November 29, 2024

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Find Out Which Songs ‘Glee’ Will Bring Back In The 100th Episode

The fans spoke, and "Glee" listened. For the 100th episode of the Fox show, Gleeks were asked to choose their favorite "Glee" covers to appear in the landmark episode, and Monday (February 24), those jams have finally been revealed.

The campaign to choose the tunes, billed as "Glee 100th Gleeks Choice: You Vote. We Remix," closed at the end of 2013, with fans whittling the list down from 30 tracks to their final picks. Those songs will populate the milestone episode, in which Principal Sue Sylvester finally succeeds in shutting the glee club down once and for all.

They'll also be released as an album titled Glee: The Music Celebrating 100 Episodes in March.

The list, courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, features a ton of memorable jams that will be remixed come #100.

For example, remember when Blaine and The Warblers took on Pink's "Raise Your Glass" back in 2011, officially spawning viral sensation Kellen Mirador Sarmiento — a.k.a. "The Mini Warbler"? Well, in the 100th episode, Will Schuester and washed-up glee star April Rhodes will tackle the celebratory jam. We await future memes with bated breath.

And wasn't it awesome back in 2010 when the "Glee" kids busted out a jazz-inspired rendition of Britney Spears' "Toxic"? Well, this time, a similar cast (Brittany, Santana and Quinn) will take on the jam, the style of which has not yet been revealed.

Naturally, the final jams also includes Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," which has been covered multiple times on the show, perhaps most notably by the Cory Monteith, who died last summer. ...

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Lorde Tourmate Lo-Fang Hopes She Notices His ‘Work Ethic’

In mere days, Lo-Fang (a.k.a. Matthew Hemerlein) will head out on tour with 2013's biggest up-and-comer: Lorde. Handpicked by the artist formerly known as Ella Yelich-O'Connor, Lo-Fang is amped to head out on the road with the 17-year-old wunderkind -- in part because the two are, in a way, cut from the same cloth.

"She's awesome. She's totally rad," Lo-Fang told MTV News. "I think there's a real difference between our music, but there's also a similarity in terms of... clearly there's a lot of soul and artistic merit in what she's doing, but it's distilled in a way to speak to a lot of people and that takes persistence as well as talent. Hopefully she heard some of the same work ethic in what it is that I'm doing."

Lo-Fang first caught the attention of the Grammy-winning singer around the end of 2013, when Lorde listed his single "#88" as her #2 song of the year. The jam comes off of the multi-instrumentalist's debut record, Blue Film, which is due out Tuesday on 4AD.

Sardonic and dark — yet possessing of a wry kind of levity not exactly native to the classically trained set — Lo-Fang exists in the same kind of reflective shadowland as Lorde.

You can check out the two in action come March, when they hit the road together

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Girls on ‘Girls’: New Yorker Alyssa Chose Her Email Address Wisely

There are very few shows that stoke as much conversation as HBO's "Girls" (well, few shows that don't involve naked, antler-wearing corpses, at least). Every week, we turn to real New York women to share their thoughts on the latest episode of "Girls." Even though the show is about the lives of New York women of a certain age, most of the commentary we hear is from, well, not those women.

This week, Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, a 30-year-old creative living and creating in New York, joins the Girls on "Girls" circle to talk about this week's episode, "

Who Are You?
I'm Alyssa. I'm 30, a classically trained singer, published poet, and all-around ambitious, creative creature. Been in the city almost eight years.

Are You A Girl?
I'm a woman, a girl, a honey, a rusalka, I'm maternal — depends on what aspect of my life we're talking about (or what hour). I enjoy being all of them. If I wasn't all of them I'd lose my mind.

Do You Relate to 'Girls' in General?
I do, that's of course why I love watching it so much. I am or have been all of those girls, played around in that carefree but dead serious lifestyle. I've got my s--- more together now, but I definitely still hang out on unfinished rooftops, drink wine instead of eat, tell friends and lovers they're invincible, and decorate with velvet and low light and little wooden animals. I'm also uncompromising, which seems to be a thread for all the girls. Stubbornness.

Are You A Hannah/Marnie/Shosh/Jessa/Charlotte/Carrie/etc?
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A Great Big World’s Tour Is Sort Of Like ‘The Muppets’

For those of you who can't wait another moment for next month's A Great Big World are here to help you out.

Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino are on tour through the end of next month, and when they stopped by MTV News recently, they said parts of their show may remind you of a Jim Henson character.

"It's an energetic show," Ian told MTV News. "We're very emotive and I've been compared to Animal from 'The Muppets.' And Chad jumps a lot. We used to have a trampoline."

"But they took it away," Chad chimed in.

