September 28, 2024

Review Category : TMZ Music News

Zayn Malik Is Engaged … Is Justin Bieber Next?

Now that One Direction's Zayn Malik is officially off the market, could it be that fellow pop superstar Justin Bieber also has marriage on the brain? In a new interview, Selena Gomez's on-again, off-again flame is dishing about his plans to get married and start a family.

"I can't wait to have a beautiful wife and little kids running around. Those things are in God's hands, not mine," the 19-year-pop star tells In Touch. "I'm not going to lie. It's fun to be young, fall in love and be in love. My mom taught me how to treat a woman right, so I enjoy taking a girl out and doing nice things for her. Everyone deserves to feel like they are the most special person in the world."

This is not the first time the singer expressed his desire to be a family man within the next 10 years. Bieber opened up to MTV News about it in March 2012, just as he was turning 18. "I see myself in 10 years having a family — 28, that's a good time to really have a family 'cause I want to be a young dad," he said. "Maybe, long time away though. Don't get any ideas, people. It's not happening anytime soon.

Despite his openness to discuss his philosophies on love, Bieber, who is prepping a new album and the release of his single shared with In Touch he wishes that people would spend less time gossiping about him. "Sometimes I think people ...

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Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’ Sets Career Singles Record!

Katy Perry lights up the singles rankings and newbie Lorde announces her arrival on the charts this week. Here's what else you're downloading.

Fireworks For Katy
sold more than 557,000 downloads in its first week of release, claiming the top spot on Billboard's Digital Songs chart. Katy — who's set to close Sunday nights MTV VMAs — logged huge first-week numbers that are not only the best of 2013, but of her impressive career, too: "Roar" surpassed "Firework" (which sold 509,000 copies in December 2010) to give Perry her biggest digital-song sales week ever.

And when you consider her recent record-setting run on the singles chart, well, that fact is even more impressive.

Applause for Gaga
Lady Gaga takes the third spot with her brand-new single . Mother Monster, who's set to open the 2013 Video Music Awards when the show goes live at 9 p.m. ET, moved 218,000 downloads to open at #3.

Lorde Begins Her First Top 10 Reign
While the remainder of the Digital Songs chart remains relatively unchanged from last week — Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" is at #2, Jay Z's "Holy Grail" is #4, Miley's "We Can't Stop" sits at #6, etc. — there is one new addition who's raising eyebrows: 16-year-old alt-pop sensation Lorde, who crashes the Top 10 with her smash "Royals." The song, which also sits atop Billboard's Alternative chart, sold 107,000 downloads to land at #10. (It's her first Top 10 hit in the States.)

Elsewhere on the Digital Songs chart, Luke Bryan's "That's My Kind ...

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Zayn Malik Calls Engagement ‘Cool’! Do Fans Agree?

With one strut down a red carpet, One Direction's Zayn Malik and Little Mix's Perrie Edwards revealed that they are engaged. It all went down at the premiere Tuesday night in London, where Perrie's new bling was on full display.

A rep for the singers confirmed it to MTV News on Wednesday, the same say Malik opened up about the engagement to Capital FM in the U.K. He said, "It's cool. Yeah, we're really happy. It's cool."

So, do the Directioners also think the engagement is cool too? Well, the reaction has been mostly positive but also mixed, ahead of 1D's appearance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday, where they are up for Best Song of the Summer for their upbeat single, "Best Song Ever."

"Do zayn and perrie think this is some nicholas sparks book they are living in," @broadwaylirry tweeted, as #CongratsZaynAndPerrie trended on Twitter. @_Elliecharrrr added, "Going to comfort the best friend as she's going through tough times right now from finding out the Zayn & Perrie engagement."

Meanwhile other fans knew the twosome had gotten serious after Zayn got a tattoo in Perrie's likeness earlier this summer. "I still don't understand why people are so shocked about zayn and perrie sorry but did you not realise it was serious when he got a tattoo?," @5SOSManchester tweeted.

@newyorkliam added, "i was hoping zayn and perrie would get married or else that tattoo would be rlly awkward."

Most fans took the news better than one would expect given Zayn's heartthrob status, sending ...

