November 24, 2024

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What The F–k Will Happen At Zedd’s Movie Awards Performance?

Zedd has been known to throw outrageous dance parties at his shows, and tonight's performance at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards should be no different.

Zedd will be performing his song "Find You" from the "Divergent" soundtrack with Miriam Bryant and Matthew Koma. Ellie Goulding is also performing her "Divergent" song "Beating Heart."

While you may be expecting confetti and lasers, I have something else in mind — something crazier, foxier, sexier and ... more sensitive? Here they are: my predictions for Zedd's performance.

Live Animals
Sure, Zedd might've done that song "Clarity" with Foxes, but he's never performed with actual foxes. Imagine a bunch of red, fluffy foxes sprinting onstage right as the beat dropped. Or Megan Fox. That'd be fun too.

Laser Cats
No EDM show is complete without lasers. Let's take it a step further and say that Zedd's going to have lasers... but they're going to shoot out of the eyes of giant cats. Yeah.

When Doves Cry
During the show, balloons will float down from the rafters. Each balloon will have a white dove in it. As the balloons pop, the doves will flock away, crying single tears onto the crowd as they fly out a secret door.

Things Will Get Orchestral
Maybe you don't know this, but Zedd is a classically trained musician. And while we've seen him ditch his synth and mixers for piano in the acoustic "Stay the Night" video, it would be insane if came onstage with a full orchestra.

Crazy Cameos
It wouldn't be a full stunt unless Movie Awards ...

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OutKast Coachella Reunion: The ATLiens Still Got It

INDIO, California — To prove all the hype about their reunion was warranted, OutKast stormed the stage Friday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with a hyper version of one of their most-frenetic tracks, "B.O.B."

From there, everything the Atlanta hip-hop duo pulled out on their opening-night set — from the title track of 1996's ATLiens to "Skew It on the Bar-B" and "Rosa Parks" — sounded so tight, they gave no reason to suspect they hadn't performed together in nearly a decade.

Coachella was fans' first chance to see Big Boi and Andre 3000 perform songs from their landmark 2003 double album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, the best-selling album in hip-hop history, even a decade later. The duo never toured in support of the album and announced their indefinite hiatus just a few years after its release.

"It's good to be back," Big Boi said.

It seems producer Rico Wade's efforts to land his cousin Future a Coachella guest spot were successful: Future performed "Same Damn Time" and "Ain't No Way Around It" and played a new track to promote his upcoming April 22 release.

Janelle Monáe — who bounded onstage with her usual enthusiasm for her Big Boi-featuring "Tightrope" — proved she has enough swagger to play with the big boys and proclaimed, "This is my favorite music ever, and what we are seeing right here is history."

They dipped into their individual tracks: Big Boi with his feature on Purple Ribbon All-Stars' "Kryptonite (I'm On It)" and "Shutterbugg," and Andre — whose often-flashy duds were toned down to ...

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Adam Sandler And Drew Barrymore Witness The Circle Of Life In Exclusive ‘Blended’ Clip

In the never-before-seen exclusive clip from "MTV Movie Awards Takeover, the characters played by Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore learn the hard way that nature isn't always as cute as rom-coms. Sometimes the families eat each other.

The regularly paired romantic leads sat down with MTV News to talk about their third movie together, "Blended," which sends two separate families on the same African safari.


The title refers bringing together the two families into one unit, an idea their safari guide tries to apply to two lions and a baby bush pig. Let's just say that it doesn't work out as neatly as he might have hoped.

Sandler and Barrymore have been charming audiences together since 1998 when they starred in "The Wedding Singer." They reunited ten years ago for another rom-com collaboration, "50 First Dates."

The new clip premiered as a part of MTV Movie Awards Takeover, a weeklong series of interviews and clips dedicated to the upcoming summer movie season.

When we spoke with Sandler and Barrymore for Movie Awards Takeover, they shared their tips for the Best Kiss nominees, having won the award for "50 First Dates."

"It does so much for the kiss," Sandler said, suggesting that rainfall always makes a makeout better. "It tightens up the body. You feel chilly. You're cold. You're tight. Your nipples are way out there."

"Yeah," Barrymore said, "mine too!"

Start the summer movie season with the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien, Sunday, April 13 @ 9/8c! Get ready for the show with exclusive MTV Movie Awards Takeover movie previews. ...

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Conan O’Brien Has A Creepy Chris Hemsworth Secret

Conan O'Brien is the host the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, and he's really getting into the competition this year. So much so that he's got a lot of money riding on Best Shirtless Performance.MTV News sat down with O'Brien ahead of his hosting gig to get h... ...

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Watch The Trailer For Nas’ ‘Time Is Illmatic’ Doc

The celebration for the 20th anniversary of Nas' Illmatic is kicking into full gear, and the visual component is almost here. On Friday (April 11), the trailer for "Time Is Illmatic," the upcoming documentary about the classic album, was released online.

"When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album," Nas says in the trailer for the film, which is set to debut on April 16 at the Tribeca Film Festival. "I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real."

The documentary is just one component of a full rollout to commemorate the landmark disc. On Tuesday, Illmatic XX is set to drop. In addition to remastered versions of the album's 10 tracks, the release will offer remixes, demos and other decades-old, rarely heard gems.

Last week, the Queens rapper brought his promo to where he and Q-Tip performed "One Love." The song, which was the seventh track on Illmatic,, was produced by Tip.

As the trailer for "Time Is Illmatic" — which borrows its title from a line on the album's third song, "Life's a Bitch" — comes to a close, Nas drops more wisdom.

"I gave you what the streets felt like," he says. "What it sounded like, tasted like, smelled like, all in that album. And I tried to capture it like no one else could."

Now, the film will attempt to do some capturing of its own — of the album's impact.

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