Giving Christina Aguilera Singing Advice 'Freaked Out' A Great Big World

They're planning on bringing gymnastics back to the stage show, but in the meantime they're getting plenty of exercise -- both cardio and strength training.

"Whenever we have big stages, like, that just allows us room to just, just go crazier. And Ian, Ian gets a little violent with his keyboard and his keyboard bench."

"No violence," Ian replied.

"No, not violence, but aggressive. Just happiness," Chad laughed.

Interested in seeing AGBW on tour? Here are some of their upcoming dates:

» 3/16 — Corpus Christi, TX @ Brewster Street Ice House
» 3/18 — Dallas, TX @ House of Blues: Cambridge Room
» 3/19 — San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
» 3/21 — Orlando, FL @ Universal Studios (free with park admission)

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Robin Thicke And Paula Patton Split

"You know you want it" not to be true: Robin Thicke and Paula Patton are separating. The married couple of nine years announced on Monday (February 24) that they're calling it quits, telling People, "We will always love each other and be best friends... ...

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Hey Justin Bieber: Forget The Fake Protest, Buckhead Wants You!

By now — unless you are CNN — you're probably aware that the "Justin Bieber protest" supposedly organized by residents of Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood to discourage the singer from moving to the community was a hoax.

Yes, it turns out a crew of local radio DJs — Rock 100.5's "the Regular Guys" — succeeded in fooling CNN (and a whole bunch of other media outlets) with little more than a fake Facebook page and a couple of interns masquerading as outraged citizens.

So, now that we've all been punk'd, the question begs to be asked: Is Buckhead reallyready for Bieber? MTV News decided to find out ... and based on what the locals told us, the answer is a resounding "yes."

"Buckhead takes pride in being home to many celebrities such as Sir Elton John, Usher and Shaquille O'Neal to name just a few," Tom Tidwell, chairman of the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods, said. "Justin Bieber, like many celebrities, can live almost anywhere he wants, and Atlantans should be proud that he is considering making Buckhead his home."

And if Biebs does, in fact, decide to make his home in the community, what kind of home will it be?

"Well, you're in the South, so there's a lot of heavy, traditional-style homes, the Southern-Charm kind of thing. You're going to have people like the CEO of Coca-Cola, who's maybe moving to another location, or maybe bought another home, so they don't need this anymore," Krisztina Bell, an Atlanta real estate agent and real estate ...

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Watch Tris Fight — And Make Out — In Ellie Goulding’s ‘Divergent’ Lyric Video

Ellie Goulding's "Divergent" single may be called "Beating Heart," but the lyric video for the jam has my heart pretty much tearing itself out of my chest.

Yup, the video — which premiered Monday (February 24) — features not only some massively action-packed footage, but also plenty of lip-locking. Get out your tissues, kids!

The lyric video, which dropped today on Entertainment Weekly, is like a fast-forward version of the flick, due to hit theaters on March 21. Over the course of the video, fans can watch Tris (Shailene Woodley) training at the Dauntless compound, scaling the massive ferris wheel at what used to be Navy Pier in Chicago and, of course, sharing some, ahem, intimate moments with instructor/future boyfriend Four (Theo James).

Watch Ellie Goulding's 'Divergent' Single "Beating Heart" here!

Over it all pounds Goulding's driving track, a stirring call to stick it out, to persevere. "Wanna hear your beating heart," she cries, as Tris spars and stands stoically as knives whiz by her face.

According to director Neil Burger, the track will appear at the end of the film. "In the last scene of the movie, Tris has just experienced multiple tragedies, even as she triumphs (for the moment) over her enemies," he told EW. "Ellie wrote 'Beating Heart' and we knew it'd be perfect for the end of the movie. Her lyrics almost merge with Tris' voice-over and her music lets the movie soar above the tragedy. The sadness is still there but so is the transcendence. It's a fantastic song."

Goulding's music will be deeply woven into the ...

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Rick Grimes Is ‘Home Alone’ In This ‘Walking Dead’ Mashup

Mild spoilers for "The Walking Dead," but one subplot in particular made us think of a popular movie from the '90s. And so we decided to mash the episode up with "Home Alone:"

In "Claimed," Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) falls asleep at his temporary safe house while Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Carl (Chandler Riggs) head out to look for supplies. When he wakes up, he finds the house has been invaded by an unknown gang of invaders who will do anything to sleep in his comfy, comfy bed.

And sure Rick doesn't do the iconic Macaulay Culkin scream in the episode (believe us, we tried to find a shot that matched up), but it still works together pretty nicely. Fingers crossed Rick and company head to New York next episode because we've got a great idea for a sequel.

"The Walking Dead" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.

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