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‘The Book Thief’ Trailer: Watch Now!

"Words are life." It's not just a pithy piece of advice given to protagonist Liesel Meminger in the first trailer for "The Book Thief," but also epitomizes the entire premise of Australian author Markus Zusak's best-selling novel upon which the film is based.

With WWII Germany as its backdrop, "The Book Thief" tells the tale of young Liesel (Sophie Nélisse), who's taken in by foster parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson) following the death of her brother. Despite being unable to read, she finds solace in stealing books. When Hans discovers a purloined volume in her room, he begins teaching her to read and write. Liesel continues pilfering books, but shares them with neighbors, as well as the young Jewish man, Max, hiding in the family's basement. It's Max who offers those sage words to Liesel. "All those pages. They are for you to fill," he tells her.

Straddling the boundary between YA and adult literature, "The Book Thief" earned positive reviews when it debuted in 2006, and has spent more than 350 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.

" 'The Book Thief' will be appreciated for Mr. Zusak's audacity, also on display in his earlier 'I Am the Messenger,' " Janet Maslin wrote in her 2006 New York Times review. "It will be widely read and admired because it tells a story in which books become treasures. And because there's no arguing with a sentiment like that."

The big-screen adaptation, directed by Brian Percival from a script by Michael Petroni and featuring music by John Williams, opens ...

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One Direction Admit ‘This Is Us’ Toilet Scenes Got A Little ‘Awkward’

One Direction attended the premiere for their 3-D flick, Tuesday night in London. And even though Zayn Malik's engagement to Little Mix's Perrie Edwards caused lots of buzz at the fete, fans still want to know how all-access the August 30 flick really is.

"The toilet scenes were a little bit awkward, but apart from that it was good," Harry Styles dished to MTV U.K., with Malik adding, "I think the thing is when it's 3-D, it's like a massive camera. It's a bit different, but you just try and think of it as a normal camera and then whatever."

It's a big week for the fellas of 1D. After performing at the Staples Center and taking home three Moonmen at the 2012 VMAs, the guys are slated to make an appearance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards where they are up for Best Song of the Summer for their upbeat single, "Best Song Ever."

Until Sunday's VMAs, they will just be making the rounds spreading the word about their Morgan Spurlock-directed doc, out next week. And while the guys have never been shy about letting fans into their world, this movie takes it to the next level.

Liam Payne said, "That was one of the main things, really. The movie's kind of here to show a different side of us and a few things they might now know. It is a movie for you to know a bit more.

Louis Tomlinson added that filming was only annoying "sometimes in the morning... where sometimes you'd be a bit ...

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Lady Gaga ‘Devastated’ By Bradley Manning Sentencing

Lady Gaga appears to have found a new cause. On Tuesday (August 21), the "Applause" singer took a moment out of her Video Music Awards prep to express her distress at Pfc. Bradley Manning's sentencing to 35 years in prison.

"The news of Bradley Manning's sentencing is devastating," Lady Gaga tweeted this afternoon about the U.S. soldier. "If our own can't speak up about injustice who will? How will we ever move forward?"

Manning, 25, was sentenced by a military judge today after sharing more than 700,000 government files to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks in 2010, leaking military and diplomatic information to the masses, the New York Times reports. This is the longest sentence ever given in such a case, but Manning will be eligible for parole after serving one third of his sentence.

Several celebrities — including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Russell Brand and Moby — have come out in support of Manning in the past under the auspices of a campaign called "I Am Bradley Manning."

At press time, Gaga's tweet about Manning had been retweeted more than 3,000 times.

In the past, Gaga has also spoken out against the Russian government, who recently passed a national law banning "homosexual propaganda" among minors — a law she would have broken previously by promoting gay rights onstage in that country.

After sharing her thoughts on the Manning sentencing, Gaga apparently took off for rehearsals for the 2013 Video Music Awards, where she will open the show on Sunday with the debut performance of her ARTPOP single "Applause."

"Off to ...

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Earl Sweatshirt Is Torn: Touring With Eminem Or Sitting On The Couch?

Earl Sweatshirt couldn't wait for his debut album, Doris, to hit stores on August 20, but he thought it was too bad that when the moment finally came, he was on tour opening up for Eminem.

