springs from a seize-the-day spirit ... and one that's readily apparent on his new tracks.

"After I fractured my neck, I was like 'Man, life is too short, I just gotta be myself and live my life' ... I'm gonna have a good time and not take everything so seriously," Derulo told MTV News. "I love what I do, but for so long, I was trying to be somebody that I wasn't. When it was show time, I had to put my Jason Derulo mask on ... it was like 'Okay, now it's Jason Derulo time.'

"And life is so much easier when you just be yourself," he continued. "I broke into the industry when I was young, but now I feel so much more comfortable in my own skin, and life is so much easier like this."

Derulo said that Talk Dirty represents "a bridge" between his past and his future, his first album that shows off every facet of his personality ... which is good news for ...

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‘Incredibles’ Sequel Officially In The Works: What We Want To See

The cries of "

This is the first time we've heard talk about an "Incredibles" sequel outside of Bird talking theoretically about a follow-up, so there's certainly reason to be excited. But it's worth remembering that Pixar moves pretty slowly, so we're still at least four year away from another visit with Mr. Incredible, Elastagirl, Violet, Dash and Jack Jack.

If a sequel to "The Incredibles" is officially in the pipeline after all these years, there are a few things I've been waiting a very long time to see.

The World of Super Heroes Restored
The conceit of the original "Incredibles" removed most of the superheroes from the modern world. That meant, we only got short (but hilarious) glimpses at the heroes of old. It's easy to imagine that the events of "The Incredibles" eased up the ban on supers, so let's see what new characters Bird can dream up. But, as always, no capes!

Jack Jack Grows Up
Just because it has been a decade since the original, that doesn't mean the same amount of time has passed in the world of "The Incredibles," but I really hope that's the case. Think of it like "Before Sunset," except with superheroes. Where are these characters ten years down the road? How are Mr. Incredible and Elastagirl handling middle age? How has the world changed? What has life been for Jack Jack as a pre-teen who is able to shape shift? That's a movie I want to see.

Keep It Light and Dark
Of course, a sequel should be fun, but go back and watch "The ...

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EXCLUSIVE: 50 Cent Says Steve Stoute Once Urged Him Not To Sign ‘With The White Boy,’ Eminem

It's hard to imagine where 50 Cent's rap career would be if he'd never signed with Eminem, but according to the G-Unit juggernaut, music executive Steve Stoute once advised him to steer clear of Slim Shady.

"Don't do the deal with the white boy," Fif recalled Stoute telling him in a Los Angeles hotel lobby, back in 2002, right before he decided to ink with Shady, Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records and Interscope.

50 made the revelation to MTV News on Monday night during a sit-down at Eminem's Shade 45 radio station, where he taped a SIRIUS XM Town Hall with fans set to air on March 31. But although Fif was in full promotion mode for his June 3 album, Animal Ambition — his first since announcing the end of his major-label deals — Stoute has been questioning whether 50 has the same musical effectiveness these days.

"He hasn't had a hit in a really long time. He has not made anything musically that's changed anything in a very long time," Stoute told New York's Hot 97 last month. "I feel like he's always gearing up for something that never happens," the exec behind the VH1 documentary "The Tanning of America" added. "Hopefully, now that he's independent and there is no record company to blame, his aggressive content will get on the air."

We'll roll out more of the MTV interview Wednesday on "RapFix Live" at 4 p.m. ET/ 1 p.m. PT on MTV.com and MTV Jams, but days after the Hot 97 Q&A hit the airwaves, 50 ...

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