November 30, 2024

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Eric Bellinger Shows You How To Be A Ladies’ Man This Valentine’s Day

Eric Bellinger is one smooth customer. Not only does the California-based singer/songwriter hold a good tune, but he's quite the romantic — especially on Valentine's Day.

"When I say I'm an R&B singer, I mean I really do everything like rose pedals, and I'ma open your door. I'ma do all that," EB told MTV News during a visit to New York in January.

On Tuesday Bellinger, released The Rebirth album, which features his catchy single "I Don't Want Her," and while he didn't divulge this year's plans, did share with us one particular memorable V-Day.

"I remember one year I got a hotel room for this girl and did all that with the roses and the flowers and the Jacuzzi in the room," he began to recall. "I wrote a song for her on the spot."

Not only did Bellinger write a song for his lady at the time, he also recorded it there in the hotel room. She just figured the accomplished songwriter was doing his usual work and didn't realize he was writing a special song just for her.

"At the end I put the headphones on [her], she heard the music, she heard the full deal, I'm massaging her, she's listening, you know I'm a ladies' man," he said. "You know what happened immediately following that three minutes and 27 seconds."

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Winter’s Taylor: ‘Winter’s Tale,’ As Told By Taylor Swift Song Titles

Spoilers for "Winter's Tale" ahead. You've been warned.

This Valentine's Day, some studio execs are hoping you'll want to grab your sweetie and cozy up at the movie theater while watching "Winter's Tale," the tale of endless love (not to be confused with "Endless Love," also opening today) starring Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay. The story of love, loss, reincarnation and winged horses appeals to the romantic in all of us, but we can think of one romantic in particular who's sure to be ob-effing-sessed with this little ditty: Taylor Swift.

We all know that the songstress has a particularly soft spot for all things relationship — make-ups, break-ups and wake-ups (to feelings) included — and we don't think "Winter's Tale" will be any exception to that. In fact, we have a sneaking suspicion that Taylor Swift's discography served as the stand-in soundtrack for the movie, until KT Tunstall, Hans Zimmer and Rupert Gregson-Williams stepped in with the finished score.

Though the massive Mark Helprin novel of the same name on which the movie is based was considered by some to be "unfilmable," the plot is fairly simple if you ignore this parallel demon world thing involving Russell Crowe's character, which the movie mostly does anyone: Peter Lake (Farrell) is a master thief. In 1916, he falls in love with a dying redhead (Findlay). He believes he can save her, but, um. Peter is murdered shortly thereafter, and is awakened in the year 2014, with no knowledge of the world around him or his identity, only that there is a ...

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Watch Austin Mahone Call Lucky Fans On Valentine’s Day

We have to admit, we treated Austin Mahone to a pretty fancy Valentine's Day date. Flowers, chocolate, kisses and some fun games — we kind of went all out for "Live from MTV."

While Austin admitted that he never got flowers in high school, we came prepared, whipping out a dozen roses for the singer at the beginning of the 30-minute live stream. And then of course, we had to get a little information from him, prodding him about his still-in-the-works album, coming later this year. So far, we've heard two singles from the LP: "MMM Yeah" and which dropped this morning.

"I did a little rapping on there, hopefully I didn't sound too white," Austin said of the track. And when correspondent Christina Garibaldi asked if Cash Money labelmate Lil Wayne helped guide his rap skills, Austin boasted proudly, "No, I did that all on my own."

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We played games with Mahone, including one where he challenged a fan to a Hershey's Kisses eating contest. Whoever could fit the most chocolate in their mouth won!

Throughout the show, we hooked Austin up with his biggest Mahomies. He made special Valentine's Day calls to lucky fans who had tweeted out #AustinMaPhone earlier in the day. How did they react when they got a call from their favorite singer? Well, you'll just have to watch. The conversations are priceless.

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How To Kiss Like A Toothpick: Together PANGEA Teach Us How To Make Out

If you're hitting the town this Valentine's Day with a d-a-t-e there's probably going to be some k-i-s-s-i-n-g, am I right? Or am I 12? Either/or, before you head out to make out, might I suggest nabbing some lip tips from garage band together PANGEA?

In their video for "Offer," off of their newest record Badillac, the guys of the L.A. act all get a little loose-lipped — with each other.

Yup, the chorus of the song may go, "if you have a kiss for me and only me," but in the video, there's plenty of smooches to go around.

The whole deal was filmed over the course of tour and at drummer Erik Jimenez's birthday party. Much of the tonguing took place at the party, so I'm guessing it was a very happy birthday indeed!

Since the guys seriously look like they know what they're doing in the aforementioned video — and since their music is definitely the kind to lock tortured lips to — we hit up the dudes for their most passionate of makeout tips.

First of all, put away the Chapstick. The guys like it dry.

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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Toys May Tease ‘Planet Hulk’ Movie

The first LEGO set for Marvel Studio's "Guardians of the Galaxy" has been revealed, with two major secrets awaiting those with eagle eyes. Not only does the set show off the film's bad guy; but it also seems to add more fuel to the fire for a "Planet Hulk" movie at some point in Marvel's future.