Right... We were confused too.

The Odd Future gang, including Tyler, The Creator, is currently opening for Em in Europe, but Earl admits that he had other ideas about how he wanted to celebrate his big day.

"I met him at Coachella and part of me is excited just because it's Eminem, but I'm gonna be there when the album comes out, so I'm pretty bummed," he told MTV News ahead of the album's drop date. "I would so much rather be at home when the album comes out."

And what exactly would Earl prefer to be doing at home? "I would sit on my couch," he said matter-of-factly.

Don't get it twisted though, the 19-year-old rapper is definitely a Shady Stan, but he just wasn't anticipating this turn of events after waiting so long to release the album. "I'm a big-ass Eminem fan, it's just crazy that this is how this unfolded," he continued. "So I guess it's cool — I mean, I'm not now, but like probably at around 6 p.m. on that day I'll start getting really excited."

Earl Sweatshirt Hopes Doris Will Take The Focus Off His Private Life.

"If he says something about the album on that day then I'll be like aiiight fo' sho, but if it's just a show and we leave with f---ing pissy Tyler and go back to the ...

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‘One Direction: This Is Us’: The Early Reviews Are In!

One Direction has brought their world domination to the big screen in their new documentary/concert film "One Direction: This Is Us," directed by "Super Size Me" creator Morgan Spurlock. With yesterday's big premiere in London — just days before the group's planned appearance at Sunday's VMAs — a handful of overseas critics got an early look at "This Is Us" and share their thoughts. Check out a sampling of what they had to say about the movie in our early review round-up below.

The Story So Far
One Direction is, needless to say, an extraordinarily successful English/Irish quintet assembled from the outcasts of a 2010 "X Factor" audition. "X Factor" overlord Simon Cowell noticed the fivesome among the aspirants, and wondered if perhaps assembling an entire group of attractive teenage male singers might prove a winning business model. It was a gamble, to be sure, but once tethered together, One Direction ended up finishing in third place and immediately signed to Cowell's Syco Records label, where they quickly evolved into a worldwide sensation, becoming the first British act to top the U.S. album charts with a debut album. — Andrew Barker, Variety

Zayne gets engaged to Little Mix's Perrie Edwards - check out the ring!

No Inside Dirt?
What's the opposite of warts-n-all? 'No warts' doesn't even begin to describe Morgan Spurlock's fly-on-the-wall film about One Direction. No warts, no acne -- there's not even a pimple on the butt of this on-tour portrait of the reality-bred boy popsters. The director is Morgan Spurlock -- the man who took ...

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‘Avengers 2’: Meet The Witch Everyone Will Be Talking About

"Avengers: Age of Ultron" may not start shooting until early 2014, but rumors are already circulating about who could play half of an exciting new duo in the upcoming Marvel Studios sequel. Bleeding Cool dropped a hint that Elizabeth Olsen may be director Joss Whedon's top pick to bring the Scarlet Witch to life. This comes after initial frontrunner Saoirse Ronan apparently passed on the role.

While the profile of Elizabeth Olsen isn't as high as that of her older sisters — Mary-Kate and Ashley — she's made a name for herself by taking on challenging leading roles in indie films like "Liberal Arts" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene." "Avengers: Age of Ultron" would catapult the 24-year-old actress into the spotlight in a big way, especially following her highly anticipated appearances in upcoming films: Spike Lee's "Oldboy" and 2014's reboot of "Godzilla."

To determine whether Olsen is a perfect fit for the crimson-clothed Wanda Maximoff, here are five important facts about the Scarlet Witch.

Second Lady of the Avengers
Wanda Maximoff first joined in 1965's "Avengers" #16 in a controversial issue that replaced heavy-hitting characters like Iron Man and Thor with reformed villains: the Scarlet Witch, her super speedster brother Quicksilver and the expert marksman Hawkeye. Fans threw a fit at the decision, but they should never have doubted Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's decision: Captain America's self-proclaimed kooky quartet went on to win over audiences, making the three new additions mainstays of the team for the next four decades. Scarlet Witch was the second woman to join the team ...

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