The set was first revealed over at USA Today, and is described as:

"The Milano Spaceship Rescue" set, with 665 pieces priced at $74.99. In addition to the brick version of the Guardians' starship Milano from the movie, the pack includes mini-figs of three heroes — Star-Lord (played by Chris Pratt in the film),Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) — as well as an alien Sakaaran Soldier and the villain Ronan the Accuser(Lee Pace).

The first bit of interest is a close up look at Lee Pace's Ronan the Accuser, the villain of the film. Though we don't expect Pace to be quite as blocky in the final product, his look hews pretty closely to the traditional look of Ronan in the comics. And for color scheme, he's right in line with the other Accuser/Pursuer characters in this month's new Marvel comic, "All-New Invaders;" something that's surely not a random coincidence.


The second bit isn't depicted, but the mention of "alien Sakaaran Soldier" certainly drew our interest. We previously reported on how the planet Sakaar, and the resident Sakaaran's play heavily in the "Planet Hulk"/"World War Hulk" story line. The characters were almost used in ...

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Kendall Jenner Flashes Nipples At Fashion Week: Kardashians, Fans React

As MTV Style has been reporting, designers showing at New York Fashion Week have been bringing their A-game for their fall 2014 collections, but one show in particular made headlines, courtesy of a certain reality TV star.

On Thursday night, Kendall Jenner walked Marc Jacobs' always-anticipated show in NYC and gave fans an eyeful: But it wasn't the E! star's bleached eyebrows that had people buzzing — it was her exposed nipples.

The 18-year-old strutted down the runway in a very sheer V-neck top, and her look prompted immediate reaction on social media. Famous big sisters Kim, Khloe and Kourtney were clearly proud: each one posted shots from the show on their Instagram accounts.

"My baby sister killed it today walking in the Marc Jacobs fashion show!!! Kenny you are so dope to me!!! Congrats my baby!!! #NYFW #MarcJacobs #ProudSis," Khloe wrote.

But it wasn't then first time the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star has bared some skin in the name of fashion. Last November, Jenner posed in a see-through mesh top for a photo shoot and the reaction was divided. Judging by the response after the fashion show this week, it seems some critics stuill aren't comfortable with Jenner's grown-up looks.

Some critics were harsh ...
@alli_g31 "I don't want to see Kendall Jenner's nipples plastered all over Instagram. Gross."

@Sidney_Steele "Kendall Jenner's boobs look so nasty in her Marc Jacobs pics."

While Others Thought It Was No Big Deal
@lovelyy_fool "All I have to say about this whole Kendall Jenner thing is get over it people we ALL have nipples I mean damn stop ...

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Check Out This Remix To Beyonce’s ‘Drunk In Love’

You may not recognize DJ Ted Smooth if you passed him on the street, but hip-hop clubgoers know his work. Over the past seven years, the Spanish Harlem native has taken your favorite R&B tracks from artists like Chris Brown, Jamie Foxx, Robin Thicke, Alicia Keys and Miguel and given them high-powered makeovers.

Smooth's latest is a special Valentine's Day remix of Beyoncé and Jay Z's "Drunk in Love," which he released online on Friday (February 14).

To differentiate his mix from Bey's original, Ted took the singer's live vocal track from her tantalizing 2014 Grammy performance, placed them over the eerie opening piano line from A$AP Ferg's "Work" and added his own drums. Then, of course, there is his patented tagline: "Ted Smooth, Straight Face, You Remember."

It all adds up to an energetic, trap version of the climbing hit.

Ted also re-sequenced Bey's vocals, opening his version with the "surfboard" lyric to draw listeners in. "The vocals that I used for the intro are actually at the end of the performance, so I just took that for the beginning," he explained. "Obviously when she sings 'surfboard,' a lot of ladies like to do her dance.

This isn't the first time Ted has reworked a Beyoncé hit. In 2011, he remixed "Love On Top," using the vocals from her VMA performance and blending it with pieces inspired from LL Cool J's 1995 hit "Doin' It" — with the approval of team Beyoncé of course.

Smooth started out making mixtape blends in 1992. His first concoction was a mixture of Janet Jackson's "Let's Wait a ...

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Your Valentine’s Date Can’t Go Much Worse Than Mariah Carey’s

Everyone has their ideal Valentine's Day date, whether it be getting a box of chocolates, watching a rom-com or, like some people in the MTV Newsroom, going out for chicken and waffles.

But when you're a diva like Mariah Carey, you go ALL out. And when you go ALL out, accidents are bound to happen — especially when you fill your L.A. hotel room with candles.

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"We'd gotten each other like all these roses and balloons, and we had pictures of our first year together ... the whole room was just Valentine's galore," Mariah told us during "MTV First" on Wednesday about her first V-Day married to hubby Nick Cannon. "As we're looking at the pictures, there's candles everywhere — because I had requested candles — so one of the pictures sparked and lit the drapery."

Oh no! What is a diva to do? Call security?

Not Mimi.

"Me, I go into emergency mode," Mariah said, acting the whole scene out. "I take the roses out of the thing, take the vase, pour the water, douse the fire. Nick just looks like this [jaws drop], and he just goes, 'You're really good in an emergency situation.' I just go, 'That's how I've had to be.' "

Pro status. All the way.

Well, at least there's no danger in watching a rom-com on the couch!

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